I'm afraid I've not been able to find any problem with the saves. Please give me some more details, thank you.

I'm looking into this. What time have you been logging in?

The spellbook says that the spell "Lightning" uses Mandrake Root and Sulfurous Ash, however when I cast the spell it uses Mandrake Root, Sulfurous Ash, and Black Pearl. Likewise, the spell "Fireball" is only supposed to use Black Pearl, however when casted it consumes both Black...

No, these would be "daily rares", only, they don't necessarily spawn at server restart, but at random times approximately 24 hours apart, give or take a few hours. They are in roughly the same spots as on OSI shards.

Various (semi-) rare items have been reported popping up at random times about once per day each. They can make great decorations. Tall candles, buckets of water, closed barrels, jars, and other items, plus delicious baskets of fruit can often be eaten.

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At least one or two of the dungeon respawns have been adjusted. Some places, such as Wind, have very fast respawn times. It's actually variable, so sometimes the respawn will be nearly instant and other times it could take a minute or so.

Wandering healers have been showing up all over Britannia! They've been spotted in the vicinity of most dungeon entrances as well as many other areas including the Yew forests.

It's not possible to walk between the mage huts because the walls are actually right up next to each other. Also, I recommend using the 5.0.2g client and data since that is the version the server is currently using. Otherwise it's possible to get stuck in places where your local client data doesn't ...

Thank you, it's good to know there are still some people around. So long as anyone plays now and then I will certainly keep this shard up and running. I'm also keeping an eye on things and will fix any bugs that I find out about. In fact, I will put some more work into the overland spawn, as I know ...

You're nine hours ahead of the local time here, so if it was 16:30 there it was 7:30 here.

Stats are gained while certain skills are gained, and certainly strength is a primary stat that can be gained from practicing fighting skills, but if you started with a fighting skill at 50 and then practice on a dummy you won't gain skill so you won't gain in stats.

You can PM me if you prefer, but which character of yours are you referring to?
That's quite a ways from GM. I'm sure you'll be strong by the time you get there.

It is actually considerably easier than it was. For some people it's the getting there (to multi-GM) that's the fun part....

What character?

You will need to practice on different creatures, not just the same two over and over.

As promised, the shard has now been published on all the shard lists you listed (and then some). I encourage people to go to the status page and vote for UnrealUO.
http://uo.unreal.us/?page=status

Staff is only needed when there are players. After the holidays I'll go through the shard lists and see about getting advertised out there again.

you should bring back the old blacksmith and carpenter menu's!!! those things were awsome!! lol makes it more era accurate too :) It was debated, but determined that the old menus were just too tedious to use. However, details such as success rates and such were removed from the new menus. Replacin...

These are all based on UO circa 1999, but we'll consider some changes to the loot. We'll also review stamina damage from earth elementals, but it's probably accurate. As for potions, this too is normal. Potions are not automatically identified as in modern UO. That is what the taste ID skill is for.

Thank you for reporting this, I'll see to it that someone looks into it.

Provocation is also one of the most powerful skills in UO. Still, I recommend experimenting.

All I can say on the matter is that you'll just have to try these things out for yourself. Being excessively technical is not in spirit with role-playing.

It's possible to macro skills, just not when holding skill with some of them. Of course, one can wind up in jail for a bit too that way. But it's nothing that is held against you, and the jail time applies to only that one character.

Items on established characters, in bank boxes, or pets in stables (or being ridden) will never vanish. Boats and houses do decay. Periodically an account cleanup is performed which will remove the following accounts: Accounts older than 30 days since last login with up to 1 character with under 170...