Broadsword Online Games published a St. Patrick’s Day update to address some questions from Stratics about IDOC houses in Ultima Online:

I wanted to address a few things from Stratics regarding IDOCs. I would also like to tell you about a few changes we are going to make. Currently in game, once a house goes into IDOC we had stated it would drop on the 5, 10, or 15th hour instead of 20. What was not said is it had to wait for a decay tick after those times. I will take blame for the miscommunication on this fact. We are fixing it so it will not wait for the decay tick and it will fall on the 5, 10, or 15th hour.

The Grubbers that appear when a IDOC house falls will lose all their items in their packs when they cross a server line. We have no plans to change the wiping of the co-owner or friends list. The owner of the house has the ability to re-add them at any time.

As well, they will be making a few changes to the most recent Publish:

• We are fixing the gold pick up at champ spawns so there is not any delay.
• We are fixing players being able to get their house back even in the IDOC state. You must renew your account at least 2 hours before it drops or it will not be given back to you. (Until this fix is published you can emailMesanna@broadsword.com if you renew your account and your house is not being returned to you, list the shard, and house location and name when you email me. I do not need you there to make it do a warehouse check for an active account.

These changes should be seen in-game at some point in the next few weeks, probably as part of the Easter-themed update(s) the Broadsword team will be pushing out.