Ultima Online Tower

This is my guide to the best Ultima Online sites. This site consists of: the main resource chart and a chart of other useful links. This site consists of: the main resource chart and a chart of other useful links. If a slot is blank in the first chart below, either the site at the top of the column does not offer that information or it is not so good, in my humble opinion. If you have suggestions--or if you find broken links--shoot me an e-mail!

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Other Useful Links
If a category has * after it, there are additional sites listed for that category in the chart above.

Account Management	Manage your UO account here.
Armor	UO Stratics offers information on magic weapons and armor and on weapons, armor and items with special abilities. UO PowerGamers has an armor guide (scroll down).
Auctions	See the BlackDagger trade boards. UO TradeSpot: Buy, sell and trade UO items with UO money. UO Resources: Apparently a way to buy UO gold, reagents etc. with RL cash on EBay.
Boards (Forums)*	UO Stratics also provides a page to search its forums. UO Vault a general discussion board, and also has the Mage Tower Board and Shard Boards. Markee Dragon offers a UO forum.
Calendars*	UO Vault has calendars for each shard.
Characters	UO PowerGamer offers a very nice guide on creating and advancing particular characters.
Combat	UO Stratics provides a "Combat Related" section in the left-hand column (scroll down). See the Official Site's combat page. UO PowerGamers has a page for combat against specific monsters. Ultima Online Portal describes the "The Wall" technique for gaining experience.
Commands	For a list (and explanation) of the available commands, see the UO Stratics commands page. Ultima Online Portal also provides Commands.
Communications	The Official Site offers a site on in-game communications. UO Stratics provides information on communications crystals.
Downtime	Here's the Official Site's downtime schedule.
Escorts	The Official Site provides information on escorts. UO Stratics has a page on escorts as well.
Faction	UO Factions offers a factions site; you must register to use it. The Official Site offers an explanation of the faction system. UO Stratics also provides a faction page.
Fame	Ultima Online Portal provides a page that shows the character titles for Fame & Karma (titles), as well as the Karma (monster) page showing how killing various monsters will affect your fame/karma.
General Info About UO	See the Official Site's Visitor Center.
Guilds	The Official Site offers a page on UO guilds.
Guild Software	Guild-Builder and Guild Boss offer software to manage a guild; there is a fee for use. Player Vault is free, though it is much more basic.
Houses*	Ultima Online Portal has house designs and house decorating pages.
IRC	UO Stratics has a page on IRC communications.
Items*	UO-Store.net is "the Internet's new Ultima Online resource centre where all goods sold are in UO Gold NOT cash. Deliveries are made to a Trammel bank of your choice after arranging a meeting time via ICQ or E-Mail from the supplied details from your order." Also see Items in the first chart.
Links	Crossroads of Britannia provides a nice links page. BlackDagger offers UO links. There's also the Ianstorm links page. Tanjiers.org has a very nice links page. UO Stratics provides an extensive links page. Hibix offers UO Links.
Macros	See the UO Stratics macros page. Also see Ultima Online Portal's macros page and its "autopilot" macros.
Manual	The UO Renaissance Manual is available in .pdf form from the Official Site.
Maps & Guides*	For dungeons, see Dungeons of Ultima Online. Though titled "Dungeons of the Lost Lands", these are really "secret" passages, as opposed to true dungeons. Ultima Online Portal offers dungeon guides and maps: scroll down to "Maps" in the left-hand column.
Meditation	See the UO Stratics meditation page for all you'd ever want to know about meditation.
Moongates	UO Stratics has a moongates locations page. Ultima Online Portal also has a moongates locations page.
Newbie Information	See the Official Site's New Player Center.
News*	UO Vault has a Front Page as well as a News Archive. Markee Dragon offers headlines. Also see the UO Update Journal.
Packhorses	UO Stratics provides a useful guide on the use of packhorses.
Pets	See this Official Site page regarding pets, including pet commands. Also see the UO Stratics page on animal taming.
Prices	Draco's offers price guides on Magic Weapons, Magic Weapons and Treasure Maps. Also see Honey's Prices on UO Semi-Rare and Rare Items. Ultima Online Portal gives prices on common items. BlackDagger offers a price guide. UO Stratics provides prices on crafted arms and armor, crafts and tools, clothing and food and armor and weapons.
Professions	BlackDagger offers "character templates". UO Stratics provides a "Professions" section; scroll down and look for it in the right-hand column.
PvP	UO Stratics offers advice on PvP avoidance and survival.
Reputation	The Official Site has Reputation System FAQ. UO Stratics provides a "Reputation" section; scroll down and look for it in the left-hand column.
Requirements	See the Official Site's requirements page.
Resistance	UO Stratics provides a resistance chart.
Runes	Mystified by runes? Ultima Online portal provides a UO-Runes page showing the translation.
Server Status	Ultima Lightning Net provides a server status page. Crossroads of Britannia has a server status page. UO Stratics provides server status in the right-hand column. (Scroll down.)
Shrines	Ultima Online Portal offers a listing of the locations and virtues of shrines.
Skills*	UO Craft is dedicated to "Powergaming merchantry one mule at a time". UO PowerGamer offers a page on stats and skills and the Gator 8x8 skill increase method. (Scroll down for both.) Ultima Online Portal has a skills table showing which NPC's teach that skill, among other things, along with a table showing skill titles (the ranking based on skill level).
Spells and Magic*	Ultima Online Portal describes speedcasting, and offers charts of spells sorted by mana/levels, spells sorted by name, and spells sorted by power words. UO Stratics has pages on the skill required to cast, reagents, spellbook appraisal, spells by circle, spells by words of power, spells by casting time, reagents and the translations for words of power. See also Resistance above.
Stat Caps	UO Stratics has a discussion of caps on statistics.
Support	Here's the official UO support page.
Thief Protection	UO Stratics has a guide to protection against thieves; also see its page on possessions.
Tips and Hints	UO PowerGamers provides a tricks page. (Scroll down.) Ultima Online Portal has a defense-tricks page.
Translation Pairs	The Official Site offers additional language translation pair downloads; scroll down to see them.
Treasure*	UO Stratics also provides Treasure Hunters of Britannia; be sure to scroll down and see the Treasure Hunting Info" section on the left. Ultima Online Portal offers a treasure map.
UO2 and UO:3D	Crossroads of Britannia explains UO2 (now dead) and the upcoming, three-dimensional UO:3D, aka UO Third Dawn Adventure--including computer requirements.
Updates	The Official Site offers a chronology of game updates.
Utilities	The Official Site (!) offers a page of links to UO utilities. Download UO Trace version 1.02a (65K): "test your connectivity to each of the Ultima Online worlds". Utilda utilities offer many UO utilities. The UO Calculator utility calculates reagents needed for either hunting or for magery practice. UO Night Light lets players control the darkness in the game. Inside UO provides a tool for viewing the internals of UO. UO Stratics provides a "Utilities and Tools" section; scroll down and look for it in the right-hand column. Tanjiers offers a downloads section. See the UO PowerGamer's files page. Finally, see Ultima Online Portal's Tool-Download Center.
Vendors	UO Vault provides a listing and rating of player-owned vendors. See this Official Site page for information on hiring, stocking and maintaining vendors. Also see Player-Run in the first chart.
Weapons	UO Stratics offers information on magic weapons and armor and on weapons, armor and items with special abilities. UO Stratics offers a weapons comparison chart and explains the importance of durability. Ultima Online Portal has a chart showing the effects of magic weapons, (scroll down), and a chart listing all weapons, a guide to weapons of virtue.

	*Official Site*	*Ianstorm*	*UO Stratics*	*Crossroads of Britannia*	*BlackDagger*
Beasts	bestiary	bestiary	Hunter's Guide	creatures
Boards*	boards search boards	general forums shard forums	UO boards search boards	discussions search boards	UO boards search boards
Boats (ships)	boats		ships
Calendars*	calendar		shard index	events calendar
Houses & Castles*	houses and castles		Homes: left-hand column (scroll down).	houses
*Items⁺**	armor shields Weapons and Equipment (use search)	armor clothing equipment weapons	armor clothes shields weapons		Items Database Rares Database
Maps*	clickable atlas	guide to the cities	Maps: left-hand column (scroll down).
News*	Britannia News Network	headlines search archives	general news shard news	news	news
Player-run++	towns, taverns etc.		taverns, villages, shops etc.		shop listings
Site Search	top of page		left-hand column		right-hand column
Skills*	skills	skills	Skills: left-hand column (scroll down).	skills	skills guide
Spells & Magic*	magic		spell descriptions
Treasure*			Treasure Maps	treasure map archive	treasure map guide