I wanted to share some information with my friends here at ScriptUO that have been so helpful in helping me...

Here is a little strategy I have used to get items in the Primeval Lich Champ spawn Area:

Just to let everyone know it is easy to make way with at least 50+ environmentals per spawn. It does require alot of time and patience.

Heres what you do.

1: Level spawn until an environmental pops or new items are added to the spawn. If none spawn when new items are added revert and try again.

2: If a duplicate can be picked up remember # of candles.

3: Let spawn revert 1 candle before the duplicate was picked up.

4: Level spawn again to duplicating point

5: Continue 1-4 until you are overweight or tired

Doing these steps will ensure you an environmental everytime easily making away with loads of them!!!

Medusa seems to be similar to other Peerless Monsters in the game, but she has a tendency to drop better loot then most of the other SA Monsters especially the Medusa Statue and her blood for making Pet Rez Potions.  What do you think is the best template along with the best weapon to kill her with.  Gorgon lenses made with her scales for sure...a tank mage seems to get in a lot of spells on her, but it would seem that a sampire constantly beating on her would work better and faster...

I noticed something interesting while marking new runes in Felucca for my Miner(s).  I was trying to mark safer runes away from where PK's or other People would venture to do my Miner harm.  While exploring I discovered that I could no longer enter some Caves that were obviously there.  They seemed to be blocked off from entering them as I kept bouncing back.  I went to my Rune Library and found a Runebook entitled "Felucca Caves" and was amazed that the same Caves I could not walk into, I could recall into.  I gave one of my Miners this Runebook and used it to recall around.  While mining, I noticed that a group of Orcs spawned just outside of the Cave entrance and they wanted to come play with me, but the Cave was not allowing them to enter.  In those particular Caves, I finally felt safer -- AT LAST!

Some Caves you can still enter from outside by walking into them, but there are other Caves as described above. 

There are some new items available on UO Game Code Store, but I bought one off a Vender on Pacific for 10 Million Gold.  The Smuggler's Blade does some very nice things:

When your attack by this item hits a monster, you can steal an item 5% of the time (Even if you don't have stealing skill). Stealable items and the probability of rare item stealing are pretty much the same publish 58 changes, but there are some differences.>.

When you succeed in stealing an item and have a chance to steal a rare item, your stealing skill is temporarily set up among 80.0-110.0(random).
If your stealing skill is under 100.0 and temporary stealing skill is also under 100.0, your rare item stealing fails due to the shortage of the skill.
When your stealing skill is over 100.0, it serves as the minimum guaranteed skill, and a higher value is adopted.
If your stealing skill is over 100.0, you can get a bonus to the appearance ratio of a rare item.
100.0-109.9: +1%
110.0-119.9: +2%
110.0-119.9: +3%
In addition to the existing rare items, the following two rare items may be able to be stolen only at the time of stealing with a smuggler's edge.
Smuggler's Lantern
Lantern with spellchanneling
100 colors
Smuggler's Tool Box
You can pick up 5-12 lockpicks by consuming 1 charge.
1 charge is recovered every 24 hours (Max: 10 charges).

Notes
This item can't be imbued.
Powder of fortifying doesn't work on this item.
You can alter this item to the gargish dagger by tinkering skill.
This item doesn't have blessed property in Siege/Mugen.

Today while I was looking thru the Alchemy Menu Gumps I noticed a couple of new things that Alchemists can now make: Vial of Vitriol, Scouring Toxins, and Elixir of Rebirth.  The Elixir intrigued me because it is an Elixir an Alchemist can make that resurrects Pets!  One of the ingredients toimake this potion seems a little hard to get though, as it is Medusa's Blood.  I have not killed Medusa in a couple of weeks and wonder how hard it is to get her blood.  Does it drop everytime as loot?

Told EN about this and he placed an order of 9000 Elixirs of Rebirth to use in his Scripts that involve Pets...!   

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Several people have PM'd me asking me for help with Hort-O-Matic 2.  I have made it a point to make it work and wanted to give you fellow Gardeners some tips and help that I do when using 'Hort-O-Matic 2:

I did not write the Script (Cedryk did an AWESOME JOB on this Script <wish he were still playing UO and not Pirates!>), but I have been using it for several weeks now and it seems to work fine, slow but works.  I have one account that I use as Mules to store things in the bank, hold a house, and also do Gardening with them.  Each character has 120 plant bowls on them inside a backpack.  The script only recognizes backpacks and pouches, not bags or other containers.  The work container is to my right and the Water Trough is in front of me.  The seed container is stored in the 'Work Container', but I take it out and secure it when the Script asks for the 'Seed Container', then double-click it to open it.  I dont check Collect until the 9th day, when I know I will have seeds.  I also don't check use Standard/Extreme Prevention and Maximize Plant Health as it uses up way too many potions.  I do check Maximize Plant Health, if I forget to water one or two days and that strengthens the plants back up to healthy and vibrant.  Gardening uses a lot of potions and sometimes I really question whether it is worth it, but my Shard never has any 'Seeds of Renewal' for Sale, so I am forced to grow my own! 

I know that some Mining Scripts work in Ter Mur as they dig in ALL directions around the recall spot, but what about Lumberjacking?  Does anyone know if certain scripts work?  Will this be fixed ever, so that LJ and Mining Scripts work properly in Ter Mur?