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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Test Center 1 Update (Publish 69)

It’s only been a few days since Test Center Received Publish 69, and we now have some updates to the code.

The updates will be available shortly if you wish to test them out, on Test Center 1.

Updates: Abandon Ship
* Harbormasters now have a context menu option that allows you to abandon your current ship.
* Abandoning your ship will cause the ship to decay within 5 minutes if there are no players on the ship.
* Once your ship has decayed you will be able to place a new one.

Bug Fixes
* Fixed issue where fishmonger reputation could go below zero
* Corrected the resource production rate on the new veteran reward to once a week
* Players can no longer use ward removal from talismans on themselves to bypass the magic reflect cooldown timer.
* Increased community collection points for crabs and lobster from 1 to 10 each
* Reintroduced the requirement that you be a friend of the house or better before you are allowed to drop items into locked down containers.

Read: UO Herald

UO Developer UStream Webchat – Live on December 1st, 201

Andy Belford with the community management team, has posted that there will be a live UStream webchat with the Ultima Online development team coming up.

It’s scheduled for Wednesday, December 1st at 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific, and will last approximately one hour.

It will be through the official BioWare Mythic UStream channel.

You will to sign up for a UStream account before the event starts if you want to ask questions.

The topics discussed will cover a fairly wide range:
* Veteran Rewards
* Live Story Arc Progress
* Holiday Season Plans
* Stygian Abyss update
* High Seas Fixes
* Fishing

via UO Herald

Update: The archived video is now online in case you missed it. There were technical difficulties.