Journal

There may be times you want to save your in game journal. A particularly good session of role play you want to save for posterity, an in game meeting you want to document for posting on the forums or wiki, count how many times you needed to cast a particular spell during a fight for a bet, what have you.

Saving your journal, unfortunately, requires a little bit of configuration file editing to accomplish. Just checking the paperdoll option will not work well, nor can you really save a journal on the fly. The config file edits have to be done prior to running the UO client.

The first thing you are going to need is to locate your UO directory. If you allowed the installer to choose where to install, you will likely find it in C:\Program Files\Ultima Online, C:\EA GAMES\Ultima Online, or something similar. We will use C:\UOML for our examples.

How to Save Your Journal

1. Open your UO directory. (C:\UOML)
2. Create a new folder in the UO Directory for your journals. (C:\UOML\Journal)
3. Open the new journal folder and create an empty text file and label it. (C:\UOML\Journal\Journal.txt)
4. Open the uo.cfg file in your UO Directory. (Notepad works fine)
5. Locate the SaveJournal setting and set it to on. (SaveJournal=on)
6. Locate the JournalSaveUnicode setting and set it to off. (JournalSaveUnicode=off)
7. After the JournalSaveUnicode setting, add a new line with the JournalSaveFile setting and include the path to your journal file. (JournalSaveFile=C:\UOML\Journal\Journal.txt)
8. Close the uo.cfg, click Okay on save changes.

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Individual Character Journals

You can apply these same settings to each individual character's config file. Your character's initial config file is copied from the master file at the time the character is first created, so each may need to be edited to save their journals if the master file was not so set before hand. Each characters files can be found in the Desktop folder under accountname/shard/character name, each in a separate folder (ex. C:\UOML\Desktop\MyAccount\Sanctuary\JohnDoe). Skip to step 4 above and use that uo.cfg file instead of the main one for your adjustments. You can even save each characters journal to a different file. Just use a different journal file name in each config file (ex. C:\UOML\Journal\JohnDoeJournal.txt) and delete the line in the main uo.cfg file so the main file does not have the JournalSaveFile entry at all.

Potential Troubleshooting

If your journal saves strange characters even with the above things set properly, you may need to force it to use English as your primary UO language. Add a new line with UserLanguageCodeString=ENU to your uo.cfg file to hopefully correct this issue.