Publish Notes from 2005-12-16

Publish 38 Additions, Changes, and Fixes

UO Team 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST

Publish 38, as with most game publishes, contains a number of game updates and bug fixes. This article contains an updated summary of the game improvements that will come about with Publish 38.

Features

• Siege / Mugen PBD fix
  • Players on the Siege Perilous and Mugen shards can now bless 1 item. Use the player's context menu to do this. All other shards are unaffected by this change.
  • Clothing with properties has been unblessed
• Combat changes
  • 35 damage cap for direct damage for PvP (no cap for PvM)
  • Word of Death now uses Chaos damage
  • All stats have been capped at 150
• Name and Gender Change Tokens
  • These tokens will allow players to change their character's name or gender
  • Players will purchase a code which will allow them to claim a name or gender change token
  • They'll go on sale in the near future (updates will be posted on Www.uo.com)
  • Codes will be sold at www.uogamecodes.com
• Christmas Trees can be placed
• Holiday Gift Boxes
  • Holiday Tree Deed- Will offer 2 different types of trees
  • Named Reindeer and Sleighs – These will feature the names of UO Team members (double-click to see the names)
  • Snow Globe – Will have different places than previous years
  • Soulstone Fragment – Because you simply can't get enough of these
• Players are no longer able to trade blessed items (this affects all shards)

Bug Fixes

• Vendor Rentals now display the proper time remaining
• Player's corpses now teleport out of a Peerless dungeon when players are kicked out after defeating a Peerless boss
• Weight no longer remains if gold is in 2 piles when tithed
• Plant resources now stack automatically
• Corpses of creatures that were flying at the time of death can now be looted
• Fixed a client crash involving character transfer
• Fixed a potential shard crashing bug
• Peerless Boss teleport items used in the wrong facet no longer take players to a bad location in certain cases
• Fruit bowls can no longer be consumed if a player is full
• Added the ability for the Dev team to create chain quests that are either repeatable or non-repeatable
• Players can no longer get stuck in a state where they can't fish anymore because they tried to fish while overWeight
• Players can now only open one quest gump at a time plus their quest log

Exploit Fixes

• • Players can no longer trade an equipped item if they have a full pack
  • It is no longer possible to get a pet inside of a bag through the use of an exploit
  • Fixed a bug that could cause rental vendors to drop their items under certain circumstances
  • Fixed an issue that could allow players to break into other players houses