| Oddities |
| Item |
Action |
Effect |
| Altars and Pentagram |
Offer Gold |
If gold is set upon an altar/pentagram, it will disappear
and make the sound of money being deposited. (Try the stone pentagrams in
the ruins south of Trinsic, or the pentagram on top of tower inside of the
hedge maze. |
| Anatomy |
Use on self |
"You know yourself well enough already." |
| Axe (Any) |
Use on self |
"That is not a bad idea!" |
| Bad Circle |
Open Spellbook |
More and more reports are surfacing of characters opening
their Spellbooks while equipped, only to discover hidden pages located either
before the First Circle or after the Eighth (sometimes thepages are found
in both locations). (Possible method of revealing the Bad Circle: "Open
your paperdoll and double-click on the Spellbook to open it. Next cast Cure
on yourself and then right-click the minimized Spellbook in order to re-open
it again. Turn the pages of the Spellbook; you should see "Bad Circle"
and 1st Circle near the beginning of your book." -Beastmaster Mantis) |
| Banking Falsely |
Withdraw Gold |
Type "Withdraw XXXXXX gold" while standing next
to a Banker NPC, where XXXXXX equals any number. As long as your
character has some gold in the bank (at least 1 GP), the Banker will reply
with "You have withdrawn XXXXXX gold." |
| Baths at Buc's Den |
Stand in |
The closest you will ever come to cleanliness in UO. |
| Bearded Ladies |
-- |
Either a bug, or a result of OSI's twisted sense of humor
(maybe both ;). |
| Begging |
Use on Self |
"Perhaps just asking would work better." |
| Begging |
Use on Gold |
"There is no chance of getting money from that." |
| Begging a Beggar |
Use skill, target NPC Beggar |
You'll receive such heart-warming replies as "Ahh!
That color! That marvelous yellow! Please allow me to partake of that which
thou dost seem to have in abundance, milord." |
| Blade Spirits |
Double-click |
Brings up a paper doll for the spirit (paper doll has no
picture, just a black space). |
| Bladed Weapon |
Use on ghost |
"But that's not dead!" |
| Blanket
Poo & Blanket Ric |
-- |
Now, these are not representations of someone's childhood
comforter. :) Thanks to the research of Grugnar, it is now known that these
two items should end in "poor" and "rich", respectively.
The strange names are courtesy of UO not being able to accept extremely
long item titles. |
| Blood to Water |
Use Pitcher on |
Fills empty pitcher with water. (Freshly-carved corpses
are good places to start.) |
| Boar |
Double-click |
After repeated double-clicks, the boar will squeal, turn
its rump to you then sit down. |
| Book Authoring |
Write a book |
Lengthy player-written books will actually begin appearing
all over Britannia on NPC shelves after a certain amount of time has passed. |
| Books and Generousity |
Give to NPC |
Hand an NPC a book and they will respond "Thou art
giving me a *title of book*?", regardless of the title of the book.
So you can imagine the fun at parties when you get creative with a book's
title. |
| Braziers in Dungeons |
Double-click |
The fires of Hell shall rise high... Deceit is a good place
to look for these non-magical braziers. |
| Bungee Jumping |
(see to right) |
Stand on a roof (on top of the Moonglow bank, for example)
and teleport to the edge, as if you were trying to walk off. If there is
a person below you standing where you would land, your character will walk
off of the ledge and get bounced back up. Just keep walking and you'll continually
be bounced up and down, from the ground to the ledge. |
| Chopping Wood Trick |
Switch items while chopping |
If while you are chopping wood you quickly switch your
axe for some other item your character will appear to be cutting down a
tree with that other item. Try cutting down a tree with a spell book or
club. |
| Cobblers=Trash Can |
Give To |
When you give a backpack or bag to a Cobbler he/she will
gladly accept it. He/she will also accept it when it is filled with items
(no matter what is contained within it, including "No Draw" tiles).
This counts as giving and will increase Notoriety as normal. |
| Communication Crystal |
Use as a Ghost |
Characters may speak to Ghosts without using Spirit Speak
via Communication Crystals. Link two crystals to each other (they can be
in the same room). Then have a ghost begin to speak. You will see the normal
"ooOOooo ooOOo O OOo" above the ghost, but the crystal will also
announce "Ghostguy says..." |
| Cooking on Fire Field |
Cook, target Fire Field |
Kind of an expensive way to bake a pie... :) |
| Corpsers Wandering Off |
Cast Paralyze |
If you cast Paralyze on a corpser, it will move and follow
you until it is struck in combat. |
| Credits.txt |
Open the File |
This is a text file located in your 'uo' directory. |
| Cow-tipping |
Double-click |
After repeated d-clicks, the cow falls over. |
| Death Cries |
Kill an NPC |
NPC's will sometimes utter last words upon being killed
by a PC. The messages, such as "I will be avenged", "I shall
haunt thee" and "I spit on thee...", will appear in the bottom
left-hand corner of your screen. Sometimes, as the rumors go, a monster's
death cry will summon 2 to 4 of his fellows to exact revenge upon its killer... |
| Diving |
(see to right) |
On certain steep embankments leading into the ocean, a
character may fall off of the ledge and into the water below--and immediately
bounce back up onto dry land. |
| Dizziness |
Move cursor in circle |
While holding down your mouse's walk button, spin the cursor
in a circle around your character as fast as is possible, so that the character
begins to turn around without moving. Eventually, your character should
begin spinning in place. The longer this is perfoemed, the further that
character's Stamina will drop. |
| Doormat |
(see to right) |
You can hide objects under the steps (doormat) of your
house. To do this, turn on the circle of transparency and place the item
where the steps are. When you turn off the circle of transparency, the item
can no longer be reached or seen. |
| Dye Tub |
Do not alter color |
Using a fresh (un-colored) dye tub on an article of clothing
will color it the lightest shade of gray available in the game. Using on
a leather container or pair of shoes will restore that object back to its
original brown or black hue. |
| Dolphin |
Feed/Talk to/Attempt to tame |
Dolphins have been known to perform tricks... |
| Drunken Polymorph |
Drink Alcohol, then Polymorph |
Cast Polymorph while drunk, watch while *hic*'ing. |
| Eating wood |
Double-clicking burnt wood |
After a campfire goes out, embers show up. after the embers
go out, burnt wood shows up. The crisped wood disappears within about 5
seconds, and is edible. |
| Elementals |
Summon |
After summoning an Elemental, cast Earthquake or Fire Field
on/near it and the Elemental walk towards and attack your character. Normally,
summoned Elementals stay where they are summoned unless you command them
to do otherwise, even when attacked. (Tested using Water Elementals.) |
| Escort |
Talk as Ghost |
If a ghost says "I will take thee" to an NPC waiting for an escort, the NPC will reply with "That sounded spooky". |
| Evaluate INT |
Use on Object |
"It looks smarter than a
rock, but dumber than a piece of wood." |
| Evaluate INT |
Use on Self |
"Hmm, that person looks really silly." |
| Evaluate INT |
Use on Towncryer |
"He looks smart enough to remember the news. Ask him about it." This message appears for male and female Towncryers. |
| Evaluate INT |
Use on Player Vendor |
"That person
looks like he can calculate change." |
| Explodin' Shrooms |
Walk Over |
Big, red-capped mushrooms will sometimes explode when a
creature is in close vicinity. Try the third level of Destard... |
| Fame Transfer |
Target Self |
Say "I honor thee" and then target self with give a message "You flatter yourself." |
| Forest of Love |
Radar view |
By checking the radar view of a clearing in the woods near
Britain, you can find out which forest is the most compassionate. - Slug |
| Fruit tree |
Use |
Using an axe on an apple
tree or peach tree gives "Use
this on corpses to carve away meat and hide". Simply double-clicking
a fruit tree gives "There is no more fruit on this tree", which
indicates fruit trees should be spawning fruit. |
| Furniture |
Use Bladed Item on |
"Since you are the owner of the house, you can destroy
the moveable furniture within." |
| Gate Hopping |
Use Gates |
Cast mark, then move a bit down the screen and cast Gate. Two gates will open on screen, and you can run in one and out the other. Do this three times, and at the fourth attempt you receive the message "Your spirit lacks the cohesion for gate travel at this time" |
| Goats |
Leave Bags on Ground |
Goats have been known to munch on more than just tin cans...
(Including items from corpses and bags.) |
| Goats=Trash Can |
Feed |
You may keep pet goats happy by feeding them literally
anything inside of a leather bag or pack. |
| Great Heights |
Fall |
Falling from a great height (the roof of Trinsic's second
bank or the steps near the Tailor's on the way to the park teleporter in
Wind, for example) will cause you to say "Ouch" and lose HP but
will not kill you no matter how few HP you have. Try polymorphing into different
creaures for varient sound effects. |
| Harpy |
Carve corpse |
Carving a harpies corpse will give two raw birds. Now where
did those come from? |
| Heating Stand |
Cook on it |
You can cook on a heating stand, even when the candle inside is not lit. |
| Hedge Maze |
Follow footprints |
In the middle of the hedge maze west of Britain, you can
find tiny footprints outside of the hill on which the house with the message-board
is located.
After going through the hill, you go into an underground secret, which while
interesting, is completely useless. After going through a series of teleporters,
you end up outside a tower inside the hedge maze in a ring of mushrooms. |
| Iron
Maiden |
Double-click |
Double-clicking twice will activate the trap. (Try the
Dungeon Wrong.) |
| Item ID |
Use on self |
"It appears to be [name]." (Where [name]=your
character's name.) |
| Item ID on Gold |
Use on Gold |
The skill will report a value of up to 5,786 GP on a pile
of 5,000 GP, for example. |
| "jwilson"
Slimes |
-- |
This particular type of slime was named after Johnny Wilson,
the Editor of Computer Gaming World magaizine, after Mr. Wilson declared
Ultima Online "Coaster of the Year" for 1997. |
| Karma Transfer |
Say "I honor thee" then target
self |
"You flatter yourself" |
| Key |
Use on self |
"You don't appear to have a key for [name]."
(Where [name]=your character's name.) |
| Lamps in Minoc |
Double-click |
When double-clicked, the lamps in the corners of the room
in the Barnacle Tavern in Minoc make a "heating of the forge"
sound. |
| Large Shop Porches |
Use items |
Items left on the porches of large shops (such
as a Large Blacksmithy)
may be used by passerbys from outside of the building. Objects
which may be used in this manner include books (both reading
and writing), runes, boxes/packs, food, lanterns, wands and
communication crystals. |
| Lava-walking |
Teleport |
Cast Teleport and target the very edge of a lava pit (such
as the ones located near Hythloth, on Fire Isle). Once on the edge, you
should be able to walk into the lava iteself. |
| Llama Vortexes |
Cast energy Vortex |
Ever since the Beta, summoned Energy Vortex's will sometimes
appear as wildly-flailing purple llamas--which apparantly attempt to kick
your opponent to death. |
| Lord British's
Throne |
-- |
Upon close inspection, one can tell that the throne is
actually a half-buried UO symbol. |
| Lord British's Throne's Secret |
Walk behind throne |
Walk to southernmost corner behind the sheets of cloth
behind the throne. You can Teleport from there into the wall behind the
throne, and walk between the walls. This secret passageway has no known
purpose (yet). |
| Mage Shop in Ocllo |
Give Item |
Give something to any NPC that works in the mage shop,
such as a wand or potion, and they will give you either kindling, tarot
cards, or a rune to Trinsic mage shop (worth 7 gold or a trip to Trinsic).
May not work if the NPC has run out of inventory. |
| Mage Shop in Magincia |
Fall through the floor |
If you go up to the second floor you will find a small
room directly above the entrance. If you walk to the Southeast corner of
this room (on top of a plant), you will fall through the floor. |
| Magic Braziers/Statues |
Double-click |
Sometimes produce magical effects, such as the healing
of damage or the summoning of creatures. Must be allowed to recharge periodically. |
| Meditate |
Use Skill when drunk |
"Inebriation is not conducive to meditation." |
| Midgets/Headless Players |
Sit on a Chair |
Sit on a chair, then pick up the chair without standing
up first. An interesting graphical glitch results. |
| MIDI Files |
open |
These MIDI files are actually reworked versions of theme
songs from Ultima VII (lbcastle.mid, dragflit.mid, and oldult01.mid) and
VIII (intown01.mid). (Located in the /uo/music dir.) |
| MIDI Files Directory |
Replace files |
One can change the music played in the background during
certain events, cities, etc. by replacing the .mid files located in the
'uo\music' directory. Just rename the files that you would like to replace
the exisiting MIDI's with and overwrite the older files. (Note: sometimes
doesn't work if the song is long). Be sure to create backups of the original
music files. |
| MIDI Soundtrack vs. Sound Card |
Improve Sound |
Each of the different midi directories also contains a
specific "sound font" file (.sf2 extension) for use with the midi
files in that directory. The subdirectory names under the Music directory
reflect the amount of on-board sound card memory that is required to load
and utilize these sound fonts. So the better your sound card, the better
the soundtrack that plays. |
| Mushroom Formations |
-- |
Form an upside-down UO symbol. (One is located S of Trinsic). |
| Mystic Llama
Herders |
Open NPC Paperdoll |
Sometimes NCPC's (including Blade Spirits) are generated
with a strange professional title: "the mystic llamaherder". What
can ya say? OSI just loves llamas. |
| Newbie candle |
Use |
The candle you start with when you create a new character
will turn into a candlestick the first time you use it. |
| NPC Beggar |
Kill |
I killed an NPC beggar, while she was begging. After i
lost the karma, every 10 seconds or so, the ghost would appear for a half
a second then dissapear. No matter where I went, this beggar ghost would
follow me. |
| Orc Fort |
-- |
In the Shadowclan Orc fort on Catskills, if you go up into
the central hut there is a bed in the upper left-hand corner. Put
a fur directly in the middle of the bed and then you can walk on it. Pull
the fur and you end up out in front of the tower, like a trap-door. |
| Orcs |
Talk to |
Orcs will sometimes respond with strange comments to certain
words, such as "UO", "ultima online" or "stupid
orc". |
| Party |
Invite NPC |
When invited into a party, an NPC will say "Nay, I would rather stay here and watch a nail rust." |
| Party Command |
Use when not in Party |
If you are not in a party, but use a party command (prefix text with a slash) then you will see your entered text on screen prefixed with "Note to self:". |
| Patches |
-- |
"Perhaps Origin got a little too literal when it came
to patching?" - Xanthos |
| Pet Naming |
Set Name |
If you try to set a Pet's name to "your mother" you will get a message saying "That isn't very
polite". |
| Pets Post-Mortem |
See to right |
If the last command you gave your pet before death was
"follow me", the pet will continue to follow your ghost after
you die. |
| Polymorph (New Creatures) |
Polymorph, then Quaff Healing Potion |
The caster will transform into previously unavailable,
different creatures. Click here for the creature
to creature transformation key, courtesy of Lawst Prime. |
| Polymorphin' Fun |
(see to right) |
If you train a skill from an NPC, attack, or perform an
action your polymorphed form will move according to the animal that it represents
(e.g., a polar bear will roll over). Also, equipping a weapon while polymorphed
will sometimes result in a transformation following the creature to creature
transformation key mentioned above. (See also "Drunken Polymorph".) |
| Potty-Mouth
Room |
Swearing ? |
"While talking with a Counselor I got a peek at the
Potty-Mouth Room. Complete with soap
for those dirty mouths." -Calico |
| Provocation |
Use on self |
"Perhaps verbal taunts would work better." |
| Regions.txt |
Open the File |
This is a text file located in your 'uo' directory. |
| Scales |
Use on Animal |
The scales will always indicate the animal weighs 10 stones. |
| Scorpion |
Carve corpse |
Carving a scorpion gives you cut of ribs, which is rather
odd for an insect to have. |
| Sheep |
Use w/ Bladed Item |
Shears Sheep, producing Wool. (Wool is regrown after 1
UO day). |
| Shrine (Any Virtue) |
Double-click |
May cure stuck Stats, Notoriety or AR. |
| Shrine in Despise |
Double-click |
Refills Mana/HP/Stam. once per day. |
| Shrine in Destard |
Double-click |
Resurrects, cures poison. |
| Shrine of Sacrifice |
Offer Gold |
If gold is set upon the shrine's symbol, it will disappear
and make the sound of money being deposited. |
| Shrine of Spirituality |
Say "OM" 3 separate times |
"You will comprehend the universe..." (Chant
on stairs outside shrine). |
| Sitting and Actions |
-- |
If a character sits sit down on something while fighting
or lumberjacking (any action with an animation), such as a log, that char
will have no battle/swing or any other animation, although the battle/action
progresses as usual. |
| Spirit-Speaking Town Cryers |
Speak to Town Cryer as a ghost |
If you are die, and as a ghost happen across a town cryer
say "news". The Town Cryer will respond--apparently they Spirit
Speak constantly. |
| Stabling Humans |
Target Human |
When trying to stable a human, the stablemaster will reply
with, "HA HA HA! Sorry, I am not an inn." |
| Stealing |
Use on self |
"You catch yourself red handed." |
| Swamp Water |
Walk Over |
Some confined stagnant water will make a human sick...
Or even poison them. |
| Sweet Dreams Inn of Britain |
(see to right) |
Go to the 2nd floor, and proceed to the south eastern most
room (the one right above the first room on the first floor). Place a fur
on the bed. This will allow you to walk on top of the bed. Now remove the
fur from underneath you. You will appear outside in front of the inn. |
| T2A Playguide |
See backside |
The runes that make the border of the back
of the T2A play guide actually do say something. Starting at the top left
with the book rightside up it reads as follows: The Incan monkey god peered
through the leaves of the great book and saw the dawning of a new age (sign
of the cross here) an age whose like has seldom been beheld by man. |
| Tamed Animals |
Use the "Transfer" Command |
Your character can actually transfer ownership of or "friend"
tamed animals to NPCs or other animals. Trying to transfer or friend the animal to an object will make the pet look confused. |
| Taming Released Animals |
Release, then tame again |
If a character releases a pet and then attempts to tame
it again, a message will appear in their journal: "This isn't even
challenging." (The message does not appear if the animal went wild
on its own.) This was apparently put in place in order to prevent tamers
form continually releasing and re-taming pets for skill-gain. |
| Taste ID |
Target Self |
"You feel that such an action would be
innapropriate". |
| Teleporting by Items |
Target Item |
By casting Teleport and targeting an item lying on the
ground, you will teleport to that item's location, beit on water or elsewhere. |
| Tillerman |
Speak to him |
The tillerman responds with "Sir",
even if females give him orders. |
| Tillerman |
Speak as ghost |
Talk to the tillerman as a ghost and he will say "OOOO that sounds scary". |
| Tracking |
Use Skill |
With a very low tracking skill, stand in the middle of a crowd and track for people. You will receive a message "You see no sign of those in the area". |
| Trees of Wisdom and Rocks of Intelligence |
-- |
For a while, GM's would remove player-built structures
if they were located in illegal spots (blocking the entrance to an NPC Inn,
for example) and replace them with "Trees of Wisdom" or, more
rarely, "Rocks of Intelligence". |
| "Two-handed" Weapons |
Equip |
Some two-handed weapons--such as the battle axe and the
war hammer--will allow your character to drink potions even while equipped,
as if the character has one hand free. |
| Vendor Humor |
Say "vendor status" |
If you say "vendor status" to a vendor that you
do not own, he or she will reply with an amusing, if not sarcastic, answer.
For example, "Why would you care? You don't run this shop." |
| Wands |
Fight With |
They are treated as low-damage Mace-fighting weapons (equivalent
to a practice weapon). |
| Water in Jungles |
Fish |
Yes, those tiny pools of water located in jungle regions
may yield some fairly large trout! |
| Wind Box |
Look Inside |
Some of the gold colored boxes in the city of Wind have lanterns inside that say "an unmarked recall rune" when clicked. |
| Wisps |
Talk to |
Wisps will sometimes respond with strange comments
to certain words, such as "Blackthorn", "British",
"Death Vortex", "Hail Wisp", "Slay"
or "Help". They have also been known to assist those
who are on the losing side of a battle... |
| Wizard's Hat, Magical |
Wear |
(+5 INT, -5 DEX, -5 STR) |
| Yew Caves |
Click ground |
This extends from the Yew jail floor to this little mound
I came across while doing some exploring. I have read that there is supposed
to be a hidden cave under the Yew jail and would imagine this is part of
it, but so far I have been unsuccessful at finding an entrance to it. |
| Yew Prison |
Open the Secret Doors |
Take a look around the prison located in Yew with your
transperency circle on... |
| Yew Tree |
Stand behind |
A Yew tree (the really huge ones) are hollow, you can walk
into one if you enter from behind. If you talk while standing there it seems
as if the tree itself is talking. |
