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Killing Lithos early (and lots more news)

12th March 2011 by Dino

Moe Yasmine wrote to share a fun little trick in Ultima 8 that I haven't heard of before. He has found a way to kill Lithos early in the game:

Moe Yasmine writes: "I got to the necromancy stage and got the key of the caretaker and used open ground to enter the upper catacombs. From there I head immediately to stone cove and the hall of the mountain king after that without going to the necromancers. So I got the heart of the earth obviously using create golem and open ground to get it! Then i went for the mountain king with the purpose of using it on him at this VERY early stage of the game. Obviously when you first walk up to him you can't double click the heart of earth to kill him with it because he starts talking to you."

"So what i did was:

• Drink a purple potion (just to stay alive)
• Opened my items bag
• Walked up to the skeletons and hit one of them so that they all come for me
• I ran away and stood within an inch from where lithos would emerge and quickly double clicked the heart of earth to bring up its cursor
• I let the skeletons hit me from behind pushing me forward!
• now lithos came up and my heart of earth was ready for him.
• i killed lithos before he even called me a worm and told me to kneel

unfortunately lightning then hits you as though you're in the ethereal plane and the game freezes. My items would be open and the recall device doesn't work but unfortunately I'm not taken to the ethereal plane.

The Forgotten World team have released a new awesome screenshot showing off the work of newly recruited texture artist Viriathus. The other awesome screenshot that was released before it shows new textures for rocky mountains.

The Titans of Ether posted their progress report for January 2011.

A short February update for Return to the Serpent Isle has also been posted.

Wizardry Dragon at The Feudal Lands has made some improvements to the project website.

A new client for Ultima 6 Online has been made available to fix disappearing items and bugged swamp boots.

More recent news courtesy of Aiera:

• Added: Ultima 6 Mod for Exult and Britannia Online.
• Nuvie snapshots have been updated, and they now include FM-Towns support.
• Dan Schmidt, one of the developers on Ultima Underworld, has written a blog post about Ultima Underworld bugs.
• Sanctimonia has been updated. A screenshot and a couple of videos accompany the progress report.
• More from Sanctimonia: a new particle system has been implemented.
• Another online version of Ultima 6 has been discovered, and it's called Britannia Online.
• Rob Craig, who runs Realm of Ultima, is brewing some lager and has named it in the spirit of Ultima.
• A video of Skyrim (not Ultima-related).
• Some new Fawn screenshots at Infinity Eternal include Fawn at sunset.
• Worldforge has been updated (not Ultima-related).
• Ultima Textures for Minecraft have been updated.
• Question about cAndy Apple.
• A video about Richard Garriott's ancient toys.
• Apparently Richard Garriott also underwent surgery to improve a surgical scar.
• The Cutting Room Floor is a wiki about cut and unused material in games. It has a few Ultima entries.
• Another interview with Richard Garriott.
• An artist is needed by the Return to the Serpent Isle team to create custom UI elements.
• A new and improved download for Dev Game for Exult is available.
• Eriadain has been rebooted and will be using the NWN2 engine.
• Basjian is an online game loosely based on Ultima. Its creator is looking for beta testers.
• Richard Garriott showed off his mechanical puzzles.
• There is another Ultima 6 texture pack for Minecraft.
• An article about Richard Garriott's space flight.
• Behind the scenes of Dragon Age: Redemption.
• Fenyx4 has donated to Aiera.
• BioWare announced a challenge to post a Dragon Age 2 character that resembles Felicia "Codex Dragon" Day.
• Interview with Rich Vogel, former associate producer for Ultima Online.
• Interview with Austin Grossman, former Ultima Underworld developer.
• Video: Ultima Online dev diary.
• A new video of the Ultima 9 Bob White plot endgame (news post | video) has been uploaded to Aiera, courtesy of the Origin Museum.
• A couple of sites have linked to Aiera.
• Some Twitter posts about BioWare Mythic's secret project.