Publish 46
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 46 on August 10, 2007.
Preliminary Publish Notes
- Changes to support new crafting menu
- Changes to support new "Target by Resource Type" macro - this macro will mine/chop the selected resource type from any node within range.
- Added TC4 PvP changes with the following tweaks:
- Enchanted Apples and Grapes of Wrath no longer affect hunger
- Grapes of Wrath now last 20 seconds and have a 2 minute cooldown
- Fractional values of meditation will now count towards mana regen
- Nervestrike para chance now scales with bushido skill from a 50% chance at 50 skill to a 90% chance at 120 skill. Damage is also randomized from the current damage amount down to damage - 10.
- Added "eating" animation
- Snow leopards should be properly white
- Jewelry vendors will now buy silver bracelets from players
- The Dark Knight Challenge is now active! Cast "recall" on the rune the Dark Knight gave you to be teleported to his lair, where he will challenge all comers one at a time. You will be teleported into the arena within 30 seconds or when your turn arrives, whichever is soonest. Be sure to prepare, because you can only answer his challenge once every three days!
- Wood and ore nodes now have a chance to randomly respawn with different resource types.
- Players can no longer remain hidden while mining or lumberjacking
- The "Follow" macro will now bring up a targeting cursor
- Community Collection gumps should no longer be blank
- Fixed issue with movement being choppy/laggy
Updates
Update 1
On August 11, 2007, the following was published:
- Disabled the KR "Target by Resource" macro to fix issues with interacting with house signs, player vendors, boats, and certain other objects.
Update 2
On August 24, 2007, the following was published:
- (KR) Fixed Stat lock buttons
- (KR) "Target by resource" macro has been re-enabled
- Fixed Stonecrafting to recognize normal granite
Update 3
On September 25, 2007, the following was published:
- A number of interesting and useful items will now drop in the anti-virtue dungeons of Britannia. The items will drop using the Treasures of Tokuno drop system (meaning the more you kill, the more likely it is that you will get one of these items as a drop.)
- Katrina's Crook
- Jaana's Staff
- Dragon's End
- Sentinel's Guard
- Lord Blackthorn's Exemplar
- Helm of Spirituality
- Gorget of Honesty
- Breastplate of Justice
- Arms of Compassion
- Gauntlets of Valor
- Legs of Honor
- Solaretes of Sacrifice
- Ankh Pendant
- UO Logo Sculpture
- Map of Britannia
- All characters more than 30 days old will recieve some anniversary goodies in their backpacks or bank boxes. (Should you not have room to accept the goodies, you'll get a warning when you log in, and the gifts will be deposited on a following login.)
Update 4
On October 3, 2007, the following was published:
- You will get less credit towards the new dungeon drops if you are hidden when the monster you are fighting dies.
- You will get no credit if you are more than 16 tiles away from the monster when it dies.
- Fixed an issue where Virtue Armor set pieces could have negative resists once unequipped
- Fixed a display issue with the Virtue Armor set self-repair bonus (it was displaying 20 self repair - however, self repair is capped at 5. The set will now display 5 self repair )
Update 5
On October 18, 2007, the following was published:
- Gareth, the quest giver for the Cloak of Humility quest, was relocated to Trinsic
- Players that are logged in Magencia will be teleported safely to the Trinsic docks of their facet
- Players will be unable to gate, recall, or Sacred Journey to Magincia
- Fixed issue that caused the virtue set helm to reset its resists to the base values when the full suit was being worn.
- Fixed the bug where certain stealable items could not be locked down causing players to lose these items (Doom Artifacts)
- Fixed an issue where players were getting IGR timer errors and getting disconnected
- Players with bushido skill should now be able to bond with lesser hiryus.
- Added double dragon scale resources in Felucca. Siege ruleset shards do not benefit from this change.
- Oil cloth should now properly remove poison from weapons
- Newly spawned quest mobs can no longer be charmed with the dryad allure spell.
- Made the event-related firefields do more damage 5-7 instead of 3 damage
- Trick or Treating is back!
- Pumpkins are once again spawning in patches all over Britannia
- Boats abandoned in Magincia will randomly catch fire and sink if no one is around