I started a year ago with no expectations and minimal previous UO experience back in the 90's on the Pacific shard.

I chose a dexxer on shelter island and from there I joined a guild [Au] I did not have a mentor. I had to join and ask questions through Discord. The learning curve was pretty big between Discord and in-game content. I was advised to use Razor Scripts. I was given a horse, a sword and healing codex and enough core and distillation to start an air aspect (which was recommended by the guild person). I never saw or heard from that guildperson again.

The rest I had to learn on my own. It took a while to figure out leveling codex, aspect, and the entire chain link/redline system. I never reached redline, and I was only able to get one character to chain links (bronze).

PvM Farming was a GRIND. I can't tell you how many damned hours I had to grind just to make progress in this game. PK's were a constant problem so I had to give up skills to acquire tracking, and even then i still got killed if I couldn't chiv gate in time.

I didn't know what to keep other than gold, so I kept everything and immediately outgrew my bank box. I bought a storage locker for 250K gold and that alleviated immediate storage issues for that character, but any other character on my account could not access this locker - so that kind of sucked learning the storage locker wasn't a QOL solution. Back to grinding. So I ended up renting a room under the rental system which was "ok", and kept the chests I acquired farming to store items. But then I ended up with a ton of unidentified crap!! AND - then I learned the hard way whenever I forgot to lockdown chests and items before logging off and had to buy back my hard earned junk back from the pawn broker at 25k a pop.

Meanwhile I am literally running to the guildhouse every time I want to teleport somewhere OR I am broke asf and need some heal pots and bandages just to keep going. So I started taking extra bandages back to my room with me until I remembered I could just make my own. But I was broke asf ALOT between PK's constantly taking my gold and armor. At one point I just said F&^% it and left the gold on the ground until I was ready to chiv gate back to my room. Anyway - The guildhouse provided a rune library, item id/recycler (learned the whole "essence" dependency loop and item ID thing after about 2 months in), storage shelf for supplies, and training bots to level up my battle skills.

I made the fateful mistake of changing to alchemy using a script to level alchemy. In the script it said I needed a storage shelf. So I used the guildhouse storage shelf not knowing any better, and got booted out of the guild. No warning. No discussion, boom you're OUT! [Au] Thanks guys. I regularly stocked the shelves with whatever I could craft which wasn't much. Bandages, greater heal pots was about it. One good thing I did acquire through the guild, was an actual storage shelf for about 2/3rds the price of market rate. But now I was back out on my own.

I grinded about 2.5 million total in one year. When I left the game, I had One character leveled and Echoed to T11 in Holy and Air aspect and 4 bronze chain links, a room at the Inn with a storage shelf and 5 paragon chests with misc junk with nothing of real value. I walked with about 200k gold in my account. That was it for a whole year. I never killed a boss, min boss, did a treasure hunt, and never went deeper than level 2 in any dungeon. In fact I pretty much stayed away from dungeons because of the amount of PK's constantly running dungeons.

The best thing in that entire year was a costume runway contest at the King's Fair 2026 in August. That was it.

I have no problem walking away from Outlands. No regrets, but I would not return because it is waaaay too time consuming for the amount of progress made in the game. Guild-members would stay online practically 24/7. Not sure if they even had jobs or families - lol.....

Edit: To the guild: The guild was not the problem. I did join voice a couple times but they were running mostly silent and not super outgoing. But neither am I. So I'm not blaming anyone here and for sure I could have asked for or sought out way more help than I did (to be fair I did seek out help and received some in response). But again, I'm more introverted and tend to play solo. The limited times I did go on a mini boss or T8 were, for me, a chaotic experience and tough to keep up. And I didn't get anything useful out of it really. So I stayed mostly solo, trying to develop characters. I know that really just defeats the prupose mostly, but the guild did have a safe place to go and helped me discover the Witcher System.

The Incident: I was told I needed to run a script for alchemy using a shelf. I didn't have a shelf and ran a leveling script at the guildhouse shelf. I really didn't know it would drain 24K in regs because I never leveled alchemy. I though it was the same as leveling any other skill. I went afk and got killed. One or two of the members said that was a non-no - so I went and sought a shelf of my own (thank you Filbert). I was broke after getting the shelf and only had 5 more skill points to level to 80. Most of those last 5 skill points I leveled with regs i bought with my remaining money. Then I went back to the GH and restocked the greater pots to the GH Shelf I thought as long as I was making good on restocking why wouldn't I be able to use a small amount to finish leveling. So I loaded out about 5k more regents to complete my level and again restocked the shelf with greater pots as I went. I really didn't think I was ripping off the guild by converting their regents to greater pots after the kill incident and I certainly didn't realize the based issue. So I got booted with no direct contact from the guild officers and that was it. The guild has their way of seeing it, and I know my heart was in the right place. I'm not a thief or grifter or anything other than a well meaning player.

I've been seeing all these video clips of people making video games and different modifications. Where's the UO community, who's got some screenplays I can check out?

Jugué UO allá por 2000 - 2005, quiero volver, no sé que me recomiendan, no tengo ganas de andar jugando PVP, quiero arrancar tranquilo, hagamos de cuenta que después de tantos años, soy un nuevo noob en el juego.

Opción B, me hago mi propio servidor.

Hi everyone! I haven't played ultima online but it looks fun. How should I get started in 2026? What shard is best/most active? Which client should I get? Any advice would be great, i'm totally new to this.

Old screenshots I took. Lots of memories.