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Bugs of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Serpent Isle by Ganesh
(ON PROGRESS)
Welcome!
This document aims to list out all the bugs of Ultima VII: The
Black Gate and Serpent Isle. Many of the bugs should apply to Serpent
Isle as well, but it has not been tested.
This document was created on November 3 2001, as I was bored and
was looking at ways to improve my website ( Ganesh's
Website, http://www.bootstrike.com
). Work in Progress. I will be searching many sources
for bug reports, so hang on there!
For now the list will be short, as it has been just begun. People
like Joseph Morris (visit his website)
have used these bugs to illustrate humor to the readers.
WARNING: Contains EXTREME
MAJOR spoilers ahead. Do NOT read the below if you plan
to complete the game like a good guy. The information below can
be given another name . . . CHEATS.
The contributor of the bug is listed before the bug description.
Bugs of Ultima VII: The Black Gate
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Joining the FellowShip (contributed by Chris
Mathieu <iprovemurphyslaw@aol.comNOSPAM>) |
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When you first ask Batlin about
joining the Fellowship and take his "test", he will
ask you to perform an errand for him. In order for any of this
to work, you HAVE to say "no" to him when he first
asks you this.
Talk to him again, and he'll ask you to run the errand again.
When you say "yes", everyone in the party will get
100 Experience Points. The Avatar will be handed a sealed
box to take to Minoc.
As long as you do NOT take that box to Minoc, you can talk
to Batlin again and be asked to run the same errand again.
Saying "yes" nets another 100 XP. You can do this
as often as you like, but once you take the box to Minoc,
you end this loop.
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Once you've triggered the "Batlin
Bug", move something out of your inventory before talking
to him. It doesn't matter what you move, as long as it has a
quantity. Arrows, gold pieces, spell reagents, anything -- as
long as the quantity check-box appears, it's valid. After moving
the item, talk to Batlin and get your free 100 XP. Look in your
inventory and you'll find that the item you moved is back in
its original place -- while the item you moved is ALSO in the
place you moved it.
Example: Put 87 gold pieces in the Avatar's hand. Then drop
them on the floor. The Avatar's hand is now empty, and the
gold's ruining the carpet. Talk to Batlin, and the Avatar
will have 87 gold in his hand -- a duplicate of the pile that's
on the floor.
There's no limit to this, as long as you don't deliver that
sealed box. When I accidentally found this part out, believe
me, I stocked up! If it weren't for a set of barrels on the
back of my flying carpet, I'd have had no hope of schlepping
all that stuff around.
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Weapon Damage Through Walls (contributed
by Amarande <avarvae@concentric.net>) |
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You can attack through walls with Morning Stars and Halberds.
Yes, you can even eliminate Wisps lurking in walls this way
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Bugs of Ultima VII: Serpent Isle
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Invulnerable Avatar |
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Joesph Morris posted this in the RGCU board:
IT-HE labs has recently discovered a severe vulnerability with the
Silver Seed. This may lead to malicious local Avatars becoming
trans-mortal and gaining root privilege for the entire system.
We are currently working with Ophidian Inc to try and implement a
fix for this problem, in the meantime it is recommended as a
workaround, that you prevent local Avatars from entering the
Silver Seed by confiscating and/or destroying the Amulet of Balance.
To see if you are vulnerable to this issue, try the following steps:
1. Enter the Silver Seed as a normal user.
2. Kill Suthos the Healer.
3. Engage in combat with Isstanar. Your Avatar should die.
4. You will probably find that your Avatar, having been resurrected
in an abnormal fashion has become trans-mortal and can not die.
Under normal circumstances this is only a nuisance problem, since
the trans-mortality only takes place within the chroot jail and
the user will lose this privilege once they log out of the Silver Seed.
However, when combined with another exploit, it becomes possible for
the user to escape the Silver Seed and thus gain root privilege for
the entire system:
5. Enter Isstanar's chamber and double-click on any one of the grey
pillars. If your Avatar has not yet left Moonshade, it should appear
in the Test of Purity.
6. On completing the Test of Purity, regardless of the outcome
the Avatar will have exited the Silver Seed abnormally and their
enhanced priveleges have not been rescinded. An Avatar in this state
has permenant trans-mortality and superuser access to the entire game.
--
JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- doug@it-he.org
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