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2021

May 27th

Urban Dead will be offline for several hours later today, while the server is relocated to a deeper and darker basement.

2015

July 3rd

Urban Dead is ten years old today. Take the 2015 State of the Apocalypse Survey to let us know what you've thought of the end of the world so far, and what you think should happen next.

2014

December 30th

Sadly Urban Dead is being hit by the "VATMOSS" change in EU tax laws on digital products on the 1st of January 2015, which will make it impractical to continue offering donation rewards to players in the European Union (outside of the UK). Anybody playing from Europe outside the UK who wants a donation flag applied to a character can pay for one today or tomorrow, but not for the foreseeable future after that.

February 1st

Urban Dead will be temporarily unavailable from 10pm (GMT) on Monday the 3rd while its server is physically relocated to a building with stronger barricades. It will be back online within eight hours.

2013

October 31

Something in the air is once again making full-face masks harder to ignore, while survivors crunch through their dwindling candy supplies and zombies thump door-to-door.

July 9 (Date Approximate)

Unofficial Notes

Party hats return. As usual, survivors may equip a party hat as an article of clothing and zombies may click a button "Wear a party hat". This year's party hat is a plastic crown.
Bellows issued by zombies are now distinguished as "familiar" to members of its own horde, similar in the way that the Feeding Groan mechanic works.

2012

October 30

It's the time of year for zombies to thump at safehouse doors in the fog. Perhaps they'll get some extremely stale pre-apocalypse confectionery, perhaps they'll just smash the carved pumpkins of the living and cover the place with gore.
Full-face masks worn during halloween will be displayed in place of the character's name for any action they take, but other players can click through to see who's behind it.

July 6 (Date approximate)

Unofficial Notes

While inside a club survivors can equip a new hat and zombies can press a button "Wear a party hat" so that With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded tinfoil crowns.

February 24

Unofficial Note

After a long, harsh winter in the Quarantine Zone (likely a result of Post-Apocalyptic climate change) the snow has finally melted.

2011

December 21

With only a few looting days until Christmas, the weather turns colder. Those wandering the streets of Malton will leave footprint trails and/or bloodstains in the snow as they go about their business.
Dwindling mall backrooms still seem to have enough decorations for safehouses, for a few days.

April 21

The Urban Dead wiki is updated to MediaWiki software version 1.16.4. Significant features and security updates were included with the update.

April 1

Unofficial Notes

For two years in a row, there was no April Fools joke.

2010

December 22

As the year ends, survivors take up their seasonal traditions of dragging pine trees through the cold streets, and leaving footprints and blood in the snow as the undead trail them to their decorated safehouses.
Although it's freezing in Monroeville and Borehamwood, the snow isn't heavy enough to leave footprints there.

October 29

Halloween just doesn't have that old pre-apocalypse atmosphere, in a city of walking corpses, but survivors continue to harvest and carve pumpkins, and wear unconvincing plastic masks.
If zombies knock at your safehouse door over the weekend and you don't give them any stale candy, they might use their advancing memories of life to defile any graffiti you've written outside.

October 6

Unofficial Notes

xkcd's second edition of the Map of Online Communities has been released, and Urban Dead is there. Check it out.

August 16

Survivors and zombies alike are finding it easier to navigate the familiar wreckage of the city streets. Survivors can get directions to a nominated safehouse; zombies automatically focus on the most recent groan or scent trail.
Settling in for the long haul, some survivors have been modifying and memorising their safehouses. Those able to scout a safehouse can spend 30AP to survey the building, giving them approximately 5 extra AP per day within their nominated safehouse, until they die or the safehouse is ruined.
A few zombies have been heard bellowing with rage when faced with large numbers of survivors, issuing a louder feeding groan which attracts the dead from further afield.
Zombies are lurching into the deepest shadows of dark buildings, making it harder to escape their tangling grasp in the dark.

July 3

Five full years of quarantine since the first outbreak in 2005, and the world still ends. New game mechanics are coming ~~later this month~~ in early August, but for today, and today only, zombies and survivors can scavenge cardboard crowns from the floors of the city's nightclubs.

Unofficial Notes

While inside a club survivors can equip the new hat and zombies can press a button "Wear a cardboard crown" so that With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded cardboard crowns.

April 1

Unofficial Notes

For the first time in Malton's history, there was no April Fools joke.

21st January

Unofficial Notes

The snow which covered Malton during the festive season has now melted.

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-=2009=
-==3rd July 2009==
-* Hungry for convenience food, zombies have begun to distinguish feeding groans made inside secured buildings from those echoing through open doors.
-* Survivors with medical diagnosis training can now spot wounded members of a crowd more easily. However, dark buildings are now too dark for medical staff to assess other survivors at a distance.
-* Binoculars can now be used to scout for nearby landmarks on the skyline, when outdoors.
-* The military have lifted the block on secure radio transmissions from the city's two forts (25.97MHz and 25.98MHz). There are also rumours of an old emergency broadcast system hidden in an office building in Malton, broadcasting on 25.92MHz; searching the correct building will reveal it.
-* Urban Dead is four years old today. Zombies and survivors can salvage paper crowns from the city's nightclubs, for the day.
-==5th May 2009==
+= 2021 =
-* Urban Dead was moved to a new, upgraded server today - some players may experience DNS problems while it all migrates. If you're having problems, you can connect to the new server directly at http://94.76.232.96
-=2008=
+== May 27th ==
-==17th December 2008==
+Urban Dead will be offline for several hours later today, while the server is relocated to a deeper and darker basement.
-* Survivors are once again looting the long-abandoned seasonal storerooms of the city's shopping malls, to find '''[[Decorative_Items#Christmas_Lights|lights]]''' and '''[[Decorative_Items#Christmas_Tree|trees]]''' for their safehouses. Lights are now clearly visible from neighbouring blocks; while this may attract unwanted attention, it could also catch the eye of military air traffic, over the next few weeks.
-==28th November 2008==
+=2015=
-;Unofficial Notes
-*[[Borehamwood]] is now under full quarantine
-==31st October 2008==
-* Limited edition [[Clothes#Limited_Clothes|halloween masks]] are back in the mall costume stores, and there's enough [[stale candy]] for twenty-four hours of trick or treating, for anyone or anything that wants to thump on safehouse doors [[Halloween|today]].
-==28th October 2008==
-*  With the launch of Charlie Brooker's Dead Set on E4 and 4DVD, the [[Borehamwood]] outbreak is now open to Urban Dead players, with permanent zombification, fast zombies and a battle for the Big Brother house. The map will remain open for four weeks.
-'''Unofficial Notes'''
-[[:Image:Bloodied eye.jpg|A Bloodied Eye]] can be found in some blocks, with the message 'Somebody has spraypainted ''a bloodied eye'' onto a wall.'
-If you spraypaint "a bloodied eye" the Image of the eye will appear, but only in Borehamwood.
+==July 3rd==
+*Urban Dead is ten years old today. Take the [http://www.urbandead.com/survey.cgi 2015 State of the Apocalypse Survey] to let us know what you've thought of the end of the world so far, and what you think should happen next.
-==14th October 2008==
+=2014=
-* A disturbing [[Flesh Rot]] is creeping across the bone and muscle of the older, decaying zombies, making them more resilient to attack. (This is the equivalent of having died with the [[Body Building]] skill and a [[Flak jacket|flak jacket]], and doesn't stack.)
-* Zombies able to [[Digestion|digest]] raw meat have been seen ''picking at the fresh bodies'' that litter the city, to recover strength.
-* With survivors on edge for the slightest sound or disturbance, the crash of a ''transmitter being destroyed'' can now be picked out on a radio channel, and a building ''restoring or losing power'' will be noticed from adjacent blocks.
-* The scenes of battles and murders are looking a lot ''bloodier'' than they used to.
-* [[Mall|Mall drug stores]] are beginning to run low on useful pharmaceutical supplies.
-;Unofficial Notes
-*A '''Feed on a corpse''' button is now available to zombies with [[Digestion]] when in the presence of dead bodies. When clicked, it gives the message {{udspan|You feed on the corpse.}} This costs 1 AP and heals the zombie by 4 HP, as would biting a living survivor.
-*Necrotech Scans now show NT's with a White/Grey Border.
-==6th August 2008==
+==December 30th==
-*With '''Monroeville''' in ruins and the zombie hordes unstoppable, the military will be putting the city back into permanent quarantine on Friday the 15th, leaving the city for the dead. Monroeville characters can transfer their donation flags to characters in Malton via their settings page.
+*Sadly Urban Dead is being hit by the "VATMOSS" change in EU tax laws on digital products on the 1st of January 2015, which will make it impractical to continue offering donation rewards to players in the European Union (outside of the UK). Anybody playing from Europe outside the UK who wants a donation flag applied to a character can pay for one today or tomorrow, but not for the foreseeable future after that.
-==3rd July 2008==
+==February 1st==
-Unofficial notes: [[Supply Crates|Helicopters]] have returned to Malton & Monroeville today.
+*Urban Dead will be temporarily unavailable from 10pm (GMT) on Monday the 3rd while its server is physically relocated to a building with stronger barricades. It will be back online within eight hours.
-==13th June 2008==
+=2013=
-*The quarantine in Monroeville has been lifted for another four weeks, to coincide with the DVD release of Romero's Diary of the Dead on June 30th. The dead are rising again, even the long-headshot zombies out in the streets and fields, and new military units are being dropped in to stem the tide. You can create a new character there, and meet or eat the survivors who made it through the lockdown.
+==October 31==
+*Something in the air is once again making full-face masks harder to ignore, while survivors crunch through their dwindling candy supplies and zombies thump door-to-door.
+==July 9 (Date Approximate)==
 ;Unofficial Notes
-*[[Fixed Bugs#False_Repair_Building_AP|Some]] [[Fixed Bugs#Dead_bodies_half-visible_in_darkened_buildings|bugs]] [[Fixed Bugs#Museums_in_Monroeville_empty.3F|were]] fixed along with the update.
+*Party hats return. As usual, survivors may equip a party hat as an article of clothing and zombies may click a button ''"Wear a party hat"''. This year's party hat is a plastic crown.
+*[[Bellow]]s issued by zombies are now distinguished as "familiar" to members of its own horde, similar in the way that the [[Feeding Groan]] mechanic works.
-==28th May 2008==
+=2012=
-*Decay spreads through the ruined buildings of the city. The longer that a building stands [[ruin]]ed, from today onwards, the harder it will be to repair. And as the moss and lichens spread across the final few skylights, several types of buildings are now [[dark]] without a generator hooked up, reducing search and attack rates until power can be restored.
+==October 30==
-*A few existing household items now double as impromptu weapons.
+* It's the time of year for zombies to thump at safehouse doors in the fog. Perhaps they'll get some extremely stale pre-apocalypse confectionery, perhaps they'll just smash the carved pumpkins of the living and cover the place with gore.
-*[[Monroeville]] will be reopening its borders for a short while during June. Any survivors and zombies that make it as far as the end of May will have the fact noted in their profile.
+* Full-face masks worn during halloween will be displayed in place of the character's name for any action they take, but other players can click through to see who's behind it.
+==July 6 (Date approximate)==
 ;Unofficial Notes
+* While inside a club survivors can equip a new hat and zombies can press a button "''Wear a party hat''" so that {{udspan|With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded tinfoil crowns.}}
-* Players can now see when a zombie stands up...
+==February 24==
-{{udspan|1=<span style="color:#B28986">A zombie</span> stood up. (1 hour and 20 minutes ago)}}
+;Unofficial Note
-* ...when a killed harman stands up...
+*After a long, harsh winter in the Quarantine Zone (likely a result of Post-Apocalyptic climate change) the snow has finally melted.
-{{udspan|1=<span style="color:#B28986">DeadHarman</span> stood up. (exactly 1 hour ago)<br/>
-<span style="color:#B28986">DeadHarman</span> rose from the dead as a zombie. (59 minutes ago)}}
-* ...and when a revivified zombie stands up as a human.
-{{udspan|1=<span style="color:#B28986">RevivedZombie</span> stood up. (25 minutes ago)}}
-* You can also "attack" other players for 0 damage (and with 100% accuracy) with your newspapers. Attacked players receive messages like this:
-{{udspan|1=<span style="color:#B28986">YourCharacter</span> slapped you with a newspaper. (3 minutes ago)}}
-*The list of items newly usable as weapons also includes:
+=2011=
-**Toolbox - 2 Damage 10% Accuracy
+==December 21==
-**Fuel Can - 1 Damage 10% Accuracy
-**Beer/Wine - 3 Damage 10% Accuracy (One use only)
-*Zombie groans made outside, can now be heard from inside some buildings.
+*With only a few looting days until Christmas, the [[weather]] turns colder. Those wandering the streets of [[Malton]] will leave footprint trails and/or [[bloodstains]] in the [[snow]] as they go about their business.
+*Dwindling [[mall]] backrooms still seem to have enough [[decorations#Christmas Decorations|decorations]] for [[safehouse]]s, for a few days.
-==4th April 2008==
+==April 21==
-Unofficial notes:
+* The Urban Dead wiki is updated to MediaWiki software [[Special:Version|version 1.16.4]]. Significant features and security updates were included with the update.
-* The recording functions of [[Video Camera]]s that were introduced with the 25th of February's update have been disabled.  Attempting to use a camera in a powered building returns
-{{udspan|The batteries are dead. Although there's a generator here, you don't have a charger cable.}}
+==April 1==
+;Unofficial Notes
+* For two years in a row, there was no [[April Fools]] joke.
-* Attempting to record in an unpowered building returns simply
+=2010=
+==December 22==
+* As the year ends, survivors take up their seasonal traditions of dragging [[Christmas Tree|pine trees]] through the cold streets, and leaving footprints and blood in the [[snow]] as the undead trail them to their decorated safehouses.
+* Although it's freezing in [[Monroeville]] and [[Borehamwood]], the snow isn't heavy enough to leave footprints there.
-{{udspan|The batteries are dead.}}
+==October 29==
+* [[Halloween]] just doesn't have that old pre-apocalypse atmosphere, in a city of walking corpses, but survivors continue to harvest and carve [[pumpkin]]s, and wear unconvincing plastic [[Halloween#2010_Mask|mask]]s.
+* If zombies [[knock]] at your safehouse door over the weekend and you don't give them any [[stale candy]], they might use their advancing [[Zombie Skills/Memories of Life|memories of life]] to [[defile]] any [[graffiti]] you've written outside.
-* Charger cables are not available and are mentioned for thematic reasons only. Video diaries already recorded still appear to be available for sharing and viewing.
+==October 6==
+;Unofficial Notes
+* [http://xkcd.com xkcd's] second edition of the [http://xkcd.com/802/ Map of Online Communities] has been released, and Urban Dead is there. Check it out.
-==1st April 2008==
+==August 16==
-* Upon logging in, players were greeted with screenshots in a [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] style series of messages featuring people on their contacts list and some of their actions that day.. Upon clicking on any of these messages, players came to [http://urbandead.com/080401.html this screen].
+* Survivors and zombies alike are finding it easier to navigate the familiar wreckage of the city streets. Survivors can get directions to a nominated [[safehouse]]; zombies automatically focus on the most recent groan or scent trail.
+* Settling in for the long haul, some survivors have been modifying and memorising their safehouses. Those able to scout a safehouse can spend 30AP to survey the building, giving them approximately 5 extra AP per day within their nominated safehouse, until they die or the safehouse is ruined.
+* A few zombies have been heard bellowing with rage when faced with large numbers of survivors, issuing a [[bellow|louder feeding groan]] which attracts the dead from further afield.
+* Zombies are lurching into the deepest shadows of dark buildings, making it harder to escape their tangling grasp in the dark.
-[[Image:AprilfoolsfromUD.PNG|200px]] [[Image:AprilfoolsfromUD2.PNG|200px]] [[Image:AprilfoolsfromUD3.PNG|200px]]
+==July 3==
+* '''Five full years''' of quarantine since the first outbreak in 2005, and the world still ends. New game mechanics are coming <strike>later this month</strike> in early August, but for today, and today only, zombies and survivors can scavenge '''cardboard crowns''' from the floors of the city's [[Club|nightclubs]].
-==28th March 2008==
+;Unofficial Notes
+* While inside a club survivors can equip the new hat and zombies can press a button "''Wear a cardboard crown''" so that {{udspan|With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded cardboard crowns.}}
-* Monroeville is now locked down in full quarantine - no new characters can be created there, characters will no longer idle out, all idle characters have been reactivated, and zombies in the city can now be killed permanently by removing the head or destroying the brain using the "Headshot" skill.
+==April 1==
+;Unofficial Notes
+* For the first time in Malton's history, there was no [[April Fools]] joke.
-==25th March 2008==
+==21st January==
+;Unofficial Notes
-* The quarantine is tightening around Monroeville. From Friday the 28th, new account creation will be disabled for Monroeville, the city's inhabitants will no longer idle out after five days, and they'll be left to fend for themselves. If you want to get in before the border closes, [http://www.urbandead.com/signup.cgi?city=2 create a Monroeville character now].
+* The snow which covered Malton during the festive season has now melted.
-* The game's main city of Malton will be unaffected, and will continue to operate as usual.
-==20th March 2008==
-* The [http://www.urbandead.com/faq.html#video Monroeville video diary competition] deadline has been reached. Diaries are being assessed, and winners will be announced soon.
-==25th February 2008==
-* To celebrate the launch of George A. Romero's ''Diary of the Dead'', we've opened a temporary second map in the city of '''Monroeville'''. [http://www.urbandead.com/signup.cgi?city=2 Create a new character there] and you can loot a video camera to edit together your own video diary of the zombie apocalypse, with Romero box-set prizes available for UK players.
-==23rd February==
-Unofficial notes:
-* The snow that has been covering Malton for the past few months has melted.
-==23rd January==
-*  The dead are learning the priorities of besieged survivors, and are keeping near the doorways once inside a safehouse. While zombies are inside a building, they will lurchingly attempt to block anyone dragging barricade materials to its entrance, with variable success.
-* Survivors should watch their step when free running across the icy rubble of the city - falling from a ruined building now carries a risk of injury.
-* In the thin, cold air, the drifting miasma of rot and decay grows sharper and clearer. Zombies taking the deep breath of scent death are now given a visual representation of the surrounding city.
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+* [[News/2009|2009 News]]
+* [[News/2010|2010 News]]
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