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== Ultima Online Patch Notes for 03/18/1998 ==
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These are the official patch notes from the original release of Ultima Online. These patch notes were found at [http://update.uo.com/oldpatch.shtml].

*All "tell" messages from GMs will now be yellow.
*Numerous more areas have gained music.
*The help menu has been revised.
*The "white hair" problem will be fixed. It is purely a client display problem, so affected characters have suffered no adverse effects. White hair will revert back to its normal color when the fix is available.
*Flame traps have gained sound effects.

'''Last minute changes:'''

*Guarding now expires if the pet moves too far away from the guarded item.
*Opening the paperdoll of a guarded player is no longer a criminal action.

'''Login process'''

*Passwords on a character level have been disabled; we have been getting too many calls from those who have lost their password.
*The server ranking system will always show Test Center last, to avoid confusing it with a regular game server.
*All previous updates have been consolidated into a single patch. This patch is approximately 370KB.

'''Creatures'''

*''Wild creatures''
**NPC behaviors have been optimized and sped up. Aggressive creatures are now more immediately aggressive.
**The number of creatures in the world has been increased; in addition, creatures in stables and invulnerable creatures (such as vendors) no longer count against creatures in the world.
**Slimes now have a chance of splitting into two slimes when struck.
**Some creatures now have acidic blood that can dissolve your weapon when you strike them, damaging the weapon slightly.
**Human and humanoids alike will be a bit more talkative in combat.
**The jungle south of Trinsic should have improved creature population.
*''Pets''
**Changes to stables:
***Any of the friends or bosses of a pet can now retrieve it from the stables, instead of only the person who stabled it there.
***All stables will have their contents wiped.
***Stablemasters will have a limit on how many creatures they can stable.
***Stabled animals will be destroyed after one real life week of being left in the stables.
***Stabling pets will charge money first from gold on hand, then from the bank.
**Changes to pet guarding:
***Pets will be immediately aggressive when a guarded object is used or taken.
***Guarded objects and people will have [guarded] over their head when looked at, and approaching them will give you a warning.
***You will not be able to guard items that are in towns.
***Items that are in towns will be considered not to be guarded when they are left there or if they move, when they walk there. The [guarded] tag will go away to indicate this. When they leave towns, the tag will be restored and all previous guarding will resume.
***It will no longer be possible to guard items in containers.
***You will not be able to guard living things other than players and other pets.
***Getting or using a guarded item will now flag you criminal. (This includes using doors, for those who wish to guard their houses with pets/hirelings).
**Pets will no longer be able to fetch things that weigh too much for them.
*The number of creatures in the world should be drastically increased overall by the above changes.

'''Magic and magic items'''

*The spellbook should now be able to handle stacked scrolls.
*Wands will now invoke the notoriety query window.
*An exploit with polymorph has been fixed.
*Problems with excessive damage for wands will be fixed.

'''Optimizations and performance improvements'''

*We will be testing new code that may significantly reduce the bandwidth requirements for play, thus helping performance.
*House decay rate has been doubled (it is now approximately 11 days from perfect condition to its destruction).
*The problems with campfires not burning out will be fixed, and existing abandoned fires will start to burn out and clean themselves up.
*The limit on items in a container will be lowered to 125.

'''Skills'''

*Learning skills by watching will be limited to one tile distance.
*The peacemaking skill will only send messages to those who are in combat mode.
*Problems with copying books with the inscription skill should be fixed.
*Tailoring:
**Failure will now leave the correct amount of cloth scraps.
**The loss of cloth at failure now depends on the item that the player attempted to make.
**You can now sew cloth scraps back into a bolt.
**The ratios of wool, cotton, yarn, and thread needed to go from raw material to finished cloth should be correct now.
**Shuttles of thread now stack, and have been renamed to spools.
**Both sides of looms are usable now.
**Using thread works correctly, as does yarn.

'''Guilds'''

*Guildmaster's titles should now show over their heads like regular guild-granted titles.
*Entering "none" for a title strips the title from that player.
*The listed order of members in a guild is now fixed, and the list will not rearrange itself.

Ultima Online Patch Notes for 03/18/1998 - Revision history

RawToxic at 06:47, 7 December 2008