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Our wiki at https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com will be offline for maintenance for approximately 15 minutes. Thanks for your patience.
Attention all SoB faction members! The highly anticipated first-ever faction raffle is now officially open and will run for the next 6 months exclusively for faction players. Purchase your raffle tickets using faction coins and get ready for a chance to win amazing prizes! For full details, ticket p...
This is a friendly reminder that the Winter Holiday activities are currently scheduled to end on Jan 7th at 9am UTC.
🎄 Frostfang's Cave Christmas Challenge! 🎄
A magical boulder has sealed the entrance to Frostfang's Cave! Only those who complete the festive Candy Cane Puzzle can break the seal.
How to Participate:
The server is going to be restarting in a few minutes for a quick hotfix to resolve some issues surrounding quick travel or travel between regions. The downtime is expected to be very short
Activities have begun while Santa prepares for the big day—he'll make his grand appearance soon. In the meantime, here are some exciting activities to dive into:
Santa's Mailbox is now open at his workshop, eagerly awaiting your L...
We've added a survey to gather some data about players' recent connection experience with the game, please take a moment to fill this out when you've time: https://forms.gle/DmhqFNEh8Ho2rWuj9
The winners have been selected for the 2025 Halloween House Decoration Contest!
The top 3 winners are:
🎃 Halloween Vendors Just a quick reminder that the Halloween vendors will remain available until December 5th at 9am UTC. Make sure to grab your goods before they depart!
🏆 Decoration Contest The deadline for the Halloween Decoration Contest has now passed. While we had a quieter contest this...
UPDATE: The deadline has almost passed for the 2025 Halloween House Deco Contest! There's only 3 (wonderful) entries so far. If you are planning on participating please make sure to get your entry added in the next 24-48 hours. After the grace period we will rank the entries and award the winners. T...
UPDATE: The server is coming back online now, unfortunately there was an issue with the world save and so the server is starting up with the most recent save timestamp of Nov 10, 2025 @ 19:51:06.518 UTC which is approximately 3 hours prior to the time of this post. We apologize for the inconvenien...
Changes in Ocllo! The island is opening up to all players. With the exception of the town itself and Vaelthar, all players — whether young or not-young — can now use the island, hunt monsters, or gather resources. The island will remain PvE only, and housing is currently not possible. All expansions...
The Chilling Excitment of Gardening
Gardening is more than just tending soil — it’s the quiet magic of creation. From a single seed, you can grow vibrant plants in every imaginable color, each one a living expression of your care and curiosity. With patience and a steady hand, ordinary dirt become...
The market stalls in New Haven / Ocllo are now available for anyone to rent. The stall rent is as low as 350g per week. You can pay up to 4 weeks in advance. Please note that the stalls are strictly for merchants. If they are used for any other purpose, we will have to terminate the rental agreement...
We will extend the current Season 6 a bit in order to fit three seasons per calendar year in the future. Starting in 2026, the season periods will be as follows: Jan–Apr, May–Aug, Sept–Dec.
Recently we moved the Web Map (http://map.shardsofbritannia.com/) from a GitLab project to a pure wiki-based solution, so now everyone with Wiki Edit access can edit the map waypoints and features! The old URL will now re-direct to https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/map
Note: waypoints are...
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There are still market stalls available that interested players can rent for a small amount of gold to sell goods in the city of New Haven in Ocllo. The audience will mainly consist of young players who need equipment and items for their adventures.
Merchants can also buy resou...
Hear ye, hear ye!
There are still market stalls available that interested players can rent for a small amount of gold to sell goods in the city of New Haven in Ocllo. The audience will mainly consist of young players who need equipment and items for their adventures.
Merchants can also buy res...
The server will be restarting at 9:30pm UTC, approximately 30 minutes from the time of this post, to apply some hotfixes. The downtime will be minimal as we're just restarting quickly. Thanks for your patience!
The New Haven Market: A Merchant’s Haven for All
Citizens of Britannia, travelers of Ocllo, and aspiring merchants, a new chapter in the commerce of New Haven is unfolding.
As part of the island’s renewed focus on guiding and empowering new adventurers, a permanent player-driven marketplace is b...
The server is coming back online. Good news - we have launched the Ocllo updates (See https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/ocllo-launches-end-of-october for details). Your game client will soon download a new version of the britanniamain asset which may take a little time. The server is coming bac...
Adventurers, prepare yourselves — Ocllo Island opens its shores at the end of October! ⚔️✨
Begin your journey in New Haven, a safe haven built to guide you through your first steps in Britannia. Learn, grow, and uncover the island’s hidden secrets. Veter...
Halloween Activities:
As part of our ongoing improvements to the new player experience in Shards of Britannia, we're inviting players to test the latest updates to New Haven and Ocllo Island.
This is more than just a new location—it’s where every journey now begins. From update...
If you encounter an issue in the game or something appears off or incorrect, or if you have an idea for improvement, please make sure to let the developers know by submitting a Bug Report or Suggestion from in-game using the /bug or /suggestion commands
Submitting feedback in-game ensures that t...
Log in between 9am on July 21st and 9am on July 22nd (utc) to receive an eagle statue as a gift to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of the launch of the Britannia ruleset and map, which officially debuted around July 20th, 2021. Although the Britannia project began in October 2017, this milestone marks...
All, the Exploding Wells Event has started with a little delay. It will run for 12 hours from the time of this announcement. Have fun :-)
FINAL UPDATE: The server is coming online and everything looks to be good on our side. Please wait about 5 minutes before trying to log in again. Thanks!
FURTHER UPDATE: Sorry, there was an issue starting up the first time, we're trying again shortly! Please wait for the all-clear before trying to...
The wiki will be offline for maintenance for up to 2 hours from the time of this message. Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE: The issue has been addressed with the LOA team and the server is coming back online now. Please wait about 5 minutes before trying to log in again. Sorry again for the interruptions!
PREVIOUS MESSAGE: The server is offline temporarily due to an unexpected crash. We're working on resolving...
We are aware of the login issues (error 100) that some users are experiencing due to an issue with the Legends of Aria login server. We've alerted those involved with the LoA Team and have been told that the issue is being actively worked on. However, we don't currently have an ETA for a fix, we ar...
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved and the server is back online. Unfortunately, any accounts that were created since May 31st, the last 48 hours roughly, may have been lost due to this critical issue, and neither LOA nor SOB teams are able to recover them, we're very sorry for the inconvenience....
UPDATE: All clear for login! The server has been restored to a state 10 minutes prior to the scheduled restart. We apologize for the minor rollback, and appreciate your patience through the downtime. The game is available to login to again!
PRIOR MESSAGE: We're aware the server is having diffi...
We've updated the Housing Wiki Page at https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/housing to clarify the meaning of the "Ageless" house decay state. Ageless houses do not decay and are typically reserved for staff use or public property.
Recently, there’s been some confusion suggesting that Ageless...
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 House Lottery: Five Rings! Congratulations on securing this incredible prize!
A heartfelt thank you to all the players who participated in this year’s lottery. Your enthusiasm and support made this event a tremendous success. We truly appreciate e...
During the next server maintenance window at 9am UTC, we will be performing additional back end maintenance. This will take up to 2 hours.
Please keep an eye on #news for an update on when the game is available again. Thank you for your patience.
We are aware of occasional issues occurring during server restarts. Our team is actively investigating the root cause and working on a permanent solution. We appreciate your patience during these disruptions and are committed to improving the stability of our services as quickly as possible. Thank y...
The Easter activities have now officially concluded!
🐰 Thank you to everyone who participated — we hop you had fun!
We truly appreciate you spending some of your free time with us during the event.
✨ The Easter Vendor will remain available until May 12th to al...
We've noticed intermittent issues with our CDN provider that hosts our game’s artwork globally. Sometimes, when artwork is updated, players in certain regions experience login connection failures. We are actively working with our current provider and exploring other options to resolve this problem o...
An issue has been resolved where some players are unable to log into the game due to an asset loading issue. Sorry for the interruption and thanks for your patience!
This is a reminder of our annual dyes lineup:
Ivory Dyetubs: Available from March 25th to April 9th
Pigment & Enamel vendors are available at the Yew Bank
Read more: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/annual-pigment-enamels-donation-dyetubs
We wish you a happy and safe St Patrick's Day. It was our goal to have some activities for you to do over the weekend and today, but unfortunately we were unable to add them in time for the holiday. Alas, thanks for spending some of your free time with us and we hope you have a good holiday.
The login server is now restored and you can log into the game again.
Unfortunately due to a data integrity issue, we have had to roll back to the last known good save at 01:30 UTC. We apologise for this inconvenience, however if we had not done this, there would have been data loss for various players.
Thank you for your understanding.
This is a reminder that Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Clocks will be set forward by one hour, which may affect how game times, events, and restarts appear in your local timezone.
Please note that our servers operate on UTC timezone, and neither the server time nor in...
We've restarted the server to clear out some cobwebs that were lingering in the connection. The server should be back online now or within a few minutes. Sorry for the interruption and thanks for your patience!
UPDATE: The connectivity issue with users in Europe is now resolved, you should be able to log in again as normal. If you have any further connection issues please let us know, thanks for your patience!
We're currently experiencing issues with one of our providers serving the European market. Our...
As part of our ongoing efforts to make hunting more fun and challenging, we’ve updated another key area:
We'd like to welcome the newest member of the team, Ned! He has extensive experience with technical team leadership, development, and even more valuable skills, plus a passion for Shards of Britannia! To start, Ned will be diving into development and Game Master related duties in-game. Please give h...
This is just a brief announcement with regards to the notice of Legends of Aria Classic sunsetting. At this time, this does not affect Shards of Britannia and we will continue to operate unless otherwise notified.
For full transparency, work on moving to our own login server is almost complete....
We’re excited to announce the start of our overworld revamp, aimed at making hunting more fun and challenging. These are only the first of many upcoming changes to overworld spawns. The first areas updated include:
Wind Mountain Area
We'll need around another hour to complete the maintenance. Apologies for the inconvenience.
The server will remain offline for up to 2 hours from Sunday 26 January @ 09:00 UTC. Please keep an eye out for an announcement as to when it is back online.
Thank you for your patience.
Great news, decorators! We’ve extended the Winter House Deco Contest deadline through this weekend, giving you a few extra days to finalize your festive designs. Judging will take place next weekend. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, your creativity is truly inspiring! For full cont...
🏠🎄 Winter Holiday House Decoration Contest 🎅❄️
Now that the Christmas activities are coming to an end, it’s time to show off your creativity! With all the new Winter Decorations you’ve collected, we’re excited to announce the Winter Holiday House Decoration Contest!
🎄 Reminder: Christmas Activities Coming to an End! 🎅
As the holiday season wraps up, here's what you need to know:
📬 The Letters to Santa deadline has passed!
Thank you to everyone who sent in their wishes. Santa is busy reviewing them now and will respond soon.
🎅🎄 Ho ho ho—Merry Christmas! 🎉
❄️ Winter Dungeon Update! 🎅
SANTA'S FOR-SALE OPTIONS: it looks like many of the items were inadvertently disabled on Santa's sell-list this year and we've corrected it so all of the items will be available that are intended, sorry for the confusion! Santa's listings have been fixed!
We will work on adding some new additi...
Santa Claus hath been saved from the wrath of Frostfang and has been led back to his shop where he is happy to trade for gifts! Happy holidays everyone, good work on saving Santa!
🎄 The Winter Dungeon is Now Open! 🎅
WATCH VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/JXPgtI7p24M
A chilling adventure awaits in the new Winter Dungeon! Frostfang, a fearsome Wendigo boss, has kidnapped Santa and is holding him hostage deep within the icy caverns. It’s up to you to brave the dungeon,...
We're happy to share that we've introduced a new email marketing system to keep you informed about important updates, events, and news!
We’ve pre-added many users using the email addresses associated with their game accounts. Please note, you may receive multiple emails if you have multiple accou...
Activities have begun while Santa is preparing for the big day—he will make his grand appearance soon. In the meantime, here are some exciting activities to dive into:
🎅 🍬 Updates for Holiday Currencies! 🍬 🎅
We’re excited to continue celebrating holidays in Shards of Britannia with fun events, activities, and vendor shops offering holiday items for unique currencies.
Going forward, we’ll evaluate re-using the same currency each year for recurring holidays. T...
🎄 Chrismahanukwanzakah 2024 🎁
The Winter Holiday festivities are just around the corner, and we're excited to celebrate with all of you in Shards of Britannia! Our goal is to kick off the seasonal activities starting December 11th.
As we speak, we're in the final stages of negotiations with...
The Halloween House Decoration Contest Results Are In!
Thank you all for your incredible creativity and for sharing your spooky displays. We truly enjoyed reviewing every entry and appreciate the time and effort you put into bringing the Halloween spirit to life.
Winners:
We're incredibly thankful for each of you in our community. Let's celebrate together with the return of the Thanksgiving Quest! 🦃
Happy Thanksgiving!
As we prepare to launch this year’s Thanksgiving event, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the incredible contributions of Indigenous communities whose history and traditions have enriched our shared culture in countless ways.
The Team is putting the final touches on the...
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Halloween House Decoration Contest for this year!
We have opened up voting for the People's Choice and the staff will also begin judging the entries, vote here: https://discord.com/channels/369023244038045697/1311194882756448266
Since it's such...
Halloween has officially come to an end for this year! We want to thank everyone who joined us for the festivities, smashing pumpkins, and collecting candy. Your participation made it all the more special, and we hope you had as much fun as we did hosting it.
If you have ideas for future events or...
To all veterans in our community and beyond, we extend our deepest gratitude for your service, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication. Today, on Veterans Day, we honor and remember those who have served and those who continue to stand ready to protect and defend. Your courage and commitment have paved...
🎃 Halloween Discounts & Updates! 🎃
From now until November 11th at 9am, all items at the Halloween Vendors are slashed by 25%! 🔪 Don’t miss this chance to grab your favorites at a discount!
👻 Halloween Activities: The spooky festivities will continue until November 17th at 9am, and th...
We're excited to announce two new members are joining the team! Pueblo & Fluffy have volunteered to contribute to the project in their free time. Pueblo will be focusing on Architectural Designs and World Building and Fluffy will be focusing on Community Management & Counselor duties so you may see...
The Halloween House Decoration Contest deadline has been extended to Nov 17th
Entries will be accepted starting immediately, and the drawing will take place soon after Nov 17th.
Prizes will include Halloween Candy plus a customized Halloween item!
Submit your entries in https://discord.com/c...
This is a reminder that Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the United States ended today, November 3, 2024. Clocks have been set back by one hour, which may affect how game times, events, and restarts appear in your local timezone.
Please remember that our servers run on UTC timezone, and neither the...
During our next maintenance window at 9am UTC, we will be running extended maintenance on the server for approximately 2 hours. Thank you for your patience.
The server has been online and steady for the past 5+ hours and is ready to play! Sorry again for the interruption this morning :)
The server is experiencing an unexpected outage, sorry for the interruption! We're working diligently to try and restore it as soon as possible. We don't yet have an...
Just a reminder that Season 4 is coming to an end soon.
It was originally scheduled to end Oct 22nd but we are going to extend it by an additional couple of weeks through the Halloween season, and we will plan to start Season 5 shortly after Halloween ends (specific date will be announced as we g...
In the near future we will begin performing audits and enforcing the Player Naming Policy outlined in the Rules: https://shardsofbritannia.com/about/rules
Names that do not align with the rules may be subject to force-renaming. This means that when you log in, if your name does not align with...
🎃Halloween activities will be starting soon!
Our goal is for a start date between Oct 10th to 17th with an end date between Nov 7th to 11th.
Stay tuned for more information soon! 🎃
Reminder: we are currently in the Testing Phase for the upcoming Boat, Naval Warfare & Water Creatures changes as outlined here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/testing-phase-for-new-boat-naval-warfare-and-water-creature-changes
A batch of fixes to issues found in the first week of testing hav...
🚤 Announcement: Testing Phase for New Boat, Naval Warfare, and Water Creature Changes! 🌊
We're excited to announce that the Test Center is now online! You can explore the South Sea, Buccs Den, Moonglow, and Windermere regions with a fresh character database as of September 23rd. Please note that...
Happy Independence Day to those in the USA! For everyone in Britannia we've added a Fireworks handout if you login anytime between now and July 5th at 9am, and if you happen to miss the handout or run out of fireworks, you can also buy more fireworks on top of West Britain Bank. You can see a previe...
Update 2nd June 2024:
Original message, 20th Apr 2024:
Due to a critical bug, the blade spirits spell has been temporarily disabled until the bug can be resolved. We'll advise when it is available a...
Discord Support Tickets are available again now only for specific support needs.
For most issues:
If the issue does not require a response from the team:
/bug or /feedback.If the issue requires a response from the tea...
Due to a limitation in our volunteer team's current availability, we've temporarily suspended the Discord Emergency Support tickets in order to streamline our efforts. Going forward, for emergency issues or concerns that require a response from the team, please use the Contact Us (email) form on our...
One of our community members advised us that Microsoft Defender is flagging our setup application as containing a trojan.
For the moment, we have removed this installation option and submitted the file to Microsoft for analysis as we believe the file is fine and that this is a 'false positive' in t...
The Spring Bazaar is kicking off at Castle Britannia in West Britain! Stop by just North/NW of the West Britain Bank and rent your vendor spot today. The vendors will be available until May 20th. If you have a vendor rented after the deadline passes, the vendor's gold, equipment & backpack contents...
This is just a reminder that Season 2 is coming to an end and Season 3 will commence very soon. We're going over final touches as we speak! Thanks to everyone that has participated in Season 2, we hope you've enjoyed the challenges. More news to follow very soon.
UPDATE 4/4/24: The Easter Event hath been extended from Apr 8th to Apr 15th
(Reminder) Annual Pigment & Enamels (Donation Dyetubs): Ivory - Available from March 25th to April 9th
The Easter Egg hunt has commenced! Easter Egg Nests will be scattered throughout the overworld for you to find. Doub...
A few players are still being affected by login issues when attempting to connect to the game, or attempting to log in additional accounts. We are continuing to work on this issue and hope to have a solution soon.
We are seeing a healthy number of players connected and playing again since a small change was pushed yesterday. If you are still having issues, please try rebooting your PC and connecting again.
If after the update and rebooting you are still experiencing issues, please log an emergency support...
We'd like to welcome the newest member of the team, Kelsier! He has extensive experience with infrastructure & development and has a passion for Shards of Britannia! Kelsier will be focusing primarily on Development for the moment. Please give him a warm welcome!
House Decoration Contest - Winter 2023/24
Make sure to check out of all of the amazing player-submitted decorations in the following Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/369023244038045697/1186715359647113287
The contest was evaluated based on the following criteria:
We would like to inform you that GM Shroud and CM Milamber have recently stepped away from our team. As is the nature of dynamic volunteer teams, changes like these are part of our evolving journey. We are extremely grateful to both of them for their time & contributions and wish them nothing but th...
We apologize for the delays with judging the winter house decoration contest. The team is currently backed up but we would like to complete this as quickly as possible thank you for your patience and thanks again for participating amazing work everyone!
It's a new year, and a great time to lay out what's going on with our game. As we step into 2024, we're excited to share our vision and the proactive steps we're taking to ensure the game's ongoing success and evolution. This update includes a rundown of ou...
Reminder, as previously scheduled, Xmas Activities have come to an end. Santa will remain until the end of the month for you to finalize any trades & purchases.
The Christmas House Decoration contest deadline is Jan 12th and the judging will commence at that time with prizes announced shortly afte...
We are thrilled to unveil the arrival of Season 2 in Shards of Britannia! 🚀 Embark on a new era of challenges, quests, and triumphs. Your dedication has fueled the evolution of our server, and we're excited to present a host of thrilling updates:
🏆 Season 2 Kick-off: Sharpen your blades and ready...
Just a reminder that Season 1 quests are about to conclude after today (not to be confused with Xmas Activities).
We hope you've enjoyed our first Seasonal Quests content release! Thanks for participating and we hope to provide as much or more fun in the next one and in future seasons. :) Stay tu...
As the festive season twinkles with lights and joy, the team wishes to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you. Your dedication and enthusiasm in exploring our world and engaging in epic adventures make this journey truly special.
This holiday season, we hope you’ve enjoyed the...
In the mystical realm of Windemere, a dire threat looms on the horizon. The formidable Frostfang the Ravager and his savage horde have established their chilling camp in the unforgiving South-Eastern reaches of our land. Only the bravest souls can rise to the challenge and combat the icy terrors tha...
See Also:
The Snowball Fight event is about to start again for the season:
Santa's Workshop has appeared in the North Pole, SW of Windemere, and the Elves are busy at work on the gifts for this Christmas! Stay tuned in the coming days for more news from the North Pole
Winter activities are just around the corner and soon will commence the snowball fight competition as well as holiday popup camps and Santas Workshop. More details to follow in the coming days!
This is just a reminder that the Thanksgiving activities are coming to an end after the daily restart. Mr Gobbles will go back to his nest and Autumna Leafwhisperer thanks you for helping save the feast! Thanks for participating, we hope you've had fun! We look forward to expanding on the features w...
Dear Adventurers,
We've got some important updates regarding PvP changes and bug fixes. Your patience and feedback have been crucial, and we appreciate your understanding as we work to enhance your Shards of Britannia experience.
Here's what's coming:
Happy Thanksgiving, we are thankful for you all!
Update: Nov 25th @ 5:45AM UTC:
UPDATE: The outage has been resolved and the Shards of Britannia server should be available again shortly
There's an unexpected outage with the Legends of Aria services preventing players from logging into the game right now. We've alerted those involved and hope the issue is resolved quickly, th...
This is an update that Halloween activities are coming to an end!
Halloween spawns have ceased and the Halloween Dungeon is now closed.
The Halloween Candy vendors will remain until the end of the month so you can complete any final candy trades or purchases
The Bazaar vendors on Yew bank...
The results are in for the Halloween 2023 House Decoration Contest!
The staff has voted and ranked the following winners:
The winners will receive a Toxic Kettle filled with some...
During the next restart, the server will remain offline for up to an hour to conduct additional maintenance tasks. Please keep an eye on #news in Discord for an announcement as to when the server will be available again.
Thank you for your patience.
Update: As some of you may have noticed, thi...
We are working diligently to address the recent lag issues which causes stuttering and freezes in-game from time to time. We hope to have the issues improved very soon and appreciate your patience through the rough patches!
UPDATE: We have deployed a few fixes in the past couple of days to address...
Congratulations to the 2023 Halloween Lottery winners! 1st - Zandel Q, 2nd - Zookeeper, 3rd - Mordred. We will be in touch shortly to give out your prizes!
UPDATE: The deadline for the Halloween Deco Contest has passed and entries will no longer be accepted. The staff will be ranking and deciding the top 3 entries and the winners will be announced this weekend. Winners will receive a bag of Halloween Candy & a special customized Halloween gift! Stay tu...
The server is coming back online now and will be available shortly. Thanks for your patience.
We will be performing extended maintenance on our server cluster at this time and as a result, the game may remain offline for up to 4 hours. Please keep an eye on #news in Discord for a notification as to when the game will be available again.
Thank you for your patience.
We've made an update to our Rules page within the Communication Rules section. We've added a new section called 'Accusations of Favoritism or Nepotism.' We kindly request that you review the updated rules page to ensure your behavior aligns with our community standards. Thank you for your cooperatio...
Dear Valued Players,
In our journey through the world of Shards of Britannia, it's easy to get caught up in the details. Constructive criticism is important, but let's also celebrate what keeps us returning.
Let's take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to the dedicated developers who h...
The new Halloween Dungeon has been opened and is marked on the map: https://map.shardsofbritannia.com
Level 1 of this dungeon includes Halloween Dungeon monsters which have a small chance to drop candy or a costume.
Throughout Levels 1 and 2 there will be jack-o-lanterns and graves for digging...
Hail, valiant adventurers of Shards of Britannia!
We're happy to introduce the Season System, a grand addition that promises thrilling challenges and coveted rewards to enrich your adventures. Dive into this immersive journey where every action counts, and every quest brings you closer to greatnes...
The Halloween activities are being deployed across Britannia and will be available throughout the month of October!
There will be a Halloween handout for logging in closer to the holiday & staff-run events as time permits.
Pumpkins & Halloween Gravesites will be randomly scattered across the ov...
🎃🦇👻 Attention, zombies and witches! 🎃🦇👻
We are excited to spook-tacularly announce that our "ghoul" is to get Halloween festivities started by Oct 1st! 🌙🕷️🕸️(subject to monster availability)
We're stirring up some wickedly good fun, including candy "haunts" 👀🍬 and other bone-chilling activities...
The Bounty Hunter NPC & PVP Leaderboard have moved slightly SW into the small Guard Shack by West Britain Bank. The Cleaning Up Britannia vendor has taken up shelter inside the bank. The Rock Collector vendor has pitched a tent behind the Guard shack & the Fisherman has launched a boat in the moat!...
Whispers amidst the waves: In tribute to the late, great Jimmy Buffett, a melodious pirate now sails the deep seas. Honor his legacy and set out on a quest!
For those cherishing every note: An NPC, Jimmy the Pirate, celebrates Buffett's spirit. He waits in the vast oceans, bearing a special gift f...
This is a reminder that the August Bazaar will be ending Sept 15th, any remaining vendors will have their goods packed up that day. We are already planning the Autumn Bazaar to begin at the start of October, see you there!
We are excited to introduce the new Faction Coin System. This system allows members of opposing factions to engage in PVP combat and earn Faction Coins. Before you jump into the action, please familiarize yourself with the rules governing this system:
Eligibility for Earning Faction Coins:
The server will be restarting briefly at the top of the hour to deploy some updates, roughly 20 minutes from the time of this post. Patch notes will be posted soon
The server is back online now with the most recent patches applied:
At 9am UTC on September 5th, Shards of Britannia will remain offline for up to 3 hours while some critical maintenance tasks are performed. Please keep an eye on #news in Discord in order to be notified on when the game is available again.
Thank you for your patience.
This is a reminder of the project's Vacation Hold policy for player houses. If you are in any position where you cannot get to the game for an extended time, whether it be military deployment, natural disasters, or something else please contact us, and we can consider your request to put your hous...
Cleaning Up Britannia vendors have been spawned around most of the Banks for spending your CUB points. Thanks for keeping Britannia clean!
The August Bazaar end-date is being extended from September 1st to September 15th. There's still plenty of vendor spots available, and they can be rented until September 1st.
The following Bazaar will be Autumn related as we enter into October, our favorite time of year!
Shards of Britannia is no longer accepting Steam Account transfer requests.
If you are new or returning to the game, please create a new account following the instructions on our website: https://shardsofbritannia.com/play
If you already submitted a transfer, we are still working on processing...
The server is back online with the following updates applied: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/pk-balance-pass-murderer-bounties-leaderboard-tracking-hunting-mode-dungeon-mining-mining-caves
Prepare for an epic update in our world of adventure! The PK Balance Pass is almost here, introducing a whole new level of intensity to player-killing and justice in the realm. Guards will now stop at nothing to pursue murderers, relentlessly hunting them down with a chase & kill behaviour. Murderer...
The August Bazaar is kicking off in East Britain! Stop by the East Britain Park pavilion just North/NW of the Bank and rent your vendor spot today. The vendors will be available through August and expire on September 1st. Happy trading!
The server is coming back online with the most recent patch notes applied
Dear Shards of Britannia Community,
We come before you today to unveil significant updates to our rules and guidelines. These changes have been carefully considered, taking into account valuable feedback from our dedicated players, as well as extensive internal discussions. Our goal is to create a...
This is a reminder that the Moonglow Bazaar is ending tonight after the daily restart at 9 am UTC. If you have a vendor rented after the deadline passes, the vendor's gold, equipment & backpack contents will be packed up into your account vault for later retrieval. We will continue to do more Bazaar...
There's an unexpected outage with the Legends of Aria services preventing players from logging into the game right now. We've alerted those involved and hope the issue is resolved quickly, thanks for your patience!
The Moonglow Bazaar is being extended to July 14th and we have reduced prices on any remaining vendor spots!
All, the following Mini Boss Spawns should now all be working again:
Fezzik the Ogre Cook Arch Mage Barracoon
The Character Reflections Summer Sale that was scheduled to end July 1st has been EXTENDED indefinitely! Enjoy creating your character reflections at the new lower introductory price to get you started.🌞
We sincerely apologize for the interruption! Due to an unforeseen issue, we were forced to bring the server down temporarily and perform a rollback, resulting in a loss of approximately two hours of progress. We understand the frustration and inconvenience this may have caused, and we deeply regret...
During today's maintenance (9am Thursday UTC/5am Thursday US ET) the server will remain offline for up to 90 minutes while we perform maintenance.
Note that during this time, we will be doing another batch of Steam account migrations. If you are still waiting on your account to be migrated, pleas...
We're excited to announce that Shroud has joined the team! Shroud has volunteered to help out with Development & Coding duties. Shroud will be starting out helping to fix awful BUGS! So in the future you may see them assisting players in-game from time to time and asking & answering questions in cha...
We're writing to inform you that Discord Support Tickets are AVAILABLE again now for emergency issues
Please continue to submit bug reports and general feedback in-game using the /feedback command (also known as /bug), we constantly monitor in-game reports
If you have an issue accessing the game...
We're excited to announce that Milamber has joined the team! Milamber has volunteered to help out with Community Management & Counselor duties so you will see them around in chat quite a bit, and in the future you may see them assisting players in-game from time to time. Please give Milamber a warm...
It's time for another Bazaar! We're back at Moonglow Lyceaum again this time, and vendor spots can be rented until July 1st. We've installed a separate Vendor Search stone at the Lyceaum as well. Happy buying & selling!
PS: There's a new rental property available next to the Lyceaum now as well....
Happy Monday! We hope you're having a great day. We have just a few reminders and clarifications for you today:
Discord Support Tickets are currently on Vacation, see: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/support-options-update
Britain Moat Fishing: We have fixed the issue with not obtai...
Recently we identified and resolved an issue with Rental Properties. Specifically, if you rented a property and the rent expired from not paying, you probably received notice that your rental property belongings have been packed up and can be retrieved from the Account Vault. If you had a rental pro...
It is intended for all characters to be able to enter, traverse and hang out in towns no matter their notoriety state. To be clear, murderers are allowed to enter protected towns and hangout, but they are unable to use any vendors in town, and they are subject to being attacked by anyone as well as...
The Easter egg hunt has officially ended for the season, we hope you had fun hopping around collecting carrots and smashing eggs! Reminder: The Easter Vendor will remain until June 1st!
The first wave of Steam account to regular account transfers has been completed. Please check the email address you used on the form for details.
If you did not receive an email and you had previously submitted a transfer request, it means you did not fill out the form correctly. Please visit th...
The Easter Egg hunt has commenced! Easter Egg Nests will be scattered throughout the overworld for you to find. Double click the eggs to try opening them for fun surprises and goodies! Monsters also have a chance to spawn as Easter Paragon which can also drop Easter carrots and goodies.
Collect F...
We are aware of an issue with patron benefits reflecting in game at the moment and are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.
Update: This issue has been resolved (again) and Patron Benefits should start updating again momentarily, sorry for t...
For those of you that are still waiting for a Steam account transfer we have not yet completed it and don't have an ETA for you. If you are using a steam account please continue to play the Steam account until we have advised you otherwise thank you
Hello everyone,
We wanted to take a moment to reach out to our wonderful community of players and express our gratitude for your continued support of our video game project. We know that many of you have been patiently waiting for updates and improvements, and we wanted to address some of the conc...
Apologies for the extended maintenance window, the server is now back online.
The server will be offline for up to an hour during the next maintenance window at 9am UTC. Thanks for your patience.
Dear citizens, we have some great news to share with you today!
We have been working hard on developing a method for transferring characters from your Steam accounts to new standalone accounts. We understand how frustrating it can be to have an account that is stuck on Steam, so we're here to hel...
We've setup a clean Forum instance again at https://forum.shardsofbritannia.com/
It's currently setup for players to post picture of their house decorations. Periodically, as you know, we run House Decoration Contests, and often the decorations go on display for a few weeks and then they get pu...
We've updated the web map found at https://map.shardsofbritannia.com with the version originally designed by Duck and you can begin contributing to the waypoints immediately. We've also added a direct link to the map from our website. For those wishing to use the old map still, it's still availabl...
The server is coming back online now, with a slight rollback of 30~ minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience, please allow a minute or two and you can get to gaming! :)
Sorry folks, we've run into an issue causing us to require shutting down the server and rolling the save back less than 1 hour. Sorry for the inconvenience, please bear with us while we perform the roll-back and bring the server back up.
If you have issues staying logged in to Shards of Britannia, make sure you're using the new SoB Launcher as outlined here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/play
If you are using the SoB Launcher to load and play the game and have repeated issues, please contact us so we can help you get back to...
Another update to our launcher has been released. This one lets you launch additional instances of the game from a right click context menu. Simply right click the SoB Launcher icon in your system tray (down near your clock, sound controls etc) and choose 'Launch' to launch another client.
As al...
We recently introduced a new launcher app that not only serves as a foundation for us to add more features to the game but also acts as an anti-cheat measure. Our team is working hard to fix client bugs and add new features to enhance your gameplay experience.
We want to remind everyone that cheat...
The server is coming online now. A few points to note:
If you had the client and launcher open already, please close the client (the launcher will auto-close when you do) and start again from the launcher. A small update will download and you'll be good to go.
For anyone wanting to multibox, p...
During our next maintenance window (9am UTC), we will be introducing our new launcher that we posted about recently. For instructions on how to use it, please refer to https://shardsofbritannia.com/play - those instructions will be updated to include the new launcher approximately 5 minutes prior...
We are working diligently to address the recent lag issues which causes stuttering and freezes in-game from time to time. We hope to have the issues improved very soon and appreciate your patience through the rough patches!
This is a reminder of our House Vacation Hold policy. If you or someone you know is unable to attend the game for an extended period and you own a house, please contact us. We will be happy to consider your request to put the house(s) on Vacation Hold to prevent decay over a longer time frame.
Out of growing interest from the public for the team to do a Q&A or AMA, or a live discussion, we've setup this forum to organize questions and answers: https://qa.shardsofbritannia.com
Communicating there will be more manageable since everyone can engage in their own time. Given the volunteer na...
There appears to be an unexpected outage with the Legends of Aria login server, preventing players from logging into the game currently. We've alerted Citadel Studios and hope the issue is resolved quickly, thanks for your patience!
We're aware of ongoing lag issues, particularly in the Britain region. Please bear with us while we work through identifying the root cause and hopefully finding a fix ASAP. At this time, leaving the affected region and returning ~15 minutes later should result in a better experience in most cases...
We have some exciting changes planned for Shards of Britannia, and as a first step, we will soon be 'launching' our own customised game launcher. More details on that will follow when it is time (When It's Done!).
Due to this change, Steam accounts will no longer work. If you are still using Ste...
This is a reminder that Santa will officially be going on vacation starting on Feb 1st, 2023. Make sure to wrap up any pending trades or purchases, as Santa will be at his beach house until next season!
All of the awards have been delivered to winners & participants of the Winter House Decoration Contest of 2022. Thanks again to everyone for participating! We can't wait to see what you come up with next time. Until then, happy decorating!
The vote is in for the Winter House Decoration Contest!
Firstly, we loved ALL of your creations! You all have some fantastic scenes and designs and it was a blast to look through all the houses and decorations. Thanks for sharing your time with us and participating. Now let's get down to business...
This faction pillar has been split into its own region as a test case. It's in the same location, however you'll now transition out of Minoc proper and into this new region when going to this Faction Pillar.
Please let us know of any weirdness, however we expect this should greatly improve the pe...
Winter Holiday House Decoration Contest voting has begun for the People's Choice categories, please cast your votes in https://discord.com/channels/369023244038045697/1054518657411190864/1065067764458467388
This is a reminder that the following events are coming to an end at 9:00 AM UTC on Jan 15th:
If you still have a vendor rented at the Bazaar...
Citadel Studios has pushed a new client update, and we understand that a few folks are having trouble updating. The client update is not mandatory, so you can simply run ‘Legends of Aria.exe’ directly from the game folder to bypass the launcher, and create a shortcut icon to make this easier.
O...
There appears to be an outage with the LOA Login Server and we've alerted Citadel Studios of the issue. We hope it's resolved quickly, but in the meantime, players will be unable to connect to any servers. We'll alert you as soon as it's been restored, thanks for your patience
The Necromancer vendor and Krampus, they did team, To bring some spooky creatures to the scene. But don't miss out, on these limited-edition beasts, The undead reindeer mounts, they're sure to feast, On your desire for adventure and thrill.
Act fast, for these mounts won't stay around, For long, t...
It's time for a Winter House Decorating Contest, Snow us what you've got! Winners will be picked for the following categories: 1) Best Holiday decorations 2) Best non-holiday decorations 3) People's choice
View & Post entries in Discord: https://discord.gg/c4pWJPyrcW
Awards will be revealed in...
Santa's grateful for your help this year, The elves and candy canes, you've made it clear, That you'll do what it takes to save the day, And so, as a thank-you, Santa's lowering the price, hurray!
But oh no, a gust of wind has blown, Some gifts away, they're now scattered and sown, Throughout Dagg...
Winter monsters, mean and cold, Have come to take the candy canes, so bold. They've taken all the sweets, it's quite a feat, But fear not, for we can save Christmas, complete.
The Elves, they need the candy canes to make presents bright, But without them, Santa's workshop won't be right. The monst...
In order to make room for the Snowball Fight arena Santa's Workshop has been moved to the bigger island nearby, but not attached to, Dagger Isle. You can get to this island from the Dagger Mountains tunnel.
Wondering when you'll get gifts? More news coming soon regarding more holiday treats and a...
Santa's Mailbox has popped up at Windemere bank. Players can write a Note and place it in the mailbox to be delivered to Santa's Workshop at the North Pole! Santa may write you back, and you may be able to visit his workshop in the coming days if you've been good this year!
Autumn has ended & winter has arrived! Bazaar vendor deeds have been placed around Windemere bank, on Dagger Isle, for the Winter Bazaar. Winter Bazaar vendors will be available until 1/15/23. A snowy tunnel has been dug between Windemere and West Britain for easy access throughout the event. Happy...
This is a reminder that the Autumn Bazaar at Britain Bank is ending on December 1st at 9 am UTC. If you have a vendor rented after the deadline passes, the vendor's gold, equipment & backpack contents will be packed up into your account vault for later retrieval. We will continue to do more Bazaar e...
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US, and happy belated Thanksgiving to our northerly neighbors in Canada. Make sure to log in tomorrow to receive a Thanksgiving Cornucopia with a chance to receive some special goodies. We're very thankful for you all! Hope you have a good holiday 🦃
Shards of Britannia is now Free to Play for everyone! Invite your friends and family :)
Due to this change, and in order to keep things fair for everyone, we are now limiting the number of accounts that players are allowed to use, per household, effective immediately. Going forward, players are a...
As previously announced, we are going to be deploying the Patron Benefits & Donations updates today. In less than 2 hours from the time of this post, at 2AM UTC Nov 19th, we will restart the server briefly to deploy these updates. Please read all about the updates here: https://wiki.shardsofbritann...
We're finally ready to deploy the Patron Rewards & Donations updates!
We've set aside some time to deploy the updates tomorrow, on Sat Nov 19th, between 1AM UTC and 4am UTC. We will announce a more specific time as we get closer to the timeframe. Downtime is expected to be 15 minutes or less.
T...
This is just a reminder about Patron Benefits & Donation features are currently in testing on our Test Center server and all current Patrons have been granted permission to Test Center.
If you haven't yet, please take the time to read over the pinned message in the testing thread and test the new...
The team has reviewed the Halloween House Decoration Contest entries, and we've decided on the winners. This was a difficult decision because you all have such creative ideas and did a great job, so thank you for your time and effort in participating.
The top three entries that the team selected w...
The deadline has now passed for the House Decoration Contest and no more entries will be accepted. The team will review all the entries and decide on the winners, to be announced on Friday evening, US time zone. Thanks to everyone who is participating and excellent work on all of the detailed & crea...
An issue has been fixed causing some Halloween activities to end prematurely. Pumpkins and Halloween Camps have been respawned in the overworld and the Sewers. Costumes can now be worn until Dec 1st this year since we added them late in the season, they can be worn again after the daily restart on N...
This is a reminder of the House Deco Contest and there are only a few days left until the deadline on November 8th!
See the original announcement: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/halloween-house-decoration-contest
It's time for another House Deco Contest! This time the theme is Halloween. Use some of the items you've been collecting this month to decorate your house.
Everyone is invited to participate, and some of you have already been decorating your houses and they look great!
Submit screenshots & coor...
We just want to let you know that we're working on the final touches for the Patron Benefits & Donation updates. Very soon we will begin testing with Patrons and hope to have the patch deployed to the live server as quickly as possible, hopefully by the end of November at the latest.
If you are a...
We want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween! We hope your trick-or-treating season has been full of adventure and fun. Halloween activities & vendors will be available until Nov 8th at 9am UTC.
Starting today, we have kicked off a new Bazaar at Britain Bank! You can begin renting vendors on top of...
Hail citizens,
We are writing to inform you of some updates regarding the Patron Benefits we announced recently.
A summary of the changes:
The server is coming back online shortly! Unfortunately, there was an issue we could not recover from and the world-save needs to be rolled back 24 hours to Oct 9th at 9am UTC. We've tried everything in our power to prevent the roll-back, but it was beyond recovery. We apologize for the lost time an...
We've identified an issue with the server and are working to get it back online ASAP. No ETA at this time. Thank you for your patience.
We've identified an issue causing a server crash sometimes in relation to in-game alerts being sent to Discord. Due to this, we will be turning off the Discord #server-alerts for a short time. We will soon be changing how alerts are delivered to Discord from in-game to resolve this. After the fix ha...
Legends of Aria recently announced that the game is being removed from Steam, but it remains listed for a time to allow existing users time to move to standalone accounts.
New players should avoid Steam and use the normal standalone version of the game.
Existing Steam users that have not yet mig...
Hail citizens,
We are writing to inform you of some updates regarding project funding. Firstly, thanks to everyone that contributes or has contributed to the project’s funding. We can’t thank you enough for your continued support and passion for the project.
While many of you already contribute...
The Legends of Aria outage has been resolved and the Shards of Britannia server is coming online now. Thanks again for all of your patience through the unexpected downtime!
The Moonglow Bazaar has officially ended. Don't worry, we will do more Bazaar events again in the future in different locations.
If you had a vendor rented at the Bazaar, the vendor's equipment & contents will be safely packed into the account vault. See the original announcement for details: ht...
If you are a new player and are having trouble accessing the "Create Account" or "Buy Citizen Pass" buttons from our website, please try once more.
Recently Legends of Aria moved their website to https://classic.legendsofaria.com which caused the links on our website to become outdated & taking...
For those of you in Discord, we have added a new voice channel called UO Music where you can listen to a loop of UO music from YouTube while you play. Stay a while and listen! :)
Citadel Studios has completed the necessary migration for community servers to restore service and we are coming back online now. Thanks to CS for the timely updates!
The Moonglow Bazaar has been extended to August 1st at 9am UTC due to the upcoming LoA scheduled maintenance for next week
The Moonglow Bazaar has been extended to August 1st at 9:00am UTC.
There are currently only a few vendor spots left! The prices on these remaining spots have been reduced to 5,000gp for quick sale.
Happy buying and selling!
Citadel Studios posted an announcement on the Legends of Aria Discord server today indicating Scheduled Maintenance that will start next week on Mon July 11th going to Fri July 15th with no specific times stated.
The downtime is expected to affect all LoA services including services required to r...
Hail citizens of Britannia, we hope you're excited to step foot on Verity Isle and check out Moonglow starting at 2:00 PM UTC on June 1st, 2022.
Shortly before then, we will bring the server offline to commence the updates. Moonglow will become available as an option on the Public Moongate as wel...
Reflections
Soulstones
The auction is about to start! Head to Skara Brae's The Guiding Hand directly next to the bank (west) to attend! Hope to see you there :)
The deadline is now past for tomorrow's auction! Hopefully, everyone was able to put up the items for sale that they wanted to add.
The live auction is scheduled to begin May 21st at 8:00 PM EST/12:00 AM UTC, see the time in your local time here: https://discord.com/events/369023244038045697/971...
We have an update regarding the launch of Moonglow, another major landmass! The team has been hard at work to bring Moonglow to life and we are almost ready to start letting players in.
Mark your calendars, Moonglow will be going live on June 1st at 2:00 PM UTC, or see the time in your time zone...
We've fixed the issue causing some players not to be able to use guild and group chats. Thank you for your patience!
In approximately 5 hours from now we'll be doing a server restart and faction events will be disabled until some updates have been made. We will notify when they come back online again. Thanks!
Until May 16th players in factions are free to resign and join another faction without having to wait the normal 7 days. If you are unable to resign just logout and back into the game. Happy slaying!
Just a reminder, Shards of Britannia's First Live Auction is on May 21st!
Make sure to get your items added to the in-game auction board by May 20th at 11:00 PM UTC
To add items and check upcoming auction schedules, talk to the Auctioneer's Assistant NPC in Skara Brae at The Guiding Hand directl...
Faction Pillar Conflicts are now running on live! Come join in our factions mayhem as a member of True Britannians, Shadowlords, or Minax. These events will be occurring at least every 4 hours with extra spontaneous events in-between this weekend!
We're back online! Factions update has been deployed and players can now login and join up. Faction events are still being setup and will appear soon! Faction rankings have been reset and legacy factions players will be migrated to factions when they login.
More details and patch notes will follow...
It looks like we'll need a bit more time to get things back online. Keep an eye on the news as we will post as soon as we're back! Apologies for the delay!
We will be bringing down the server for our factions update in about 2 hours from this post. We anticipate this will probably take around 30 minutes to complete but will update the news if that changes. More details will be posted after the update.
After today's patch, it was realized how many people are beyond their house's storage limit due to items on their vendors! A lot of players have concerns about this since there was no warning. Due to the volume of players affected by this, we will be temporarily suspending the Vendor Storage enforce...
The server is coming back online with the latest patch applied (see patch notes for details), sorry for the extra downtime but thanks for your patience.
Savages appear to have defeated the barbarians and conquered the swamp east of Skara Brae!
The server will be going offline in approximately 10 minutes to apply the recent patch shown in the Patch Notes. Expected downtime is ~20 minutes. Thanks for your patience!
Update: The server is still offline and we're working on applying the patch still. Downtime will last slightly longer than ex...
Please be sure to check out our Easter highlights video for 2022! Thanks Hoax for putting this together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFNmQryWVE
Just a reminder that the Easter Events will be coming to an end after the daily restart, roughly 3.5hr from the time of this post. The Easter Vendor will remain for 2 more weeks allowing you some more time to put all your eggs in one basket. We hope you've had fun this holiday and look forward to do...
The Easter Egg hunt has commenced! Easter Egg Nests will be scattered throughout the overworld for you to find. Double click the eggs to try opening them for fun surprises and goodies!
Collect Fabled Carrots to spend at the Easter Vendor who has been seen hopping around the Paws Stables & Farm, j...
Something is amiss, a new maze has appeared in the middle of Hedge Maze! Perhaps you should hop around and see what you can find out. Note: Any existing spawns inside Hedge Maze are unavailable during this time, for the event. Also, click-to-move is now disabled while inside of Hedge Maze.
Unfortunately, there was an issue that forces us to roll back the world save to the last server restart, about 1 hour since the time of this post. Sorry for the inconvenience, we'll be returning online soon though. Thanks for your patience.
Just a reminder, anytime we post a deadline or a start time for something, it is always subject to change and you should expect there to be delays, always, but hope for the best. Our team consists of people from all over the globe, which may cause delays, and we are volunteering our free time, so we...
We recently combined in-game help requests with feedback reports, so when you send a help request it will go into the same stream as the rest of the feedback. We've also updated the Discord Support Threads channel, adding the ability for you to create new support threads on your own, if you require...
To celebrate Easter, we will be hosting an Egg Hunt throughout Britannia! Find eggs and break them open and collect Fabled Carrots (or other surprises), which can be spent at the Easter Vendor in exchange for some neat gifts! We hope you have time to log in and participate and have some fun. See you...
Check out the article that was recently published on The Ultima Codex about Shards of Britannia: https://ultimacodex.com/2022/04/check-out-shards-of-britannia-an-ultima-online-themed-community-server-for-legends-of-aria/
Thanks to WtF Dragon from Ultima Codex for checking us out and spreading th...
We've published a Public Board on Trello showing some of the things we're aware of, working on, and considering. Check it out at https://trello.com/b/571SiY7d
We're excited to announce that Hoax has joined the team! Hoax, as some of you know, has recently contributed to the rebranding efforts of our project as well as the amazing new video trailer! Hoax will be helping with more video related tasks, Unity asset design and more! Please give Hoax a warm wel...
Recently some members of the community have started an advertising campaign for the project. Thanks to those of you that have spent time on or donated towards that campaign!
We have, however, asked those involved to allow the team to control the ad campaigns. As such, the additional Patreon page...
Maintenance is completed earlier than expected and the server is coming online now. Thank you again for your patience.
The server will remain offline during the next maintenance window for up to an hour while maintenance tasks are conducted. Thank you for your patience.
A new video has been released that was created by Hoax in cooperation with staff and players. Check it out on the front page of our website or at https://youtu.be/PP2lW0DpE3g
Thanks to Hoax and Transcendence for organizing and creating the video, and to beekel for the fantastic music! Thanks to e...
The server is back online and ready for play! Thanks for your patience and see you in-game!
Server is offline again for a short time while we continue investigating the cause of today's crash or hang-ups, thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience! Check back shortly
About a week ago we mentioned that a new teammate would be joining us, and today is the day! We would like to introduce Cultivate, they are joining us to fulfill Game Master duties like player support, events moderating and possibly more things as they grow into their role on the team. Please give t...
Greetings Citizens,
We would like to film some staged events to create a promotional trailer for Shards of Britannia. With the help and expertise of Hoax, we also require as many players as we can get online at this time.
We hope this video will show a lot of what our amazing community server ha...
The server is coming back online now with the latest patch applied. Thanks for your patience!
The server is offline for approximately 15 minutes while we apply the latest patch. Please see the Patch Notes for details. We will post again when the server is coming back online.
Make sure to log in today to receive some Pink Champagne (per character) and Valentine's Day card with Rose (per account) to give to your special someone today. <3 The handout will be available until the daily restart at 9am UTC Feb 15th.
Hello everyone, we just want to give you an update about the team, as you may have noticed some changes.
We're excited to announce that we've picked 3 winners for the House Decorating Contest! Thanks to everyone who posted their submissions, it was great to see all of the creative designs people come up with.
The winners for this event are as follows:
Update: The outage has been resolved much more quickly than anticipated and we're coming back online within the next 15 minutes. Just a heads up, we will be rolling the world save back to the beginning of the crash, so if you did anything in-game while the outage was happening it will not have saved...
Firstly we'd like to thank all of our Patrons for their support, you help make this project a success and we can't thank you enough. Patron contributions are essential to keeping the project online and also give Patrons a chance to communicate directly with staff in a more intimate setting. Patrons...
The major update known as the Inscription Overhaul is now available for public testing and Test Center is now open to the public to help us test these changes.
West Britain Bank has been set up with Test Vendors and a Moongate to be able to easily test the changes.
The details are outlined here...
As a reminder of a couple of key server rules:
Housing has been enabled on Dagger Isle, on both the island containing the Honesty shrine and the island northeast of the city.
Dagger Isle is live in Britannia!
Thanks for your patience! The server is coming back online with the recent updates outlined here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/bulk-orders-crafting-updates
At approximately 5:00 AM UTC (about an hour from now), the server will come down for a few major updates. We expect the server will be offline for less than an hour. Thanks for your patience as always, and we're excited to share some new content with you!
Due to the nature of the issue that caused the recent downtime, we have had to roll the server back to 9pm UTC/4pm US eastern in order to preserve data integrity. We apologise for this and do not do it lightly - however we have identified the bug and do not expect a recurrence at this time.
The s...
The server will remain offline while we track down an elusive bug. We are working on it and will restore service ASAP. There is no ETA at this time.
Thank you for your patience.
Britannia's first Housing Deco competition is underway for the next two weeks! If you think your house decorations are killer, check out the events channel for details and post your screenshots in the house-deco-contest channel. The winner gets a one-of-a-kind piece of deco! Show us what you got!
The Skara Brae faction town stone is now active! While holding the sigil, you can use the boats at the docks to teleport back to the mainland and run to your faction stone. Go capture it!
At 11pm UTC/6pm EST tonight we will bring the server back online and Skara Brae, as well as the mainland region near it, will be available for all players! Give us just a couple minutes after it's back up to get the moongate running.
There is one bug in the region currently to be aware of- You can...
The server will be coming offline at 10pm UTC/5pm EST for some major updates. This may take up to one hour.
Thank you as always for your patience.
Our top Wizards have been working tirelessly, and we're happy to announce that the city of Skara Brae, as well as the mainland region to the east of it, will be available in game very, very shortly- and we mean REALLY shortly. While expanded landmass is awesome in and of itself, we wanted to give y...
The landrush updates have been applied and the server will be coming online at 2:15 pm UTC (in about 5 minutes)!
Some maps have been added to the wiki page https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/housing#housing-allowed-areas to reveal what areas are Housing Allowed for each region.
We've got an update regarding the landrush announced earlier this month https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/housing-plan
The landrush will begin at 2:00 pm UTC on 1/1/22 and to see this in your time zone please see the time listed on the Discord Event: https://discord.gg/CuwaP9sbep?event=91912966...
We'd like to welcome the newest member of the team, Wize! He has extensive software development and unity experience, and will be focusing primarily on Unity for the moment (as we heard some of you wanted to see the map expand....). Please give him a warm welcome!
Happy holidays from the Shards of Britannia staff!
Twelve days of Xmas is about to commence. Santa has set up shop outside of Britain in Paws town. For naughty Britannians, Evil Santa has set up shop outside of Minoc next to the Buccaneer's Den archway teleporter. You will be able to talk to Sa...
As you may have seen, an article was published today announcing a business deal between Citadel Studios and another game company. This was also the first we have heard of this news at Shards of Britannia, as we find out news the same time the general public does. There's been no mention of what this...
The server will remain offline for up to 2 hours during the next restart window (9am UTC on 21st December) while we conduct some extended maintenance.
Thanks for your patience.
On Christmas Eve, the gravedigging vendor will cease to sell Santa's Candle, the item used to trigger the Santa Claws boss event. After Christmas Day, he will be gone for good, along with his Ethereal Reindeer.
The Halloween Candy vendors will be available until January 1st, so be sure to spend your candy as soon as possible!
Soon you will begin seeing server alerts for ongoing miniboss events that will occur in various areas of the overland on a regular basis. At this time, there will be four different miniboss events available. You should see one happening every day or two once they've been implemented. These events wi...
Britannians: prepare to win it big! Buck E. Bees has opened a franchise of his famous casinos in Minoc! Located just south of the Minoc tinker shop, several games are available to play:
We are excited to share that housing is going to be enabled in all online regions at the end of the month/beginning of the new year. This means you will be able to place houses around Britain, Minoc, and Cove regions.
Leading up to or at that time we will be enabling the Large Patio house option....
The Santa Claws boss is now player triggerable. You must purchase Santa Claws' Candle from the gravedigging vendor, then place it under the Christmas Tree on the western side of the Yew area (where the spawn previously was). It takes 6 players nearby to activate. Once you've assembled, double click...
Pending a restart, a new Necromancer spell has been added. It requires GM Forensic Evaluation, Spirit Speak, and Magery to unlock.
The spell is called Death Ward, and may only be casted on yourself. For its duration, if you are killed/ brought below 0 health, you will instead be returned to 1 HP (...
The Faction Pillar / King of the Hill is now in game. It activates once every 80 hours, and you will receive a server alert when it does. It can be found in Destard Level 2.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions
Hail citizens of Britannia!
I will be producing a 2 to 3 minute promotional video for SOB.
I would like to show player's in-game recorded video's showcasing everything we have to offer.
I would like to get a collection of videos showing people mining, lumberjacking, fighting, stealing, faction...
A new automated King Of The Hill style Faction event is coming soon to Britannia. The following details outline its basic ideas, but are subject to tweaks before release:
Every 80 hours, the Faction Pillar becomes active. This event is a King Of The Hill style event. Faction players must stay near...
Santa Claws has been successfully chased out of Yew and is now wandering the wilds in search of warriors whose Christmas he can ruin!
'Twas a month before Christmas and all throughout Yew, not a creature was stirring- the guards had all gone too! A cold wind came and quickly they figured out, that Santa Claws and his evil minions would soon be about!
Launching sometime this evening, Yew will be invaded by Santa Claws and his evi...
The Lithos necromancy event will end tomorrow. Its spawn rate has been increased until then.
Necromancy is now live in Britannia! A method of procuring the Necronomicon has been introduced and players are encouraged to discover it.
For a short time, a boss event featuring Lithos, titan of Earth, is also active and is another possible way of obtaining the Necronomicon.
Please read the fo...
Relics of Lithos, titan of Earth, have been sighted in Britannia- a dark omen of evil events on the horizon.
Necromancy is coming to Britannia and is currently in testing! Shout out to Stimwalt who designed the ideas behind much of this system before he departed the team. The following wiki articl...
The server will remain offline for extended maintenance during the next restart window @ 9am UTC on the 12th November. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 hour.
Thank you for your patience.
The evil mages summoning Arcadion are growing increasingly desperate and frenzied as their power appears to be waning!
The Arcadion miniboss event for procuring a Summoner's Tome will be ending after this weekend. The Arcadion spawn rate has been greatly increased until then.
We have a new addition to the team! Please help us welcome Transcendence to their new role. They will be starting out helping to triage GM Pages and also helping with events and general gameplay design. Welcome, @Transcendence#6283!
Thanks to everyone participating in the Halloween events and activities, we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you. We look forward to doing more in the near future.
Faction ranks are available on Discord for the new factions- simply run /rank rankname to add your faction role.
Available ranknames are:
The new Factions system is about to launch- in preparation, we have removed existing factions from all characters and removed the faction leaders as well. Hold tight while we get everything prepped!
The wiki has a new page for Halloween: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/halloween-2021 here you can see information about the Trick or Treating and the kinds of treats you can get! ^_^ Happy Hunting
There is a known issue with Steam users trying to log in to the LOA game, specifically error 105. Citadel Studios, the makers of LOA has been made aware and have stated they are looking into the issue. We hope the issue is resolved shortly so you can begin your Halloween hunting soon! Thanks for you...
The server is coming back online with the Halloween festivities activated as described in the previous article here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/halloween-event-progress-report
Halloween Paragon mobs will spawn in both dungeons and in overland & smashing pumpkins and graveyard camps will...
The server is now offline for Halloween updates and will remain offline for approximately an hour! 🎃We'll post again when the server is coming back up, thanks for your patience.
The server will go offline around 11pm UTC/6pm Central (approx 2 hours from the time of this post) or a little later depending on our schedules. An hour prior to that we will schedule an automatic shutdown and begin announcing. The downtime is expected to last about an hour to deploy the Halloween u...
The Halloween event will start soon! Gravedigging needs a little more time and will come as quickly as possible after the event goes live.
When: The goal is for Today or Tomorrow 10/21 or 10/22 and will last 3-4 weeks, to end before US Thanksgiving
What to expect:
Test Center has been opened to the public for testing of Factions and Summoner content. To connect to test center, open your client and in the address bar at the bottom, connect to test.uo4.life:5002
For Factions: NOTE: All timers (capture, etc) have been set to 5 minutes temporarily to ease testi...
A cold wind blows from the East and as it breezes past your cheeks you hear the faint cries of an otherworldly being. Its tongue is both unintelligible but strangely familiar, beckoning you, filling your mind with patterns you struggle to fully understand. What felt like an eternity of thought passe...
Sorry for the short interruption! Service has been restored. The server will come back online at it's normally schedule time in about 10 minutes after the posting of this
Factions have been completely overhauled from the ground up and include new content- including capturing towns and rewards! This content is currently in testing, but you can see what's coming soon (pending tweaks) at this article: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions
Dev Blog/State of the Game:
Staff Activity
Some staff is on break right now for one reason or another, but not everyone is playing other games. Life always comes first and if things come up in life, it is always advised for staff to focus on real life, which may warrant some time away from...
The upcoming Fishing SOS changes are delayed slightly while we continue work on it, however, the container organization changes will go out tonight during the daily restart.
Apologies folks, we'll need a little longer to finish our tasks. This could be up to an hour, but should be sooner. Thanks as always for your patience.
We'll be offline for up to an hour during this evening's maintenance window @ 9am UTC. Thanks for your patience.
The Wiki Bot is temporarily offline, it'll return to service after it's had a pina colada or two on the beach.
During the next restart period (9am UTC 16th September) we will remain offline for up to 2 hours to perform extended maintenance.
Thank you for your patience.
We are aware of ongoing lag issues that some users are experiencing. At this stage, we are waiting for a core issue to be rectified at our host, at which time we will most likely move back to our original datacentre.
The latest advice is that they are working with their network equipment vendor t...
We are looking for ideas for the new Discord logo. Are you handy with Photoshop? We'd love to see what you can come up with. If you are interested in helping out and want to submit an image to be considered for the rebranding, please do so on our forums: https://forums.shardsofbritannia.com/topic/3...
This is a reminder to all that placement of objects outside the boundaries of your house foundation is not intended. Objects placed in this fashion are subject to removal, with a priority given to those that block access to land masses in any way.
Thank you for your understanding.
Apologies for the delay, we are running a little overtime with the maintenance work. We will aim to be back online by 11am UTC (ideally before that!).
Hail citizens. We have some important news to share with you!
As you may be aware, this project started out as an experiment. It was unimaginable that it would grow into what it is today. To see where we've come today, let's take a quick look back at the history of the game and our project for a...
Tonight's maintenance window @ 9am UTC (approx 1h 10 mins from the time of this notice) will be extended by up to an hour while we work on the 'lag' issues that are currently being seen.
Thank you as always for your patience.
"The Britain Royal Guard is seeking mercenaries willing to investigate three different suspected Dens of Evil. Our trackers have given us approximate areas for these Dens and they appear to be bound together with an unknown magic. We have sent many brave mercenaries to each already, but no matter ho...
During the usual 9am UTC/5am US EST maintenance window, we will remain offline for up to 2 hours while we do additional maintenance work. We apologise for this, however it is the first in a series of steps to minimise downtime, crashing and restarts, and we feel it's important enough to do this on...
The server will be coming offline for some extended maintenance @ 9am UTC on 28 July. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc
The server will remain offline for up to an hour during this time.
The server is temporarily offline due to an outage with the hosting provider. It was unexpected to have any downtime associated with this maintenance, but something has come up unexpectedly, so we appreciate your patience. We are monitoring the situation and will alert you as soon as the server is c...
Update your bookmarks! The news feed has been migrated from the old news.legendsofultima.online to https://legendsofultima.online/news and the in-game feed and Discord bot now reflect the new feed.
Warning: It is not intended to be able to place objects...
The Auto Stack or Stack All option(s) was removed before the Britannia launch, but some people still had it enabled after the transition, even though the option was removed.
This feature has caused several client\graphical glitches in the past for people as items are moved around or consumed very...
We'll be back online shortly. We've had to rollback to a save state of 10:40pm UTC/6:40pm US EST to avoid potential data integrity concerns that were due to the connectivity issues being experienced. We apologise for this, however we don't want anyone losing items etc., and this is the only way to...
The Britain Sewers are now open. This is a young-only dungeon, and designed to be quite simple to survive and skill up in for new players.
This morning was different. The air did not smell as sweet as it did. A sense of dread had encircled the citizens of Celador. Shopkeepers left their stalls, aimlessly staring into the skies. Children stopped playing on the streets and ran home to their kin. Dark storm clouds began a slow march over...
We're investigating an issue with guards and will be down for a little bit longer.
The servers are offline for the time being while we prepare for the transition process. As you know our team is global and therefore we are scheduling plenty of time in advance to allow for all teammates to complete any duties. Thanks for your patience through the downtime and please check back here...
As stated in our previous announcement https://legendsofultima.online/news/the-conclusion-of-celador Celador will be shutting down within the next 24 hours, and access to any remaining characters, items, and houses left in Celador will be lost.
We are aware some people have had issues going thr...
The latest standalone client has been published to the LOA dashboard and can be downloaded at https://cdn.legendsofaria.com/Legends%20of%20Aria-1.4.1.0.zip
This can be used to install the game in cases where the LOA launcher fails repeatedly for some users.
Due to another troublesome bug and an even larger player count (which we're not complaining about!), we will temporarily go to a 12 hour restart schedule to avoid a possible stability issue. We'll advise when we've squashed this one and change back to daily restarts.
Server will be restarting in about 5 minutes. ETA about 15 minutes. Thank you!
Server will be coming down for a short restart to address some issues around 17:15 UTC.
The server is back online and the shutdown of Celador has been completed. As previously mentioned, any characters, items, and houses that were left behind are no longer accessible.
If you have any characters remaining in Inbetween from the transition and have trouble progressing through the black...
The server is up again! Sorry again for the inconvenience but we really appreciate your patience. :)
The production server is back online with the latest version. Please make sure to have the latest client installed. At this time it is advised to use the "Download Now" button on the LOA Dashboard https://legendsofaria.com/dashboard to download and install the game with, as the standalone download...
Thanks for your patience during the downtime, we have received word that the issue is now resolved and we are now bringing our services back online including the game server. See you in-game and thanks again for your support
Some performance updates are being applied. Should be back in just a few minutes.
It's time! Housing will be launched at 10am US Eastern Time/2pm UTC on Saturday 24th July. Some notes for you all:
Hi all,
Please click through to the link below to read this announcement in full.
We wanted to take a few minutes to write a bit of a 'state of the game' update. Firstly, thank you all so much for jumping on board with us. Seeing Britain Bank full of people, the streets of Minoc busy and ore...
Some of you have reported persistent issues with being unable to fully update the game client using the LOA Launcher. At this time, if the troubleshooting steps outlined here: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/46-legends-of-aria-launcher-troubleshooting do not help, then we would normally ad...
In addition to our website and forums being updated in preparation for our big day on June 20th, our wiki has also been migrated and revitalised. Head on over to:
https://wiki.legendsofultima.online
to check it out. Don't forget you can search it directly from Discord - just type "!wiki searchte...
Please help us welcome our newest teammate, Sol. Sol is currently training to be a Counselor and will soon be on the front lines helping players out when possible. Welcome to the team Sol! For those of you curious about what Counselors do, please see: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/45-abou...
We're going to need to do an additional restart in about 20 minutes so that we can try to help some players who are unable to login. No downtime expected. Thank you for your patience as we try to get everyone in game again!
All town vendors have been made invulnerable for the time being while we work on updating their AI to be in line with Britannia-era combat mechanics and as such, they will be unavailable for snooping or thievery while invulnerable. Thanks for your patience while we continue to work on things
PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE FULL MESSAGE.
Firstly, thank you all for your patience during this trying time. During this last window of the game being online, we were working closely with our hosting provider to identify further options for mitigation of the DDoS attacks that we are ex...
We have sustained another attack today, this time of a different type. It has been mitigated, however unfortunately we have had to endure a slight rollback to 11:30 UTC/7:30 US EST.
We do apologise for the inconvenience. We will continue to defend ourselves as necessary and work through these in...
It's been a bumpy ride, no question about it. Thank you all for bearing with us during this time. Today, we broke another record for number of players online, as more and more folks jump on board with our little project.
With that being said, we absolutely have some growing pains to deal with, a...
It's not going to answer every question, but we hope we've covered the important ones! Something to read while waiting for the main event:
https://wiki.legendsofultima.online/en/transition-faq
Test Center is now ready for transition testing! A few items to note:
What you'll see on Test Center is not 100% reflective of what you will see on launch day. There will be no lore etc, this is functional testing ONLY. We don't want to spoil everything!
Your existing characters from Live...
We are back online in the alternative datacenter. Please note that we had to rollback to approx. 25 minutes before our normal shutdown time to preserve data integrity. This was due to the small blerp which happened around that time earlier today.
Apologies for that inconvenience, and thank you a...
We are back online. Please note, direct connections will no longer work. Connect by selecting our server on the community server screen. Thanks for your patience, as always.
As many of you know we are working on development of a brand new factions system. We plan to release this new system in phases and we will be providing previews as development progresses. However, we do not want to hold up our players from fighting each other in factions PvP for this new system to b...
Hello everyone! We are still working around the clock to meet our goals for the Britannia launch. We are still on track and expect to bring the servers online within a target timeframe on 6/20 between 7pm-8pm Eastern Time. This is still subject to change, and may ultimately happen earlier or later,...
We are back online. We will be monitoring closely, however please note that if the issue that caused us problems earlier returns, we may have to go offline again at short notice.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
-- The Team
The servers will be going offline for updates in 15 minutes. Please make sure you have the latest version of the client installed. We will post again when the update is complete and the server is coming back online. Thanks for your patience
We are beginning to restore services and will be back online shortly. Thank you for bearing with us. We have extra elements in play now to mitigate any further attacks.
We expect a small rollback as we come back online. These are inevitable in these types of scenarios due to the state of world...
As you're all probably aware, the server is offline right now. We've identified a critical issue that must be resolved prior to us bringing it back online. At this time we cannot offer an ETA, however know that we're all working on it to get things going again ASAP.
Keep an eye out for further a...
Today on Memorial Day, we honor and remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. We are eternally grateful and forever indebted!
The issue with the official map has been resolved, and it is now available again.
This evening we will be coming down for daily maintenance 15 minutes ahead of schedule. We will return to service at 5am US EST/9am UTC.
After this maintenance period, the server will restart once every 6 hours. We apologise for this, however it is a necessary step in order to ensure performan...
The maintenance is complete, nice and early. Why are you reading this?! Go play!
The rules page has been moved from the old wiki to the LOU website at https://legendsofultima.online/about/rules
Some changes were made so please make sure you read the page and familiarize yourself with the rules, as they go into effect immediately.
Thanks for your understanding and...
Dungeon Despise is now available for again for your spelunking pleasure.
Sorry, everyone, we noticed that some of the fixes we applied during the nightly restart had a flaw and we had to shut down unexpectedly. The server was only up for a short time after, but we still had to roll back to the time of the nightly restart. We apologize for the inconvenience and will be ba...
Secure Trading issues:
Corpse Looting issues:
The interactive map has now moved to:
https://map.legendsofultima.online
Please update your bookmarks! We have also updated the wiki.
We're very excited to provide the community with a preview of our upcoming inscription crafting overhaul. This overhaul will have far reaching implications for every craft and playstyle out there in Britannia! Check out the full preview here on the wiki.
https://wiki.legendsofultima.online/e/en/de...
To all,
We sincerely apologise for the (very brief) housing launch today. The server will be coming back online in the next few minutes, however there is some additional impact.
Unfortunately we are unable to return to the world save from just prior to the housing launch. Instead, we have ha...
Despise is temporarily closed. Cora and The Piper had an argument and made a real mess in there. It's currently undergoing a deep clean and will be available again shortly. I'd still wear a mask though.
We are extremely pleased to welcome a new member to our team. Congratulations beekel!
beekel will be joining us as a Counselor, and behind the scenes, has already contributed greatly to our project in terms of the wiki, the related wiki bot and of course the interactive map.
He is also contri...
Earlier today, we identified an economy breaking issue. While we won't go into full detail on this, what we can say in summary is that a small group of players leveraged an exploit. Our telemetry identified this and we acted as soon as we noticed it.
The end result is that group of players have...
Due to ongoing connectivity issues, the server will remain offline until further notice. There is no ETA at this time.
The rules have had some amendments to the following sections:
Please make sure you read the updated rules at: https://legendsofultima.online/about/rules
An update has been made to the rules regarding multiboxing and spycams. Please re-read the rules at https://legendsofultima.online/about/rules. As a reminder, you are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the rules at all times.
Over the last week or two, we've had a few of our players report rubber banding issues when connected to the game. Based on our investigations to date, this seems to be some sort of transient issue that is likely a poorly performing peer/segment somewhere on the internet.
Unfortunately it has yet...
We believe we have finally squashed the outlying performance bug that was forcing us to restart every 6 hours. As such, we will be returning to our usual restart at 5am US EST/9am UTC.
As a result, this next restart will take slightly longer than usual. We apologise for this, however rest assure...
We'll remain offline for up to an hour during the next restart window (type /nextrestart to see when that is.) to run some additional maintenance tasks. Thank you for your patience, as always.
Just a reminder from the article posted last week: https://legendsofultima.online/news/server-is-up-again-1
Any characters, items, and houses that were left behind in Celador are no longer accessible.
If you have any characters stuck in Limbo/Inbetween from the transition and have trouble progr...
We are aware of the issue with the official map and are working to resolve it. Thanks for your patience.
We'll remain offline for now while we work to solve this latest batch of issues. No ETA at this time.
Public Service Announcement
As you may be aware, earlier this week we identified several users involved in abusing some economic vulnerabilities that were discovered. At that time we had to roll back the server to recover from the impact and to protect our newly established economy.
After that incident occurred the players...
We'll be doing a quick restart in about 30 minutes for maintenance. No downtime is expected.
The Polymorph spell has been temporarily disabled while we work on the ongoing issues with it. Thank you for your patience, we'll advise when it is available again.
We are experiencing ongoing issues at our host as a result of a maintenance/upgrade window. We were advised there would be no impact to customers during this time, however clearly that is not the case.
There is no ETA at this time and you may experience odd behaviour or inaccessibility with the g...
We will remain offline during our next maintenance window (9am UTC Friday 3rd September) while we complete migration to one of our host's alternative data centers. During this time, all of our services will be unavailable.
This is due to our current datacentre experiencing some ongoing issues whi...
The transition to Britannia is almost complete! Britannia has been live since June 20th, 2021 and the new world is thriving!
There are still some of you who have not made the transfer yet. Don't worry, you still have some time. Celador will remain online until August 1, 2021, we will share a more...
It's finally time! Here is some more supporting information on what to expect:
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/transition-faq
See you in game!
Our website has had a facelift and we've also added new Forums to help with organizing communications. You're all welcome to join and begin discussing on the forums if you wish. Website: https://legendsofultima.online - Forums: https://forums.legendsofultima.online
The wiki is currently being upd...
We are moving things around briefly, and the website that serves custom assets is temporarily unavailable, please try again in a few minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This evening's maintenance window will be approx. 30 minutes instead of the usual 15. Thanks as always for your patience.
As promised, here is our transition plan. Please do read it in its entirety. There's a lot to take in, and hopefully we've provided enough detail for you to both plan the transition, and understand why we are going down the path that we are. We look forward to seeing you in the real Britannia!
ht...
Thank you all so much for joining us on stream this evening. It was great to see over 70 of you turn out to listen to us tell jokes about Cove.
The launch is imminent! Mark June 20 in your diaries. We will also have the detailed transition plan in your hands within 24 hours, and Test Center will...
It's been a long time coming, but finally... we are ready for LoU TV Episode 3! There has been a colossal amount of work put in by the team over the last few months to prepare us for the transition to the Britannia map, and we are finally ready to pull back the covers and give you all a sneak peek....
The Easter Bunny has hid his last egg for the season! Any remaining eggs may remain in the world until the end of the day, at the next scheduled restart. Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope you had some fun.
Happy Easter from the LOU Family! Easter Eggs are being spawned around the world for you to search for that may yield some special holiday goodies. Eggs are spawned in all regions except Frozen Tundra and dungeons. Happy hunting and may you have an eggcelent Easter weekend!
Apologies all, a critical maintenance task is taking longer than expected. Will advise as soon as we're back online. Current estimate is another 15-20 minutes. Thank you for your patience.
Maintenance has finished early and the server is available for login. Please note, as per the previous message, subsequent maintenance/restart periods from today onwards will take 15 minutes. The scheduled time is 9am UTC, and service will be restored by 9:15am UTC.
This evening's maintenance and restart window will extend up to one hour while additional tasks are performed to cater for back end infrastructure changes. Moving forward from today, nightly maintenance windows will be a fixed 15 minute period. That is to say, the server will go offline at 9am UTC...
We are back. Please note that due to some back end infrastructure changes, if you previously used the shortcut to access our server, i.e.:
cluster1.shardsonline.com:5150
You should now change to use the following:
connect.uo4.life:5001
Thanks for your patience, and happy gaming!
Due to an issue with the US cluster, we are currently offline. There is no ETA to restoration at this time. There will be another update as soon as we know more.
Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
The login server for US servers will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on March 30th at 4pm UTC and is expected to last 2 hours. The server will remain online but new connections may not be accepted during the outage window.
Today marks the last day of the Winter Events for 2020. Thanks to everyone that has participated! Due to this, the special winter drops will stop dropping after tonight. For those of you that enjoy ice fishing, don't worry! We've added some new items to obtain with ice fishing, as well as a few new...
Test Center will be offline for an indefinite period while we.. do things! We'll advise here when it's back online.
The server is back online and the following patch has been applied: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Fishing_Update_December_2020
Make sure to try out the new /macro command to help with repetitive tasks
Frozen Tundra has been populated with wildlife and some wandering healers throughout.
Due to some major backend changes with the Legends of Aria architecture, we need to temporarily retire the Covetous and Destard dungeons. This will allow us to proceed with the latest LoA upgrade, including moving to a new Unity platform, which in turn lets us push ahead with our plans for the Brit...
Frozen Tundra is now open! Throughout the rest of the month creatures spawned in the Frozen Tundra will have a chance to drop Winter Event collectibles. There will be new monsters, mini-champs and champs to contend with. New armour and weapons to collect as well as dozens of new collectible items.
T...
We are pleased to announce that Legends of Ultima will be launching our 2020 Winter Event this Sunday 13th December at 11:00am EST
The event this year is different to previous years and we are proud to announce that we will be opening the Frozen Tundra for our players to enjoy.
There will be new...
We have enabled a higher verification setting for the Discord to prevent abuse. If you were affected by this please know we did not single you out, but you just need to either A) verify your phone number on your Discord account or B) send us an email requesting an exception at support@legendsofultim...
Recently we have sometimes had issues trying to contact people back due to outdated/missing Contact Info setting in-game. Please make sure to keep your contact info up-to-date so that we can get back to you or ask questions about feedback to better understand issues being reported. You can access th...
With the US presidential election underway, we would like to ask everyone to please refrain from discussing politics in LOU channels. We already deal with such serious issues in our everyday lives so let's keep it out of LOU and keep our community neutral. Thank you!
During today's regularly-scheduled restart, at 9am UTC, the server will remain offline for approximately 30 minutes to deploy the following patch: https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Patch_10/27/2020
Earlier this week during regular maintenance we did some cleanup of the world and inadvertently most/part of the locked event area outside of Britain was removed. Sorry for that, it was not intended and we will be considering replacing it somehow.
The Gravedigger merchant has been added to an undisclosed location, happy hunting!
From now until 11/05 Paragon monsters will have a chance to drop a special Halloween item. We have introduced 4 new Halloween masks that can be blessed and dyed, as well as 2 new Halloween single-use dye bottles for dying your costumes. Happy hunting!
Please visit the LoU TV Wiki Page at https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/LoU-TV
We've uploaded the answers to the questions we weren't able to get to on stream, and this will be where future episodes are given the same treatment. Thanks again for all of your questions, and we look forward to sha...
Thanks for joining our stream today! Test Center is back online, and Wrong is available for testing. Head on up to the Britain Graveyard to find the portal to the entry.
To get back to Britain, you can of course Recall, or there is a portal south of the Wrong entry, down the road a little. Don't...
It's been a while, however we're ready to get moving with our next stream! This will be scheduled for 10am EST/3pm UTC next Saturday 29th of August. If you can't make that time, don't worry, we'll be recording the stream and will make it available on YouTube after the fact, or you can watch the VO...
Test Center is back online for now, check the #test-center-patch-notes channel for recent changes
Hello everyone, recently the response times for help requests or emails have been a little slower than usual. We apologize if you've had to wait for a while to get a reply from us. We handle issues in the order they are received normally and sometimes it can take time to review, research and to repl...
We would like to remind all players of the Terms of Service that you agree to when connecting to any Legends of Aria-based product. Those Terms of Service can be found here:
https://www.legendsofaria.com/terms-and-conditions/
Please be advised that in all cases, we fully support immediate action...
The update has been completed and the server is now on the latest version, please make sure you have the latest version intalled to connect to LOU.
Thanks to everyone that attended the stream and submitted questions. If you missed out, don't worry! The stream recording should be available soon, keep an eye out for it at https://youtube.com/c/stimwalt
Happy belated Canada Day & US Independence Day everyone! Make sure to log in sometime before 7...
We are aware that many players are looking forward to "June 21st" based upon the most recent YouTube video stating that we hoped to have some big news by Spring 2020. This was not intended as an actual deadline, and was never meant to be received as such, as it was more of a hopeful projection. Me...
A new version of the client has been made available and the server is now up to date. Please make sure you have the latest client installed, thank you!
Welcome to May everyone!
Just want to drop by and give all of our dedicated supporters a big round of applause and thank you for continuing to support the project! In the past month we have been working on optimizing our infrastructure to prepare for the future, and we have also spent a lot of time...
We should be all wrapped up with the maintenance reboots and the issue preventing ghost characters from logging in should be resolved. If you are still having an issue with login please let us know by emailing [email protected] or DM Gorgan. Thank you for your patience today!
Happy Easter everyone! Hope you have a safe holiday. Hop in game shortly for some festivities! :)
Thanks to various optimisations and improvements, we think we are finally in a good position to return to daily restarts. After the next server restart, subsequent restarts will be at 9am UTC daily. Yay!
www.legendsofultima.online will be offline/out of service for some time while some back end maintenance is done. Thanks for your patience.
During the next reboot window, which is approximately 3 hours from the timestamp of this message, the live server will remain offline while we perform some back end maintenance. This will take up to one hour.
Thank you for your patience.
With the pandemic currently affecting the whole planet, we just want to remind everyone about the LOU housing policy.
If you are in any position where you cannot get to the game for an extended time, please reach out to us, and we can consider your request to put your house into a Vacation Hold to...
We're aware of an issue with these systems whereby it is saying the tree or rock is 'Too far'. We'll advise when it has been resolved.
Legends of Ultima is now running on server 0.9.3, you'll need to update your clients. If you are running the standalone client, run the launcher to update. Steam will of course update automatically (without even asking you!).
The main server is now offline for the Test Center scheduled event! Please join us on Test Center. The main server will remain offline until the conclusion of the event, roughly 3 hours.
We are experiencing a technical issue with the server and are offline temporary while we work to resolve it. We appreciate your patience during the downtime. Test Center has been brought up a non-saving state so that you can log in there and mess around in the meantime. We'll let you know as soon as...
Sorry folks, we've received notice of a minor data corruption in the save during the last reboot cycle and we need to bring the server down and roll the save back prior to the previous reboot. It's about 3 hours ago, we're very sorry for the loss of time, but appreciate your understanding. We'll be...
Join us on Twitch to watch the final rounds of our PvP tournament unfold! Hosted by our ambassador, Scrubbo!!
Streaming now at:
https://www.twitch.tv/scrubb0
We're excited to announce that an extensive combat overhaul is now available for testing on our test center. This is a large update which brings many of the combat systems in Legends of Ultima closer to our roots in Ultima Online's early eras.
An overview of these changes can be found on our wiki he...
Server's back up! Thanks for your patience through the unexpected downtime.
Crafting and the economy are top priorities for us to address with our move to Britannia. Our aim is to recenter the economy around players and the goods they can produce. We want to move closer to our roots in UO and then build on top of that with our own additions. To do this we will be implementi...
Hi Folks,
TLDR? See the last few lines at the end of the article.
Firstly, thank you as always for your patronage and doing what you do to support us and our development efforts. We are a little unique in terms of our game and platform, in that we are in development (early access) while you all pu...
During the next scheduled restart in about 20 minutes, we'll be upgrading the server to the latest version. Be sure to grab the latest client as this solves a desync issue and possibly other things. Client upgrade is not required however, so you may still log in with the old client until you've down...
It's time! Britannia (well, Britain and its surrounds) is up on test server! A few things to be aware of:
This is still an early build, there will be things to fix. Feel free to report those in #britannia-chat
This is currently just Britain town itself, and only West Britain, along with the surround...
Wanna show off your PvP skills, earn bragging rights, and collect a unique prize? We are hosting a 1v1 PvP tournament! This tournament is slightly different than traditional tournament rules so please be sure to read the rules carefully, then sign up at the link below! Please forward any questions t...
After being murdered, players should now, again, be given the option to punish or forgive a murder.
We just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of our Natural Disasters policy with LOU Housing. If you or someone you know that plays LOU is affected by a Natural Disaster or other hardship in which they will be unable to access LOU for an extended time, please reach out and we will be happy to...
Happy New Year everyone!
This is a quick note to say that we do read each and every bit of feedback we get, whether it's a bug, a suggestion, or a report of player misconduct. However, as we are a team of volunteers that do this for free in our spare time, who all have lives and families, it is sim...
There appears to be an issue with some or all in-game feedback reports (bug reports) not being received. We're looking into the issue. In the meantime you can use the Discord Feedback Bot to submit bugs, as those are still being received.
We would like to remind all players that, as per the rules you agreed to when first logging into our server, exploiting bugs/glitches etc is not allowed. In some cases, after a thorough investigation, the effect of a particular exploit may be so game breaking that we have no choice but to react wit...
Covetous and Destard have been fixed, and are available to play again.
We are aware some folks have lost some house contents following the deployment of the 12/8 patch. We sincerely apologize for any losses that this caused. We do not take lost progress lightly and you should know that we're sorry it happened. We do our best to heavily test each change and take measure...
The server is now using the latest version of the LOA client. Please make sure to download the latest client to play.
There are a few known issues from this update:
- Covetous and Destard dungeons are purple/pink in appearance and have been disabled until we have had a chance to resolve
- Some tr...
Thanks to everyone that has taken time to fill out the Player Survey. We appreciate your time and value your feedback!
The stablemasters have started to slowly restock their inventory.
Due to a union-related issue, Stable Masters are not able to sell any animals at this time. We hope the result of their strike is that they are remunerated fairly and equitably, and they can return to providing a service that we all appreciate very much in the near future.
Please be reminded that claiming to be a staff member of LoU or LOA when you are not is considered a violation of our rules under Communication and Player Conduct - Part 6 which is publicly visible at https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Server_Rules -- if someone does not have the Staff role in...
In order to evaluate a potential performance concern, World Chat will remain disabled for a few days while we collect further data. Thanks for your patience.
Claire the Pilgrim, found in Magincia, offers some of her festive wares for trade. Seek out festive turkeys in the Eastern Frontier for what she seeks. (Event runs until 01 Dec at 1200 EST)
The patch posted in #test-center-patch-notes has been delayed for some time. The changes will remain on our Test Center for further testing. Thanks for your patience and helping with testing. :)
A quick note regarding the skill bonus that we have enabled post rollback - it is a 10% bonus on the base gain, so you won't see it reflected in skillgaindebug. The increase is already applied to the first percentage shown.
Further to our previous announcement, we have found the root cause for the data loss issue and implemented a hotfix. We expect to restore service shortly after this announcement.
Unfortunately, in order to address the issue, we need to perform a rollback. This is necessary in order to ensure data...
We have identified the data loss issue and expect to restore service shortly. Unfortunately, in order to address the issue, we need to perform a rollback. This is necessary in order to ensure data integrity moving forward, as ideally we want to maintain our 'no wipe' stance at all costs. We have...
Due to a potential data loss situation, the server is being taken offline. There is no ETA for restoration of services at this time. Thank you for your patience.
Next Friday, Nov 8th, at a time to be determined, we will be applying a patch that will prevent players from moving/rotating locked down objects outside the bounds of their plot. At that time, an autofix will be applied detecting any pre-existing objects that are out of the plot bounds and moving th...
After the defeat of Mr. Vorhees, The Mad Scientist has vowed to destroy all! They await in Wyvern's rest (once every few hours). Good luck
Halloween coffins now spawn near Juka Isle and Scorched Print Halloween spawns. Inside you will find increased Candy corn drop chances, rare monsters and the chance for a rare Halloween item.
As part of LoU's Halloween events Danyc the Candy Goblin has arrived in Nujel'm. Check out areas around Gazer Isle, The Dunes, Scorched Print and Wyvern's Rest to acquired his much needed Halloween Candy! Danyc has various Halloween items to trade, but will only be in town until 1 Nov. Stay tuned...
We are actively looking to bring several Discord moderators on board to help the rest of the team with the Discord server. If you think you'd fit that bill, please drop in an application via:
https://www.legendsofultima.online/jointheteam
We look forward to hearing from you!
The House Design contest for the Britannia map has officially kicked off! If your design is successful, it could be immortalised in Legends of Ultima for everyone to use.
See #submissions-house-design-contest for details. Good luck!
Since we are about to enter a new month, and with seeing the news of even more extreme weather and natural disasters happening around the globe every week, I wanted to remind everyone of our Vacation Hold policy.
If you are in any position where you cannot get to the game for an extended time, whet...
Hi all,
Just a friendly reminder to please link your discord account to your in-game account when you /page. It really helps our Counselors and GM staff get in touch with you faster and get things to a resolution as quickly as possible.
Thanks!
It has been brought to our attention that people are selling Pet Deeds with pets that have 200/200/200 stats. Please know that this is an exploit people have been abusing by casting Bless onto their pets and then deeding the pet. Do not buy these deeds as the pets will be auto-corrected soon back to...
We're streamlining our announcements, patch notes, known issues, and town crier news into a new system that will allow everyone to see them in Discord, in-game, on our webpage, and on the Wiki. This is in an effort to make sure we're always providing up-to-date information in all outlets.
Changes c...
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