UOE Development Logs 2026

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Publish 135 - January 2026

Happy New Year! This is our 15th year online!

Update 562

1/01/26

  • Added Blacksmith Crafting display in Serpent Hold
  • Added Ore/Stone Crafting display in Minoc
  • Updated Mining display in Minoc
  • Created new items for the 15th Anniversary

Update 563

1/08/26

  • Ranger Suit for Archery
  • Ranger Suit display in Yew
  • Animal Tame/Lore gear added
  • Animal Tame/Lore display at the pet shop
  • Carpentry Suit added in Yew
  • Lumberjack Suit added in Yew
  • Expert Cooking Gear Added

Update 564

1/12/26

  • Updated .NET 10
  • Squelch issue known, not resolved atm
  • Anniversary Updates added
  • Tailor Shop Display added
  • Task Shop Display added
  • Sand Mining Camp added
  • Glassblowing School added
  • Glassblowing Display in Gargoyle City added

Update 565

1/22/26

  • Added BOD boxes, Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold
  • BOD display room and deco added

Publish 136 - February 2026

Update 566

2/23/26

  • Purple Heart
  • Updated Valentine Quest

Publish 137 - March 2026

Update 567

3/3/26

Publish 138 - April 2026

Update 568

4/1/26

  • 3rd Housing Account Option added

Publish 139 - May 2026

5/1/26

Update 569

  • Underworld Armor Set Added
  • Hades Helm
  • Breastplate of the Underworld
  • Cloak of the Underworld
  • Scepter of Hades
  • Shield of the Underworld
  • Talisman of the Underworld
  • Darkness of the Underworld Cloak
  • Hades Dungeon Entrance was moved to the Stygian Abyss in the Abysmal Lair

Publish 140 - June 2026

Update 570

6/1/26

  • Fixed Firewall issues
  • Massive clean-up
  • Removed old code
  • Item count, internal audit
  • Deleted over 4.4 million unused, unserialized items
  • Server Performance improvement updates
  • Windows update
  • Updated the Market Preview Gump
  • Updated Granite Mining
  • Wood Key quest turned off, updated
  • Fixed NPC hair glitch
  • Fixed holiday items
  • Updated BOD storage
  • BOD Book Update!
  • Resolved acct login issue
  • Update 4.4 million deserialized items deleted
  • Save size from 3 gigs to 1.77 gigs
  • Updated BOD colors, gump
  • Deleted another 1.28 million items from the internal map
  • Removed bad content, unsafe content: 0
  • Saves are now as low as 2.81 Seconds!

Update 571

6/5/26

  • Goblin King added to the Underworld
  • Gold Panning updated, exploits removed, pricing adjusted
  • Added the America 250 Shop with Patriotic items and Fireworks

Update 572

6/14/26

  • Recoded the Market logic, removed bad code
  • Cleaned up Market date issue, causing empty gumps
  • Updated crafting
  • Added new crafting elements to test

Update 573

6/15/26

  • Updated Merchant Framework (v11)
  • Updated the Market System
  • Resolved Market exploit
  • Resolved market key exploit
  • Resolve Gold Panning exploits
  • Updated AFK issues and exploits
  • Updated to .NET 10

Update 574

6/18/26

  • Using AI to scan each script, removing spelling errors, removing bugs, identifying old code conflicts
  • Removed 22 errors/issues
  • Identified conflicts to remove
  • Removed old, unused code

Update 575

6/19/26

  • Showing 14,547 changed files with 279,585 additions and 511,260 deletions
  • This is what github says was done in 2 years since our last developer...

Update 576

6/20/26

  • Added boss contracts to the Monster Contracts system!
  • Exploit fixes in quests, contracts, monthly task system, slot machines, raffles
  • Trait contract exploit resolved
  • Crash/server-freeze fixes (several identified and fixed by AI)
  • Contract & task turn-in now consume exactly what's needed, typos resolved
  • Reward points fixed and calculated properly in every instance
  • Task Skip fixed
  • Task Rewards adjusted
  • EvoToday gift re-claim fixed, limited to once per account, and existing progress carries over
  • Vecna augment claim fully operational as intended, resets each day
  • Self-Repair Deed updated, better code and results
  • Rare's Enchanted Shrub, working properly
  • Slot machine exploit removed and updated security
  • Artifact Grinder, less expensive, it now builds and validates the reward first, then charges, no confusion
  • Server-freeze (shard hang) loops eliminated, certain inputs could freeze the server.
  • All confirmed-unbounded loops are now capped. This was the biggest stability risk for 15 years and it's now gone!
  • Monthly task window crash Fixed - Opening the task gump could throw an `IndexOutOfRange`
  • Fixed hundreds of latent null-reference and out-of-range errors
  • Contract requirement checks now validated
  • Monthly task points no longer get wiped just for opening the window at the cap. Points now persist across views, stop accruing at the cap, and reset on the actual month change
  • A large amount of behind-the-scenes cleanup also completed
  • Debug-log removal, dead-code purges, serialization fixes for items
  • Modernization of older systems
  • Made the shard faster, leaner, and far less crash-prone
  • Consolidated all of the tooltips and fixed them across over 100+ files

Update 577

6/23/26

  • EvoCoinLedger, rewritten
  • Blood Diamonds recoded, updated
  • New Discord bot created to announce and welcome NEW players when they join

Update 578

6/24/26

  • Fixed the Goblin King/client crash issue
  • Rescripted the Task System with completely new code, no errors

Update 579

6/27/26

  • Fixed major task system exploit
  • Milestone Rewards exploit removed
  • All task deeds removed
  • Removed exploited items and gold
  • Updated druid spells
  • Removed Wood Guild NPC contract (exploited)
  • Log in password issue resolved
  • Auto squelch issue resolved
  • Resolved the packet loss and crash at the new guild library

Publish 141 - July 2026

Update 580

7/1/26

  • Updated the [today system
  • Fixed the pop-up gump and timers
  • Updated the chat system

Update 581

7/12/26

  • Updated Pirate Maps, fixed broken locations, randomized locations
  • Fixed the 9th Anniversary Talisman (Date/Luck issue over 9 years)

Update 582

7/26/26

  • Added support for newer ClassicUO/EA Clients
  • Networking upgrade code is 15x faster
  • World saves are considerably faster
  • Storage items now show actual tooltip when hovering over the item graphic on the gump
  • Updated storage keys and display gumps
  • Speed hack prevention is upgraded
  • Real time latency checks against all players, to determine their actual ping
  • Upgraded Anti-DDoS filtering,
  • Officially upgraded to ModernUO core
  • Firewall update, added 4 million "bad" IPs
  • XML Spawner Update, XML Find command improved 10-20x faster
  • Shard Save times are below 1.20 ms!

Update 583

7/27/26

  • Updated the networking, fixed the ping for foreign countries
  • Updated the firewall, unblocked several countries
  • Optimized the network for windows and linux
  • included the fix to CrowdSec
  • Note: changed it from 1 in-flight send/receive of packets, to 32

Update 584

7/28/26

  • Added the Faction System back onto the shard
  • Fixed faction titles not showing up
  • Added missing faction sigils
  • Fixed public gates not working properly

Publish 142 - August 2026

Update 585

8/2/26

  • Add-on Key updated
  • Massive deco library of items updated, spell checked, renamed, graphics generated for use on [market
  • Chat system now pushes event announcements into the Event discord channel!
  • Discord updated with webhooks
  • In-game pages are pushed to discord can now be seen by staff in a discord channel
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