Patch 50: March 15th 2014 - Guild Content, Bug Fixes & More

AI

• 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
• Only 50% of the resources required to craft the item will be consumed on a failure.
• If you fail to craft an item that requires 25 ingots, only 12 ingots would be consumed.
• This will be further refined in a future patch to be more closely based on your skill and related to the item attempted.

Forum Link Updates

• Updated a variety of hard coded links to redirect to the new forums.

Guild Improvements

• Created a system in which guilds can be allied with various NPC groups
• Added two initial groups for alliance, orcs and undead.
• Allowed guild stones to be assigned a NPC alliance type
• Allowed regions to be assigned a NPC alliance type
• Allowed monsters to be assigned a NPC alliance type
• Created a few additional AI handlers for monsters to handle dealing with allied players.

Harvest System

• Implemented an item use delay when using various harvesting tools. (1 second)
• Implemented the correct resource bank interaction for harvesting failures for mining and lumberjacking.
• Ore and Wood Veins will now properly decrease when failing to harvest a resource.
• Under the previous system you were ensured 16 results from a vein regardless of your skill.
• Under the new change your skill will determine how much ore you get from a vein.

Hirable NPC's

• Added various NPC's that can be hired back to the world.
  • Bards
  • Bard Archers
  • Beggars
  • Fighters
  • Mages
  • Paladins
  • Pesants
  • Rangers
  • Ranger Archers
  • Sailors
  • Pirates

Holiday Content - St Patty's Day

• Implemented some new content for St Patty's Day 2014

Items - Death Interaction

• When you perish while dragging and item the item will now correctly bounce back to its previous location.
• This was causing players who died while holding an item, to be able to hold the item through the death process.

Items

• Allowed Leprechaun Items to be blessed via clothing bless deeds.
  Note: This will be retroactive on existing items.
• Added a Mounted Dragon Rare
• Added a Large Mongbat Statue Rare
• Created a new item, the Runebook Bless Deed.
• Created a new item, the Home Lockdown Expansion, allowing you to add 25 lockdowns to a house.
• Created a new item, the Home Secure Expansion, allowing you to add 1 secure to a house.

Items - New Addons

• Blood Pentagram
• Sandstone Fountain
• Stone Fountain
• Guillotine
• Cannon

Items - New Light Sources

• RareSkullCandleLight
• RareTallCandelabraLight
• RareDragonBrazier
• RareFirePit

Items - Monster Statuettes

• Added 36 New monster Statues complete with correct sounds.
• Sheep, Black Bear, Giant Rat, Chicken, Corpser, Giant Hart, 2x Dog, Polar Bear, Scorpion, Bird, 2x Bull, Wisp, Pig, Panther, Goat, Ghoul, Headless, Cat, Eagle, Grizzly Bear, Silver Horse, Tan Horse, Brown Horse, Rat, Pack Horse, Pack Llama, Giant Toad, Toad, Lava Lizard, Ostard, Frenzied Ostard, Forest Ostard, Terathan Drone, Terathan Matriarch
  

Message Board Controller

• Resolved a problem in which the message board controller did not have an entry for Serpents Hold
• This was causing camps that spawned nearby to register on other message boards.

Monsters

• Created 3 new mini boss type creatures.
• Each has custom drops in the style of other boss monsters.
• The Cave Troll - Said to be found in secluded caves of Britannia
• The Mountain Troll - Said to be found in mountainous areas.
• The Forest Troll - Rarely sighted in the deep forests of Britain
  
  

Peculiar Meat

• Disabled the ability to feed more than one peculiar meat to a pet at once.
• Disabled the ability to overfeed your pet more peculiar meat than is needed to bond the pet.
• Increased the drop rate for peculiar meat on boss creatures to a 20% chance. Up from 10%.

Platinum Vendor

• Added a new vendor to handle all player platinum purchases.
• This new vendor will replace the statue vendor in most banks.
• Players can appraise platinum statues to determine their value.
• Players can drag platinum statues onto the vendor to redeem them for platinum
• Added carpet pieces, monster statues, house upgrades, and dye tubs to the available items.
• Created several new shops that will house platinum vendors in the following towns

Platinum Vendor - Menu

• A variety of items will be available for purchase from the new vendors.
• All platinum will be deducted from your bank to cover any purchases.
• The total amount of platinum stored in your bank will be displayed at the bottom of each page.
• All purchases are logged and there will be no refunds for any purchase. So choose carefully.
  

Region Controls

• Implemented the new guild alliance system within regions.
• Implemented a new system of travel restrictions so custom regions can be toggled to allow recalls.
• The previous system only prevented recall if the region was flagged canenter = false.

Remove Trap

• Resolved a problem in which level 5 and level 6 treasure map chests were unable to be opened with grandmaster remove trap. Thanks Tulip, Dalavar

Slayers

• Added the new trolls to their respective slayer groups.

World Alert System

• Implemented a system of logging world alerts into our web database.
• Page Creation will be logged and populated to the staff channel for review.
• Page Closure will be logged and populated to the staff channel for review.
  [12:06] <@UOR> Page | Stuck | Daisy | Stuck in Occlo. |
  [12:06] <@UOR> Page | Other | Aguk | i cant seem to remove my vendor hair???? |
  [12:11] <@UOR> Page | Other Page From: Aguk | Resolved by: Chris |
• New Account/Character creations will populated to the staff channel for new player assistance
  [11:27] <@UOR> Account | New Player: Karna - Acct Created on: 3/19/2014 |
• Attended Verification Statistics and Abnormalities will be monitored in a more proactive manner.
  [10:45] <@UOR> AFK | AFK Check Success: PlayerX @ (4820, 3677, 0) |
  [11:00] <@UOR> AFK | AFK Check Failure: PlayerY @ (5275, 4008, 39) |
• Towncrier announcements will be logged and broadcast into the main channel once created.
• These announcements will be available from the <UOR> bot until they expire.

Renaissance Website

New Web Pages

• MyUO:Renaissance
• Compendium Landing Page

Compendium Updates - Info

• T2A Entrances
• Abyss Champion
• Arachnid Champion
• Cold Blood Champion
• Forest Lord Champion
• Unholy Terror Champion
• Vermin Horde Champion
• UO Fiddler

Compendium Updates - Items

• Special Fishing Net
• Fire Horn
• Platinum Coins
• Holiday Coins
• Gargoyles Pickaxe
• Marble Ingots
• Sandstone Ingots
• Stone Ingots
• Prospector's Tool

Compendium Updates - Places

• Orc Camp
• Lizardman Camp
• Ratman Camp
• Brigand Camp

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Fixed. Thanks

Cave, Mountain and Forest Trolls can be awakened by a combination of magic and mining in certain areas. The average miner however will rarely disturb them in their lairs. If you are paying attention this will provide a welcome break from watching your miners, if not they could be a dangerous addition.

However these new monsters provide the chance for great rewards should they be found and defeated.

Each troll also has a few locations they can spawn naturally.

Cave Troll
Mountain Troll
Forest Troll

Basoosh is correct, the changes were made to balance each other out. A future patch will see additional changes to smelting allowing more ingot recovery while smelting crafted items.

This will be addressed in patch 51, with the addition of 20-25 new oak craftables, with higher failure rates for the resources required. These craftables will be included in the carpentry bulk order deed system leading to and increased demand/consumption of oak boards.

Not currently, however we have discussed that and you will most likely see that soon. These monsters can be found like other boss monsters, in certain spots in the world linked to similar spawn.

That is a good question but since inscription only uses 1 of each resource it should not be affected.