Broadsword Online Games are pleased to announce that Publish 108 for Ultima Online has been released on all of the game’s shards:

We would like everyone to know the UO team is still hard at work on future publishes, but due to the coronavirus outbreak we are just doing it at home.  The UO Team is all healthy and hard at work and we hope everyone is being safe and staying at home if at all possible.  Please take care of yourselves and your families.

Publish 108 has been released World Wide so if you haven’t checked it out, have a look at the publish notes and come join the fun.  One exciting and often requested late addition to Publish 108 is the reactivation of Treasures of Tokuno – so if you missed the event during its initial run, now is your chance to!

One notable issue that has cropped up in the wake of Publish 108, however, concerns “navrey holes”, a not-uncommon fixture of many player houses:

With the addition of the spiral staircase a change was made to how teleporters work to account for house security settings.  This has caused an issue with “navrey holes” that are locked down in player’s houses.  Players who wish to donate these items to the shard-at-large should contact [Messana] to have them collected and placed at the EM Reward Hall for public use.

The team at Broadsword — evidently all working from home and in good health — are already looking forward to Publish 109:

We are currently working on Publish 109.  The next publish will involve a quest system revamp, new store items, new holiday & promotional items, new tools for the EMs and more!  We have to finally break down and do the quest revamp so we can ease the implementation of events & quests in the future.  This tool will also be extended to the Event Moderators to help their creative minds grow with different types of events.

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One of the greatest challenges to implementing new content is contending with the lack of a unified quest system.  Over the years we have made changes to a patchwork of systems in an attempt to address these concerns, but none of those have really gotten us to where we want to be.  We are pleased to announce that coming in Publish 109 will be a full enhancement of the systems used to guide players through their adventures in Britannia while offering an immersive UI that drives the narrative and makes you feel as though you are deep in the action.  This overhaul will also expand these tools to our Event Moderators giving them unprecedented creative freedom to build more immersive and robust events.

We continue to await word as to what change(s) are coming that will bring UO to the “largest audience ever”.