If this is your first time playing Ultima Online (or it's been so long that you've forgotten everything), getting started can be tough. Everything can kill you, you don't know who to trust and you have no gold. Stockpiling enough gold to train magery and buy your first house should be your top priority, but where to start? Ultima is a lot like like the One Red Paperclip story where a guy starts out with a single red paperclip and, through a series of trades, ends up with a house. In Ultima there are lots of different ways to make gold, this is one that works for me: sheep. Yes, I know you didn't sign on to become a mighty shepherd, this is just a way to get you started. For some people, farming sheep ends up being a permanent cash cow. It's also a good way to make your own bandages and save having to buy them when you train other skills (magery, melee, tailoring). Also, note that you are allowed to have 3 accounts here, so to make best use of your time, you might want to be working on a 2nd account at the same time. (Hint: getting a bard started is free, it just takes time, but it can be done in the background.) First you'll want to create a new character. Use the "advanced" setup: For stats choose 60 strength, 10 dexterity and 10 intelligence. For skills choose 50 Animal Taming and 50 Magery. Next, head to the nearest bank and unload everything but your newbie dagger. You're going to turn that newbie dagger into gold. Strip down and put your clothes in the bank too. The idea is to maximize the amount you can carry by getting rid of all your extra gear. Now head to the nearest moongate and go to Yew. You're going to be spending some time here, so get acquainted with the map. Now head to the nearest sheep pen as shown on the map. The sheep you find there will be either: Sheep with wool Sheep already shorn Stand next to a sheep with wool, double click your dagger and target the sheep. This will sheer the sheep and put the wool in your backpack. You'll notice that there are 3 sheep pens on the map, hit them all. You're going to be doing a lot of this, so it's best to use a macro and assign a hotkey to the macro. Macro to double click knife Code: Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3922|True Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|1 How to copy and paste a macro Once the sheep have been sheered you could just stand around waiting the 1-2 hours for them to regrow, but there's a better way: taming. Tame each of the sheep, move them to one of the NPC houses labeled "storage" and release them. This will trigger new spawn in the sheep pens and it increases the number of sheep you'll be able to sheer later on. When you release them, they will try to work their way back to the pen they spawned at, so keep an eye on the doors. Eventually you are going to become overloaded; wool is heavy. Head to the moongate and go to Skara Brea. Due south from the moongate you'll find the tailor shop. Here's where you can turn the wool into yarn and the yarn into cloth which you can sell for gold. Stand in between the spinning wheel and the loom. Double click the wool in your backpack and target the spinning wheel. After a couple seconds some yarn will appear in your back pack. Double click the yarn and target the loom. Do this 4 times and a bolt of cloth will appear in your pack. Macro for spinning/looming This is a slightly more advanced macro that requires you to setup a counter for "wool". In Razor go to Display/Counters and click the "Add" button. In both "Name" and "Format" input "wool" (without the quotes) then click the "target" button and target the wool in your backpack and click "Okay". Lastly, find your newly created "wool" counter and put a check next to it. Code: !Loop Assistant.Macros.IfAction|50|1|1|wool Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3576|True Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|1 Assistant.Macros.TargetTypeAction|False|4121 Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:03.3000000 Assistant.Macros.ElseAction Assistant.Macros.DoubleClickTypeAction|3613|True Assistant.Macros.WaitForTargetAction|1 Assistant.Macros.TargetTypeAction|False|4194 Assistant.Macros.PauseAction|00:00:00.8000000 Assistant.Macros.EndIfAction How to copy and paste a macro Now you have some bolts of cloth that you can either sell to the NPCs or other player. The NPC tailor/weaver will give you 60 gold per bolt of cloth. As you sell more and more cloth, the price will start to go down. If it gets too low, either find another NPC or store it in your bank. You can also use Razor to automatically sell the bolts. Go to the "Agents" tab, click the downdown menu and select "sell". Click "Add (Target)" and target the bolts in your pack. Click "Max Sell" and input 5, then click "Push to Enable". Any time you say "vendor sell" it will automatically sell 5 bolts at whatever price the NPC is willing to give you. The Math 2 wool per sheep 5 sheep = 10 wool 10 wool = 30 yarn = 300 yards of cloth = 6 bolts of cloth = 360 gold This really starts to earn gold once you get a large number of sheep in your storage buildings. Every hour or two drop by your storage, sheer your sheep and maybe tame a few to add to your farm. Also, you'll want to sheer your sheep at least once a day or they might decay. Sooner or later someone is going to discover your cache of sheep and either grab your wool or kill them outright. Sometimes you can team up and combine resources. Other times, you'll have to either move to another location or give up for a few days. There are additional sheep pens NW of Skara Bank (2 sheep), on the north island of Jhelom (2 pens, 4 sheep each) and NE of Delucia (5 sheep, unguarded). Maximizing your time: Get a horse from the stables north of Skara bank (650gp) Get your strength to 100 so you can carry more (~4000gp) Mark the locations of the sheep pens and tailor so you can cast recall--either ask someone to help you or find a player vendor that sells mark scrolls Get your magery high enough that you can cast Gate Travel and move your sheep somewhere less visible Place a house (44000gp) and add a spinning wheel/loom (~6000gp)
Great guide! May I add that once you have some gold it is a good idea to buy a runebook and mark all the cotton spawns too. Since you are going to be spending lots of time near the spinning wheel and loom, might as well maximize the amount of raw material. Also, once the population grows bandages will be in greater demand and could eventually sell for 1.5-2gp which is more money per yard of cloth than selling to NPC's.
nice info on add counters! never properly used! if i could add wool and cotton to the top of my page next to regs!!! could be useful for smith and lumber jack for logs boards !! fisherman!! nice info
wow times have changed {2012} bandies are 1.5 to 2! having used this method taming sheep and keeping in certain areas for wool, i never really had a tailor. how to make folded cloth? dont forget to add flax to the list.
