New Player Guide

This Guide will walk you through the basics. For Ultima Online Veterans, please see our UO Veteran Guide for server specific differences.

Interface

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Controls & Interaction

Movement

Hold down the right mouse button and point in any direction to move.

• Hover your cursor close to your character while holding right-click and you'll walk in that direction.
• Move your cursor further away and your character breaks into a run.
• Running drains Stamina, and certain conditions can affect your movement speed such as Injuries and hobbling.

Alternatively, if you prefer more modern controls, navigate to Options > Experimental and enable WASD Movement.

• Because UO uses a classic isometric view with 8 directions, there are two WASD settings available so you can set your base directions to whichever feels natural, either cardinal or top/down/left/right.

Item Management & Interaction

UO is pretty freeform when it comes to managing items and interactions. Most things will respond to a click or a hover, if only to tell you what it is.

• Single-click or hover over anything to see its name, a quick way to get your bearings in an unfamiliar place.
• Double-click most things to use or activate them: tools, food, drink, doors, job items, and crafting stations. Double-clicking a character opens their paperdoll, or a menu if they're a special NPC.
• Hold ALT/span> to highlight interactable and noteworthy items in your immediate area, useful for a fast sweep of a room without clicking through everything.
• Click and drag to move items, reposition things in your backpack, hand something to another player which will open a trade menu, or drop it in the world.

Communication

Out of Character

Not everything can be handled in character, and for those times the simplest solution is Party Chat. Invite the players you need to speak with into a party and talk freely without it bleeding into the roleplay around you.

Additionally, wrapping [[ ]] in normal speech is also acceptable for brief moments.

Action	Command	Range & Function
Talk	Just type and press Enter	Nearby players will hear you, provided they're on the same screen as you and within Line of Sight.
Whisper	\your message	Speech will only be heard only by players directly adjacent to you, or those with Observant.
Shout	;your message	Shouting breaks line of sight, meaning your voice carries through walls, doors, and around corners.
Emote	*your action*	Observed by nearby players within line of sight to describe what your character is doing. Emotes are just as in-character as speech, and you're encouraged to use them.
Party	/your message	Anyone currently in your Party will see this regardless of where they are. Messages here are considered out of character.
OOC	[[Your Message]]	Out of character using normal talk, to only be used use in emergency/sparingly. Example: [[Brb]]

Crafting

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Combat

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