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UO Seasons Launch Announcement

What is UO Seasons?
UO Seasons is a Publish 15-era, Felucca-only shard, set before Age of Shadows. No Trammel. No item insurance. No modern systems layered on top.

This is classic Ultima Online - combat, risk, and progression as they were meant to be experienced.

Seasonal Resets

At its core, UO Seasons introduces a simple idea:

The world resets.

Every season begins from a clean state. No carry-over of gold, items, or position. No entrenched advantage. No inherited dominance.

What this restores is the feeling many of you remember:

• The early days, when every decision mattered
• When progress was earned, not assumed
• When the world had not already been solved

Seasons run approximately three months and reset on a fixed schedule aligned with the equinoxes and solstices.

Each new season is a fresh start - for everyone.

Weekly Server Wars

To anchor each season, the shard will host weekly Server Wars:

• Every Friday
• 7:00 PM CET
• 7:00 PM Pacific

These events provide a consistent point of conflict, competition, and coordination throughout the season.

Seasonal Awards

If the world resets, what lasts?

Your accomplishments do.

Seasonal awards provide permanent recognition of what you achieved during a season. Statues, trophies, and collectibles carry forward, preserving your history without affecting balance.

You do not carry power forward.
You carry proof.

Lineage

Most of you will recognize the lineage immediately: Angel Island, Siege, Mortalis.

UO Seasons is not a new fork or side project. It runs on the same GmnUO core I have maintained and evolved since 2004 - now at Core 6.

This shard represents the current state of that work.

22 years in the making.

I will be opening the shard shortly.
More details to follow.

See you in-game.

- Adam Ant

Archived Post: Mortalis Launch Announcement

What is Mortalis?
Mortalis is a unique Ultima Online shard that emphasizes adventure, permanent consequences, and a return to the original spirit of the game. In Mortalis, every decision carries real weight, and players experience a world where death is meaningful and adventures are genuinely thrilling. (For full details, read more here.)

Remember what it was like when you stumbled across a camp of red-named brigands and felt that genuine rush of fear? Mortalis aims to bring back that kind of thrill and emotion - when the world was dangerous, every encounter mattered, and every red name on your screen got your heart racing.

While Mortalis is a Publish 15-era, Felucca-only shard, we've made targeted enhancements to certain gameplay elements - often aligning with what we believe OSI originally intended. One example is passive taming, designed to make skill growth feel more natural and immersive.

- Adam Ant