The Lands of Ilshenar
Ilshenar is a third facet in the world of Britannia. Ilshenar will have different conditions from the facets of Felucca and Trammel. Player interactions on Ilshenar will be just like Trammel with the following exceptions:
1) Players who are within “murder” status will be able to travel to Ilshenar under the following guidelines:
- Murderers will be able to go to Ilshenar once per month. If a player’s murder status wears off, and then they return to a murderer state, the “once per month” guideline will still be in place. Once the trip to Ilshenar is taken while in murderer status, the count starts and the player may not again enter Ilshenar until they are either not a murderer, or until a month has passed.
- If a murderer has taken the effects of stat loss, they will not be able to gain skills while in Ilshenar until the reduced skills are returned to their pre-stat loss numbers. For example:
- Player A loses 20% of their skills to stat loss.
- Player A will not be able to gain any skills in Ilshenar until this 20% that has been lost has been regained.
- Player A will be able to gain skills in Ilshenar once this percentage lost to stat loss has been restored.
- Stat loss and murder counters are still in effect, with the same time durations per murder. These have not changed in any way.
- Other players cannot attack murderers in Ilshenar.
2) Traveling to and within Ilshenar.
Players visiting Ilshenar will not be able to cast gate or recall within the Ilshenar lands. Travel will behave in the following manners:
- There will be no recall or player created gating within Ilshenar.
- Travel to and from Ilshenar will be via public moongates. The gates within Ilshenar will be scattered around those lands, and will connect to public moongates located within Trammel and Felucca.
- There will be a moongate located on the Buc’s Den island for murderers to be able to use to get to Ilshenar.
- Players will be able to use a menu system on the public moongates to select destination, including which facet.
3) Siege Perilous will not have an Ilshenar facet.
Note that in order to travel to Ilshenar, you will need to be using the Third Dawn client. Regular clients (2D) will not be able to travel to Ilshenar.
Various Fixes and Changes
These fixes will be active on the Chesapeake shard following its Wednesday, March 7th maintenance period and will be included with publish to all remaining shards.
- Fixed an issue with faction score loss.
- Fixed an issue with housing sign text color.
- Fixed an issue causing locked down trees to leave ornaments behind when automatically re-deeded.
- Fixed an issue where pets could not be claimed by name from stables.
- Re-enabled the “gold” command to allow players to collect gold from vendors.
- Fixed an issue causing some exceptional items to lose the last letter in their name.
- Fixed pricing for taxidermy kits and flipflop tool.
- Fixed numerous error null strings.
Localization and Macros
With the update of localized language support for Ultima Online: Third Dawn, the way in which speech commands work, will affect the use of certain macros. Players will no longer be able to combine long strings of speech commands to use as a single macro, such as “Vendor, tell the guards to buy me the bank.” Macros using combined speech commands may not work in all cases. To use speech commands effectively, they should be limited to the appropriate command (such as “bank” when standing inside a bank, or “vendor buy” when purchasing from a vendor.)
Additionally, the appearance of certain text strings within the game will be modified to accommodate translation. A list of current English language speech commands is available at http://www.uo.com/docs/speecheng.txt. This list does not include all possible speech commands, only those that may have been affected by localization.
Bandage Creation Changes
Players can cut multiple bandages at once using the following manner:
- Players place an amount of cloth in their backpack. The cloth must be in a player’s backpack to be cut into bandages.
- When scissors are used on the stack, it will be cut into a stack of bandages equaling the amount of cloth that was in the stack being cut.
Bandages will weigh equal to that amount of cloth. For example, one bandage will weigh exactly the same as one cloth and likewise one thousand bandages will weigh the same as one thousand cloth.
All pre-existing bandages will be "grandfathered" with these weight changes, so that they equal a 1 to 1 weight ratio compared to cloth.
Various Fixes And Changes
A problem with players crashing when placing houses near
server “boundaries” has been fixed.
Holiday trees will be changed in the following manner:
- Holiday trees that exist in tree form will
automatically redeed themselves. The tree deed can only be
picked up by the deed owner or the house owner (deed owner is
the character that placed the tree originally).
- The tree deed will decay in seven days if not picked up
by the house owner or deed owner. No other characters can
pick up the tree deed, until the house owner or deed owner
has picked the deed up.
- Holiday tree deeds no longer function to allow
placement of a holiday tree, until reactivated again.
Localization changes have been added.
Stablemasters have been fixed to sell the correct creatures.
A bug has been fixed with
stablemasters and their pricing. This bugfix will result in
higher prices for creatures sold by the Stablemasters.
A change has been added to the tutorial, requiring new
accounts to enter the tutorial at least once. After this
initial entry, players will be able to exit the tutorial as
desired. New players will also be able to review parts of the
tutorial at will, via the help selection menu.
A bug with runebooks not closing properly upon a player’s
death has been fixed. This caused runebooks after the death
to fail to open.
A problem with escort NPCs not paying the reward if their desired destination is a dungeon has been fixed.
Faction Trap Changes
Faction traps will be modified in the following manner:
- Faction traps will award silver to their placer when
they successfully damage or kill an enemy faction member.
- The silver being awarded will come from the victim, and
will be subject to existing silver-award eligibility. Thus,
the placer will not receive any silver from opponents not
eligible to award silver.
- The trap will award 20 coins for damaging an enemy, and
40 coins for killing an enemy.
Faction Trap Removal Tool
Faction tinkers will be able to create a faction-trap removal
tool. This tool will be necessary to remove faction traps set
by enemy factions. The tool will function in the following manners:
- The tool will appear within the tinker creation window,
if the character is qualified and carrying the necessary materials to make
the tool (500 silver, master or greater tinkering skill, and
10 ingots).
- The tool will have 25 uses, decreasing upon either
success or failure to disarm the trap. The tool must be in
the base level of the player’s backpack to function.
Good Creatures Attack Evil Karma
Creatures of “good” alignment will react aggressively toward
players with negative karma. These new creatures are
specifically being introduced with the release of Third Dawn.
Player Owned Vendor Changes
Player-owned vendors will be able to give the gold they are
holding to their owners in bank check form if the amount is
between 4999 gold and 1 million gold. If the gold amount
being held for the player by the vendor is between 4999 and 1
million gold, the vendor will hand this to the owner in the
form of a bank check (as long as the vendor is actually
carrying this amount). If the amount is less equal to or less
then 4999 gold then the vendor will hand the owner the amount
in gold form. If the gold held by the vendor is more than 1 million
gold, the vendor will retain the amount over 1 million gold
until the next request for gold is made by the player.
Player-owned vendors will give a more accurate description of
their gold and payment status.
Player owned vendors will properly “clean up” from a
player-owned house, if they are removed from that house. This
fixes a bug that caused player owned houses to sometimes
refuse re-deeding even when empty.
Item Identification Window
Information regarding an item’s magical or exceptional properties will now be displayed below the initial item information, once identified using "item identification" skill.
The information display window will function in the following manner:
- When a player clicks on a magical or exceptional item they will get generic text describing the item, such as “magic longsword”.
- When the item is identified, the additional information for the item will be displayed below the initial information. For example, "a magic longsword" would read as (if these were it's attributes):
- A magic longsword
- Silver/Accurate/Vanquishing/Massive/Ghoul's Touch Charges: 5
Note that maker's mark is displayed outside of the "item identification" system and thus will appear without requiring the item to be identified.
If an item has not been identified, the quick display will appear as the text, "Unidentified” and the player will not have access to the extended info until he has identified the item.
House Decoration Tool
Players will be able to use a House Decoration Tool to assist
them with the decoration of their houses within UO. The tool
has the following abilities:
- The tool will be sold on Architect NPC’s
- The tool has the ability to turn certain objects to
face south-to-east, or east-to-south. An example of an object
that is able to be turned would be a wall clock. Not all
objects may be turned.
- The tool has the ability to raise or lower certain
objects, thus allowing items such as the wall clock to be
“hung” on a wall. Not all objects can be raised or lowered.
The tool itself operates in the following manner:
- The player using the tool must be the owner or a
co-owner of the house where the tool will be used.
- The player must actually be in the house to use the tool.
- When the player double clicks the tool, targeting the
tool again with the target cursor will bring up a menu. The
menu choices are “turn”, “up”, and “down”. This changes the
operating mode of the tool to the choice that is made.
- Upon selecting turn, up, or down, the player will be
able to target an item in the house to apply that effect. The
tool will remain in whatever mode was selected, until the
tool mode is changed again (refer to above).
- The player can either double click the tool again and
then the house object to apply the last movement style chosen
on the tool, or the player can use the target cursor on the
tool itself to choose another movement style (such as
selecting down instead of up).
House objects being moved must be locked down prior to being moved,
and will remain locked down during the Decoration Tool
movement process.
Taxidermy Kits
Taxidermy Kits will allow for players to use corpses of
certain creatures to create trophy deeds, which can be used
within houses to generate a wall mounted trophy.
Taxidermy Kits will be found on NPC Tanners, usually found
within “leather and hide” shops in towns. Only master and
above carpenters can use the kit itself, as those without
master or grandmaster status in carpentry will be unable to
figure out the kit’s workings or purchase them.
A master carpenter is defined by UO as a player with 90.1 or
above base carpentry skill (base skill, visible by
checkmarking selecting “show real” in the skill window).
The player will need the following items to create a trophy:
- Taxidermy Kit
- 10 boards
- corpse of either:
- Orc
- Gorilla
- Troll
- Brown Bear
- Polar Bear
- Great Hart
- Big Fish (note that “big fish” that have been stacked
with other fish will not be useable by the taxidermy kit)
When a player with appropriate carpentry skill and materials
double-clicks the taxidermy kit, they will get a targeting
cursor. This cursor must be targeted on the corpse of the
creature intended to be the trophy. The player will need to
be at the corpse of one of these creatures to successfully
use the taxidermy kit. The taxidermy kit will disappear upon
successful usage, and a deed for a trophy will be placed
within the player’s pack.
Any player attempting to place the trophy will need to have
owner/co-owner status within the house. The trophy will need
to be locked down to prevent decay or other players taking
it. Double-clicking the trophy if it is not locked down will
cause it to return to deed form in the player’s backpack.
Hair Stylist NPC
A new type of NPC will become available throughout Britannia, which will offer restyling of hair/beards and dying for hair. Options for dying beards and hair range from both at the same time to separate selections for either hair or beards.
The choices on this vendor will allow for selections of:
- Adding a new hair style (including “bald” style)
- Adding a new beard style (including no beard)
- Regular hair dye selection
- Regular beard dye selection
- Special hair dye selection (“neon” or bright colors, including 2 shades of “ice white”)
- Special beard dye selection (“neon” or bright colors, including 2 shades of “ice white”)
The curly hair and “bun” hair styles will not be available from this menu.
These vendors will be in the major towns, within the alchemy shops. They will be distinguishable from regular vendors by their appearance.
The Hair Stylist NPC will recognize gold in the customer's bankbox as payment if a selection is made, but it will not use gold that is in "check" form. The gold must be in gold form.
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