Publish Notes from 2005-11-03

Publish 37 Additions, Changes, and Fixes

UO Team 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST

Publish 37, 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 37.

General

• Reverted the hunger system back to the way it worked prior to Mondain's Legacy
• Party looting will now be off by default
• Elves no longer lose their 20 points of mana gained from their racial ability when they cross a server line
• Players who have not upgraded to Mondain's Legacy now have the correct menu options when using a hairstylist.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused Elves with certain types of hairstyles to lose their hair
• Sea serpent scales are no longer mislabeled as dragon scales in certain situations
• You can now rename ship keys again. To do this, double-click the key and then target it
• All characters on the account that placed a vendor can now fully customize it
• Fixed an issue that limited the number of kegs that could be put on a vendor
• Players can no longer trade items directly from a vendor's pack
• Plant security settings now work properly
• Fixed a few issues that caused the Rose of Trinsic to not always produce a petal every 4 hours in certain situations
• Hearth of the Home Fire now displays its name correctly
• Objects with the same hue as frostwood will no longer display the item property “frostwood”
• Re-deeded spinning wheels now display their orientation correctly
• Talisman of Fey can no longer be bonded to players
• Spellweaving spellbooks no longer use lockdown slots for each spell they contain
• Elementals spawned by Gargoyle Pickaxes are now hued
• Players can no longer give a Lucky Necklace to an NPC jeweler
• Fixed an issue that caused the small urn to act like a container when items were placed on it
• Thrasher's Tail no longer acts as a flax bundle
• Runebooks now display the correct sextant coordinates
• Replaced the “W” was missing from the longitude coordinate in runebooks in the 2D client
• Players can now see their paperdoll title when in animal or monster form
• The Wild Staff can no longer be used to cut up animal corpses
• Fixed a misspelling with Sculptor NPCs
• The chat window no longer closes when you cross a server line
• The chat window now minimizes instead of closing when you die
• Throwing an Arcane Focus in the trash now removes the Arcane Focus script from your character. Characters that had this script permanently attached to them before are now fixed.
• The Cu'Sidhe can no longer be tamed by Necromancers unless they have the appropriate taming ability
• Players are no longer able to recall to a boat placed in T2A Felucca, unless the player is already in T2A
• Bandages from the Fountain of Life now work with the Veterinary skill
• Various server stability and other back-end fixes

Quests

• Escort NPCs can now follow players through gates to different facets
• Fixed an issue with doing escorts to Ocllo
• Object timers now update correctly when you log out
• A timer has been added to the quests Message in a Bottle and Waiting to be Filled so that players cannot retake these quests repeatedly
• The Broken Shaft quest now asks for arrows instead of fukiya darts
• New characters who start as ninjas are now correctly told to equip their tekagi instead of their shuko during the Mongbat Quest

Crafting / Craftables

• Wooden clubs are now craftable and enhancable
• Commodity deeds now display what type of wood they contain
• All versions of the Radiant Scimitar can now be repaired and enhanced
• Crafting boards out of rare wood with "do not color" toggled will no longer result in plain boards
• Ring mail Gloves can now be smelted
• Smelting ore when your backpack is overWeight no longer causes the produced ingots to drop to the ground
• Fixed an issue that caused certain craftable artifact weapons to occasionally receive properties with 0 intensity
• Egg bombs can now be made with bags of flour
• Boards crafted from Frostwood no longer have a chance of receiving Spell channeling on them
• Elven Reading Chairs now display their name properly when they have been turned
• Clothing bless deeds now work on male and female kimonos

Combat

• Fixed an issue that caused tamers to not always highlight properly when flagged as an aggressor
• Riding Swipe now properly damages mounts
• Riding Swipe now works properly on Hiryus
• Disarm now works properly on Ornate Axes, War Cleavers and Crooks
• Corrected older Ornate Axes to do about the same amount of damage as new ones
• The Hit lower defense property on Mace and Shield reading glasses now works as intended
• The 10% damage bonus on the Quiver of Infinity now works as intended
• Recovered arrows no longer go into a player's backpack when the Quiver of Infinity is equipped
• Using the Quiver of Elements and Consecrate Weapon at the same time now applies the correct amount of damage
• You can now place arrows into a quiver that already has arrows in it
• Quivers now display the number of arrows remaining in them on their tool-tip
• Faction traps now show what faction they belong to
• Faction trap removal kits now show how many uses they have left
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to get stuck in Vampiric Embrace
• Players can no longer use incognito or body paint while in vampire form
• Ninja mirror images will now appear as the correct color
• Blue mirror images now flag grey when their owner flags grey to a murderer
• Players now do 1 point of damage to Golems with every hit of a 100% poison weapon

Pets

• Players lacking the required amount of real skill (skill level before jewelry bonuses) to bond with their pet will now receive a message informing them of this
• Fixed an issue that would cause certain types of pets to lose hitpoints when they crossed a server line
• Pack animals that go wild now drop their owner's items they were holding into special bag on the ground.
• Players can now stable the Imprisoned Dog
• The Imprisoned Dog no longer imitates invisible players
• Fixed an issue that could cause a pets hit points to be reset if their strength was at its cap and the pet got blessed.
• Pets that have been polymorphed now correctly use the player's veterinary skill to heal the pet, instead of the player's healing skill
• Fire Beetles are no longer colored to dead players in the 2D client
• Pet parrot perches now automatically lock down when placed inside of houses

Dungeon / Map

• Fixed an issue that caused a spiked trap to continually spawn in one location in the Citadel dungeon
• Ilshenar minor artifacts no longer drop from ML monsters
• Reduced the chances of receiving a minor artifact from Mondain's Legacy Mini-bosses.
• Young players are now warned in the hallway leading into the Doom dungeon that they are not safe, rather than once they drop into the hole.
• Paragon Golems no longer spawn in the dungeon of Wrong
• Paragon Golems now spawn less frequently in Ilshenar
• Marble Stairs no longer drop from Paragon Golems
• Changelings in Twisted Weald no longer go to inappropriate areas
• Changelings will now return to their changeling body type as appropriate
• Jukan Warriors no longer say stRange things when using paralyzing blow
• The Prism of Light ticket is now destroyed when it is placed on the ground
• Fixed an issue that caused some Orc Brutes to not carry loot
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed Paroxysmus to teleport players to a location where they could get stuck
• Fixed a stuck location in the Palace of Paroxysmus
• Fixed the "No dest Object Variable found bark when crossing a teleporter in Wind
• Removed a treasure chest spawn that could block narrow passage ways in Hythloth
• Fixed a rubber banding issue at a Delucia cave entrance
• Fixed a few lava tiles in the lava river in the Fire Dungeon
• Added a teleport tile onto a roof in the Fire dungeon that previously would cause a player to be stuck up there
• Fixed a Dungeon of Destard stuck location
• Fixed a Trammel / Felucca stuck location near a cliff
• Added the missing half of an island in Trammel / Felucca
• Fixed various missing water tiles in Trammel / Felucca
• Repaired the upper section of the city walls near the Warrior's guild in Serpent's Hold
• Adjusted the doors in Serpent's Hold Stables so they are no longer hang off center
• Removed a section of plaster wall near the Assassin's Guild in Buc's Den that shouldn't have been there
• Bowyers will now spawn in the bowyer shop in Yew

Client

• Improved the way object handles display names
• Tracking arrow now lines up better with target in 2D client
• The sounds slider bar in the options menu now works correctly
• Ambient jungle sounds no longer persist when you leave the jungle
• Players and creatures will no longer disappear when a frame of animation cannot be found. This change addresses several issues such as:
  • Players horse disappears when they are net fishing while mounted
  • Parrot disappears when it squawks
  • Player disappears while lumberjacking in Horrific Beast form (2D client)
• Fixed a few spots in Ilshenar that were too dark
• Fixed a trailing issue for players riding beetles while wearing a wizard's hat
• Revenants will now correctly display the equipment they are wearing
• Fixed an issue where the party looting rights toggle did not always display the correct information
• The Abattoir house add-on no longer disappears when the OmitBlood option is enabled.
• The skills list now closes correctly when you hit the back button during character creation
• Fixed an art issue on the Elven Wash Basin (south)
• Tall Elven Beds no longer clip second floor tiles
• Flowered hairstyle now has a flower in 3D client
• Carpets now show up correctly on the 2nd floor of the Britain Library
• Characters who equip a repeating crossbow no longer have a black dot show up on their forehead in their paperdoll
• Fixed a clipping issue with Leaf Tonlets in 3D client
• Gold no longer falls through certain floor tiles
• Spiked hair no longer clips through certain helmets
• Mounted player no longer sits to the side of a Cu Sidhe
• String of Shells is no longer visible through upper floors when placed on a lower floor
• Fixed windowed wall tiles that weren't aligned correctly
• Gauntlets of Valor no longer disappear while wearing a robe in 3D client
• Elven Pants and Leaf Leggings now fit better with older clothing such as thigh boots in 2D client
• Trimmed down the Elven Pauldrons – made them more slim fitting so that they conceal better under jackets in 2D client
• Help menu text is now less bright is 3D client
• Fixed an issue with the Bed of Nails that caused clipping to occur if it was placed too close to other items
• Adjusted the height of the bark roof x intersection
• The Wizard's Hat no longer leaves a trail when worn by a player riding a beetle
• The Flowered Hairstyle now displays a flower in the 3D client
• Added legs to Ornate Elven Tables

Pub37 Exploits / Other Issues

• Making cloth from a loom can no longer overload a player with a full backpack
• Chopping house add-on deeds can no longer overload a player with a full backpack
• Players can no longer be in animal form before they change races
• Non-Faction characters can steal a city faction sigil by summoning a horde minion familiar
• Using a DoT on a player that changes into the serpent animal form will no longer keep poisoning the victim.
• Stacked items are no longer able to be split while on a vendor
• Players can no longer teleport onto stools
• The Shimmering Effusion waiting room is now considered a boss fight region
• The area around the teleporter in the Travesty room is now a boss fight region
• Interred Grizzles will no longer continually spawn indefinitely in the Bedlam Dungeon.
• Gauntlet Bosses will now attack "Young" players
• Fixed an exploit that caused pets only take up 1 control slot
• Players can no longer store large quantities of resources cheaply on player ran vendors
• Barrels and over-loaded containers no longer allow players to use vendor as storage space
• Containers weight no longer overflows if the container exceeds 65535 stones
• You are no longer able to use items that are on a stabled pack animal
• Dyed ninja belts can no longer be cut for rare colors and spined, horned, and barbed leather
• Logging out of the client no longer resets the timer for planting green thorns
• Area of Effect magery spells no longer damage targets that should be out of sight
• Removed the ability for players to get underneath a pond in Felucca
• Ninja mirror images will now appear as the correct color
• Blue mirror images now flag grey when their owner flags grey to a murderer
• Familiars will no longer attack old targets causing the owner to become criminal
• Players are no longer able to dye secured bags in someone else's house
• Players can no longer dye reward statues that are locked down
• Ethereal mount statues now work properly if a player dies while summoning it
• Faction traps are no longer stackable in one tile
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to obtain golden skulls easily
• Fixed a few areas in the new dungeons that allowed players to attack creatures with UO:ranged weapons and spells without being attacked
• Elves that use savage tribal paint no longer appear as humans and display helms they are wearing as normal human instead of modified elven helmets
• Players can no longer teleport under the lake in Destard

ERT Fixes

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to place items on other players
• Peerless boss teleport items now display which facet they can be used in if they are for dungeons in Trammel or Felucca