Win a Petal From The Golden Lotus Of Heaven on Lake Superior

Fraggles has posted a major update to the Laker Superior Rares Fest thread on Stratics:

Make sure you check back here on Saturday April 2nd to see how you can win a A Petal From The Golden Lotus Of Heaven! we will be announcing the details of this contest on Saturday to give everyone a fair chance at winning this amazing gift only at Lake Superior Rares Fest 2011!!!

Information about The Petal from the Golden Lotus of Heaven:
* Apparently there are only around 10-20 left across all shards (they can be accidentally used as a reagent if you’re not careful!)
* Picture of one can be found at the bottom of this Stratics thread
* Looks like a gold-hued nightshade
* Sells for between 100 million to 300 million gp
* Highly desirable decorative item

For more information and a full list of events, please see the Stratics thread

Publish 70 – New Housing Tile Sets – Gothic and Board and Batten, Virtue Tapestries

After seeing some of the changes that were mentioned in previous Client updates as well as today’s client update, I decided to pull the tiles themselves out and assemble them so that others can see.

I would give a spoiler warning, but why start at this point?

Now I’ll tell you right now that I maybe wrong on the Board and Batten set, but I’m confident that the Gothic house tiles and the virtue banners are accurate. I did check the Board and Batten against existing sets within the Classic Client since that is where these tiles are pulled from, and did not see any resembling them within the housing customization tool, but it’s possible these are used elsewhere in the game and not meant for player housing. It would be interesting if this was used for New Magincia.

As for the rustic bench and the advanced training dummy, if somebody else wants to get a headache pouring through 1000s of tiles, drop us a line or send us a link and we’ll link to it. I took a few glances through and saw one or two that might have been related, including what could have been a dummy with gears, but I’ll wait for others to verify it.

Board and Batten – Housing Tile Set
Ultima Online - Housing tile - Publish 70 - Board and Batten Tile Set.

Gothic (the fully assembled window is a bit rough and that’s my doing)
Ultima Online - Housing tile - Publish 70 - Gothic

Virtue Banners
Ultima Online - Publish 70 Virtue Banners

Click on the above images to see larger versions at flickr.

Classic Client: 7.0.13.2, Enhanced Client: 4.0.13.2 – Advanced Training Dummies, Rustic Benches, One More Housing Tile Set

Update: Pictures of Board and Batten

A couple of days ago I posted some of the client updates including the Virtue tapestries and the Gothic housing tile set.

With tomorrow’s world-wide Publish 70 rollout there have been some additional client updates making references to things we will see in-game at some point. It looks like there maybe one more housing tile set, a “board and batten” tile set.

The Classic Client has been updated to version 7.0.13.2
The Enhanced Client has been updated to version 4.0.13.2

Keep in mind that the following changes that have been noted may not necessarily be new, but simply re-wording of existing items/tiles or changes to existing items/tiles. I am not familiar with every item or housing tile set!

Among the changes within the Classic Client strings:
* Added reference to a “Rustic Bench”
* Added reference to an “Advanced Training Dummy”

Added:
“If you are not leasing a stall, you may still adjust your Bid Match, and it will become effective when you next lease a stall.

Match Bids are rounded down to the nearest multiple of 1,000gp. For example, entering an amount of 3850 will instead set the bid to 3,000 gp.

When your lease ends, there is an auction to determine the next tenant.”

Last sentence added (in bold):
* “If your bid match is equal to or higher than the highest bid for your stall, then you will retain the stall lease for 7 more days, but the amount of the highest bid will be deducted from your Match Bid. In this case, the remainder continues towards your next Match. (last sentence added)

More text added, including reference to Rustic Bench and Advanced Training Dummy
Your attempt to increase your Match Bid from (old bid) to (new bid) failed, because the difference of (amount of ogld) could not be withdrawn from your bank account balance. Your current bank balance is (Balance). You have increased your Match Bid from (old bid) to (new bid). The difference of (gold) has been withdrawn from your bank account balance. Your previous bank balance was (old balance) and your current bank balance is (new balance). Your attempt to decrease your Match Bid from (old bid) to (new bid) failed, because the difference of (gold) could not be deposited into your bank box. Your current bank balance is (new balance). You have decreased your Match Bid from (old bid) to (new bid). The difference of (gold) has been deposited into your bank box. Your previous bank balance was (old balance) and your current bank balance is (new balance). You have not changed your Match Bid. rustic bench (South)‚ rustic bench (East), advanced training dummy (South) advanced training dummy (East)

New Housing Tile Set?
* board and batten wall
* board and batten half wall
* board and batten quarter wall
* board and batten wall
* board and batten half wall
* board and batten quarter wall
* board and batten corner wall
* board and batten corner half wall
* board and batten corner quarter wall
* board and batten window
* board and batten window
* board and batten archway
* board and batten archway
* board and batton corner archway
* board and batten archway
* board and batten archway
* board and batten post
* board and batten half post
* board and batten quarter post
* board and batton narrow post
* board and batten narrow half post
* board and batton wall with post
* board and batten wall with post
* board and batten wall with post
* board and batten wall with post
* wooden steps (various directions, sizes)

Also additional references to:
* grandfather clock
* icicles
* gargish hovel door

These last three may simply be changes to existing items within the game.

Ultima Online’s Enhanced Client – Videos

I’m currently running the CC, aka Classic Client, while Deckard is trying out the EC, aka the Enhanced Client, and one of these days we are going to get together and compare notes, but for now we are both happy with our respective setups.

If you are interested in the Enhanced Client in any way, Storm, a moderator at UO.Stratics.com, has put together some great instructional videos walking you through the EC:

Guide to The Enhanced Client User Settings (half an hour!)

Installing a mod into EC (short)

If you have a Stratics account, you can comment direclty in the Stratics thread that Storm started.

I would recommend you click through to view the videos at YouTube, select the Expanded view, and then select 720p as you really need to see them in high resolution.

UO Publish 70 – World Release is Tomorrow, April 1

Tomorrow is a very big day for a lot of us – Pub 70 will be live on all production shards tomorrow, April 1, 2011. It’s been in testing on the Test Center and Origin, but the rest of us will be receiving it. From UO Herald:

Pub 70 will go live on all shards during the next maintenance. European shards will be the first shard to receive this publish at 12am EDT. You can find the complete publish notes as well as the notes for the Classic Client 7.0.13 and the Enhanced Client 4.0.13 below.

I’m not going to repeat all of the previous patch notes, you can find those here:
* Publish 70 on the Test Center
* Publish 70 Patch Notes for Origin

These are the differences between Origin’s patch notes and the world-wide patch notes:

Bug Fixes
* The issue with the Gargoyle flight no draw tiles in the atlas was fixed.
* Scalis should leave the correct art for the corpse and the correct hues.
* Ship runes should now function correctly when recalling from the Abyss.
* The MTX ship dyes are no longer account bound.
* The imbuing gump materials list now displays the correct resources.

Enhanced Client
* Cliloc updates
* Art updates

Classic Client
* Moving Mobiles should now show the damage take over head in the classic client
* Players will again be able to see equipped Jin-Baori on both the paperdoll as well as the avatar.
* Art Updates

So get ready to start bidding on the various plots in New Magincia.