An Amazing new player guide for this server:
1. Ultima Online Forever Tips and Information
2. How to create your first Ultima Online Forever account and character
3. How to set up the user interface, move, and interact with the world
4. How to create hotkeys and macros for spells and other functions
5. Acessing your bank and getting equipped
6. How to train skills and setup your template for your character
7. How to travel the world
8. How to ressurect, heal yourself, and avoid death
9. Hunting at the young player dungeon and Britain graveyard
1. Ultima Online Forever Tips and Information
Download Client: http://www.uoforever.com/download.php
Login Information: login.uoforever.com 2599
MIRC Chat: server: irc.lightirc.com port: 6667 channel: #uoforever
Additional Guides and Information: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3235
The mechanics and time period of Ultima Online Forever most accurately represents the Renaissance (UO:R) time period which is around publish 15/16.
Ultima Online Basics
• UO World Map: http://wiki.game-master.net/map/
• Skills can raise to 100 (Grandmaster) and certain skills can be raised to 120 with the use of a power scroll. There is a total skill cap of 700 so most complete templates will have 7 skills at the grandmaster level.
• There is no conventional "leveling" system in Ultima Online. You advance your skills simply by using said skill, for example hitting a monster with a sword will raise your swordsmanship, crafting armor/weapons will raise your blacksmithy.
• There are three main attributes (strength, dexterity, intelligence) that can be raised to 100. The stat cap is 225 distributed between the three attributes. A common stat set up for a mage in this era would be 90 str 35 dex 100 int (225 stats).
• Ultima Online is a full loot game and all of your items with the exception of blessed items and runebooks and spellbooks will drop.
• It is important to visit a bank and store your loot often so you never put yourself at risk of losing a lot of gold or items.
• Ultima Online is a FFA PvP game meaning you can be attacked by any player. Inside town you are protected by guards and are safe but once you leave town anyone can attack you. Player killers will have a red name as opposed to a blue one.
Ultima Online Forever Information
• Upon entering the world you will have a (Young) status next to your name. This will hold for 10 in game hours. As a young player, you will not lose any items that you hold but you can still die. This is to teach people about death before it counts.
• A newly created account will have 500gp, a suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, 100 bandages, and a 32 spell book.
• A person is granted 10 second looting rights when doing the majority of the damage to a monster (you can loot it but the body is blue and you will flag criminal). After 10 seconds the loot goes to FFA looting rights.
• Players can train a skill up to 50 points with a cost of 10 skill pets per 100gp at an NPC.
• Dungeon skill gain is 50% faster, and if using a skill against an NPC skills gain 25% faster.
• Skill gain in town is equal to skill gain out in the wilderness, however skill gain is penalized by -25% in a house.
• Skill gain penalty does not apply to crafting.
• Training in dungeons against monsters is your best bet for fast skill gain.
• There is a young player dungeon that can only be accessed by young players.
• When purchasing from an NPC you do not need gold in your bag it will take the gold from your bank.
• When buying bulk items such as reagents from an NPC the contents will go to your bank.
2. How to create your first Ultima Online Forever account and character.
Once you have downloaded and installed our client, run the Ultima Online Forever client. You will first be met with a login screen for your user name and password. We have auto-account creation so once you enter your account name and password click next and your account will be made. Please record what your account name and password is as you will need them to log back in. Every person is allowed up to two accounts. Join Ultima Online Forever and begin creating your character. Click to the next screen and Join Ultima Online Forever.
Click New to begin creating your first character on Ultima Online Forever. The first screen will allow you to customize your looks and choose your gender type. You are not able to play as a Gargoyle or an Elf as these races were adding in a later era. Choose your name and click next when you are happy with your customization options. There is unique naming in place so you will have to choose a unique name and if you do not you will be renamed and promoted to again name your char in game.
There are many ways to start off on Ultima Online, It is recommended to either choose a mage a warrior, or select the advanced tab and select your skills as such. The other options are pre set templates that already distribute these attributes however we are going to use the advanced tab and do it ourselves more precisely.
Ultima Online is a game which is all about freedom and choices, there are more then 50+ skills to choose from and the options for starting out on the shard are endless. For the purpose of this guide we are going to be making a warrior-mage type character that focuses on early survivability and using a weapon with high dex and str. This char can be used to hunt much of the easier spawn in the game for you to begin earning some gold. Please distribute your stat and skill points accordingly for the guide. The 50 healing skill will allow bandages a much higher success rate early game, 50 resist spells will provide a reduction against spell damage and is one of the hardest skills to train. Starting with high strength (50) will give you higher starting health points so its generally always a good bet and dex at 15 will be a good starting point. You wont need much int early on as you will primarily be using meele weapons to start making early gold so leave that the default amount of 10. You can have 225 stats total allocated between str, dex, and int.
By this point your char is ready to now be creating, click over to the next screen where you will be shown the map of the world. By default you are starting in Brit. Britain is the Hub of Ultima Online and bank and city will be your home base while you get accumulated to the game world. Please follow to the next section to learn more about the interface before you adventure out.
3. How to set up the user interface, move, and interact with the world.
There are many options that you can set which will make your playing experience much more enjoyable. This section will go over some option/interface changes you are going to want to make before playing and will look at a lot of useful options that are available through Razor. Here is a list of some basic commands and advanced commands that can be done with the interface.
Basic Commands
• Use the mouse for movement and right click on the screen towards wherever you want to move.
• Left click on an NPC to bring up- a list of interaction options such as Buy, Sell, and Train.
• Hitting TAB will put you in war mode allowing you to attack monsters by double clicking on them.
• Left click and drag over a player or an npc to bring up its health bar.
• Hold down Left-click on an item in your back-pack or on a corpse to put it on your cursor, at that point you can drag the item into your bag or into the bank.
• Many items of the same type can be stacked together by placing the items on top of each-other .
Advanced Commands
• Auto-run can be activated by holding down the right mouse and clicking the left.
• When dragging a stack of items holding down shift lets you drag the entire stack.
• Hold down Ctr+Shift to bring up all the items on your screen including player health bars allowing you to drag hp bars easier. Also helps with looting a corpse you may not otherwise see.
• Make a hotkey that records you saying vendor buy bank guards and vendor sell for faster interaction with important NPCs.
• Hitting ctrl + w and ctr + q will scroll up and down through the previous messages that you have sent.
• Heavy piles unable to be held in your backpack can still be held safely on your cursor.
• You can use this to move heavy piles by placing the stack on the ground, moving forward and dragging it to another spot in front of you.
• Active use skills (such as meditation) may be dragged from your skill scroll in order to create a gump for that skill on your screen. Left click the skill in the skill scroll and drag it into your screen.
• You can organize the skills in your skill scroll by left clicking and dragging them as well as creating a new group for your skills.
Entering the Game world
You have entered Ultima Online Forever! You first begin at the Britain Inn which is located in the West side of the city very close to both the healer and the inn. Before we venture out, open your paperdoll by double clicking your char or by hitting Alt + P. Through your paper doll you are able to open up your skills tree, options, check your status, and see what items you have equipped. The first thing you should do is open up your options menu and take a look and what you can do to help make the game easier to play.
Interface
• Uncheck enable pathfinding with double-right-click. This feature tends to get in the way more then anything and you will often find yourself pathfinding when you don't really want to.
• Uncheck hold down tab-key for combat. This will make it easier for you to stay in war mode and keep attacking a monster, now you can just hit tab to turn war mod on or off instead of needing to hold it down.
• Check your character will always run. This will allow your char to always run when instead of walking when the mouse if closer to your char, helps a lot.
Miscellaneous
• Check use circle of transparency. Helps with seeing things behind walls, gives you a small area of transparency depending on the scale you use. Try 100 for now.
• Put inform me on skill gain slider to. Will update you on every 0.1 skill gain.
• Check inform me of strength, dex, int increase. Gives you a more accurate reading of your progression.
Razor Options
Razors a built in assistance tool that can further allow you to set up hotkeys and configure your interface and options. There are many a options that can be found in razor that will help you on your adventures. The one most sought after feature of Razor is the ability to configure your game size. Just use the force game size option and add in the resolution you would like to play with.
General
• Light levels. This will filter all light levels and will always keep your vision daytime even in dungeons.
• Make sure "use smart CPU" is NOT checked. Having this unchecked will give better performance for 99% of people.
Options
• Check override all hues and target highlight. Spell hue override will make it much easier to keep track of beneficial and harmful spells by keeping the colors consistent..
• Check open new corpses within 5 tiles. This will make it so when you kill a monster the corpse will open up on your screen within a 5 tile range. Helps a bunch with looting.
• Check show incoming players. This makes it a lot easier to immediately identify new threats or friends that may have arrived on your screen.
More Options
• Force Game Size is quite possibly one of the biggest changers in improving the interface. This will let you set your game size window to whatever resolution you like. Try using 1000x700 and adjusting accordingly.
• Auto open doors helps a lot with entering buildings, check that.
• Auto-unequip hands before casting makes it easier for you when you pre-cast a spell and arm a weapon, upon using the spell your wep immediately will drop.
4. How to create hotkeys and macros for spells and other functions.
The key to success in Ultima Online is having a good set of hotkeys and macros that you can become comfortable with. There are 64 different spells available for use, as well as dozens different skills and other functions. The best thing you can do is start by looking at the hotkey options that are available in both razor and the in game options menu. There are a number of important hotkeys that should be set early on. There is a complete layout of my hotkey set up found in the PvP guide here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4172 which will give you an idea how experienced Ultima Online players may have their keys set up.
In Game Macro Options
By accessing your options menu (alt+o) you may then click on the macro options tab which allows you to create in game macros. You can hotkey your spells and different abilities through both in game and through razor. However, we are going to just use razor to set hotkeys for spells to keep things consistent. We are going to use the in-game macro options to set a hotkey in game that says the following "vendor buy bank guards" on F5 and "vendor sell" sell on F6. Make sure to hit apply, then okay. You interact with NPCs by either left clicking on them to open an option menu or alternatively NPCs will respond to text commands, so to open your bank just go a banker and say "bank".
Razor Hotkey Options
Razor will allow you to easily set hotkeys for all of your spells and other abilities in game. The first thing you should hotkey is "Enable/Disable Razor HotKeys". This function will allow you to turn razor hotkeys on and off so you can type in game. For example if you have bandage bound to B, when you hit B you will always use bandage, turn razor hotkeys on and off and when they are off hitting B will type a B in game instead of using your bandage.
5. Acessing your bank and getting equipped.
Britain West Bank
After you have your interface set up correctly and have become adjusted to basic commands in the world it is time to head to the bank. There are two banks in Britain one on the west side and one on the east. Most players use the west bank and this is where the entrance to the young player dungeon is so please head to the west bank. To open your bank walk near one and say "bank" or you can left click them to open the menu drop down. Every new account will start with the following, 500gp, suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, 100 bandages, and a check for 100gp. This is plenty of supplies to get you started early on. Put on the armor and put the rest of your supplies on your char for now.
Buying Equipment from a Blacksmith
The first thing you want to do is buy some new weapons for your char so you're ready to start slaying monsters. There are four different weapon skills available for use, swordsmanship, fencing, mace fighting, and archery. Each weapon type is useful in its on way. A few good weapon choices would be spear, kryss, katana, large/battle axe, quarter staff, war hammer, bow. Decide what type of weapon skill you want to raise and buy a few weapons before heading out. Along with buying weapons you can buy more armor such as a shield that you can wield in conjunction with a 1 handed weapon to raise your parry skill.
6. How to train skills and setup your template for your character.
Hunting in the Young Dungeon
As stated before your skills will raise on use whenever you perform an action with that skill. In this picture I am fighting spawns in the dungeon with a long spear and in the process I am raising my fencing, tactics, anatomy, healing as well as my str and dexterity.
Training Magery at the Vendors
The NPC vendors found around town can be used to train your skills all the way from 0-50. This is important because you can save a lot of time and resources having a vendor train your skill up to 50 rather then doing it yourself. It is highly recommended that you train your magery up to 50. To do this, left click on an NPC to see a list of skills he will train. Click on the skill you want to train and he will tell you a gold value, you will then need to drag the exact amount of gold he tells you and drop it onto the NPC and he will train your skills for you.
7x Template Example
This is an example of a 7x template. For this template we will be using fencing, tactics, anatomy, healing as well as magery, resist, and meditation. This is a hybrid type warrior that can be used to fight spawns with meele weapons but will also have magery for utility skills such as recall, mark, heals, and the such.
7. How to travel the world.
The Stables
Ultima Online Forever is a mounted shard which means the use of a mount will be paramount for your success. The first place you can acquire a horse is at the stables located within Britain. There are two stables located in Britain that you can purchase horses from. Buying a horse for 550p should be one of your first things you should be saving up for. It is highly recommended to always be mounted and to purchase a new mount if one dies. Buy your horse then double click it to mount. Alternatively you can tame horses in the wild with 50 taming and you can acquire an "ethereal" mount that is a blessed miniature statue that you can use to summon a horse with 3 second casting time.
Moongates
Moongates are another important way to travel around the world as a young player. There are 9 different moongates located around the world outside of the major towns and once you find one moongate you can use it to travel to any of the other 9 moongates located around the world. This is a quick way to get across the world before you can mark, recall, and gate.
Recall, Mark, and Gate
Recall, mark and gate are the bread and butter travel spells used by players in Ultima Online. These are spells that can be used with magery and it is very important that you understand the power of these spells. For our magery guide please visit: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4567&p=28710#p28710
Recall Rune: Cast the spell "mark" and target an umarked recall rune and it will "mark" the rune to the location you're standing on.
Recall: Now cast the spell recall and target your rune and you will teleport to the location where you just marked your rune.
Mark: Used to mark the location of your runes
Gate: Works the same way as recall however instead of teleporting yourself it will open up two-way gate that any player can use.
Rune Book: Place your runes inside of a rune book to keep them safe and organized. Drag the rune into your rune book and drop it on top to add the rune to your book. Runebooks will never drop from your char, you can then open your rune book and add a default rune by clicking the green arrow on top and now when you cast recall you just need to click on your book and it will take you to your default location.
8. How to heal yourself, resurrect, and avoid death.
Healing yourself and staying alive
Survival is the most important aspect of Ultima Online. If you know how to keep yourself alive, then you are able to farm enough gold to eventually establish yourself in the game world. Here are some essentials that will allow you to keep on hunting and avoid death.
Cure: Level 2 spell that when cast will remove all poisons from your target. Use this to cure poisons.
Heal: Level 1 spell that when cast will heal a small amount of health. Fast casting, use this to patch heal.
Greater Heal: Level 4 spell that when cast will heal a large amount of health. Bread and butter healing spell.
Resurrection: Level 8 spell that when cast will res your target. Use this to revive fallen allies.
Bandages: Bandages can be produced by first buying a bolt of cloth at the tailor and then using scissors to cut the cloth into yards and then into bandages. Use the bandages on your char to heal damage over a period of time. The better your healing/anatomy skill the better you can bandage. You can cure poison and eventually res people with higher skill levels.
Heal Potions: Healing potion that when consumed will heal a moderate amount of health.
Cure Potions: Cure potion that when consumed will remove all poisons.
Refresh Potions: Refresh potion that when consumed will refill your stamina.
Healers of Britain
Within every major town there is a building of healing that can be used to resurrect your char. If you happen to die, one of the first places you can go to get resurrected is the Britain Healers. Simply walk up to the healers and they will prompt you with a resurrect gump, click accept.
Wandering Healers
Within the wilderness there are a number of wandering healers, these healers function the same way that the healers in town do but they are scattered across the world. There are wandering healers outside of most of the big dungeons (might be a screen or two away). This is one way to res yourself without having to visit town.
Oh uh, you died
When you die your screen will become black/white until you can get a res. You will not be able to communicate with the living as your text will come out as scrambled "oOoOOoOO" as if you were a ghost. When you are dead and a ghost no player can see your ghost unless you hit TAB and put yourself in war mode.
9. Hunting at the young player dungeon and Britain graveyard.
Map of the essentials
Here is a map that will show you the 3 main essentials that you need when first starting out. The bank, the healers, and the young dungeon. It is highly recommended that you check out the map link provided and take some time in game to learn Britain first and foremost.
Young Player Dungeon
The place you want to be for as long as possible. There are three different entrances for the young player dungeon throughout Britain, we recommend you use this entrance here in town. I hope this guide has been a help to you guys, enjoy the shard and safe hunting.
1. Ultima Online Forever Tips and Information
2. How to create your first Ultima Online Forever account and character
3. How to set up the user interface, move, and interact with the world
4. How to create hotkeys and macros for spells and other functions
5. Acessing your bank and getting equipped
6. How to train skills and setup your template for your character
7. How to travel the world
8. How to ressurect, heal yourself, and avoid death
9. Hunting at the young player dungeon and Britain graveyard
1. Ultima Online Forever Tips and Information
Download Client: http://www.uoforever.com/download.php
Login Information: login.uoforever.com 2599
MIRC Chat: server: irc.lightirc.com port: 6667 channel: #uoforever
Additional Guides and Information: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3235
The mechanics and time period of Ultima Online Forever most accurately represents the Renaissance (UO:R) time period which is around publish 15/16.
Ultima Online Basics
• UO World Map: http://wiki.game-master.net/map/
• Skills can raise to 100 (Grandmaster) and certain skills can be raised to 120 with the use of a power scroll. There is a total skill cap of 700 so most complete templates will have 7 skills at the grandmaster level.
• There is no conventional "leveling" system in Ultima Online. You advance your skills simply by using said skill, for example hitting a monster with a sword will raise your swordsmanship, crafting armor/weapons will raise your blacksmithy.
• There are three main attributes (strength, dexterity, intelligence) that can be raised to 100. The stat cap is 225 distributed between the three attributes. A common stat set up for a mage in this era would be 90 str 35 dex 100 int (225 stats).
• Ultima Online is a full loot game and all of your items with the exception of blessed items and runebooks and spellbooks will drop.
• It is important to visit a bank and store your loot often so you never put yourself at risk of losing a lot of gold or items.
• Ultima Online is a FFA PvP game meaning you can be attacked by any player. Inside town you are protected by guards and are safe but once you leave town anyone can attack you. Player killers will have a red name as opposed to a blue one.
Ultima Online Forever Information
• Upon entering the world you will have a (Young) status next to your name. This will hold for 10 in game hours. As a young player, you will not lose any items that you hold but you can still die. This is to teach people about death before it counts.
• A newly created account will have 500gp, a suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, 100 bandages, and a 32 spell book.
• A person is granted 10 second looting rights when doing the majority of the damage to a monster (you can loot it but the body is blue and you will flag criminal). After 10 seconds the loot goes to FFA looting rights.
• Players can train a skill up to 50 points with a cost of 10 skill pets per 100gp at an NPC.
• Dungeon skill gain is 50% faster, and if using a skill against an NPC skills gain 25% faster.
• Skill gain in town is equal to skill gain out in the wilderness, however skill gain is penalized by -25% in a house.
• Skill gain penalty does not apply to crafting.
• Training in dungeons against monsters is your best bet for fast skill gain.
• There is a young player dungeon that can only be accessed by young players.
• When purchasing from an NPC you do not need gold in your bag it will take the gold from your bank.
• When buying bulk items such as reagents from an NPC the contents will go to your bank.
2. How to create your first Ultima Online Forever account and character.
Once you have downloaded and installed our client, run the Ultima Online Forever client. You will first be met with a login screen for your user name and password. We have auto-account creation so once you enter your account name and password click next and your account will be made. Please record what your account name and password is as you will need them to log back in. Every person is allowed up to two accounts. Join Ultima Online Forever and begin creating your character. Click to the next screen and Join Ultima Online Forever.
Click New to begin creating your first character on Ultima Online Forever. The first screen will allow you to customize your looks and choose your gender type. You are not able to play as a Gargoyle or an Elf as these races were adding in a later era. Choose your name and click next when you are happy with your customization options. There is unique naming in place so you will have to choose a unique name and if you do not you will be renamed and promoted to again name your char in game.
There are many ways to start off on Ultima Online, It is recommended to either choose a mage a warrior, or select the advanced tab and select your skills as such. The other options are pre set templates that already distribute these attributes however we are going to use the advanced tab and do it ourselves more precisely.
Ultima Online is a game which is all about freedom and choices, there are more then 50+ skills to choose from and the options for starting out on the shard are endless. For the purpose of this guide we are going to be making a warrior-mage type character that focuses on early survivability and using a weapon with high dex and str. This char can be used to hunt much of the easier spawn in the game for you to begin earning some gold. Please distribute your stat and skill points accordingly for the guide. The 50 healing skill will allow bandages a much higher success rate early game, 50 resist spells will provide a reduction against spell damage and is one of the hardest skills to train. Starting with high strength (50) will give you higher starting health points so its generally always a good bet and dex at 15 will be a good starting point. You wont need much int early on as you will primarily be using meele weapons to start making early gold so leave that the default amount of 10. You can have 225 stats total allocated between str, dex, and int.
By this point your char is ready to now be creating, click over to the next screen where you will be shown the map of the world. By default you are starting in Brit. Britain is the Hub of Ultima Online and bank and city will be your home base while you get accumulated to the game world. Please follow to the next section to learn more about the interface before you adventure out.
3. How to set up the user interface, move, and interact with the world.
There are many options that you can set which will make your playing experience much more enjoyable. This section will go over some option/interface changes you are going to want to make before playing and will look at a lot of useful options that are available through Razor. Here is a list of some basic commands and advanced commands that can be done with the interface.
Basic Commands
• Use the mouse for movement and right click on the screen towards wherever you want to move.
• Left click on an NPC to bring up- a list of interaction options such as Buy, Sell, and Train.
• Hitting TAB will put you in war mode allowing you to attack monsters by double clicking on them.
• Left click and drag over a player or an npc to bring up its health bar.
• Hold down Left-click on an item in your back-pack or on a corpse to put it on your cursor, at that point you can drag the item into your bag or into the bank.
• Many items of the same type can be stacked together by placing the items on top of each-other .
Advanced Commands
• Auto-run can be activated by holding down the right mouse and clicking the left.
• When dragging a stack of items holding down shift lets you drag the entire stack.
• Hold down Ctr+Shift to bring up all the items on your screen including player health bars allowing you to drag hp bars easier. Also helps with looting a corpse you may not otherwise see.
• Make a hotkey that records you saying vendor buy bank guards and vendor sell for faster interaction with important NPCs.
• Hitting ctrl + w and ctr + q will scroll up and down through the previous messages that you have sent.
• Heavy piles unable to be held in your backpack can still be held safely on your cursor.
• You can use this to move heavy piles by placing the stack on the ground, moving forward and dragging it to another spot in front of you.
• Active use skills (such as meditation) may be dragged from your skill scroll in order to create a gump for that skill on your screen. Left click the skill in the skill scroll and drag it into your screen.
• You can organize the skills in your skill scroll by left clicking and dragging them as well as creating a new group for your skills.
Entering the Game world
You have entered Ultima Online Forever! You first begin at the Britain Inn which is located in the West side of the city very close to both the healer and the inn. Before we venture out, open your paperdoll by double clicking your char or by hitting Alt + P. Through your paper doll you are able to open up your skills tree, options, check your status, and see what items you have equipped. The first thing you should do is open up your options menu and take a look and what you can do to help make the game easier to play.
Interface
• Uncheck enable pathfinding with double-right-click. This feature tends to get in the way more then anything and you will often find yourself pathfinding when you don't really want to.
• Uncheck hold down tab-key for combat. This will make it easier for you to stay in war mode and keep attacking a monster, now you can just hit tab to turn war mod on or off instead of needing to hold it down.
• Check your character will always run. This will allow your char to always run when instead of walking when the mouse if closer to your char, helps a lot.
Miscellaneous
• Check use circle of transparency. Helps with seeing things behind walls, gives you a small area of transparency depending on the scale you use. Try 100 for now.
• Put inform me on skill gain slider to. Will update you on every 0.1 skill gain.
• Check inform me of strength, dex, int increase. Gives you a more accurate reading of your progression.
Razor Options
Razors a built in assistance tool that can further allow you to set up hotkeys and configure your interface and options. There are many a options that can be found in razor that will help you on your adventures. The one most sought after feature of Razor is the ability to configure your game size. Just use the force game size option and add in the resolution you would like to play with.
General
• Light levels. This will filter all light levels and will always keep your vision daytime even in dungeons.
• Make sure "use smart CPU" is NOT checked. Having this unchecked will give better performance for 99% of people.
Options
• Check override all hues and target highlight. Spell hue override will make it much easier to keep track of beneficial and harmful spells by keeping the colors consistent..
• Check open new corpses within 5 tiles. This will make it so when you kill a monster the corpse will open up on your screen within a 5 tile range. Helps a bunch with looting.
• Check show incoming players. This makes it a lot easier to immediately identify new threats or friends that may have arrived on your screen.
More Options
• Force Game Size is quite possibly one of the biggest changers in improving the interface. This will let you set your game size window to whatever resolution you like. Try using 1000x700 and adjusting accordingly.
• Auto open doors helps a lot with entering buildings, check that.
• Auto-unequip hands before casting makes it easier for you when you pre-cast a spell and arm a weapon, upon using the spell your wep immediately will drop.
4. How to create hotkeys and macros for spells and other functions.
The key to success in Ultima Online is having a good set of hotkeys and macros that you can become comfortable with. There are 64 different spells available for use, as well as dozens different skills and other functions. The best thing you can do is start by looking at the hotkey options that are available in both razor and the in game options menu. There are a number of important hotkeys that should be set early on. There is a complete layout of my hotkey set up found in the PvP guide here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4172 which will give you an idea how experienced Ultima Online players may have their keys set up.
In Game Macro Options
By accessing your options menu (alt+o) you may then click on the macro options tab which allows you to create in game macros. You can hotkey your spells and different abilities through both in game and through razor. However, we are going to just use razor to set hotkeys for spells to keep things consistent. We are going to use the in-game macro options to set a hotkey in game that says the following "vendor buy bank guards" on F5 and "vendor sell" sell on F6. Make sure to hit apply, then okay. You interact with NPCs by either left clicking on them to open an option menu or alternatively NPCs will respond to text commands, so to open your bank just go a banker and say "bank".
Razor Hotkey Options
Razor will allow you to easily set hotkeys for all of your spells and other abilities in game. The first thing you should hotkey is "Enable/Disable Razor HotKeys". This function will allow you to turn razor hotkeys on and off so you can type in game. For example if you have bandage bound to B, when you hit B you will always use bandage, turn razor hotkeys on and off and when they are off hitting B will type a B in game instead of using your bandage.
5. Acessing your bank and getting equipped.
Britain West Bank
After you have your interface set up correctly and have become adjusted to basic commands in the world it is time to head to the bank. There are two banks in Britain one on the west side and one on the east. Most players use the west bank and this is where the entrance to the young player dungeon is so please head to the west bank. To open your bank walk near one and say "bank" or you can left click them to open the menu drop down. Every new account will start with the following, 500gp, suit of leather armor, 50 of each reg, 100 bandages, and a check for 100gp. This is plenty of supplies to get you started early on. Put on the armor and put the rest of your supplies on your char for now.
Buying Equipment from a Blacksmith
The first thing you want to do is buy some new weapons for your char so you're ready to start slaying monsters. There are four different weapon skills available for use, swordsmanship, fencing, mace fighting, and archery. Each weapon type is useful in its on way. A few good weapon choices would be spear, kryss, katana, large/battle axe, quarter staff, war hammer, bow. Decide what type of weapon skill you want to raise and buy a few weapons before heading out. Along with buying weapons you can buy more armor such as a shield that you can wield in conjunction with a 1 handed weapon to raise your parry skill.
6. How to train skills and setup your template for your character.
Hunting in the Young Dungeon
As stated before your skills will raise on use whenever you perform an action with that skill. In this picture I am fighting spawns in the dungeon with a long spear and in the process I am raising my fencing, tactics, anatomy, healing as well as my str and dexterity.
Training Magery at the Vendors
The NPC vendors found around town can be used to train your skills all the way from 0-50. This is important because you can save a lot of time and resources having a vendor train your skill up to 50 rather then doing it yourself. It is highly recommended that you train your magery up to 50. To do this, left click on an NPC to see a list of skills he will train. Click on the skill you want to train and he will tell you a gold value, you will then need to drag the exact amount of gold he tells you and drop it onto the NPC and he will train your skills for you.
7x Template Example
This is an example of a 7x template. For this template we will be using fencing, tactics, anatomy, healing as well as magery, resist, and meditation. This is a hybrid type warrior that can be used to fight spawns with meele weapons but will also have magery for utility skills such as recall, mark, heals, and the such.
7. How to travel the world.
The Stables
Ultima Online Forever is a mounted shard which means the use of a mount will be paramount for your success. The first place you can acquire a horse is at the stables located within Britain. There are two stables located in Britain that you can purchase horses from. Buying a horse for 550p should be one of your first things you should be saving up for. It is highly recommended to always be mounted and to purchase a new mount if one dies. Buy your horse then double click it to mount. Alternatively you can tame horses in the wild with 50 taming and you can acquire an "ethereal" mount that is a blessed miniature statue that you can use to summon a horse with 3 second casting time.
Moongates
Moongates are another important way to travel around the world as a young player. There are 9 different moongates located around the world outside of the major towns and once you find one moongate you can use it to travel to any of the other 9 moongates located around the world. This is a quick way to get across the world before you can mark, recall, and gate.
Recall, Mark, and Gate
Recall, mark and gate are the bread and butter travel spells used by players in Ultima Online. These are spells that can be used with magery and it is very important that you understand the power of these spells. For our magery guide please visit: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4567&p=28710#p28710
Recall Rune: Cast the spell "mark" and target an umarked recall rune and it will "mark" the rune to the location you're standing on.
Recall: Now cast the spell recall and target your rune and you will teleport to the location where you just marked your rune.
Mark: Used to mark the location of your runes
Gate: Works the same way as recall however instead of teleporting yourself it will open up two-way gate that any player can use.
Rune Book: Place your runes inside of a rune book to keep them safe and organized. Drag the rune into your rune book and drop it on top to add the rune to your book. Runebooks will never drop from your char, you can then open your rune book and add a default rune by clicking the green arrow on top and now when you cast recall you just need to click on your book and it will take you to your default location.
8. How to heal yourself, resurrect, and avoid death.
Healing yourself and staying alive
Survival is the most important aspect of Ultima Online. If you know how to keep yourself alive, then you are able to farm enough gold to eventually establish yourself in the game world. Here are some essentials that will allow you to keep on hunting and avoid death.
Cure: Level 2 spell that when cast will remove all poisons from your target. Use this to cure poisons.
Heal: Level 1 spell that when cast will heal a small amount of health. Fast casting, use this to patch heal.
Greater Heal: Level 4 spell that when cast will heal a large amount of health. Bread and butter healing spell.
Resurrection: Level 8 spell that when cast will res your target. Use this to revive fallen allies.
Bandages: Bandages can be produced by first buying a bolt of cloth at the tailor and then using scissors to cut the cloth into yards and then into bandages. Use the bandages on your char to heal damage over a period of time. The better your healing/anatomy skill the better you can bandage. You can cure poison and eventually res people with higher skill levels.
Heal Potions: Healing potion that when consumed will heal a moderate amount of health.
Cure Potions: Cure potion that when consumed will remove all poisons.
Refresh Potions: Refresh potion that when consumed will refill your stamina.
Healers of Britain
Within every major town there is a building of healing that can be used to resurrect your char. If you happen to die, one of the first places you can go to get resurrected is the Britain Healers. Simply walk up to the healers and they will prompt you with a resurrect gump, click accept.
Wandering Healers
Within the wilderness there are a number of wandering healers, these healers function the same way that the healers in town do but they are scattered across the world. There are wandering healers outside of most of the big dungeons (might be a screen or two away). This is one way to res yourself without having to visit town.
Oh uh, you died
When you die your screen will become black/white until you can get a res. You will not be able to communicate with the living as your text will come out as scrambled "oOoOOoOO" as if you were a ghost. When you are dead and a ghost no player can see your ghost unless you hit TAB and put yourself in war mode.
9. Hunting at the young player dungeon and Britain graveyard.
Map of the essentials
Here is a map that will show you the 3 main essentials that you need when first starting out. The bank, the healers, and the young dungeon. It is highly recommended that you check out the map link provided and take some time in game to learn Britain first and foremost.
Young Player Dungeon
The place you want to be for as long as possible. There are three different entrances for the young player dungeon throughout Britain, we recommend you use this entrance here in town. I hope this guide has been a help to you guys, enjoy the shard and safe hunting.