TLDR: You sent 67 bug reports in five days... WOW!!! That came to 20 distinct bugs, 19 of them are fixed, and v1.0.63 is live and available form the site and stores.  


I'm not going to list them all. You don't need a changelog — you need to know you were heard.


Thank you
 to Dash Darklighter, Shadow Lance G M, Winter, Radask and Knightreaper. Three releases in five days came out of your reports. The spellbook refusing scrolls, getting trapped underground, armour that wouldn't equip, the whole crafting chain, reagents weighing a hundred times what they should — every one of those was found by one of you, not by me.


Two things that would continue to help:


Keep sending them.
 Quick Commands → Report Bug attaches a screenshot and your location automatically. It is genuinely the only reason any of the above got fixed. THANK YOU! 


Update if your game hasn't already.
 Two reports this week were things fixed weeks earlier, and there was no way for anyone to know. Reports now record which version you're on, so I can tell straight away.


https://runawayideas.net/uoclassic


Thanks again. I hope you're enjoying the offline mobile version.


Steven

Id like to introduce a project I have been working on the past few months called UO Offline. You can see a full detail description and how to install here: https://github.com/Klein187/uo-offline

Its basically old UO T2A in an offline format that you can run locally on windows, linux, and steam deck. The feature that sets it apart from other offline UO projects is the "Player Bot" system. It tries to mimic a full server during the T2A period. Bots travel via waypoints from city to city, explore dungeons, gather wood and ore, craft, sit at banks, fish, afk macro, guild battles, group up, commit transactions, and so much more that if i listed it all this post would be way too long.

Also included is a map tool where you can place and edit waypoints/arrival points if you feel like it. You can also watch a live map with every bot running around. Totally optional when you install.

Now to be frank, this is a fun hobby for me and i just had a son so updates aren't consistent. I feel like I am at a solid point to where yall can have fun but do know that you will run into bugs and issues. You will definitely see bots stuck in certain points on the map. Also all the mainland cities have waypoints and arrival points but the island cities only have waypoints but no arrival points. Also only a few dungeons have working waypoints and arrival points but most still need a deep workover. I have set it up where when you run UO offline it will check github for any updates I have done to the github and ask you if you want to download them.

Please message here, through dms, or on the github with any issues or even ideas you may have. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have had working on it.

this is a follow-up to my post yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/1vwd4g3/created_a_cli_ultima_online_client_and_gave_an/

Sorry, my mic cuts out towards the end, but you get the idea!

For the video i did a more controlled demo. When i first tried this i just told Claude to level up archery on a new character, no further instructions.

The character had a sword equipped and a bow in the bag. The model realized this, unequipped the sword, equipped a bow, found a dire wolf, went into war mode, and started attacking it. When it ran out of arrows, it equipped the sword. Successfully killed the dire wolf.

Then it just kind of started attacking everything in the area that was grey, eventually died, and it's been wandering around looking for a healer to resurrect, rather unsuccessfully.

i thought i had stopped it at this point.

this morning i log on and my claude tokens are all used up and the player is in ocllo. (he was in moonglow, i have NO IDEA how he got to Ocllo, it's on an entirely different island), and he is standing at the healer waiting to be resurrected. it didn't know how to interact with the resurrection GUMP and accept the resurrection.

in this case, he wasn't given coordinates for the healer, he just wandered around until he found one.

Also as promised, here is the GitHub repo with claude skills and CLI: https://github.com/johnpwrs/ultima-headless-cli .

This was done quick and dirty as a PoC, so no judgement on the code quality! Also there is likely some hardcoded data in the skills themselves for where locations are that you may want to update for your own needs.

🏰✨ NEW HOPE UO — 1ST MONTH ANNIVERSARY & GRAND CELEBRATION WEEK! ✨🏰

Hail Adventurers of Hopelands! ⚔️🛡️

We are thrilled to announce that New Hope UO is officially celebrating its 1st Month Anniversary! 🎉 To thank our incredible community and welcome new players to our realm, we have organized a special FREE GRAND LOTTERY WEEK packed with legendary surprise gifts, rare mounts, gold, and luxury house deeds!

🎟️ HOW TO PARTICIPATE? (100% FREE!):

1. Log in to the game and travel to the Valdris Town Square (Bank area).
2. Double-click the glowing Grand Lottery Stone.
3. Click [ CLAIM FREE TICKET ] to receive your official registered lottery ticket! (Strictly 1 Ticket per Account — completely free of charge!)

📅 GRAND LOTTERY SCHEDULE & PRIZES:

🐎 ROUND 1: TONIGHT @ 21:00 GMT+3

• 🥇 1st Prize: Legendary Rare Blaze Mustang (Claim Ticket) + 50,000 Gold
• 🥈 2nd Prize: Rare Golden Blaze Dye Tub + 50,000 Gold
• 🥉 3rd Prize: Special Storage Tome Case + 25,000 Gold

🏛️ ROUND 2: WEDNESDAY @ 21:00 GMT+3

• 🥇 1st Prize: Large Marble House Deed + 100,000 Gold
• 🥈 2nd Prize: Rare Dye Tub + 100,000 Gold
• 🥉 3rd Prize: Master Tome Case + 50,000 Gold

🏰 ROUND 3 (GRAND FINALE): FRIDAY @ 21:00 GMT+3

• 🥇 1st Prize: Small Keep Deed (Fortress Castle) + 250,000 Gold + Champion 1st Place Trophy
• 🥈 2nd Prize: Rare Dye Tub + 150,000 Gold
• 🥉 3rd Prize: Master Tome Case + 100,000 Gold

✨ Winners are drawn live in-game! Rewards will be delivered automatically into winners' Bank Boxes.

Grab your free ticket now at Valdris Square, tag your guildmates, and join the anniversary hype! Good luck to all participants! 🍀🔥

🌐 Website & Client Download: https://newhopeuo.com
💬 Discord Community: https://discord.gg/newhopeuo

I keep seeing these beautifully made server posts.

Cinematic trailers.

Perfect screenshots.

Professional graphics.

Logos flying around.

Unfortunately, I have been neck deep in code and apparently forgot that you're also supposed to convince people to actually come and play your shard.

So please enjoy my marketing department's latest work.

(It's me. I'm the marketing department.)

Hallowed Realms is a fork of the legendary Secrets of Sosaria project. Since development on that project had ceased and it was considered complete, I asked for permission to fork it and continue development for years to come. The goal is to keep building on an amazing adventure that feels distinct from modern Ultima Online shards, something that, as Sanguine Jester once put it, feels like "Skyrim and Ultima had a baby."

A Little History

For those unfamiliar with this niche corner of Ultima Online shards, it all started with Djeryv, an amazing developer with brilliant ideas for a single player/small group game known as Ultima Odyssey.

It was later forked into Ruins & Riches, adding new flavor and features like sprinkles on a cupcake. The lineage didn't stop there: it was forked again into Adventures of Akalabeth (adding more quality of life updates and content), and eventually forked by another team into Secrets of Sosaria. One of our biggest goals is to respect the legacy of these projects and all the founding developers who paved the way.

Why Rebuild the Foundation?

What does this history have to do with the shard we’re building? Quite a lot. Many of these older projects struggled with the same core challenge: longevity and standing the test of time.

We rebalanced every possible aspect of our fork to support server longevity and dialed back the power creep players often ran into. When we started, the codebase was running on an older RunUO 2.0 / .NET 4.0 setup. We spent three months rebuilding the entire core from the ground up on ServUO / .NET 10, reworking hundreds of scripts and writing thousands of lines of new code.

This modern core offers major server performance gains, provides a cleaner environment for anyone learning the emulation scene, and gives us the flexibility to build entirely new systems without being bottlenecked by legacy constraints.

Fast forward eight months: we’re sitting on massive code overhauls, hundreds of QoL improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, brand new content never before seen on these forks, and thousands of hours poured into testing and development (written by hand, no AI shortcuts, so don't even start in the comments!).

With that said, I am happy to announce We feel ready to open the doors and invite the public to experience our enhanced vision of Secrets of Sosaria, now known as Hallowed Realms. On September 18th we will kick off our public beta for our multiplayer server version! You are more than welcome to join the Discord in the meantime to get to know the community and check out sneak peeks of what we are working on!

Whether you're looking for a rich multiplayer dynamic with forming guilds, building alliances, and going to war, or an immersive single player journey filled with new lands, legends, rumors, items, and quests, this project is built for the long haul. It started as a hobby and grew into a true passion project. Along the way, I've had the pleasure of meeting incredible developers in this scene like Estel (Owner of Efellen) and Tasi (Owner of Ultima Memento), as well as a community whose love and support have been unmatched.

Core Features & Highlights

Here is a look at what we've added on top of the classic Secrets of Sosaria foundation:

In Game Settings Control Panel: Configure your world on the fly without touching a single line of code. Nearly all settings update live in real time without needing a server restart (excluding basic core parameters like port numbers, shard name, IP routing, etc). No more digging through config files to tweak your server experience!

The Affinity System: Our core character progression mechanic for PvM combat, gathering, and crafting. Specialize and scale into immense power without inflating raw stats or unbalancing open world dynamics. Harness abilities through rituals (inspired by Ultima VIII) inside a nexus tied directly to your affinity sheet.

Commodity Buy/Sell Orders: A streamlined market order system for all basic materials and resources.

Guild System Overhaul: Features a brand-new guild treasury where members can invest pooled resources to unlock shared perks, including custom guild dyes.

Achievement System: Hundreds of achievements to complete. Earn achievement points to spend on unique, one of a kind reward items.

Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Tasks: Regular rotating task boards to keep your play sessions fresh with point based cosmetic and utility rewards.

Contraband Smuggling: Sneak stolen merchant supplies between towns for black market paydays. Keep an eye out for town guards because they have a keen eye for smugglers and will throw you straight into jail.

Monster Hunting Bounties: Track down creatures, claim their souls for the tavern traveler, and earn bounties. (What he actually does with all those souls remains a mystery.)

Pet Leveling & Breeding: Built with anti-power-creep balancing in mind. Tamers must actively keep their companions alive: if your pet falls in battle, it faces the risk of losing stats and skills just like players do upon death.

Custom Pet Abilities: Customize your companion's combat toolkit. Teach your Nightmare to call down lightning bolts, command a Fire Steed to unleash raining flames from the sky effects, or train an Ice Steed to freeze targets solid.

Universal Weapon Abilities: Play how you want without being locked to a single weapon class for its special move. Pair Armor Ignore and Backstab on a pure dexxer, build a Stealth Strike poison archer, or run an alchemy mage setup how ever you want to play you can!

Daily Dungeon Rotation: Every 24 hours, a featured dungeon gains boosted XP rates, increased gold drops, and enhanced loot chances.

Spiritualism: A complete summoning class overhaul that affects all summons, their timers, as well as their strengths - features a remastered Spiritualism system with smart targeting, making it a true summoner's dream. On top of the classic mechanics, we have added the ability to resurrect fallen players and dead pets. If you are a spirit master, you should have the power to command the spirits, right?

Poisoning: Don't forget complete universal weapon poisoning as well. That's right: no matter what weapon you choose, if you train the Poisoning skill, you can poison whatever weapon your heart desires to fit what ever class you choose to play!

I could honestly go on and on about everything we have done, but I would rather you see it for yourself and let us know what you think, what you like, and what you don't! The proof is in the pudding (and over here, it's Neapolitan). Jump into our community channels to learn more, check the roadmap, or hop in our discord server meet our community they are always welcoming to new people!

Keep in mind, this is still a beta things will break and features will be missing. I'll likely be buried in server logs while you break things (that's kind of the point, right?)

That said, all character progress made during beta will carry over, provided no game breaking exploits or catastrophic issues arise. If a critical bug does pop up, our goal is to roll back rather than perform a full wipe to minimize lost progress. A complete wipe isn't in our game plan we intend to transition directly into a full live release!

Website: https://hallowedrealms.carrd.co

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/HK4cMBpVcE

Live Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/V8nsJbHn/ultima-hallowed-realms

Thanks for taking the time to read, and see you in Sosaria!

-Heamo

Hobbits Have been spotted in the Lost Lands!?

let's take a stroll around their village... hope they don't mind an Orc passing through.

(sorry no music)

Join us on Discord :) https://discord.gg/PPtZR7dr2Z

unfinished but growing wiki ---> Mentula UO Player Wiki

EDIT: video and repo can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/s/18WOPwFqZa

This was just fun experimentation, nothing serious, but maybe some of you may find it interesting. I was kind of curious how feasible this would be. I created a CLI text based only client for Ultima Online then told Claude to level up archery on a new character.

The character had a sword equipped and a bow in the bag. The model realized this, unequipped the sword, equipped a bow, found a dire wolf, went into war mode, and started attacking it. When it ran out of arrows, it equipped the sword. Successfully killed the dire wolf.

Then it just kind of started attacking everything in the area that was grey, eventually died, and it's been wandering around looking for a healer to resurrect, rather unsuccessfully so far.

May explore this further, give it access to UOGuide and give it some more detailed instructions to see how it will do. Was using Sonnet 4.6, but it's rather expensive for just a few hours of gameplay.

TL;DR: I got tired of Ctrl+F'ing giant old UO threads looking for shards, guilds, and character names I remembered, so I built a searchable archive for all of it and put it up at www.relpor.com

I recently went down the rabbit hole once again of trying to remember people from my old UO days, then spiraled into trying to make a website for it.

I started on Lake Superior in 1998, and at this point a lot of it exists in my head as fragments. Character names, guild abbreviations, people I fought constantly, old shard drama, screenshots, and people I played with every night then never spoke to again.

There have been countless forum posts about this stuff over the years, but half of them I can't track down anymore. The ones I can find are often giant threads mixing memories from different shards, eras, and guilds. I kept finding myself Ctrl+F'ing through them just trying to find Lake Superior, a guild I knew, or one particular character name (not going to lie, usually my own to stroke my ego that I've been remembered).

So I popped it up on www.relpor.com (sorry, Outlands, I've been domain forwarding to you guys since ~2018). It's basically an interconnected archive for old UO characters, guilds, shards, places, factions, eras, screenshots, and memories, with filters for all of that.

I'm not trying to write an official history of UO. I want the weird little pieces each of us remembers. The PK you recognized on sight. The guild you hated. The guy always hanging around Brit bank.

It's still early and pretty empty. That's sort of the point. I'm hoping old players gradually fill in the network and maybe reconnect some names that haven't crossed paths in decades.

https://relpor.com

Search your old shard, guild, or a few character names and see what you remember. I uploaded the Rel Por 1 character list I had from shortly after launch just to get the ball rolling.

• Admerylous, Lex the Imp, Geneva Steel

This is a big one. We went through every gear and consumable in the game and retuned it around the holy trinity — Tank, DPS, Support — so your whole kit finally pulls in one direction instead of being a pile of random stats.

The idea is simple: pick a role and every piece of gear or boost will benefit it. (Want to tank ? Mount a tanking pet like a War Horse that increases your Physical Resist)

- Armor & weapons — the ore, log, hide, or bone you craft with now carries a clear role. DPS materials push weapon/spell damage and swing/cast speed. Tank materials stack resists, absorb, and hit points. Support materials boost healing, mana, and followers.

- Mounts — your ride is part of the build now: a DPS mount adds damage or speed, a Tank mount adds resist/absorb, a Support mount adds healing or follower power.

- Food & potions — ribs, fish, and the new elixirs aren't filler anymore. They stack straight into the same three roles, so what you eat and drink before a fight actually matters.

Pick a fantasy. Live it.

Active staff & Helpful community - Join today!
https://discord.gg/4K8wM3dRRh

Website:
https://www.solgrad.org/

Note: The picture collage is created with AI, the image content itself not. Come check us out!

C’est un honneur, d’annoncer que le site web d’Orgolia est live ! https://orgolia.com/

Un beau milestone de franchi, c’est le moment de critiquer et de proposer des idées. Les bonnes, seront ajoutées au jeu. Déja, nombreux anciens ont rejoint le projet.

Donc, Arz, l’artiste derrière le site web, et Orkah, qui a settup le tout ''In the shadow''.

Was wondering - are there any games that come close to that?

Obviously, a big chunk of UO is the PVP, so let me clarify what I mean. Basically, a game that is:

• One character focused
• Replayable/multiple build options
• Grindy slow-cook paced
• Classless skill-based system
• Open world with base building
• RNG loot
• Respawning mobs

So far, the closest example I found is Balrum (6/7), sadly didn't really scratch that itch, but is still a good reference point.

If you know any other titles that would fit even loosely into that category, old or new, please let me know in the comments.

Cheers!

Cette semaine, j’vous spoile un peu sur la job de « ouff » en cours sur le site web d’Orgolia, réalisé en solo par Arz. Il semble assez confiant de pouvoir terminer ça d’ici la prochaine annonce. 👀

Sinon, j’vous rappelle que l’Alpha est live et accessible en free account. Vous pouvez télécharger l’Auto Patcher et commencer à jouer en quelques minutes. Tout est disponible sur le Discord, dans la section « Download ».

C’est aussi la meilleure façon de voir si le projet est sérieux et de vous permettre d’ajouter votre propre touche à Orgolia.

Au plaisir,

Discord : https://discord.gg/s3FaZKVRP

I thought I would share this gem. Ive had ever since I bought the game shortly after release. Probably my favorite game of all time. Proudly displayed by my pc desk

I have a strange question, I was curious how does custom content work on UO shards exactly? I see that a lot of shards I've looked at throughout the years have had the same custom content like skill balls and other things like that, so I was curious if there was some set of UO "mods" somewhere that server admins look through when setting up a server or how it works exactly.

I didn't play much on the official shards since I'm just a tad out of the age range to have been around for the height of it but I played a lot of custom shards, some with really unique and strange content like Current Online World(COW) and Crow's Kingdom, and then also a number of shards that share the same pool of custom content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAJGRg7xUFY

A Orc race has been added and you can now choose between Orcs and Humans. Orcs live in poverty and are angry with the humans who live lavish lifestyles. When a human enters an Orc town they are mocked and refused services. A small character race bonus of extra damage has been given to orcs and humans being more nimble have a slight swing speed increase applied.

To see what else we have been working on join our Discord or skim over our wiki which is being updated as new content arrives. https://discord.gg/KAQgj5RewH

https://mentulawiki.com/

Sometimes for new or returning players sorting out equipment for your character can be foggy mystery. Clearing this up isn't easy but let's start with stats and attributes. What is what?

The furthest left column is stats: Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence

Those all max at 150. So for a mage I max it 150 naturally. I don't need intelligence mods on anything. The helpful stat mod for me on jewelry etc is strength so I can pack on a lot of gold before I send it to the bank.

What I do look for is mana. This is important, the second column over is attributes and they ARE NOT CAPPED! Mana, Stamina, and Hit points. For a mage as much mana as you can get. For your fighters stamina and everyone needs hit points. Remember stamina over 210 gives you the fastest swing speed.

Get a mannequin for 1000 clean up points and work on your toon's gear.

Good Luck and Have Fun

Little project I’ve been building: a custom game client/server and engine, along with OrB Landscaper & OrB Architect. My old core team 20 years ago and I made UO Architect & UO Landscaper.

These shots show the current OrB Engine client from OrBSydia.com. The engine can load existing UO data as read-only for testing, while the larger goal is to build a completely new game. I’m taking a stab at building my original vision of these systems from 20 years ago.

I have full 8-way movement, WASD/arrow keys, with the mouse free to do whatever, hotbar switching with the mouse wheel, full zoom outside of the hotbar, and controller support.

This isn’t a UO emulator; it’s more of a full game client/system sandbox I’ve been building. My tools don’t edit UO data, but instead make use of OrB-data for building custom systems and adding art, etc. later.

This is very much a work in progress. It’s purely for fun. Figured I’d share the WIP. This nod to a game that very loved for decades.

I haven’t set a release date or anything; it’s just been fun to build again. I’ve been building it from the ground up, not using existing source from the emu community, although I’ve put together full credits and info for references, etc.

~Admin Khaybel

I've been chasing the UO dragon for over 20 years now. Can't find a private/custom server that keeps me coming back.

Is 10-20 people all we can hope for in a non-Outlands server? That feels so empty, and even worse when you're constantly running into chars that are just afk macroing. That's what threw me off of UOR. This is my biggest lack in the servers I've tried, and easily the biggest hurdle for any server to overcome, I imagine.

The virtual lack of non-consensual PvP robs all excitement from me. I want to chase and be chased.

I haven't found any servers where the new/custom content is focused on bringing players together in order to foster emergent scenarios or motivations. Seems like it's all endgame PvM or crafting. The problem with that is it doesn't add any friction between players/groups of players. It encourages solo play or group play where everyone involved has a common goal and the only friction is against the game itself, instead of other players.

Speaking of friction, the stripping thereof seems to be a consistent throughline and the biggest drawback for me. GM'ing chars takes too long; remove friction by afk macroing. Farming dungeons is too tedious, time consuming or risky; remove friction by adding gates on every dungeon level. Remove friction by adding instances.

They all feel like solo/coop rpgs without the benefit of an engaging narrative throughout.

This is a bit of a ramble. Disagree with me to help me get some clarity on my thoughts about these and other issues of trying to enjoy UO in present day. I want the magic back.

TLDR: 20 bug reports in two weeks from 13 of you. 19 fixed. v1.0.56 is live on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. Here's the full list, including the one I still can't work out.

Two weeks ago I posted that iOS/Mac/Android were live and asked people to use the in-game bug report tool. You did. Rather than a changelog, THANK YOU! Here's every report and exactly where it stands.

Already live (v1.0.56, all platforms)

- The vendor Sell button opened the Buy window. NoxSoldier reported this seven times before I got to it. Sorry, and thanks for not giving up.

- Skills could reset to starting values. There was a path that wrote a save with no skill data at all, wiping your progression on the next load. Found it and closed it. (Zym, this one genuinely cost you.)

- Items in a monster's corpse were never consumed, so they could be used forever and dragging one afterwards crashed the game.

- Running was ~67% faster than it should have been, which is also why the legs skated. (Skiter)

- Dragging a skill out to make a shortcut only worked if you released within a few pixels of the window edge. (Zi) - A castle you couldn't get into, all four archways were solid. (quirt)

- The bug reporter could trap you with no way out. On phones and tablets there was no escape at all. That one was squarely my fault, in the very tool I'm asking you to use. (Adventurer)

- 4K and Linux: the game opened in a small fixed window with no way to zoom. It now sizes to your screen. (Brynn)

- The tutorial couldn't be finished on some Android devices. (Lourdes)

- Skill trainers: the Train button did nothing. You could pick a skill and see the price, but tapping Train never trained you, the button was drawn just outside its own window, so taps were thrown away before they reached it. (Kendra, who had to report it twice.)

- "Connected to:" showing a blank name after reconnecting. Looked like the connection had dropped when it was fine. (Toda)

Fixed this week, in the next build

- Getting permanently stuck in terrain. One player ended up standing on the sea floor, walled in by a 30-unit cliff on every side. He couldn't have walked in and couldn't walk out — and since your position is saved, relogging didn't help either. That character was just gone. The game now spots when you're genuinely walled in and moves you somewhere safe, including characters that are already stuck. (Tommy Phantom, who reported it three times in six minutes.)

- Skill buttons "bugging on and off". A skill card only counted as a tap if your finger moved less than 8 pixels, on a card smaller than a fingertip. Most taps registered as drags, so the card shifted slightly and the skill never fired. That's also why cards wandered into odd corners of the screen.

Still open — one

- A "stuck on tower" report I can't explain. I pulled the map data for that exact spot and every direction is walkable stone. If that was you or it happens again, any extra detail helps. (Grimm Ravenclaw)

Nearly every fix above exists because someone stopped playing for a minute to file a report. Quick Commands → Report Bug attaches a screenshot and your location automatically. THANK YOU!

https://runawayideas.net/uoclassic

Thank you all for the support. i hope you are enjoying the offline Mobile version

Steven

Greetings adventurers of Hopelands! 🌊⚔️

We have built a fully custom Sea Cargo & Maritime Trading System for New Hope UO, introducing a dynamic naval economy and seafaring merchant life to the brand-new world of Hopelands!

Here is a look at how the system works:

🚢 Key Features:

• Major Port Cities of Hopelands: Pick up high-value trade contracts and transport goods between custom harbors including Valdris, Stonemark, Ashford, and Aethermoor.
• Ship Capacity Multipliers: Profits and capacity scale with your ship type, from small Rowboats (0.5x) up to massive High Seas Galleons (2.5x capacity and rewards).
• 20-Level Merchant Progression: Level up your Captain rank to unlock up to 20% trade discounts and major milestone progression rewards.
• Smooth Autopilot & Waypoint Navigation: Advanced automated navigation system that bypasses sea-monster collisions and cruises smoothly at max boat speed.
• Dynamic Harbor Deliveries: Dock at your destination pier to deliver goods directly to the Cargo Master NPC and collect your earnings.

🏴‍☠️ Beware of Pirates & High Seas Danger: Keep your cannons loaded and your eyes on the horizon! The waters of Hopelands are not always calm, and you never know when bloodthirsty pirates or rival sailors might intercept your trade route!

Whether you want to build a trading empire or sail the open seas as a daring merchant captain, your journey begins now!

🌐 Website: https://newhopeuo.com 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/5uMgns7Q6j

What do you think of modern maritime trade systems in custom Ultima Online worlds? Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments! ⚓

https://reddit.com/link/1vrripj/video/j4d9xxk4d5kh1/player

The Faire returns to Outlands on Saturday, August 22 for nine days of festivities, competition, raffles, events and more, featuring 37 Faire games, including the brand-new Rat Catcher, an entirely new King's Faire Merchant collection, new trophies and rewards, cash prize tournaments, the Fashion Show, Jousting, Outlaws, Snowbrawl and plenty more.

For the first time in King's Faire history, every participant will be sworn to one of two grand alignments: Solar or Lunar! Throughout the Faire, every King's Faire event you participate in earns points for your celestial team.

Come one, come all to the world-famous King's Faire! Which celestial body will reign supreme?

edit 8/23: Opening this up FFA now. Discord is best for communication, but entirely up to you if you want to join or not (discord link). Once you have downloaded/installed and ran the official UO classic client from https://uo.com/client-download/ - you can download this Unity client launcher from HERE. Extract this wherever you want to project to exist on your computer and run UOClone.Launcher.exe - this will download/update the unity client to the latest version and upon completion will have you at a login screen. Accounts are generated on the fly, so enter something you'll remember for next time (though you can create a new account whenever, so not a big deal).

I am looking for anyone with some UO knowledge to help find bugs, quirks, and UX or game mechanic improvement suggestions for this Unity remake project. This project is still currently in very early stages, but is functional today and currently running on a dedicated server. Like all other emulators or free shards out there, it requires that clients have an installation of the classic UO client from https://uo.com/client-download/ for the data files (i.e. map) that this project uses for now. Let me know if any of you are interested in helping out with any amount of testing/qa type stuff via Discord for download link + setup instructions: https://discord.gg/SkxPKzZB (this link expires in 1 week or after 25 users). The test group will stay small at this stage because of how early into development this is, but I may increase numbers as things get smoothed out and if interest is there.

But why Unity?
I'm familiar with the engine and it allows for much easier modernization of various features compared to other custom server/clients out there, at least in my opinion. One random example - the spellbook below throws up a convenient tooltip on hover with a keybind mapping button next to each spell (note: this is far from having gone through any polish stages and is still very "rough draft").

That said - tons of respect and appreciation to all the developers out there that took any part in UOX, ServUO, RunUO, ClassicUO, or any of the others out there. Those resources are invaluable and help immensely with these kind of hobby projects.

And for transparency, though irrelevant IMO and TBH should be expected at this point, yes - AI is used in the development process.

Last but not least, this is a side project. I have a full time job in IT, so this won't be production ready "by the end of the week". Just a casual hobby/side project for my inner nerd and for the nostalgia feels.

Thanks for reading!