Publish 38
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 38 on December 16, 2005.
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)
- New Quests - BNN - Meanings
Primary 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
Updates
Update 1
On January 20, 2006, the following was published:
- Pub38 damage cap now works correctly
- Christmas Tree deeds will no longer decay if left locked down in a house for over 7 days
- Fixed an issue where Christmas Tree deeds could not be picked up in certain cases
- Improved the Aminia werewolf spawner
- Addressed server stability issues