Notice: The player previously in charge of these guides has given up his management of them. If you would like to carry on the work send me a pm. - Chris Related Guides: Spawning Rare Guide: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1983 Uniques - Artifacts and Event Items in UO:Renaissance: For the purpose of this guide series, Uniques will be defined as items that no longer spawn or drop in game. This means that there are a number of items that classify as unique. The goal of this guide is to separate all the existing Unique Rares into the 2 categories: Artifacts and Events. Artifacts: Commonly refered to as Server Births, these items are few in number - generally between 1 and 3. Some have been given as reward items. Others have been obtained during scavenger hunts or server rare launch events. Staff has stated several times that the aim is to keep 2 of each birth in circulation (items of each direction count as distinct if the items are non flipable). So for example, there are currently 2 RareAnimatedBlueFlasks in the game world. If a player who owns one of these flasks goes inactive for a very long period of time, staff will introduce another copy to keep the number in circulation at 2. 2012 Dungeon Spawning Rares Kickoff Event Tall Statue Stack of Books Empty Large Vase Torture Chamber 2012 Town Spawning Rares Kickoff Event Pig Carcass Pegboard Covered Chair Hanging Chicken Plough Gavestone (2 Types) Stacked Boards Moulding Board (2 Directions) Tarot Cards Skinned Fish Chicken on a Spit Dartboard with Daggers Open Book (2 Types) Dartboard w/ Knives 2012 Overworld Spawning Rares Kickoff Event Gravestones {6 types) Potted Cactus Skinned Fish Tarot Basket of Herbs Rabbit + Spit Music + Stand Kettle + Stand Stack of Logs (large) Stack of Logs (small) Stack of Arrow Shafts Carcass Saddle Horse Barding Tall Statue Hourglass Bowel Blackrock Shard? Skinned Animal Corpse (4 types) Pitcher of ale? Ore Cart Fish Heads Bowel of Water 4 Bottles of Ale Hitching Posts (2 of them) Bubbling Pink Flask Campfire Nox Crystal Batwing? Anchor Nest 2013 Overworld Spawning Rares Event 2 + Scavenger Hunt Torture Chamber Skinned Carcasses (3 types) Hanging Carcasses (2) Pegboard Large empty Vase Music + Stand (2 of them) Fish Heads (2) Skinned Fish Saddle Basket (2 types) Toolbox Large Pile of Logs Small Pile of Logs Pigs Heads (2 types) Bottles of Liquor (10 Types) Anchor Penis Flask Hourglass Ore Cart Plough Horse Barding Dartboard with Axe
Re: The Great Unique Rare Guide - Players Edition Events and Event Rares List: These items can be considered to be Unique since they were obtained during past events and no longer spawn or drop in the game world and might never drop again. Many of these item types are not in the subclass Rare____ and are instead located under their parent item type. For this reason, the links will be especially helpful as users will be able to find these items quickly. 2013 Christmas 2013 Thanksgiving 2013 Halloween Achievement Awards 2013 Halloween Skara Brae, Jhelom, and Serps Attacked 2013 Halloween Night of Horrors 2013 Halloween (Holiday Coins) 2013 October 26 Pirate Stronghold September and October 2013 - House Deco Contest #2: 2013 September 21 Attack on Jhelom September 5 2013 - Trinsic Undead Invasion: 2013 - 1st Year Anniversary August 21 2013 - Pirate Treasure Hunt Gone Wrong: August 17 2013 - Defense of Cove - Elementals and Mages: August 9 2013 - Moonglow Infestation - Elementals and Mages: August 3 2013 - Plague Investigation July 27 2013 - Vesper Pirate Attack: July 22 2013 - Monster Bash - Occlo Infestation July 4 2013 - 4th of July: June 26 2013 - Pirate Attack: June 13 2013 - Blackrock Plague: May 19, 2013 - First Harrower Summoning and Kill: May 19, 2013 - Pirate Invasion: April 19 and 20, 2013 - Britain Invasion: April 14, 2013 - Cove Invasion: April 9, 2013 - Scavenger Hunt 3: March 28 to April 4, 2013 - Easter Event: March 7, 2013 - Saint Patrick's Day: February 24, 2013 - Overworld Rares 2 and Scavengery Hunt 2 by Chris: February 8, 2013 - Lost Love of Mondain Valentine's Day: January 21, 2013 - House Deco Contest: Christmas 2012 (Holiday Coins) December, 2012 - Christmas Rise of the Reindeer Event and Reindeer Hunt: November, 2012 - Thanksgiving Turkey Explosion: November 17, 2012 - Overworld Rares by Chris: November 14, 2012 - Town Rares by Chris: November 11, 2012 - Dungeon Rares by Chris: October, 2012 - Halloween Haunted House: October, 2012 - Halloween Night of Horrors: September 23, 2012 - UOR Landrush: . More Info on the UOR Landrush: 2012 September Monster Bash Event:
Very cool, hopefully you can get all the info compiled. Would love to see where all this stuff originated from.
Awesome idea..! So many events I never knew took place. Are you looking for all uniques and artifacts, or just the ones from events with the rare prefix? Curious if you want to know about unique item rewards from staff for bug reports?
Thanks for this guide Gideon, this should be a very interesting thread. Just wanted to tell the story of how I came to own these items because I have so many people ask me about them. First off, me acquiring these items was some crazy luck and unfortunately I do not have any screen shots from this mini event. Hopefully Ezekiel and Telamon can chime in here and fill in some of the blanks. So, sometime last year before the land rush, I'm thinking early Fall 12', Ezekiel held a small event. This event was a testing of the champ spawn system as they (Ez and Tela) were making changes to the champ spawn mechanics. Long story short, it lasted a couple of hours due to an insane amount of spawn, it took forever. FINALLY the spawn was complete and an "Evil Mage" boss appeared wearing this apron and wiz hat(Hue 1159). After the boss was killed I was able to loot both pieces from the corpse. This event took place north of Minoc as shown in the pic below. The only other person I can remember specifically being there was Deacon so maybe he can give some more details on this event and possibly a screenshot. After speaking with Ezekiel and Telamon about these items, they assured me they had no plan to re-use this hue for any other items (Hopefully this will hold true for my sake!). Also, I can confirm that at least one of the "Stacked Books" rares shown below dropped on this boss, although I was not able to loot it. I'm pretty sure Deacon owns this rare item and hopefully can confirm this. Like I said, I'm not sure if both of these books were on this boss or not but I know for a fact one was (don't remember direction of the one I seen on the corpse). There was also a purple skull that dropped off of this boss, called skull of Gemeni I belive.
The hues for those items (half-apron & wizard's hat) were colors that we pulled from the original Bulk Order system which we felt weren't acceptable to be released in circulation. That being said, it's very unlikely that we would re-add those hues in the future. Regarding the event & the origin of the items, everything described above if i'm not mistaken is accurate.
Yeah, two stacked books dropped off the boss, and a face down open book. I was lucky enough to grab both and I think Krypto is still wearing the purple robe that the NPC had on when he died. The boss also dropped a skull, although I can't remember who got it.
Just adding these here so we don't lose track of any along the way... 2013 December 12 Arachnid Invasion of Minoc Arachnophobia Attack - Shadow Angel Trophy Arachnophobia Attack - Shadow Small Circle Base Trophy Arachnophobia Attack - Shadow Surfer Trophy 2013 Thanksgiving also dished out the Holiday Turkey Statuette (possibly in a new hue?)
Valentine's Day 2014 Callous Heart Vial of Tears Mongbat Dung Cupid's Mask Cupid's Clothing (Apron, Shirt, Sash) Open Books
I was at the champ testing event and didn't acquire anything special but do recall seeing the hat and apron Markos acquired right after the event. I was lucky enough to know the owner of the skull who left UOR for awhile and returned. He needed to raise gold and I was able to purchase the skull.