Publish 50
From UOGuide
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 50 on February 14, 2008.
General Changes and Fixes
- Frenzied Whirlwind now does more damage: 20 - 50 per strike
- Bag of Sending fixed to handle items' weight ranges properly:
- 1 - 10 stones cost one charge
- 11 - 20 costs two, etc.
- Broken quest chains can now be resigned from properly
- Fixed bug where NPCs at the New Haven dock could block escort quests
- Fixed bug where player can become stuck when trying to leave the Dark Knight challenge
- Salvage bag: No longer creates overweight situations
- Salvage bag: Recycles cloth without problems when multiple items exist in the bag
- Salvage bag: Recovered resources will now stack appropriately
- Removed monster firecrackers and particle effects on death
- Blackrock elementals will not be a factor in your Valentine's Day mining activities
- Disabled Halloween trick or treating
- Disabled pumpkins from spawning
- Magincia: Travel spells reenabled
- Magincia: Permanent teleporters set up between Trinsic and Magincia (near the docks on each), both on solid ground
- The New Haven moongate (southwest of the city) received worldbuilding updates, and a guard zone
- Fixed an exploit where Champ Spawns can be guardwhacked
Runic and BoD changes
- Changed all Blacksmithing and Tailoring runic intensities. Runics will now better match up to higher end loot. Maximum intensities are now 100% for all tailoring and blacksmithy runics, minimums are as follows:
- Blacksmithing:
- Dull Copper: was 10, now 40
- Shadow: was 20, now 45
- Copper: was 25, now 50
- Bronze: was 30, now 55
- Gold: was 35, now 60
- Agapite: was 40, now 65
- Verite: was 45, now 70
- Valorite: was 50, now 85
- Tailoring:
- Spined: was 20, now 40
- Horned: was 30, now 45
- Barbed: was 40, now 50
- Increased chance for GM smiths to get a hued BOD: +20% at 110 skill, +40% at 120 skill
- Increased chance of receiving a Valorite BOD
- Large footwear BODs should now be available in hues
- BODs now have a 10 second wait time between turnins
- NPCs now vocally acknowledge a BOD turnin
- Fixed an issue where the Damage Increase property on runic-crafted weapons was occasionally being dropped
Creature Changes and Fixes
- Creatures now give double meat resources in Felucca (except Siege and Mugen)
- Certain Dragons have been buffed; they are now more powerful than Cu-Sidhe, Reptalons, or Hiryus but take 5 control slots
- Ancient Wyrms now even more dangerous and powerful
- Harrower resists and weapon skills slightly lowered
Valentine's Day Content
- Gift box spawns on characters older than 30 days
- Added three new books of poetry
- Added new NPC to sell books of poetry, called "Francis the Chapman" inside the Britain Conservatory
- Rare pink bunnies will now spawn in a few hues throughout the land. Extremely rare purple bunny may make an appearance
- Added four new "Stuffy Animals" that can be snuggled with at home
- Added new Valentine's Day cards, in softer pastel pinks and whites. Several new messages
- Added dark, milk, and white chocolates
- New park area built around the Yew Waterfalls
- Added a new Chocolatiering branch to the Cooking skill (Known Issue: the new chocolates only appear on the Cooking menu in 2D)
- Added new chocolate ingredients that spawn on paragon monsters
- Live event content
Updates
Update 1
On February 20, 2008, the following was published:
- Salvage Bags should now return the correct amount of leather and cloth
- Fixed an exploit
