-Barrier Escape (Submitted by AnSharch)
I found out a simple way to get out of the so-called Barrier of Life at the very end of Ascension. The barrier is supposed to be impenetrable and to contain the armageddon spell. However, using the Legs of Sentri, it is a cinch to climb up the Guardian's throne and jump right over the force field. Then you can leave the Guardian trapped in there while you party with the rest of the gang. =)

-Tricks With Wizards Eye
English isn't Barret's native language, so after my requests to him to rewrite his e-mail, so we can understand it; he delivers this interesting tip you can do with "Wizards Eye" spell. Thanks Barret!

"I find sometimes I got stuck in a wall or stone, and had to reload to continue. Occasionally, I cast Wizard Eye for viewing of secret door or the dugeon structure (Cast Wizard Eye then press ESC, you will find you can view nearby structure).

After that , I would find I may be stuck in stone again!! It's strange!! So, I cast Wizard Eye twice, and press ESC,and again, I'm in the viewing mode. I try to walk away from that "sticking" stone. I was freed from that sticking stone I figure out Wizard Eye can be use as " a tool to pass any obstacle".

After viewing mode of Wizard Eye, your first action ( run or jump) will pass any wall or force field as there 's no obstacle in front of!!!!! (I can cast Barrier of life to prison Guardian , say good-bye to him, and return to Britannia) I remember in U7, I cast Amagedom, and LB say I'm crazy. Finally, I used black gate to return home. I think I'm bader than guardian.....) You really can use the spell to enjoy many interisting area ( I went out of Abyss, and found it's fun outside)"

-Barret

-Cool things with Demons and Making Cash

"I stumbled upon this one the other day when i tried to make a demon army for myself. I summoned the first one. great. as soon as the second one came up apparently you can only have one so the first ran over and killed it right away. The now dead demon dropped about 400 gold. So I did it a few more times, easiest cash I've ever made. The best places to do it are by a shrine where you can just do the ritual of restoration and get your mana filled again for free."

-VeNom

-Tricks With Ghost Bracelets

"The way I handled the ghost jewelry is I put the necklace in the open coffin first. The first piece of ghost jewelry that you place in the coffin disappears. You can place either the bracelet or the necklace. After placing the first piece you can place the second piece of ghost jewelry into the coffin without it disappearing and boost your karma plus two every time. I stopped at 800 mana. I seldom had to worry about spellcasting and using up my mana. It simplified the terms of the game."

-Drake

-New 1.07 Patch Cheat Bindings
Add these to the DEFAULT.KMP file in your U9 folder like so...
"ctrl+r = recharge_mana"

These two are self explanatory.
recharge_mana
fill_spellbook

The following give you spells respectively. You are also given every Sigil, The Orb of the Moons and a Bread. Everything in your backpack is removed when you do these and armor is reverted back to the Avatar's clothing at the beginning of the game.
spells_0-2
spells_3-5
spells_6-8

-Avatar's House
In the beginning of the game, try work your way over the gate behind your house. You can climb over the dummy and try to jump from there, or use some objects lying around and build a set of stairs. Try baking several loafs of bread and make a stepping ladder against the rocks. Once you're over, the tree on the right is hiding a lever in the grasses there. Hit the lever and a number of teleporters will appear.

The moongates near the Avatar's house will deck you out in various pieces of armor.

Full set of Raven's Choice Armor
Full set of Blackrock Armor
Full set of Bone Armor
Full set of Magic Armors (Helm of Radiance, Arms of Magi, Gauntlets of Fury, Troll Chest, Legs of Sentri, Swamp Boots).

The 4 on the other side teleports your to places in Britainnia. The games will soon enough crash soon after that. This also works after patch #1.

-Getting All the Runes on Earth
Using the tip above to get the Armor and the Flymode cheat. Inbetween 8 of the pairs of teleports is each Glyph. They are just below the surface!

-We Don't Need No Stinking Ladder

"Can't get to a ledge that is too high for you? Don't bother stacking items. Simply always carry around a staff in your backpack. When pulling it from your backpack to a spot on the ground, it'll rest on its end (ie. stick straight up.) Amaze your friends with your balancing skill by climbing on top of the staff. This gives you a good 5-6ft (1.5-2m) boost! Great for going where you're not supposed to. You can do this with virtually any weapon, but the staff will get you up higher. Oh, and after you climb up to where you're going, make sure to reach back down and retrieve your friend for future use."

-Jon

-Secret Chests?

Mistr E.,sent in the following.

"There are two chest buried underground by the gypsy wagon... I can reach the one by the wheel, but not the one behind it...but the chest near the back is completely submerged when above ground.... lemme know if you find any significance to these."

-Mistr E.

-Get a Full Set of Blackrock and Start the Game Normally

First, go to the Gypsy at the Avatar's house on Earth, and choose your virtue/class. Afterwards, pull the secret lever behind the Avatar's house, and equip yourself with armor. Teleport into Brittania, and make your way to the tower where you enter the world. The tower is actually a dungeon, and loaded in several segments, so open the door and walk in, and once it's loaded, activate the flymode cheat and fly up into the room you first appear in. Remove your armor, magic items, and anything else you want to keep, and drop them in that room. Exit the tower the sam eway you entered, and fly up to the top. On top of the tower is a teleporter. Enter it, and you will be taken back to the tower with your stats adjusted for class as if you had gone through the gypsy's moongate, the proper items in the chest, AND everything you dropped in the room initially.

Viola..a way to start out with a full set of Blackrock or Magic armor! This cheat allows you to have your statistics as given by the gypsy AND start out with all those fun items from the teleporters behind the avatar's house. Rock ON.

-Quatoria

Also, if you're gonna cheat; you might as well grab that healing kit in the Avatar's house. It never goes away and has limitless uses. Never a need to carry heal potions with this in your beltpack.

There has got to be more secrets with these moongates...

-Potion Descriptions

Black - Invisibility
Blue - Underwater Breathing
Green - Poisonous
Orange - Mana Boost
Purple - Invincibility
Red - Cure Poison
White - Infernal Armor
Yellow - Healing

-Combat exploit?
As long as you have your backpack open, or even a bag, nothing can attack you...but you can attack them.

-Grabbing Loot from Display Cases

"In fly mode, you can partially enter display cases at Museums, Stores, and Castles. If you can get your head inside the glass, and drop out of fly mode, you can grab the items and weapons in them. BroadSwords, Keys, Jewels, Etc..."

-Andrew Russell

-Exceeding the 9999 GP Limit

"I had 9,000 gold when I returned to the blacksmith in trinsic to pick up my blackrock sword. When he gave me the sword he also refunded me 2000 gold. Afterwards there was a pile of money on the ground that I couldnt pick up. However, I noticed the amount of gold I was carrying no longer showed up on my back pack. I opened my journal and looked at my vitals. It showed that I had 11,000 gold. I wanted to see if the shopkeepers would acknowledge my gold if it exceeded 9999, and found that they did. Another bonus is that now I can pick up as much gold as I want. I currently have 20,000 or so. I'm not sure if this works only with the blacksmith in trinsic or if the same will happen with the jewler and other NPCs."

-Mark Rampton

-Perma Potion Effects
Drink a potion of Invisibility or Invulerability, save the game, reload it. The effect is permanent until you drink another potion.

-Getting Back in the Boat

"At the place where you dive down to get the last 2-hand technique, you can get back into your boat by left-clicking on it, followed by a brief right click. This will work anywhere provided that the cursor is green. Of course, you can drown quickly in deep ocean, so you have to do the whole procedure quickly."

-Paul Roy

-Problems Picking up Sigils.

"If you end up with an item that you can't pick up because the mouse cursor wont recognize the item (such as picking up a sigil like the quill of justice from the shrine) then: Place another item such as a potion bottle near the object. You need then cast fireballs or use gust to move the bottle next to the needed object. Every few casts try to get the item. Once the potion bottle touches or moves the item in question it should be obtainable."

-Sengir Dragon

-If you get stuck/fall off the world and save/load doesn't get you unstuck here is what to do.

1). Go to the directory where you installed U9.
2). Find the file "default.kmp"
3). Open "default.kmp" in notepad 4). Scroll to the section labelled "[DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMANDS]"
5). Underneath the label add the following: f = toggle_avatar_fly
6). Enter the game and hit the "f" key.
7). Manuaver to a place slightly above the ground in a different spot.
8). Hit the "f" key again.
9). Continue adventuring. Basically this binds "f" to a command which turns clipping on and off, thus allowing you to fly around/under/through the world and it's items/terrain...

-Other bindable commands... cheats.
pass_one_hour
unpass_one_hour
sunrise_sunset
pass_one_minute
unpass_one_minute
toggle_sun
toggle_wind
toggle_storms
toggle_avatar_fly
toggle_avatar_fast
toggle_avatar_invulnerable
toggle_avatar_fly

To set up a cheat code, edit the DEFAULT.KMP file in your Ultima9 Folder.

Example:

ctrl + f = toggle_avatar_fly

-Clipping Plane Adjustments
Scroll down to the lines reading,
;CTRL+leftbracket = clipping_plane_in
;CTRL+rightbracket = clipping_plane_out
;CTRL+\ = clipping_plane_reset
;CTRL+shift+leftbracket = middle_plane_in
;CTRL+shift+rightbracket = middle_plane_out
;CTRL+shift+\ = middle_plane_reset

Uncomment them (remove the ; before each line) This will allow you to adjust the clipping plane without having to open the journal.

-About Cheating
An official announcement posted on the OSI message boards.

"I'm seeing that several people have found the ability to include an in-game fly cheat, and a fast-walking cheat. I feel it necessary to give you the true scoop on these and what it can do to your game.

In development, our goal was to get where we needed to be to test things as quickly as we could, so the fly and fast walking cheat were wonderful tools.

However, our game is made to played in a certain way. For example, if you're supposed to walk into a clearing and have something happen, there is most likely a trigger box around the entrance to that clearing. The trigger box is placed in such a way that you can't help but walk through it, and so the trigger works. However, if you fly, you can miss these important spots, and some triggers won't work at all. It can also cause flags not to be set for the same reason, so someone that's supposed to be in a certain spot at a certain time won't be there because you somehow flew past the part that triggered it.

The fast-walk cheat has also been proven to do the same thing. I know from my own experience that it's possible to not set off triggers and flags from trigger areas if you use the fast-walk cheat. In the final QA passes, it was necessary to do everything the long way, using no cheats, since that is the only way you can be assured of setting everything off the way it is meant to be done.

By no means am I insinuating that all bugs are the result of people using cheats, but if you're using one of these, and you're having problems with triggers not working, or the story not seeming to progress correctly, chances are you might want to try reloading a saved game and not using those cheats. Hope that helps,

-Cynthe U:IX Designer and Community Coordinator"

-Speeding through conversations.
Click on the text with the left mouse button or hit the enter key.

-How do you buy and sell? I have tried clicking on everything I can think of, but nothing happens.
Click on the little "+" signs next to each item. Then click on the round red thing on the bottom left to "ok" the trade.

-Tricks with bottles.
Drop a bottle in water and you can climb it!

-Catch a movie for free?
The game CD has the movie files in a folder called "Movies".
Copy one of those movie files (*.dat) to a folder on your hard disk. Rename the movie to *.mpg. Example....
ambush.dat
to
ambush.mpg
Any movie player capable of playing MPG's will play it. Windows 98 has Media Player... that should do it fine.

-Casting Scrolls
Before you cast a scroll, think about it. Some scrolls only apear once in the game (Levitate). Wait and get it binded to your Spell Book.

-If you're afraid to go in the water...
Use your linear Stone spell. Put the spell shortcut on your beltpack so you can access the spell with one of your F-keys. Makes easier killings this way.

-Piloting the Ship.
Press the esc key to stop the ship.

-Once you cast 'Light' it seems to run until your mana runs out. How do you cancel the spell?
Just cast the spell again while standing still.

-Special Attacks
When you find someone to train you (lord British's Castle)
... hold down the ctrl or alt keys in combinations..

-Getting a free bag (exploit?)

To get extra bags... go to the boxing trainer in Bucs Den. Before you train with him, make sure your backpack and beltpack are full of items and that you are carrying your weapon. When you train with him, he will want to take the weapons from you during the fight... After the fight, when he returns the items and sees you have no room for them to put in your bag, he creates another bag for you.

From Redbone
"In the same way, you get a bag or bags from Raven when she gives you your goods back after going through the Blackthorne's Prison. I was full with 3 full bags and a backpack when Blackthorne captured me. I had one bag from the jail, and after I got my stuff back, I had 6 bags. So, I got 2 free bags."

This happened to me in Wrong when I met up with Raven there as she handed me a key.

-How do you get water flasks?
Find one of the wall mounted fountains that appears to be some kind of head who's mouth is filling the basin below it.
Using left-click & hold movement take one of your empties and place it under the flowing water in the fountain (you must 'drop' it there to fill it) - Right after you let go of your button, left-click & hold to pick the flask up and move it to your inventory again, it should now show up as a flask of water.

-Binding Spells without using up Reagents.
When you bind a spell you get asked for the words. When the window is open, don't type the incantation right away. Take the scroll and the reagents out of the circle first.... They won't get used. This way all you have to keep is one of each reagent...
-Dom

-Climbin Steep Mountains
Toss a bottle up a bit where you can't jump. Jump on the bottle. Repeat, lather, rense, make your way to the top of the Steepest mountains with ease.