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WARNING: Salvage Bags

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:15:28 GMT

Posted at UOHerald:
Jeremy Dalberg
27 Nov 2007 16:52:10

DO NOT store ingots in your salvage bag while smelting items - there is a possiblity you will lose the stack of ingots. This will be fixed shortly.

(Storing cloth in the salvage bag will simply get it cut into bandages, so... don't do that if you don't want bandages.)

Additional Server Publish Notes

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:11:53 GMT

Posted at UOHerald:
Jeremy Dalberg
27 Nov 2007 15:31:48 EST

UPDATED 11/27 12:30: One more note:

- On Siege Perilous rulesets, all items of clothing that have higher than normal resists - including artifacts, museum pieces, and randomly-generated items with bonus resists or magic properties - will not be able to be blessed with a Clothing Bless Deed. All currently blessed items will become unblessed, and the CBD will be placed in the players' backpack

There were a number of changes that didn't get listed on last night's server publish - all the notes below the cut are in addition to the previously posted notes:

- Upgraded loot for legacy and Samurai Empire high end monster loot, to more closely match Mondain’s Legacy monster loot. This affects mostly boss monsters, but has some impact on other high end monsters as well.

- Solen powder quest now rewards 4-5 powder.

- Bags of sending now use 1 charge per 10 stones of weight, rounded up. (15 stones would use 2 charges, for example)

- Significantly buffed up the Felucca champ spawn bosses.

- Increased the chance to get better power scrolls from champ spawn bosses.

- Increased the chance to get better items as loot from champ spawn bosses.

- Lowered Dread Spider difficulty.

- Lowered Dread Spider loot to match new difficulty.

- Swoop has been buffed.

- Faction stone now checks to make sure that a character is 30 days or older before allowing them to join a faction. Existing characters that are less than 30 days old are forced to quit factions when they log on.

- "Young" characters and characters less than 30 days old can no longer use faction stones or faction recruiting stones.

- Players can no longer invite a character less than 30 days old to a faction guild.

- Fixed a bug with the Tsuki Wolf that was preventing it from dropping the correct loot

KNOWN ISSUES:

- The chance to get a powerscroll from protection is less than it should be.

- Champ bosses are regenerating HP too fast.

- Champ boss resists are a bit too high in some cases.

- Champ boss HP is a bit too high in some cases.

- Swoop is quite a bit more powerful than intended

Server Publish

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:05:53 GMT

Posted at UOHerald:

All Servers to be Published
Jeremy Dalberg
26 Nov 2007 17:29:57 EST
All servers will be published with the following during their next available maintenance:

Added the Salvage Bag:

The Salvage Bag is the core of the enhanced recycling system. Players store items in the bag like any other container, but when a recycle command occurs, they target the bag to handle all the items at once.
Layout:
- a blue leather bag labeled "A Salvage Bag"
- Available on Provisioners for a nominal (~1000gp) fee
Details:
- Use the context menu on the bag to select "Salvage Ingots", "Salvage Cloth", or "Salvage All"
  - All items of the appropriate type in the bag (metal for smelting, cloth for scissoring) are recycled into their resources
  - The player gets a message containing number of items successfully recycled

Killing bosses in Doom will increase your chances of getting an artifact drop:

Killing bosses in Doom will increase your chances of getting an artifact drop:
Each player character participating against a gauntlet boss or the Dark Father will accumulate artifact reward points.
The more artifact reward points a player character accumulates, the more likely an artifact will spawn in his/her backpack.
Player characters who score higher on the Top Attacker list will earn more points. However, everyone in the Top Attackers list that stays the entire duration of the combat (even if slain) will still earn points.

Moved the New Haven moongate closer to town

Fixed bug that caused 2d chat name selection window to pop up when logging in/crossing server lines

Fixed bug that caused karma loss before selecting a target when begging

Begging will now reduce your karma less if you fail

Resist Spells will now allow you to reduce some damage from Blood Oath ((resist spellsx10)/20 + 10=percentage of damage resisted)

NPCs should cast Blood Oath less often

The KR client should perform more smoothly in high-latency situations

UO Patch Notes: 2D Client vers. 6.0.5.0

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:53:33 GMT

Posted to uoherald.com:

2D Client vers. 6.0.5.0
Jeremy Dalberg
20 Nov 2007 18:13:42

At 3:15PM PST (11:15PM GMT) on Tuesday, November 20, the 2D client will be updated to version 6.0.5.0. Notes after the jump:

Added decoration in many areas, including the Doom Gauntlet and Serpent's Hold

Updated clilocs

UO Patch Notes: KR Client vers. 2.48.0.3

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:46:28 GMT

Posted to uoherald.com:

Jeremy Dalberg
20 Nov 2007 18:13:22

At 3:15PM PST (11:15PM GMT) on Tuesday, November 20, the Kingdom Reborn client will be updated to version 2.48.0.3. Notes after the jump:

New Features:

Legacy Art Mode - enable this in Options: User Settings: Graphics, then restart the client to enable

Fully Moddable UI

Substantial number of client optimizations - should run much smoother now

Improved the guild UI

Added legacy container art - enable this in Options: User Settings: Graphics (no restart needed for this one)

Fixed a number of windows that weren't updating properly, including party window, pet window, draggable health bars, and more

The item properties "blessed" "blessed for playername" and "insured for playername" are

now colored blue for increased visibility

Macros" and "Actions" are two separate items on the main menu

Improved the layout of the veteran rewards window

Improved the animal lore window

Polished spellbook window

Polished char creation window

Improved npc vendor window

Empty slots on the paperdoll now have a tooltip telling you what goes in it

Removed the "add by ID" option in the friends list (since there's no way to find an ID, it was not usable)

Improved the art and functionality of the party window

Added a line to specify what the target is in the tooltip for a hotbar slot

Chat Improvements:

The default chat config now only has one tab with all chat in it

Added a "reset chat to default" option in settings

Added /r or /reply command to automatically reply to the last person to send you a /tell

tell now requires a comma after the player name (it will also handle multi-word names)

Shift-left clicking on a line of chat will copy it to the clipboard

Party, guild, alliance and faction messages will not show as overhead text

The chat context menus now has a color selection option for text color, overhead chat color, and chat window background color

Map Improvements:

added a settings:interface item to reset map icons to default

added 40 new icons for waypoints

waypoint icons on the map will show sextant coordinates when you mouse over them

UI Improvements and Fixes:

You can now target a player or creature by clicking the name over their head

Added a user settings option to use the mouse wheel for targeting - can choose target friendly or target enemy

Added stat hotbar icons - you can drag off icons from the stats window to your hotbar, where it will display the number of your stat. (mouseover the icon for the name of the stat)

Health, mana, and stamina stat icons will change when their value is under 10 - the weight icon will glow when you approach your weight limit

Added dual monitor support - the kr window can now be stretched across two monitors

Static objects (trees, etc) will now display their name when you click on them

If you have your bandages in your hotbar, a timer will count down when you use them, telling you how long it will be until the bandage is applied

Fixed a few bugs with tree foliage not fading correctly

When you drag a stack of items, the number of items will automatically be selected

skill icons in your hotbar will now show your skill points in their tooltip

Made toggle UI, screenshot, toggle circle of transparency, reload ui all configurable keybindings

Turn off hotbar page flipping if legacy chat is enabled (use shift 0-9 to change hotbars in legacy mode)

Players can now target items on ther hotbars, provided the item is in their backpack or equiped

Added a default targeting for spells, different spells now have a different default target instead of defaulting always to current target

Many macros can now be interrupted by the ESC key

General Fixes and Improvements:

Added decoration in many areas, including the doom gauntlet and serpent's hold

Shortened the hiryu's tail

Made giant beetle's beak shorter

Made ostards' tails shorter

Tweaked and added a number of creature graphics and animations

The skills available in Character Creation now match 2d

Items behind other items should be easier to select in freeform view

Tweaked appearance of trees to make them blend with the background less