UO Second Age

Make it Happen!

I concur.

Coal is shadow ore hued on this shard. Or I have been told.


Would be pointless =/ literally.

The name ring bells, what is/was coal armour again?

There are coal ores out there, I believe you got one on Christmas if you had negative karma... Can these be used?

cant be used currently

all the previous threads about coal armour went something like this

all the 'coal' from Christmas 97 changed from 'coal' to 'ore' at the introduction of the colour ore/ingots. After this point all 'coal ore' was able to be smelted into igs and crafted into armour. So no 'coal' was never able to be smelted, but after it changed to 'ore' it was able to be

thats all pulled from other threads, i duno

I had a stack of black ore that just was called "iron ore" long before the colored ore changes were put in.

Lord Cavewight of GL wrote:Coal is shadow ore hued on this shard. Or I have been told.


Would be pointless =/ literally.

Hmm. I seem to remember it being darker, but maybe thats because I had a lighter shadow ore to compare it to.

Coal is a darker hue than shadow, although I don't agree that coal should be smeltable.

a) Coal has never smeltable on UOSA. This is intentional.
b) If this change happens, people will be taken advantage of.

A little off topic, but didn’t the vendors used to sell different colors of armor. I seem to remember running around to different vendors and piecing together matching suits. Was this before our target era?

Sebben wrote:A little off topic, but didn’t the vendors used to sell different colors of armor. I seem to remember running around to different vendors and piecing together matching suits. Was this before our target era?

Yes they sold different hued armor in T2A.

I honestly cant say for sure if it was around in November 1999 but its entirely possible.

Lord Cavewight of GL wrote:

Sebben wrote:A little off topic, but didn’t the vendors used to sell different colors of armor. I seem to remember running around to different vendors and piecing together matching suits. Was this before our target era?

Yes they sold different hued armor in T2A.

I honestly cant say for sure if it was around in November 1999 but its entirely possible.

Absolutely they did, Stratics (at least used to) have a guide on it. NPC plate and chain had I think 32 different hues that vendors sold.

Edit: Found it http://uo.stratics.com/content/arms-arm ... late.shtml

NPC Colored armour seems to have been available well into 2000.

May 5, 2000

Some of those NPC colors (which are still available from the NPCs) are
nicer IMHO than the newer player armor colors.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 3a0b4da1c9

Aug 17, 2000

Nah, not duped (usually). Npcs were selling a color VERY similar to the old
coal armor a couple months back. I know cause i got scammed

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 23d979fa7a

wts coal armor, meet me in bucs with all your rares in your pack and announce the time/place on mirc when you'll meet me there

Bumping this. May want to add to the "little things" thread.

I think the NPC armor colors are at this point confirmed. The Coal armor is going to be a little bit more work.