Felucca

Felucca is the original facet from when Ultima Online

Ultima Online

Ultima Online is a graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game , released on September 24, 1997, by Origin Systems. It was instrumental to the development of the genre, and is still running today...

 was first released on September 25, 1997 and was the only facet for over two and a half years. It was named Felucca only after the addition of the Trammel facet to help distinguish between the two. When Trammel was added to the game Felucca was transformed into a grimmer, more foreboding autumn-like environment to reflect the contrast in the differences in playstyle between the two facets. Gravestones, bones, and dead trees are a common sight in Felucca. It is governed by a rule set which allows non-consensual PvP

Player versus player

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 and is faithful to the original rules of Ultima Online (although many things have changed).

The expansion Ultima Online: The Second Age

Ultima Online: The Second Age

Ultima Online: The Second Age was the first expansion for the Ultima Online MMORPG. It added several features to the game, including a new region called the Lost Lands, new creatures, and support for player-built cities...

 (October 1, 1998) featured a new portion of the map called The Lost Lands. It featured forest, swamp, desert, and ice terrain with new, exotic animals. Also, two new towns Papua and Delucia, as well as new dungeons with new monsters were added. The land is commonly referred to by players as T2A, an abbreviation of the title of the expansion. The Lost Lands did not offer any new land for player housing.

Trammel

Trammel was introduced with the third expansion pack, Ultima Online: Renaissance

Ultima Online: Renaissance

Ultima Online: Renaissance is the second expansion to the popular Ultima Online MMORPG. Released on May 4, 2000, it added content, fixed bugs, and made gameplay changes in response to common player complaints....

 (April 3, 2000) and became the second facet. Despite being a replica (many players use the word "mirrored" when referencing Trammel but it is in fact not a mirror image of the map) of the original facet, since its creation each facet has developed independently. It looks lively and spring-like. Two player demands were satisfied with the addition of Trammel: a rule set that does not allow non-consensual PVP, and additional open land for player housing. The Lost Lands was copied to Trammel along with the rest of the original land. Since then, it has been natural to associate the Trammel Lost Lands as part of the Trammel facet and the Felucca Lost Lands as part of the Felucca facet.

Trammel is named after one of the moons of Britannia.

Ilshenar

Ilshenar was added in the fourth expansion pack Ultima Online: Third Dawn

Ultima Online: Third Dawn

Ultima Online: Third Dawn, released in 2001, introduced 3D models to the Ultima Online MMORPG franchise. While the game still maintained its scaled, overhead view, the character animation was much smoother...

 (March 7, 2001). Ilshenar is made up of many dungeons and home to new monsters. Originally it was only accessible to those using the updated client that came with the expansion. Later, in the next expansion, Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge

Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge

Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge was the first of the two "darker" Ultima Online MMORPG expansions . The game featured creatures designed by Todd McFarlane...

 (February 24, 2002) Ilshenar was opened to those using the original client. Also, as part of the finale to events leading up to the Lord Blackthorn's Revenge, new land was added to Ilshenar.

Malas

Malas was added in the fifth expansion pack Ultima Online: Age of Shadows

Ultima Online: Age of Shadows

Ultima Online: Age of Shadows is the fifth expansion pack for the popular MMORPG Ultima Online. It was released on February 11, 2003 and was the last title by developer Origin Systems.-Malas:...

 (February 28, 2003). It brought new landmass for housing, two new cities; Luna (known as the "City of Paladins") and Umbra (known as the "City of Necromancers"), and a new dungeon. Malas is composed of large land masses that appear to be floating in a starry void. Bridges connect these "islands" together.

Tokuno

Tokuno was added in the sixth expansion, Ultima Online: Samurai Empire

Ultima Online: Samurai Empire

Samurai Empire is the sixth expansion to the Ultima Online MMORPG, featuring an oriental-themed environment, allowing players to play archetypical characters the Samurai and Ninja. It also added a new area named the Tokuno Islands. It was developed and published by Electronic Arts and released on...

 (November 2, 2004). Tokuno is based on Feudal Japan

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. Tokuno is made up of three large islands and many smaller islands along the coast. There is a city, Zento, on the southern side of Makoto-Jima.

Post-Tokuno Lands

When Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy

Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy

Mondain's Legacy is the seventh expansion to the Ultima Online MMORPG, featuring a new playable race, elves, along with a new skill and several new dungeons. This expansion focused content more on existing and veteran players, rather than trying to draw new players...

(August 30, 2005) was released, additional dungeons and a city, named Heartwood, were added to the game. The entrances to these are all in existing facets so like the Lost Lands and the territory added to Ilshenar with Lord Blackthorn's Revenge these are not considered facets.

Ter Mur

The current expansion pack Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss

Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss

Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss is the eighth expansion pack for the 1997 MMORPG Ultima Online. The expansion was announced prematurely on the Japanese Ultima Online website. It was originally slated for release in the summer of 2007, but expected after 2008...

features a new landmass called Ter Mur. It is the land of the Gargoyles, a new race in Ultima Online. The capital of Ter Mur is the Royal City. Ter Mur also contains space for player housing. http://www.uoherald.com/stygianabyss/gameoverview/terrain/

Free shards

Free shards

Ultima Online shard emulation

Fans of Ultima Online have reverse engineered the game to produce server emulators of the original Electronic Arts servers. With the modern server-emulation software available today, it is possible to customize most aspects of the game and support large numbers of concurrent players on a single...

may offer custom maps, or some variation of the worlds listed above.

External links

• UO Auto-Map Approved http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=306 third party map software for use with Ultima Online.
• The Grand Sosarian Atlas at UO Stratics.
• UO Adventurer's Guide.