Hi guys, a bit of help request here.

I've recently made another attempt at playing OSI. Had no trouble picking up a template, training skills, basically everything i did i did around New Heaven, took me some time, but road was easy and pretty relaxing (given vast amount of information on the web).

Now i'm close to GM sword, gm healing, anatomy, resisting spells, etc. but i have no idea where to go, what to farm. The world is open, but i have no blueprint for the way i want to explore it. Classic dungeons (like Fire, or Deceit, or Destard, seem overcrowded with mobs and stuff flying at you at supersonic speeds), champion spawns (i have no idea how to locate them).

Can someone lay it down for me, what to do, where to go, what types of PVE are available for a fresh GM char, with no perfect gear.

P.S. due to my line of work i'm in Asia region right now, and playing on Asuka shard, which limits my ability to talk to other players very limited.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

⚔️ GOR ULTIMA — OPEN BETA STARTED⚔️

A Unique Ultima Online Experience Inspired by the World of Gor

Welcome to the Gor Ultima Open Beta! We're excited to invite you into a heavily customized world of adventure, progression, exploration, and roleplay!

🔞 Important: 18+ Server Only

Gor Ultima is strictly an 18+ server. Anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited from playing.

If we discover, or have reasonable suspicion, that you are underage, your account will be permanently banned and your IP address blocked.

We understand that IP address restrictions can be circumvented and are not a foolproof method of preventing access. However, we make every reasonable effort to enforce our age restrictions and maintain an adult-only gaming environment.

By choosing to play Gor Ultima, you acknowledge that you are at least 18 years of age and agree to abide by this requirement.

🌍 The World of Gor Ultima

Gor Ultima is a unique take on Ultima Online, drawing inspiration from the culture and world of John Norman's Gorean novels.

We have not adopted every aspect of that world. Instead, we've selected the elements we want to focus on while creating our own unique gaming experience.

One of the most prominent features you'll encounter is the caste structure and the differences between male and female characters. Males generally have greater physical strength, while females have their own advantages in various combat and support roles.

⚖️ Choose Your Path

Freemen, Freewomen, male slaves (kajirus), and female slaves (kajira) are all represented in the game. Slaves are also available as NPCs that players can purchase and own.

Players are free to choose whichever role they prefer. However, keep in mind that choosing to play as a slave character opens you up to the possibility of being captured by other players. If that is not something you want to experience, we recommend playing as a Freewoman or Freeman instead.

While many of our classes and equipment options may be geared toward male characters, female characters are by no means weak. They can excel in certain types of combat, magical abilities, and support roles.

Everyone has a place in this world. Depending on your preferred playstyle, there is something for just about everyone.

📜 A Note About Roleplay

Gor Ultima is NOT a sexually focused server. However, we do not prohibit consensual sexual roleplay between adult players.

That said, many aspects of the Gorean world are not for the faint of heart, so please keep that in mind before entering.

✨ What Makes Gor Ultima Unique?

Gor Ultima features numerous custom enhancements, expanded mechanics, and unique systems designed to offer an experience beyond traditional Ultima Online.

Our expanded class system alone features over 50 playable classes, and a single character can eventually master every one of them!

⚔️ Features & Systems

• 50+ Playable Classes — Master multiple classes on a single character.
• No Overall Skill Caps — Without a class selected, all skills are fully accessible without class-based restrictions. Individual classes do have intentional skill caps to preserve their unique strengths, weaknesses, and identities.
• Unique Houseboat System — Experience a different approach to housing.
• Trials of the Priest Kings — Special dungeons featuring unique challenges.
• Expanded Dungeon Selection — Explore numerous dungeons across various difficulty levels.
• RPG-Style Leveling System — Develop and progress your character.
• Gear Awakening System — Enhance your equipment and unlock its potential.
• Rune System — Additional customization and progression.
• Pet Fusion System — Further develop your companions.
• And Much, Much More!

There is simply too much to list here!

🛠️ An Evolving World

We are continually developing and refining our systems. Some mechanics are still evolving, and certain features may need further balancing or improvement.

Your feedback matters!

The Open Beta is an opportunity to explore, experiment, report issues, and help shape the future of Gor Ultima.

Your adventure begins here. Come explore the world of Gor Ultima!

🖥️ Client Requirements — Please Read!

Gor Ultima requires the use of our official GorClient, which is provided through the Gor IPL.

Our client is a heavily customized fork of TazUO (itself based on ClassicUO), developed to support the unique features, systems, and mechanics found throughout Gor Ultima.

Third-party clients, modified clients, and independently customized clients are NOT permitted.

This includes attempting to connect using alternative Ultima Online clients or unauthorized modifications to our official client.

These restrictions help maintain compatibility, fairness, stability, and the integrity of our custom game systems.

Please use only the official client provided and maintained through the Gor IPL.

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📥 HOW TO INSTALL & PLAY

⬇️ Official IPL Download

Download the Gor Ultima Installer, Patcher & Launcher:

⚔️ DOWNLOAD GOR IPL — https://gor.gorbot.app/files/GorIPL.zip

Discord: https://discord.gg/jHEjMBxrZY

The IPL (Installer, Patcher, and Launcher) handles installing the game, managing your account, updating your client, and launching the game.

① Download the IPL

Download the IPL package using the link above and extract it to the location where you would like the game installed.

The game client will be downloaded into a subfolder within the IPL directory.

Wherever you place the IPL is where your game installation will reside.

② Launch the IPL

Run the appropriate executable for your operating system:

• Windows: Gor.exe
• Linux: GorIPL (ELF executable)

Linux users may need to grant the file executable permissions before launching it.

③ Install the Game Client

Once the IPL opens, click the Install button to begin downloading and installing the official Gor Ultima client.

Allow the download and installation process to complete.

Reminder: Only the official client downloaded through the IPL is permitted. Custom or third-party clients are not supported or allowed.

④ Create Your Account

Create your game account directly through the IPL.

Important: All account management is handled through the IPL, not the game client itself.

You cannot log into the game directly through the client. The IPL serves as the main entry point for account management and launching the game.

⑤ Create Your Character & Play!

Once the client has finished downloading:

1. Create your character and choose your path.
2. Explore the Wiki to familiarize yourself with the game's systems, mechanics, and world.
3. Click Play in the IPL to launch Gor Ultima!

((Character progress is not wiped. What you earn today is kept beyond beta,))

⚔️ WELCOME TO GOR ULTIMA! ⚔️

The world is yours to explore. Your choices will shape your journey.

We hope you enjoy your time in Gor Ultima and look forward to your feedback throughout the Open Beta.

See you in game!

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Hi everyone,

I'm excited to release Mongbat UI, a UI mod for the Enhanced Client! The purpose of this mod is to rewrite the EC UI with modern tooling, establish a more consistent design philosophy, fix bugs, and improve quality of life. This scope includes making the UI scale better, establishing parity with other popular clients, and more. I hope to expand on this idea more into the future!

You may browse the UI catalog here: https://loop-uc-ui.github.io/mongbat-ui/windows/index.html

To install, download the zip from the releases page. Extract the archive to the UserInterface folder and select mongbat-ui from the custom UI list on the Login screen. No extra patching required. This mod does not modify the client's packages.

Please note that I would consider this a mature alpha. I haven't fully tested some functionality and have not done extended play sessions or installed the UI on many systems. Crashes are possible!

I've attached some screen captures as well. This post was not written with AI!

Launching October 30th 6pm EST

Check out our SuperBoss Squall the Ancient Ice Wrym fight this Saturday at 8pm EST for the first look.

And our new Embyrfrost Mare.

2 weeks left in Beta. https://perilouslegends.com/

Hello folks,

I really miss the old times now I am old and got kids and wish me the time back…

Is anybody here who is connected to the old staff and can get me in touch ? I want to buy the old server databank what ever just to get some time in the old world there..

In hope there are some of my Charakters in that database..

Wish me luck guys that’s a dream for me like for someone a big car just to spent some time there

# 🏰⚔️ VALTIMA ONLINE ⚔️🏰

### 🌍 *Ultima Online's Britannia, raised inside Valheim* 🌍

> 🐉 The Tenth World has a new coastline, and it is Britannia's.

**🧾 TL;DR:** Trammel and Felucca in one 65 km Valheim world 🌍 32 UO towns on their old plots, with townsfolk, guards, vendors and a bank 🏘️ UO's moongates 🌀 murder counts and Felucca's PvP ⚔️ treasure maps 🗺️ 286 quests 📜 **Early alpha, open now.** Steam PC, one Gale modpack.

### 🚪 [**Step through the moongate: live.ravenirongames.com**](https://live.ravenirongames.com/)

---

## 🌍 The World

- 🗺️ **Trammel in the west, Felucca in the east** (turned half round to fit), one Better Continents world, **65 km across** 🌊

- 🏝️ You start on an **island in the middle**. Its moongate leads to Trammel's towns, and two dirt roads run out to two docks, both marked on your map ⚓

- ⛵ **Felucca lies 3 km of open sea away. Boat only.** Three kilometres is not far as crossings go, but it is far enough that you will have meant it

- 🏔️ **Real mountains** under **deep snow** from 200 to 300 m up: you wade in it, walking cuts a trench through it, and nothing gets built on it until a hoe has cleared it ❄️

- 🚫 **No Valheim portals.** The ways across Britannia are the moongates, the roads and the sea

## 🏘️ The Towns

- 🏰 **32 UO towns**, Trammel's and Felucca's: Britain, Trinsic, Moonglow, Yew, Minoc, Jhelom, Skara Brae, Magincia, Vesper, Nujel'm, Buccaneer's Den, Delucia and the rest, on their old plots and built from Valheim's own pieces

- 🧱 Baked into the world itself: **they can't be damaged or torn down.** Somebody will try it with a pickaxe on day one ⛏️

- 🔥 Torches and braziers burn for real, doors open for anyone and shut behind you, chairs can be sat on, and forges, ovens, spinning wheels, workbenches and cauldrons all work

- 🧑‍🌾 **Townsfolk work at their trades:** cooks wipe, carpenters saw, fishermen fish, farmers hoe. They walk set routes and stop when you come close

- 💂 **Two guards at every town gate** (Buccaneer's Den keeps none). Type `guards` in chat when something has followed you in

- 🛒 **Vendors** sell and buy only their own trade's goods. The farther from Britain, the deeper the stock, up to Delucia, which sells everything

- 🏦 **A bank:** every character has a box of 125 stacks, tied to your Steam account and backed up on the server

## ⚖️ The Old Laws

| | 🛡️ **Trammel** | 🗡️ **Felucca** |

|:--|:--|:--|

| 🏘️ **Towns** | Safe havens: no PvP, no monster spawns, no raids (*Buccaneer's Den excepted*) | PvP forced on; the guards still come for a grey who starts trouble |

| 🌲 **Outside the towns** | Valheim's own PvP switch | PvP forced on across the whole land |

| ⭐ **Fame and karma** | By UO's numbers | **+30 %** |

| ⛵ **Getting there** | The moongate from the start island | **Boat only** |

| 🌀 **Moongates** | List Trammel and the start island | List only Felucca; *a red's gates are Felucca's* |

- 🟡 Strike an innocent outside a town and you go **grey** for 2 minutes

- ⚰️ A player you kill may **report the murder.** Five long-term counts and you go **🟥 red**

- ☠️ A red comes back to life only at the **Shrine of Chaos**

- 🏷️ **UO skill titles** hang on your nameplate (*Master Blacksmith* and the like), with your **fame and karma** beside them: *The Glorious Lord*, or something you will like less

## 🗺️ Loot, Quests and Music

- 💎 **Treasure maps** drop from creatures, bosses a level higher: **seven levels**, from the *Plainly Drawn* map of the Meadows to the *Ancient* map of the Ashlands. **340 spots** across the two lands. Six blows of a pickaxe or hoe at the mark raise the chest, and its guardians with it. Only the digger can open it 💀

- 📜 **286 community quests** by Nomadicwar, with a journal on **L**

- 🐺 UO's spawn regions are on, with Valheim's creatures standing in. They keep out of the towns' havens

- 🎶 VALtima's own music for the menu and each of Trammel's biomes, openly licensed

- 🖼️ UO-style inventory, minimap and paperdoll panels in-game

## 🧪 Where It Stands

This is an **early alpha (0.0.18).** The stone is laid and the roofs are on, and the floors have opinions 🪲

- ✅ The world, the towns, the townsfolk, the laws, the loot: all standing today

- 🚧 **No dungeons yet.** Despise will be the first, later

- 🐞 It will break. We want to hear exactly how

## 🚪 How to Join

1. 💻 **Steam PC, Valheim 1.0.17.** No crossplay
2. 🌐 Open **[live.ravenirongames.com](https://live.ravenirongames.com/)**: the VALtima guide there walks you through every step
3. 📦 Install **Gale** and the **[VALtimaOnline_Modpack on Hexium](https://valheim.hexium.gg/mods/Wubarrk/VALtimaOnline_Modpack)** into a new profile
4. 🔗 Connect with **Join IP** using the address the guide shows, or grab the one-click **FastLink file** pinned in #how-to-connect on [our Discord](https://discord.gg/GTTCnGS6Ym). Start the game from that profile
5. 🧙 Make a **new character** on the island in the middle of the world, and pick a gate

🔧 **Found a bug?** Open a ticket in **#help-desk** on [our Discord](https://discord.gg/GTTCnGS6Ym) and press 📩 *Create ticket*. Say what you were doing and where you stood, and attach your `LogOutput.log` (in Gale: open the profile's folder, then BepInEx)

---

## 🙏 Credit Where It Is Owed

- 🌀 **MonkeyMagicMan:** the Woodland Portal that every moongate is built on

- 📜 **Nomadicwar:** the community quests

- 🏗️ The community **town builders**, named in the world's town credits

- 🎻 **Alexandr Zhelanov** and **Alexander Nakarada** (CC BY 4.0), and the CC0 composers, for the music

⛵ **See you at the docks.** ⚔️

*🏳️ VALtima Online is an unofficial fan tribute. It is not made, sponsored or endorsed by Iron Gate, Coffee Stain, Origin Systems or Electronic Arts. Britannia was theirs first. It has only been rebuilt somewhere colder.*

https://ironveiluo.com/

⚙️ A new look for Ironveil’s Options window

We’ve redesigned the Options window using the same visual style as Journal V3, with new ways to find and manage your settings.

🔎 Search for what you need
Search by setting name or keywords such as HP, FPS or volume. Most settings can be adjusted directly in the results.

📂 More organised navigation
Browse 10 categories, with tabs grouping related settings—from combat and targeting to graphics, audio and Ironveil features.

💡 Understand disabled settings
When an option depends on another setting, the window explains what you need to enable first.

↩️ More focused resets
The Defaults button targets the current tab, or the settings displayed during a search. Some settings retain their existing reset limitations.

📍 Pick up where you left off
Options remembers your last category and tab during your current game session.

✅ Apply your changes with OK
Press OK to apply your changes and close the window.

📜 Prefer the classic layout?
You can switch back through Advanced → Profile → “Use the classic options window”, then press OK.

Your existing saved settings carry over—there’s no need to configure everything again.

📸 Take a look at the screenshots and let us know what you think!

I was really interested in playing Arc Raiders since it dropped, but knew all too well that the PvPvE portion was not for me. So, I forgot about it until I seen the PvE advertisement a few weeks ago.

I was still on the fence since it stated "limited time" but honestly with the game being on sale, I thought why not.

That brings me to yesterday. I loaded everything up, enabled my pvp toggle and away I went. Not exactly sure what to do, I was just ran around, looted what ever I could. Then two guys come running my way and I got a bit anxious. One of them peeled off to my right and the second runs right up to my face.

He yelled out, "PvE? PvE?!"
I says, "Yep!"

Just then he slashed me with his pickaxe and I thought, ok here we go with some taunting....

But no, he started laughing, but I know this laugh all too well. It was that childish laugh of delight you pour out when you finally got that thing you wanted for Christmas.

Random guy, "I love PvE, I love it!!!" He almost shouted. Then he told me to be safe and ran to where ever he was going.

I couldn't help but laugh as well. I had that same feeling when I dropped my moonstone and gave Fel the finger, knowing Tram was what I had wanted for a very long time. I remember running around, asking everyone else how awesome it was to no longer be afraid of leaving town anymore. We danced around the bank in Vesper and cheered. But like I said, I could actually hear this guys excitement vs floating text back in the day.

So here we are folks, history repeating itself. The similarities of UO and ARC PvP/PvE issues are so uncannily similar it's like we've jumped back into the Stratics forums of UO back in 98'.

It started off with the smug remarks from the pro-pvp crowd, "That's just how the game is...", "Haha, get better skillz!", "Just recall away...", "Play with a guild...", "Learn how to play..."

Then the devs chime in and say that PvE will never be a thing. (Stink eye to Raph Koster...) Though, I do chuckle because the ARC team call it a pvp switch, like we did back in the day.

Like clockwork, the Arc Raiders player count dwindles, like losing 90% of their player base. Yikes... Raph, admitted in an article that UO lost more players than EQ had in it's current paying base. Yikes x 2.

Then Devs change their minds. For both games, I gave up hope for any PvE options. Thankfully, I was wrong on both accounts.

Now, the ARC forums are a blaze. I'm seeing "Carebear" insults coming back from the grave. Oh man, I laughed so hard seeing those old passive aggressive insults by the salty pvp folk.

Now we're in the thick of it. Forums are still buzzing with beta pro and anti PvP chatter. Only time will tell from here, but if 90% of your player base left, honestly there's no where to go but up.

The numbers don't lie folks. In UO, 90% - 95% of players moved to tram.

In ARC, "Over 70% of Friendly players and even 40% of PvP players express a desire for fewer hostile encounters and 51% of the surveyed playerbase has expressed an interest in a dedicated PvE option."

Honestly, I think the majority of people just want a choice of how they'd like to play, UO, ARC or what ever it game may be.

UPDATE: Apparently Reddit PvP is already working.

Well, after that little battle in the comments, I figured I'd explain a few things about myself and, more importantly, the actual game.

First off, yes, I'm using AI again. Relax, I basically asked it to remove my ums and uhs, add punctuation, and separate paragraphs so people can actually read my rambling thoughts. Apparently, proper punctuation is considered an unfair advantage now. Lol.

As for my personality, I enjoy sarcasm, joking around, and some good old-fashioned shit-talking. I don't go looking for arguments, but I don't exactly run away from them either. Sometimes I entertain them longer than I should because, well, I enjoy a good verbal battle.

Apparently, my PR skills have also been compared to those of a 12-year-old. Honestly, that's probably unfair to the 12-year-old. I'll admit I got a little carried away. I take building and running the game seriously. Myself? Not nearly as much. I can laugh at myself, and I hope others can too.

Anyway, enough about my apparently successful Reddit PvP testing.

Now, about UO Last Rally.

I've spent about a year building the version of Ultima Online I've always wanted to play. I love programming, designing systems, and figuring out how everything connects. Marketing and social media? Not so much. I'd rather be building the damn game.

Here's some of what makes Last Rally different:

• Living creatures and evolving nests: Monsters fight, consume each other, inherit traits and abilities, and evolve. Nests grow, compete for territory, and can eventually attack towns.
• Nest battles: Want a nest crystal? You'll have to defend it for 45 minutes while its creatures come back to make your life miserable.
• Heartstones and affinities: Elemental progression systems tied to creatures, combat, and character development.
• A living world: Factions, long story-driven quests, crafting, housing, player economies, PvP, and even a casino. I want a world where things happen whether you're watching or not.

And that's just part of it.

What I'm looking for is simple: About 50 UO players willing to help test it. Break things, find bugs, give honest feedback, and tell me what works and what sucks. I don't need people telling me everything is great. I need people willing to help make it better.

Testers can earn points, rewards, special titles, and permanent Founder recognition. Expanded testing starts November 11, with the final wipe and public launch planned for January 2.

I'll share actual gameplay screenshots after this weekend.

And yes, the original AI-generated marketing post that apparently started World War III is still below. I'm not deleting it or pretending I didn't use AI. I gave it my ideas and asked it to make a marketing post. Apparently, that was enough to unlock an entirely new enemy faction I hadn't even programmed yet.

So enjoy the original post. I'm leaving it right where it is.

If you want to play UO, help test something different, and have a little fun along the way, you're exactly who I'm looking for.

Waitlist: https://uolastrally.mactranova.com/waitlist.html

Discord: https://discord.gg/JPPyQaVqCA

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Remember when Ultima Online was about more than just grinding skills?

When leaving town was an adventure? When you never knew whether the next player you encountered would become your best friend, your greatest enemy, or the guy who stole everything you owned?

That's the spirit I'm trying to bring back.

Hey everyone! I'm developing UO Last Rally, a heavily customized Ultima Online experience built on the classic foundation we all remember, but taking the game in an entirely new direction.

I'm opening up 50 early Pre-Alpha testing spots before our larger Veterans Day testing launch, and I'd love to get some experienced UO players involved.

⚔️ No Trammel. Real Risk. Real Adventure.

We're keeping the freedom and unpredictability that made classic UO special.

• Open-world PvP and PvE
• No Trammel
• Classic UO skills and character-building freedom
• Crafting, gathering, exploration, and player interaction
• A world where danger and discovery are part of the experience

But we're not simply recreating another classic shard.

🐉 A Living World With Evolving PvE

We're developing systems that go beyond traditional monster spawns and dungeon grinding.

Nest Crystals and evolving monster nests are part of a larger approach to making PvE more dynamic, giving players new threats to investigate, challenges to overcome, and reasons to keep exploring.

We're also developing new storylines, world content, and progression opportunities.

The goal is to preserve what makes UO feel like UO while giving longtime players something they haven't already experienced a thousand times.

🔥 New Ways to Build Your Character

Your traditional UO skills are still the foundation, but we're building additional progression systems around them:

• Five unique factions with different identities and opportunities
• Affinities that expand character development
• Additional abilities beyond the traditional UO skill system
• Life Essence and other unique progression mechanics
• New ways to develop your character alongside your familiar skills

I want players to have meaningful choices and reasons to experiment with different builds, not just follow the same handful of templates forever.

🖥️ Integrated Razor Experience

We're also developing an integrated Razor-style assistant directly within the game instance, eliminating the need for a separate Razor window.

I'm particularly interested in getting feedback on script compatibility, including JaseOwns scripts, and seeing how well the integrated experience works for actual players.

🎁 Help Test. Earn Points. Get Rewarded.

Rather than simply asking people to test for free and hope everything works, we're building a Tester Points reward system.

Help test features, identify bugs, provide feedback, and contribute to development.

Your participation earns points that will carry forward and be redeemable for rewards when the server goes live.

📅 Our Timeline

NOW – 50 Pre-Alpha Spots

I'm looking for approximately 50 players willing to get in early, explore unfinished systems, report problems, and help shape the experience before the larger testing phase.

NOVEMBER 11, 2026 – VETERANS DAY

We'll open testing to approximately 100 additional players, expanding the community and putting more systems through their paces.

JANUARY 2, 2027 – OFFICIAL PUBLIC LAUNCH

Final server wipe, fresh world, and everyone starts on equal footing. Previously earned Tester Points will remain available for launch rewards.

💬 What I'm Looking For

PvPers, PvE adventurers, tamers, crafters, explorers, guild leaders, longtime UO veterans, and even players who haven't touched UO in years.

I especially want feedback from people who have played different shards and know what they loved, what frustrated them, and what they'd change.

I'm not claiming everything is finished. That's the entire reason I'm recruiting testers early.

And I'd love to hear from the UO community:

1. What is the ONE thing you miss most about classic Ultima Online?
2. What do modern private shards get wrong?
3. Would you rather see more dynamic PvE, deeper character progression, or more meaningful faction warfare?

I'm actively developing this and want community feedback to influence where we go next.

Interested in one of the 50 early spots?

Join the waitlist: https://uolastrally.mactranova.com/

Or send me a message directly.
On here or in Discord (New Server Just created and populated this week - This is the first pushout for it): https://discord.gg/gxfeKgEaZ << follow for updates and patches as we go as well. There are also extra tester quests to earn points on Discord!

Old souls. New stories. Same spirit. A bolder world.

Welcome to UO Last Rally.

BladeSpirit recently joined us for a tour of UltimaCraft, a project our six-person team has been building to bring the world and systems of Ultima Online into Minecraft: Java Edition.

The video shows the current Patch 18 experience and an early look at what we’re building toward for Patch 19. Some of the Shard 3 content shown is still in closed testing, so it remains a work in progress.

Full disclosure: I’m one of the UltimaCraft developers and arranged the tour. I’m sharing BladeSpirit’s original upload so his channel receives the views and exposure.

I’d genuinely like to hear from UO players: what translates well, and what would you want to see us build next?

We talk about everything from his childhood and youth, to space travel and the importance of weaning humanity off of fossil fuels. The interview is up now at https://www.youtube.com/@techjesse

Thanks!

I've been trying to get ClassicUO launcher to work but when i direct it to the path of my ultima online data files (i tried files downloaded via uo_patcher and via the official launcher running in wine) it returns this error: Unable to launch ClassicUO: ClassicUO executable not found in /path/to/data

I was going to try and use the discord but they require phone verification to post there so I thought I'd ask here for some help getting ClassicUO to work or recommend other launchers that might work.

I started playing UO as a kid and nothing since has felt the same. I don’t mean the graphics. I mean the feeling that the world didn’t care about you, that the guy walking toward you on the road could take everything you owned, and that your character was just whatever you’d actually spent your time doing.

So I built one. It’s called The Olde World: Online. It’s one shard, and everyone is on it. It runs in Chrome with no download and no launcher: you pick a name, pick a password and you’re standing in town.

Here’s what will feel familiar:

• Use-based skills. You swing a sword and get better with swords. There’s a 720 total skill cap and a 280 stat cap, and you can set skills Up, Down or Locked, like you’d expect.
• Full loot. Out past the guards, anything you’re carrying stays on your corpse. There’s no insurance and no blessed-by-default gear.
• Guard zones. Crimes in town get you flagged and the guards come for you. Thieves can snoop and steal, and stealing gets you flagged grey.
• Spoken magic. Every spell is spoken aloud, so you hear the words before the fireball lands. It goes all the way up through eighth circle, with gates, recall and runebooks.
• Bandages, potions and pets. Taming, a bear at your heel, mounts and pack animals.
• Crafting. Mining, smelting, smithing and tailoring. Dye your clothes so people learn your colors.
• Houses. Deeds, lockdowns, secures, co-owners, and banning people from your front step.
• Thieves, bards, dungeons and a lot of things that hunt you.

About the alpha: I want people fighting and testing builds now, not grinding for months. In every town there’s an NPC who will set any skill to 100 and give you a starter kit in your bank. Pick a template or roll your own, then go get killed. Expect wipes, bugs and the occasional catastrophically overpowered thing.

Just to be clear: this isn’t a UO shard and it doesn’t use any UO assets or client. It’s its own game, built from scratch, that wears its influence openly.

I’m a solo dev and I’m in the Discord every day reading bug reports. If something breaks, or if something feels wrong compared to how you remember UO, I really want to hear about it.

Play: https://theoldeworld.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/5j8WrdnXfn

See you on the road. Bring a friend you trust. Or don’t.

Everyone who joins for the Alpha will get rewarded with extra goodies on launch day and subsequent betas.

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I know some other people have submitted their games to this subreddit lately, I hate to inundate you guys, but I think it would be worth a look.

If you loved UO or LoA or any of those kinds of games, this will be for you.

ATTENTION:
FOR MAC USERS
If you play on Mac, you have to enter `sudo ifconfig awdl0 down` into a terminal. If you're playing on WiFi, this is a known thing, it affects a lot of multiplayer games like this. You can google it, to make sure.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255914661?sortBy=rank

Hey all,

I loved UO to death but now as a dad I don't have enough time to play anymore. But if an "Ultima Online 2" were to come around the corner, I would at least be intrigued.

I always wondered what a modern day UO could look like. I always imagined it being in the spirit of UO with the open sandbox, classless skills and high fantasy charm, but with better graphics, a more dynamic combat system and features improved to fit to todays standards without sacrificing what made UO great.

Sure maybe UO was just lightning in a bottle back then, but what would you expect from a new UO if it were to release today?

Duskmere is my game I've been working on for two years. I used AI to develop the server and bugs. I coded everything besides those.

I have just released on itch.o and it's currently in beta but no wipes. Duskmere Online by gody233 I would love everyone to come in and try the game if you want! I want to build this game by what the PLAYERS WANT and keep to the core of the ultima like game for a very long time. You can play it in your browser and on your phone for free!

Let me know what you think!

I run a small shard called Mount Kendall. It puts every era of Ultima Online into one world: all six facets, all three races, content from every expansion.

A few things that make it different:

• **Rested training.** Half of your offline time banks as rest (up to 8 hours); while rested, skills below 100 need a third of the usual attempts. You can have a life and still progress.
• **Callings.** Every skill reaches 100; a Calling takes a chosen few beyond it.
• **Raids on a clock.** Every three hours on the hour (UTC) a town is raided - Ophidians at Trinsic, orcs on the Cove road, the undead at Vesper.
• **AI-native, openly.** The official client ships an MCP server, so your own coding agent can read the real mechanics (skill curves, spell timings, combat formulas) and write TypeScript automations for your character. Eleven come in the box; their source is on the website. No grey-market bots, no pay-to-win.

It is small and friendly right now - a good time to claim a house spot. macOS and Windows clients at https://mountkendall.com, or connect your own client to 204.168.175.80:2593. Questions welcome here or on Telegram: https://t.me/mountkendall

Hi all,

Fourth update on the AI agents inside the Ultima Online client. A 4-minute screen recording again, and this time all of it is the party.

Last time five characters fought side by side but each planned alone, so one would wander off to the bank mid-hunt. Now the leader plans for all five and the others follow. In a fight they heal each other and call out what they're doing, each in its own voice. At 28% health the warrior shouts "Going down, damn it! Heal me, now!", and within five seconds three of them are bandaging him and the mage casts a heal.

Next I asked for more: when the hunt is won, take everyone to the inn and talk it over. That took five takes. In the first two the leader kept hunting an empty graveyard and never went. In the third they got to the inn, but I'd filmed it with a tiny game view and a character sheet over everyone, so you can't read any of it. In the fourth the walk stopped on the wrong side of the inn's wall and they held the table in the street. The fifth worked. They toast, argue about whose arrow killed the lich, and the tamer tells the archer to say "rug" about her bear one more time. Each one also keeps a lesson for its next fight.

Afterwards they couldn't leave. Five people and a bear in a room two tiles wide blocked every path out. That's fixed now: a walker goes round people in its way, and anyone standing in the way steps aside. It worked in both runs I tried, but those weren't filmed.

The take after that went worse, and it's my favourite. Memories were on, and from earlier runs most of them had written themselves a rule to leave if a lich shows up. The leader died about 16 seconds after they reached it while the mage shouted "Run, all of you! Dignity can be recovered later!" His ghost walked to the healer, they went back together for his corpse, and three more hunts got no kills. So the leader took them to the inn anyway, "to regroup and talk over the approach". The bard toasted "Roland and Wystan, who did [fall], twice!", and Roland said "Once, bard. I keep count."

The setup hasn't changed: a fork of ClassicUO with a Python program beside it. Jev made the fight calls in all of this footage, Claude Haiku plans, and Claude Sonnet wrote the inn table's lines. Since filming I've also tested Microsoft's Decision 1 against Jev. It won 139 benchmark rounds of 150 to Jev's 128, and each was better at different calls, so now Decision 1 does the fighting and Jev the routine calls.

Everything I filmed for this, six takes and 77 minutes with five characters in each, came to 4,062 model calls and $1.34, about £1. Sonnet writing the four tables was 77 cents of that, and Jev's 2,850 fight calls were 36 cents.

Sorry the footage could be better - I'll work on that.

Hey there, i´m not really active in the UO community. I played outlands a few years ago and it was quite overwhelming for me.

My nostalgic experience comes from a shard in like 2003 or so. I was only doing Mining and Blacksmithing, but it was a crucial part of the game. For outlands i had the feeling that it doesnt matter anymore because you find better weapons in the world.

is there a shard where skills like mining/lumberjacking etc. still matter?

Still a lot to do but the general idea is there.

Are there any Oceanic/Aussie players that play Outlands?

And how is the ping difference? Is it unplayable or manageable?

I grew up in the UK playing UO, mainly t2a time in late 90s.

Still to this day, after everything else that has come after it, do I still call UO the best game I've ever played.

Got the nostalgia bug and thinking about running it back.

I primarily enjoyed PvP, not a PK but the faction wars.. stealing sigils and returning them to the base. Order/chaos as well.

Stopped playing when they pushed that weird 3d model and samurai's appeared.

Looking for something similar. See Outlands is the most populated shard, has PvP and some QoL upgrades but looks like UO at its core still.

Reside in Australia these days, so wondered if it is feasible to go down this path again or if im wasting my time?

Cheers

It feels like 4 new server posts pop up every week, which isn't a bad thing at all. It's interesting to see what new servers try to accomplish.

Outlands is still the "main" server with the most population.

Does anyone think this will change? What do people want in a server that would rival Outlands?