New guy questions

Fairly new to here to UOR and still figuring out some UOR specific mechanics and general questions. Any and all advice appreciated.


1. Contextual menus.......obviously left click contextual menus from npcs are not here. Is the ONLY way to interact with typing text? I find that with some npcs u have to actually say their name as opposed tot the generic vendor buy vendor sell. Any easier way to do this?

2. Stat increases. I started herding for strength and to a lesser extent intelligence. After a few hours the gains flat out stopped. Is herding difficulty based? Do I need to switch to a harder animal or something? I'd doing occlo farm animals like sheep and horses but after 8+ hours I stopped gaining stats as well as skill.

3. Housing. 3 accounts per ip and 5 chars per account and 1 house per CHARACTER how does anyone other than the few first people have a house? Are there houses currently for sale? How much do small simple ones go for I just need something basic.

4. I'd like to buy a package of items if someone could help me out. Basic starter stuff......marked rune books for towns and dungeons (several sets of each) , several hundred recall scrolls, maybe books marked for basic farming areas etc......Since rune books aren't blessed I assume ppl just keep them in their bank or homes and just bring a few key duplicate individual runes for home, town ,etc when they adventure out?

5. Skill gain seems REALLY slower than I'm used to. I think I've put in 8-10 hours of me lee farming and my lumberjack melee char still isn't even gm swords! He's like 90ish sword 90ish tactics......after 8-10 hours thought I'd be higher. Am I doing something wrong here? Im not talking about 10 hours in game time I mean10 full hours banging away on mobs nonstop 1 after the other.

6. Razor basic macros. I haven't used razor in a long time mostly used uosteam. Anyone have a basic set of macros they wouldn't mind sharing? Smart pot usage/etc ?

7. Platinum. Do ppl sell it? I really REALLY want 500-750 to bless a few rune books. I assume that's going to be hard and take a long time to accumulate. What's the best way to get platinum quickly?

I'll add to this thread later I know I have more questions. If anyone has any other advice for a guy new to UOR to help with my progression it would be much appreciated

1. type their names as far as i know

2. id buy up to 700 and do snooping for dex , herding for str/int ( thats what i do )

3. You can still place anything up to a tower still. There are some tower spots, but they are far and few between.

5. LJ is one of the harder skills , skill gain is relatively easy here. ( especially doing melee ) Chop trees for a bit faster LJ gain and spar another one of your characters to GM wep skills

7. Yes people sell. 7-8k per at the moment. Champions are generally the best way , unless there is a holiday event going on ( I.E Easter / Tgiving , Vday)

Ps is there a busy crafter out there that needs a mule for ingots or wood? I'm willing to hardcore farm mats for someone to get starter gold for a week or maybe more. I'm my own boss and can play from work whenever I have time and often do. I've done this on other servers when starting out with a crafter and it benefited us both really well.


If anyone is interested in an arrangement like this let me know

Buying up to 700 takes a lot of gold compared my newbie bankroll. Is it necessary to be at skill cap for stat gain to progress or something?

no stats just tend to gain faster with the chance of gaining the particular skill , so if your skill is super low your gaining a lot - hence giving you more stat gains too

Wait.....7k per individual plat coin? At 250 plat per ur book that's 1,750,000 gold to bless a single rune book? Is that correct?

yes u are correct sir

Skill gain is incredibly fast here. It's faster than any shard I've ever played on.

Within roughly the past 2 months this is the 3rd shard ive made a lumberjack melee character from scratch and so far at least for Swords/LJ its slower than elsewhere by a significant margin. Tactics is a tad quicker here.

Cant speak to magery and other skill gains but will be doing that next so will be able to compare then.

Are you keeping fed? Getting hungry seems to happen really fast here. Also, you can use camping for a very quick few extra points in str, up until you get camping to low 30's when it stops gaining fast and the fires start too easily to be viable. Its almost like a freebee with very little effort. Just dont do what I did at first and go on a click fest. Make a macro for gathering the kindling and you will have an extra 5-10 str in 5 minutes.

On this shard I believe lumberjacking raises much slower from combat gains than from chopping trees. Also, I thought that LJ ombat gains were capped at a certain level - like 80ish - but I could be wrong on that one.

Finally, if you haven't found a buyer yet I will buy your boards.

I believe you can now GM lj from combat too, it just takes ages.

Ah ok. Cool

TY all the for the replies!

I dont have many boards right now...but can farm them very quickly.

Im looking for a regular arrangement with a crafter for a set # of boards (OR INGOTS!!!) every...day(?) week(?) etc....at a set price.

Is that something you would be interested in Melochabre?

Im always eating food and keeping fed. Started magery last night.

Skill gains are DEFINITELY slower here than any other freeshard ive played. By a SIGNIFICANT margin.

Not saying this is good, bad, or otherwise....just reporting my comparisons.

These points are either still not addressed or I have questions regarding them.

If anyone wants to take a crack...as always its appreciated TY

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Yes, herding is difficulty based. I generally switch to a bull around 50.

You can find a spot to place small houses in a couple minutes. Tons of spots left out there.
There are spots for medium houses as well (villas, towers), though you will need to do some scouting.
There are no longer spots for massive houses (forts, keeps). You'll have to buy from someone or get into IDOC-ing.

How is it possible that there are still ANY open housing spots when each individual playing can have 15 houses?

3 accounts, 5 chars per account yes(?), and 1 house per CHARACTER.

Hell if i were here since 2013 like I see some people Id have 15 houses.....

What am I missing? Is there a special quest necessary to place a house like to get extra bonded pets?

If there are small house spots open Ill just get a deed (or a placement tool whatever the protocol is here) and go drop a house once I get the gold

Just to clear up the being well fed issue. Being well fed vs starving has 0 effect on skill gains or success/fail chance. The only thing being well fed does, is slightly increase your hp and stamina regen.

1. Contextual menus.......obviously left click contextual menus from npcs are not here. Is the ONLY way to interact with typing text? I find that with some npcs u have to actually say their name as opposed tot the generic vendor buy vendor sell. Any easier way to do this?
-- Yes, sometimes you have to say their names if there are a lot of vendors in one area. Find the one you wanna talk to and say their name. Communicating via typing is the old school UO feel, but most of the time just standing next to the vendor you wanna use and using your vendor buy/sell macro works just fine.

2. Stat increases. I started herding for strength and to a lesser extent intelligence. After a few hours the gains flat out stopped. Is herding difficulty based? Do I need to switch to a harder animal or something? I'd doing occlo farm animals like sheep and horses but after 8+ hours I stopped gaining stats as well as skill.
--- A few others have talked about this already. I dont know if the skill system is slower here, but I am pretty sure its era accurate.....? As for raising skills themselves, it depends on if you wanna raise them the most efficiently or just get out there and start adventuring.
-- In terms of stats, the most efficient is to buy up skills from vendors until you hit 700 real skill. I wouldnt buy any herding, snooping, camping or eval int. Then look at the skills that best raise the stat you want (snooping for dex, herding for str and int. Eval Int for Int is also good, especially if you are making a mage). Then, set all your skills to LOCK except the ones you wanna train. This is just for STATS. Set herding or snooping or whatever skill you wanna use to train the stat to UP. It should be at 0 though. This way, when you train it, you will still gain the stat but not the skill. Stat gains are FASTER at lower skill levels. If this doesnt make sense, jump into IRC and ask around about it.

3. Housing. 3 accounts per ip and 5 chars per account and 1 house per CHARACTER how does anyone other than the few first people have a house? Are there houses currently for sale? How much do small simple ones go for I just need something basic.
-- People have addressed this already. Lots of small and spots open. A few mediums and large (gotta scout) and no massive (gotta buy them from other players at this point)
4. I'd like to buy a package of items if someone could help me out. Basic starter stuff......marked rune books for towns and dungeons (several sets of each) , several hundred recall scrolls, maybe books marked for basic farming areas etc......Since rune books aren't blessed I assume ppl just keep them in their bank or homes and just bring a few key duplicate individual runes for home, town ,etc when they adventure out?
---- I highly recommend compiling a list of exactly what you want, and then posting on the trade forum here. I am sure a number of people would be willing to get you your entire package. From this list here, it sounds like you are most interested in marked runebooks. Ask around and see how much they are going for, then get the money set up before you post in the trade forums.
5. Skill gain seems REALLY slower than I'm used to. I think I've put in 8-10 hours of me lee farming and my lumberjack melee char still isn't even gm swords! He's like 90ish sword 90ish tactics......after 8-10 hours thought I'd be higher. Am I doing something wrong here? Im not talking about 10 hours in game time I mean10 full hours banging away on mobs nonstop 1 after the other.
--- Yeah this was talked about too. Not having max stats is going to effect skill gain. If you wanna do it the most efficient way, max those stats first and set up a sparing partner with another of your accounts. Make sure to have ample spring supplies and a healer of some kind. Or, if you wanna just jump intot he fun and adventure of UO, gather what you can and head out there (sound like yo have done this already, but were unimpressed with skill gain). Again, keep in mind this is a Fel server, with era accurate mechanics, it shouldnt feel totally easy to GM skills that you need to be present for.

6. Razor basic macros. I haven't used razor in a long time mostly used uosteam. Anyone have a basic set of macros they wouldn't mind sharing? Smart pot usage/etc ?
--- There are basic guides here for anything. Check the Guides section of the forum and you will find what you need, or ask in IRC.

7. Platinum. Do ppl sell it? I really REALLY want 500-750 to bless a few rune books. I assume that's going to be hard and take a long time to accumulate. What's the best way to get platinum quickly?
--- Plat is the most sought after currency here. People indeed sell it, and make fortunes (6-7k per 1 piece of plat). Yeah it will be hard and it will take time to accumulate. 250 for your first runebook should feel like work, and like an accomplishment, not just a purchase. For a frame of reference, I got my first blessed runebook after being on the shard for about 8 months. I did not farm plat hardcore, more casually, but thats how long it took. And yeah, a blessed runebook would could 1.7mill gold.
-- There are 4 ways to get plat here.
1. Just play. The more you are online, the more plat you will passively gain (we call it wellfare plat). Each month you will be given plat into your account based on how much you play. I think the most you can get, on your 3 accounts, is 30 plat per month. If someone else knows if that is right or wrong, lemme know.
2. Farming mobs has a very very small chance to drop plat. The higher end mobs seem to be more likely to drop. But its something like 1/200 kills. I was at Ogre Lords and got 1 plat drop after killing about 20. Felt lucky.
3. Do champ spawns or participate in special events. Champ spawns are probably the best way to get plat. Ask around and see if a group is doing any champs and ask if you can come along. When then champ spawns, plat is divided up based on how much damage you do; you must reach a minimum damage threshold to get plat. The Horrower is the best way to get plat, in terms of champ spawns. If you are participating and do any damage, you will get 20 plat in your bag when it dies.
4. Buy plat from players. Its expensive, but people are always buying and selling plat here. You can guy plat any any amount. From just needing 1 piece, to buying up to 300+ pieces. People want gold and people want plat.
Hope this helps man!