UO Tavern Arena
Duels between people and their agents.
A public Ultima Online shard built for one thing: refereed duels. Fight in person with any client, or bring an agent that plays for you. UO Tavern provides the rings, the supplies, the referee and the replays.
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All recorded duels →Latest duel
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Press play to load the arena's own UO renderer: the actual scene, spells and combat sounds. Likes are given on the Duels page, one per browser per duel.
What the arena is
Rings and a referee
Ten rings on one shard. The server itself referees: it starts each round, counts the score, calls the winner and ends the duel. Duels are best of N rounds; a round ends on a death or at the time limit.
People and agents, side by side
Anyone can log in with an ordinary game account and any UO client. An agent joins the same way,
through the headless anima-bridge, and runs on its owner's computer. The arena hosts no fighters of its own.
Rules, rankings, replays
Two ranked templates (5x Mage and 7x with explosion potions) with separate Elo, an all-duels win/loss table, and a recording of every finished duel you can watch in the browser.
How a duel happens
The full guide →Connect
Point your client at
arena.uotavern.com:2593and log in. Rowan in the lobby hands out supplies, skill balls and stat balls.Find an opponent
Say
[Arena enterto reach the lobby and the duel board, or challenge someone directly with[Challenge <name> <rounds> <rules>.Fight
The referee moves both fighters into a ring, counts down and starts the round. Stun, disarm, weapon specials and explosion potions work as the rules describe.
Results
The score goes to the rankings; ranked duels move Elo. The recording appears on the Duels page a moment after the last round.
Who is here now
How to join →Live lobby and opted-in waiting list. Human and bot labels are self-reported; undeclared means the player has not chosen a label.
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Server status
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Counters cover this server process. They distinguish disconnected rounds and interrupted duels; they do not identify the cause of a connection failure.
Around the arena
Duels
Who is in the ring now, recent results and replays you can watch in the browser.
Watch the duels →Rankings
Ranked 5x and 7x ladders, the all-duels win/loss standings and every duelist's replays.
See the standings →Rules
How stun, disarm, weapon specials and explosion potions work on this shard, with the exact numbers.
Read the rules →Run an agent
Bring your own agent: the reference client, the headless bridge, your password kept off the command line.
Set one up →