Publish 69 – Released World Wide Tomorrow

Publish 69 will be released onto all shards tomorrow morning during the normal shard maintenance windows.

It contains, among other things, a number of holiday-related items that need to be claimed before January 25th. Also Thanksgiving Turkeys are being turned off.

Full Publish 69 Details

* Thanksgiving Turkeys will be turned off

Each character will be able selected one of the following items:
* Antique Rocking Horse
* Christmas Tree
* Angel Decoration
* Holiday Fireflies (blinking wall decoration)

Vet Rewards:
* 1st year Dungeon teleporter
* 5th Year Metal Dye Tub
* 10th Year Choice of 3 Oval rugs. The skull and cross bones will give 1 random Treasure chest map each week, The Rose Rug will give one random seed each week, and the Dolphin will give one random MIB each week. (After the first of the year we will be putting out a change to these rugs, we will be adding a gump to pick the direction and adding a smaller size. You will be able to pick between the current size 7×7 or a 3×5)
* 13th year a new rideable Armored Boura.

Virtuebane Town Invasion
* Be aware that Virtuebane will be looking for any weakness. Town criers will give warning when the towns are about to be invaded.

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Origin Hardware Maintenance, Transfers

The devs have scheduled hardware maintenance for Origin tomorrow.

Origin will be taken offline at 11am Eastern/10am Central for hardware updates (upgrades), and should be back online before 6pm Eastern.

At 12am Eastern, character transfers will be disabled, due to the upcoming Publish 69 (update: Publish 69 details). Transfers will restart tomorrow, the 16th, at 8pm Eastern

Update: Origin is back online.

Origin Getting Publish 69 Tonight

Origin will be getting Publish 69 later on tonight.

It’s scheduled for 11:30pm Eastern/10:30pm Central, and should be up and running by 12:30am EST for the night owls.

There are bug fixes that will be made available as a result of Publish 69 being tested on Test Center.

Bug Fixes
* Fixed an issue where some metal weapons and armor where not dye-able with the metal dye tub veteran reward.
* Added metal chest to the dye-able item list on the metal dye tub veteran reward.
* House owners can now dye metal items that are locked down using the metal dye tub veteran reward.
* Fixed pinkish color appearing on the new veteran boura mount in the Classic Client
* Fixed issue with colors on certain pieces of equipment in the Classic Client.

Read: UOHerald.com

Update: Full list of Publish 69 changes (December 15, 2010)