UO:Publish Notes from 2017-04-26

Publish #		Publish 97 Final
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Publish 97 World Wide + Store Sale & Springtime Gifts

Posted on April 26, 2017 by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

Beginning with the Japanese shards this evening, all shards will be updated to Publish 97 with their regular maintenance by April 27, 2017.

Publish 97 is packed full of new features, most notably the much anticipated update to Animal Taming. You can read all about the new Animal Training features and check out the full list of changes in the Publish 97 wiki. We want to extend a very big thanks to everyone who helped test Publish 97 as well as those who sent in feedback. As always, please feel free to send us any feedback you have.

We are also pleased to announce that beginning April 27th, 2017 at 9am ET and continuing through May 4th, 2017 at 9am ET we are having a sale on Pet Bonding Potions in the Ultima Store – so stock up today for all your pet bonding needs!

Finally, as a welcome to the dawning of Spring, please visit Justice Falls to claim a special gift from the UO Team. The gift dispensers will be available beginning once all shards have been published with Publish 97 and will remain active until the displayed timer runs out.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish Notes

• First TC1 Release – 3/16/2017
• 2nd TC1 Release – 3/17/2017
• 3rd TC1 Release – 3/23/2017
• 4th TC1 Release – 3/31/2017
• 5th TC1 Release – 4/11/2017
• Final TC1 Release – 4/14/2017
• Origin, Izumo, & Baja – 4/18/2017
• Worldwide Release – 4/27/2017 (No documented changes from Publish 97 Updates 6 and 7)

Animal Training

New methods of Animal Training are now available. Visit in-game Town Criers for more information! Also visit the individual wiki pages on the Discovering Animal Training Quest, Animal Training, and Animal Training Abilities.

• Pets can now be trained beyond their current control slot requirements up to new maximums.
• Train pets in endless combinations of special abilities, special moves, area effects and magic schools.
• Customize skill caps and attributes to create new pet variants.
• All pet training is final and cannot be reverted.
• Visit Animal Trainers to embark on the “Discovering Animal Training Quest” to learn more about animal training, and earn the new title “Ethologist.”
• Pet Slot Update
  • Existing pets will retain their current control slot requirement.
  • Newly tamed pets and pets that undergo the Animal Training process will have their control slot requirement updated.
  • Control slot requirements for pets have been reworked to take variation within the species into account. It is now possible that creatures can have varying control slot requirements based on their overall power.
• Special Moves, Special Abilities, Magics, and Area Effects now require mana for pets to use.
• Various AI tweaks when those AIs are applied to pets.
• Animal Lore Update
  • Updated Animal Lore Gump to display all available skills, magic, special abilities, and new information related to Animal Training.
• New Tameable Creatures
  • Shadow Wyrm
  • Phoenix
  • Dimetrosaur
  • Gallusaurus
  • Saurosaurus
  • Serpentine Dragon
  • Najasaurus
  • Dread Spider
  • Tsuki Wolf
  • Dragon Wolf – found guarding Level 6 treasure chests in all facets except Ter Mur
  • Frost Drake – found guarding Level 6 treasure chests
  • Frost Dragon – found guarding Level 7 treasure chests in Trammel or Felucca
  • Palamino Horse – found in the Second Age
  • Sabre-Toothed Tiger – found in the Valley of Eodon
  • Triceratops – found in the Valley of Eodon
  • Lion – found in the Valley of Eodon
  • Blood Fox – found in Ilshenar
  • Frost Mite – found in Tokuno
  • Ossein Ram – found in Deceit
  • Platinum & Crimson Drakes
    • Platinum & Crimson Drakes spawn in various locations throughout Felucca, Trammel, Ilshenar, Malas, & Eodon.
      • Destard, Montor, Ice Dungeon, Umbra, and the Kotl City
      • Platinum & Crimson Drakes spawn in colors related to the type of damage they deal.
  • Stygian Drakes spawn in various locations throughout the Stygian Abyss.
    • Stygian Drakes spawn in a variety of rare hues and deal physical damage.
• The following pets now have a chance to spawn in rare hues,
  • Snow Leopard
  • Frost Spider
  • Nightmare
  • White Wyrm
  • Giant Toad

Miscellaneous Changes

• All pet damage is now reduced by 30% when targeting players.
• Added new option for the taming mastery ability “Combat Training” – As One, which allows pets to share damage while they are close to their master. Requires multiple pets to active.
• All creatures with Grandmaster and above wrestling now have a chance to parry.
• Skree AI has been updated.

Client Versions

• Classic – 7.0.58.12
• Enhanced – 4.0.58.12