Welcome to ABC Ultima Online

ABCUO is the original no-skillcap Ultima Online server. Whether you've been playing Ultima Online for years or are completely new to UO, you're sure to find ABCUO a fun place to play. Playing on ABC is free of charge; we are completely supported by player donations.

If you''ve never played Ultima Online before, you'll want to read the setup instructions and new player guide. Experienced players should read the shard rules and the features/combat pages.

Shardwire - News from ABC

Holiday Gifts For a limited time, holiday gifts have been added to the token prize room. Also, the chandler quest is in place - find the two chandlers in a hovel on the Sosarian mainland across from Skara Brae. Both the holiday gifts and the chandlers will be removed at the end of the month. A few additional minor changes have been made, read the forum announcements for all of the details. Posted by Ivo on December 10, 2008 at 09:48 PM Gobbles! Happy Thanksgiving! As you may know, on ABCUO we do not have turkeys, ducks, or pheasants. The Thanksgiving tradition here usually involves roasted birds euphemistically referred to as "gobblers". On Thanksgiving day only (November 27), you can find your own edible, commemorative gobblers by killing stone harpy paragons in Ilshenar. Posted by Ivo on November 26, 2008 at 09:30 PM Trick or Treating Today, only on Halloween, everybody can go trick or treating. To do this, put on a halloween costume (read older news to learn how to get a costume) and use the begging skill on an NPC vendor. If you're wearing a costume you're trick or treating; if you're not wearing a costume you're just begging for gold. Successful trick or treating relies on your begging skill. Read the ABCUO player guide if you've never used begging before. Having GM begging is not a requirement but it makes things easier. Don't bother creating a new character to use a newbie skill ball on begging or to get the 50 starting begging skill, it won't work. A variety of different NPCs will respond to trick or treating, but the only way to get the rarer items is by trick or treating at normal NPC vendors, not including player vendors, faction vendors, or vendors in Heartwood. You can only trick or treat at each vendor once. Begging normally hurts your karma. Trick or treating will not hurt your karma, but having positive karma will make trick or treating easier. Be careful, vendors are not always happy with trick or treaters, and you might want to go in a group just in case. There are three types of items you can get; one edible, one usable, and one purely decorative. Posted by Ivo on October 31, 2008 at 12:51 AM Halloween Warning As you may know, the forces of the undead are particularly strong on Halloween. On halloween at ABCUO, the town guards will be powerless to stop undead attacks in any town. So be careful on this day, lest you be surprised by a sudden onslaught of undead forces where you thought you were safe. The guards will be helpless so you will need to either fight back or flee. Halloween is October 31, and the guards are ineffective against undead the entire day (server time). Using the "what time is it" spoken command will tell you if it is currently halloween. Guards will continue to work like normal against players and all other creatures. Posted by Ivo on October 30, 2008 at 08:22 AM Character Statues Character statue makers can now be purchased in the token prize room. They are very similar to character statues on official shards but they do not have any account age requirements, and there are quite a few more poses to choose from. Posted by Ivo on October 14, 2008 at 02:51 PM The Halloween Store Just in time for your trick-or-treating needs, a friendly costume maker has opened up a store just north of West Britain Bank. Don't be alarmed at the vendor's appearance, he's just modeling an outfit for you. All halloween costumes will self-destruct on November 1st. Also be sure to check out this month's raffle prize in the ABCUO Casino. As always, the drawing will be done on the first of the month. Posted by Ivo on October 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM Add-on Containers Elven washbasins, elven dressers, and arcane bookshelves have been converted into add-on containers. These are deeded items that are usable as containers. Be aware that if you have any of these items placed in your house, you will not be able to use house customization. Placed aquariums will also prevent house customization. Also, if you haven't already, be sure to check out the auction section in MyABCUO. The auction page lists the selling price of historical auctions. You may find it useful for comparing the value of various items. Posted by Ivo on October 10, 2008 at 05:52 AM Auction Listing Fee When placing a new item on the auction block, you will be charged a service fee. The charge is 4000 gold per day for the listing, and an additional 1000 gold per day if you use the Reserve feature. The fee is paid up front and the gold is deducted from your bank immediately. If someone takes the "Buy Now" option and effectively shortens the duration of your listing, you do not receive a refund for the remaining time of the listing. Posted by Ivo on September 15, 2008 at 04:32 AM New quests Two new quests have been added. One revolves around a pair of apothecaries in Buccaneer's Den; the other involves a legendary miner in Minoc. To do these quests you will need to join an NPC guild, and to help you with that there is a new page about them in the player guide, as well as a new command, [npcguild. In addition to these quests, a variety of changes have been added. The biggest one is the exorcism spell: it will now work not only in champion spawn areas, but also in dungeons (except for the doom gauntlet) and normal outside areas that have no special purpose; for example exorcism will not work in towns or the new player dungeon. Read the announcements section in the ABCUO forums for the complete list of updates. Posted by Ivo on September 9, 2008 at 05:50 AM Veteran Reward Plain Dresses The veteran reward menu now includes an additional 3% resist clothing item, plain dresses. Note that because these are very new items in UO, their names are incomplete on our UO client versions; the dresses will be named "Plain Dress" rather than "A Copper Plain Dress" etc. They will likely stay this way until our next major release. Posted by Ivo on September 6, 2008 at 03:35 AM