“Ultima Online servers have been referred to as “shards” for a long time. The reason for this was the lore behind the original Ultima Online. In that game, the wizard Mondain bound the world of Sosaria into a crystal orb in order to magically control its destiny. When the Avatar defeated Mondain, the orb was shattered into “shards”, each of which contained a perfect copy of Sosaria that continued to exist in parallel. These shards represented the individual servers of the game world.” –UO Trivia

UO Freeshard News

The Ultima Online Freeshard News Feed displays current shard posts from the news section of your shard forums

• Planned Downtime on Sept 14
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-09-13
• Shard Disruptions
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-06-01
• Re: Unexpected downtime
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-29
• Unexpected downtime
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-29
• Upcoming routine upstream maintenance (Telia)
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-12

• I am retiring from UO
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2019-05-06
• Shard News • Re: New Account Support (Lost password/username) process
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2019-05-03By AngelicaNHG
• Shard News • Re: New Account Support (Lost password/username) process
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2019-05-01By Sparafucile
• Server Status, Connection Issues, Denial of Service Attacks
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2019-04-21
• Clean Up Britain, Moats, Copper System, Donation Processing, Holiday Recap
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2019-03-18
• Welcome TKE MFO to the UOLL Dev Team!
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2019-03-05
• The Christmas Raffle – Prize List and Details
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2019-02-12
• Happy Thanksgiving Renaissance
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2019-02-09
• Anti Afk Gather/Sell System
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2019-02-03
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2019-01-07By dren
• Monster of the Day Update
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2018-11-10
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-11-05By Safir
• ARTICLE WRITING
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2018-10-30
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-09-23By Happy Gilmore
• Planned Downtime on Sept 14
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-09-13