Lumberjacking
It is one of the basic skills, along with mining. You will need a lot of logs to make furniture and all the equipment for the house, but also to make weapons - bows, crossbows and especially arrows and bolts. Good lumberjacks are highly valued and their products, sometimes just logs, are able to sell to other players for a very high price.
At the same time, the only thing you will need is a hatchet, or one of the cutting weapons. Take it in your hand and use it on a tree. If you harvest a tree, move on to the next one. Along with the increasing skill (Lumberjacking), the time it takes to harvest a tree will also decrease. At the same time, the logs in your backpack will increase in a much higher quantity.
However, logs are just raw materials that you can now cut (with a saw) or chop into kindlings (double-clicking on the lying chips will start a fire) or start making ranged weapons (knife).
Ore mining and smelting ingots
The second of the basic skills of Ultima Online. Melted metal ingots are not only a profitable raw material to sell, but you will need it in large quantities to make weapons, tools and armor. To mine ore, you need a pickaxe or shovel. With this, you go to a cave in the mountains (suitable caves are located, for example, north of Britain or east of Minoc). Use the tool on the ground and start digging. At first, you will only occasionally find iron ore, later with increasing skill (mining) you will also find individual non-ferrous metals and finally Mytherill. If you have enough ore, go to the nearest forge with it. Double-click on the ore to melt it into ingots. There is a protected mine in Minoc, which is only accessible to miners with a mining skill of less than 60%. Above this mine is an even smaller mine and an access road to it, which is accessible to everyone. Both of these mines are protected by guards.
Bandage - speeding up healing
If you want to heal yourself and save precious reagents, it is a good idea to learn how to use bandages. It is simple, you can either buy them or cut them yourself from any fabric or clothing. Bandages are applied by double-clicking on them and on the NPCs you want to heal (e.g. horses). One good trick is to carry scissors with you to the dungeons and cut the clothes of killed enemies. Tip: you can also cut leather armor and boots.
Burglary
Even though your belongings in the house should be relatively safe, you cannot be 100% sure in this case. Despite the efforts of the game creators and GMs, there are sometimes individuals who find a loophole through which they can get into your house and take some valuable items. In this case, the GM can help find a way to prevent this in the future, but they cannot guarantee the return of the items. Therefore, store your really valuable items in the bank.
There are a number of ways to rob a house, here we will list at least the most common ones, along with instructions on how to eliminate them.
- A thief with high Hiding or Steath skill will enter the door at the same time as the owner. Here we recommend performing Detecting Hidden several times in a row before entering the house.
- Someone will make a copy of your key - the same applies here as with thieves. Do not let strangers rummage through your backpack, or lend you house keys.
- Someone runs into the house and logs out. In this case, use HELP - Message to GM. The Game Master will immediately imprison such a character.
- Someone runs into the house and you cannot get rid of them. In this case, call your teammates for help or just make sure that the door to your house remains closed at all times.
- Stealing things under windows - from some locations, for example under windows, things can easily be stolen from the outside. The best way to find out is to try it yourself. Turn on the Circle of transparency in Options and walk around the house. At that time, try to point at individual objects inside, such as chests, and try to pick up the things. If you succeed, it is the best time to move the things to a place where it will not be possible.
TIP: Carefully monitor the events around the houses, the sale of suspicious things and inform each other via Discord or the forum. If there has been a burglary and you suspect the culprit, inform the GM immediately. Don't forget to make an inventory of the stolen items and the time when the incident may have occurred.