Behind the Scenes: More Server Stability Work
A second hardening pass, on top of July 29's - this one focused on connection handling, world/movement logic, and targeting. Nothing to notice day to day, just fewer things that can go wrong.
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Patch Complete: Young Character Travel Fix + Stability Improvements
Young characters couldn't reach Felucca by any travel method - moongates, teleporters, recall, and more. That's fixed, alongside a round of engine-side stability hardening. Restart's done, everyone's back online, no character data affected.
Service Note: Brief Deploy Issue Overnight — No Data Was Lost
A routine deploy briefly caused some characters to appear missing on staging and then the live shard overnight. We restored from a verified backup immediately and confirmed no character data was ever actually lost — full details on what happened and what we've changed.
Behind the Scenes: Account System Security & Reliability
A security and reliability pass on the website account system - hardened two-factor authentication, tighter account-recovery protections, and crash-proofing for the connection to the game server.
New: Link Your UO Accounts & Self-Service Password Reset
Link up to 3 UO accounts to your website login, browse a character/house dashboard with a live decay countdown, and reset a forgotten UO password yourself - no staff needed. House decay email reminders included.
Quality-of-Life Pass: Bigger Banks, Unique Names, Safer Houses
Bank storage up to 375 items (3x), character names now enforced unique shard-wide, and new house doors default to Owner Only instead of Anyone.
New: Website Accounts with Two-Factor Authentication
Create a free website account with your email, secure it with optional two-factor authentication and backup recovery codes. Account linking and self-service UO password recovery have since shipped - see the card above.
New: Staff-Run Town Invasions
Staff can now throw a Felucca town into chaos on a schedule — themed monster waves followed by a champion boss, guards stood down for the duration, and shard-wide alerts so nobody misses the fight.
Behind the Scenes: Server Stability & Recovery
We've been hardening the server against crashes and data loss — better error handling throughout, stronger safeguards around save data, and a new safety net so an accidentally deleted character isn't gone for good.
New: Weapon & Magic Grimoire Progression
Earn a blessed Grimoire from the Grimoire Master and level it up by fighting — Macing, Swords, Fencing, Archery, and Magery each have their own 20-level progression with real combat bonuses to choose as you go.
New: Elite Monsters, Rarity Tameables & More
Four new roaming elite monster types, a Normal/Rare/Epic/Legendary rarity system for prestige tameables like Dragons and Nightmares, Paragons now spawning shard-wide, and Ethereal mounts no longer costing a pet slot.
New: Hunger System & Magery-Free Recall/Mark
Type [hunger to check your Well Fed status and regen bonuses, with a live countdown until it wears off. Plus, Recall and Mark no longer require any Magery skill to cast — anyone can use them.
Felucca-First: One World, Open PvP
Felucca is now the shard's primary facet, with open PvP extended to Ilshenar, Malas, Tokuno, and the Eodon Valley. Trammel is now staff-only; anyone still saved there is automatically relocated to Felucca on login.
Economy & Character Cap Tuning
Accounts per IP is now capped at 3 (down from 5), house decay for inactive accounts moved from 30 days to 6 months, and magic item / artifact drop rates were rebalanced to more traditional odds. Felucca's hidden +1000 luck bonus is now visible in your character stats.
New: Global Chat Window
Type [c or [chat to open a shard-wide chat window. It's fully movable and resizable, and keeps a running history so you never miss a message.
New: Free Skills List
Skills like Camping, Fishing, Lockpicking, Meditation, Focus, and 18 others no longer count against your 720 skill cap. Build the hybrid template you've always wanted — a tamer/bard who reads treasure maps, a fishing sampire, and more.
Launcher & Patch Reliability Fixes
Fixed an issue where the Razor assistant could fail to load UO data files on some installs, plus several under-the-hood reliability improvements to keep patching fast and consistent for everyone.
RazorEnhanced Support, Chat Polish & More
RazorEnhanced now runs alongside Razor without crashing, Global Chat got colored names + a [ChatToggle opt-out + readability fixes, double-click now equips gear straight from your backpack, and "Elves Only" items can be worn by any race.
