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Spring Cleaning 2008, which ran from May 6, 2008, to September 10, 2008, was an event initiated by the UO development team in order to appease players that had been complaining about spending a majority of their characters' storage space on seemingly useless event items and holiday gifts. It was later expanded to include a wider array of items, including many that were still regularly dropping, in order to make sure that players who had not spent their time hoarding event and holiday items would not be left out. Some event items, such as Ophidian Rations and Slippery Snake Skins, were even reintroduced to give people something to turn in. However, the turn-in point ticket reward from the Royal Council Massacre event most likely accounted for a great deal of the earned points.

Turning In

Similar to the Clean Up Britannia event back in 1999, it involved turning in specific items to various NPCs stationed in strategic city locations for varying amounts of points, based loosely on the rarity of the item turned in. A player would drag the item they wished to turn in and drop it on the NPC that accepted that specific item. The NPC would then spawn a turquoise-colored Spring Cleaning Ticket in the player's backpack that was labeled with the number of points to which the turned in item corresponded. The player would then take the tickets to a special chest located inside the southern guard tower at the gate to Castle British, double click the chest, and then turn in their tickets in the style of a Cooperative Collection. Since the points were distributed first as tradeable, insurable deeds, players could also attempt to sell their points to the highest bidder instead of turning them in themselves.

While the NPCs have since left their assigned areas and headed to parts unknown, the chest still remains and is active. Spring Cleaning Tickets can still be redeemed for points there and the points can in turn still be spent on rewards.

Phases

Spring Cleaning 2008 was released in three phases, with each phase bolstering the turn-in items and rewards of the previous phase.

Phase I

Phase I, which began on May 6, consisted entirely of turning in event items from the Inu the Crone plot, the original catalyst of the Spring Cleaning event. Rewards consisted primarily of wearable items, most having something to do with the Inu the Crone plot, and also the Knight's Armor set.

Phase II

Phase II, which began on June 10, added many holiday items for turn in, as well as adding many items that still dropped, such as artifacts, powerscrolls, and treasure maps. Rewards added in this phase were mostly items that many had wanted as house decorations for many years.

Phase III

Phase III, which began on July 11, added the rest of the holiday items, several stealable items and daily rares, and a great many items and consumables associated with the Scenarios and Peerless dungeons. The rewards added were a decorative mousehole and two more sets of armor.

NPCs

There were several NPCs spread about Britain and other locations, and each took a different array of items.

• Name: Makiko the Samurai
  • Location: Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor
  • Items Accepted: Ophidian Journals, Ophidian Orders
• Name: Lozat the Numismatist
  • Location: Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank
  • Items Accepted: Copper Shillings, Silver Crowns, Gold Sovereigns
• Name: Calaid the Soldier
  • Location: Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
    • On Siege Perilous: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
  • Items Accepted: Ophidian Rations, Slippery Snake Skins
• Name: Onoe the Soldier
  • Location: Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
    • On Siege Perilous: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
  • Items Accepted: Cursed Artifacts, Magincia Rubble, Planeswords, Planeshields, Staves of Pyros, Vorpal Blades, Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic), Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic), Berserker’s Scythes, Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiches, Invalis’s Burchetes
• Name: Yonns the Collector
  • Location: Front steps of the Artist's Guild in Britain
  • Items Accepted: Holiday, Valentine & Halloween Gifts, Grobu’s Furs, SOSes and MIBs, Powerscrolls (105-120), Treasure Maps (Level 1-6), Artifacts (Levels 1-12), SoS/MiB Pre-Chest Loot, Stats Scrolls (+5 - +25), Leviathan Minor Artifacts, Paragon Minor Artifacts, Ingenious Map Minor Artifacts, Special Fishing Nets, Obsidian Blades, Chaos Shields (from Vanguards), Fabled Fishing Nets, Ancient SOSes, Major Tokuno Artifacts, Sea Horses and Ghost Anchors, Anniversary Gifts, Crystal and Shadow House Deco Items, Brightly Colored Eggs, Twilight Lanterns, Ghoul Statuettes, Anti-Virtue Dungeon Non-Artifact Items
• Name: Buford the Collector
  • Location: In front of Premier Gems in Britain
  • Items Accepted: Skulls of Greed, Parrots, Recipe Scrolls, Paragon Chests, Melisande's Fermented Wine, Orcish Kin Masks, Evil Orc Helms, Tribal Rewards, Clockwork Assemblies, Power Crystals, Bags of Sending, Trammel/Felucca Moonstones, Music Gears, Talismans, Resolve's Bridles, Hag Quest Items, Legacy Stealables, Artifacts Level 3 and 4, Item Identification Wands/Staves, Glacial Staves, Books of Truth, Plague Beast Cores, Daily Rares, Origami, Full Jars, Golden Skulls, Peerless Boss Rewards, Skulls of Power, Skulls of Venom, Skulls of Pain, Skulls of Death, Buckets, Skulls of Enlightenment

See Also

• Clean Up Britannia (1999)
• Clean Up Britannia (2011)
• Cooperative Collection