Publish 16

Source : http://update.uo.com/design_424.html

This document is a compilation of miscellaneous changes and bugfixes found in Publish 16, as a list of links to the major system changes found in Publish 16.

The following are links to full documents on systems that were changed or added in Publish 16:

• Pub 16 Tailoring Bulk Order Deeds
• Pub 16 Barding Changes
• Pub 16 Taming Changes
• Pub 16 Changes to Felucca
• Pub 16 Housing Ownership Changes
• Pub 16 Guaranteed Gain System
• Pub 16 Justice Virtue
• Pub 16 Siege Perilous Ruleset Changes

Resource and Crafting Changes

• Several new rewards have been added to the Blacksmith’s bulk order system.
  • Prospector’s Tool.
  • Powder of Temperament.
  • Blacksmith Scrolls of Power
  • Gargoyle’s Pickaxe.
• Blacksmith bulk order system changes include:
  • The reward value for items with an exceptional requirement has been increased.
  • Large bulk orders will now be received for sets of weapons.
  • Grandmaster smiths will now have a greater chance of getting bulk order deeds with color requirements.
• Players will now be able to collect the following new stackable resource types.
  • Spined, Horned, and Barbed leather
  • Bones
• Players with an appropriate amount of tailoring skill will now be able to craft bone armor.
• Players on shards with Siege Perilous or IGR rulesets will now be able to receive bulk order deeds.
• Armor crafted with colored ore now yields better armor ratings the more rare the ore type.

Evil-in-a-Can Changes

• Champion status shrines to display progress in defeating champion spawns
• Addition of an undead creature group to defeat
• New, dynamic, Felucca spawn locations in dungeon and Lost Lands servers
• Ability to summon the "The Harrower" (super-champion monster)
• New paperdoll titles
• "Champions of Evil" boss monsters will carry Scrolls of Power (see Scrolls of Power below)

Changes to Combat

• Unarmed "to-be-hit" changes (chance to get hit while unarmed is now the better of either Wrestling skill, or an average of Anatomy & Evaluate Intelligence).
• Players will no longer be able to "run away" from arrows/bolts.
• The dexterity stat will no longer affect at what point in the swing animation a hit or miss occurs.
• Mace weapons will now do less damage to armor than before (but still more than other weapon types).
• Staff weapons will do the extra stamina damage that "true" maces do (they still do not get the extra armor damage that "true" maces get).
• The damage done by the earthquake spell has been increased.
• The 8th circle summoning spells will now have a normal spellcasting delay.
• Purple potions deal extra damage based upon the thrower's alchemy skill.
• Ethereal mounts will now have a 3-second "summoning" delay.
• Bolas will now deal damage when successfully dismounting their target.
• Bolas will no longer require the tactics skill to use.
• NPC archers will no longer be able to shoot from outside the normal range.
• Player "bones" will now follow the same rules as player corpses for being looted.
• Players will no longer be able to cut up the bodies of players' characters.
• Red characters will not be able to gain Virtue, or use any Virtue abilities.
• A character that joins a faction no longer receives a reprieve on his murder counts.

Changes to New-Player Quests

• A new “quest button” has been added to notify the questor of any quest status changes.
• All quest text has been refined, shortened, and updated with links to the Codex of Wisdom.
• Several quest steps have been improved and/or simplified.
• Quest monster AI has been improved.
• All quest gumps have been visually and functionally improved.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Furniture dye tubs will now be usable by appropriate players when locked down or when in that player’s backpack.
• “Young” characters will no longer be able to travel to Felucca. Young characters logging into Felucca will be sent to Trammel.
• Each skill that has its cap increased beyond 100 (which will be achievable with Skill Scrolls of Power) will display its new current maximum appropriately (i.e. using a +10 Provocation Scroll of Power will change that skill’s displayed maximum from 100 to 110).
• The bounty system will be removed.
• Vet Reward banners, Holiday trees, and Flaming Heads can no longer be locked down. These items do not need to be locked down to keep them from decaying.

Bug Fixes

• Sandstone houses will no longer have a “hole” in one of the wall segments.
• Items should no longer “fall” through the steps of a log cabin.
• All items that can be used for crafting will list their number of remaining charges.
• A bug that could result in players being alive on one subserver and dead on another has been fixed.
• Players will now receive a message when the archprotection spell fails to take effect on a target in range.
• Stablemasters will no longer spam the names of their inventory when the stablemaster is created.
• Bolas will now properly dismount players on Unicorns, Ki-rins, and Ethereal Mounts.
• Players will no longer be able to use items that are stored on stabled pack animals.
• Some misleading messages in the new-player tutorial area have been fixed.
• A bug that allowed players to enter houses they were banned from has been fixed.
• Players accepting a guild war invitation will now receive the correct message.
• Gypsies in Illshenar will no longer report incorrect inventory descriptions.
• Players will no longer be able to steal from Guards.
• A bug that could prevent locked-down forges from working correctly has been fixed.
• Thread will now work correctly when used on a loom.
• Players will no longer be able to use items of teleportation to gain unauthorized access to faction strongholds.
• Forges will now play the appropriate sound under all conditions.
• Some vague Bulk Order Deed text has been clarified.
• Players will no longer be able to use health potions unless they are damaged.
• Items that are un-equipped while the wearer is already at their item limit (125 items) will drop to the ground.
• Various erroneous system messages have been fixed.
• Players killed by guards will have their hit points set to zero under all circumstances.
• Players will no longer be able to gain the snooping skill by using the skill on barkeeps.
• Treasure chests will no longer appear below ground level or upon invalid terrain.
• Players with over 100.0 mining skill will be able to use mining specialization books.
• Various “rares” that were improperly renamed to seem like normal items will regain their proper “rare” names.