Step 1: Download and Install an Ultima Online client and Razor

You can find these on our ( Play page ) for download, including the UO client best suited for playing on Legacy as well as the UO assistant program Razor. Razor is a third party program that will be used to connect to our server, and your macros and hot keys.

Step 2: Open Razor and configure it to connect to Legacy

Once the UO client and Razor are downloaded, right-click Razor and run as an Administrator. This will help to avoid some common issues that occur when opening Razor for the first time.

After you start Razor, you will want to make sure the Server and Port settings are as follows:

Port: 2593

After you type these into their respective boxes, press Okay.

***IMPORTANT*** You must have the checkbox “Negotiate features with server” checked!

Step 3: Create an account and select the server

Once you’ve punched in our server address into razor and click “Okay” your UO client will launch and bring you to the login screen. You will be prompted to enter an account name and password. Type in the account name and password you would like and if it is not already taken then it will be created automatically. Make a note of your login info somewhere in case you forget it. Passwords are case sensitive. Click on Legacy UO from the server list and you will be brought to the character creation screen.

Simple as that! Download the UO Client and razor, punch in our address, and you’re good to go! Continue reading for a short new player guide covering the fundamentals of game play, like moving your character around the world, speaking, and other basic functions.

Once you’ve logged in, you’ll need to know the basics! Here’s a quick guide on how to function in the world

Creating a character and logging in

Here you can pick which stats and skills your character will start with. For simplicity’s sake, let’s pick the Warrior pre-made skillset. From here you will be able to customize your characters looks and give them a name.

Once you have decided how you want your character to look, press the the green arrow in the bottom right corner and you will be logged into the world.

Moving and playing

You will appear in the city of Luna. To move, simply point the cursor in the direction you wish to go and hold down your right mouse button. To inspect items or NPCs, click on them with the left mouse button once. To use an item or to open a door, double left-click over the item or door.

Once you’ve familiarized yourself with movement, stand still and double left-click your character sprite in the middle of the screen. This will open up your paperdoll, which is where you can equip your character with weapons, clothes, and armor. It also has a variety of useful buttons, such as your Options menu, your Skills menu, and Log Out button to take you back to the account sign in screen.

Basics and other Misc.

In UO, speaking is as simple as typing and pressing enter. Anything you enter will appear above your character sprite for a few seconds and then disappear. This is used to talk to other players, open your personal Bank chest, call the guards, and interact with NPCs, among other things.

Bank: To open your personal bank chest, be in the vicinity of a banker NPC and say “bank”. In Luna, the bank is in the center hub of the city where your character was created. Each character on your account gets a bank chest, and the contents of each bank chest are unique to that character. Bank chests are safe from thieves, so you can feel safe putting your gold and other valuables in there. Bank contents are universal, as in a character will have the same bank chest no matter what city they are currently in.

Guards: When you are in the protection of the town guards (accordingly noted by a message in the bottom left corner of the screen whenever you enter or leave the protection of the town guards), they will protect you from monsters, player killers, and usually thieves. If you are attacked by a creature or another player while in town, simply say “guards” and the guards will kill the creature or player. Note that guards will not always notice thieves if they are skilled enough, so be wary of holding valuable goods that you cannot afford to lose.

Vendors: Vendors on UO will sell you equipment to help you on your adventure, if you have the gold for it. To buy or sell goods to a vendor, you must find an NPC who has the wares you are looking for and say “Vendor Buy” near them. NPCs have titles such as Tailor or Blacksmith that will tell you what kind of wares they deal in. Similarly, saying “vendor sell” near a vendor will show you the sell menu. Alternatively, you can press shift+left-click to show a small menu of what interactions the NPC is capable of.

Status bar: To pull up your status bar, left-click and hold on your character sprite and drag away from it. You will pull up a simple grey status bar that shows your health, mana, and stamina, respectively. Double click this status bar to get a more detailed report of your stats.

Mini-map: Once you feel you’re ready to go out and explore, press alt+R. This will bring up your mini-map, which will show you where you are currently positioned in the world within a small area. Press alt+R again to make the map slightly bigger.

Combat: First thing you want to do before entering combat is to pull up your targets health bar exactly as you bring up your own. Left-click and hold, then drag away from the sprite. Once you have their health bar up, you can engage them in combat. To engage in melee combat, you must enter war mode. When you are in war mode, your in-game cursor will turn red and your character will go into a combat stance that is clear to you and everyone else around you. To enter war mode, you can either hold the tab button or press alt+C. Once you are in war mode, simply double click on the monster (or player) that you would like to attack. Standing on any adjacent tile to the monster or player will cause you to swing at them automatically.

Notoriety system: On the note of combat, UO has a notoriety system that tells you what is okay to attack and what is not. The basics are:

Blue: Innocent

Grey: Criminal

Red: Murderer

You can find out a players notoriety by single-left clicking on their sprite and checking the color of their name. “Blues” are innocent players and NPCs who you have the ability to attack, but will likely result in the guards being called on you if you are in town and under the protection of the town guards. Monsters are typically “grey” which means they are freely attackable. There is also a “criminal status” for players who have committed criminal acts recently, such as attacking an innocent blue player or stealing from somebody. Criminal status lasts for 120 seconds after the last committed criminal offense and returns to blue status after the timer is up. Note that “grey” players are freely attackable by any player during this duration, within the protection of the town guards or not. Guards cannot be called upon a player who is attacking a “grey” criminal player in town. Finally, there is Murderer, or “red” status. A player who is a murderer is not allowed into any town, and will be killed by the guards immediately after being spotted by a player who calls “guards” or an NPC within the protection of the town guards. Players become murderers by player killing at least 5 human players in game, counted by a “murder count” system. Murderer status can be gotten rid of in one of two ways: waiting for a good amount of time in-game, or going to the Angel Island prison, where murder counts take significantly less time to disappear. More info on Angel Island can be found in the Features section of this website.

**Note that entering war mode will not automatically make you “grey”. You will not commit a criminal action until you are in war mode and double click on an innocent player or NPC.**

Healing: As a warrior starting out, the easiest way to heal yourself is using bandages. Bandages can be cut up from bolts of cloth bought from the tailor NPCs using scissors. Alternatively, you can go to the cotton fields and pick some cotton, run the cotton through a spinning wheel to make balls of yarn, then run the balls of yarn through a loom to make bolts of cloth to cut up with scissors. This is cheaper, but more time consuming. To heal yourself, you must be hurt at least 1 hit point worth of damage. Double left-click the bandages in your backpack and it will bring up a targeting symbol on your cursor. Place the cursor either over your health bar and left-click once, or place it over your character sprite and left-click once. Bandages will take anywhere from 10-15 seconds to heal yourself depending on your dexterity stat, and can be interrupted by being hit in combat. If you are struck in combat while applying a bandage, you will receive the message “Your fingers slip!”. If you are at very low health while fighting a monster, it is advised that you run away for a screen or so while your bandage finishes healing up.

Macros: In UO, there are some small shortcuts you can take to make your gameplay experience a little bit smoother, called “macros”. To reach the macro menu, double click your sprite to open your paperdoll and go to the options menu. In the options menu, click the circle with the arrow in the bottom left and that will bring you to the macros tab. Macros can cast a spell from your spellbook, say a string of words you use often, and many other things. I will leave you to experiment with macros yourself, but I think an important one you will use often is “lastobject”. Lastobject will initiate whatever action you last took that involved a double-click. The easiest example that I can think of for this is using your bandages. Once you double click your bandages, you can simply press your “lastobject” macro (in this example, the F1 key) and it will pull up the cursor used to target yourself with a bandage. It can save you a lot of time and hassle instead of going to your backpack, double clicking bandages, and going back to single click on your character sprite. Experiment with macros and see what useful shortcuts you can find. Once you set a macro you want, make sure you press “apply” at the bottom of the options menu to finalize it.\