Ultima Online Third Legion Essays

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Essays are contributed by members of the Third Legion and others. If you would like to contribute your essay, please contact Max and inform him of your interest, as well as the topic you would like to write about.


Thief-proofing in Felucca

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by Garrison

So your tired of getting jacked! Ok everybody, after getting robbed for years from thieves and making a thief myself and doing the robbing. =) I'm creating a little essay on ways I've discovered to avoid getting robbed.

Step one to avoiding thieves is to get a large lockable chest! Put your items in a bag and put the bag into the chest. Open the bag that is in the chest (as demonstrated in the picture below) Keep the chest and the bag inside the chest open. Cast Magic Lock on the chest, and there it is.


Note the bag is inside the chest and open before you cast magic lock

As long as you keep the bag and the chest open you have access to the items inside the bag. And thieves can't get into the chest to get to your items. You can still access weapons from the bag in the chest.

Now, having that chest and bag open can visually get in your way. In answer to this you can drag the chest over the 2 bags (Main Bag and the Bag inside the Chest) and click each bag and cover the open chest (as demonstrated in the picture below).


Arrange both bags, then place chest over the bags. Click the bags to make chest go to background

As far as avoiding thieves in general you must understand how they work. Whether they are a disarm or regular thief, once a thief sees your items it's all over. He can target your items and have them set to "Steal, last Target". So the best way to avoid them is keep items in chest. Keep weapons unequipped until you need them. If you have already equipped a weapon and the thieves have seen it, and you plan to remain in the area then keep the weapon equipped (this only works against non-disarm thieves, disarm thieves can disarm you and then steal).

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not put newbie items inside ANY bag, Newbie items (I.E. spellbooks, runebooks, ethereal horses, etc etc.) in a bag are stealable, as thiefs can target and steal the bag if it's light enough. Furthermore, if you die, the newbie item will most likely remain in the bag, and therefore lootable (as opposed to it being in your main backpack, where it will remain even if you die.

Thanks to Garrison for contributing this essay and photographs.