Server Patch 95 - Forge of Virtues - Publish 2 - July 26th 2021

Animal Lore

- Updated the animal lore gump to include a reference to the amount of previous owners that a pet has had on the 3rd page of the gump.
- Added a 4th page to the animal lore gump for any tamed animal that has 1 or more friends.
- Resolved some minor coloring issues with the gump where cliloc and non cliloc data was mixing. (Aesthetics)
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Animal Taming

- Added two additional messages to the taming process to indicate that the animal you are trying to tame has been tamed by someone else.
Note: There will be a message for an animal tamed once, and a different message for an animal tamed 2 or more times previously.
Note: This change requires a bit more testing and will be moved to patch 96.
- Allowing players to clear the friends list of any controlled pet by using the friends command and targeting yourself. ​

Pirate Bazaar Vendor

- Add a new vendor in Papua that will deal in antiquities for players to purchase.
- Designed a new type of vendor gump that is easier to update and providers more information to players.
- This vendor will also be used by players to select their seasonal rewards.
Note: Prices and detail pages are still in development and contain placeholder prices and testing information. Player comment is welcome on the prices for the rewards as we roll out the AMIB system update.
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Fishing

- Moved the various items that can drop from high level fishing onto monsters into their monster backpack. ​

Clean Up Britannia

- Resolved a small problem with how accuracy modifiers were handled when turning in magic weapons. ​

Custom Regions

- Implemented a flag on custom regions that will allow for explosion potion damage to be scaled.
- Implemented a flag on custom regions that will allow for earthquake damage to be scaled.
- These features will be used to provide balance in the Ancient MIB Instances.
Note: They will not be seen in the overworld.​

Copper System

- Players can now use donation copper to purchase a lockdown expansion service for a house of their choice.
- Players can now use donation copper to purchase a secure expansion service for a house of their choice.
Note: These services can be purchased with copper earned from the Clean Up Brit System, or donation copper.
Note: The changes are applied directly to the house, rather than a transferable expansion item and must be requested by the home owner. ​

New Items

- Decorative Snow Carpet Tiles (Holiday Store Reward)
- Winter Holiday Trees (Holiday Store Reward)
- Decorative Holiday Wreaths (Holiday Store Reward)
- Ethereal Polar Bear Mount (Holiday Store Reward)
- Animated Christmas Lights (Holiday Store Reward)

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Christmas Reward Store Updates

- Extensive updates to the Christmas Reward stores for the next 5 years.
- The stores are designed and stored ready for the yearly store rotation.
- This should cut down on delays related to store updates for Christmas
- Released 3 new holiday hues, Festive Red, Ice Blue and Mistletoe
Note: Prices subject to change but mostly correct. The 2020 store will be active with patch 95. The 2021 store will be active Mid December.
Note: The lottery remains unchanged for now but hopefully we will apply some changes to that by December.
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Expanded Special Attack System

- Continued work on the new custom special attack system for UO Renaissance as part of the Forge of Virtues Expansion.
- These attacks have been extensively designed so they are portable and can be implements in various forms on any new or old monster.
- They will provide the staff and seers with unique tools to craft interesting challenges for our players.

Cannon Wall
- This special attack is placed in a location to provide an environmental blockage that can damage players that get to close.
- Can face the 4 cardinal directions and damages players who are hit by the cannon balls.
- A new barrier to be used in the Pirate Bay Ancient Message in a Bottle.
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Molotov Cocktail Attack
- Allows a monster to throw a Molotov cocktail at any player in the indicated range which explodes into a mix of damaging fields.
- Anyone standing on the fields will take damage over time as long as they burn.
- Fields will spread away from the point of impact in the direction the Molotov was thrown.
- A new attack used by the Pirate Bartender MiniBoss
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Powder Keg Attack
- Allows a monster to throw a lit powder keg in the direction of a nearby player or tame.
- After a brief period the powder keg will explode damaging everything in the nearby area.
- A new attack used by the Pirate Overseer MiniBoss
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Poison Blood Attack
- Allows a monster to bleed poison fields that cause a player standing on top of them to be infected with the designated poison level.
- These will replace the normal blood players might expect from monsters.
- This type of blood can even be produced from these monsters fighting controlled pets, or other monsters.
- A new attack used by the Ooze Monster and other minions.
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Flame Cross Attack
- Allows a monster to throw a fireball at a nearby player or tame that will explode into a cross formation that damages anything in its path.
- Can be customized with a variety of lengths colors and target ranges.
- A new attack used by the Ancient Drowner
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Underground Summon Attack
- Allows a monster to summon help from the depths in order to assist with combat.
- Can be provided with an array of monsters to randomly rise from the ground at various depths.
- A new attack used by the Ancient Drowner.
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Earthquake Attack
- An improved version of the Earthquake attack that can be customized in range, and effectiveness.
- Will no longer kill players if the damage is greater than they could normally survive.
- Allows for a hard coded damage range or a percentage of damage from each target.​

Misc Changes

- Taming Quest: Fixed a problem where the entrance gate for the taming quest would return you to the event lobby, not where you started the event from.​

Young Program

- Removed young status from players who failed an afk check, addressing any issues where they could not leave jail easily
- Extended the period in which players can join the new player program to better accommodate new players and returning players who had limited game experience.
- Extended the period in which players can be in the young player program to 1000 total hour per account.
- Doubled the amount of times players can ping/pong in and out of the new player program.
- We want to encourage all players to take as much time as they need to learn this era.​

Public Moongate / Event Center

- Added a destination for the event center lobby to the location list.
- The event center gates will only appear when scripted events are running.
- Outside of those situations players will need to use moongates to access the event center.
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Pirate Bay Ancient Message in a Bottle Renovation

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Yes, Green gates will be available for much shorter periods of time primarily during the signup and spectator periods of the events. Outside of those windows players can access the event lobby via the moongates.

This is a longer term project. We have slowly removed as much of the benefits of the place while still allowing it to fulfill its purpose of allowing community events. You cannot gain skills in there, cannot decay murder counts, it can affect your monthly platinum rewards, etc.

We accept that it is a safe space for players, but we tried the alternate route years ago and it did not go well. So we need it, but are open to ideas to keep it from being a safe idle zone.

In a recent patch we added a new feature that allows us to re-locate players when they log in solving the problem of having to boot people from the arena.

So as always it is a work in progress, but needed to support our event goals, player run events, etc. It is also much easier on the staff to do 1 gate to a player run event, and then direct people to the moongates to access it. This used to be a huge timesink for the staff.