What Origin has received, the rest of us have received/are receiving, according to the Update Center at UO.com:

On Thursday, November 9, 2006 at approximately 1:00PM PST (9:00PM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to all shards.

The publish will contain the following changes:

* Anniversary gift for all characters 30 days or older consisting of:
o 9th anniversary coin
o Gift box containing a random piece of crystal or shadow furniture
* Updated ladders to allow players to get down from keep rooftops
* Fixed an exploit with the Iron Maiden and Guillotine
* Heritage Tree trunks will no longer lose their “blessed” tag after being re-deeded
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Halloween graveyard spawns
* Added new Halloween pumpkins
* The Grim Reaper will now return to his graveyard if he teleports into a justice region
* The Grim Reapers will now teleport back to his graveyard once he gets down to 33% of his health
* Other monsters will now ignore the Grim Reaper
* Pets will no longer become uncontrollable if their target leaves the area
* The Heritage Ladder will let you choose between two types of ladders:
o Castle/Keep Ladder - can only be placed by house owner
o Regular Ladder

We expect each shard to remain offline for approximately one to two hours.

From the Update Center at UO.com:

On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at approximately 6:30PM PST (November 9 - 2:30AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Anniversary gift for all characters 30 days or older consisting of:
o 9th anniversary coin
o Gift box containing a random piece of crystal or shadow furniture
* Updated ladders to allow players to get down from keep rooftops
* Fixed an exploit with the Iron Maiden and Guillotine
* Heritage Tree trunks will no longer lose their “blessed” tag after being re-deeded
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Halloween graveyard spawns
* Added new Halloween pumpkins
* The Grim Reaper will now return to his graveyard if he teleports into a justice region
* The Grim Reapers will now teleport back to his graveyard once he gets down to 33% of his health
* Other monsters will now ignore the Grim Reaper
* Pets will no longer become uncontrollable if their target leaves the area
* The Heritage Ladder will let you choose between two types of ladders:
o Castle/Keep Ladder - can only be placed by house owner
o Regular Ladder

We expect Origin to remain offline for approximately one hour.

Very interesting about the ladder.

From the update center: Update.UO.com

On Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at approximately 7:00PM PST (November 8 - 3:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Anniversary gift for all characters 30 days or older consisting of:
o 9th anniversary coin
o Gift box containing a random piece of crystal or shadow furniture
* Updated ladders to allow players to get down from keep rooftops
* Fixed an exploit with the Iron Maiden and Guillotine
* Heritage Tree trunks will no longer lose their “blessed” tag after being re-deeded
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Halloween graveyard spawns
* Added new Halloween pumpkins
* The Grim Reaper will now return to his graveyard if he teleports into a justice region
* The Grim Reapers will now teleport back to his graveyard once he gets down to 33% of his health
* Other monsters will now ignore the Grim Reaper
* Pets will no longer become uncontrollable if their target leaves the area

We expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour.

Apparently players are going where they shouldn’t be going, according to the update from UO.com

World Wide Publish Schedule Nov 1 2006 5:48AM GMT (PST +08:00)
On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 (Wednesday, November 1 GMT) we will be deploying an update to all shards.

The approximate world wide publish schedule is as follows:

* 10:00PM PST (November 1 6:00AM GMT) - Baja, Lake Austin, Napa Valley, Pacific, Sonoma, Origin
* 10:45PM PST (November 1 6:45AM GMT) - Atlantic, Catskills, Chesapeake, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Siege Perilous, Legends
* 11:00PM PST (November 1 7:00AM GMT) - Europa, Drachenfels, Oceania
* 11:30PM PST (November 1 7:30AM GMT) - Arirang, Balhae, Formosa
* 12:30AM PST (November 1 8:30AM GMT) - Asuka, Hokuto, Izumo, Mizuho, Mugen, Sakura, Wakoku, Yamato

The update will contain the following changes:

* Fixed an exploit allowing players to go where they shouldn’t be going

We expect each shard to remain offline for approximately one hour.

According to UO.com, there will be an update to Publish 43 (tonight Origin, everybody else tomorrow, October 31, 2006).

The update includes:

On Monday, October 30, 2006 at approximately 6:00PM PST (October 31 - 2:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a Publish 43 update to the Origin shard. All other shards will receive this update during their next scheduled daily maintenance period.

The update will contain the following changes:

* An issue where your evil twin would get you guardwhacked has been fixed
* Evil twin will now disappear if it fails to reveal its victim
* Once the Grim Reaper kills a target or if his target is dead, he will go back to his graveyard
* If the victim or the Grim Reaper enters a house he will go back to his graveyard
* The Grim Reaper will now give a random top attacker an artifact, not just the player who does the most damage
* Added a 50/50 chance of either spawning a black statuette or an orange statuette
* 9th anniversary beverages will no longer lose their names, and existing ones will have been fixed as well
* An issue that caused Halloween invasions to be too easy has been fixed
* Added dead trees into the selection of the heritage items

We expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour. We do not expect any additional downtime for all other shards.

From the Update/FYI Center at UO.com, all shards will be getting the Publish 43 update. For many, this will be friday morning.

World Wide Publish Schedule - Publish 43 Oct 27 2006 1:58AM GMT (PST +08:00)
During the evening of Thursday, October 26, 2006 PDT we will begin deploying Publish 43 to all shards during their next respective maintenance times.

For the Publish 43 change list, please click here.

We expect no additional downtime due to this publish.

Publish 43 Information

From the Update/FYI page at UO.com

On Thursday, October 26, 2006 at approximately 7:00PM PDT (October 27 - 2:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a Publish 43 update to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* New Live Event content
* Black pumpkins now have a chance of spawning with any Dev name
* The 9th Anniversary Shadow Fire Pit now opens and closes
* The Globe of Sosaria now animates

For the complete Publish 43 change list, please click here.

We expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour.

More Publish 43 Information.

From the Update Center/FYI at UO.com, it looks like Atlantic and Origin received Publish 43 this evening.

On Monday, October 23, 2006 at approximately 5:00PM PDT (October 24 – 12:00AM GMT), we will be deploying Publish 43 to the Atlantic and Origin shards.

For the Publish 43 change list, please click here.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Fixed an exploit that allowed players to bypass the skill timer
* Base Damage in the Animal Lore gump will no longer clip double digit numbers
* The Time Lord will no longer offer to train players in Arms Lore or Blacksmithing

We expect the Atlantic and Origin shards to remain offline for approximately one hour. Please note that character transfers will be turned off on these two shards until after Publish 43 has gone world wide.

From the Update Center at UO.com:

On Thursday, October 19, 2006 at approximately 7:00PM PDT (3:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Napa Valley shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Turning off Treasures of Tokuno
* Live events update

The remaining shards will have the world wide publish deployed at their normal shard maintenance time tonight.

Bummer about the Treasures of Tokuno being turned off, but here’s hoping they (or something similar) will be turned back on in the future. As for the “live events update”…..

If anybody is wondering why Napa Valley and not Origin, it’s probably because Origin is testing Publish 43.

FYI/UO.com has news of Origin receiving Publish 43 tonight:

On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at approximately 6:30PM PDT (October 19 - 1:30AM GMT), we will be deploying Publish 43 to the Origin shard.

For the Publish 43 change list, please click here.

We expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour.