UO Second Age

Looks like the [trapped] hue for explosion traps is a bit off from what it is on UOSA.

I'd like to see more dungeon traps for era accuracy. I rarely see them here. There were heaps of them all over deciet 4 and you'd run over them a lot while trying to PvP - lots of people died trying to flee when they ran over a 40hp dungeon trap.

I remember exploding mushrooms and sawblades on the floor, but I don't remember anything hidden...

Mikel123 wrote:I remember exploding mushrooms and sawblades on the floor, but I don't remember anything hidden...

Poison traps also.. TBH they were usually uncovered because someone had just run over them. I don't know if they were ever totally invisible, but the patch note makes it sound like they were.

Not many references to floor traps, but here's the most relevant one I found:

March, 2000
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 889986d375

> Detect hidden. Stratics claims it detects floor traps of saw, spike
> etc types. I have played in two dungeons and haven't seen one of these
> randomly spawning traps yet are they present at all or in any
> frequency or is it not important? Can pk/pvpers still hide in combat?

Not implemented. You can still hide in combat, fairly easily if you tab out
and break LoS.

Those traps are non-existent to my knowledge. There are "fire holes" in
areas like the entrance to covetous, but that seems to be about it. You can
hide as soon as you break line-of-sight. So you can't hide right in front of
the guy, but if you run and tab out and duck behind a building or similar,
you can then hide.

I haven't met a trap so far either, so it is not worth to invest skill
points for that purpose only.

Regarding the mushroom traps:
August, 2000:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... ae9b974704

Ok I just heard this from my friend but can't confirm it.. OSI has totally
walled in the shroom room on Chessy...
used to be you couldn't recall/gate/teleport in there...
Now my friend told me there is a damn wall in there totally blocking the
enterance..
Jesus Christ thats lame... its a part of the dungon... they already nurfed
sending people to their deaths in there so all that was left was ppl crazy
enough to try to run in there and faceplanting... now they set it so you
can't even do that anymore... How fucking lame

Essentially, you used to be able to make a gate to the mushroom patch, and people dumb enough to run through would inevitably hit a few 35-HP mushroom bombs on the other side and die (well, I saw one reference to 34 damage). It was one of the few ways to kill someone in Trammel. There's also references to people killing Poison Elementals with the mushrooms.

This would be a fun, accurate edition to the shard. Right now, I think there's poison on the ground in that room in the corner, a level 4 chest spawn, and that's about it.

Hmm maybe the dungeon traps were a UO:R addition then. There were most certainly the blade traps and poison traps in there at some stage, perhaps they were after our timeframe ;/ Deciet LL room was one of the biggest places I remember the floor traps.

I also remember dying to the mushroom patch before I found out about it.

I remember a guy who used to do that funny old "running with gate precast and then stop" trick to lure people into the Mushroom field where they would run a few steps before realizing what happened (and thus die).

Where is this mushroom room located?

Sandro wrote:Where is this mushroom room located?

Deceits Poison Elemental room iirc.

MatronDeWinter wrote:

Sandro wrote:Where is this mushroom room located?

Deceits Poison Elemental room iirc.

Yeah, the room which has a lv4 chest in it on UOSA. There were mushrooms the whole way across, from about the point where the chest was until about 2-3 tiles from the back wall.

Running through it you would die in 3-4 steps, there was no message (or real animation) saying you were taking damage from the traps so you wouldn't notice it.