Official Publish 43 information has been released today.

To read the full list of changes, please see this page.

If you’d like to see our previous page of information we gathered about Publish 43, leading up until now, please see this page.

As expected, it contains the information/changes for the 9th Anniversary Collection, as well as the +5 stat cap bump for accounts older than six months, quite a few PvP/PvM/Combat changes, and changes affecting hiding/stealth.

This is available for testing on Test Center, or as of now, Origin.

From the Update Center:

On Monday, October 16, 2006, at 5:30PM PDT (October 17 - 12:30AM), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard. All other shards will be published with this update during their next maintenance time.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Fixed an exploit with mouse holes
* Fixed a cliloc error displayed when Sherry was sleeping
* Added a tag to Sherry’s name to make it more noticeable when she was sleeping
* Made improvements to Sherry’s pathfinding and AI
* Polymorphed slimes can now use the mouse holes in the castle

This publish should not cause any additional downtime on any shard except for Origin.

I look forward to seeing some of the things the devs/designers have done with Sherry and her pathfinding/AI to crop up elsewhere in UO…

Over the weekend, a lot of information came out about Publish 43 (which is now up on the Test Center by the way). Putting aside the additions for the 9th Anniversary Collection that will ship later this month or early next month, quite a bit has been done that affects the following: PvPers, PvMers, Siege/Mugen players, people who like to transfer characters on shards, people who like EM-run events, etc., etc. (i.e, there is something for everybody).

For full details, you can read our Publish 43 Page

According to UO.com, looks like all shards will be receiving the same Publish that Origin and Pacific did regarding the Tokuno Treasures II update.

On Friday, October 7, 2006, at approximately 5:15pm PDT (12:15am GMT), we will be begin deploying a publish to the Korean, Taiwan, and North American shards. At approximately 6:15pm PDT (1:15am GMT), we will begin deploying a publish to the Australian and Japanese shards. The European shards will receive the publish at their normal maintenance time.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Treasures of Tokuno update

We expect each shard to remain offline for approximately one hour. This entire process may take a few hours to complete worldwide.

I’m thinking that instead of Friday, they meant Saturday, October 7, 2006.

According to UO.com (FYI/Update), Pacific will be receiving the same Publish that Origin received yesterday:

On Friday, October 7, 2006, at approximately 3:30pm PDT (10:30PM GMT), we will be begin deploying a publish to the Pacific shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Treasures of Tokuno update

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

From the FYI/Update Center at UO.com, Origin received a publish earlier this evening concerning an update to the Treasures of Tokuno II:

On Thursday, October 6, 2006, at approximately 7:30pm PDT (October 7 - 2:30AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Treasures of Tokuno update

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

All shards will receive the same publish that Origin and Pacific have already received tomorrow, during their normal maintenance times, according to the UO.com Update/FYI Page:

On Friday, September 29, 2006, we will be deploying a publish to all shards during their respective maintenance times.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Shard stability fix
* Live event content

We expect this publish to cause no additional downtime.

Currently the Treasures of Tokuno program is once again running on Pacific and Origin with the possibility that it will be running on all other shards after their maintenance periods tomorrow.

This thread at Stratics would indicated that people are picking up minor artifacts once again. It appears to have slipped in with the recent Origin publish. Trevelyan who first posted about it, noted that while on other shards you can still claim the major pigments, you cannot do so on Origin (you can get all of the other major artifacts). Over on this thread, Experimental reports that it’s shown up on Pacific as well (after the Pacific publish today.

Swords of Prosperity, Wind’s Edge, the Horselord, Kasa of the Raj-in, Tome of Lost Knowledge, Sword of the Stampede, Darkened Sky, Rune Beetle Carapace, and Stormgrip are all reported as available rewards for turning in minor artifacts, with no dyes available.

I don’t think it’s a mistake - it would seem strange that the dyes were the only major not available - if it was a mistake, you would think it would be all or nothing.

It could very well be that the dyes are going to be one of the special/unannounced (so far) gifts that comes with the 9th Anniversary (i.e. available as an item selection).

For more information, please see the Treasures of Tokuno FAQ

Pacific will receive the same publish that Origin did. From the UO.com Update/FYI page:

On Thursday, September 28, 2006, at approximately 12:00pm PDT (September 28 - 7:00PM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Pacific shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Shard stability fix
* Live event content

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

From the FYI Page at UO.com:

Origin to be Published Sep 28 2006 12:15AM GMT (PST +08:00)
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at approximately 6:00pm PDT (September 28 - 1:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Shard stability fix
* Live event content

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

Will Ricardo get a fair trial? Will Casca, the first of the Elves to be participating in our modern legal system, be able to give him a fair defense, even though Casca is inexperienced when it comes to criminal defense matters? :iiam: