UOX3 Server Settings

[system]
[clientsupport]
[play server list]
[network server list]
[skill & stats]
[timers]
[directories]
[settings]
[speedup]
[message boards]

[escorts]
[worldlight]
[tracking]
[reputation]
[resources]
[hunger]
[combat]
[start locations]
[startup]
[gumps]
[towns]

Click on a section from the index above to see detailed information about all entries belonging to that section of UOX.INI.

SERVERNAME	Servername used to support UOG Info Request.
PORT	Port number that server listens on for connections.
NETRCVTIMEOUT	The time it takes for a connection to be dropped if no packets are received.
NETSNDTIMEOUT	Not in use.
NETRETRYCOUNT	The number of times a network recieve will be attempted before it throws an error.
CONSOLELOG	Allows various levels of logging; 0 = none, 1 = errors/warnings, 2 = errors/warnings + all speech
CRASHPROTECTION	Number of crash restart attempts before stopping - Not in use.
COMMANDPREFIX	Character that acts as the command prefix.
ANNOUNCEWORLDSAVES	Determines if world-saves are announced.
JOINPARTMSGS	Determines if player join/part messages are enabled.
MULCACHING	Determines if the MULs are cached in memory.
BACKUPSENABLED	Determines if backups are enabled.
BACKUPSAVERATIO	Number of saves before a backup occurs.
SAVESTIMER	Number of seconds between world saves.
ACCOUNTISOLATION	Not in use?
UOGENABLED	Determines if support for the UOGateway Info Request Service is enabled.

NOTE: While it is possible (and it is even the default setting) to enable login-support for all the ranges of client-versions listed below, how well they will work depends very much on what version of the datafiles are used on the server. It is highly recommended to restrict client-support to whichever range of versions is closest to the client-version the datafiles in use on the server are from.

CLIENTSUPPORT4000	Enables login-support for all clients in the 4.0.x range
CLIENTSUPPORT5000	Enables login-support for all clients in the 5.0.x range
CLIENTSUPPORT6000	Enables login-support for clients from 6.0.0 to 6.0.4.x
CLIENTSUPPORT6050	Enables login-support for clients from 6.0.5.0 to 6.0.14.x
CLIENTSUPPORT7000	Enables login-support for clients from 7.0.0.0 to 7.0.8.x
CLIENTSUPPORT7090	Enables login-support for clients from 7.0.9.0 to 7.0.15.x
CLIENTSUPPORT70160	Enables login-support for clients from 7.0.16.0 to 7.0.23.x
CLIENTSUPPORT70240	Enables login-support for clients from 7.0.24.0 and up

SERVERLIST

Series of server entries for shard list.

SKILLLEVEL	Global difficulty level for crafting items. 1=Easiest, 5=Default, 10=Difficult.
SKILLCAP	Total number of skillpoints available for each player.
SKILLDELAY	Number of seconds that must pass after a skill is used, before another skill can be used.
STATCAP	Total number of statpoints available for each player.
EXTENDEDSTARTINGSTATS	Toggles whether to allow the extended starting stats (90 statpoints in total) for new characters created with client versions 7.0.16+
EXTENDEDSTARTINGSKILLS	Toggles whether to allow the fourth starting skill (and 120 skillpoints in total) for new characters created with client versions 7.0.16+
MAXSTEALTHMOVEMENT	Max number of steps allowed with stealth skill at 100.0
MAXSTAMINAMOVEMENTS	Max number of steps allowed while running before stamina is reduced.
SNOOPISCRIME	Determines if snooping is a crime or not.
ARMORAFFECTMANAREGEN	Toggles whether or not armor affects mana regeneration rate

CORPSEDECAYTIMER	Amount of time for a corpse to decay.
WEATHERTIMER	Amount of time between changing light levels (day cycles).
SHOPSPAWNTIMER	Amount of time between shopkeeper restocks.
DECAYTIMER	AMount of time a decayable item will remain on the ground before disappearing.
INVISIBILITYTIMER	Duration of the invisibility spell.
OBJECTUSETIMER	Amount of time a player must wait between using objects.
GATETIMER	Duration of a summoned moongate.
POISONTIMER	Duration of the poison effect on a character.
LOGINTIMEOUT	Amount of time for an idle connection to time out.
HITPOINTREGENTIMER	Amount of time required to regenerate a single point of health.
STAMINAREGENTIMER	Amount of time required to regenerate a single point of stamina.
MANAREGENTIMER	Amount of time required to regenerate a single point of mana.
BASEFISHINGTIMER	Base time for fishing skill to complete an attempt at fishing.
SPIRITSPEAKTIMER	Duration of the spirit speak skill.
PETOFFLINECHECKTIMER	Sets the interval in seconds between checks for the player offline time.

DIRECTORY	Root UOX3 directory
DATADIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for the UO .MUL files.
DEFSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for the DFN-files.
BOOKSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 saves the .bok files for books.
ACTSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for/saves account files.
SCRIPTSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for Javascripts
BACKUPDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 backs up worldsaves.
MSGBOARDDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 stores bulletin-board messages.
SHAREDDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 stores the worldfiles.
ACCESSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for/saves account files.
HTMLDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 generates serverstatus-HTML-files
LOGSDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 saves server logs.
DICTIONARYDIRECTORY	Where UOX3 looks for dictionary-files.

LOOTDECAYSWITHCORPSE	Determines if loot decays along with corpses or not.
GUARDSACTIVE	Determines if guards are enabled globally or not.
DEATHANIMATION	Determines if the Deathanimation is played when a player dies.
AMBIENTSOUNDS	Ambient sounds, from 1 - 10. Higher value means ambient sounds are played less often.
AMBIENTFOOTSTEPS	Determines if the footstep-sounds hardcoded in UOX3 are used or not (different sounds on different tiles).
INTERNALACCOUNTCREATION	If enabled, new accounts are created automatically when someone logs in with an unknown username.
SHOWOFFLINEPCS	If enabled, offline PCs can be seen by GMs.
ROGUESENABLED	If 1, then the stealing skill is enabled.
PLAYERPERSECUTION	If enabled, dead players can attack living ones, and thus drain their mana.
ACCOUNTFLUSH	How often (in minutes) online accounts are checked to see if they really ARE online.
HTMLSTATUSENABLED	If > 0 then UOX3 generates server-status pages in the HTML directory.
SELLBYNAME	Determines if items are sold by their name, not just ID/Colour.
SELLMAXITEMS	Maximum number of items that can be sold to a vendor at a time.
TRADESYSTEM	Determines if the Tradesystem is enabled or not. (fluctuation of vendor prices depending on availability - check tradesystem documentation.)
RANKSYSTEM	If 1, item creation allows for variable quality of items.
CUTSCROLLREQUIREMENTS	If 1, there is no skill requirements for casting spells from scrolls.
NPCTRAININGENABLED	If 1, NPCs can train player-characters.
HIDEWILEMOUNTED	If 1, a character can hide/stealth while mounted.
WEIGHTPERSTR	How much weight per point of STR a character can hold.
POLYDURATION	Duration of the polymorph spell.
CLIENTFEATURES	Can be used to enable/disable specific expansion-related features, client-side. For an in-depth description, check this forum-thread at uox3.org: UO client versions/expansions and compatibility with UOX3
SERVERFEATURES	Can be used to enable/disable specific expansion-related features, server-side. For an in-depth description, check this forum-thread at uox3.org: UO client versions/expansions and compatibility with UOX3
OVERLOADPACKETS	Toggles whether or not JS can handle incoming/outgoing network packets
ADVANCEDPATHFINDING	Enables/disables the A* Pathfinding routine for NPCs
LOOTINGISCRIME	Toggles whether looting (innocent/blue) corpses is a crime or not
BASICTOOLTIPSONLY	If set to 1, tooltips will only show name and weight of items
GLOBALITEMDECAY	Toggles decay on/off on a global scale. Does not remove decay flag from items, only stops them from decaying
SCRIPTITEMSDECAYABLE	Toggles default decay status of DFN items. Can be overriden by DECAY tag in item-DFNs
BASEITEMSDECAYABLE	Toggles default decay status of base items. Can be overriden by DECAY tag in harditems.dfn
ITEMDECAYINHOUSES	Toggles default decay status of non-locked down items in multis (houses and boats). Defaults to off.
PAPERDOLLGUILDBUTTON	Toggles whether or not the Guild-button on the paperdoll can be used as a shortcut for interacting with guildstones. Defaults to on.

CHECKITEMS	How often (in seconds) items are checked for decay and other things.
CHECKBOATS	How often (in seconds) boats are checked for motion and so forth.
CHECKNPCACI	How often (in seconds) NPCs can execute an AI routine.
CHECKSPAWNREGIONS	How often (in seconds) spawn regions are checked for new spawns.
NPCMOVEMENTSPEED	Allows customization of NPC movement speed. Can be overridden by WALKINGSPEED tag in NPC-DFNs
NPCRUNNINGSPEED	Allows customization of NPC running speed. Can be overridden by RUNNINGSPEED tag in NPC-DFNs
NPCFLEEINGSPEED	Allows customization of NPC fleeing speed. Can be overridden by FLEEINGSPEED tag in NPC-DFNs

POSTINGLEVEL	If 0, only GMs can post on Bulletin Boards, otherwise free for all.
REMOVALLEVEL	If 0, only GMs can remove posts on Bulletin Boards, otherwise free for all.

ESCORTENABLED	If 1, NPC escorting is enabled.
ESCORTINITEXPIRE	Amount of time until an escort-NPC will vanish while waiting for someone to start escorting it.
ESCORTACTIVEEXPIRE	Amount of time until an escort NPC will vanish while a player is escorting it.
ESCORTDONEEXPIRE	Amount of time until an escort NPC will vanish when it has reached it's destination.

DUNGEONLEVEL	Specifies the light-level of Dungeon-areas.
BRIGHTLEVEL	Specifies the brightest light-level in the day/night cycles.
DARKLEVEL	Specifies the darkest light-level in the day/night cycles.
SECONDSPERUOMINUTE	Number of real seconds per UOX3 minute.

BASERANGE	Minimum range even a novice can track from.
BASETIMER	Tracking timer - maximum time a GrandMaster can track someone.
MAXTARGETS	Maximum number of targets that can be tracked.
MSGREDISPLAYTIME	How often (in seconds) the tracking message is redisplayed.

MURDERDECAYTIMER	Amount of time before a permanent murder count will decay.
MAXKILLS	Maximum number of kills before turning red.
CRIMINALTIMER	Amount of time a character remains criminal after committing a criminal act.

MINECHECK	Type of mining check performed - 0=anywhere, 1=mountains/cavefloors, 2=region based(not working)
OREPERAREA	Maximum number of ores in a given resource area.
ORERESPAWNTIMER	Amount of time it takes for 1 single ore to respawn in a resource area.
ORERESPAWNAREA	Number of ore-areas to split the world into.
LOGSPERAREA	Maximum number of logs in a given resource area.
LOGSRESPAWNTIMER	Amount of time it takes for 1 single log to respawn in a resource area.
LOGRESPAWNAREA	Number of log-areas to split the world into.

HUNGERRATE	Amount of time a player has before his hunger level decreases.
HUNGERDMGVAL	Amount of damage applied if hungry and below threshold.
PETHUNGEROFFLINE	Toggles whether pets should hunger while the player (owner) is offline or not.
PETOFFLINETIMEOUT	Sets the time in days for when an offline player's pet becomes wild again.

MAXRANGE	Maximum range (in tiles) at which combat can occur.
ARCHERRANGE	The range at which NPC archers stop charging their target in combat (default 7).
SPELLMAXRANGE	Maximum range (in tiles) at which spells can be cast.
DISPLAYHITMSG	If 1, hit messages are displayed in combat.
DISPLAYDAMAGENUMBERS	If 1, damage numbers are displayed above characters in combat.
MONSTERSVSANIMALS	If 1, monsters can attack animals.
ANIMALATTACKCHANCE	The chance of animals being attacked by monsters (0-100)
ANIMALSGUARDED	If 1, animals are under the protection of town guards.
NPCDAMAGERATE	NPC Damage divisor - PCs sustain less than NPCs. If a PC, damage is 1/value.
NPCBASEFLEEAT	% of HP where an NPC will flee from combat, if it's not defined for it already in the DFNs.
NPCBASEREATTACKAT	% of HP where an NPC will resume attacking, if it's not defined for it already in the DFNs.
ATTACKSTAMINA	Amount of stamina lost when hitting an opponent.
ATTACKSPEEDFROMSTAMINA	Toggles whether attack-speed bonuses are gained from a character's stamina, instead of their dexterity. Defaults to 1 (on).
SHOOTONANIMALBACK	If 1, archery from horseback is possible.
COMBATEXPLODEDELAY	The amount of time it takes for the damage from the Explosion spell to be inflicted on the target.

LOCATION

Startlocations used by the character-creation process in the client. Fixed amount of locations, using the following format: LOCATION=TOWN,BUILDING,X,Y,Z,WORLD,CLILOCMSG (description of town)
Default setup:

      LOCATION=Yew,Center,545,982,0,0,1075072
      LOCATION=Minoc,Tavern,2477,411,15,0,1075073
      LOCATION=Britain,Sweet Dreams Inn,1495,1629,10,0,1075074
      LOCATION=Moonglow,Docks,4406,1045,0,0,1075075
      LOCATION=Trinsic,West Gate,1832,2779,0,0,1075076
      LOCATION=Magincia,Docks,3675,2259,20,0,1075077
      LOCATION=Jhelom,Docks,1492,3696,0,0,1075078
      LOCATION=Skara Brae,Docks,639,2236,0,0,1075079
      LOCATION=Vesper,Ironwood Inn,2771,977,0,0,1075080

STARTGOLD	Amount of gold a new PC starts with.
STARTPRIVS	Starting privileges of new characters.

TITLECOLOUR	Default text colour for titles in gumps.
LEFTTEXTCOLOUR	Default text colour for left text in gumps (2 column ones).
RIGHTTEXTCOLOUR	Default text colour for right text in gumps (2 column ones).
BUTTONCANCEL	Default Button ID for cancel button in gumps.
BUTTONLEFT	Default Button ID for left button (navigation) in gumps.
BUTTONRIGHT	Default Button ID for right button (navigation) in gumps.
BACKGROUNDPIC	Default Gump ID for background gump.

POLLTIME	Time (in seconds) for which a town voting poll is open.
MAYORTIME	Time (in seconds) that a PC would be a mayor.
TAXPERIOD	Time (in seconds) between periods of taxes for PCs.
GUARDSPAID	Time (in seconds) between payments for guards.