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Season 7 has officially started! We know some of you were caught off guard by the transition and didn't get a chance to claim your Season 6 rewards. No worries – we're making some improvements to prevent this from happening again.
What's New:
🎄 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:
Looking For Group (LFG) System
Finding other players for activities just got easier! The new LFG system lets you create and browse group listings for dungeons, boss hunts, PvP, treasure hunting, crafting, quests, and more.
How to Use:
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...
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...
A Halloween raffle is now live! Visit Raff, the lottery official, outside Britain Bank. You will nee...
Halloween Activities:
Every weekend, come and experience the Exploding Wells event in Paws! Check our official Discord for more information!
Every weekend, come and experience the Exploding Wells event in Paws! Check our official Discord for more information!
Great news for all Shards of Britannia adventurers! The Amulet of Fortune’s Favor is now available for purchase at the jeweler in Britain for 5,000 gold, bringing a spark of arcane fortune to your journeys. This powerful amulet enhances your luck across a wide range of activities, unveiling rare tre...
Until further notice, the exploding well event has been canceled going forward. Thank you to everyone who participated we hope you had fun! The event will return at some point soon with some exciting changes!
NEW (updated July 30th, 2025)
Hail, adventurers! Due to the roaring success of our last Paws explosion fest, we’re cranking up the chaos with a brand-new, heart-pounding event! This is no ordinary rerun—it’s bigger, badder, and bursting with madness! Get ready for 24 hours of non-stop action this weekend!
Keep your eyes peeled...
Exciting news for all aspiring chicken fighters! There's now a new NPC at the Moonglow Zoo who will let you register your pet chicken for the upcoming cockfighting event just target your feathered friend to sign up, but remember, each player can only enter one. Once registered, you can purchase spec...
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 :-)
Since we’ve been adding many new features and not all of them warrant a dedicated news item, we’ll start providing a kind of changelog. This will take the form of a news page, initiated at the beginning of each month, where smaller changes and additions will be continuously documented (revisit this...
Hail, adventurers! Due to the roaring success of our last Paws explosion fest, we’re cranking up the chaos with a brand-new, heart-pounding event! This is no ordinary rerun—it’s bigger, badder, and bursting with madness! Get ready for 24 hours of non-stop action this weekend!
Keep your eyes peeled...
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...
Hail, everyone! We’re throwing a curveball with a spontaneous burst of mayhem! No fancy prep, just a straight-up, off the cuff event to keep things lively. This chaos is live for the next 24 hours, so get in on it before it’s history!
Stay sharp for Special Exploding Barrels spawning all over the...
Hail, Adventurers of Britannia!
The winds of change sweep through our lands, bringing new opportunities and enhancements to your adventures. Heed these tidings from the realm's scribes, for they bring news of great import!
Faction Pillars Now Player-Driven! The tides of battle shift as Faction P...
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...
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 are hosting our sixth annual Easter celebration in-game with some fun activities for everyone to enjoy!
Welcome to the latest update for Necromancer abilities! This patch focuses on making spells more responsive, impactful, and fun to use.
Season 5 is Now Live!
We are thrilled to announce that Season 5 is now live! We always appreciate your patience through transitions between events.
Thanks for being here and for your continued support!
Hail, adventurers!
We have two big changes. First, minibosses—those six roaming overland events—lose their reset timers, staying active until defeated, thanks to feedback from the community about foes vanishing mid-fight. When you slay one, a server-wide alert will herald your triumph, ensuring g...
Top o’ the mornin’ to ye, and a grand St. Patrick’s Day it be! I know originally we wouldn’t be stirrin’ the pot o’ mischief—us leprechauns swore to keep our tricks tucked safe beneath the rainbow’s end, guardin’ our gold from meddlin’ hands. But the winds o’ the Emerald Isle whispered otherwise, an...
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...
New loot has been added to MIBs.
Summoners’ Dark Guardians and Strange Gazers stats have been adjusted to improve overall balance.
Some improvements have been made to the Fowl Frenzy event: exploding barrels now have a larger range, killing chickens and turkeys no longer counts as ki...
Attention all Shards of Britannia players!
We're thrilled to announce the winners of our Winter House Decorating Contest! After much deliberation and marveling at the creativity on display, here are the champions:
First Place: Fili Second Place: Chriss Third Place: Gruelslayer
Congratulations...
❄️ Winter Weapons Update! 🎅
Soon, all Winter Weapons both existing and new will be automatically updated to include the powerful Frostbane Slayer feature!
Additionally, freshly spawned Winter Event monsters will now be vulnerable to this Slayer, making your battles even more exciting....
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...
Stay updated with the latest n...
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...
We’ve deployed a hotfix to address the following issues:
A hotfix has been deployed to address an issue preventing some players from picking up the Thanksgiving Quest due to completing it last year. Please log out and back in to apply the fix, then try the quest again.
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...
The results are in! The following characters have won the Halloween Raffle 2024:
We will be in touch with your prizes soon, so keep an eye out!
A big thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Halloween events. It...
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...
🎃 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 server-wide alert for when players start and stop horse and cart quests has now been removed.
An issue preventing players from placing the fowl cannon decoration in their houses has been fixed.
Loot from the Fowl Frenzy event will no longer spawn too far away from the location of...
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...
Fixed a bug that prevented the webmap to be opened if the region was changed.
Close and reopen the launcher to fetch the update and then you can use /webmap in game at any time now.
NOTE: Dungeons are not supported yet, so you will see yourself in a random location in the britannia map.
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Halloween Lottery! Taking 1st place is Felonious Monk, followed by StainedSoul in 2nd, and Helldon in 3rd. Each of these players will receive a special Halloween prize filled with rare and spooky items to enhance their adventures in Britannia.
T...
Dear players,
We experienced server issues during our recent event, which affected the overall gameplay experience. As a result, we will be rescheduling the event to the same time next week to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate as intended.
We sincerely apologize to everyone who...
Join us soon for our Halloween event! Find all the details for time and date in our official Discord.
Here are some of the activities planned for the Halloween event:
A treasure hunt for the rare version SOB 2000 flying broom.
A Halloween raffle vendor offering prizes such as a Hallowe...
Undead Drake/Dragon dyes have been added to the 4-year veteran rewards.
A new rare forest spirit tamable has been added to the world.
New loot has been added to the Fowl Frenzy event.
Halloween Activities:
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 reach out to us, and we can consider your request to put your house into a Vacation Hold to prevent it from decaying in the normal timefram...
We've finally resolved that old bug preventing the Lady/Lord title from appearing when your character has enough Fame & Karma and the option to show the title enabled. The fix has been deployed and will be available after the next server restart.
🚤 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...
Sable the Infiltrator, who provides the crystal activation quest, now sells activators for the Buccaneer's Den Fowl Frenzy event for 4 quest tokens. The activator requires at least 10 players to activate.
Feathers and Fury: The Great Fowl Frenzy Lucky Dip is now live! For those who participated in the event and received any of the new paintings, you can now bring those deeds to Luke, the Dimensional Shrinker, in exchange for a Lucky Dip bag! Take your chance at winning a special-colored shoulder parr...
The upcoming faction event has been rescheduled to the following week. Please see our official Discord for all the details.
House Refresh Improvements
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 hotfix has been deployed to resolve an issue with Covetous being treated as a No Mounts Allowed area by mistake; this was only intended for the Event Dungeons, which is a copy of Covetous currently.
This patch has been deployed to the live server, see most recent changes at the bottom of this post
Young Player Status changes:
Chuckles the jester has hidden special riddles in all the towns of Britannia! Double-click on inanimate objects to try to find them for riddle tokens. These tokens can be used to purchase items from the jester at Britain Castle. This event is ongoing, and new riddles will continue to be added until...
You can now attempt to destroy the Spider Queen's torture cages by double-clicking on them when you are trapped.
An issue with the protection scrolls for the Spider Queen's torture cage that was preventing players from reapplying them has been fixed.
We've identified and resolved an issue with Fishing where the chance to reel a General Loot item was successful but the dice-roll to select an item was unsuccessful, causing the fisher not to reel anything in. This should also improve conditions for special Fishing events like Icefishing, Britain Mo...
We have a small number of positions to maintain the project and bring on new members very infrequently. Please don't let that deter you from applying, if you are passionate about the project and think you have something to offer, we want to hear from you!
We keep...
See Also:
The Snowball Fight event is about to start again for the season:
Patch notes for the PvP changes and bug fixes implemented:
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:
Camping Update (Tanking Phase 2.5):
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...
Faction coin vendors have now been introduced at each faction base, offering a variety of items. This is just the beginning of what's to come. Players are encouraged to explore these new additions and stay tuned for a range of exciting goodies planned for the future. Enjoy your adventures!
We've addressed the issue with Town Fishing loot not functioning during Holiday events. Multiple attempts were made earlier in the season, but the latest fix should resolve it.
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...
We've added safeguards to prevent innocent players from evading a PK and then committing suicide in order to give the offender Murder Counts even if they did not actually kill the victim. Please note: you immediately qualify to receive murder counts if you do ANY damage to an innocent player, howeve...
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:
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...
Some or all undead pets may have skills that exceed the normal skill-cap of 700.0 due to those pets gaining Spirit Speak and Forensic Eval which will prevent players from training their pets beyond a certain limit once they reach the cap. To work around this issue, we've updated the Skill Cap for Un...
Holiday Decorations:
Monsters/aggressive beings:
We wish a Happy Birthday to GM Shroud on this July 19th 2023. Thank you for your dedication to the project and we hope you have a Happy Birthday!
Everyone who logs into their account between 9 AM on July 20th and 9 AM on July 21st will receive a special Anniversary Cake with a randomly flavored frosting. This celebration marks the 2nd Anniversary of the Launch of Britannia. Although the project initially began in October 2017, we are specific...
State of the Test Center:
test.uo4.life:5002 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!
Recent hotfixes, additions, changes & fixes:
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...
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...
We've fixed an issue preventing you from placing the Lapis Lazuli Egg
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...
Fixed an issue preventing characters from joining a faction when they are in a guild that has a faction assigned already
We will soon be deploying the following changes.
Resource/Durability Consumption:
Currently on Test Center for public testing is the Outfitter system for Duels & Faction events, with the following updates.
Resource/Durability Consumption:
If you are an Animal Tamer and have Bake Kitsune's please stable them immediately. Combat for these pets is now prevented temporarily, but they will still be able to follow you. Sorry for the inconvenience, we will return them to normal behavior ASAP.
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.
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've fixed an issue preventing skill gains when practicing combat with Training Dummies (if you still have issues, log out and back in to receive the update)
Recent fixes and changes:
We're working on a couple of improvements for Factions:
Separation of Faction Bases into their own server regions to isolate the Faction fights from Housing in the adjacent areas
Guild Faction Assignment:
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...
Good news, we're extending the deadline for the Xmas Event & House Deco Contest by 1 week, from Jan 8th to Jan 15th. A lot of the team and players have been extra busy through the holiday season and we want to make sure both the staff is prepared and players have had time to participate. We hope you...
Players entering Faction Events will soon find that they have a random name applied when they enter & guild tag will also be hidden. The random name should appear in all places during the faction event, and once the event ends the name would fall off revealing the character's true name, as well as s...
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...
General:
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...
Recent Fixes:
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...
General Fixes
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...
The Halloween activities are being deployed across Britannia and will be available throughout the month of October!
There will be a Halloween day-of handout & staff-run events as time permits.
Pumpkins & Halloween Gravesites will be randomly scattered across the over-world. Smash the pumpkins an...
This patch note includes:
Loading Invisibility Updates
This patch note contains:
General Fixes
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...
General Improvements
Item Inspection
Loading Invisibility, a long-awaited and highly-requested feature, is being added! This will help alleviate issues with logging in but not being able to respond in-game for several seconds after your character appears in the world to other players and monsters.
The details:
Player Vendors
Accidental Vendor Dismissals from Demolishing House
Demolishing a house is now prevented while there are vendors working out of it in order to prevent accidental dismissal of vendors and potential loss of items
Some Missing House Items Recovered
After the recent house updates, it was reported...
Two new rare crystal resources have now been added in game. Ancient Reaper Fragments can be found while lumber jacking and Ancient Elemental Fragments while mining. These fragments can activate two new world bosses.
These events will require a minimum of 4 players (with unique IP’s) and they can b...
Vendor Rental deeds have been added to Moonglow's Lycaeum where you can rent a vendor until July 1st (deadline extended to August 1st) for a one-time fee & we will plan to host more Bazaar events periodically in the future.
These vendors do not charge daily fees or commission and are only availa...
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...
Faction Conflict Pillar event locations have received a significant upgrade! Along with altered layouts they now feature 3 control points instead of just one. Events will be disabled for a short time until setup is fully completed. Other patch notes are listed below.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia...
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!
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...
Today's update includes some fixes and improvements to help out under populated factions in events.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/05-09-2022
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...
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.
Today's Hotfixes:
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...
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...
General Changes:
General Fixes:
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...
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:
Discord chat is where all communication is happening about Shards of Britannia outside of the game.
In Discord you will see the latest news, events, community chatter, vendor advertisements, and new player questions & answers.
Discord is the best way to find out more about Shard...
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!
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...
An issue preventing placing houses in some designated housing spots due to "you cannot claim that land" has been resolved. This was due to a designated Treasure Map location being nearby blocking placement, which has now been optimized. In some cases, this may open up a piece of land that previously...
Relocation details:
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...
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...
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.
We've deployed a hotfix for the issue preventing players from releasing objects with collision. The full fix requires a server restart, until then, you can say "I wish to move this" to bring up the Decorating Tool and use the release button from there and it will work.
The following changes have been made to help prevent getting items stuck inside of house walls causing them to be unable to be retrieved.
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...
After the restart, the following items have been addressed:
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...
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...
Some more decorations have been fixed in terms of an issue preventing placing them, included but not limited to:
An issue has been solved preventing people from buying mounts like the Fire Ostard that can be ridden by anyone if their skill level is too low.
If you have a Halloween Mask that still equips to the "Head" slot preventing you from wearing armor on your head simultaneously, you may now talk to the Candy Vendor to get it fixed.
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.
Gravedigging is now live! Check out the details here https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/gravedigging Throughout the duration of the Halloween Event, Gravedigging will offer chances to yield more candy and items!
In other news, there have been numerous reports of Halloween forces assembling in...
The bravest warriors have fought valiantly in our server-wide PVP tournament, and only four remain: Vega Pepega, Theko, Carmen Sandiego and Havagrim.
On Saturday, November 13th at 16:00 UTC (That's noon American East Coast), the final four will duke it out at the Colosseum, one on one, until a cha...
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 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:
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...
Signup for the PVP event closes tomorrow! Head over to https://event-signup.uo4.life/ if you'd like to participate!
Due to some server lag issues that we experienced during the original PVP Tournament preliminary rounds (which have since been resolved!), we're going to start from scratch and get another fresh bracket going.
Signup closes Saturday, 10/2/21. We will then get preliminary rounds under way, and as w...
Group Combat, Shared Loot
Warriors, rejoice! The Colosseum has moved to its new and permanent location, an island just outside of Buccaneer's Den. While it will be used for PVP server events, it is also intended to be a general use area for consensual, non-faction PVP. Thus, the following rules will take effect in the area a...
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...
"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...
"We have found a place of great evil in the region North of Minoc. Trackers have informed us that a Northern Cave is filled with a monstrous and deadly Arachnid. We fear that this beast is linked to the creatures on the Peninsula. If they launch an attack on Minoc, we will be unprepared to defend ag...
"Warriors! The Ritual Site locations and the Weaver Cave that were cleansed in recent days, have regained their former strength... We ask for your bravery once again. My great warriors, please hear me! Vanquish these vile creatures! Do not allow them to encroach on our lands!"
Ritual Site 1: http...
Reminder! Sign-up for the tournament closes this Saturday!
Event Details: https://legendsofultima.online/news/events/add/1v1-pvp-tournament-and-royal-rumble-event
Sign-Up Link: https://event-signup.uo4.life
Last chance to sign up for the pvp tournament! Signup closes at 4:00 AM UTC on the 28th (about 6 hours from this posting).
After the window has closed, all enrolled players will be added to a special event channel for prelims and a bracket will be generated randomly.
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...
Public Service Announcement
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...
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
*Torches should now occupy the torch slot and not unequip the right hand
*Killing/stealing from someone in town and looting with another multibox character should now be prevented.
As we grow in player count, we are tracking a performance issue that appears to be related to minimap icons (yes of all things.) We are disabling those and restarting to validate this.
We apologise for these teething issues, however we believe this will make a significant difference. We'll work...
Test Center Hotfixes have been applied:
Hey there, I'm Alys and I do a bunch of different stuff around here. I joined the team as a moderator in the second half of 2018, and then in 2019 I "upgraded" to my current role. I do a bit of coding and...
My game development journey began on the Shards of Britannia project in the fall of 2017, as the third member of a very small dream team. The early days of the project were very challenging, but my passion and vision for this project kept me...
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Thanks for taking the time to find out a little bit more about us.
I've been gaming most of my life and Ultima Online was a huge part of that, in fact, exploring in UO are...
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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...
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...
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.
General fixes and changes:
- An issue with gravedigging monsters sometimes becoming frozen and defenseless has been optimized, let us know if it continues
- Mounts will now have invisibility broken when being mounted
- You can no longer use the mount command to mount an invisible pet
- You can no...
An issue preventing guildmasters from seeing the Guildmaster Title option from the Guild Menu has been resolved
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!
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...
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.
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 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...
Bola Revert
Plot Deco Changes
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 temporary 10% bonus to skills has now been concluded and the gain chance will be restored to normal soon.
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...
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...
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...
Some of these have been in for a little while.
- Travel Markers were mistakenly removed a while ago and have now been readded, and this time all mage NPCs have one for every town.
- Full spellbooks and runebooks are no longer available from event token vendors and Vela in Wind; this was forcing scri...
This concludes our Week-long Power Hour event!
- Default skill gain rates have been returned to 1x
- In-house gains have been reduced to 0.5x (Gardening still uses the Default Gain Rate)
- In-dungeon gains have been increased to 1.25x
- SOON TO COME: Following some further internal testing, we wi...
It's time! Phase 1 of the new player experience includes:
- Reopening the sewers, with a sewer token system and a sewer vendor with suitable items for young players
- Sewers will be accessible by young players only
- All young players will receive a 'guidebook' in their initial player loot that gui...
Imps and demons have been added north of the "Destroyed Town". They have replaced the previous event spawns that were still there.
Snooping, Stealing, Disarm, Hotbars QOL Mega Update
- New Skills: Snooping and Stealing (https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Stealing & https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com/Snooping)
- New Combat Ability: Disarm, replaces Meditation on the Q hotbar icon (https://legendsofultima.gamepedia.com...
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