We've received reports of players who have dyed their Swamp Dragon armor deeds with the dyes of Tokuno, and then created neon pets. These dyes were not intended to be used in this manner and those players with neon pets will find their swampies reverted to iron in the near future.

We just wanted you to know that we're aware that some slimes in the Slime Event have not been moving on properly, or giving all the hues that they were supposed to. We're currently working on a fix for theses issues and we will extend the Slime Event as necessary so everyone has the time to fully enjoy it. Please keep an eye here on the Herald for updates about the slimes!

With the new year, Sosaria’s main bank is in high need of a serious makeover. We are looking for talented designers and decorators to submit their original ideas on a great new look for the West Britain Bank. This is a permanent new look so do not focus on just a winter theme!

All shards will be published tomorrow morning during maintenance. This publish will address the following fixes:

• Fixed an issue with players with stealing from pack animals in Trammel

• Fixed an issue with the Gate spell .

The Five on Friday has returned with answers to your questions. This week we've announced the names of our new Event Moderators and answered questions about Icy patches and much more!

To read the full article, please click here.

All shards will be coming down tonight at approximately 8:00pm EST for a publish. We expect downtime to be approximately 2 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. We'll get them back up as soon as we can!

UPDATED 9:15pm EST: All shards are now back up! The fixes are listed below:

All shards will be updated to Publish 57 at their next regular maintenance.

Publish 57 patch notes can be seen here.

We wanted to let you know that we are aware of the Kingdom Reborn Client issues and that we are working at resolving them. We'll give you an update as soon as we can!

We're aware of an issue that is causing the UO client to crash for some players when starting up. We wanted to let you know that we are working on getting this resolved as soon as we can. We're sorry for the inconvenience everyone!

Publish 57 has gone live on Origin.  Patch notes are available in the regular place.