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Our wiki at https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com will be offline for maintenance for approximately 15 minutes. Thanks for your patience.
Sorry for the late notice on this one - we'll be offline for an extended period of time while we sort out some urgent maintenance. Ideally we'll return to service by 11am UTC (approx 1h 45m after this message) though we'll notify you all if we're able to come online sooner.
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The louui custom asset bundle is being updated today. This update adds more dynamic window textures or graphics for GUIs, for future updates. Once the update becomes available, your client will automatically download the latest bundle the next time you log in to a character. Please keep this in mi...
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.
Update: The Season 6 recovery option has been re-enabled and those still waiting to claim rewards from Season 6 should now be able to.
Due to an issue with the Season 6 recovery grace period feature, the option to pick the prior season's rewards may be unavailable temporarily while we work on it....
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:
Santa has made his escape from Frostfang's Cave! Unfortunately, behind him, the cave has crumbled and become inaccessible. Santa is now parked at his workshop and will be trading for candy for the rest of the holiday season! He will be working on responding to the letters you all wrote him. Thanks f...
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
We've deployed a minor update to the Shards of Britannia Launcher. Please make sure to close the launcher entirely (check next to the clock, in the system tray, for a SOB Launcher icon, right click it and choose Exit) and re-open it to receive the updates. This will ensure you have the latest update...
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...
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 Journal has received an update with improved logging reliability and expanded action tracking throughout the game.
Accessing the Item Log
🎅 Write to Santa! ✨
Santa's Mailbox is now open at his workshop, eagerly awaiting your Letters to Santa!
🎄 How to Find Santa's Workshop: Santa’s Workshop can be accessed via the Cellar Doors at Windemere Bank, right next to the giant snowball.
Here's how it works:
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 hotfix has been deployed that should resolve cases of creatures not leashing properly. Please continue to report any issues you encounter with creatures not behaving as expected, thank you
We're aware of some issues with mob AI recently in terms of leashing or getting stuck, and we are continuin...
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.
Occasionally you may encounter an issue where the game has trouble loading the custom artwork for our project. This issue will present itself as invisible objects in-game, like pets, objects, or any other artwork. Please use the instructions below to troubleshoot.
I...
A Halloween raffle is now live! Visit Raff, the lottery official, outside Britain Bank. You will nee...
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...
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 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...
We're aware of, and looking into, an issue with the mini-map not rendering consistently since the map update earlier today. We'll work as quickly as possible to resolve or improve the mini-map
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:
The Fortune's Favor Amulet will now enhance loot for magic weapons, armor, shields, and other items, including unique items from all monsters in the desert: Balron, Dino Riders, Raptors, Bandit Brutes, Flain's Minions, Voraxis, Bone Lightning Mage, Oni, Orc Brute, Rotting Corpse, Stone Golem, and Da...
At the Britannia Bank, there's a magical wisp! Gather 5 friends around it to summon a magical fountain!
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!
Visit the Britain Jewelers today to buy an Amulet of Fortune's Favor for only 5,000 gold!
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...
Greetings adventurers!
We've rolled out a new update with a focus on improving fairness, security, and stability across the world of Britannia.
NEW (updated Sept 1st, 2025)
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...
NEW (updated August 27th, 2025)
List of Changes
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!
Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Brave Adventurers!
Let it be known throughout the lands — this is the final call! The glorious Season the Fifth shall draw to a close with the coming of the morrow. Steel thy blades and ready thy satchels, for Season the Sixth shall arise anon, the hour of its birth resting in th...
NEW (updated July 30th, 2025)
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...
Congratulations to our lucky winners:
1st Place: Cicirider 2nd Place: Snuff Alapagus 3rd Place: Echo Saber
Winners, we will be in touch soon to give you your Mystery Box prizes! Stay tuned for more epic lottery adventures soon! ⚔️✨
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...
The recently introduced plants and potted plants have been added to the list of allowed items and can to be placed slightly outside the walls of some house types. Active after the next server restart. Happy decorating!
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...
Hail, brave adventurers of Britannia!
The hour draws near to tally thy final deeds and claim the rewards thou hast earned. Season V shall draw to a close ere the end of July. Yet fear not — for as one chapter ends, another begins! Prepare thyselves for the dawning of Season VI, bringing forth a tr...
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 :-)
A new mini windmill item has been added to the game. Owners of existing windmill items can exchange them for the new version at the item fixer. This includes both the mini windmills and the larger versions handed out as gifts in 2018 and 2019. Mini windmills will preserve their color. Note that the...
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...
We’ve rebalanced the speed and damage output of all bows to improve consistency and bring archery in line with other combat styles. This includes updates to base attack speeds for each bow class and adjustments to their tested damage per second (DPS) values.
Bow Speed Changes
The wiki will be offline for maintenance for up to 2 hours from the time of this message. Thanks for your patience.
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...
We have deployed a change to address a bug where the Necromancer spell Noxious cloud could cause the heal ticks to be stuck forever.
You or your pet will now require to be inside the noxious field in order to keep receiving heals, otherwise it will expire.
We've rolled out a new update to resolve several issues related to pet and mob casting. This patch includes the following fixes:
Thieves can now steal from Thief Hunters and always remain blue.
Members of the Thieves Guild can no longer access the bank roof.
Updated Greater Dragons' loot to align with their difficulty.
Good folk of Britannia, the Thief Hunters Guild calls for brave souls to root out rogues skulking in our shadows! Visit the guildmaster in Britain and take up the mantle of justice. Here’s what you need to know to become a Thief Hunter and bring thieves to heel.
Find the Guildmaster:
Visit t...
Good folk of Britannia, the Thief Hunters Guild calls for brave souls to root out rogues skulking in our shadows! Visit the guildmaster in Britain and take up the mantle of justice. Here’s what you need to know to become a Thief Hunter and bring thieves to heel.
Sorry for the interruption this morning, we had a brief outage with our primary domain (shardsofbritannia.com) and it's been resolved. Due to the issue, this will affect some people's ability to connect to the game briefly. It can take a little time for everyone's networks to be updated that the dom...
UPDATE: we were able to resolve the issue. Enjoy the game!
All, we are experiencing the known "connect failure for custom assets" error that will hit players launching the game from Europe. We are working to resolve it, please use a VPN to bypass the problem or wait until it is fixed. Those of you...
We've optimized our bulk order books for improved performance. On your first login after this update, you may experience a brief delay as your bulk order books in your bags are are updated.
If you have bulk order books in your chests you can either take them to the item fixer or log out/in with...
Hail, Adventurers!
A thrilling new raffle awaits! Starting today, the Shards of Britannia Mystery Box Raffle offers you a chance to win one of three exclusive Mystery Boxes packed with epic in-game treasures!
Hail, Adventurers!
A thrilling new raffle awaits! Starting today, the Shards of Britannia Mystery Box Raffle offers you a chance to win one of three exclusive Mystery Boxes packed with epic in-game treasures!
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...
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...
This is a reminder of our annual dyes lineup:
Red Obsidian Dyetubs: Available from June 1st to June 15th, marking the start of summer.
Pigment & Enamel vendors are available at the Yew Bank
Read more: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/annual-pigment-enamels-donation-dyetubs
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...
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....
As part of our ongoing efforts to balance gameplay and ensure fair play, we’re making a change to how faction members can access the Britain bank roof.
Effective immediately, faction members will no longer be able to use the ladders leading to the Britain bank roof. This means the roof will no lon...
The Orc miniboss Burzum has received a loot overhaul! Adventurers can now challenge him for a chance at updated and exciting rewards.,
Attention Orc Guild members: the Lord's Boon effect no longer applies to players in the Orc Guild. This change aligns with recent updates to guild mechanic...
Burzum's Loot Refreshed The Orc miniboss Burzum has received a loot overhaul! Adventurers can now challenge him for a chance at updated and exciting rewards.
Lord's Boon Disabled for Orc Guild Attention Orc Guild members: the Lord's Boon effect no longer applies to players in the Orc Guild...
The Item Fixer's "Candle Update" option is now enabled again! We've resolved the issue, and you can once again exchange your candles for the updated versions. Thank you for your patience!
We've had to temporarily disable the Item Fixer's "Candle Update" option while we sort out an issue with it. We will update this article once it's been resolved and re-enabled.
Reference to Item Fixer - Candle Update: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/updates-42
Burzum’s New Look and Home: The Orc miniboss Burzum has received a fierce new asset overhaul. You’ll now find its spawner relocated to the Orc Fort in Yew, ready to challenge adventurers in its revamped stomping grounds.
Wisp in a Jar Final Update: The Wisp in a Jar item has been updated o...
A new recipe has been added to the game as loot. Find the recipe and ingredients and craft your own pond. Decoration can be fished up with some luck, not only in the moat. And not every ingredient requires a fishing rod. Good luck! And share your designs :-)
The NPC Item Fixer will also trade Lightning Bug Jars for their new, packed versions.
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...
Moatfishers of Britannia, we have updated the "sacred runebook of the tide". Players who have received this item prior to todays restart can contact us (via in-game feedback) so we can replace it with the new version. We apologize for any inconvenience! Also please note that the drop chances at the...
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...
(Update 17.05.) All fixed. You may now seek the wandering merchant and buy your viridia fish bowl.
Fish bowls: we have increased the size of fish bowls a little. Fish bowls need to be packed and unpacked again to get the change.
Moat fishing: new items have been added.
We've optimized our bulk order books for improved performance. On your first login after this update, you may experience a brief delay as your bulk order books are converted to the new format.
This is a one-time process and will not affect future logins. Thank you for your patience!
Thank you fo...
We updated the fishing token vendor (now located at the docks) and added a new vendor for crown jewels.
Just a little reminder: the Easter vendors will only be working for us until Sunday.
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...
Orc Guild Changes: Players in the Orc Guild can no longer give murder counts upon death and are now prohibited from joining factions.
Noble Coins Vendor: Britain’s Noble Coins vendor has stocked new items for sale, offering fresh rewards for adventurers. Visit to browse the latest wares!
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Zephyrion, the Wandering Curator of Curiosities, has arrived in Britannia, his cart brimming with expensive and rare treasures from realms unknown! This eccentric merchant, cloaked in shadows and mystery, roams the bustling streets of Britain and the quaint paths of Paws, offering enchanted wares to...
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...
Hark, ye seekers of wit and renown, Chuckles’ grand jest spreads through town! No Yew’s deep woods, nor Britain’s stone gate, But a mage’s bright realm seals your fate.
Where slumber’s soft bed lulls creatures’ dream, A lone star’s gleam casts a guiding beam. In Moonglow’s script, the first holds...
Ho, noble adventurers, to Chuckles’ fun game, One ethereal prize for a mind sharp with fame! For one clever player, who first solves my jest, A singular treasure awaits, the very best!
Not Yew’s leafy shade, nor Britain’s grand keep, But a jester’s bright laugh shall your secret reap. In Britain’s...
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...
Ho, noble adventurers, to Chuckles’ fun game, One ethereal prize for a mind sharp with fame! For one clever player, who first solves my jest, A singular treasure awaits, the very best!
Not Yew’s leafy shade, nor Britain’s grand keep, But a jester’s bright laugh shall your secret reap. In Britain’s...
It's time to dig out your dusty dungeon tokens! We have added some new deco items to the dungeon token vendor. Please note that token vendor items may also be made available through other means in the future.
Noa, the Royal Guard who assigns the horse and cart delivery quest, has added a chance to receive Easter rewards in the treasure chest for completing the quest.
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...
A new rare rideable horned pack beetle spawn has been added to the Troll Boss encounter in Level 5 of the Dungeon Despise.
A new rare horned pack beetle spawn has been added to the Troll Boss encounter in Level 5 of the Dungeon Despise.
A new rare horned pack beetle spawn has been added to the Troll Boss encounter in Level 5 of the Dungeon Despise.
An update has been deployed to the louui asset bundle which will re-download the next time you login, following this message. Thanks for your patience!
A hotfix has been deployed to improve the Easter Egg Memory Match Game to try to fix issues with the game not completing. If you were already logged in before this message please log out and back in to receive the hotfix. We will keep an eye out for further reports of issues. Thanks for your patienc...
The new plants (titanium root plant, poison plant, (small) birch tree, (small) dead tree) have been added to the list of items that are allowed to be placed slightly outside the walls of some house types.
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!
We have added some new deco items to the little rock vendor. Check them out :-)
We are hosting our sixth annual Easter celebration in-game with some fun activities for everyone to enjoy!
-Added Stone Golems and Magma Elementals to Deviously Drawn Treasure Maps.
-Added Rock Giants to Ingeniously Drawn Treasure Maps.
Welcome to the latest update for Necromancer abilities! This patch focuses on making spells more responsive, impactful, and fun to use.
We updated the Celtic Idol Statues to have unique names. To implement this change, already placed statues need to be packed as deeds (using the decoration tool or "i want to release this" function). Existing deeds must be unpacked and then packed again to receive their unique name. Newly distributed...
The following plants have been added to the list of items that are allowed to be placed slightly outside the walls of some house types. Happy decorating!
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
The server experienced an issue after the daily restart and it will be restored ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
UPDATE: The server is back online now, sorry for the interruption!
Players can now purchase a Smelting Horse and Cart Scroll from the donation vendor. This scroll allows players to add smelting abilities to their horses and carts, similar to fire beetles.
The hit box on the horse and cart has been reduced.
Reflections
Season 5
The Ancient Bulk Order book is now available on the general donation vendor (it will be craftable in the near future).
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...
Pet Dye Fix
Test Center - New Ancient Bulk Order Book – Improved Storage & Organization!
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...
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.
Greetings, fearless adventurers of Britannia!
A grand new chapter is nearly upon us, and we’re ecstatic to announce the arrival of season five on Thursday, March 20, 2025! As the realm pulses with fresh energy, prepare for thrilling challenges, bold adventures, and a bounty of incredible rewards t...
We’ve recently released a captivating new promotional video for Shards of Britannia—take a look! If you enjoy it, we’d greatly appreciate your support; please consider leaving a like, dropping a comment, and subscribing to our channel! We’re excited to share a wealth of additional content on our You...
🏰 A Royal Proclamation from Lord Reginald of Britannia 🏰
Loyal citizens, hear ye!
In an effort to cleanse our fair realm of both crime and unseemly waste, Lord Reginald proudly announces a new rehabilitation initiative for the wayward souls of Britannia. Those whose hands have been stained with...
We're currently experiencing issues with one of our servers. We will provide updates as soon as we have more information.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
We have removed the sound effects from the water fountains. Please relog for this change to take effect.
You can now use Exploding Barrels to blow open a wider variety of objects throughout the world, revealing loot inside. Happy exploring!
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.
Talismans with charges will unequip when logging into Britannia unless they are blessed. "A surge of protective magic in this realm has caused your charged talismans to lose their grip on you, unequipping them as you enter."
Drop rates for grave-digging, mining, and lumberjacking rares hav...
The server experienced an issue after the daily restart and it will be restored soon. Thanks for your patience!
Hail, Adventurers!
Fancy a chance to win big? The SoB House Lottery 2025 is now live! Ticket sales are open—players can purchase tickets from Raff, the lottery official, near Britain Bank. The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters, and you can enter as many times...
New talismans have been introduced in-game.
Certain magical talismans, hidden throughout the world, can nullify the Lord’s Boon for the wearer. A tooltip on these items will clearly specify whether this effect applies.
New talismans have been introduced in-game.
Certain powerful magical talismans, hidden throughout the world, can suppress the effects of the Lord's Boon while worn. A tooltip on these items will explicitly indicate whether this effect applies.
Runic Tailoring
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...
The decay timer for murder counts is now more punishing initially, scaling down as your murder count increases.
New decay thresholds:
Large red cacti can now be found in the desert; they can be exploded with exploding barrels for loot.
Sable, the infiltrator who offers the Crystal Activation Cart quest, now offers an Ethereal Emberfang mount for 10 quest tokens.
We’ve revamped the disarm mechanics for thieves! Here’s how it works now:
When a thief attempts to disarm their victim, the system will first target the victim’s weapon. If the weapon is insured or blessed, it will be skipped. The thief will then randomly attempt to disarm an item from any other...
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...
We’ve recently released a captivating new promotional video for Shards of Britannia—take a look! If you enjoy it, we’d greatly appreciate your support; please consider leaving a like, dropping a comment, and subscribing to our channel! We’re excited to share a wealth of additional content on our You...
The chance to fish up rare items in the weekly safe dungeon has been reduced, while it has been increased in the daily dungeon; normal dungeons remain unchanged.
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...
Mining and lumberjacking will now only have a chance to drop little rocks, golden apples, and rare decorative mushrooms. When ore elementals and reapers are killed, they will now give players a chance to receive large, heavy items like Britannia crystals and weapon caches.
Bulk order deeds weight have been adjusted from 5 down to 1.
Thank you all for the feedback.
A new mini-boss, the Rat King, has stormed into the Rat Fort in Level 1 Dungeon ICE. This acid-spitting menace is tough to beat, hurling corrosive acid that tests even the hardiest adventurers. Defeating him promises rich rewards, with whispers of rare treasures like enchanted gear and magical talis...
A new mini-boss, the Rat King, has stormed into the Rat Fort in Level 1 Dungeon ICE. This acid-spitting menace is tough to beat, hurling corrosive acid that tests even the hardiest adventurers. Defeating him promises rich rewards, with whispers of rare treasures like enchanted gear and magical talis...
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....
Players can now purchase an ethereal parrot mount inside Britain Bank; it will cost 300 Fowl Frenzy Feathers. While mounted on the parrot, players have a chance to receive some unique loot when killing Fowl Frenzy monsters.
New assets for various monsters have been added to the game.
Grandmaster blacksmiths can now craft a Masterwork Catalyst—a special item that upgrades normal magical gear (weapons, armor, and instruments) to exceptional quality. Required ingredients drop in small quantities from certain monsters, with higher-difficulty foes increasing your odds.
Gather the...
Puzzles are slowly being added into the game Dungeons. The passageway into Despise level 5, where the troll boss is located, is now fully operational with a new puzzle. The boss's loot has been greatly improved, with new items including Talismans. New traps will activate in some locations when bosse...
A new puzzle entrance has been added to level 5 Despise. Once inside, players can spawn Xukundi the troll boss. His loot tables have been updated.
🎉 Congratulations to our Mountastic Lottery Winners! 🎉
1st Winner: Black Clover
2nd Winner: Tommesatan
3rd Winner: BAM BAM
We will be in contact soon. Thank you to everyone who participated, and we hope to see you in the next lottery!
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...
A chest containing 10 Treant hatchets has been added as a purchasable reward to the horse and cart crystal vendor.
Have fun and happy Friday!
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
New items have been added to the fishing vendor in the Britain moat.
Talismans can now be insured unless they are cursed. New talismans have been added to the game.
Paragons now have a small chance to drop puzzle chests when killed.
The drop rates for mining and lumberjacking r...
Reapers now have a small chance to spawn while lumberjacking, with their difficulty increasing based on the type of wood harvested.
Using a Treant Hatchet significantly increases the chance of spawning a Reaper. This special hatchet can be purchased from Fletching and Carpenter NPCs for 50 BOD poi...
A new spell for summoners has been added, 'Channeled Celestara', which is a flying mount.
Three new talismans for summoners have been added to the game; they can be found as loot from bosses, treasure chests, and more!
Smoke bombs can no longer be used while mounted.
Fixed some issues with smoke bombs not working in certain circumstances.
Updated summoner talismans' item descriptions, tooltips, and vendor descriptions.
Added new items to moat fishing and adjusted drop rates.
Added more loot to the overworld mini bosses.
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.
Exciting New Additions to Shards of Britannia!
Greetings, adventurers!
We’re thrilled to share some exciting updates and additions to Shards of Britannia:
Rare Magic Hat Recipes:
Discover a touch of magic with our newly added rare, one-time-use recipes for crafting magic hats! These extraord...
Exciting New Additions to Shards of Britannia!
Greetings, adventurers!
We’re thrilled to share some exciting updates and additions to Shards of Britannia:
Rare Magic Hat Recipes Discover a touch of magic with our newly added rare, one-time-use recipes for crafting magic hats! These extraordina...
Exciting New Additions to Shards of Britannia!
Greetings, adventurers!
We’re thrilled to share some exciting updates and additions to Shards of Britannia:
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...
The current option to collect a single bulk order deed every 6 hours has been replaced with the ability to collect 21 bulk order deeds, with a cooldown of 6 days and 17 hours.
This change serves two purposes: it gives more casual players the opportunity to engage with the Bulk Order system and fre...
The current option to collect a single bulk order deed every 6 hours has been replaced with the ability to collect 21 bulk order deeds, with a cooldown of 6 days and 17 hours.
This change serves two purposes: it gives more casual players the opportunity to engage with the Bulk Order system and fre...
🏠🎄 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 Mountastic Lottery is now live! Visit Raff the lottery official outside Britain Bank for your chance to win some amazing Mounts. Three lucky winners will be drawn, so don't miss out! The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters. The lottery will be drawn on 02/08/...
📬 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 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....
❄️ Winter Dungeon Update! 🎅
We've added a few new options to Santa:
Item preview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4fZQvCTyo
🎄 Beware: Krampus Awaits in the Winter Dungeon! 🎅
Deep within the icy depths of the Winter Dungeon, Krampus lies in wait, ready to challenge the bravest adventurers.
Want to face him again? Use Krampus Bait, available for purchase from Santa at his Workshop, to summon him once more!
...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,...
A new Ethereal Lizard Mount has been added to the Mount Donation Vendor. See #Staff Spotlight in our official Discord for pictures.
Public Vendor rentals have been set up at Santa's Workshop for the first time ever! Rentals cost 30k to start and are available until January 15th at 9am. Happy trading!
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...
Santa's Mailbox is now open at his workshop, eagerly awaiting your Letters to Santa!
🎄 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’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...
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...
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...
The following hotfixes have been deployed and are now live:
Friends Window Toggle:
Resolved an issue where pressing F (default keybind) or clicking the Friends button on the Button Bar did not open the Friends window as expected. The Friends window now toggles correctly.
House Win...
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...
Ahoy, adventurers! 🏴☠️
We’ve got exciting news for all who’ve been helping us test the Boat Expansion on the test center. As a token of our gratitude, every player who participates in testing will receive an exclusive pirate hat—a truly rare treasure that will not be obtainable in any other way!...
Use your remaining Halloween raffle tokens to enter the final Halloween lottery for 2024. Find Raff, the lottery official, near Britain Bank to purchase your entries. Tickets cost 10 Halloween raffle tokens each. The draw will take place on Sunday, 24th November, at 9:00 AM UTC.
We've deployed a hotfix for an issue related to Smelting when targeting a lockbox (or other metal crafted containers) with items inside of it causing the container to be smelted but the items inside destroyed by mistake.
Now, it will smelt the items inside of the container as expected if there ar...
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...
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...
Corpse explosion:
Haunt:
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...
Ever lose or misplace an item in your house? Now you can search for it! Available immediately, you can find the Search magnifying glass button in the house menu and search for locked down/secured items for the house. Clicking on an item in the list will play an arrow and circular highlighting effect...
The necromancer vendor now sells a scroll that turns a horse and cart into an undead entity.
The range of the telekinesis spell has been increased, and it can now activate exploding barrels.
Undead players can now use vanity pets.
Grave diggers can now find undead dragon bones,...
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...
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...
The chances of obtaining loot, such as decorative vines and other items, from moat fishing have been increased.
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...
The candy vendor now sells Halloween exploding barrels for 30 candy. These barrels will decay after one hour.
The cart delivery quest now offers a hoard of Halloween candy as a potential reward.
New Halloween rares have been added to grave digging.
The Talisman of the Inquisiti...
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.
Pet Encumbrance Fixes:
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...
Thieves can now attempt up to ten steals from monsters to obtain all available items.
When stealing from paragons in dungeons and the overworld, they are guaranteed to have black market goods.
Smoke bombs will now hide you instantly without any delay.
Thieves can now successful...
Fixed the thieves' smoke bomb talisman to now reduce the cooldown time of smoke bombs by half.
Fixed the bug where players could hide immediately after stealing from PvE monsters.
Restored original leash values for all T-map monsters, excluding those from Ingeniously Drawn maps.
Fixed the thieves' smoke bomb talisman to now reduce the cooldown time of smoke bombs by half.
Fixed the bug where players could hide after stealing from PvE monsters.
Restored original leash values for all T-map monsters, excluding those from Ingeniously Drawn maps.
Added the...
A new Thief Talisman has been added, allowing thieves to steal items weighing over 10 units. This will be particularly useful for stealing special items in future quests, boss activators, and more. The talisman can be found in the Legendary Black Goods.
All thieves can now use smoke bombs...
Fixed the Crystal Delivery Quest to ensure the Staff of Destruction drops and improved the treasure loot.
Corrected the formula that determines the reveal chance when stealing from monsters.
Fowl Frenzy Nukes will no longer damage players' pets.
Fixed the availability of beetle...
The Royal Guard has issued a critical update concerning the Horse and Cart Delivery Quest. The infected zombies have mutated into much larger and more dangerous creatures. Their rotting zombie arms have become so heavy that adventurers will now require a cart to safely transport them.
Noa, the Roy...
In this update, we're excited to unveil a brand new feature that will add a thrilling layer of danger and strategy to your adventures! Thieves now have the ability to set devious traps on the ground outside of guarded and housing zones, l...
A new Horse and Cart quest has been added. Visit Chum the Miner inside the Miners' Guild in Britain. He will give you a quest to find and deliver 3 heavy pieces of Azureite Ore to a miner in Minoc at the Golden Pickaxe. For this quest, you'll need to enlist the help of other players with carts, as a...
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.
Announcing the Shards of Britannia Wikipedia Raffle!
Contribute to the official SoB Wiki and earn your chance to win big! Here's how it works:
Players who submit evidence of their contributions to the official SoB Wiki page, will receive raffle tokens in return. These tokens can be used to pur...
Announcing the Shards of Britannia Wikipedia Raffle!
Contribute to the official SoB Wiki and earn your chance to win big! Here's how it works:
Players who submit evidence of their contributions to the official SoB Wiki page, along with their account ID, will receive raffle tokens in return. The...
The tables have turned! Head to Buccaneer's Den, where chaos reigns as the chickens and turkeys strike back. The Barrel Vendor near the bank offers exploding barrels to defend yourself, but beware—these birds aren't going down without a fight! The chickens have mutated, becoming volatile and aggress...
Adventurers, take note! Now, when embarking on quests that require specific item collections, such as gathering zombie hands for the delivery cart quest, these items will only drop from monsters once you've officially started the quest. This change ensures a more streamlined and rewarding journey as...
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...
From now until August 11th, when you log in to the game, you will receive an Olympic Ring for the Summer Olympics - Paris 2024, once per account. The rings will be randomly colored, matching the official Olympic Rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red). Happy collecting, and may the best athletes...
The Thief's Arcane Jackpot is now live! Visit Silas Shadowstep outside Britain Bank for your chance to win amazing Talisman prizes. Three lucky winners will be drawn, so don't miss out! The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters. The lottery will be drawn on 09/01/2...
Players can now dismember the bodies of other players into pieces, including the head, torso, arms, and legs. Use these macabre trophies to decorate your house with the body parts of your defeated victims.
In the latest update to Shards of Britannia, a series of enhancements have been made to improve the experience for players embracing the life of a thief. Here’s a breakdown of the updates:
Perfect Crime: Players now have a 10% chance to remain blue after successfully stealing from another play...
The Black Goods Thief Guildmaster in Buccaneer's Den now offers an option to turn in Black Goods reward bags. There's a 10% chance to receive a Thieves Coin when you do so. Be sure to empty your loot from these bags before handing them in!
Stolen items will now go directly into players loo...
The new PVE stealing patch is now live! Players can steal enhanced loot from all dungeon monsters, with tougher monsters yielding better rewards.
Skill-Dependent Revelation: The chance for thieves to be revealed while stealing from monsters now depends on their combined skills in stealing,...
We are thrilled to announce that Season 4 is now live!
This Season started on July 22nd, 2024 and ends on or around Oct 22nd, 2024
Participate today in-game by opening the Season Challenges window with the default Right Bracket [ key or by typing /challenge
By completing challenges you...
We've identified the root cause and have deployed a fix for the issue causing players in Minoc or other regions to have issues with the Launcher Connectivity, effective immediately. You should now be able to login fully again. Sorry again for the interruption!
The dungeon token vendor in Shame is now offering two special masks for sale. These exclusive masks are available for purchase for a limited time only. Don't miss out on the chance to get yours by the end of September!
The upcoming faction event has been rescheduled to the following week. Please see our official Discord for all the details.
Ore elementals now have an increased chance to spawn in the daily dungeon and a decreased chance to spawn in the safe weekly dungeon.
Most of the mounts in the game now have sounds added for walking and running, although a few are still not working at the moment.
We are thrilled to announce that Season 4 will kick off on the 20th of July, coinciding with our anniversary celebration! This season promises to bring new challenges, exciting content, and fantastic rewards.
Stay tuned for more details as we approach the launch date. Thank you for your continued...
Haunt:
Blood Siphon:
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...
We're aware that players installing the game for the first time may encounter an issue with "Disconnected from Login Server" when trying to log in for the first time, or where clicking Login does nothing. We know it's not ideal to have issues when you try out a video game for the first time, and we'...
🌟 We'd Love to Hear From You! 🌟
Let us know how and when you discovered the Legends of Ultima or Shards of Britannia project. Your feedback will help us enhance our marketing strategies. Thank you for being a part of our community! 😊
UPDATE: due to the number of users having issues connecting...
The web map is now live!
You can bring it up by using the command "/webmap". You can also key bind it by going to "Settings > Keyboard" and map the "Use Custom Action 5" to the key of your choice.
Keep in mind the web map is still in early stage, so please report any issue you might encounter.
The Horse & Cart Lottery is now live! Visit Cartwright outside Britain Bank for your chance to win amazing prizes. Three lucky winners will be drawn, so don't miss out! The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters. The lottery will be drawn on 07/14/2024.
-A new horse and cart quest is now available. Visit Sable just south of Minoc to get started. This exciting quest requires a team of at least two players (3-4 recommended), each with a unique IP address, to activate an encounter during the quest. Be sure to complete the quest within the three-hour...
Ore elemental spawn rates have been halved within caves.
Luke the wizard has now moved into Dungeon Despise, level 3.
Only murderers with 20 counts or more can enter Dungeon Shame with an encumbered cart.
Blacksmiths can now craft Cart Decoration Kits. These are very costly ite...
Runic crafting for fletching and carpentry has been added:
Ore Elementals that spawn while mining have been reworked. They now vary greatly in difficulty and drop significantly more ore when defeated.
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...
The following upcoming changes are available for testing on our Test Center server:
A bug that caused loot from Tentacle plants to decay when logging in and out has been fixed.
The delivery cart quest is now limited to one character per account every 48 hours. You will also need to have a horse and cart with you to start the quest.
A red version of Oliver the farmer...
We've deployed a hotfix that will resolve issues with Carpentry and Tailoring workbenches (crafted) not having the container functionality that was intended to be added in a prior patch:
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...
The extremely large treasure found for the new Horse and Cart system will now decay after 7 days. You can keep the treasure inside your cart until you’re ready to hand it in.
An issue affecting normal pack horses from going through portals has now been fixed.
We're working on deploying World Chat back to the game! Previously world chat was disabled due to occasional server crashes caused by the feature, so we've worked on improvements to stability and performance and resolved the root causes of any crashes.
Please make sure you're up-to date with the...
Our new horse and cart system has been added! You can now start a new quest to gather all the items required to make a horse and cart. Look for the quest giver near the Minoc stables. After hunting some skeletons and zombies in the graveyards and collecting a number of undead crystals, you will need...
Players who already own a veteran dea...
House Refresh Improvements
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...
The Ethereal Wings Lottery is live! Visit Merlin Skyfeather near Britain Bank to enter. The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters. The lottery will be drawn on 22/5/2024.
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...
Holiday items are currently restricted from being inserted into the House Resource/Gear Chests due to unique properties that holiday items can have, such as the tooltip, color, or other attributes that may not be retained properly when inserting and removing them from these chests. In the future we...
We've deployed a hotfix to resolve issues with individual Season Challenges showing as "( Complete )" when they are actually at "0 / N" progress.
We're pleased to announce the start of Season 3 in Shards of Britannia. As we step into another season, we want to thank you for your continuous support which has been instrumental in the gradual growth of our server.
🏆 Season 3 Begins: As Season 3 rolls out, we invite you to explore the updates...
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.
A patch has been released for the Shards of Britannia Launcher. If you have trouble connecting please make sure to close the game and launcher completely and then re-open the SoB Launcher. The launcher should download the update automatically. This update should improve issues people have been havin...
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...
-The Riddle Vendor in Britain Castle now sells a new jester mount for 60 riddle tokens. Chuckles the jester has hidden special riddles in all the towns of Britannia! Double-click on inanimate objects to try to find them and earn riddle tokens.
Alchemists can now craft fish oil. This oil can currently be used in the recipe to craft exploding barrels, and more uses will be added soon.
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...
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.
Summoner's Dark Guardians have received a minor damage buff.
Tailors are now able to craft summoner's armor using veil shards. Each piece will grant a 16.66% increase in summon lifespan when worn.
Mounts are no longer permitted in the faction dungeon.
The Ancient Wrym will now...
The issues with the minimap should be now fixed. Unfortunately this will cause the need to re-download a big file.. Apologies in advance.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the SoB lottery! In first place is Barby, second place is Deviant, and third is Warfin. Congratulations to all the winners! Join us at the official award ceremony this weekend. Winners are not required to be there if they cannot make it (See...
We're aware that some or all of the Weapon Caches, as part of a quest, are currently unfilled. We are working on automating this process as currently the caches are manually filled by a member of the team in order to provide custom and hand-selected items. We are going to work on developing tools to...
UPDATE (March 5th): We've deployed another set of fixes for issues with quests not completing or not recognizing the required items. If you still have the objectives complete and the items for the quest, please try to complete the quest once more. If you previously tried to complete the quest and it...
A new Celtic Idol dye tub is now available on the Enamel Dye Tub Donation Vendor.
Destard's Ancient Wrym now has a rare chance to drop a nine-tailed fox ethereal! Stay tuned for more exciting rare mounts to be added soon to other world bosses!
In-game map:
Character Reflections:
This patch has been deployed to the live server, see most recent changes at the bottom of this post
Young Player Status changes:
Rare Royal Magic Sceptres with fireworks are now live in-game! Visit the Jester in Britain Castle to try out the fireworks! There are four different types: Lilac, Blue, Red, and Rainbow. Each one can be bought and/or found in different ways in the game, e.g., treasure chests, riddle tokens, fish...
This is a reminder of the upcoming annual dye sale of Azurite Dyetubs available from February 11th to February 26th as scheduled and written about earlier: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/annual-pigment-enamels-donation-dyetubs
Thanks for supporting the project!
Our lottery official is now back at Britain Bank, ready to sell lottery tickets! Collect 10 raffle tokens from paragons throughout Britannia to purchase a ticket. The 1st prize will be a surprise one-of-a-kind mount, while the 2nd and 3rd prizes will remain a mystery.
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...
The chance to catch dungeon fishing rares has been slightly increased.
You now have a chance to fish up a killer king crab while dungeon fishing, which can be killed for rare loot.
New items can now be bought from Billy Bob, the pig farmer.
The spider queen has undergone its fi...
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!
Occasionally, you might sail into a spot that is invalid or off-limits and cause your character and any other beings aboard the vessel to be ejected and possibly moved to land. Due to which, it may require you to use the Shipwright NPC to retrieve your boat out of the invalid position. If that happe...
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.
The health and damage of the Summoner's dark guardians and strange gazers have been slightly reduced. This adjustment is part of our ongoing game balancing efforts.
A new mount has been added as a 5-year veteran reward.
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...
The Map page has been updated to reflect the new world boundaries for boating: https://map.shardsofbritannia.com/
Edit: The map has been updated once more to add Yellow lines along the shared waterways/harbors in Yew/Skara, Britain/Cove, and Minoc/Wind. The following labels have also been added:...
We've deployed the following fixes:
We've deployed the long-awaited sound and music tweaks, where we will utilize more of the wonderful tracks that Beekel composed for us, in addition to replacing many sound effects. Turn your volume up!
There'll be more to come in this area, however we hope you enjoy what we are able to provide to...
The animations for the 4-year veteran ethereal spider mount have been fixed.
New items have been added to the moat fishing loot, and drop rates have been slightly increased.
The Item Fixer NPCs have a new option to fix Vanity Pet Cages that don't work when double-clicking them
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...
Castle Britannia, in West Britain, despite being unfinished, is now accessible to visitors!
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...
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...
Santa Claus now sells 'Crystal of Windemere' that can be used to start the Winter Invasion spawn! This requires at least 4 unique players to activate and has a 24 hour time limit once activated. This spawn will not be announced server-wide while active.
Reminder: All holiday activities will be c...
Note: Battleships & Cannon Warfare features will not be immediately available as we work on completing them
World Changes:
We've added a Lights Control menu to the Pre-lit trees that can be opened by double-clicking the tree, offering Alternating, Blinking & Solid Color choices
Hotfix: If this menu does not appear for you, please log out and back in to receive the hotfix; double-clicking should now work for house own...
Xmas Bonuses:
The Christmas lottery official is now stationed outside Britain Bank! Three winners will be drawn on January 15th, and prizes will remain a surprise until the drawing. Raffle tickets to enter the lottery can be found on Paragons.
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...
Carpet Stretcher enhancements:
The Faction Town Stones in Skara Brae & Cove have had their sigil status reset & we've implemented a fix to make sure that the sigil state does not get stuck again in the future for any town stones.
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...
Christmas activities:
See Also:
The Snowball Fight event is about to start again for the season:
Original Snowball Notes: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/snowball-fights
Snowball fight updates:
Halloween Costumes have been re-enabled indefinitely by popular demand, and we've also fixed an issue where if you tried to use a costume out-of-season it would cause your character to get stuck as Polymorphed
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!
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:
Turkey Cannons have been added as a for-sale object on the Thanksgiving Vendors, these can be used in conjunction with the Turkey Ammo that will drop on Turkeys (plain turkey, enraged turkey, and turkey boss)
Mr. Gobbles, the turkey boss, has been witnessed complaining about the recent Thanksgivi...
Happy Thanksgiving, we are thankful for you all!
Update: Nov 25th @ 5:45AM UTC:
We're deploying the following minor hotfixes:
It is with great excitement that we announce the arrival of the long-awaited 4-year veteran rewards, now available for all esteemed veterans! Engage in the festivities by using /vetreward in-game to explore these exclusive offerings: behold 3 stunning new ethere...
Camping Update (Tanking Phase 2.5):
Thank you for your patience and continued support. See you in-game, Shroud
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...
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!
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...
Fixed an issue with the House Resource/Gear Chest "Manage Friends" option not appearing to the owner of the chest in some cases
We're excited to share some recent updates that enhance your gameplay experience:
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!
We hope you enjoy these improvements and new opportunities in Shards of Britannia!
You can now purchase Halloween lottery boxes from the fishing token vendor.
You can also catch Halloween lottery boxes inside dungeons (minimum fishing skill required: 50).
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.
Hint: If you are impacted by weather in-game, you can use Night Sight to counter it
Patch Note:
Update:
Starting now, when applying dyes or dye-tubs to furniture obtained through a deed, the deed will preserve the color and hue of the furniture upon release.
Halloween items that normally can only be blessed with Halloween bless deeds can now also be blessed using Clothing Bless Deeds that are available on the donation vendor
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...
👺We've fixed an issue with the Halloween Demon Skull Masks not being dyeable as intended. They can now be dyed using Pigment dyes. This includes this year's masks and last year's. 👺
🎃 Halloween Special 🎃
For a limited time, enjoy a 13% discount on Halloween merchandise in honor of Friday the 13th!
🍬 New Features 🍬
Trick or Treat with the Begging Skill:
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 power of Infected Gazers has been slightly reduced.
Flying Broom Mounts have been added to the Halloween vendor
Pets will now lose stamina upon receiving melee hits
Pets will now use mana upon casting spells
Pets will now use Meditation passive mana regeneration
Pet Food has been added to cooking
Pet Food will provide stamina regeneration for pets
We've added a new Friends option to the House Resource & Gear Chests to give families more flexibility and options for sharing access to the chests. Adding a Friend to the chest allows the friend to use the chest from any character on their account. The Personal chests have a limit of 4 friends, and...
Fixed bug with cure on Noxious Decay
Necromancers can now travel anywhere.
They cannot travel only if they hold zero souls.
Utility:
Offensive:
The following fixes & improvements have been deployed for the Halloween Dungeon:
Exciting news! The Halloween Lottery Vendor has now set up shop near the Halloween Vendor in Britain. Mark your calendars for the drawing on October 31st, and stay tuned as we share details about the prizes soon! Raffle tokens can be found on paragons.
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...
The Halloween Candy hoarder vendor has been spawned near each town for you to spend your candy!
Animate Horse:
Animate Dead:
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...
These changes to the Necromancer are to align its mechanics more closely with Magery, aiming to encourage its wider adoption and acceptance.
🎃🦇👻 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...
Greetings, Adventurers,
We're excited to announce a recent update that brings enhancements to your gear chests:
(1) Runic Shields' Magical Attributes: Your gear chest now preserves the magical attributes of Runic Shields! No more worry about losing those precious enchantments.
(2) Exceptional...
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...
Annual Pigment & Enamels (Donation Dyetubs)
We're excited to share our annual dyes lineup:
From now you will not be able to equip a ranged weapon if you have any spell loaded.
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...
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:
Starting from September 24th, dragon skull and zombie masks will no longer be available for purchase from vendors.
We've improved Player Buy Orders compatibility with commodity deeds, now you can simply set the target resource (example ore, boards) as your Buying item, and players can sell you the raw resources themselves or a filled commodity deed of the resources. If you have already setup any Buy Orders, plea...
We've fixed an issue causing the testing time-limits to still apply to sent mail by error, causing some attachments to be destroyed prematurely.
Don't worry, we have a record of these transactions and soon we will recover the items and have them sent back to the original owner for recovery.
Me...
Many crates within Dungeon Deceit that were previously inaccessible due to being locked down or out of sight have now been fixed.
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:
Mages with 80+ skill will now cast a brighter Night Sight orb over beings! 🪄
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...
The following upcoming changes are available for testing on our Test Center server:
Cleaning Up Britannia vendors have been spawned around most of the Banks for spending your CUB points. Thanks for keeping Britannia clean!
The following upcoming changes are available for testing on our Test Center server:
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!
We've reset the mining caves due to an issue where they did not clear their "currently in-use" state after players exited. We will continue to monitor for further issues
The Yew Crypts & Britain Sewers regions are currently undergoing maintenance and their entrances have been temporarily disabled. Expected downtime is less than 2 hours
The Yew Crypts & Britain Sewers regions are now open again
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...
If you still encounter an issue where your pet(s) did not leave a Mining Cave with you then Stablemasters will retrieve any pets from inside mining caves for free until we resolve the root cause.
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...
We've deployed a few more hotfixes to try to improve some things.
Guards:
Vesper Crossroads has been refreshed & new Jousting grounds have been added. Try jousting today! You can travel there directly now via the Ferrymasters.
The Bounty Hunter & PVP Leaderboard have been spotted on the south side of the West Britain Bank
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
Preview Video: https://youtu.be/zt6NxpfQIsA
Jousting (work in progress):
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...
Holiday Decorations:
Monsters/aggressive beings:
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!
We've added a simple Bestiary option to characters when right-clicking a player character, that will open a menu listing all of the monsters the character has been recorded killing. For now it's just for fun, but we may add on to this in the future.
UPDATES:
Updated to Character Reflections regarding Undead status:
The Item Insurance patch has been deployed to the live server and the details are outlined here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/item-insurance
The server is coming back online with the most recent patch notes applied
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...
Unwavering Stance, Unyielding Might
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!
We've [again] fixed the issue causing the 'add target' not to repeat properly when selecting small BODs to combine with larges, or when adding single items to small BODs.
A hotfix has been deployed for an issue with the Character Reflections window not opening in some cases
The Moonglow Bazaar is being extended to July 14th and we have reduced prices on any remaining vendor spots!
Tired of typing username and password for every account?
Now you can save accounts directly into the launcher and switch between them.
Make sure you close completely the launcher and reopen it to download the update.
Recent hotfixes, additions, changes & fixes:
Recently we've received multiple reports of players complaining about receiving multiple murder counts after killing players while the murderer is in a group with other murderers. This is not a bug, this is the intended mechanic as outlined on our Notoriety wiki here https://wiki.shardsofbritannia....
Important Bulk Order updates:
Unique Housing Decorations Vendor Unveiled at East Britain Pavilion: Attention, noble adventurers! A new vendor has set up shop at the prestigious East Britain Pavilion, offering an exquisite range of housing decorations. These unique items are exclusively available for purchase using noble coin...
All-New Dungeon Stealing System for Thieves Calling all cunning thieves! Prepare to put your skills to the test with the introduction of an exciting dungeon stealing system. Brace yourself as rare treasures will now randomly spawn throughout various dungeons, enticing thieves to sneak in and att...
All, the following Mini Boss Spawns should now all be working again:
Fezzik the Ogre Cook Arch Mage Barracoon
All, just a little reminder that multibox harvesting the same resource types is not allowed here, if you are caught doing so you may be jailed on all involved accounts for a time.
Please keep this in mind and re familiarise yourselves with the rules page:
https://shardsofbritannia.com/about/rule...
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.🌞
Undead pets and Necromancer taming are now live. Get to work and explore to figure out how to awaken them.
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...
We have implemented AI enhancements to specific bosses, aiming to provide a greater challenge. This process is ongoing, and we continuously refine and adjust these modifications. Your feedback is highly valued and significantly influences our decision-making.
Moreover, there are new magical loot i...
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...
Fixed an issue with Level 5 Treasure Maps not being diggable
We've fixed an issue with the Necromancer Death Ward spell not being interrupted properly when being killed by Town Guards, it is not an intended mechanic to avoid town-guard-punishment
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....
You can now set any item to Not For Sale on your player vendors
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...
We've identified an issue with Veteran Rewards for accounts that accounts that existed before the launch of Britannia on June 20, 2021. During the transition from Celador to Britannia we had attempted to clear everyone's Veteran Rewards records at that time, but it seems that several accounts still...
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!
(Again/Finally) We've corrected the issue with the Easter Statue showing the wrong year, it's also now dyable using a Furniture dye-tub! If your statue from this year still shows 2022 or cannot be dyed, please use the "My new Easter item says 2022" option on the Easter Vendor to have it updated.
We've fixed an issue preventing you from placing the Lapis Lazuli Egg
Three new items have been added to the Easter Vendor.
Reminder: After you place your guild you can destroy your guild stone without affecting your guild. This allows you to move the guild stone between houses. The guild master can re-place the guild by saying "I wish to place a guild stone"
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 Vendor now trades carrots for Easter items obtained from 2022 and 2023
An option has been added to the Easter Vendor to correct items that say Easter 2022 instead of 2023. Sorry for the oversight!
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...
Fixed an issue preventing characters from joining a faction when they are in a guild that has a faction assigned already
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...
Some items in the faction shop can now only be used by players assigned to a faction, this will not affect any current existing items. The new SL, MX & TB faction mounts, factions cloaks with a glow and the black faction cloak can now only be used by faction players.
New loot has been adde...
Dynamic loot has been added to the Ancient Poison Elemental, Ancient Reaper and the Ancient King Crab.
West Britain Bank rooftop is now a protected space with no combat and no skillgains allowed. Happy trading and bank-sitting!
West Britain Bank rooftop is now a protected space with no combat and no skillgains allowed. Happy trading and bank-sitting!
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.
We've fixed an issue causing the Skill Window's Skill Cap input to not handle cases where players enter a Comma instead of a Period for a decimal place, causing the Skill Cap to be set to 0 by error; now you can use a period or a comma.
We've improved House Packing for houses that have many items...
Character Reflections will be going on sale very soon for 50% off, for a limited time, until July 1st. You can access Character Reflections from within the Skills window
We will soon be deploying a change that will allow users of Large Towers & Castles to decorate items inside their homes beyond the ceiling, allowing for more decorative freedom.
We will soon be deploying the following changes.
Resource/Durability Consumption:
As previously announced, we will soon be deploying the following Guild & Faction changes.
Guild Faction Assignment:
We have implemented a new dynamic loot system.
A fearsome clicking sound resonates from within the mountains North of Minoc where Lolthi the Weaver was last spotted.
Have an issue with the game? Make sure to report your feedback using the /bug command so the development team receives it. Feedback sent other ways may not be received!
We've fixed an issue causing unexpected or no behavior with the use of Speech/Custom Action commands inside macros. If you have this happen, please re-create the part of the macro that is giving you trouble and it should work now
In-game Macro Tool improvements:
Please logout and restart the launcher to fetch the latest updates.
We have added Ping Milliseconds display in the debug window when you press F12. This will display your ping return time in milliseconds to the server and will help to identify actual network lag issues and separate them from c...
We've added Location-based Releasing for houses, so now when you use "i wish to release this" you can target the ground, and you will be presented with a list of locked down objects at the location you've targeted to be able to release them. This is especially useful for objects that cannot be targe...
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...
Bank Check features being added:
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...
We're adding a couple of convenience features, and have more planned, to help players overcome some common issues:
Stuck/Decaying Item Ejection:
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...
We've deployed another minor update to try and improve the recent lag issues surrounding pets. Please help us stress test again when you can and help us determine if the problem persists or not & we appreciate your patience through the challenges. Please let us know if you continue to encounter lag...
An issue causing Passive Animal Taming gains not to occur at all has been resolved
Please logout and restart the launcher to receive latest updates and avoid issues in game.
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 issue causing passive Animal Taming gains to max out at 0.1 per day has been resolved.
As previously announced, the Taming Updates are now live! PS: Bake Kitsune's combat is re-enabled now as well. :)
Update: Skill loss applied to creatures when they become tamed has been reduced from 30% to 10%, or when affected by the Paralyze spell the loss will be 14% (we have ideas in motion t...
We've corrected some issues regarding the SoB Launcher:
We're working on tracking some trending issues with the SoB Launcher and will update this post to include any additions or changes:
Currently on Test Center for public testing is the Outfitter system for Duels & Faction events, with the following updates.
Resource/Durability Consumption:
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...
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.
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'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)
Part of the lag source has been identified and resolved, and a hotfix has been deployed. Please log out and back in to receive the updates. We will continue to monitor for lag and work on any remaining issues that should occur. Thanks again for your patience through the rough patches!
Faction Town Stones & Faction Base Stones have been reset to try to resolve issues with capturing towns. Please let us know if you still experience issues with this
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...
Three new faction mounts have been added to the faction shop (one for each faction).
All MOBs in Deceit now have a chance to drop rare loot.
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...
Recent fixes and changes:
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...
We've set up a Housing Display Area which you can access via the stone teleporters at each of the Architect shops around the world.
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...
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:
Rotting hand drop rate has been adjusted
New items have been added to the lottery boxes
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
Are you looking for Donation Vendors? They have set up shop inside the Yew Bank, Empath Abbey.
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...
The Necromancer's spell cocoon, blocks the first incoming damage before breaking (The shield has 60 seconds cooldown before it can be re-applied). This is how the spell was originally intended to work.
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
In case you missed it: Dungeon Deceit is now live! It can be accessed in it's traditional UO location, within the mountains of Dagger Isle
Safe travels and good luck!
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...
We've resolved an issue with Patron Registrations not being updated in-game. If you experienced this issue it should now be resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience & thanks for your patience!
Animate Horse will now leave an Artifact upon death which the owner can double click to collect.
Animate Horse Artifact will allow any Necromancer to resurrect the pet for a cost in Souls which is calculated doing an average of stats/skills of the pet.
Animate Horse Artifacts can be...
Noxious Decay can now Cure poison from any Undead creature excluding yourself (You can only use Mitigate Poison, but other Necromancers can Cure you with Noxious Decay). The chance of success is based on Spirit Speak level of the caster.
Fixed some bugs that would sometime make the spell n...
We've resolved an issue that sometimes causes temporary name changes to characters to erroneously become permanent.
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!
From now, if you have Animate Horse summoned:
If your summon is attacking a target and has aggro, if you cast Animate Dead, the skeletons will join forces with your Horse and attack the same target until the target is dead or for 30 seconds, they will then turn on the nearest target.
If you don'...
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...
As you are probably aware, we've had an Early Access watermark in-game while we have continued to work on the project throughout the past few years.
While the project may not be considered "complete" today, we will finally be retiring the "Early Access" watermark and replacing it with a physical s...
Murderer gear price has been reduced to 10,000gp per item
Trap disarmers are now stackable
Blessed items found in stealable dungeon containers can now be stolen.
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...
The loot inside stealable containers within dungeons has been updated.
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...
We've improved house decoration moveability for some potted plants as well as the House Teleporter Ladder, fixing an issue with the ladder being forced to the ground and unable to shift upwards.
General:
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...
Murderer Gear
Hair Hiding
Issues Claiming Tokens
The Patron Benefits & Donations updates have been deployed!
Please read all about the updates here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/donations
Donation Vendors have been spawned in-game at Yew Bank
Thanks to everyone that helped to test the changes and thanks to all of our Patrons for...
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...
The Animate Horse spell has been reworked in order to give more value to this Circle 8 spell and allow more room to explore new skills into Necro builds such as Veterinary.
See all the details in the wiki page here:
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/spells/Animate_Horse
All cloaks and the quiver will now sit correctly on female characters.
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...
Recent Fixes:
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...
A lottery stone has been placed at West Britan Bank. Server-wide alerts have also been re-enabled for Lottery Stones since recently resolving a server crash related to Discord alerts.
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...
Some particle effects for the nox cloak, kraken cloak and some faction cloaks have been fixed and turned back on. Smoke bombs also have had a new effect added.
Gravestones & No Refund Sign, the house add-ons, can now be engraved using the engraving tool. In addition to being able to change the item's name, these items can also have a tooltip added.
Hail citizens,
We are writing to inform you of some updates regarding the Patron Benefits we announced recently.
A summary of the changes:
Moat fishing chances have been increased
New rares have been added to Dungeon fishing
Thieves with GM Lockpicking can now attempt to lockpick containers inside other players backpacks. This action will turn the thief grey and there is a 50% chance to reveal them if hidden.
Tinkers can now craft a new item called a Trap Disarmer
GM Thieves (snooping & stealing) can use...
General Fixes
Halloween Costumes
Golden Apples can now be found within some monsters loot in all dungeons. When you have enough of these apples they can be traded for a magic key at specific merchants within the world.
From time to time you may find a magic chest at your local bank and if you have a magic key you will be able to...
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...
Halloween Invasions:
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...
An issue with not being able to loot corpses in level 5 Despise has been resolved.
-Deer Masks can now be crafted in game! Try harvesting antlers from Great Harts. -Level 5 Despise is now open!
We're aware of and working to resolve the issue of randomly being ejected to the nearest beach while navigating a boat.
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...
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 Britain moat fishing loot has been updated and Assassins have been slowed down and their numbers lowered.
Love Shards of Britannia? Want to help keep the lights on? Your support is appreciated! Visit https://www.patreon.com/shardsofbritannia
These patch notes include:
Known Issue: We're aware of some display issues with some of the new assets and will continue to improve them and resolve issues as they come up
Additions
General improvements:
If you still experience any of these please log out and back in to receive the hotfix.
We've identified and resolved an issue with pets causing lag in some cases.
Necromancer Updates:
Balance:
Resurrect:
Necromancer:
TMaps Globe:
The old Destard entrance in Yew has been retired. It now leads through the mountains to the other side.
Please update your runes if you haven't for the new Destard entrance in SE Skara Brae!
Animate Horse: Increased stats and skills, it does not decay and you can use as a pet to fight mobs, but if you mount it, it will dispel on dismount (Also fixed a bug that would allow to cast on bonded pets which would get lost after).
Transfusion / Great Transfusion: Now it consumes mana...
This patch note includes:
Loading Invisibility Updates
We have a correction for the following statement from the patch note at https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/house-packing-weather-taxidermy-glassblowing-stonemasonry-updates "You cannot pack a house's contents while vendors are working out of it, they need to be packed up separately by right-clicki...
Update: The crafting related issues have been resolved and crafting has been re-enabled. If you continue to see "crafting is suspended" please log out and back in and try to craft again. Thanks for your patience.
Crafting of any kind has been suspended for a short period while we sort out an iss...
This patch note contains:
General Fixes
Several new rental properties have been added to the world & rentals now appear on the Vendor Search stone results.
We now have over 50 rental properties spanning across the world with a range of prices to fit many people's lifestyles and budgets.
The storage limits have been set to be competi...
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:
The area SE of Skara Brae, around Destard Swamps, has been refreshed:
Player Vendors
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...
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...
Houses placed prior to July 16th, 2022, will now reflect the original storage limit that was in place before the most recent housing changes.
This will be in effect until August 26th, 2022 which coincides with the same time that the House Price refund amount will change, as stated here: https://...
Housing-allowed territory has been added in Yew allowing placement around the Yew bank and Moongate. Run, don't walk!
We are releasing a large update that includes exciting features for PvM, dungeons, vendors, and a large housing expansion. A slew of new housing options are now available along with additional quality of life for legacy housing options. Among are new housing options are massive homes such as the cas...
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! :)
Fees are being waived at the moment for retrieving items leftover from vendors in the Account Vault. If you have vendor items in the vault now would be the time to retrieve them :)
Necromancy has had some major updates!
Necromancy relates to the study and casting of dark magic, which deals mostly with death and the dead. With a Necromancer Spellbook, called a Necronomicon, you can curse your foes, animate the dead, and more.
Check out all the deadly details here: https:/...
Shipwright Vendors have been spawned in Britain & Cove and boats & ships are now available to purchase and use. See all of the details here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/Boats
Some new creatures have been spotted at the Compassion Desert: Sand Vortex & Efreets
A collision issue at the Ancient Elemental Boss location has now been fixed.
Holiday trees and a number of pot plants are now allowed to be placed outside your house for decoration.
Trapped containers can no longer be used for crafting/harvest/loot/organizer container operations.
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...
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 zone for the Britain moat fishing rares has now been extended. This now starts at the Britain Blacksmith runs down south to Britain Bank and then west behind the guard tower.
The zone for the Britain moat fishing rares has now been extended. This now starts at the Britain Blacksmith runs down south to Britain Bank and then west along the moat.
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...
New fishing rares have been cycled into the Britain Bank Moat. This will come into effect after the next restart.
House Rotation has been added! Now, when you use the Pack & Relocate option on your house, upon placing the house again you will be able to choose which orientation you wish the house to face.
Note: This feature will be available on June 25th after the daily restart at 9am UTC
Rental properties that have permanent containers will now be secured and usable for renters. This fixes an issue with getting items stuck in the containers previously due to them being unusable.
Static Crystals, server performance improvements, Maim re-worked, and additional balance changes! Check out the full notes here.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-14-2022
The Moonglow rental apartments have had their prices reduced and they have also been updated to allow vendors to be placed on the exterior wall around the doorway for your selling needs.
You can now fish up exciting new rares in the moat right next to Britain Bank!
Unique fishing rares can now be fished up in the water right next to Britain Bank.
You will require 65 Fishing Skill for this.
We've released some fixes and an additional pvp mechanic, spell fizzle windows. Read the full details on the wiki!
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-3rd-2022
We've released an extensive balance update along with some new Faction Pillar Conflict balancing mechanics! Loot has also been overhauled with much more consistent and rewarding gold drops. Check out the full notes here.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-2-2022
The server's first rental properties have been setup and are now available for renting. There are 9 units available just Southwest of Moonglow Bank. More properties will be setup throughout the world as time permits with different shapes and sizes. You can see more details about how rental propertie...
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...
Moonglow is now open for business!
Playe...
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...
Several updates to faction pillar conflicts are now live. Check out the full notes here.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-may-30-2022
Each faction now has a faction base in Britannia and each faction's faction stone has been moved to their base. Shadowlords can find their base, Stonegate, to the north east of Yew in the Deep Forest. Minax can find their base, Castle Minax, to the east of Skara Brae in Spiritwood Forest. True Brita...
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause skill gain to fail when over a skill's daily cap. This issue should be resolved after the next restart.
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 :)
There is currently a bug causing faction cloaks to not display correctly on female characters. We're working on a solution and will update as soon as we can.
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...
Dungeon Chest spawn times have been balanced recently according to difficulty
After the recent patch went live we realized that we had prematurely included a change causing items on vendors to count against your house storage, and there was no time for players to adjust to this beforehand. Not long after that happened we disabled the change and announced that we would re-...
Bosses will now reset less frequently and will provide warning messages to players in most cases before resetting. Players still need to remain within the boss area when engaging most bosses.
Several performance improvements have been made.
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...
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...
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 excited to announce that factions 1.0 is now live! Players can now join up and begin fighting for True Britannians, Shadowlords, or Minax. Details of this system and the changes brought by this update are in the link below.
https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions-release-notes
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.
Come one, come all! Lord British's League of Honorable Merchants welcomes you to participate in Sosaria's first live auction! Join us at The Guiding Hand in the quiet town of Skara Brae on the night of May the 21st, at 8pm EST! Merchants bring your most valuable wares and buyers unlock your coffers!...
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 following patch is scheduled to go out later today on 5/5/22
House Storage & Decorations Out of Bounds:
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.
Today's Hotfixes:
We've added a new Item Preview option to the Veteran Rewards and Vendor Buy windows. Clicking this button will open a container with the object in it briefly so you can see what you will receive. Large items like hearthstones may not appear completely inside the container, we'll try to improve that...
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...
General
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.
General Changes:
General Fixes:
Added a new "Move To Target" option in the house decorating window to easily move objects around
Fixed an issue causing crafted items not to be the right color or the right name
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 vote is in! Majority of people want the Vendor Search feature, and your wish has been granted!
We have optimized the system even further and have re-activated it with the single-stone design, and the Vendor Search Stone has been placed in front of Britain Bank once again.
We will monitor t...
Happy Mardi Gras! Make sure to log in on your accounts to receive a set of Mardi Gras beads.
If you were logged in already when the handout initially went live, you may have received a set of beads that didn't receive color. This issue has been resolved now, but if you received uncolored beads, y...
Vendor search has been disabled due to negative feedback from the players, sorry.
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
The new Duel & Arena system has been deployed to the live server! Soon you will be able to duel with your friends and enemies. We will be working on setting up the Arenas for use with this, so you may be unable to start duels until those are setup. Check out a video of this system here: https://you...
After testing the Vendor Search feature for the past few days we have found a performance issue with it and will be disabling it for now.
Yew's Empath Abbey bank has been added! Now we will begin to decorate the interior.
Dagger Isle has had some adjustments made to one of the Points of Interest which are a work-in-progress
Great job Wize!
The experimental Vendor Search feature has been added in the form of a Vendor Search Stone that has been placed at Britain Bank. We will assess how this performs and how it affects the player market to determine if it will stick around permanently. Please stop by and check it out! Happy shopping :)
Fishing balancing:
Dungeon fishing:
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...
Pitchforks were removed from magical equipment drops with the recent inscription patch, and we're aware that players are having issues with disenchanting some preexisting pitchforks. We don't intend to fix this due to pitchforks no longer dropping with magical properties, and apologize for the confu...
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 recent fishing changes, including dungeon fishing, have been temporarily reverted due to an issue. We will work to restore the update ASAP while also working to refresh the Ice Fishing feature.
The updates outlined here have been now been deployed: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/inscription-overhaul-patch-notes
Thanks to everyone that has helped to test the changes and provide feedback! We will work on drawing a winner for the Tester Reward as we described in the call-to-action...
General notes:
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.
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...
The Item Fixer NPC was added recently as a temporary on-demand fixer but they have been promoted to full-time and relocated to Counselor Hall buildings in Britain, Minoc and Yew, to remain permanently.
They can now fix the following issues:
Ok, apologies for the earlier false start all. Please log in to your clients again - you should again get a new 'britanniamain' asset downloaded and the trees should be working.
Thanks as always for your patience.
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
The following updates are now live!
Bulk Orders Added
Mining & Blacksmithy Changes
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!
The Item Fixer vendor has been spawned outside of Skara Brae Bank. For the next week, if you bring them your bugged MLK day handout book, right click and select Fix Item, then target the book, they'll take it and give you a new, functional one.
After a nightly restart:
Pending nightly restart:
Pending nightly restart, Detect Hidden has had an action added to it in the skillbook- Disarm Trap, used to disarm trapped, unlocked chests. Details are as follows:
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!
After the nightly restart:
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!
After tonight's restart:
The Minax faction stone has been moved nearer to its traditional location in the south of the Skara Brae region. Please visit https://map.shardsofbritannia.com/ and filter by Faction to find its new location.
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.
Necromancers (players considered "undead") may now use heal potions to heal themselves without incurring damage.
Old Toby and Smoking Pipes have returned to Britannia! Old Toby will spawn in the new Skara Brae lands, but Smoking Pipes have been added to some loot tables already. Old Toby gives no in-game benefit (as it did in Celador) and is purely for roleplay purposes, but it is a safe alternative to yelling...
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:
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.
After next restart, two new Necromancy spells have been added:
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...
Fixed an issue causing Escorts to not recognize that they have reached their destination in several cases
The 3 year veteran reward hitching post and ankh have had a couple bugs patched- they now properly obey their owner and the ankh's placement issues have been resolved.
A bug allowing use of the Necronomicon when not considered Undead has been patched. As a result, the Necronomicon now requires a minimum of 60.1 in Forensic Evaluation, Spirit Speak, and Magery to use.
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!
Pending a nightly restart, the following changes have been made:
Bone Crafting has been introduced! This will allow players to harvest bones and ethereal bones from gravedigging, and craft bone armor, as well as bone crafting stations for their houses. Bone Armor will become more useful, as player...
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 Colosseum can now only be reached by using the skiff at Buccaneer's Den docks, or the skiff at Britain's docks south of the bank (the larger docks slightly to the south-east, where the Town Crier calls out the latest gossip). To be clear, skiffs are the smaller boats, not the big ships.
To lea...
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.
Pending a restart:
The following changes have been made to help prevent getting items stuck inside of house walls causing them to be unable to be retrieved.
Notes:
Fixes:
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...
An exploit causing faction players to receive quite a lot of silver upon depositing silver into a controlled town stone has been fixed. This exploit has existed since factions were released. As a result, upon next restart, all players' faction silver will be reset to 0. This exploit was only recentl...
Note: Bonded pets will still continue to experience hunger, but it has no effect at this time. In the future, hun...
As you may be aware, we're working to isolate the root cause of the recent crashes. Through the process of elimination, we are making a change to the town vendors, and they have are now invulnerable again for the time being. As a result of this change, the Escort NPCs are disabled, as well as the po...
Occasionally a visual client bug occurs when using Organize Backpack option where it organizes the items but they continue to appear in the old position inside your backpack. If that happens to you, you can simply pick up the bags to refresh the items and show them in their correct position.
The True Britannians faction mob has been changed from Drakes to Dragons.
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....
Orcs have been spotted setting up camps around the world and taking human hostages. Keep your eyes out for suspicious activity.
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...
After the restart, the following items have been addressed:
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 (...
Pending a restart:
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...
Pending a restart:
Santa Claws has been successfully chased out of Yew and is now wandering the wilds in search of warriors whose Christmas he can ruin!
Pending a restart, the following changes have been made:
'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...
The cost of gravedigging tools has been reduced greatly and their charges have increased to 100 in preparation for Necromancy,
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.
The following is a preview of the upcoming Bulk Orders and Crafting Changes. Testing is about to begin, but there is no expected release date at this time. Near the release, we will write some Wiki pages to further explain some of these changes, but for the most part a lot of the mechanics are borro...
We've updated the Short and Long Spear to working models that properly show the weapon in your hands when you are in warmode. Spears made before this change will not reflect the updated models though, so you may want to hold on to one or two as they are now relics. :)
If you claimed a Resurrection Ankh and erroneously received the Hitching Post instead, and would like to swa...
More house decorations have been fixed that previously gave users trouble when trying to place them:
QOL: When taming or unstabling a pet, OR when summoning a creature, targetable healthbars for them automatically show up underneath the reagant counter. These disappear when you stable pets or when a summon expires.
3 Year Veteran Rewards Added
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.
When a faction owns a town, they may now spend town stone silver to purchase a faction guard, which will protect the stone against opposing factions.
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 following bugs have been fixed, some potentially pending restart:
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.
Fixed an issue causing the invasion spawn to over-spawn after a server crash
The Headless Horseman Boss from town invasions:
Recently some people have reported the long-standing issue of items getting stuck to your cursor. This client issue has been around since the beginning of time sadly. We've reported the issue to Citadel Studios for resolution and are at their mercy to have the root cause fixed.
As a workaround, w...
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.
More evil mages have appeared in Britannia, summoning creatures from beyond the veil between worlds. Their conjuring ways seem to be learned from an ancient tome whose origins are unknown....
[A new method of unlocking the Summoner's Tome has entered Britannia]
All Town/Faction Stones have had their states reset again. We believe we have fixed the root cause of the ongoing sigil issues, but ask once more for you all to give it a go! Timers are all once again set at one hour so it will be easy to test. You may still recall with the stone for the moment.
G...
An item called the Skull of Hallows Eve has been added to the Halloween Candy vendor. This item will allow you to activate the Cove invasion spawn at the Black Gate in North Cove. The spawn requires 6 players total to start it, so you will need 5 other players to be near the spawn with you when tryi...
A Faction store has been added to town stones- usable when your faction controls a town. This store is used to spend your personal silver on items for yourself. Currently two items are for sale, and more will be added soon:
After next restart, the Lone Wolf Cloak, Cloak of the Dragon Slayer, and Citizen Cloak should no longer fail constantly upon crafting.
Halloween Mask rares should now (potentially pending a restart) utilize the Mask equip slot instead of Head slot- thus they will be wearable over armor.
Arcadion, an evil and powerful daemon, has crossed the veil between worlds and is plotting terrible endeavors that may endanger the citizens of Britannia. Brave warriors: take up arms and defeat this most evil foe!
The Summoner's Tome is now live and in game! It may be acquired by defeating Arcadi...
Faction ranks are available on Discord for the new factions- simply run /rank rankname to add your faction role.
Available ranknames are:
The Black Gate Model will be returning to the transition token vendor shortly! Check after next restart.
The new Factions system is now live! Faction Stones and Town Stones have been placed in the world. Players wishing to join a Faction should visit that faction's Faction Stone.
Details about the Factions system are outlined here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions
Faction Stone and T...
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 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 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 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...
Fixed several house decorations that were previously not able to be placed:
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:
The Summoner update is now live in game! For details about this new playstyle, check out this wiki article: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/skills/spirit_speak
Many thanks to everyone who helped test!
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...
Discordance can now be "refreshed" on a target (as with Peacemaking and Provocation currently)- thus resetting the timer of the effect on a mob that already has the effect on them.
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
(After next restart) Lumberjacking has been slightly tweaked to give more chance to gain per attempt.
We want to share with you that Stimwalt has decided to step away from the project indefinitely and retire as a player. To Stimwalt: thank you for all of your contributions over the years and we wish you the best in your endeavors! While you cannot be replaced, you will remain with us in spirit. We h...
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...
Two new tames have arrived in Britannia!
The Fire Beetle is a new mount available for taming that anyone can control. This mount also acts as a mobile forge and can be used to smelt ore on the go!
Bake Kitsunes have made their return to Britannia. These foxes are noted for their ability...
Signup for the PVP event closes tomorrow! Head over to https://event-signup.uo4.life/ if you'd like to participate!
After next restart:
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.
Fishing
Organization
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.
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...
Rideable Pack Beetles have arrived in Britannia as a brand new tamable! These beasts are not only sturdier than horses, but are the only mount that also can act as a pack animal. While any player (even non-tamers) may control the beetle, tamers may find procuring one to be a bit tricky...
Lag issues should largely be resolved. We will continue to monitor the situation. Some players may experience intermittent issues based on their path to the server.
After next restart, if the owner of a pet is dead and the pet is attacked, the pet will defend itself.
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...
An exploit which allowed players to place houses in areas not intended for housing has been patched. If you have knowingly used this exploit to place a house somewhere it shouldn't be, please be aware that it may be subject to deletion without notice. It is recommended you move your home immediately...
After next restart, vendors now have a "Set All To Max" option, which sets the quantity of all items currently in the bill of sale to the maximum amount the vendor has on hand.
An issue causing furniture deeds to be named "Unknown Furniture Deed" or "Blank Deed" has been resolved, and any existing deeds have been corrected & should now be showing their correct name. If you find any remaining cases of furniture deeds not showing their full name please let us know.
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...
Forges in houses will be shrinking soon! If you have a forge in your house, it will be converted to the new style forge. We've also added two additional forge recipes for you to choose from. Note: If your forge was out of bounds you may need to release it and re-place it to bring the new model back...
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.
The stuck command menu has had another pass of improvements, adding an additional option, that can be used more frequently, and will try to move you out of stuck positions without teleporting far away, and also added an option to unstick nearby pets.
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.
Group Combat, Shared Loot
Hotfix from today:
Hotfixes/changes from last week:
We'll be doing a quick restart in about 30 minutes for maintenance. No downtime is expected.
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.
Some performance updates are being applied. Should be back in just a few minutes.
Server will be coming down for a short restart to address some issues around 17:15 UTC.
After next restart, cut off heads should display the full resurrection value of the dead.
We're investigating an issue with guards and will be down for a little bit longer.
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...
A bug allowing users to repeatedly magically lock dungeon chests for gains has been patched
Server will be restarting in about 5 minutes. ETA about 15 minutes. Thank you!
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...
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.
The rules have had some amendments to the following sections:
Please make sure you read the updated rules at: https://legendsofultima.online/about/rules
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...
Sounds from applying bandages as well as sounds from instruments will now only play to yourself while inside of town.
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...
Gameplay
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...
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...
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
The server is up again! Sorry again for the inconvenience but we really appreciate your patience. :)
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!
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...
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...
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
All wandering healers have had their wanderlust reduced temporarily, until we can make them visible via map icons once again. The markers available via https://lou-map.herokuapp.com/ can be used to locate them.
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...
Gameplay Notes
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...
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.
Fixed a bug where players could rename recall runes which were not in their own backpacks.
Power hour will no longer expire after 60 real-time minutes from activation, instead will expire after 60 minutes of in-game playtime, with the same 22-hour cooldown from the time you started it last
This means if you log out before using all of your Power Hour then you can log back in and use wh...
An issue with not being able to leave your group in some cases has been resolved. Please log out and back in to receive the update, then try right-clicking your character and choosing Leave Group to try once more.
Water definitions have been added to every town! In those areas:
The Polymorph spell has had its bugs fixed and the spell is now reenabled
The Incognito spell now properly changes the player's name to a fake one for its duration
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.
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...
*Open Helms and Pitchforks can now be salvaged with the mining pickaxe tool near a forge
We are aware of the issue with the official map and are working to resolve it. Thanks for your patience.
Due to ongoing connectivity issues, the server will remain offline until further notice. There is no ETA at this time.
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...
Critizens of Britannia, be warned! An increased Orc presence has been observed in our lands. These savage creatures know no limit to their ferocity and evil. But fear ye not! Your Brave and Courageous leaders are maintaining the guard around the clock, keeping the Orc scourge out of our city walls 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.
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. 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
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...
The Paralyze spell now interrupts the victim's spell cast on success
The use of an invisibility potion now breaks spell casts
Skeleton Keys now properly open chests of any level regardless of lockpicking skill
Carpentry kegs have been fixed and no longer produce deeds
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...
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...
Titles should now be fixed. Upon next login, you should be granted all missing skill titles.
We are still monitoring the issue of titles switching even when "Lock Title" has been selected- if you see this issue, please report it with /bug so we are able to triage. Thanks as always for playing!
The following changes are now live on the Test Center:
Lumberjacking has been refreshed to be more in alignment with UO
Successful harvests will produce up to 20 logs per swing
Trees now have a maximum amount of wood that can be harvested
Harvest bonuses removed and Prospect...
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.
Non-faction players can no longer create collision with, heal, or give beneficial spells to faction players
Dungeon Despise is now available for again for your spelunking pleasure.
The maintenance is complete, nice and early. Why are you reading this?! Go play!
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...
Town NPC Changes
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...
Warning: It is not intended to be able to place objects...
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...
Cut off heads of murderers now show the fee the deceased paid to resurrect, to become glorious trophies for your display
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.
"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...
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...
"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...
Secure Trading issues:
Corpse Looting issues:
"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...
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.
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
Test Center Hotfixes have been applied:
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'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...
We've identified an issue with Looting Rights not being handled properly for bards killing monsters with provocation and have disabled criminal checks on monster corpses for the time being while we work the remaining issues out.
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...
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...
Please log out and back in to the game to enable these fixes.
Recent patch notes for Test Center are being maintained here for the time being, in addition to Discord's #test-center-patch-notes channel: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/28-test-center-patch-notes
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...
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.
We'll remain offline for now while we work to solve this latest batch of issues. No ETA at this time.
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.
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...
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...
An issue with Stablemasters not detecting pets from outside the region you're in has been resolved but will require a server restart to take effect.
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...
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...
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...
*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.
The Paralyze spell now interrupts the victim's spell cast on success The use of an invisibility potion now breaks spell casts Skeleton Keys now properly open chests of any level regardless of lockpicking skill Carpentry kegs have been fixed and no longer produce deeds
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...
An issue with Fishing erroneously saying "go outside of town for gains" when you are already outside of town has been resolved. This hotfix will be available after the next scheduled server restart.
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.
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...
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...
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 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
The issue with the official map has been resolved, and it is now available again.
The interactive map has now moved to:
https://map.legendsofultima.online
Please update your bookmarks! We have also updated the wiki.
It's time! Housing will be launched at 10am US Eastern Time/2pm UTC on Saturday 24th July. Some notes for you all:
-Short term murder counts should no longer reset upon death in the colosseum
-Looting any corpse but your own is disabled in the Colosseum
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
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 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...
Relog to fix combat issues. Stackables are being worked on.
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...
-Stealing is now disabled on the Colosseum island
-Murderer restrictions will not be incurred when a red dies on the island
Map marker icons have had an optimization pass and have been re-enabled. Just a heads up that we may need to further optimize or change the way the map marker icons appear but will try this for now.
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!
Patch notes for Test Center are being kept track of here: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/28-test-center-patch-notes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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