Preparing for Beta

As we enter the second week of February, I’m happy to announce that we’re on schedule to kick off Beta as planned. Our server memory and software upgrades are complete and the UO map & client updates for Beta are just ready to go.

What can we do during Beta Testing?

By participating in Beta, you’re helping us polish certain aspects of gameplay that are necessary for launch day, as well as test new systems for future patches and our first major expansion.

You will start a character from scratch. You’ll train skills, farm gold, place houses, and hopefully get into some shenanigans along the way. Focus on playing more than testing. By playing the game, you’ll likely find bugs or come up with suggestions for our team. We’ll have bug reporting and request channels available in Discord.

Use the time to become familiar with gameplay, the UO client, the map changes, and more importantly, enjoy your time playing Beta. It is only temporary, after all!

We will continue to monitor for, and patch bugs on a weekly basis throughout Beta.

We look forward to seeing you in Britannia.

Join us for Closed Beta Testing

If you aren’t already in Discord, you can join the waiting list by signing up at the bottom of the page. We send our invites multiple times per week.

Closed Beta begins on February 28th, 2025 at 7pm eastern.

Don’t want to fill out a silly form?

Discord will go public after Beta begins, so you can always wait until March 1st or later to join from a link on our website or shared by a friend.

How will Tides of Power Beta accounts work?

• If you have an account from Alpha, you’ll continue to use that account (it has been wiped).
• Your Beta account is your real UO Tides of Power account. Keep an eye out in Discord for an announcement regarding account registration.
• When Beta ends, we’ll wipe all characters, houses, and other player related content ahead of public launch (sometime in May 2025.)

Wiping Alpha

Below we have a pile of our dead (and now deleted) Alpha Testers. A big thanks to all of those who participated in the two months of Alpha testing. Your efforts as early settlers will be noted in the shard history.

Winter Recess Patch Notes

World Updates

• Additional islands added to the map.
• Cemetery added to Shallow Graves.
• Shoreline polishing and updates to the Water Walk.
• Updates to Cartography and Treasure Map artwork
• Spawning Rares: Finalized placement of 130+ recurring rare spawns. These range from daily to quarterly. A full list of spawning rares will be on the wiki eventually, but we will omit their location or spawn frequency.
• Lockpicking in Dungeons: Locked dungeon chests have a 1% chance to have a necro or pagan reagent rare. These are for decoration purposes only.
  • Covetous: Grave Dust
  • Dark Arts Academy: Obsidian
  • Deceit: Blackmoor
  • Despise: Bat Wing
  • Destard: Dragon Blood
  • Hythloth: Daemon Bone
  • Shame: Bloodspawn
  • Wrong: Fertile Dirt

NPCs & Spawn Updates

• Shopkeeps and many other NPCs in Britain, New Magincia, and Yew have been given specific names and outfits. These NPCs will over time have unique speech banks, social placement, and in some cases, quests or micro-adventures to explore.
• Reduced POI and dungeon spawn rates from their higher Alpha testing levels.
• Adjustments to leather, hides and blank scroll purchase prices.
• Removed Gatekeepers, tamer station, barding station, supply stations, dueling stockpiles, and other Alpha QOL items.

Batsby