Terms of Use

By creating an account, authenticating via the Ironveil portal, downloading shard assets, or connecting to the Ironveil game server, you explicitly confirm that:

• You are at least 13 years of age (or the minimum legal age for online services in your territory). Players under the age of majority must have parental or legal guardian consent.
• You have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Community Policy.
• If you do not agree to every clause outlined herein, you must immediately terminate access to our game server, web portal, and associated community channels.

Account Allocation & Quotas

Each individual player may register exactly one master IronveilID. Through this master identity, players may manage up to two (2) in-game game accounts. Any creation of circumventing master accounts ("ghost accounts" or "proxy bypasses") is subject to permanent termination across all associated accounts.

Credential Custody

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and password. Ironveil staff will never request your account password under any circumstance. Any actions taken through your credentials, whether authorized or unauthorized, remain your sole legal and disciplinary responsibility.

Ironveil grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to connect to and participate within the Ironveil Shard purely for private, non-commercial entertainment purposes.

• Proprietary Assets: Ultima Online and associated base client assets remain the intellectual property of Electronic Arts Inc. and Broadsword Online Games. Ironveil is an independent, non-profit community emulation shard powered by modern open-source server technologies.
• Custom Additions: Custom scripts, graphics, lore, interface modifications, and original compositions created by the Ironveil team are protected and may not be redistributed, reverse-engineered, or exploited commercially without explicit written consent.

All virtual items, characters, gold, sovereigns, skill points, and housing plots within Ironveil are virtual constructs that remain the property of the shard. They have zero monetary or cash redemption value and cannot be exchanged for legal tender under any circumstance.

To preserve the challenge, danger, and balance of our open-world sandbox, the following activities are strictly forbidden:

• Memory & Client Alteration: Use of speed hacks, modified executable binaries, line-of-sight packet injection, collision removers, or multi-target auto-targeting injection systems.
• Unattended Gathering Automation: Running automated macros for resource harvesting (Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing) while AFK (Away From Keyboard) or unresponsive to GM verification queries.
• Exploit Exploitation: Failing to report, and instead actively exploiting, game bugs, item duplication vulnerabilities, geometry clipping flaws, or vendor pricing errors.
• Server Disruption: Attempting denial-of-service attacks, port flooding, or malicious traffic generation targeting shard infrastructure.

Ironveil is maintained as a community gaming service. While our infrastructure maintains high uptime targets, we do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free continuous operation. The administration reserves the right to:

• Perform scheduled or emergency server restarts, system migrations, database maintenance, and security deployments.
• Perform server rollbacks in the rare event of severe data corruption, hardware failure, or massive exploit discovery.
• Adjust game balance, skill mechanics, item statistics, creature spawns, and vendor economic parameters as required for long-term shard health.

The Ironveil Shard, website, and related digital services are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, the Ironveil team disclaims all warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Under no circumstance shall Ironveil, its administrators, developers, or volunteer staff be held liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising out of your access to or inability to access the shard.

Violations of these Terms of Use or shard policies may result in disciplinary action scaled to the severity of the infraction, including verbal warnings, temporary account suspension, character asset forfeiture, jail time, or permanent banishment.

Sanctioned players may submit a formal appeal through the official Ironveil Discord support ticket system. Appeals are reviewed impartially by senior administration whose final determination is binding.