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Patch Notes Archive (2012-2020)

The complete chronicles and development records of UO:Renaissance prior to Peace & Samorite taking over the server — preserved for posterity and community history.

📜 Historical Archive Notice: This compendium entry documents all 97 classic patch releases spanning the Alpha inception in May 2012 through Client Patch 3.4 in June 2020. Every change, bugfix, system addition, holiday event, and original developer screenshot has been extracted from the original forum archives and structured chronologically below.

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97 Total Releases 620+ Archived Images 8 Years of History

Key Milestones in Shard History

Patch 17 (Sept 2012)

Bulk Order Deeds & Virtues

Introduced the foundational Blacksmithing & Tailoring BOD systems, classic Virtue shrines, and core economic engines.

Patch 37 (May 2013)

Fishing Expansion & Ancient SOS

Vastly expanded maritime gameplay with sunken galleons, special fishing nets, sea monster variants, and Ancient MIB quests.

Patch 56 (Sept 2014)

Renaissance Achievements & CTF v2

Implemented the complete in-game Renaissance Achievement system with unique rewards, title scrolls, and revamped Capture the Flag arenas.

Client Patches (2019-2020)

ClassicUO & Modern Waterways

Restored Britannia waterways, modernized launcher architecture, updated Razor integrations, and prepared UOR for modern hardware.

Era 1: Alpha & Beta Foundations (May 2012 - Sept 2012)

Foundational development spanning the initial Alpha trials through the Beta testing period and public launch preparation.

#1 • Patch A1 - May 15th 2012: Housing/Character Creation Changes 📅 May 16, 2012 at 1:19 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Patch 1A Notes
Housing Changes
Updated all houses with T2A era lockdowns and secures.
Created relevant T2A secure/lockdown settings for UOR houses not available in the T2A era.
Updated the handling of secure containers to require 1 lock down versus 125.
Disabled item decay in houses.
Disabled items being locked down inside a container when you lock down the base container.
Current UOR Lockdown Secure Rules
Secures take 1 secure, 125 lockdowns
Secures are unlimited
Locked down containers hold unlimited weight, but require a lockdown for each item
Castle - 31 x 31 - 4076 Lockdowns
... and 40 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#2 • Patch A2 - May 19th 2012: Variety of Changes 📅 May 19, 2012 at 4:19 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Corrected the Bodyvalue for evil mages & evil mage lords
Blade spirits will now greater poison on hit
Energy vortex will now deadly poison on hit
Increased the delay frequency between firebreather's breath attack
Increased "sound-to-effect" delay on fire-breath
Damage delay from breath-attacks increased to 1.5s from 1.3s
Disabled necromancy spell-casting for all AI
Notoriety for corpses updated to reflect T2A mechanics
Notoriety for NPCs updated to reflect T2A mechanics. All NPCs are now vulnerable to attack, with exceptions for: Bankers / Architect / Player Vendor / Stable Master / Town Crier :: These NPCs well remain invulnerable
Dungeon Khaldun has been completely spawned
Resurrection disallowed inside dungeon Khaldun
Help/Stuck feature enabled for Felucca Dungeons
... and 14 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#3 • Patch A3 - May 20th 2012: Spell Logic /Housing Changes 📅 May 24, 2012 at 11:43 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Spell Casting Logic Changes
Enabled spell stacking (double explosions, magic arrow)
Enabled synchronized spell damage
Incresed explosion spell delay to 3.0s from 2.5s
Increased spell recovery delay after being disrupted while casting
Housing Changes
Updated strongboxes to 25 items, 400 stones max (Currently not working correctly)
Updated to allow owners to destory strongboxes of co-owners
Co-owners can only destory their strongbox.
Updated secures to only allow 400 stones when securing
Updated secures to disallow adding items over 400 stones
Updated lockdowns to no longer lock down additional items added.
... and 6 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#4 • Patch A4 - June 5th 2012: Skill/Housing/Chat Changes 📅 Jun 6, 2012 at 1:38 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Updated Taste ID to a 10 second delay from 1 second.
Updated Stealth to return 100% fail if AR is over 26
Removed AOS/ML details from the stealth skill
Updated Spirit Speak to 10 seconds per use
Updated Provocation from 5 seconds, to 10 seconds per use
Updated Arms Lore to 10 seconds from 1, per use.
Updated Animal Lore to 10 seconds from 1, per use.
Updated Detect Hidden to 10 seconds, from 6, per use.
Updated Discordance to 10 seconds, from 1, per use.
Updated Eval Int to 10 seconds, from 1, per use.
Updated Hiding to 10 seconds, from 1, per use.
Updated Inscription to 10 seconds, from 1, per use.
... and 26 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#5 • Patch A5: June 10th 2012 - Spell Notoriety, Keyrings, Boats 📅 Jun 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Spell Changes
Updated Arch Cure range to 10, AoE range to 3x3
Updated Paralyze Spell for a duration of 1 + Magery/20. 50% time reduction if resisted
Updated Mass Curse to an AoE range of 3x3
Updated the notoriety system to allow harmful AoE spells to be cast in town. (This also allows other harmful actions in town)
Updated the base notoriety engine to remove all AoS/Trammel/etc settings from affecting player vs player AoE damage.
Extensive update to housing, key rings, & housing regions to design a secure system allowing house owners, co owners, and friends to use keys when they are locked down inside of a house.
Re-write to how boards are handled in order to allow the use of special wood in rare crafting/quests.
Update to how leather armor is handled so that it displays the correct name.
Removed boat deeds from the shipwright vendor.
Created a new base item called ship plans.
Created 6 new items labelled ship plans to match the existing style of boats.
... and 5 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#6 • Patch B6: June 30th 2012 - my.uorenassiance.com, Beta Prep 📅 Jun 30, 2012 at 5:02 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

My.UORenaissance.com
Modified the system for pushing out external data in order to provide the relevant information for the website.
Updated the system in a variety of ways to improve the information exported and to allow for proper economy tracking.
Implemented extensive logging to watch for the abnormal creation of items by non standard means.
Create a complete webiste for player, guild and item tracking.
(Exploits and staff creations of items will be logged and tracked. Items will be created only by the game engine, not staff or exploits)
Developed an external program for monitoring the data stream from the server in order to perform these checks.
Implemented historical data archival to allow for historical graphs of major economy elements and item type history for all
World Economy and Historical Item Graph
Implemented a graphing system for each item type and the major economy items.
This will aid players in establishing and managing the economy in greater detail.
Updated taming initiation range to 8, terminal range for failure to 10.
... and 12 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#7 • Patch B7: July 8th 2012 - Corpse Changes, Misc 📅 Jul 9, 2012 at 1:13 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

My.UORenaissance.com
Continued the polish on the site with minor changes to various pages
Extensive update to the back end database to support improved charting
Added an improved charting function and implemented it for all virtual economy and item stats pages .
Created the framework for an achievement system
Updated taming initiation range to 5, terminal range for failure to 10.
Updated corpse decay rate to 7 minutes
Updated bones decay rate to 7 minutes
Updated corpses to show items & stones. Currently this shows for all corpses, however it will be updated to bones only in a future patch.
Updated bones to be flagged criminal in all situations.
Began work on removing the party changes that are causing loot instancing on corpses.
Minor change to Reactive Armor and Magic Reflection to disable the casting action should the spell be active or should the player still be in an active cooldown period.

#8 • Patch B8: July 16th 2012 - Website, Corpses, System Changes 📅 Jul 16, 2012 at 6:42 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

www.uorenaissance.com
Implemented our completely new combined website.
Converted all of the test my dot website pages to the new website format.
Scrapped the old www dot website design and converted its assets to the new style
Implemented an achievement system that is integrated with the my.uorenaissance.com website. To see the achievement list click here.
Achievements will be listed on your character profile page and are divided into three categories, combat, account and humorous.
The new website is now 99% compatible with all browsers, primarily designed for google chrome. Minor issues are still being worked on for Internet Explorer.
Updated BOD's to all have a 6 hour timer to obtain regardless of skill. Skill now only affects your chance to get a large BOD
Updated the Corpse code to remove the corpse instancing (gold being divided into multiple piles).
This should require some testing to make sure there are no oddities
Updated the name verification code to disallow control characters from player names. (".", "-","/")
Your name will be generic player if you create a character using one of these characters.
... and 5 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#9 • Patch B9: July 25th 2012 - Registration System, Misc Changes 📅 Jul 23, 2012 at 9:39 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

www.uorenaissance.com
Added an initial version of an interactive mapping utility for the Ultima World - Ultima Online World Map
Incorporated a test list of houses for testing purposes until the server goes live.
Once the server is live this website will show a current picture of all the houses on the server, updated every 30 minutes.
Renaissance Forums
Minor update to the forum settings for avatar and signature image size limits
Signature Images my only be 200 Pixels High, and 800 pixels wide
Avatar Images may only be 125 pixels high and 125 pixels wide.
Added an "Other" forum.
Enabled topic icons in the general discussion and trade forums.
Animal Taming
Adjusted the follower limit from 5 to 8. This is a deviation from the Renaissance era but allows for more balanced animal tamers.
... and 29 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#10 • Patch B10: July 30th 2012 - Factions, Website, Bug Fixes 📅 Jul 30, 2012 at 2:33 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

www.uorenaissance.com
Incorporated the faction details of Renaissance into the website.
Faction membership will now be displayed on the online list, character list, and character profiles.
A map of faction control is now accessible on our faction status page. This information is updated every 5 minutes to allow our players access to ingame faction control from the website. Faction Status (See Image Below)
Resolved some problems with links on various pages.
Updated the downloads list with our custom client that was designed by Telamon and Rammar. UOR Downloads
my.uorenaissance.com
Updated the existing system with a 3rd cycle to support some of our large scale exports, such as items and houses. This will allow us to slow down this process as the server grows while still keeping our status/faction/character information correct.
Created a system to cycle every 5 minutes that will export the faction and town control information.
Generated the faction system for the server.
Began initial testing of the faction system. A general guide on factions can be found here , however this is not exactly how factions will function on Renaissance.
Minor change to the way overland farmable items are spawned.
... and 11 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#11 • Patch B11: August 9th 2012 - Vendor Changes, Bug Fixes 📅 Aug 10, 2012 at 12:41 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

www.uorenaissance.com
Updated the faction status section to display the members of each faction, ordered by rank. True Brit Faction Page
Updated the character listing (online/offline) to show a related flag next to characters in factions. All Characters
Updated the UOR map to show a live feed of the houses placed in the Renaissance world. UOR World Map
Removed the faction tax rate system, as this system was designed for a trammel/felucca world and does not work in a single facet environment. This will be replaced with a new system in a future patch that is more relevant for a felucca only world.
Fixed a problem with the faction skill gain/loss on death messages not displaying correctly.
Extended the grace period for losing control of a faction sigil in which it can be reclaimed and the corruption timer be continued from 15 to 30 minutes.
Removed excess stamina drain when at low stamina
Allow shoving (and finishing movement) with minimum stam instead of zeroing it and not moving
Adjusted "shove" stamina loss to be dependent on strength.
Fixed a few messages related to followers and targeting.
Allowed players to go 4 stones overweight before they experience stamina drain.
... and 9 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#12 • Patch B12: August 13th 2012 - Item Stacks, Vendors, Misc 📅 Aug 13, 2012 at 12:31 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Adjusted the mechanism that handles how items react when they are dragged and dropped when originating from a stack of items.
Added origination item (item stack) tracking for bouncebacks.
This will make sure items return to their original stack should the drag action fail, keeping the items properly stacked and in the correct container.
Adjusted a few other minor situations regarding item handling in the core.
my.uorenaissance.com
Fixed a problem that would cause a status update to fail if a faction was missing a commander.
Fixed a minor problem causing the faction information for a character to not be exported correctly.
Fixed the problem where when dragging a stack of scrolls to a spellbook that would result in a failure to add the scroll to the book.
Dragging scrolls to a spellbook will now function properly regardless of how many scrolls you drag or if the book has the scroll in it already.
Updated the resource prices for a few additional vendors to proper Renaissance era levels.
Implemented a new formula in which tailoring goods will be calculated for value upon buying & selling to & from vendors.
Applied this formula to the Weaver and Tailor vendors.

#13 • Patch B13: August 24th 2012 - Core Update, Live Date Prep 📅 Aug 24, 2012 at 11:35 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Added a message when a player tries to access an out of range/sight item.
Fixed an error that allowed items to be accessed through walls without line of sight.
Minor updates to a variety of lore based skills to add a chance to gain the related stat linked to the skill.
Information about the chance to gain stats when using a skill can be found in the compendium under skills
my.uorenaissance.com
Minor update to the system that exports the online player list every 5 minutes to include guild ID's allowing for a more efficient and webserver friendly listing of guild members online.
Updated a variety of web pages to account for this new change.
Resolved a minor problem with the karma/fame information being flipped on the All Players and Online Players Lists.
Disabled the sorting features of those same lists until I have time to properly code them efficiently.
Minor update to the faction status exports to account for a faction not having a commander.
The Renaissance Compendium
Created a custom database based compendium as an alternative to a wiki for the shard.
... and 29 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#14 • Patch 14: Sept 1st 2012 - Line of Sight, Live Changes. 📅 Sep 2, 2012 at 2:20 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Fixed a problem with the dynamic region priority.
Continued work on the general problems with the RunUO LOS code.
The Land Rush, Housing
Applied the system that will control the release of land for players.
Created the initial zones of allowable housing that will be open as the server goes live.
Resolved a problem with the Mage AI resulting in the casting of the invisibility spell, generally wasting their mana.
Resolved a problem with monsters detecting, and engaging a player from a range of 16 tiles, when they were specifically given a correct range. Monsters become aware of players at a range of 10 tiles.
We initially did not think this was a problem, however on further research found an override in the RunUO code causing the issue of hyper aware monsters.
Adjusted HellCats, HellHounds, and Predator Hellcats so they now break items like all other monsters.
Adjusted a variety of monsters to no longer drop "young" treasure maps. They now drop the appropriate level maps that are usable.
Disabled the glacial staff spawn on ice serpents until the item completes our review process and is determined fit for addition.
Pet Bonding has been disabled while it is reviewed, and determined if it is fit for addition to Renaissance.
... and 28 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#15 • Patch 15: Sept 4th 2012 - LOS, Vendors Changes, Bug Fixes 📅 Sep 4, 2012 at 5:01 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Resolved a rare problem that would cause an item to bounceback into the ether should the original stack have been moved after the first player dragged a partial amount from the stack.
Updated the system in which stacks of items are combined, resulting in the items exceeding the 60k stack to be returned to their original location.
Before this patch, trying to combine 2 stacks of items exceeding 60k would fail. Now the any overage will be returned to the original location
Continued work on the general problems with the RunUO LOS code.
Rectified a problem with double messages being sent when attempting to travel to certain locations
Changed the spell functionality to enable proper travel functionality between the lost lands and Britannia.
Work still needs to be done to establish proper recall/gate functionality in certain dungeons in the lost lands.
Reverted the changes to the Mana Drain and Mana Vampire spells to the RunUO defaults, while the proper mechanics are researched.
This was done because the spells are not working properly, default resulting in extensive mana loss.
Updated the line of sight functionality on Key Rings, related to use and targeting.
Removed the restrictions for using key rings in certain containers.
Updated the line of sight functionality on Dyes.
... and 22 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#16 • Patch 16: Sept 7th 2012 - Minor Bugfix Patch 📅 Sep 7, 2012 at 1:35 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Fixed a problem with NPC's selling/buying shields at varying prices.
Fixed a problem with tongs being priced incorrectly on vendors.
Fixed a problem with a few prices on the tailor vendor.
Fixed a problem where Weaponsmiths and Weavers were not performing the proper skill checks for providing players with small/large bulk order deeds.
To qualify for a small bulk order deed you must have at least 70 skill. For a large you must have 85 skill.
Fixed a problem that was allowing zero stone items to be directly stolen.
These items can still be stolen from your base backpack but only in a random steal attempt.
Resolved a problem with the help system that would leave you stranded in trammel.
Resolved a problem that was causing crafted items to not inherit the proper hue from the material that was used to craft the item.
Updated Bulk Order Deeds to be a standard loot item rather than a blessed item.
Additional updates to further implement the anti afk gathering system.
After some initial testing the system has been activated for mining and lumberjacking.
... and 1 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#17 • Patch 17: Sept 12th 2012 - BOD's, Virtues, Lots of Fixes 📅 Sep 12, 2012 at 4:36 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Resolved a problem with our hosts QOS service that was not prioritizing the traffic on port 2593 to the game server at an elevated level.
This was resulting in short busts of 2-3 second lag during the communication between the game server and web server.
Added a missing 2 story house deed to the architect
Implemented a scaleback system for selling items to vendors
Vendors will slowly reduce the amount they pay for items when they are sold repeatedly to the vendor
Add a vendor transaction message that was missing
Anti AFK Gathering/Selling System
Resolved a problem with repeat checks after the first check
Improved logging of unattended activities for the staff review
Implemented a system of staff comments that integrates into the afk logging
Fixed a problem with monster loot on several Khaldun specific monsters.
Updated the loot type of a Golden Suit of Armor Deed to regular
... and 34 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

Era 2: Shard Launch & Server Maturation (Sept 2012 - Sept 2014)

Public launch, core systems rollout (BODs, Pet Bonding, Automated Events, Stonecrafting, Fishing Expansion), and the introduction of Renaissance Achievements.

#18 • Patch 18: Sept 20th 2012 - Events, Item & Skill Updates 📅 Sep 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Fixed a problem with the faction vendor list not showing the new combined faction vendor.
Bulk Order Deeds
Adjusted the cloth rewards for tailoring BOD's to provide the correct level of cloth based on the reward level. 100,80,60,40,20 yards respectively.
Resolved a problem with the 5 charge powder of fortification reward not being given correctly. Thanks Westra
Added some additional code clarifcation to the vendors that provide bulk order deeds to refine their reactions.
Adjusted the skill check for being offered a BOD to begin at 70.0 real skill.
Improved the functionality of the "Order Status" command so that vendors will check your timer and skill level and provide a related message.
Removed the ability to close the Bulk Order Offer gump on accident. You must now accept or cancel the offer.
Keep in mind cancelling does not mean the vendor will keep offering you bulk order deeds. You must wait another 6 hours.
Powder of Fortification
Updated way that the powder is applied to items to allow it to improve the maximum durability of items.
Updated the way in which it handles the current durability of an item to provide a small level of repair.
... and 63 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#19 • Patch 19: Sept 30th 2012 - Pet Bonding, Combat & Bug Fixes 📅 Oct 1, 2012 at 1:15 PM

🔗 Archived Forum Source: View Original Discussion Thread

Key Changes & Highlights:

Enabled Pet Bonding
Pets that require only 1 control slot can be bonded after 7 days of interaction with their master.
Players may only bond 1 pet per character.
To bond a pet you must have enough skill to control the pet.
To bond a pet that requires more than one control slot, you must feed your pet a special type of meat found on certain rare monsters.
Enabled a system of pet skill loss on resurrection.
Re-enabled stat-loss on successfully taming a creature as per the bonding system
Pet Feeding Changes
When feeding your pet the new "peculiar meat" you will see one of two messages.
"Your pet devours the food hungrily" means your pet still craves the peculiar meat.
"Your pet is very fond of you" means your pet is ready to bond with you.
Make sure you feed the peculiar meat to your pet one at a time.
... and 47 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#20 • Patch 20: Oct 12th 2012 - Automated Event System, Bug Fixes 📅 Oct 12, 2012 at 12:02 PM

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+ 3 additional original images available in forum archive.

Key Changes & Highlights:

Automated Event System - Phase 1
Automated Event Management
Created the framework of a system to manage all automated events on UO Renaissance.
Created a system to allow each event its own management system from a single interface.
Created a singular system of event functions allowing the for the rapid creation of automated events.
Created a master automation system for each event allowing for easy event initialization and scheduling.
Designed a master system for event logging allowing for event results to be sent from any event into the AES system resulting in it being displayed on the my.uorenaissance.com website.
Designed the initial framework of a system that will allow for linking of event trophies to that specific event results page on the website.
This will be fully implemented in phase 2
Designed a master system of death management during events to return a players items to their packs in the exact location that they were before they died.
Designed a master system for event rewards that can be adjusted ingame via this system
Event Signups
... and 60 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#21 • Patch 21: Oct 15th 2012 - Automated Event System Updates 📅 Oct 15, 2012 at 6:45 AM

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+ 1 additional original images available in forum archive.

Key Changes & Highlights:

Automated Event System
Continued the setup of the event signup area in the Britain chamber of virtues.
Expect to see additional event signup areas in Skara Brea, Trinsic, Bucs Den and Vesper in the following week.
Finished the setup of the event lobby allowing participants to relax is safety before and after events.
A banker and stable master are provided for your pre event preparations.
This will be a protected zone where you are safe from aggression and theft, however this area is only open before and after events. Players will not be able to idle in this area when events are not active.
After the event is completed you will have 5 minutes to collect your mount and leave through one of the exit gates.
After 5 minutes you will be ejected to either britian or buc's den depending on your kills.
Added a new 2 team capture the flag game arena, Ruined Town 2
Implemented an extensive customization system for capture the flag and tournament events.
This will allow staff to customize the events without a server reboot.
Changing things such as death points, flag capture points, death respawn timers, and more.
... and 20 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#22 • Patch 22: Oct 22nd 2012 - Halloween Event, Combat Fixes 📅 Oct 22, 2012 at 6:00 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Halloween Events
Added a new Holiday Event, the Night of Horrors Challenge
Created 8 new monsters for this event
Created some new core functions allowing the tracking of monsters kills in an event scenario.
Designed this system to track kills by direct player damage, indirect damage, barding control kills, and tame kills.
Created a new type of event called a "Challenge Event" that is designed for Player versus Monster event models.
Used this new system to create the Night of Horrors Challenge
Added a new Holiday Event, the Haunted House
Created a new overworld area and dungeon area for the event.
Created 7 new monsters for this event.
Designed this event to be challenging for our more experienced players.
Created a variety of new items to serve as Halloween gifts
... and 15 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#23 • Patch 23: Oct 29th 2012 - Faction, Barding & Event Fixes 📅 Oct 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Event Maintenance
Fixed a problem that was causing the death handler for the Halloween Night of Horrors event to pull in players who died during the event, but were not part of the event.
Adjusted the speeds of 3 Night of Horrors Zombies to be more zombie like. More Walking Dead less Dawn of the Dead.
Adjusted the points given for killing the 2 mini boss monsters and the necromancer Xsi during the Night of Horrors event.
Minor update to the Energy Bolt spell to improve its base damage calculation.
Updated the protection spell calculation to provide more benefit for the addition of inscription to the mage template.
Inscription will now account for 50% of the duration, with Eval counting for 25% and Meditation counting for 25%
Updated the beneficial spell timer and buff icon for the recast delay after the protection spell to be 60 seconds.
Updated the beneficial spell timer delay for Magic Reflect and Reactive Armor to 60 seconds after each spell is broken.
Fixed the cooldown buff icons for these spells to match the correct delay in recasting.
Added some additional "on death" checks to resolve problems with beneficial spells not being properly reset on death.
If anyone still experiences this problem please let the staff know
... and 10 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#24 • Patch 24: Nov 7th 2012 - Minor Bugfix Patch, Website Updates 📅 Nov 8, 2012 at 4:17 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Created a program to analyze the event results and calculate monthly and lifetime ranking ladders for Renaissance website.
Updated the player profiles on the Renaissance website to include these statistics.
Leaderboards for each event are in the works and will be added shortly
Lumberjacking / Mining
Removed the 5x5 gain limitation from Mining and Lumberjacking now that players are familiar with our anti afk gathering system.
Keep in mind the system does not distinguish between training and gathering when using these skills. If you mine or chop you need to do it attended.
Made a few minor changes to spell damage calculations in order to align them more correctly with known era functionality

#25 • Patch 25: Nov 21st 2012 Thanksgiving Patch, Tons of Updates! 📅 Nov 22, 2012 at 6:22 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Barding Skills
Modified the success chance of the discord skill to have a bonus to success should you meet the following conditions
Musicianship
A target with a barding difficulty of over 100 (calculated after instrument bonus's are applied)
Should these conditions be meet, no matter how difficult the monster you will always have at least a 10% chance to succeed.
Keep in mind the discordance skill's duration is based on the barding difficulty of the targeted creature. So even if you succeed on a very hard creature, the effects will be short.
Modified the success chance of the provoke skill to have a bonus to success should you meet the following conditions
Musicianship
A target with a barding difficulty of over 100 (calculated after instrument bonus's are applied)
Should these conditions be meet, no matter how difficult the monster you will always have at least a 5% chance to succeed.
Should you also have 100 Discordance you will receive an additional 5% bonus to success.
Should you only succeed due to the bonus chance you will see a slightly different message indicating you "barely" succeeded in your provocation attempt.
... and 89 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#26 • Patch 26: Nov 29th 2012 Host Changes, Housing Fixes 📅 Nov 30, 2012 at 2:43 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Moved the server to a new hosting site. For details click here
Resolved a problem with the 2nd floor door in log cabin houses opening the wrong direction.
Resolved a problem with the hallway doors in a fortress being lockable in the wrong direction
Resolved a problem with the courtyard (south) double doors in a fortress being lockable in the wrong direction.
Removed the ability to resurrect in a house region using the Sacrifice Virtue
Treasure Maps
Resolved a problem that was causing level 1 maps to not spawn any chest guardians.
Adjusted the amount of reagents that spawn in treasure map chests to be accurate for the Renaissance Era. Thanks Deacon

#27 • Patch 27: Dec 13th 2012 Item Delay, Holiday Additions 📅 Dec 14, 2012 at 1:06 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Administration
Created an improved system of management for player registrations and account settings to aid in staff assistance of players related to account recovery
Anti AFK Gathering System
The actions of sheering sheep are now more properly refined & tracked by the system.
Added the player's offense count and release time to the information gump, should you fail an attended gathering check.
For more information on the Anti Unattended(afk) gathering system on Renaissance click here
Capture the Flag (CTF) Games
Adjusted the flag to drop at your death location for 10 seconds before returning to its home-base location.
Flags can still only be captured while at the teams base.
Adjusted the on respawn process to return you to full health, stamina & mana.
Adjusted the game to remove any death robes in the player's pack at the end of the match
Added a 400 silver reward for any player who successfully places a corrupted sigil on it's proper town monolith.
... and 35 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#28 • Patch 28: Dec 18th 2012 Holiday Event, PvM Tracking System 📅 Dec 18, 2012 at 12:48 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Player Versus Monster Tracking
This is a custom designed system for the Renaissance server that will allow players to track how many of each type of monster they have killed
Each time a monster is killed, if you do the most damage to it, it is logged for addition to your player profile.
Controlled, Summoned and Barding Damage count when calculating who got credit for a kill.
Once a day your player profile will update with any monsters you have killed.
A summary will be shown on the base page of your player profile with kills by type. Example Player Profile
An additional page is in development that will list how many of every creature of Britannia that you have killed.
Can you be the first to kill 1000 Mongbats, 10000? Only time will tell!
Incorporated this system into our myRunUo Status updates using an inventive method that generates zero additional server stress or storage.
Anti AFK Gathering/Selling System
Adjusted the application of the Anti Gathering/Selling code to the action of selling items to a vendor.
Should a player be selling items in a repetitive manner to a NPC you can be checked to make sure you are attended.
... and 43 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#29 • Patch 29: Dec 21st 2012 Quick Fixes, PVM Tracking, 3 Accts 📅 Dec 21, 2012 at 5:17 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Fixed a problem causing specific types of bulk order deeds to provide the wrong rewards.
Resolved a problem that was causing some debugging code to show up when selling items.
Adjusted the snow item to allow you to throw them from horseback.
Player vs Monster Tracking
The first part of the Renaissance Player vs Monster tracking system is up and running.
To learn more about this system check out this forum post covering the new system.
Player vs Monster Tracking System
Player vs Monster Leaderboard
Account Adjustments
Players are now allowed 3 accounts per household, up from the previous system of two.
Due to the effectiveness of the anti afk gathering system and additional changes in this patch. This restriction was no longer needed.
In the future there will be additional limits placed on faction memebership and house ownership per household to account for this change.
... and 17 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#30 • Patch 30: Dec 27th 2012 Event Changes, Transfer System 📅 Dec 27, 2012 at 5:35 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Holiday Event Updates
Adjusted the Reindeer difficulty slightly and allowed them to be provoked.
Adjusted slightly the chances of the non magical reindeer to dispel summons.
Adjusted the elves to be slightly more proficient with combat weaponry.
Adjusted the points given for elves to 1,2,3 respectively.
Elves will no longer drop their clothes when killed in the event, as players were overloading themselves on soiled elven clothing.
Created a new looting system for the event that will reward players directly for their kills.
Should you kill a monster that has a rare item or holiday coins on him during the event, those items will be placed directly in your backpack.
Converted the event to remove player corpses due to a recent exploit using 3rd party scavenging systems that were able to loot items unfairly.
Since players no longer lose items during the event, and since reagents are provided during the event all reagents in player possession at the end of the event will be removed.
Warning: If you were using a trick to bring reagents into the event, these will also be deleted at the end of the event.
Character Transfer System
... and 12 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#31 • Patch 31: Jan 19th 2013 Combat Changes, Archery & LJ Update 📅 Jan 18, 2013 at 2:01 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

This patch was made possible with testing and quality assurance assistance from Upgrayedd, Rand, Kali, SneakyT, and several other players.
Anti AFK Gathering System
Added a gate that will allow a player to leave jail when their sentence is up.
Normally the first time a player is flagged under the system a staff member had to let them out.
Now players may use the gate to leave, determine when they can leave, or get more information about the system in general.
Ball of Summoning
Resolved a problem that would cause the ball to attempt to summon the wrong (unbonded) pet in certain situations.
Disabled the ability to use these items during events, should a player somehow smuggle one in.
Blacksmithing Bulk Order Deeds
Adjusted the chance to get a small armor bulk order deed vs a weapon deed to 70% for armor and 30% weapons.
This is a change from the existing system of 50/50 to account for the lack of colored weapon bulk orders.
Adjusted the chance to get a large armor bulk order deed vs a large weapon order to to 55%.
... and 114 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#32 • Patch 32: Feb 8th 2013 Holiday Event, CTF Updates 📅 Feb 9, 2013 at 12:45 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

The Lost Love of Mondain! (Holiday Event)
Created a custom event to celebrate Valentines Day
This is a worldwide event
Additional information about the event can be found here.
Capture the Flag - Free Use Conversion
Allowed the following to be used during Capture the Flag Events without being consumed.
Armor/Clothing Durability will not take damage
Capture the Flag - 2 Team Vesper Arena
Created a new Capture the Flag Arena in Vesper
This is a 2 team arena designed for close combat.
Resolved a problem where players were being given multiple death robes if their inventory already contains one.
Leather/Furniture Dye Tubs
... and 13 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#33 • Patch 33: March 16th 2013 Maintenance Patch, Event Updates 📅 Mar 16, 2013 at 12:55 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy St. Pattys Day! (Holiday Event)
Leprechauns have been seen searching for their lost pot of gold in the overworld of Britannia
For more information click here
Adjusted monster AI to create a challenging skillset for the new event monster
Bulk Order Books
Resolved a problem that was causing bulk order books to be checked for the total items they contain, when appied to a houses/bank/secure item count.
Bulk order books will now count as 1 item when locked down, in a container, or in your bank regardless of how many bulk order deeds are contained within them. (max 500)
Refresh, Cure and Healing Potions are now free use during certain events.
Resolved a problem with lockpicks causing an item use delay after their use.
Lockpicks can be used once a second.
Minor update to the corpse notoriety system to address certain situations that were resulting in a blue corpse instead of a grey corpse related to playermobiles and criminal activity

#34 • Patch 34: March 28th 2013 Stone Crafting, Easter Event + 📅 Mar 28, 2013 at 2:01 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter Event - New Monsters
Created two new monsters for the easter holiday event.
Created custom AI behavior for each monster unique to the UO experience.
These monsters are designed to test our players in new and creative ways, causing them to think outside the box
To learn more about the Easter Egg Hunt event, Click here .
Easter Event - New Vendor
Created a new vendor for the easter event that can be found in banks around Britiannia
Created a new command for this vendor that will allow you to turn in any eggs you find during the easter egg hunt. "vendor redeem"
Saying vendor redeem to the vendor can result in 2 responses. If you have no easter eggs in your base backpack, this gump will be shown.
Your current event score will be shown along with an option to access the event scoreboard.
Should you have eggs in your base backpack, this gump will be shown with an option to turn in your eggs by hitting ok.
If you hit ok all of the eggs in your base backpack will be removed and added to your score.
... and 89 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#35 • Patch 35: April 25th 2013 Champions, Classic Fonts & More 📅 Apr 25, 2013 at 5:27 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Classic T2A/UOR Fonts
Restored 80% of the text interface seen by the client to the format as it was in 1999/2000.
Players will notice monsters, items, weapons, armor and various other system messages are now in the classic ascii format.
In a future patch an option to toggle the old/new font styles will be added.
Platinum Rewards
Created a new master control stone for the platinum rewards system.
Converted the standard yearly vet rewards system into a new monthly reward system based on platinum.
Each month players will earn platinum based on their online activity. To Learn more about this system click here
Created a new command for players to track their activity.
This gump will show you your per character online activity, allow you to collect your earned platinum and provide a quick link to information on the system.
Platinum Statue Vendor / Trade-in
Players may now trade in statues from various event, tournaments, capture the flag matches for platinum using the new statue vendor.
... and 148 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#36 • Patch 36: May 2nd 2013 Counselor System, Champion Balancing 📅 May 2, 2013 at 4:32 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Champion System Balancing
Adjusted the formula that determines the amount of spawn needed to advance each level.
It will now be scaled to require the same amount of kills of lesser creatures, but less kills of harder creatures to advance the spawn.
Adjusted the system in which champions reward players with platinum.
Everyone who damages the champion (to a certain level) will receive 6 platinum.
Customized the spawn ranges for each champion to better fit its specific region.
Increased the gold drops from killing the champion to 1000-2000 gold. This will appear 50% of the time.
Increased the reagent drops to 30-100 reg stacks, appearing 25% of the time.
Increased the gem drops to 2-20 gems, appearing 25% of the time.
Counselor System
Created the new [cms command
Created a new basegump system for our counselors.
... and 61 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#37 • Patch 37: May 16th 2013 Fishing Expansion, Ancient SOS's 📅 May 16, 2013 at 3:50 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Ancient MIB/SOS System
Created a new item, the Ancient MIB
Created 4 types of these items, each with its own color, link and naming.
Created 4 massive instances in the lost lands to host these events.
These items are found rarely when fishing and are linked to one of 4 instanced regions.
Created a master control stone for these instances to allow complete ingame customization.
Created a management system for each stone to allow all of the in-game resources to be linked to each stone.
From loot chests, spawn locations, instance entrances, to timers, everything has a central point of control.
These instances can be completely customized without restarting the server and will interface directly with in-game resources.
Created a complete system of instanced events linked to the MIB and control stones.
Designed 2500 lines of functions and processing code to support and completely automate the system.
Created an underlying iron-man system allowing brave players to solo these instances for additional rewards.
... and 108 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#38 • Patch 38: June 6th 2013 Camps, Advertising, Tracking Update 📅 May 18, 2013 at 1:28 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Advertising - New System!
Created a new item, the advertising contract.
Configured this item to be only used on vendors, in a house you are friended to, that is public, on a vendor that you own.
Created a simple control stone that allows for unique ID's to be assigned to each contract when used. This information is transmitted to our central database for logging.
Also added a master on/off switch for the system on the Advertising control stone.
Added a gump allowing you to customize what your vendor provides to other players.
Created functions to log each use of the vendor contracts to be exported to the website.
Created a function to allow you to assign a name to your vendor/shop.
To learn more about the Renaissance Vendor Advertising system see our blog post here .
Advertising - Vendors
Added 11 new options for allowing additional details to be exported to the website
Added a last updated field to vendors allowing the staff to identify abandoned vendors.
... and 162 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#39 • Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Spawn 📅 Jun 7, 2013 at 2:26 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Fixed a problem in which (non player) Rib cages could not be cut into bones.
Fixed a problem with leg bones being labelled improperly.
Removed the ability to obtain a bountyable head from a player with less than 5 short/long counts. A head taken from someone with less than 5/5 will not be eligible for a bounty turn in.
Boss Monsters
Minor adjustment to the boss monsters hit point levels damage resistance.
Minor adjustment to the locations in which boss monsters spawn, most should now spawn in more specific areas.
Fixed a mistake in patch 38 that reduced the elder wyrm's platinum drop to 1 from 2. It should now drop 2 platinum.
Resolved a problem with the monsters that spawn with a camp, were refreshing the camp.
Camp should now only self refresh when a player enters a camp region (30 minutes).
Created over 100 locations in the old world and lost lands where camps can spawn.
Champion Spawn
Minor adjustment to the drop rate of platinum during the progressive spawn.
... and 31 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#40 • Patch 40: July 3rd 2013 New Player Program, 4th of July 📅 Jun 11, 2013 at 4:38 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

New Player Program
Created a custom system to help new players, to UOR or UO in general, get acquainted with the game
This protected status will allow you to learn without being subject to certain dangers in the rest of the world
This program is completely optional and when you start as a new player you are given the option to participate in the program.
Players may join the new player program up to 7 days after creating their account.
Players who do not meet this requirement may request inclusion manually by contacting a staff member if your account was created before this patch.
If you are not interested in the new player program, simply check the box at the bottom and you will not be notified again.
New Player Program - Young Status
Players who join the new player program will be marked as (Young) players.
This protected status will allow you to learn the world and its dangers
This program is limited to Occlo island and Occlo Sewers. Leaving the island by any means will remove you from the program.
Should you leave the program on accident you may rejoin using the young command.
... and 88 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#41 • Patch 41: July 15th 2013 Item Identification, Mining Fixes 📅 Jul 12, 2013 at 1:40 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Bounty Board
Bounties can now only be given to players with at least 5 long term counts at the time of the kill.
Heads can only be turned in for a bounty if a player has 5 or more long term counts at the time of the carving.
The bounty board will now only show players with at least 5 long term counts.
Explosion Potions
Adjusted the way in which explosion potion timers are handled.
Made a minor adjustment to the time in which the potion is in transit from thrower to the target.
This system is still under review & may potentially see further changes going forward
Adjusted the passive speed of faction guards to resolve problems with their constant movement frequency.
This has no bearing on the attack & active speeds of faction guards, this change only comes into play when faction guards are out of combat.
Resolved a problem in which red players were not able to use the help stuck system.
Added Buc's Den as a travel location for using help stuck.
... and 19 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#42 • Patch 42: August 21st - Fishing Nets, Battle Chess, Bugfixes 📅 Jul 28, 2013 at 1:54 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy 1st Anniversary Renaissance!
Thanks to all our players, volunteers, donors, subscribers and staff who have helped make this server possible.
Festivities will begin on August 30th and continue until Sept 2nd.
More details will be posted on the 30th.
Anti AFK Gathering System
Adjusted the time in which you can respond to the gump from 60 seconds to 120 seconds.
Lowered the flagging rate of sheering sheep and collecting BOD's.
Implemented the anti afk gathering system for farmable items (cotton/flax)
Added a beta version of battle chess to Nujelm.
Games can be run by the staff on request as we test the system.
Bonded pets now only lose 2.5% of their skills when resurrected.
Bulk Order Rewards
... and 71 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#43 • Patch 43: October 13th - Happy Halloween & Tons of Bugfixes 📅 Aug 26, 2013 at 1:42 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy Halloween Renaissance
The Halloween Festivities will begin on October 20th. This will consist of a challenge event and an overworld event.
To Learn more about the Halloween Night of Horrors Challenge Event Click Here
Holiday Vendor Update
The Holiday Vendor has been updated with new items.
These items can be purchased with holiday coins that you can earn during the Halloween Events.
Jack O Lantern Deed
Grave Dust, Brimstone,Eye of Newt
Trick or Treat Bucket
Closed Wooden Coffin House Addon
Open Wooden Coffin House Addon
Halloween Mask Dye (Hue 144 or 244)
... and 105 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#44 • Patch 44: October 20th - Maintenance Patch 📅 Oct 14, 2013 at 12:22 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Challenge Event
Resolved a problem where the death handler was reporting that a player was a member of the event, for the purpose of spawning a zombie.
Minor change to the event processing related to world broadcasts.
Resolved a problem in which players were not properly scored during the event.
Added additional logging to the end of game rewards.
Adjusted the event to end in the event that the players manage to kill the hidden secret boss.
Refined how the event controlled spawners related to secret areas.
Removed the range limitation for collecting holiday coins when a boss dies during the Halloween event.
Adjusted the points you can earn for defeating various bosses.
Bulk Order Deeds
Set all Runic Hammers to 25 charges.
Found and resolved a problem that was causing incorrect guild coloring on journal messages.
... and 10 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#45 • Patch 45: November 22nd - Duel System, Happy Thanksgiving 📅 Oct 21, 2013 at 12:58 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Consensual Duel System
Implemented a new consensual duel system allowing players to setup a structured duel between any number of players.
We will be adding several arenas located around the world, inside of town and outside of town allowing players to setup duels.
Extensively customized the system in order to remove all trammel aspects from it.
Players will have to travel to the duel arena in order to setup and start a duel.
Once the duel begins the players will be protected from outside interference until the duel is complete
For a complete guide to the new duel system click here
Duel System - Maintenance
Disabled the ability to teleport into a duel region.
Disabled the ability to summon blade spirits or energy vortex's in a duel region from outside the region.
Disabled the ability to summon field spells into a duel region from outside the duel region.
You must be within 25 tiles of a Duel arena to use the I Wish to Duel Command
... and 31 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#46 • Patch 46: December 20th - Holiday Event, Bugfixes & More 📅 Nov 27, 2013 at 3:54 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Ancient MIB's
Resolved a regioning problem with the Pirate Ship event resulting in the undersea area not being audited for leftover players. Thanks SnapDragon
Fixed a single click name constructor for the Pirate Cave Ancient MIB's. Thanks Basoosh
Attended Verification System (Anti AFK)
Implemented a new version of the Anti AFK System
New verification image sets
Improved logging of activities
Improved variance of gumps, images, locations
Added a detection system for players attempting to use audio cues to alert them to AFK checks.
Implemented the system for the placement of houses.
Attempting to place a house will now be considered an activity that needs to be attended by this system.
As Razor cannot automatically place a house, accounts caught attempting to place a house automatically and then failing this check will receive additional staff review.
... and 104 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#47 • Patch 46A: December 22nd - Event Tweaks, Minor BugFixes 📅 Dec 22, 2013 at 12:21 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Attended Verification System
Made a few very small tweaks to the system including flag rates and timers.
Rolled back a small change to the house transfer process until I can review public/private house transfer door locking issue further.
Holiday Event - Process
Resolved a few minor issues with the stage progression process
Tweaked a few variables to make the process smoother.
Adjusted the event to allow players to bring their mounts with them.
Holiday Event - Monsters
Made small tweaks to the stats, skills and drop rates for each of the Dark Magic Awakens Event monsters
Abominable Snowman
Corrupt Soul
Dark Elf Archer
... and 12 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#48 • Patch 47: January 28th - Website Updates, Valentines Content 📅 Dec 27, 2013 at 6:56 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Renaissance Website
Migrated the Renaissance website and forums to a new hosting package.
This should vastly improve the responsiveness of the website and forums.
Completed the conversion of the Renaissance website to the HTML 5 standard.
Extensive CSS optimization to improve performance.
Optimized the web design to support its increased use.
Revamped Menu combining the compendium and main website into a single list of items
Notice! Some sub pages are still being converted.
Renaissance Website - Item Listing
Implemented the new item details pages showing colorized items based on hue.
Updated the icons allowing for access from the item list to the item graph and detail pages.
Expanded the item listing to show 100 items per page.
... and 50 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#49 • Patch 48: February 3rd 2104 - Maintenance Patch 📅 Jan 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Escorts, Spawning Camps, Mage Towers
Resolved a problem with the system that was used to register the prisoners and escorts on the message boards.
Created a message board controller to handle the board registrations, creations and deletions.
Redesigned the system to more efficiently register the escorts and prisoners on the message boards.
General cleanup of the system to be more efficient
Removed sandals, shoes and boots from the items you can fish up.
Players were found to be abusing this to collect leather unattended while below the 100.0 fishing skill level.
Rather than apply the attended verification system to less-than-GM fishing, we removed the items players were collecting.
House Placement
Re-designed the house placement system to operate more efficiently
Removed a complex system designed to account for the tower wings in placement calculations
Designed a new vastly more efficient system of calculating the effect of tower wings in house placement.
... and 25 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#50 • Patch 49: February 11th 2014 - Maintenance Patch 📅 Feb 11, 2014 at 4:44 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Continued work improving server performance
Audited the processing system in which the world spawners are built on to improve performance
Enabled some advanced features to reduce the amount of spawned created in remote parts of the world
Optimized a variety of timers to improve server performance.
Reduced the daily timer processing load by 150 million operations.
Valentines Event
Resolved a problem in which players could have started the Valentines event with valor rather than the correct scroll
Final refinements to the Cupid Boss
Young Program
Disabled the ability for Blade Spirits and Energy Vortex's to target young players.
Blade Spirit / Energy Vortex Spells
Due to a line of sight issue that was discovered we had to make a few changes to these spells.
... and 13 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#51 • Patch 50: March 15th 2014 - Guild Content, Bug Fixes & More 📅 Feb 21, 2014 at 2:04 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Disabled the random teleporting that the Orc Scout AI would engage in.
Character Statue Maker
Created a new UOR version of the character statue maker.
Implemented 12 version of the statues
Ore Colors, Stone, Sandstone, Marble and Uncolored.
Allowed the home owner to break down the statue.
The statues can have 5 poses, and face 8 directions.
Champion Titles
Added a new option to the player profile gump allowing players to toggle their champion title.
If you have previously earned a champion title this will allow you to enable it.
Crafting System
Crafting no longer consumes 100% of the resources required when failing to craft an item
... and 112 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#52 • Patch 51: March 27th 2014 - Happy Easter, Bugfixes & More 📅 Mar 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter Egg Hunt Event
Updated our Easter Holiday event for 2014.
To Learn more about the event click here
Adjusted the Easter bunny and his protector.
Adjusted Easter eggs so they no longer decay.
Adjusted the Easter vendor to now sell items in exchange for event points.
Easter Egg Hunt - Reward Vendor
Gave the event vendor the ability to sell items in exchange for points earned during the event.
Players can select from any of the following once the event is completed.
Furniture Dye Tubs
Platinum Coins
Easter Basket (Random Color)
... and 25 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#53 • Patch 52: May 8th 2014 - Bonding Expansion & Much More 📅 May 7, 2014 at 5:22 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Boss Monsters
The following bosses will now provide platinum to each damager involved in the kill
Purveyor of Darkness
Azure Dragon
New Boss Monsters
Jungle Titan (T2A Titan Boss)
Obsidian Gargoyle (Stone Gargoyle Boss)
Two Headed Behemoth (Ettin Boss)
Anaconda (Giant Serpent Boss)
OphidianQueen (Ophidian Boss)
Adjusted the chances for all boss monsters to drop their special item from 1/400 to 1/250 based on research into boss monster death rates.
Adjusted boss monsters to be less resistant to tames and barded creatures.
... and 144 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#54 • Patch 53: May 22nd 2014 - Player Profiles v3, Maintenance Updates 📅 May 19, 2014 at 2:56 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Player Profiles v3
Updated the website player profiles to break them into 3 sections. Main, PvM and Pvp
The Main Profile Page
Showing new navigation buttons
Player clothing, weapons and armor
Character details
The PvM Profile Page
Character details
New and Improved Player vs Monster Rankings
Player vs Monster Awards
Lifetime Player vs Monster Awards
The PvP Profile Page
... and 93 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#55 • Patch 54: June 30th 2014 - Website Maintenance, 4th of July & More 📅 Jun 30, 2014 at 12:04 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Notice: Trolls are spawning 100x more often than they should when travelling and mining. This will be fixed in a hotfix in the next few days, but in the meantime it is best if you avoid recall mining.
Increased the range in which bankers and minters will respond to players
Resolved an extremely rare bug with the default RunUo code which could cause a boat to handle all speech actions for a massive area.
Adjusted boats to properly handle speech from only players on the boat.
Counselor Program
Implemented a new list for counselors allowing them to greet any online young players.
Implemented a method for counselors to mark a players account as greeted.
This will help us ensure that all new players receive a visit from one of our player volunteers.
Added a new command for counselors allowing them to add a player to the young player program.
Guild System Overhaul
You can read more about the new system here - http://uorforum.com/threads/new-guild-system-discussion.5319/
Guild chat will no longer register as a system message in razor.
... and 107 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#56 • Patch 55: July 8th 2014 - Mining Update, Misc Fixes 📅 Jul 8, 2014 at 1:50 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Notice: For a detailed discussion on improving the process of filling and flipping bulk order deeds see this thread.
http://uorforum.com/threads/so-filling-bulk-order-deeds-is-tedious-lets-talk-changes.5800
Notice: The Fishing system message "The fish are not biting here" will be fixed to allow razor to take action on it as a system message.
Adjusted the range of animal lore from 8 to 12 tiles.
AES System (World Control)
Created several new options for world control.
OreTrolls, WoodTrolls, GolemOreMin, GolemOreMax, Resync System.
These variables will allow the staff more control over various aspects of the world without a reboot of the server.
Fixed a problem where boat tillermen were handling speech that they then took no action on. They will now only handle speech keywords they understand. Thanks Aris
This includes commands like bank, or balance
Bulk Order System
Mining gloves will be replaced with a new item the gargoyles shovel in the BOD reward matrix.
... and 91 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#57 • Patch 56: September 16th 2014 - Renaissance Achievements! CTF v2! 📅 Sep 5, 2014 at 5:39 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Achievement System
Implemented a new system that will be rolled out slowly and paired with an expansion of the website player profiles.
This system is inspired by the achievement system commonly seen on steam games.
Players will be able to track their progress towards over 1000 endgame style achievements via the website.
Added a new profile page accessible with the "Ach" command.
This page will show the variety of counters that will be used for the achievement system.
These counters will track the following in order to award players with progressive achievements
Treasure Maps Decoded
Treasure Maps Dug Up
Treasure Chests Chopped.
Special Fishing Nets Used
MIB's Fished Up.
... and 144 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

Era 3: The Golden Age & Expansions (Oct 2014 - Oct 2016)

Peak server population, major seasonal content, Treasure Hunting expansions, Harrower updates, and deep combat balance tuning.

#58 • Patch 57: October 16th 2014 - Happy Halloween! 📅 Oct 16, 2014 at 9:40 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Halloween Night of Horrors Event
Updated the Night of Horrors event for 2014
Improved Monster AI
New Rare Drops
Enhanced Difficulty
Extensive BugFixes and Testing
To learn more about the Night of Horrors event click here
Halloween Overworld Event
Make sure to keep an eye out for more information from the town criers!
Resolved a problem in which the auto looting system active in CTF would not correctly collect all your items.
This was resulting in items left on a corpse which was inaccessible and eventually decayed.
During a CTF match the auto looting system will ingore "can hold" checks and make sure you obtain all your items.
... and 42 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#59 • Patch 58 - November 25th 2014, Thanksgiving & Combat Changes 📅 Nov 13, 2014 at 7:17 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy Thanksgiving Renaissance
Starting Wednesday the 26th strange mounted warriors will be wandering the land.
Players should take care when encountering these warriors as even their mounts are deadly.
Savage Turkey
Bloodthirsty Turkey
Indian Archer
Indian Fencer
Indian Macer
Indian Knight
Animal Trainer
The animal trainer will now perform a range check on any stable target to verify that the target is within 15 tiles of the stable master. Thanks Minallee
This will resolve the bug that was allowing players to travel with a stable target up exceeding the logical range for a stable command.
... and 111 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#60 • Patch 59 - December 10th 2014, Merry Christmas! 📅 Nov 26, 2014 at 1:27 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Merry Christmas Renaissance
After a month of development we are proud to release our new holiday event system.
This system is a combination of 2 years of holiday event development that will better suit our much larger playerbase.
There will be aspects of world hunting, dungeoneering, strategy, character development, tasks based goals, and ironman challenges.
A complete guide to the new event system will be posted soon.
The Christmas event season is planned to last 14-20 days.
You can read more about the holiday events here
Christmas Monsters - Bosses
Santa's Battle Mount
Dark Elf Commander
Dark Elf Spirit
Christmas Monsters - Mini-Bosses
... and 58 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#61 • Patch 60 - December 14th 2014, Maintenance Patch 📅 Dec 11, 2014 at 10:22 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Holiday Event - Bugfixes
Resolved a problem in which a bonus award was appearing in the bosses loot chests with 100% frequency vs 10%.
Resolved a problem in which the default name for potted plant deeds was "potted cactus deed".
Fixed a problem in which the Frozen Continent event would generate boss chest keys for the scroll owner if only one of the dark spirits was killed.
Fixed a problem in which the Dark Elf Archer and Elf Archer did not have the correct archery skill.
Fixed a problem that was causing players in a guild, with an active war, to not be able to heal each other during the events.
Fixed a problem in which the scrolls that were dropped from monsters had the correct name, but incorrect color.
Fixed a problem in which event scrolls would drop during the events. Event scrolls should only drop in the overworld or dungeons. Thanks Liberation
Holiday Event - Leaderboard
Created a holiday event leaderboard allowing players to see the standout performances completing the events.
Scoring is calculated by the players you use, follower slots, kills and time.
Holiday Event Leaderboard
... and 6 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#62 • Patch 61 - February 12th 2015, Tournaments! Valentines Day! 📅 Feb 11, 2015 at 8:43 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy Valentines Renaissance
Cupid has once again returned to Britannia!
To learn more about the event click here .
Updated the event for 2015 with new drops, AI and bugfixes.
v1 / 2v2 Tournaments
Implemented a custom designed Tournament system written specifically for UO Renaissance.
Attended Verification System
Reduced the flag rate for attempting to place a house by 100%.
Disabled the ability for a player to adjust their z axis from the beginning of the healing timer to the end of the healing timer.
Players must be 1 tile away and within a reasonable z-axis at the start and completion of the healing timer. Thanks PaxRomain
Bonding a pet now requires 24 hours to complete, up from the 2 hours that was added for the holiday event.
Capture the Flag Events
... and 51 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#63 • Patch 62 - April 1st 2015, Easter Egg Hunt! Bugfixes! 📅 Mar 24, 2015 at 4:25 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter Egg Hunt
The easter egg hunt has been updated for 2015.
For more information on the event check this thread. Easter Egg Hunt 2015
Resolved some default naming issues for the various pieces of clothing dropped from Leprechauns.
Capture the Flag Events
Re-wrote the system in use that reports events and event results to our web database.
Exported the kills, deaths, flag caps, and damage healed to allow for additional scorekeeping.
Adjusted the system in which CTF enables and disables spectator gates.
Player corpse decay times will be extended to mitigate any negative affects of connectivity issues with the server.
Your corpse will not begin to decay until a player has opened it once, or until a longer time window has passed.
This will allow players to recover their items in the event of a DDOS attack or other connectivity issue with the server.
This will also allow players more time to get to their corpse in normal situations.
... and 42 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#64 • Patch 63 - June 16th, Treasure Hunting Update & Bugfixes 📅 Jun 16, 2015 at 1:22 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Level 7 Maps
Level 7 (Diabolical) Treasure maps are now spawning in the world.
They can be found very rarely when completing level 1-6 treasure maps.
The more difficult the map, the greater the chance to find a special level 7 map.
The special maps are clearly indicated with a special hue and name.
There are 4 types of level 7 maps. (Abyss, Elemental, Reptile, Arachnid)
In patch 64 the maps will be usable.
More details can be found in the coming soon post (work in progress)
Level 7 Treasure Map Sneak Peak
New Massive Dungeons
New Custom Designed Monsters
New Mini Bosses
... and 31 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#65 • Patch 64 - August 27th, Treasure Hunting Update, 3rd Anniversary & Bugfixes 📅 Aug 28, 2015 at 1:11 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy 3rd Anniversary Renaissance!
For more information on our 3rd anniversary festivities see this thread
http://uorforum.com/threads/happy-3rd-anniversary-renaissance.12102
Level 7 Treasure Maps
Implemented the Level 7 treasure hunting system.
Added a control system, management menu system, clock timers, and a variety of other resources needed for the system.
Added new functionality to level 7 maps once a player has begun an instance.
Added 2 new boss monsters, Ilyxia the Spider Queen and Kronos the Elemental Mage
Added 3 new Mini Boss monsters, Ruby Golem, Diamond Golem and Arachnid Enforcers.
Designed new attacks and behavior to provide unique challenges.
Added 11 new support monsters.
Added all other resources needed for the arachnid and elemental level 7 maps.
... and 50 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#66 • Patch 65 - October 16th, Harrower Updates & Tons of Bugfixes 📅 Aug 28, 2015 at 10:08 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Bonded Pet Skill Loss
Bonded pets will return to taking 2.5% of their skills on death.
Bonded pets linked to a faction member will experience a 5% skill loss on death.
Added some additional logging to ingame books to allow the staff to trace players who created/edited books.
This will allow the staff to address the actions of players editing books to include speech that violates the posted rules on Renaissance.
Gamayun will now continue to spawn, just in a larger region.
Gamayun will continue to spawn in the new player dungeon but in a unique manner.
The Cave, Forest and Mountain Troll spawns have returned, but in a larger spawn area.
The Obsidian gargoyle can now be found in the northern part of the lost lands.
Overworld caves have been given the proper logout delays and light level settings that were missing previously.
Some cases with locations close to town have had their spawn disabled.
A complete list of caves can be found here.
... and 76 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#67 • Patch 66 - October 23rd, Night of Horrors is here! Happy Halloween 📅 Oct 16, 2015 at 6:30 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Night of Horrors Halloween Event
http://uorforum.com/threads/night-of-horrors-challenge-event-halloween-2015.7133/
Attended Verification System
Lowered the rate at which players are checked when selling items
Lowered the rate at which players are checked when placing houses.
Lowered the rate at which players are checked when clicking house signs.
Lowered the rate at which players are checked when collecting rares.
Doubledthe rate at which players are checked when collecting farmable items
Dragons blood will now have the correct name when single clicked.
Added a new Necro Reagent "Pumice"
Item Identification
Resolved a problem in which afk checks were being sent to players using the item id skill on house signs.
... and 6 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#68 • Patch 67 - November 26th, Happy Thanksgiving! 📅 Nov 18, 2015 at 1:31 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Happy Thanksgiving Renaissance
The thanksgiving event has started.
The event will run from 11-26 to 12-2.
Updated 9 monsters for 2015 with new drops, looks and behavior.
Created two new camps with two new escortable npc's
For more information see this thread. http://uorforum.com/threads/happy-thanksgiving-renaissance.14257/
Bandages / Healing
After doing some research on healing and bandage timers it was discovered the formula for healing yourself was based on a possible 120 unmodified dexterity.
This was resulting in players being penalized 1.2 seconds per heal.
The timers for healing pets or other players also did not account for players having middle ground stat values.
Updated the timing in which you can heal yourself to be based on a max of 120 modified dexterity (potions, spells)
Updated the timing in which you can heal/cure others to better factor in your dexterity.
... and 15 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#69 • Patch 68 - December 18th, Merry Christmas, Arms Lore Update & More 📅 Dec 8, 2015 at 3:56 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Christmas Event - Dark Magic Awakens
The Christmas event is here! And 2 days early!
For more information on the event click here
Updated Arms Lore with new functionality that is in line with OSI style development.
You can now target a player with the arms lore skill to see a detailed listing of all items they are wearing.
Should you have 100 Arms Lore you will be able to see the current hit points in health bar format for each worn item.
You can also see individual information about each item, or still target a single item.
If you have over 90 Arms Lore you will be able to see detailed information about an items hit points and quality.
Compendium Page: Arms Lore
Resolved a situation in which ore golems, and ore elementals would spawn inside a players house in certain situations.
This could be due to mining inside a house, or to close to a nearby house using gargoyle items.
They will now be ejected to the houses ban location should this happen.
... and 50 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#70 • Patch 69 - December 24th, Christmas Event Tweaks, Performance Updates 📅 Dec 24, 2015 at 1:45 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Christmas Events
Resolved a problem in which the world alert (irc broadcast) was displaying some incorrect information.
The chance to get holiday coins from event monsters has been increased across the board.
Lower level creatures have had a small boost to their christmas scroll drop rates.
Zombies will no long spawn when you die in the scroll events.
For more information on the Christmas Event click here
Christmas Monsters
Monsters attempting to teleport to ranged attackers to defend themselves will now properly range check to the target.
The 9 Reindeer minibosses are now vulnerable to provocation.
Also adjusted their stats to account for some advanced difficulty vs non tamer players.
Fixed a problem in which Bad Santa was dropping clothing items much more often than he should.
He will drop a random clothing item 25% of the time now.
... and 16 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#71 • Patch 70 - February 13th, Cupid is Back, Performance Updates 📅 Feb 13, 2016 at 1:22 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Valentines Event
Cupid and his army have returned!
Cupid and his army are tougher than ever!
Valentines Items added to the reward store!
For more information see the compendium article on Valentines 2016 .
Or to discuss the event see the forum event post .
Valentines Camp
Added a new type of overworld camp related to the Valentines Event.
Players can find these camps spawning in the overworld and in the lost lands.
Don't forget the investigate the camp completely!
Reward Store
Added a Valentines section to the Reward Vendor.
... and 14 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#72 • Patch 71 - July 3rd, 4th of July Rewards, Minor Fixes 📅 Jul 14, 2016 at 10:52 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Players who log into the server between July 4th and July 6th will find something special to celebrate the holiday.
Dungeon Chests
Properly addressed the drop rates for magic items in dungeon chests - Thanks Ervin
Server Health
Completely fixed the bug that allowed an invalid skill ID to result in an invalid index when applied to the custom regions package that we use.
This will re-open events and enable skill restrictions in custom regions once again.
Fixed a bug in which stealing an item from a player would not result in a perma flag in certain circumstances.
Peculiar Meat
Boss monsters will now drop the special food at a slightly higher rate than before.
This patch was added to combat a few critical issues. Work continues on our large patch for clean up britannia, house addons, and other large changes.

#73 • Patch 72 - Oct 24th, Night of Horrors, 4th Anniversary Content & Misc Fixes 📅 Oct 25, 2016 at 9:46 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Halloween Night of Horrors 2016 Event
The 2016 Night of Horrors event is here! Event Thread
Minor updates to the event to prepare it for 2016
Updated the drops from the variety event linked monsters
Updated Halloween Reward Store
th Anniversary Event
Happy 4th Anniversary Renaissance! - Event Details
Two new anniversary hues are now available!
Created 4 new Halloween themed addons for this years reward shop.
Closed Casket
Empty Casket
Open Casket with Mummy
... and 11 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

Era 4: Veteran Shard & Modernization (Nov 2016 - June 2020)

5th & 6th Anniversaries, Dragon Den dungeon expansion, ClassicUO client overhaul, Razor integrations, and server preservation before Peace & Samorite leadership.

#74 • Patch 73 - Feburary 13th, Valentines Event, Combat Changes & More! 📅 Oct 31, 2016 at 12:20 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Update: There is a problem blocking the poison spell in town, this has been addressed and will be fixed in the next patch (7-10 days). I >'ed when I should have <'ed. Sorry for the minor annoyance!
Valentines Event
Cupid's Army has once again been summoned to Britannia!
http://uorforum.com/threads/cupid-returns-a-unique-holiday-event.15608/
Chess Papers
If any player had a special chess paper from when we were testing the chess system, those have been removed.
We can re-create them for you as a new item, just contact the staff to report it missing.
Added a high level access command to allow senior staff to purge the IP history of an account.
This will help the staff deal with complex issues related to players who have extensive IP history bound to their accounts.
Added a command to purge IP access history from all accounts
Added a command to purge all accounts that contain zero characters.
These commands will be incorporated into the servers general maintenance and have reduced our account overhead by 30% in testing. (3-5% reduction in save times)
... and 88 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#75 • Patch 74 - April 6th, Easter Egg Hunt & Bugfixes! 📅 Feb 13, 2017 at 10:58 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter Egg Hunt 2017
The 2017 easter egg hunt event is nearly here! For more details click here
Fixed a problem where players were incorrectly rewarded 1 point vs 3 points for golden easter eggs.
Fluffy IV's mutant ospring Fluffy V has now been added to punish players who mistakenly think "I got this".
Several bottles of valium have been preemptively delivered to the IRC moderators to prepare them for 50,000 lines of "OMG this is a tamer only event".
The easter 2017 reward store has been updated with new prizes in additional to some yearly standard prizes.
A golden egg (decorative rare) 100 Points
A Basket of Herbs (decorative rare) 400 points
Fixed a problem in which in rare cases monsters could spawn inside a players house.
This was very rare but would cause players from distress from broken items, or dead idle characters.
This fix only applies to locations inside a house, monsters can still spawn in a houses courtyard.
Continued to roll back some performance changes made over the years to address our previous performance issues.
... and 6 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#76 • Patch 75 - July 3rd, 4th of July Rewards, Guildstone Fix & More! 📅 Apr 7, 2017 at 10:03 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Players logging in between 7/4/17 to 7/6/17 will receive a special gift bag celebrating the 4th of July
Ancient MIB's
Resolved a problem in which in rare occasions the chest keys would be underneath a monsters loot backpack.
Found and removed a +20 modifier that has existed for 5+ years in the wrestling combat code when calculating defensive wrestling.
double incrValue = (anatValue + evalValue + 20.0) * 0.5; - is now - double incrValue = (anatValue + evalValue) * 0.5;
Guildstones that are leftover from a house decay can now be moved without the assistance of the staff.
By double clicking a guildstone that has lost its house you will be presented with the following menu.
If you select to condem the guildstone it is moved into a storage area until all of the players leave the guild, or the guildmaster requests the staff recover it for them.
Resolved some incorrect coding related to fur drops when carving leather bearing creatures. This includes the drop rate problems for the easter bunny fur.
Fireworks wands will now properly show the amount of charges remaining, or if no charges are left.
Christmas Spam now has a normal loottype and will no longer be newbied.
Moongates no longer have a 5 second timer applied for combat actions, it has been reduced to 2.5 seconds.
... and 7 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#77 • Patch 76 - August 31st, Happy 5th Anniversary! Dragon Den Opens! 📅 Aug 27, 2017 at 2:58 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Phoenix Armor Deeds must now be in your backpack to be used.
Brazier Deeds must now be in your backpack to be used.
Decorative Shield Deeds must now be in your backpack to be used.
Reward Vendor
Chessboard, Checkerboards and Backgammon Boards can now be purchased for 1 platinum each from the reward vendor.
Fixed a mistake with the purchasing text where single coin purchases had the incorrect plurality. coin vs coins
Massive upgrade to the client menu to allow the staff much more information about players they are assisting.
Removed a variety of commands that should never be used (kick player, kill player, etc).
Added a variety of account analysis tools to aid the staff in account review, account cleanup.
Provided gamemaster level staff with the ability to adjust AFK system marks when a player appeals a flag for afk macroing.
Also provided gamemaster and counselor level accounts access to account notes to better assist players with pages.
Implemented some additional tools for administrator level staff to aid in the implementation of the copper system.
... and 8 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#78 • Patch 77 - September 12th, Guard Functionality Hotfix, Ocllo & Vesper Town Regions 📅 Sep 12, 2017 at 8:42 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

The vesper town limits have been adjusted.
This will address the issue of lazy region design with this town as it included vast amounts of non town related land.
A land rush event will be announced very soon to open this land for placement and will include a large scale town invasion event.
For more details about the change check here
The guard zone on the east side of town (near the bank) have been expanded to include the miners guild and reach to the Ocllo Moongates.
This will provide a more sensible town region for the town and players unfamiliar with Ocllo.
This will have the side effect of including two houses inside the new guarded region.
These locations will be grandfathered and some restrictions will be placed upon the current owners to account for the increase in value.
Murderers (players with more than 5 long term counts) will no longer be able to accidentally recall into a guarded region.
This is to account for the changes to the regions listed above as there can be spots that were safe before that would be covered by guards now.
This change will be in place as long as it takes for these runes/region changes to become more common knowledge.
This however happens rarely as it is so the effect on player activity will be minimal.
... and 23 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#79 • Patch 78 - October 20th, Halloween Updated & Minor Bugfixes 📅 Oct 11, 2017 at 9:57 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Halloween 2017 - Night of Horrors
Various Loot Updates for event monsters
Minor Updated to support the new event lobby
Night of Horrors 2017 Event Megathread
Updated the reward store with several new items
New Sarcophagus Addons (Open Mummy, Open Skeleton, Empty, and Closed)
Random Spooky Laterns
Corrupted Pentagrams
Level 7 Maps
Exit gates within the event now lead to the event lobby.
Corpses will also be sent to this area once the event cycles.
However if the dungeon is closed or if a player leaves via a gate it will direct to the event lobby.
... and 28 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#80 • Patch 79 - December 19th, Christmas Updates, Moongate Update & More! 📅 Dec 19, 2017 at 11:47 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Merry Christmas! Event Updates!
The Dark Magic Event returns! To learn more about the event click here !
Designed two new instances for this years event. The White Witches Lair, and Krampus's Lair for Naughty Children.
Each of the new instances is a massive two stage dungeon with new monsters, new challenges and should be considered extremely difficult.
Designed 30+ new creatures to be included in these new instances. These creatures will primarily spawn in the instances and with a few exceptions the overworld.
The two new instances will allow players 105minutes to complete them, compared to 60 minutes allowed during the existing instance.
In order to obtain the scrolls for these new instances players must successfully complete one of the current classic events and loot the final chest.
Each instance has a 20% chance to reward you with a scroll for one of the new instances.
You will also have a very small chance to obtain one of the new scrolls when killing one of the new creatures during an scripted overworld event.
For more information about the Christmas Event check the event thread here
Christmas Reward Store Updates
Added a variety of holiday lanterns to match past holiday colors.
... and 29 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#81 • Patch 80 - March 3rd, Archery Updates & Tons of Fixes 📅 Dec 26, 2017 at 7:33 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Archery - Chance to hit
Adjusted the chance to hit in archery combat situations to use a better formula factoring in range/recent movement and player skills.
Greatly reduced the accuracy penalty when moving recently while firing a bow. It will vary between a 5% - 20% penalty to chance to hit depending on the range to the target.
Technical Note: Archery on UO Renaissance determines chance to hit differently than other combat skills. Normal combat has a roughly 50% maximum chance to hit when the attacker and defenders skills are equal. The chance to hit with a bow, when not standing next to someone, is based on the range to the target, whether or not you have moved recently, and the attacker and defenders skills.
Testing: Players can enable debug testing information for these changes on the Dev/Live servers by opening their player profile and enabling the debug option. This will send 2 lines of information per archery attack indicating chance to hit, range, recent movement, attacker and defender skills factors.
Range: Range to the target
Moved: Indicates if you have moved recently resulting in an accuracy penalty
Def: Target Player/Monsters Defense Value
CtH: Chance to Hit
Atk: Your Attack Value
Arrows and bolts will now properly stack when training archery.
If a shot is missed and there is an arrow or bolt nearby the dropped arrow/bolt will attempt to add to the nearby stack.
... and 64 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#82 • Patch 81 - April 1st, Easter/St. Patricks Event Updated 📅 Mar 5, 2018 at 9:59 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter / St. Patricks Day Event Updates
Implemented a new combined St Patrick / Easter Event system
Updated rewards for the 2018 season
http://uorforum.com/threads/2018-easter-egg-hunt-event.32245/
Copper System
Fixed a minor problem with the copper system administrative tools related to name changes.
Fixed a problem with the Valentines vendor where the colors of the lamp posts were switched on purchase.
The Fix It Vendor will now switch the color of your lantern between the valentines colors when using the "Shazam" speech command.
Strandedness System
Fixed a problem where when a player would log into a location that was on water, but on top of custom UOR content they would be sent to the nearest docks possibly interrupting a duel or Ancient MIB event.
Created an additional layer of exclusions from this system based on AMIB regions and Duel Pits (Turtle Bay, Moonglow).

#83 • Patch 82 - August 30th - 6th Anniversary Event, Lots of Fixes 📅 May 8, 2018 at 11:39 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Renaissance 6th Anniversary Event!
http://uorforum.com/threads/happy-6...ance-global-event-starting-august-31st.34932/
Added two new hues to celebrate the 6th Anniversary of Renaissance going live!
Added the naming rules to the mask dyes allowing players to use them at their leisure.
Fix It Vendor
The Fix it vendor (located in the event lobby) will properly rename 2018 fluffy statues.
The ability to alter elf and dark elf slayers will be removed as players have had enough time to fix those.
Bonded pets who decay (alive or as a ghost) will now generate a log entry in a players account log.
Bonded pets who go wild in the world will now generate a log entry into a players account log with the location of the pet when it went wild.
Mutant Fluffy's breath attack damage will be brought in line with dragons.
Copper System
Fixed some problems with the staff gump to allow seer level staff access to copper transactions for players.
... and 53 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#84 • Patch 83 - September 25th, Minor Hotfix for Faction Atrophy, Critical Issues 📅 Sep 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Disabled pet skill loss on the death process and moved it to the resurrection process.
Gave administrative staff the power to resurrect a bonded pet avoiding the pet skill loss step.
Fixed a problem with Level 7 Treasure Map Exit gates being of the public variety and not directing to the event lobby properly.
Also fixed the gates for the wild tamers event to do the same.
Corpses and pets will now auto eject to the event lobby when the instance ends and they are left behind.
Faction Mechanics
Faction Atrophy will now be checked once every 14 days.
If a player is not active in this time, 10% of their faction points will decay.
Atrophied points will no longer be randomly distributed to active members of that faction. Thanks PaxRomain
Removed a random check that was used to determine if a player was active in factions when undertaking certain actions.
Fixed a problem with some 6th Anniversary Runebooks not having the correct names;
They will also be corrected to have 10 max charges. Thanks CaptainMorgan & Others
... and 1 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#85 • Patch 84 - October 23rd, Happy Halloween, Night of Horrors Expansion! 📅 Sep 29, 2018 at 11:17 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

The Night of Horrors event is back
New Monsters!
New Rare Drops!
Updated Reward Store!
Event Megathread - http://uorforum.com/threads/happy-halloween-2018-renaissance-event-megathread.36727/
Night of Horrors - City of the Dead Challenge Dungeon
Massive new timed dungeon!
Unique rare drops!
High risk /high reward design!
http://uorforum.com/threads/night-of-horrors-2-the-city-of-the-dead-event-guide.37479/
Animal Trainers
Increased the cost of Grizzly Bears from the animal trainer to account for the fact that they can rarely spawn a taming scroll creature.
... and 14 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#86 • Patch 85 - February 10th , Reward Store Updates, Raffle, Valentines Event! 📅 Feb 6, 2019 at 9:37 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Sorry for the delay on this patch. With my IRL work load going a bit crazy (year end deadlines) and a new baby arriving things have been a bit hectic. We have added a bunch of new volunteers to help share the load and will get back to our usually somewhat late development timeline rather than the very late method. I do take some pride in the fact the server has been stable for over 100 days without a memory leak or performance issues. Not many, if any, UO servers can claim this level of stability.
Starting on February 11th Players logging in will find a special gift bag in their bank. Just some fun staff to apologize for the delay in getting this all together. Players will have a few days to claim these (it will be brief) in order to reward our players who stuck it out in the interim.
Christmas Reward Store Update
Updated the Christmas store to have the 2018 selection of items.
Implemented a large holiday coin lottery with over 40 prizes.
These items will be available until November 2019.
Players can read more about the items available in the lottery here.
http://uorforum.com/threads/the-christmas-raffle-prize-list-and-details.40042/
Platinum Store Marble Island Raffle
In order to return the marble island houses back to players after they were donated to the server we have created a simple raffle system.
Players can risk varying amounts of platinum to spin for a chance to win one of these houses.
You can read more about this system here.
... and 24 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#87 • Patch 86 - April 28th, Easter Event Update, Bugfixes & More! 📅 Apr 14, 2019 at 11:33 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Easter Event
Updated the reward store to include this years colors and a few new items
Minor changes to Fluffy, Easter Bunny coloring and dropped items.
Overworld Camps
Fixed a problem where Leprechaun camps were not refreshing properly - Thanks Goblinchild
Reduced the time in which a camp will decay after being refreshed to a separate time from the camp duration.
Custom Regions
Added an option to custom regions that allows for skill gain to be disabled in the targeted region.
Added an option to custom regions that allows for murder count decay to be suspended.
This will allow the staff to disable skill gain and murder count decay in the safe event lobby. People can still initiate combat with a grey animal or idle as a murdered in those areas but there will be no benefit from the safety of the area.
Bonded creatures will no longer drop any special items, should they have a chance to drop platinum, holiday coins, or rares.
Added some extra protection to closed reward store pages to disallow access when the store is closed.
... and 3 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#88 • Patch 87 - November 21st - Clean Up Britannia, Happy Thanksgiving 📅 Oct 13, 2019 at 12:29 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Cleanup Britain
The first phase of the clean up Britain system will be deployed. You can see information about the items it will accept here.
Clean Up Britain Guide
It will also include an unraveling system for player crafted armor, weapons, clothing and add-ons.
Clean up barrels can be crafted with the carpentry skill and oak boards.
Players will earn copper and resources that will be credited to the clean up barrel.
The ability to redeem resources/copper from the barrel will be disabled for a bit as we evaluate the system and verify it is working as intended.
Once that feature is turned on players can redeem coins for use in the ingame copper store, or to deposit to their account wallets.
Resources, once a threshold is met, can be redeemed for commodity deeds redeemable at any bank.
The system will allow players to drag a single item into it, or a container of items.
If an item is accepted by the system it will be processed and you will be shown an analysis of the redeemed value.
You can also appraise any container to see the value of items inside without turning them in.
... and 48 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#89 • Client Patch 1 - Nov 17th, New Items, Map Fixes & Updated Music 📅 Nov 17, 2019 at 3:20 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

With the creation of the UO:R Launcher , the UO:R staff can now push client updates that can contain new additions or fixes to the map, new items, new gumps, etc. Client updates can and will be separate from server updates which allows the staff to prep changes on the client side before rolling them out with a server update.
Areas on the coastlines and in the sea where the tiles either didn't exist (black or brown looking tiles) or simply aren't displaying correctly due to the randomization of some of the land have been fixed.
This process involved manually reviewing all of the coastlines found on the map one screen at a time to identify bad or missing tiles and correcting them like this one at a time as seen below.
New Items & Deco
Along with map updates, we've updated the art files with over 740 new items that can potentially be used for future rewards, rares and events. Below is a high-level breakdown of those items with a small sample set of each section.
new carpet pieces
The inner corners will be available for all carpet types
plants & nature deco
Several new plants with and without pots, including new flowers and grasses for player and staff decorating purposes.
unique runes
A whole new set of runes that can be used in events or made to be collectible rares
paintings (both small and large)
... and 12 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#90 • Client Patch 2 - Nov 29th, Restoring Britannia's Waterways 📅 Nov 29, 2019 at 3:38 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Following Client Patch 1 that addressed map issues left behind by OSI (black holes, other tile issues), a project was launched to transform the waterways and shorelines near populated areas here on UO:Renaissance into what the original Ultima Online developers envisioned before scrapping the idea due to time constraints.
From a blog post by Raph Kostner titled, "How UO rares were born" , he explains:
Water in UO had a painstakingly created depth effect on the coastlines, which was made by using translucent water objects over a trench close to the coast, then fading the translucency; once you were at a depth where the water was opaque, we switched to tiles. (I spent many hours filling in those objects, and wrote flood-fill code to place them all. You can faintly see the effect in the radar map here — a “halo” around the coastline). It was all for the sake of a cut feature: having some of the fish creatures visibly swimming under the surface in shallow water. But, sometimes a tile got missed, and there would be a “hole” in the water. Click to expand...
The "halo" he refers to is what you can see it on the Radar Map, around the coastline.
Up close, it looks like this with the static water tiles enabled and disabled:
Here'e a screenshot from Ultima Online Alpha (Serpent's Hold) showing off what they were at least envisioning:
The project focused primarily on the following areas with the goal of enabling translucent water tiles took advantage of the trenches Raph Kostner referred to above. While Ultima Online is full of water, since the process to convert can be time consuming the initially focused on are areas thought to have enough foot traffic to see the changes such as:
All towns in Britannia (including docks, waterways, moats, in-house pools -- anything with water)
Including all of the waterways in Vesper, Trinsic, Britain, Serpents Hold & Bucs Den.
Moongates (if near the sea)
Every lake found throughout the land
All bridges that cross over water
... and 24 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#91 • Patch 88 - February 23rd, Client Patch Implementation! Quality of Life Fixes! 📅 Feb 24, 2020 at 12:36 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Client Patch 3
This patch adds official support for Quick's client patch 3. To enjoy this new patch you will want to make sure you update your client.
Information on updating your client can be found here .
For more information on the amazing additions included in this client patch check Quick's post here.
Allowed boats to be docked without having to remove corpses from the deck.
Fixed a problem that would stop boats from being able to be docked near coasts around the world.
Boats should properly ignore any items beneath the boat when trying to dock it.
Updated the ocean system to include the variety of new water tiles so boat travel will not be impacted.
Implemented the transparent water tiles for fishing.
Implemented new nested regions for the expanded Ocllo content
Implemented new nested regions for each major dungeon to separate the different levels.
Each of these new regions will auto label runes marked in those locations.
... and 17 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#92 • Client Patch 3 - Feb 24th, New Player Dungeon Expansion, Ocllo Renovations, Water Updates 📅 Feb 24, 2020 at 1:52 AM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Following the release of Client Patch 1 and a big map overhaul (water transformation) from Client Patch 2 , the staff on UO:Renaissance is proud to announce that Client Patch 3 has been released!
This client patch focuses on three areas:
Redesigning the Ocllo Sewer and Ocllo Dungeon to create a brand new experience for new players to UO:Renaissance to build on the New Player Program .
Renovating Ocllo buildings
Build on Client Patch 2 and keep expanding out water updates
Go here to learn how to update: http://www.uorforum.com/threads/keeping-your-uo-r-client-updated.47207/
New Player Dungeon Expansion
The Ocllo sewer and dungeon system has been redesigned and expanded to include new areas and ways to explore UO:Renassiance!
To access the Ocllo Dungeon, find your way through the sewers. If you want to explore the Mage Tower Dungeon, fight your way past the evil mages and make you way down.
Many secrets await down below Ocllo. Here are some teasers:
Ocllo Renovations
Building on the new sewer and dungeon system, many of the buildings in Ocllo have been renovated to not only show on the radar map but to blend in more with the surrounding area. This includes buildings such as the stables, mining camp, mage tower and others.
... and 2 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#93 • Patch 89 - March 2nd, Water Breathing NPC Fix, Minor New Player Program Updates 📅 Mar 1, 2020 at 10:17 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Underwater Aspects
Disabled the ability to teleport to any location that is now underwater, but otherwise accessible.
Disabled the ability to recall to locations underwater.
Disabled the ability to gate travel to locations underwater.
Disabled the ability to mark runes in underwater locations.
Taught the spawner system how to recognize an underwater location as an invalid spawn point for monsters.
Ocllo - New Player Program
Disabled stealing in Ocllo dungeon regions at the code level.
Improved the light level for the Ocllo new player dungeons to be more forgiving to players who lack nightsight potions/spells.
Public Moongates
Updated the Cove and Serpents Hold Moongate locations to account for the updated destination points.
Account Management
... and 3 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#94 • Patch 90 - March 21st, St Patricks/Easter Event Updates & Much More! 📅 Mar 2, 2020 at 11:04 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

St. Patrick's Event / Easter Egg Hunt Updates
Added 5 new creatures. Infected Leprechaun, Glover Golem, Banshee, Leprechaun Archer, Mutant Fluffy VII
The Infected Leprechaun is a new boss that can be found in the Leprechaun caves.
Updated the Leprechaun camps to include the Archer, Banshee, and rarely the Glover Golem.
Each of these creatures when defeated can spawn a gate to the Leprechaun Caves.
Expanded the Leprechaun caves to account for the new monsters.
Added gated boss zones to each cave to allow for the progressive spawn system.
Adjusted the events so that players must defeat a certain amount of instance spawn before access to the boss room is granted.
This will allow for more players to join the instance while it is active rather than early players getting a huge advantage of immediate access to the boss.
Players can still try to steal the key from the boss once he is accessible, but not before.
Added the Archer, Banshee and Golem as possible spawns in the Leprechaun caves.
Updated the various rare drops/unique things players can find during the event.
... and 25 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#95 • Client Patch 3.3 - March 25th, CUO/Razor Updates, Classic Character Creation & More! 📅 Mar 25, 2020 at 5:40 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Starting on March 25th players will be notified of the availability of a client update when using the Renaissance Launcher. (As seen in the image below) This post will cover the changes that are included with this update.
For more information about how the Launcher works, how client updates are delivered and how to get the Renaissance Launcher click here or navigate down to the 2nd post in this thread.
Every area that had the water updated now should have shading around all the rocks and plants. This helps to create better depth and visuals.
When you place thousands and thousands of plants and rocks, some are bound to not place as you would hope and cause some graphical issue (clipping mainly). This cleans up a bunch of them but more will continue to be addressed.
Character Creation Process
When creating a new character, the Samurai, Ninja, Paladin and Necromancer templates have been replaced with Animal Tamer, Bard, Rogue and Archer with shard era specific starting templates.
This version introduces a new scripting engine that makes it easier to create and share macros.
For more information, visit the Razor Scripting Engine Guide .
Release notes:
Introduction of the Razor Scripting Engine (thanks to everyone for your time testing and providing feedback)
New Sound & Music Tab: Filter out any game sound, trigger music and listen to any sound
Added while loop to the macro system
... and 18 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#96 • Patch 91 - April 1st, April Fools Patch Notes! 📅 Apr 1, 2020 at 12:26 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

Actual Patch Notes
Disabled the system that auto stacks arrows to address a bug that on 1 in a million missed shots will crash the server.
Fixed a rare edge case in which the server would crash if the town guards killed a monster that was trying to aware a rare item to . . the town guards.
Event Updates
The infected leprechaun will no longer drop a blessed mace as a rare drop.
Character Creation
Disabled the ability to receive a variety of items when using non Renaissance era skills using the classic client.
We had fixed most of these long ago but the CUO client allowed the selection of a few non UOR skills recently and code still existing to award these items.
The staff will be collecting any of these items that exist after the patch.
Players are welcome to request a bug report trophy if they had any items that were seized.
April Fools Patch Notes
With some players in this months top shots thread letting the cat out of the bag we decided to go ahead and apply Patch 91 ahead of schedule to allow players to get their first taste of our planned expansion. We are proud to announce several new skills that players can learn to expand the variety of player vs player and player vs tamer playstyles!
... and 56 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

#97 • Client Patch 3.4 - June 14th - UO:R Launcher and CUO/Razor Updates 📅 Jun 13, 2020 at 10:12 PM

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Key Changes & Highlights:

In preparation for Patch 91, a minor client patch was released that updates the UO:R Launcher and updates the versions of Razor and ClassicUO.
You will be prompted to update next time you open the UO:R Launcher. Be sure to close out of everything before you update.
UO:R Launcher Updates:
Enabled support to have the Launcher download files using a CDN. This will enable people, based on where they live, to download UO:R from data centers closer to them.
For example, if you live in the UK, it will download from Frankfurt or Amsterdam depending on your location instead of a data center in the United States.
At the moment, this feature is not enabled.
Removed the ClassicUO Dev Preview option
This option was added early on when the ClassicUO Dev Preview was months ahead of the beta releases. This has since changed, and the beta releases have become much more stable and the changes between beta releases aren't as significant as they once were. You can still use the ClassicUO Dev Preview on your own, but it's recommend that you use the version provided by the launcher.
To use ClassicUO, go to Settings and select "Use ClassicUO Client (open source) with Razor"
If you were using the developer preview, you can copy/paste your profiles/macros by copying the Data folder from C:\UORenaissance\ClassicUO\Preview to C:\UORenaissance\ClassicUO\
Updated all the components used to build the Launcher
More of a developer maintenance task -- helps maintain ease of development.
... and 18 additional specific fixes and adjustments. Full details in the archived thread.

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