📋 Changelog

Mining: losing a +10 Mining item is now ten times rarer

Digging crystals could destroy one piece of your +10 Mining set. That chance has been cut by a factor of ten.

Crystal Was ➔ Now
Diablo 1% ➔ 0.1%
Quake 2% ➔ 0.2%
StarCraft 3% ➔ 0.3%
Half-Life 4% ➔ 0.4%
Ultima Online 5% ➔ 0.5%

Vote Stone: Added 3 New Events, now need only 4 votes to launch instead of 8

Fixed: Ice Bear stun and Sweet Bear paralyze now fire from spell damage, not just weapons.

Lava gear is now in the WGP shop

All three Lava pieces are available on the website shop — 300 000 WGP each, one per class.

Lava Shield — buffed - Bonus damage raised to 35–45 (was 25–35)

RATAIN — the Season 3 world

Ratain is Britain's twin, built on a separate map and opened for Season 3. Same streets, same shops, no NPCs of the old city — the whole town exists as an arena for the season's events.

Portal in Street Market

The rules inside Ratain

- You cannot die. Anything that would kill you — a mob, a player, a trap, a Fire Horn, an enchant — drops you at the city gate with a sliver of health instead.
- Your gear takes no wear. Weapons and armour do not lose durability, and magic books do not spend charges. Bring your best set.
- No magic travel. Recall, Mark and Gate Travel are dead inside the city. The Street Market portal is the only door.
- No houses and no ships. Deeds do not work there.

The three events

All three run in Ratain, last up to 45 minutes, and are launched by players at the Events Voting Stone — pick an event, press VOTE, and 4 different players start it.

🏰 Battle Castle — sign up at the Street Market portal, then four gates: 10 zombies, 10 ogres, 10 dragons, and the Castle Boss behind the last one. Every gate falls only when its wave is cleared. EP for everything you kill and for the damage you deal to the boss; go down and you are out of the run with nothing. Players cannot hurt each other in there — the castle is enough.

🐀 Rat Plague — a hundred plague ratmen flood the city. They spit a plague bolt when struck, so a crowded fight hurts more than a careful one. One rat in the hundred carries the plague: kill the carrier and the Plague Rat rises (25 000 hp). Everyone who damages it is paid — 1 EP per 1 000 damage — and the top damager takes the Gold Sosaria Chest.

🟢 Green Circle — a ring of green fire drifts across the city. Stand inside it for a full minute to win, but you take 20% more damage the whole time you hold it, and the ring jumps every few seconds — if you are near the edge when it moves, you are suddenly outside. One winner per round.

🤩 Season 3 - The Rat King is live! Open the Sosaria Pass stone at Street Market to pick up your first quests.

🎓 Every character now starts at level 5

Pick your class and you are 5 level immediately, with every skill at its level-5 cap for that class — up to 150%.

Already have a character below level 5? Just log back in on it and you get level 5 automatically, once, with the same skills.

Characters above level 5 get the skill pass too: anything sitting below the level-5 caps is raised to them.

💎 Crystal sets are now in the web Shop

The five crystal sets can be bought for WGP at uowos.net → Shop → Artifacts.
> Diablo set ............. 150,000 WGP +180 STR / +60 DEX / +60 INT / 191 armor / +30 regen
> Quake set .............. 250,000 WGP +210 STR / +66 DEX / +66 INT / 192 armor / +36 regen
> StarCraft set .......... 400,000 WGP +240 STR / +72 DEX / +72 INT / 193 armor / +42 regen
> Half-Life set .......... 600,000 WGP +270 STR / +78 DEX / +78 INT / 194 armor / +48 regen
> Ultima Online set .... 1,000,000 WGP +300 STR / +84 DEX / +84 INT / 195 armor / +54 regen

🏃 Daily Run — a new daily errand

Talk to the Daily Run pillar at Street Market once a day and walk a short route for a growing pile of WGP and a new currency: Marks.

To start
• Level 10+
• 500+ STR
• 30 minutes online since midnight
• One run per character, and one per account, per day

How it works
Three marks are scattered around the market. Step on the first one and hold still for 5 seconds — a countdown ticks over your head and a colour prompt opens: press the button it names. Move off the mark, or answer wrong, and that mark has to be done again. Clicking the pillar at any time tells you how far you are and where the next mark is.

Finish all three and the marks jump to new spots — nobody gets to walk a memorised route.

The 7-day streak
> Day 1 — 500 WGP + 5 Marks
> Day 2 — 1,000 WGP + 10 Marks
> Day 3 — 2,000 WGP + 20 Marks
> Day 4 — 4,000 WGP + 40 Marks
> Day 5 — 8,000 WGP + 80 Marks
> Day 6 — 16,000 WGP + 80 Marks
> Day 7 — 32,000 WGP + 100 Marks

Every day in a row doubles the WGP. Miss a day and the streak starts over at day one, so the last days are worth protecting.

Spending Marks
The Marks Exchange pillar stands next to the Daily Run pillar:
> Repair Crystal +1 ........... 50
> Mystic Egg .................. 250
> Gold Sosaria Chest + Key .... 250
> Diablo set .................. 1,200
> Quake set ................... 1,800
> StarCraft set ............... 2,600
> Half-Life set ............... 3,600
> Ultima Online set ........... 5,200
> Random artifact ............. 2,000

A full set means all six pieces at once — helm, shield, arms, leggings, gloves and chest.

See you at the market. 🗺️

⚔️ Cursed Idol — Update

Storm immunity: 10 seconds
After entering into Cursed Idol you have 10 seconds of Storm immunity now

Carrier-only combat
While a match is running, only the player holding the Cursed Idol can be attacked. The carrier, in turn, may attack anyone. No more side-fights between hunters — everyone's target is the same, and the Idol bearer has to fight the whole arena.

Wider final zone
The smallest storm zone has been widened by 5 tiles (now 3019–3049 x 3379–3409). The endgame is no longer a coin-flip on a single tile — there is room to actually fight for the Idol.

Fixed: When in some areas in Serpent's Hold you got zero damage from Storm zone

⚔️ UOWOS Launcher — our own client is here

No more hunting for the right folder or editing config files. Download, unpack anywhere, run UOWOS Launcher.exe — that's it.

What it does:
• Live server status — online / offline, players online, accounts, address and port, all on the front panel
• Latest news — straight from our Discord, so you see updates the moment they're posted
• One button to play — the launcher finds the client, fixes the paths itself and starts the game
• Quick links — Library, Discord, Donate, World Map, Player Stats, Forum and Sosaria Pass
• Works from any folder — no installer, no admin rights, no fixed paths. Copy it to another drive and it still works

The client pack is built on ClassicUO and comes with everything ready to connect — nothing to configure.

📥 Full client + launcher: https://uowos.net/?q=downloads

See you in Sosaria.

🏰 Website overhaul — new look, new sections

The site has been rebuilt in a proper medieval style: carved stone panels, gilded frames and ornaments taken straight from the game's UI, new typography across every page.

🗓 Daily events — a new card on the front page, always visible, no clicking around:
• 21:00 — Color TM
• 21:30 — Cursed Idol
• 22:00 — Serpent's Hold Battle
• World Boss — every 3 hours, starting 00:00
• Happy Hour (x2 gold & x2 exp from PvM): 14:00–16:00, 19:00–21:00, 23:00–00:00

🗺 World Map — https://uowos.net/?q=map
A full map of Sosaria, rendered from our own server files, so it shows *our* world with every custom change — not a stock UO map.
• Towns, dungeons, Lost Lands and Street Market marked out
• Spawn search — type a creature name and every place it spawns gets pinned on the map, with a table of regions
• Your own position — log in on the site and, while you're online in game, a green pin shows where your character is standing right now
• Zoom, drag, and click anywhere to read the exact coordinates

📥 Downloads — the page was reorganised around our own client, and the changelog, ranking and library pages got the same new frames.

More is coming — tell us in #channel what you'd like to see on the map.

⚔️ CURSED IDOL — new daily event, 21:30

An ancient relic has surfaced in Serpent's Hold. One of you will carry it — the rest will hunt you down.

How to join
A red Cursed Idol Portal opens at Street Market every day at 21:30. Step in within 3 minutes to register. The match starts automatically and runs ~11 minutes.

How it works

One random entrant receives the Cursed Idol; everyone else is dropped around the arena.
The carrier scores 1 point per second. Kill the carrier and the Idol is yours.
The winner is whoever holds it the longest overall — not whoever holds it last.
The carrier is marked: red name, Cursed Idol overhead, and a growing damage penalty +20% → +70% (resets when the Idol changes hands).
Idol Sense points everyone toward the carrier — nowhere to hide.
Frenzy every 90s (points x2) and Sudden Death in the final 90s (x2 more, up to x4).
A wall of fire closes in and then the eye of the storm drifts — outside it you burn 100 HP/sec, after 5 sec it turns into 150 -> 200, and after 5 more sec to 300 HP/sec. 5 seconds of immunity on entry.

Rules

Free-for-all — everyone can attack everyone (guild members excluded).
No death — a lethal hit teleports you out, you keep your loot, re-entry after 15 seconds.
One character per IP — multiboxing your own accounts into the event is blocked and counts as cheating.
You must actually fight. Standing AFK to farm participation rewards is not allowed — GMs may remove idle players and withhold rewards.

Rewards

🥇 50 000 WGP + Champion's Blessing (23h): x2 Event Points from all events and +5 000 WGP for every event you win
🥈 15 000 WGP · 🥉 7 000 WGP
Every participant: 2 000 WGP + Event Points
With 4+ players: everyone also gets 1 Mystic Egg + 1 Sosaria Chest (Gold)
+1 000 WGP per Idol steal · +500 WGP per kill · +2 000 WGP for holding 30s straight

Full rules: Library → Events → Cursed Idol · Standings: Ranking → Cursed Idol

⚔️ Serpent's Hold Battle — Balance Update

Capturing posts and smashing the Crystal now paints a bigger target on your back:

• Basic post captured → +70% damage taken from players (was +50%), 3s
• Grand post captured → +100% damage taken from players (was +70%), 3s
• Hitting the Serpent Crystal → +70% damage taken from players (was +50%), 3s — refreshes with every hit

🎀 Serpent Belt fix: the champion's belt now properly lasts 23 hours and is wiped when the Crystal is destroyed — the new Crystal-slayer receives a fresh belt. No more permanent belts.

Changed: Drop from Lockboxes increased x4

Added: Biggest win section under every Casino game

🎰 The WGP Casino is now OPEN! 💥

Bet your in-game WGP in the brand-new Casino — right on the website, no download needed.

Games:
🎡 European Roulette — real spinning wheel, watch the ball land on your number
📖 Book of Sosaria & 👸 Lady Charm — 5-reel slots with free spins & expanding symbols
🃏 Blackjack — beat the dealer, Blackjack pays 3:2

Fair & server-side (provably random), instant WGP payouts, live winners feed. Every result is decided on the server — no client tricks.

👉 Log in and hit the Casino tab. Good luck! 🍀

🎣 Fish Update

The Restore 70hp Fish can no longer be used inside guard zones (Britain, Moonglow, Cove and all other guarded towns)
Golden Fish fish catch chance increased x2
Golden Fish added to Shop on website

🐉 World Boss — Update

The World Boss now has an icy stun on its attacks: every hit has a 33% chance to freeze your movement for 1 second ("Ice Impact!"), just like an icy-weapon enchant. Keep moving — and don't get caught standing still next to it!