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New Player Guide

Welcome to UO Sagas! This guide walks you through your first day on the shard: getting the game running, surviving your first hours as a Young player, picking skills, earning gold, joining a town and working toward a house. Follow the links for the full details on each system.

1. Create an account and install the game ↑ top

Head to the account portal at my.uosagas.com, register an account and link your Discord — linking is mandatory to play. Your website e-mail and password are also your in-game login.

Then follow the Game Setup Guide to download the launcher, which installs and patches the client for you.

2. Your first hours: Adena and Young status ↑ top

Every new character starts on Adena, the protected new-player island, with Young Player Status. While Young you enjoy:

  • No loss of items when you die.
  • Free use of the Ghost Gates between towns.
  • Access to Adena's vendors and its resource spots (mining, lumberjacking, cotton).

Adena itself is completely safe — no player can attack or steal from you there — and the nearby Caverns of Adena are a beginner dungeon with the same protection. The catch: skills only gain up to 70.0 on the island, so it is a training ground, not a home.

Young status ends after 40 hours of playtime, when your total skills reach 450, if you kill another player, or when you renounce it yourself (left-click your character and choose "Renounce Young Player Status").

Take this time to learn the User Interface and tune your Game Settings. A list of useful text commands lives at Commands.

3. Pick your first skills ↑ top

Read Skills Overview to understand how progression works: skills grow by using them. You can also pay NPC trainers to teach you the basics of a skill — trainers take gold coins from your backpack, and they do not give change, so hand over exactly what they ask for.

A few proven starting directions:

  • Warrior — a weapon skill plus Tactics, Healing and Anatomy. Hunt the graveyards and the first dungeon levels.
  • Mage — Magery, Meditation and Evaluating Intelligence. Reagents are an ongoing cost, so pair with a money-maker.
  • Crafter/Gatherer — Mining, Lumberjacking or Fishing feeding a craft. Steady income from day one.
  • Tamer — Animal Taming is a long road but ends with powerful pets.

Combat characters should also read up on Skill Masteries — a PvM specialization system that grows alongside your skills.

4. Making money ↑ top

Gold on UO Sagas is account-based bank currency — read Currency for how the bank works (say bank near a banker, balance to check your total, withdraw 500 to take coins out). Early earners:

  • Gathering and crafting — ore, wood, fish and leather are always in demand, raw or crafted; sell to players or NPC vendors.
  • Hunting — monsters drop gold and loot; graveyards and dungeon level 1 are good starting grounds. Watch for paragons once you're stronger.
  • Citizen quests — daily town quests pay points toward ranks and rewards once you join a town.
  • Treasure maps and dungeon chests — treasure hunting and hidden dungeon chests reward lockpickers and adventurers.
  • Achievements — many achievements pay out as you naturally play.

5. Join a town ↑ top

Once you're established on the mainland, register as a citizen of Westwend or Volaria — the two towns in the Citizenship system. Find the town registrar, join with a click, and start taking citizen quests for PvM, crafting and gathering. Citizenship brings town-wide bonuses, ranks and titles, and at the very top (Duke) even the right to place a house in the town outskirts. An overview of all the towns is at Towns.

6. Get a house ↑ top

Housing is open placement in the world — see the Housing Overview for the rules. The short version:

  • Buy a house deed from an Architect NPC, then find a legal spot (not in guard zones, dungeons, Adena or on roads) and place it.
  • Every account gets one house by default.
  • Houses on Sagas are upgradeable: they start small and can be extended twice via the house menu — see Expandable Houses and the house list.
  • Houses decay in 30 days if not refreshed — open and close a door in your house regularly to refresh it.

Until you can afford a house, your bank box (125 items, unlimited weight, plus storage upgrades) is your home base.

7. Stay safe out there ↑ top

Outside guarded towns, UO Sagas is open PvP territory. Read PvP and Player Killers before carrying anything you can't afford to lose — and avoid New Buccaneer's Den until you know what you're doing. When you die, find a healer or a wandering healer to resurrect, then recover your body.

What next? ↑ top