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ToB Entry Mode & Other Poll 78 Changes | Weekly Game Update (March 1st)

March 1, 2023

Change Log

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Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode

Changed how enemy Hitpoint scaling works depending on the number of players.
Entry Mode runs now have unlimited attempts.
Extra supplies will be given in the event of a wipe.
There is no longer a charge for failing an Entry Mode run.
Increased the number of normal rewards received. Note that uniques are still unavailable in Entry Mode.
A selection prompt will now appear the first time a player interacts with the recruitment board.

Poll 78

Rebalanced the success chances when fermenting Wine of Zamorak.
Increased the number of Coins that can be stored in the Player Owned House Chests.
Scarab swarms in Pyramid Plunder will no longer attack you while you're trying to open a Sarcophagus.
Everyone is now automatically opted-out of gaining experience from pushing the wheat in Puro-Puro. Players can opt-in by talking to the Elnock Inquisitor.

Combat Achievements

Added Combat Achievements for the Phantom Muspah.

Other Changes

Loot Keys will no longer be received if players are in a trade screen. Keys will now be dropped where the player died.
Removed the delay when depositing Paydirt into the hopper at Motherlode Mine.
The Slayer Helper now properly displays your Wilderness Slayer streak.
The 10th Anniversary Dragon Candle has been correctly labelled as a fun weapon.
There is now a Fossil Storage Crate at the Volcanic Mine Bank.
The Party Room Museum expansion can now be accessed on free-to-play worlds.
The Dragon Candle Dagger and Old School Jumper are now tagged as warm clothing.
The animation that plays when waxing your Sled will now cancel if the player moves.
The Sins of the Father display case in the Museum is now correctly labelled as a Master Quest.
Having a Slayer Task streak of 16,000 no longer means you will get the max amount of Slayer Points for every Task you complete.
Fixed a typo in the frog random event and in Warmhandz’s dialogue.
Updated the banners in the Falador Party Room!
Facial animations have been added to certain Birthday Event dialogues.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

560 - (UK) - PvP World
579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.
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Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode Improvements

Raiders rejoice, the improvements we promised for the Theatre of Blood Entry Mode are here! If you missed the detailed explanation in the Poll 78 newspost, we’ve got a full rundown of the changes below.

Foe Hitpoint Scaling

We’ve made the hitpoint scaling in Theatre of Blood Entry Mode more consistent:

1 Player: Unchanged
2 Players: +90%
3 Players: +80%
4 Players: +70%
5 Players: +60%

With this change, five players will have a hitpoint increase of 300% rather than 400%, as the percentages stack for every additional player. Three players would have a +170% increase (Base Hitpoints + 90% + 80%).

For example: a foe with 100 hitpoints versus one player would have 400 hitpoints versus five players. Before, it would have had 500 hitpoints.

Number of Attempts

Theatre of Blood Entry Mode previously gave players three attempts to finish the raid. Given that this is intended as a practice mode, we decided to bring it in line with Tombs of Amascut and give players unlimited attempts to complete it.

It’s worth noting that each failure still takes away from the loot available at the end of the raid, so would-be raiders will still need to polish their skills to get away with the goods!

Supplies on Wipe

Unlimited attempts aren’t the only thing we’ve borrowed from Tombs of Amascut’s Entry Mode. As of today’s update, raid parties will receive extra supplies (in the form of Bandages) whenever they wipe! The number of supplies depends on how much stuff you used in your previous attempt.

Failure Costs

Previously, it cost a whopping 100,000 GP to reclaim your items after failing Theatre of Blood Entry Mode. We’ve had a word with the vampyres and they all agreed that that was a bit harsh, so this cost has now been removed for Entry Mode only.

Please note that other penalties for death, including the loss of Hardcore status, remain in place. You’ve been warned!

Reward Quantities

We’ve increased the amount of normal rewards in Entry Mode from 15% to 20%, so that players can earn enough money to cover any supplies they used in the raid.

However, please note that the unique items from Theatre of Blood are not available in Entry Mode.

First-Time User Flow

The final change in this batch updates the Theatre of Blood recruitment board. We've added a prompt that appears upon first use, asking players to choose which mode they’d prefer to play. We hope that this will make the first-time user flow a bit easier to navigate. The last thing we want is for people to find diving into a nest of vampiric monsters stressful!

That’s all there is for now, so what are you waiting for? Gear up, grab your friends, and give Theatre of Blood a try!

Poll 78 Changes

We’ve also got a selection of other Poll 78 changes for you!

First up, we’re getting a little chaotic with an exciting Wine of Zamorak change! Previously, your chance to ferment successfully went from 49.8% at level 65 Cooking all the way up to 69% at 99 Cooking. We’ve increased the success rate linearly from ~50% at level 65 to 100% at level 98 – by that time, you should be a fantastic fermentor!

With all that Wine in your Bank you might consider hosting a little house party – in which case, this next change will be very exciting! It’s been about 16 years since we nerfed the chests in the Player Owned House, so we reckon it’s high time you got the opportunity to stick a little bit more gold in there. Here are the new stats:

[table] [tr] [td]Chest Type[/td] [td]Games Room Chest[/td] [td]Dungeon Treasure Chest[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Wood[/td] [td]N/A[/td] [td]10,000[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Oak[/td] [td]20,000[/td] [td]20,000[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Teak[/td] [td]50,000[/td] [td]50,000[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Mahogany[/td] [td]100,000[/td] [td]75,000[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Magic[/td] [td]N/A[/td] [td]100,000[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Speaking of gold, our next change is an improvement to Pyramid Plunder! From now on you'll no longer be interrupted by pesky swarms while you're looting the sarcophagus.

Finally, from now on all players will be automatically opted-out of gaining experience while pushing the wheat in Puro-Puro. If you have some kind of bizarre field-locked Ironman, or want those gains for any other reason, you can opt back in by talking to the Elnock Inquisitor.

Combat Achievements: Phantom Muspah

The Phantom Muspah’s been kicking around for a while now, so it’s time for some more Combat Achievements!

We've got a total of 13 achievements for you to tackle - who will be the first to complete them all?

A reminder: with the release of the new Combat Achievements you must fully complete a tier before you can use the Ghommal's Hilt version from that tier. For example, if you'd like to use Ghommal's Hilt 3, you'll have to complete Phantom Muspah Adept.

[table] [tr] [td]Tier[/td] [td]Name[/td] [td]Description[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Hard[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Adept[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Elite[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Speed-Trialist[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 3 minutes without a Slayer Task.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Elite[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Veteran[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah 25 times.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Elite[/td] [td]Can't Escape[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah without running.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Elite[/td] [td]Versatile Drainer[/td] [td]Drain the Phantom Muspah's Prayer with three different sources in one kill.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]More than just a ranged weapon[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah by only dealing damage to it with a Salamander.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]Essence Farmer[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah 10 times in one trip.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Speed-Chaser[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 2 minutes without a Slayer Task.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Master[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah 50 times.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]Walk Straight Pray True[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah without taking any avoidable damage.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]Space is Tight[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah while it is surrounded by spikes.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Manipulator[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah whilst completing Walk Straight Pray True, Space is Tight and Can't Escape.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]Phantom Muspah Speed-Runner[/td] [td]Kill the Phantom Muspah in less than 1 minute and 30 seconds without a Slayer Task.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Other Changes

You can no longer receive a loot key if you are in a trade screen. The key will now be dropped where the player died.
Removed the delay when depositing Paydirt into the hopper at Motherlode Mine.
The Slayer Helper now properly displays your Wilderness Slayer streak when slaying on behalf of Krystilia.
The 10th Anniversary Dragon Candle has been correctly labelled as a fun weapon.
There is now a Fossil Storage Crate at the Volcanic Mine Bank.
The Museum of Old School expansion in the Falador Party Room can now be accessed on free-to-play worlds.
The Dragon Candle Dagger and Old School Jumper are now tagged as warm clothing.
The animation that plays when waxing your Sled will now cancel if you move.
The Sins of the Father display case in the Museum is now correctly labelled as a Master Quest.
Having a Slayer Task streak of 16,000 no longer means you will get the max amount of Slayer Points for every task you complete. You will still get bonus Points at regular intervals as if you didn't have a ludicrous streak count, and completing a task will also inform you when you're next due to get a bump in Points!
Fixed typos in the frog random event and Warmhandz’s dialogue.
We updated the banners in the Falador Party Room to the correct versions!
Facial animations have been added to those Birthday Event dialogues that previously didn't have them.

Crack The Clue 3

We're back once again with some more clues! This hint is for the clue obtained from the Mysterious Old Man.

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

Mods Arcane, Archie, Argo, Ash, Ayiza, Boko, Bruno, Chilly, Crystal, Curse, Daizong, Dylan, Ed, Elena, Errol, Fed, Gecko, Gizmo, Goblin, Grub, Halo, Hend, Hornet, Husky, Jalo, Jerv, Keyser, Kieren, Kirby, Kurotou, Lenny, Light, Mack, Manked, Markos, Maylea, Meat, Moogle, Morty, Nin, Nylu, Other, Pumpkin, Redfield, Regent, Roq, Ry, Sarnie, Shroom, Sigma, Skylark, Sova, Squid, Starry, Stevew, Surma, Sween, Tide, Titus, Torrance, Tyran, Veda, Vegard, West & Wolfy

The Old School Team.

It's Our Birthday! | Weekly Game Update (February 22th)

February 22, 2023

We did it! A full decade of Old School RuneScape! Let’s celebrate in style…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KCUXnxlESk0

2023 Birthday Event

Celebrating Ten Years of Old School RuneScape

Wow, a whole decade. That flew by didn’t it? Ten years of tears and triumphs, streams and skills, polls and party hats. Obviously we couldn’t let this momentous occasion pass us by without throwing a very special birthday event!

Party Pete is hosting a ‘Cake-Off’ in the party room. He's invited all the important people he could think of - King Roald, Bentnoze and Wartface, Thurgo, Archmage Sedridor, Duke Horacio, Gnome Child... Elvarg... They’ve all been given one simple instruction: bring cake.

Naturally, the Lumbridge Cook is responsible for the Duke's contribution, and his new assistant, Patty Seer, has been travelling the world learning all about baking. This should put them in good stead to take first prize in the Cake-Off, but in an unfortunate turn of events, Patty's cake tin has cracked and her hat has been stolen! Now she needs your help if she’s going to do Lumbridge proud in the biggest cake competition Gielinor has ever seen…

Begin the event by speaking to the Cook's new assistant in Lumbridge Castle.

Mod Other designed this 10th Birthday Event and would like to say a few words, as it's their first project with us!

Mod Other:
Hiya everyone! I knew it would be difficult to capturing 10 years of Old School in a way that did it justice. Then I thought, what better way to do it than bring us back to where it all began?

This 10th birthday event is a real feel-good story, so you'll hopefully be walking away with a smile on your face… and some top-tier cosmetics in your hands!

The 10th Birthday Event is available from today and ends on March 15th!

New Cosmetics: Ten Rewards For Ten Years

Before designing the new rewards, Mod Skylark reached out on Twitter to ask the community for inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing all your brilliant ideas! Now we can share the results, and it's safe to say we're spoiling you this year with all of this stunning Fashionscape...

Complete the event and you’ll receive every single one of these birthday rewards:

10th Birthday Cape
A Jad/Gnome Child/Stray Dog Plush
Jad/Bob the Cat Slippers
Birthday Cake Hat
Gnome Child Backpack
Silver Party Hat
Old School Jumper (in six variations)
Dragon Candle Dagger
10th Birthday Balloons
A brand new party emote

You are restricted to one plushie and jumper per character, but you can change style whenever you like by simply right-clicking the object and using the ‘change style’ option.

Make sure to grab these goodies while you can - birthday treats only come around once a year! If you're not able to join the celebrations this time, you'll have to wait for next year’s event to unlock them. And that’s, like, a whole year away...

Old School's 10th Birthday Livestream

Make sure you're there to wish us a Happy Birthday on February 23rd at 16:00 GMT!

There ain't no party like a J-Mod party!

Join us for a special livestream from Jagex HQ. We'll play through the birthday event, answer your questions, and we might even have a quiz to get you reminiscing!

The Birthday Livestream kicks off February 23rd at 16:00 GMT on our Twitch channel.

Quest Speedrunning

Dragon Slayer II is now available on Quest Speedrunning beta worlds! It’s a Grandmaster quest, so naturally we'll be keeping a close eye on the difficulty for you speedrunning superstars.

We've set the following completion times per trophy, but as always, we're open to amending them based on your feedback:

Bronze: 155:00
Silver: 125:00
Gold: 105:00
Platinum: 95:00

We expect to move Dragon Slayer II and Black Knights' Fortress out of beta by next month. That will be the last of our promised Quest Speedrunning updates, but don’t worry, we'll still be adding more in the future, just at less regular intervals.

We hope your spacebars haven't suffered too much! We'd like to take the opportunity once again to thank the Quest Speedrunning community for their awesome feedback - you’ve really helped shape a very special part of the Old School experience, and we are blown away by your dedication and talent!

Wilderness Boss Rework Fixes

Players should now be able to engage in combat one tick sooner when entering the Wilderness Boss caves. This change was made to strike a better balance for PvP, as players were able to escape much more easily than we had anticipated.

Ring of Wealth now works correctly for Wilderness Bosses.

The Spindel lair interior has been adjusted to Level 29 Wilderness, to match the Web Chasm entrance.

Other Changes

Activity HiScores that previously had a minimum KC of 45 have been expanded; the new minimum is 40. Players currently in the 40-44 range should find their scores are added gradually after a few more gaming sessions. We’re taking it down in small steps, like we did last week, so the system doesn’t struggle with a big influx of newly ranked players at once. Thank you for your patience!

Binding spell effects are now wiped more reliably at the end of a Last Man Standing session.

Zulrah's loot now stays on the ground for longer before despawning.

When sacrificing Bones on the Wilderness Chaos Altar, they will now be consumed starting from the top left of your Inventory, rather than using the ones you just clicked on. This should make repeated clicks more convenient.

Community

Gielinor Games

Twenty of your favorite content creators competed in weekly challenges and eliminations all the for the hope of winning the grand prize worth billions of oldschool runescape GP. This is the Gielinor Games Finale to Season 3!

Streamer Awards

Voting for the Streamer Awards is now live, and our very own B0aty has been nominated for Best MMORPG Streamer. Vote for your favourite nominees!

We've got a thriving community of content creators and an equally thriving community of people who love watching them. Last year, the very talented itswill, was nominated for this pretigious award and unfortunately beaten out. As a Golden Gnome winner and an absolute staple of the community, we feel we should have done more to help highlight his content to a wider audience. This time around, we'll be doing exactly that and asking you for your help in supporting B0aty's bid for Best MMORPG Streamer!

Crack The Clue 3

This hint is for the emotes on the original four maps.

OSRS 10th Anniversary Merch

Celebrate the decade in style with new lines of merch, available in store today!

So far we’ve got:

A commemorative 10th Anniversary logo t-shirt and logo pin from Angels Scapes!

A special silver OSRS variant of this illustrated Map of Gielinor - available as a decorative print for your wall or as a commemorative t-shirt!

A new range of OSRS logo tees, with a distressed logo discharge printed on four different colour bases for a soft retro feel – pick your favourite!

Plus, Angels Scapes have a few extra lines for the anniversary, including a special limited-edition silver metal variant of the Max Cape Keyring and DFS pin!

Oh and did we mention it’s actually a shared birthday? Angels Scapes is also celebrating a whopping five years of designing pins for the merch store, and has created a special Pink Max Cape key ring and DDS pin with matte gold metal details for the occasion.

Check them out here.

We’ll be celebrating the anniversary throughout the year with even more special items and some exciting new merch partnerships in the works - so stay tuned!

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Max/Med' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

Mods Arcane, Archie, Argo, Ash, Ayiza, Boko, Bruno, Chilly, Crystal, Curse, Daizong, Dylan, Ed, Elena, Errol, Fed, Gecko, Gizmo, Goblin, Grub, Halo, Hend, Hornet, Husky, Jalo, Keyser, Kieren, Kirby, Kurotou, Lenny, Light, Mack, Markos, Maylea, Meat, Moogle, Morty, Nin, Nylu, Other, Redfield, Regent, Roq, Ry, Sarnie, Shroom, Sigma, Skylark, Soffan, Sova, Squid, Starry, Stevew, Surma, Sween, Tide, Titus, Torrance, Tyran, Veda, Vegard, West & Wolfy

The Old School Team.

More Poll 78 Changes! | Weekly Game Update (February 15th)

February 15, 2023

Bad news, everyone – we just missed Valentine’s Day with this update, so unfortunately we had to eat all your chocolates ourselves. Sorry! We do have a gift bag full of Poll 78 changes for you, though...

Changelog - February 15th, 2023

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Poll 78

Enabled spell icon resizing when filters are enabled in the Magic tab.
You can now use a wider variety of seeds to fill birdhouses on Fossil Island.
Crafted Runes can now be added directly to your Rune Pouch.
Magic Secateurs' increased yield effect now works from the Inventory.
Additionally, Magic Secateurs' increased yield effect now applies to bushes and Limpwurt flowers.
The quantity of Nightshade received when harvesting has been increased and made into an untradeable, stackable version.

Other Changes

Tweaked some Poison behaviour to restore prior behaviour for Treus Dayth, Corporeal Beast's Dark Core, and Chickens.
Fixed a bug where re-applying Venom would reset the damage dealt back down to 6.
Fixed a bug where the Muspah/Phantom Muspah's Freeze duration reduction was applying twice.
Released a HiScores table for Skillers and 1 Defence Pures.
Rupert and Mawnis Burowgar will now sell more than one replacement for the Dwarven Helmet and Neitiznot Helmet respectively. Additionally, both can be re-obtained from Perdu.
Corrected grammar in the Tomes of the Sun, Moon and Temple.
Removed debug text from gnome cookery.
Fixed some floor tiles in the Key Master's cave that were blocking movement.
When sacrificing Bones to an altar in a Player-Owned House, the game now consumes them starting from the top left of your Inventory.
The world map has been updated to help those who struggle to remember the difference between Jaltevas, Jaldraocht, Jaleustrophos and Jalsavrah.
Activity HiScores that previously had a minimum KC of 50 have been expanded; the new minimum is 45.

Hotfixes released over the past week

Fixed a bug where Poison and/or Venom wasn’t being cleared on Chinchompas, causing them to instantly die on respawn.
Fixed a bug where reverting Crystal weaponry wouldn't return the relevant seed.
Fixed a bug where players who killed you in Last Man Standing would receive PvP kill credit if you died a PvM death to one of the reworked Wilderness bosses.
Fixed a bug where the 'delay' at the start of a round of Nightmare Zone was greatly reduced.
Fixed a bug where some bosses weren't selectable when customising a Rumble at Nightmare Zone.
Prevented players being able to sell back their Colossal Blade to the Giants' Foundry, since they're reobtainable from Perdu.

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Poll 78 Additions

It looks like you had loads of fun last week running around in your recoloured Crystal armour. We've seen some seriously fierce fashionscape alongside some mismatched fits so grotesque that we wouldn't even put them on our fridge. In any case, we figured you enjoyed the last lot of Poll 78 changes and that you might appreciate some more!

Let's kick things off with a big one... or is it a small one?

Spell Icon Resizing

"These resized spell icons are bigger and brighter than my future" - Mod Goblin, 2023

If you're a mobile player, this change is going to be pretty underwhelming. If you play primarily on desktop, strap in!

Have you ever filtered your spellbook and been left frustrated with the sheer amount of dead space left around those teeny, tiny spell icons? If so, this update will be an absolute game changer.

By enabling Spell Filtering and navigating to the Spell Filters menu, you'll be able to select a new option that will resize your icons. This means that when you've filtered spells out, any remaining spell icons (assuming you're not in a PvP area) will have their size adjusted to make better use of the space available. You'll finally be able to accurately use High Alchemy from the other side of the room. Hooray!

Magic Secateurs Changes

This fairy-favoured Farming tool has been an absolute necessity for any player taking their herb runs seriously. We've all had that disappointing moment where you finish up your run, get ready to deposit your herbs and notice that your Magic Secateurs have been sat in your Inventory the entire time, providing you with zero benefit whatsoever.

That all changes this week, and all you'll have to do to gain the benefit of these snippy Secateurs is keep them anywhere on your person. Whether you'd like to keep them equipped for nostalgia's sake, or level up your fashionscape, maybe even flex your Twisted Bow on your herb runs - the choice is yours!

Additionally, it seems the fairies of Zanaris have played a cruel trick on the lot of us by only granting a tiny slice of their power to this nifty tool. As of today, they've been gracious enough to allow the Magic Secateurs' yield increasing effect to apply to bushes and Limpwurt flowers, alongside the herbs they've always benefited.

Birdhouses

If you’ve been put off Hunting by last week’s exploding toxic Chinchompas incident, you might have gotten a bit more familiar with the Birdhouses you can build on Fossil Island.

In the past, the risk-averse avians of Fossil Island would only accept hop or herb seeds as snacks. With today's update, you'll be able to add flower and allotment seeds to the mix, and perhaps make a dent in the stacks of Potato Seeds you have piling up in your Seed Vault. Mmm… earthy!

Rune Pouch

In a recent update, we added an option to the Settings menu that could previously only be toggled by talking to the Magic Tutor in Lumbridge. This setting allows any Runes you pick up to go directly into the Rune Pouch - assuming there's already a Rune of the same type in there, and enough space to accommodate them.

From now on, if you have this setting enabled, it will also apply to Runes that you craft. Hopefully this saves you a little bit of space, or perhaps cuts down on some Inventory management at places like the Ourania Altar.

Belladonna Harvesting

Last year, we added Poison Dynamite to Old School, made by combining good ol' fashioned Dynamite with Cave Nightshade. While Dynamite is worryingly easy to acquire in large quantities, Cave Nightshade can be pretty laborious to grow - and hopping around in dimly lit Skavid tunnels to pick it up off the ground isn't exactly the most engaging gameplay.

Those of you looking to begin mass producing these toxic explosives are in for a treat, because you'll now receive a significantly higher quantity of Cave Nightshade when harvesting Belladonna near Draynor Manor. Additionally, to accommodate for this increase in quantity, this harvested Nightshade has been converted into an untradeable, stackable version to allow for more convenient carrying!

Other Changes

Last week's game update was pretty light, but we still had a couple of fixes to make:

Today's fixes

Adjusted Poison behaviour on Treus Dayth, Corporeal Beast's Dark Core and Chickens, so that it mimics the behaviour from before the update.
Fixed a bug where re-applying Venom would reset the Venom damage back to its original value of 6.
Fixed a bug where the Phantom Muspah's Freeze Resistance was applying twice, resulting in the boss becoming un-frozen quicker than before.

Fixes since last week's Game Update

Fixed a bug where Poison and/or Venom wasn’t being cleared on Chinchompas, meaning they would immediately explode and die upon respawning.
Fixed a bug where reverting Crystal weaponry wouldn't return the relevant seed.
Fixed a bug where players who killed you in Last Man Standing would receive PvP kill credit if you died a PvM death to one of the reworked Wilderness bosses.
Fixed a bug where the 'delay' at the start of a round of Nightmare Zone was greatly reduced.
Fixed a bug where some bosses weren't appearing on the relevant interface when customising a Rumble at Nightmare Zone.
Prevented players being able to sell back their Colossal Blade to the Giants' Foundry, since they're reobtainable with coins from Perdu.

Miscellaneous Changes

As per usual we've got an assortment of other, smaller changes this week, listed below!

Released a HiScores table for Skillers and 1 Defence Pures.
Rupert and Mawnis Burowgar will now sell more than one replacement for the Dwarven Helmet and Neitiznot Helmet respectively, even when you already own one.
- Additionally, both can be obtained from Perdu at an increased price.
- This essentially means you won't need to drop your Dwarven or Neitiznot Helmets to obtain extras, and that you can pay for the convenience offered by Perdu if you don't fancy a trip to the relevant NPCs directly.
Corrected grammar in the Tomes of the Sun, Moon and Temple.
Removed debug text from gnome cookery.
Fixed some floor tiles in the Key Master's Cave that were incorrectly blocking movement.
When sacrificing Bones to an altar in a Player-Owned House, the game now consumes Bones starting from the top left of your Inventory, rather than using the ones you clicked on, allowing for more convenient repeated clicks.
Updated the World Map to help those who struggle to remember the difference between Jaltevas (Necropolis, near the Tombs of Amascut), Jaldraocht (Ancient Pyramid), Jaleustrophos (Agility Pyramid) and Jalsavrah (Pyramid Plunder).
Activity HiScores that previously had a minimum KC of 50 have been expanded; the new minimum is 45.
- Players currently in the 45-49 range should find their scores are added gradually after some more gaming sessions. As the system is expected to struggle with an influx of newly ranked players all at once, we're taking it down in small steps like this; if it goes well we'll continue to lower the minimum KC required for a spot on the HiScores in subsequent weeks.

Coming up...

That's about all we've got for you this week, but make sure to check out next Wednesday's update to take part in Old School's 10th Birthday event!

We’ve got a fantastic celebration planned with some seriously silly rewards up for grabs, so we’d better see you there!

In the meantime, mark your calendars for Saturday, February 18th when the third season of Soup's Gielinor Games draws to its epic conclusion in a finale you won't want to miss.

Head on over to Soup's YouTube channel to check it out and catch up on any episodes you might have missed - you won't regret it!

Crack The Clue 3

We're on a roll with more Crack The Clue 3 hints! The first hint is for the clue obtained from Miss Schism. The second hint is for the clue obtained from Juliet.

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

560 - (UK) - PvP World
579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Poll 78 Changes & More! | Weekly Game Update (February 8th)

February 8, 2023

Change Log

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Poll 78

Increased the number of Coin Pouches you can hold as a reward from the Medium, Hard and Elite Ardounge Diaries by 100%, 200% and 400% respectively.
Players can now recolour Crystal Armour.
Players now have the ability to make Super Extended Antifire Potions with Extended Antifire Potions and Crushed Dragon Bones.
Added the ability to return unwanted untradeables to the Giants’ Foundry Shop for 80% of the original price.
The Catalytic Tiara can now be used during Mourning's End Part II to access the Death Altar.

Wilderness Boss Rework

Hotfixes from Last Week:

Fixed an issue where the Ursine Chainmace's Special Attack did no damage against Wilderness Bosses.
Players can no longer avoid the slow effect from the Ursine Chainmace's Special Attack by holding the 'toggle walk/run' key.
Adjusted loot tables for each of the reworked Wilderness Bosses.

This week:

The drop rates for the Wilderness Boss Reworks have been revealed.
Added Minimap icons for the Escape Caves.
Fixed an issue where Venenatis' and Spindel's HP bars were moving during their attack animations.
Leaving the Escape Caves without 'Auto-Retaliate' turned on will no longer force your character to walk in a random direction.

Secrets of the North

Hotfixes from Last Week:

Fixed a bug that incorrectly scaled the Max Hit from the Venator Bow's ricochet damage at 50%.

This week:

The newly introduced 'Freeze Resistance' stat has now been rolled out to NPCs across the game.
'Poison Resistance' has also been introduced and rolled out across the game.

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #5

X Marks the Spot and A Kingdom Divided have been fully released on Quest Speedrunning worlds.
Black Knights' Fortress has been added into Beta on Quest Speedrunning worlds.

Other Changes

The Fairy Ring has been updated (again) to remove the glowing beam.
The older version of the welcome screen has been de-commissioned
The Clan Coffer's capacity has increased to 50m coins. Players are reminded that other clan members with access to the Coffer may withdraw the funds without warning.
POH servants are now less prone to getting stuck on scenery.
The Fire Warrior of Lesarkus is no longer duplicated when two players summon him simultaneously.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.
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Poll 78

We’re kicking off with the hottest poll results from our most recent Quality of Life Poll!

First up is one of the most requested features: if you’ve completed the Medium, Hard, or Elite tiers of the Ardougne Achievement Diary, you’ll now be able to hold 56, 84, and 140 Coin Pouches, respectively. That’s 100%, 200%, and 400% more Pouches than before!

We understand that some of you would rather not see Coin Pouches in the game at all, but as we’ve stated before, they’re of enormous benefit to our Anti-Cheating Team and we’ll be keeping them for the foreseeable.

In other news, elf aficionados are now able to recolour their Crystal Armour in the style of their favourite clan using the crystals found at Llianas’s Wares in Prifddinas. There are eight colours in all, and you can recolour each part of the armour separately. Match them all or go full Megazord and run around Gielinor as the powerful ranger you are.

Next up, herbalists are now able to bridge the gap in the Antifire Potion family with Super Extended Antifire Potions, created by mixing Extended Antifire Potions and Crushed Dragon Bones. Mmm – good soup!

Over at Giants’ Foundry Kovac has been persuaded to let you sell back unwanted untradeable rewards for 80% of the original price. To do so, just use the unwanted reward on Kovac to request a refund, as you do for rewards at Pest Control, Gricoller’s Farm, Last Man Standing and the PvP Arena.

Lastly, those of you who have yet to tackle the devilish light puzzle from Mourning’s End Part II will now be able to access the Death Altar during the quest using the Catalytic Tiara.

You can look forward to more QoL improvements from Poll 78 in the next game update, including Magic Secateurs changes and a little extra oomph for your Spell Icons!

Wilderness Boss Rework Tweaks

Last Week's Hotfixes

Last week we made another bunch of changes regarding the recent Wilderness Boss Rework. Most notably, there were two major issues with the Ursine Chainmace’s special attack. One allowed players to avoid the slow effect, and the other was causing the attack to deal no damage against Callisto, Venenatis, or Vet’ion. These issues have now been fixed – thanks for your patience!

Also from last week, we've made a bunch of changes to the loot tables. We’re still assessing each loot table’s impact and value, so these are still not final.

New Changes

Now, onto this week’s changes!

Added minimap icons for the Escape Caves found just outside the Wilderness Boss Lairs.
Fixed an issue where Venenatis' and Spindel's HP bars were moving during their attack animations.
Leaving the Escape Caves without 'Auto-Retaliate' turned on will no longer force your character to walk in a random direction.

And finally, we've got the drop rates from both versions of the new bosses:

[table] [tr] [td]Item[/td] [td]Normal Bosses Droprate
(Callisto, Venenatis & Vet'ion)[/td] [td]Lesser Bosses Droprate
(Artio, Spindel & Calvar'ion)[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Voidwaker Piece
(Hilt, Blade & Gem)[/td] [td]1/360[/td] [td]1/912[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Dragon Pickaxe[/td] [td]1/256[/td] [td]1/358[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Revenant Upgrade Item
(Claws of Callisto, Fangs of Venenatis & Skull of Vet’ion)[/td] [td]1/196[/td] [td]1/618[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Rings
(Tyrannical Ring, Treasonous Ring & Ring of the Gods)[/td] [td]1/512[/td] [td]1/716[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Dragon 2h Sword[/td] [td]1/256[/td] [td]1/358[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Secrets of the North Changes

We haven’t made any direct changes to Secrets of the North this week, but we have brought a related change to the rest of the game!

The Phantom Muspah introduced a new stat called ‘Freeze Resistance’, which put its chance to be frozen on a scale, rather than a binary value. We’ve decided to roll this out to other NPCs this week!

This won’t affect current gameplay – NPCs will still either be freezable or not freezable – but it opens up more design options for the future.

In a similar vein, we’ve also introduced a new stat called ‘Poison Resistance’, which will determine the chance an NPC has to be poisoned. Again, current gameplay will remain exactly the same.

We’re really excited to see where this change could take us, and we hope you’re excited too!

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #5

X Marks the Spot and A Kingdom Divided have been officially added to the Quest Speedrunning roster! Here are the details:

[expand="more" type="show"] [table] [tr] [td]X Marks the Spot[/td] [td]10 Agility[/td] [td]100 Coins
Energy Potion[/td] [td]Bronze: 3:15
Silver: 2:30
Gold: 2:00
Platinum: 1:45[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]A Kingdom Divided[/td] [td]Tale of the Righteous
The Ascent of Arceuus
The Forsaken Tower
The Queen of Thieves
The Depths of Despair
Architectural Alliance
Recipe for Disaster
Monkey Madness I
The Fremennik Isles
Horror from the Deep
Animal Magnetism
65 Agility
52 Thieving
52 Woodcutting
50 Herblore
50 Mining
38 Crafting
Base 70 combat stats
A Player Owned House in Hosidius[/td] [td]12,000 Coins
8 Stamina Potions (4 in Bank)
30 Sharks (20 in Bank)
4 Super Restore Potions (2 in Bank)
Superantipoison
Kharedst's Memoirs
Xeric's Talisman
Defence Potion
Dragon Scimitar
Dragon Defender
Fighter Torso
Dragon Platelegs
Dragon Boots
Helm of Neitiznot
Obsidian Cape
Amulet of Glory
Berserker Ring (i)
Rune Gloves
500 Adamant Bolts
Rune Crossbow
Red Dragonhide Body
Red Dragonhide Chaps
Ava's Accumulator
Book of Law[/td] [td]Bronze: 83:00
Silver: 68:00
Gold: 58:00
Platinum: 53:00[/td] [/tr] [/table]
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For our next beta quest, we're revisiting the classics and adding Black Knights' Fortress. Make sure to jump in-game, so you can give us your feedback before it launches! If you're wondering why there's only one quest this time, it’s because we've got a real biggun' for the next one, so stay tuned for more information soon!

Remember, you’ll be able to test this quest from any regular Quest Speedrunning world, but they won't be giving you Trophies or best times yet. Let's take a look at the stats:

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[table] [tr] [td]Black Knights' Fortress[/td] [td]30 Agility
Base 25 combat stats
12 Quest Points (given via miscellaneous quests)[/td] [td]300 Coins
3 Energy Potions
5 Tuna[/td] [td]Bronze: 8:30
Silver: 7:00
Gold: 6:00
Platinum: 5:30[/td] [/tr] [/table]
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As always, we’d like to give a big shoutout to the speedrunning community for all their help! If you’re looking to get started with Quest Speedrunning or you’re after some friendly advice, check out these fantastic resources:

Fairy Ring Design Changes

The new design of the Fairy Ring.

Turns out you do believe in the Fairy Ring Graphical Update – you do, you do!

We’ve discussed your feedback from last week and we have great news – the team has worked out a player-friendly solution which changes the controversial beam to be transparent until it’s highlighted. This achieves our goal of making the ring easier to click, without having to tilt your screen!

While we’re here, we thought you’d be interested to hear the technical reasons for this change.

Currently, each part of the fairy ring is in a different ‘ground location’, with an extra location in the middle, which is what you click on. If each part had an ‘op’ of its own, they’d stack up in the mini menu – we tried various different solutions for this during the Game Jam, but they all looked bad.

Another complicating factor is that fairy rings are ‘multi-location’, with as many possible states as there are destinations! The same click location is used for every ring. If we made every part of every ring clickable, we’d end up with 192 locations for every colour of fairy ring – and there are at least 40 of those, so the actual count is over 7,600 new locations. Wild, right?

Now, some of you may question why this is such a big issue when Agility clickboxes work fine. Agility works because the click boxes are contained within the courses themselves. The main concern with the fairy rings is that they’re roaming free in the world, and their close proximity to other activities means that a larger invisible clickbox could result in misclicks.

Some of you were also wondering why we couldn’t have the effect toggle depending on whether you were holding, say, a Dramen Staff.

Normally, when we let things turn on and off, we turn a normal location into a multi-location where each state corresponds to a different option. But as we know, fairy rings are already multi-location, and you can’t add another multi-location to determine a different kind of state on top!

Now, we have found a way to combine states and make this sort of thing work, but it’s very complicated, and so we only use it in very specific circumstances.

More realistically, implementing a toggle would mean losing the functionality that tells you the code for your previous destination. We know that this is a huge QoL feature, and we don’t think losing it would be worth it.

That was fun, huh? We hope you enjoyed this insight into the technical complexities of your favourite magic mushrooms, and that the new design is a nice middle ground for everybody!

Welcome Screen Changes

As we announced last week, we’ve said goodbye to the old version of the welcome screen.

For those of you who are unaware, we previously supported two different versions of the welcome screen, with you currently having the ability to switch back and forth between the two.

In order to make it easier for us to maintain the welcome screen and utilise it in a better capacity we decommissioned the 'classic' version.

Here's a look at the Welcome Screen you'll see.

We’re glad that so many of you support this change,but we'd like to clarify how we'll be using the banners going forward.

Not everybody keeps up with the news on our website or even our social channels – a lot of you like to just log in and play the game. Having the new banner in place lets us showcase new releases, guide you towards the latest blogs and content polls, share useful resources for specific player groups, and signpost time-sensitive topics like incoming game maintenance. We'll also use it to signpost the benefits of membership, in the same way we do elsewhere in-game.

However, we’ve taken your feedback on board, and we’ve tweaked our proposed new welcome screen so it shows all the useful information you’re used to. Below you’ll see a mockup of this new design. Let us know what you think!

A mockup design of the Welcome Screen

Other Changes

Increased the capacity of the Clan Coffer to 50m coins. Players are reminded that other clan members with access to the Coffer may withdraw the funds without warning.
Player Owned House servants are now less prone to getting stuck on scenery.
The Fire Warrior of Lesarkus is no longer duplicated when two players summon him simultaneously.

Crack The Clue 3

We're back once again to give you some more direction! Hopefully these hints will help you find the right path and get you closer to the treasure!

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Wildy Boss Tweaks & More | Weekly Game Update (February 2nd)

February 2, 2023

This week we’ve made feedback changes to the Wilderness Boss Rework and had an awkward conversation with some fairies…

Change Log

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Wilderness Boss Rework

Hotfixes since Last Week:

Reduced Maximum number of players able to receive loot from 15 to 10.
Increased the minimum loot reward from 0% to 15%.
Increased quantity of base rewards.
Fixed an issue where Accursed Sceptres (a) were reverting to Thammaron’s Sceptres while protected on PvP death when equipped.
Fixed an issue where the Voidwaker components turned into Coins upon death in the Wilderness.

This week:

The regular loot table for all bosses is now a little more consistent.
Calvar’ion now only summons two hounds no matter how many players are in the fight.
Spindel is limited to a maximum of 10 spiderlings, no matter how many players are in the fight.
All Wilderness bosses are now immune to Ring of Recoil and similar effects.
Rearranged Venenatis’ damage through Prayer from being rolled then capped at 30 to being capped at 30 and then rolled.
Calvar’ion will now only spawn up to seven lightning strikes at one time, regardless of the number of players in the arena.
Fixed an issue in Nurmof’s Dragon Pickaxe dialogue.
Fixed an issue where Artio’s head was clipping when within melee range.

We’re aware of other issues – check the blog to learn what they are and how we plan to tackle them.

Fairy Ring

We’re seeking feedback on the Fairy Ring’s new look for next week's game update.

Secrets of the North

Messages about the number of charges remaining on the Venator Bow are now more frequent. The following changes have also been made to the Bow:
<*>Arrows can now ricochet even if their target dies. <*>Increased the speed of ricocheting arrows.

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Enhanced C++ Client Improvements

Improved minimap zoom functionality through a new slider feature.
Minimap zoom will now be remembered on both mobile and desktop clients.
Added the ability to see your current combat level to a decimal place to view how far you are from your next combat level. This is OFF by default.
Fishing spots within Chambers of Xeric are now included under Fishing spot indicators.
Fixed various Clue Scroll Helper issues:
- Resolved a bug with 'Hot and Cold' Clue Scrolls where the location list could disappear in certain situations.
- Resolved a visual bug where the Fairy Queen NPC was not being highlighted by the Helper.
- Resolved a bug where the Helper was not detecting a worn uncharged Amulet of Glory for a specific Master Clue.
- Resolved a bug where incorrect information was displayed/highlighted in the Helper for certain cryptic clues.

Other Changes

Restored missing text in the Accursed Sceptre creation message.
The Ardougne Diary task that calls for an imbued Salve Amulet is now clearer about where the Amulet must be imbued.
Players on the Deadman world who are still subject to its newbie PvP immunity may no longer receive weapon drops from revenants.
Deadman players may now obtain the Mystic Cards from Diango.
Fixed a ‘hiding’ animation featured in Another Slice of H.A.M.
Players can no longer have multiple followers while Temple Trekking.
Fixed an issue where the Lumbridge Armour Stand was clipping on PvP Worlds.

Wilderness Boss Rework

Last week’s Wilderness Boss Rework was a great success – it’s wonderful to see so many of you enjoying one of the game’s most underappreciated areas.

This week we hope to see even more of you checking the Wilderness out, as we introduce the next batch of improvements.

Drop Changes

Ah, the loot table – your biggest motivation, and our biggest challenge. It’s always tricky to balance these things, and the loot table for the Wilderness content is no different.

We’ve heard your feedback about the bosses’ loot not feeling rewarding enough for the risk you’re taking, so on Friday we made the following hotfixes:

Reduced Maximum number of players able to receive loot from 15 to 10.
Increased the minimum loot reward from 0% to 15% - so if you do less than 15% damage, you’ll still be rewarded as though you did 15%.
Increased quantity of base rewards.

Let’s see this in practice: a group of 10 players now effectively receive 1.5x more regular loot (on average) than a solo player, as well as getting significantly more kills per hour. Great!

Not so great: since this hotfix went live last week, we’ve seen concerns that the regular loot isn’t quite meeting your expectations. Having strong, consistent loot is important because it presents a dilemma; do you stick around to gain more rewards while risking being found by other players, or do you cash out while you can and go gear back up?

By our estimations, the regular loot per kill for Venenatis, Vet’ion and Callisto is worth somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 GP. The problem is that those averages come from big ticket drops like Onyx Bolt Tips, which means that hitting one of these rewards mean players instantly head to the Bank instead of really weighing up their options.

All this to say that this week’s changes make the loot table a bit more consistent. We’ve increased the quantities of lower-value drops and made the Rune Pickaxe a little rarer, which makes room for more exciting drops like Dragon Platelegs or noted Blighted Anglerfish.

As we explained on the livestream, we’re intentionally cautious with loot following concern around the game’s economy. We don’t have a whole lot of player data on Wilderness content – almost like you lot have been avoiding it for some reason! – so we’re treading carefully and making small changes to begin with. We hope these improvements are already making your experience better, but please do keep sending your feedback – we'll be working to make sure we can get it just right.

Next week, we’ll have more to share – including the drop rates for all the bosses’ uniques!

Anti-Grief Mechanics

We've noted that players participating in the singles variants of the Wilderness bosses can be griefed easily by other players. As a result, we're making the following changes:

Calvar’ion now only summons two hounds no matter how many players are in the fight.
Spindel is limited to a maximum of 10 spiderlings, no matter how many players are in the fight.
All Wilderness bosses are now immune to Ring of Recoil and similar effects.

Further Changes

Rearranged Venenatis’ damage through Prayer from being rolled then capped at 30 to being capped at 30 and then rolled.
Calvar’ion will now only spawn up to seven lightning strikes at one time, regardless of the number of players in the arena – or the weather report.

Other Changes

Pets will no longer leap in to deliver Nurmof’s final line while he’s repairing your Dragon Pickaxe.
Fixed an issue where Artio’s head was clipping when within melee range.

Hotfixes Since Last Week

Fixed an issue where Accursed Sceptres (a) were reverting to Thammaron’s Sceptres while protected on PvP death when equipped.
Fixed an issue where the Voidwaker components turned into Coins upon death in the Wilderness.

On Our Radar

We’re aware of the following issues and working on fixes as we speak:

Boss entry fee is lost upon any Wilderness death.
- We want to explore changing this so that you only lose the fee if you die in combat that began inside or within close proximity to the boss lairs and escape caves. Let us know your thoughts!
The ‘stall’ behaviour when falling into a boss lair can be disruptive in PvP scenarios.
Venenatis and Spindel’s web attacks are a bit too punishing on the Energy drain front.
- At the very least, we want to reduce the drain for players under the effects of Stamina Potions, but we’re exploring other options for those of you who just have to walk it off.
Thamarron's Sceptre remains unable to auto-cast.

Fairy Ring Graphical Update Coming Next Week

We’ve let the fairies know that you’re not keen on their redecorated portals. It was a pretty awkward conversation (not least because we kept getting turned into frogs), but they’ve promised to try and tone the sparkles down a bit.

However, as discussed on our livestream, we’re still looking for a way to make the fairy rings more visible and easier to use on mobile. We can’t increase the size of their click-box due to a pesky technical limitation, so a cosmetic change is the only way to solve this problem.

The fairies are a big fan of the mobile client (it’s easier for their tiny little hands) and are eager to hear your thoughts. Is the change above good enough for next week's game update, or should they try again?

To let them know, just close your eyes, clap your hands, and say ‘I DO believe in the Fairy Ring Graphical Update!’ – or better yet, let us know your thoughts through the usual social media channels.

Welcome Screen Changes

We wanted to give you all a heads up on a change we'll soon be making to the welcome screen. Right now, we currently support two different versions of the welcome screen, with you currently having the ability to switch back and forth between the two. However, we'll soon be decommissioning one of these welcome screens.

Doing so will make it easier for us to maintain the welcome screen and also make it possible for us to add some useful features to it, such as better information on things like polls and account security (authenticator, bank pin, etc.).

Of the two welcome screens, many people are already using the one we'll be keeping, but for those who aren't, here's what it looks like:

Secrets of the North

We've made some improvements to the Venator Bow following your feedback on its use in both PvP and PvM! In last week's newspost, we gave you a heads up about these changes so they shouldn't come as a huge surprise.

The Venator Bow will now tell you how many charges you have remaining more frequently, at every increment of 500 charges. It will also print a more emphatic message when you hit 100 and 50 charges remaining.

Additionally, the below changes will apply in both PvP and PvM:

Secondary hits should now roll their own accuracy checks instead of using the one from the initial hit.
Arrows can now ricochet even if their target dies.
The speed of ricocheting arrows has been increased somewhat, which should make the Bow feel a bit nicer to use.

Let us know how you get on!

Enhanced C++ Client Improvements

Improved minimap zoom functionality through a new slider feature, saving you the need to pinch the screen when trying to adjust it.
Minimap zoom will now be remembered on both mobile and desktop clients.
Added the ability to see your current combat level to a decimal place to view how far you are from your next combat level. This is OFF by default.
Fishing spots within Chambers of Xeric are now included under Fishing spot indicators.
Fixed various Clue Scroll Helper issues:
- Resolved a bug with 'Hot and Cold' Clue Scrolls where the location list could disappear in certain situations.
- Resolved a visual bug where the Fairy Queen NPC was not being highlighted by the Helper.
- Resolved a bug where the Helper was not detecting a worn uncharged Amulet of Glory for a specific Master Clue.
- Resolved a bug where incorrect information was displayed/highlighted in the Helper for certain cryptic clues.

Other Changes

Restored missing text in the Accursed Sceptre creation message.
The Ardougne Diary task that calls for an imbued Salve Amulet is now clearer about where the Amulet must be imbued.
Deadman players may now obtain the Mystic Cards from Diango’s holiday items reclamation menu.
Players on the Deadman world who are still subject to its newbie PvP immunity are no longer eligible to receive the weapon drops from revenants.
Fixed a ‘hiding’ animation featured in Another Slice of H.A.M.
Players can no longer have multiple followers while Temple Trekking.
Fixed an issue where the Lumbridge Armour Stand was clipping on PvP Worlds.

Poll 78 Next Steps

We're delighted that you thought nearly everything in Poll 78 should pass! Even Hatius escaping justice and missing out on spending the rest of his days in a cosy Port Sarim jail cell couldn't ruin that!

Today we'd like to share the results of the Poll 78 priority survey, where you get to decide which of the passed questions get released first!

A whopping 9,000 of you voted! Without further ado, here are the top five results:

1st - Increase Coin Pouch Capacity
2nd - Magic Secateurs Inventory Usage
3rd - Automatically Add Player-Made Runes to the Rune Pouch
4th - Coloured Crystal Armour
5th - Magic Secateurs & Farming Skillcape boost on Bush & Limpwurts

Starting with next week's update you'll be seeing the Coin Pouch capacity increasing, alongside being able to show off your peak Priffdinas FashionScape with Crystal Armour recolours. It will also be possible to make Super Extended Antifires from Extended Antifire Potions... say that ten times fast!

We expect to release the top 5 voted for in-game in the next two weeks and the remainder of the Poll 78 questions over the next month or two, as we start to plan the next Quality of Life Poll and what theme it will follow.

Thank you once again to everyone who left feedback and took part in the survey, we're already looking forward to the next one!

Crack The Clue 3

We're back with another helpful clue, for none other than you!

This will help with something you need to match, and of course you know, there is an extra catch!

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

560 - (UK) - PvP World
579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Max/Med' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Wilderness Boss Rework | Weekly Game Update (January 25th)

January 25, 2023

Calling all thrill-seekers, the Wilderness Boss Rework is finally here!

Steel your nerves and prepare yourself for battle against bosses and players alike, before venturing north to take on the reworked versions of Venenatis, Vet'ion and Callisto – or, if you’re feeling a bit risk-averse, their weaker brethren: Spindel, Calvarion and Artio.

Note: Worlds 488 & 493 will be held offline with today's update while we perform some maintenance on them.

Changelog: January 25th

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Wilderness Boss Rework

Mechanically and visually adjusted Venenatis, Vet'ion and Callisto.
Added various new locations south of Annakarl: Vet'ion's Rest, Callisto's Den, Silk Chasm and various entrances to/exits from the Escape Caves.
Added new soloable bosses Spindel, Calvarion and Artio.
Added various new locations near the Graveyard of Shadows: Skeletal Tomb, Hunter's End & Web Chasm
Added the Ursine Chainmace, Webweaver Bow and Accursed Sceptre as tradeable upgraded versions of Viggora's Chainmace, Craw's Bow and Thamarron's Sceptre. Made using tradeable attachments dropped by the reworked and new bosses.
Reworked Thamarron's Sceptre.
Added the Voidwaker, assembled from the Voidwaker gem, hilt and blade components, dropped by the reworked and new bosses.
Increased the drop rates of Revenant weapons from Revenant NPCs by 50%.
Increased the drop rates of Revenant weapons from Revenant NPCs by 5x when killing them on a Wilderness Slayer task.
Increased the drop rate of the Dragon Pickaxe from King Black Dragon to 1/1,000 from 1/1,500.
Added the Dragon Pickaxe to Kalphite Queen's loot table at a rate of 1/400.
Added 'Ore packs' to Petrified Percy's shop at Volcanic Mine. These have a chance at rewarding the player with a broken Dragon pickaxe when opened.
Nurmof will make players a Dragon pickaxe when presented with 2,500,000 GP and a broken Dragon pickaxe.
Adjusted the Prayer drain behaviour of enchanted Sapphire bolts' Clear Mind effect in PvP combat.

Secrets of the North

Adjusted Phantom Muspah's loot table as follows:
- Torstol Seeds from 5 to 4
- Snapdragon from 31 herbs to 5 seeds
- Dragon Platelegs from 3 to 2
- Runite Ore from 23 to 18
- Ranarr Seed (rare) from 10 to 8
- Toadflax from 74 to 55
Rotated the Ancient Sceptre when equipped to look a little more natural.

Other Changes

Restored some missing texture to the steps west of Paterdomus.
Corrected grammar in a menu at Pyramid Plunder.
Added a warning to prevent accidental bone burying at the Ectofuntus bone grinder.
Added more informative warnings on High-Risk worlds when entering the Wilderness via the Wilderness ditch, Ferox Enclave or canoes.

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Wilderness Boss Rework

If reading isn't your scene, the RuneScape Chronicles team (alongside Skill Specs, Torvesta, 9Rain and SoloMission) were kind enough to share their game plan and all the key details for today's update on our YouTube channel. You can check it out below, or by clicking here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-KI0Ww418&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.office.jagex.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
Skill Specs and Torvesta's life-long feud will need to be put on hold if they're going to succeed today...

If reading is your scene, then keep on scrolling!

Before we dive in, we want to stress that this content is risky. The Wilderness is the only area in Gielinor where other players can attack you freely. If you plan to take on the reworked multi-combat bosses, or their weaker single-plus equivalents – do not bring anything with you that you are not prepared to lose. You’ve been warned!

Remember, you can check exactly what you’re risking using the ‘View Items Kept on Death’ button on the Equipment Interface. You can even use the toggles to see what you’ll keep when factors like Protect Item, Wilderness Level, and Skulls are in place.

In addition, there’s also a PK Skull Prevention toggle under the Control Settings tab. You can also adjust your Player Attack options to suit your preferences!

Now that you’ve been sufficiently warned, let’s take a look at the highlight of this week’s update: the reworked Wilderness bosses, who can be found in their swanky new digs south of the Demonic Ruins.

Make sure to get a lay of the land before heading out!

The reworked bosses are all multi-combat encounters, so bring some friends along, and be prepared to encounter teams of other players looking to take you down.

If you're an Iron looking for some bossing action, don't worry! As long as you're contributing to boss kills, you'll be eligible for a share of the loot. Just make double-sure to check your risked items so you don’t lose anything you’re not prepared to grind for again!

To access the boss lairs and the adjoining Escape Caves (more on those later), you’ll have to pay a 50,000 GP fee. Don’t worry – it decreases by 10,000 GP for every boss kill you rack up. This is part of our plan to reduce disruptive behaviour around the bosses, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on what’s happening over the coming days to make sure this fee isn’t substantially affecting honest players.

Oh, and should you die a noble, PvM death – to one of the bosses, not an opportunistic PKer – you’ll find your gravestone outside the entrance of whichever boss lair you died in.

Callisto

First up, it’s the bear in the big red lair!

Bear-ware of traps throughout the fight...

Callisto’s Den is the northernmost of the new lairs, although the move has only made everyone’s favourite bear angrier. Callisto is no longer able to enjoy staring out over the Wilderness' eastern shore while you whack him with impunity, and he's more than willing to whack back.

While we won't give too much away, you'll want to keep your distance from his ferocious melee attacks (perhaps you could get him to chill out somehow?) and steer well clear of his bear traps. We’re not totally sure why a bear has so many bear traps lying around, but the last three people we sent to reach out for comment have yet to return…

Callisto has a handful of attacks to keep you on your toes even at a distance and will enrage in the later stages of the fight, so keep your wits about you and stay on the move!

Vet'ion

This scary skeleton now resides in Vet'ion's Rest, just south of Lava Dragon Isle. Unfortunately for you, he's doing anything but resting and is instead unleashing a barrage of attacks on any would-be skeleton slayer!

Eagle-eyed players will be used to Vet’ion looking like an oversized version of Ranalph Devere from Legends’ Quest, but with this week’s update he’s had a makeover – a bit like that goth girl from The Breakfast Club, if she was a giant magical skeleton.

This life-changing experience has also taught Vet’ion to use his shield – keep an eye out for when he raises it, lest you be hit with a nasty deflect!

Vet’ion’s skeletal hellhounds are as loyal as ever and will return during the new encounter. Unfortunately you will have to take them down (you monster!) while dodging Vet’ion’s powerful lightning attacks.

And of course, after running out of health Vet’ion will enter orange mode, where he’ll have lower defence but an increased max hit and faster attack speed. That’s the power of vitamin C!

Venenatis

The massive, eight-legged matriarch has gained some extra leg hair, a set of fierce fangs, and an egg sac full of adorable little ones… and she can’t wait for you to meet them.

You're going to need a comically large newspaper for this one...

You’ll find Venenatis and her brood hanging out in the Silk Chasm, a mere scuttle away from the Dark Crabs Teleport.

Once inside, you'll be fighting for your life on a gargantuan web, precariously spun over a near-endless void. To make things worse, you’re not alone. Venenatis will summon spiderlings throughout the fight, whose only goal is to chase you down and feast on your Prayer Points! Fortunately, they’re not especially resistant, and a quick whack with a sword – or anything else – will send them packing.

Venenatis values her personal space and will try to keep her distance while she bombards you with Magic and Ranged. Those of you looking to stay up close and personal should watch where you walk though, lest you find yourself caught in a particularly nasty web attack.

The Escape Caves

While each of the reworked bosses has their own lair, accessible from the surface, you won't be leaving the same way you came in. Instead, you'll have to make your way past the boss and exit through the aptly-named Escape Caves.

These caves are an interconnected web of tunnels, with four exits to the surface.

Here's a top-down look at the Escape Caves, featuring some less-than-friendly bears and poison spiders!

Upon leaving a boss lair (or logging out inside of one), you'll be placed at one of three random locations in the Escape Caves, at either the north, south-east or south-west edges of the cave. Anybody following close behind (within 10 seconds) will be able to trail you through the dark and wind up at the same location - so make sure to get on the move, and quickly!

There’s one problem, though – the caves are absolutely infested with bears, skeletons and poison spiders. Unlike your ordinary, run of the mill poison spiders, the unique conditions within these caves have imbued this particular sub-species with a Magic attack. Also, your Prayer points will constantly drain over time, so don't hang around and get a move on!

These NPCs aren't intended to rip through your hitpoints – they’re just there to stop people camping the caves and ruining your dash to safety!

Now, onto the part you’ve all been waiting for… the rewards!

Rewards

From left-to-right: the Webweaver Bow, the Accursed Sceptre, the Ursine Chainmace and the Voidwaker.

You should already know all about these rewards, since you voted on them last year, but let's make sure everybody's up to speed!

Thammaron's Sceptre

Okay, this isn’t new. In fact, the Sceptre has been in Old School RuneScape since 2018, but it's struggled to keep up with the other Revenant weapons. In the spirit of reworks, we've given this weapon a much-needed touch-up!

As of today, Thammaron's Sceptre will function as a powered staff, similar to the Trident of the Seas, the Sanguinesti Staff or Tumeken's Shadow.

The powered staff attack costs one Revenant Ether per cast, has an attack speed of 4 and a max hit equal to your Magic Level divided by 3, minus 8. This means that at 99 Magic, your 'base' max hit will be 25, increasing by 50% against Wilderness NPCs and further benefiting from any gear that increases Magic Damage %.

Unlike other powered staves, Thammaron's Sceptre is capable of auto-casting non-powered spells (including Flames of Zamorak). When cast against NPCs in the Wilderness, the 50% damage and accuracy increase means your spells will pack a serious punch - Wilderness Slayer just got a whole lot more satisfying!

Additionally, the powered staff attack will be able to hit other players. Since Craw's Bow and Viggora's Chainmace work pretty nicely for getting a little extra damage off while escaping, we didn't want to short-change Magic users.

Perhaps you're looking to give this sceptre a little more oomph? We've got just the thing!

Accursed Sceptre

This magic weapon is an upgrade to the new-and-improved Thammaron’s Sceptre. If you get hold of a Skull of Vet’ion from, well, Vet’ion, and you have 85 Crafting, you can use it to craft the Accursed Sceptre. If you don’t have 85 Crafting, Andros Mai in the Ferox Enclave will do the job for a cool 500,000 GP.

The Accursed Sceptre is a tradeable upgrade to the reworked Thammaron's Sceptre, with a Magic attack of 22 and a max hit equal to your magic level divided by 3, minus 6. This means that at 99 Magic you'll be hitting up to 27 Magic damage every four ticks/cycles.

This accursed upgrade also gains a special attack: Condemn. Condemn costs 50% Special Attack energy and performs an attack with 50% increased max hit and 50% increased accuracy. On a successful hit, the target's Defense and Magic are reduced by up to 15%.

Defense and Magic reduction from Condemn cannot be lowered beyond 85% of their initial value. For a target with 80 Defence and 80 Magic, Condemn cannot reduce these stats any lower than 68.

A well-timed Condemn could be the difference between getting frozen or forcing your opponent to chug a stat-restoring potion - and it may well have some neat PvM applications!

Webweaver Bow

For those of you who like to keep your distance in combat but can't tell your runes from your elbow - consider this Ranged upgrade!

The Fangs of Venenatis are a rare, tradeable drop from Venenatis – wow, who would have guessed? A player with 85 Fletching can combine them with Craw's Bow to make a Webweaver Bow. Alternatively, Phabelle Bile in the Ferox Enclave can combine them for 500,000 GP.

The Webweaver Bow is a tradeable upgrade for Craw's Bow. It requires 70 Ranged to wield, has 85 Ranged attack bonus and 65 Ranged strength (compared to Craw's Bow's 75 Ranged attack and 60 Ranged strength) and gains a special attack: Swarm.

Swarm costs 50% Special Attack energy and unleashes four attacks in rapid succession with increased accuracy. Each of these attacks is capped at 40% damage, theoretically maxing out at 160% damage if every attack max hits. On top of this, successful attacks have a chance to inflict poison on hit, starting out at 4 poison damage.

Ursine Chainmace

We’re removing heads, ripping out fangs – why stop there? Get your paws on the Claws of Callisto and you can combine them with Viggora’s Chainmace to craft the Ursine Chainmace – assuming you have 85 Smithing. If not, Derse Venator in the Ferox Enclave can combine them for – you guessed it – 500,000 GP.

The Ursine Chainmace is a tradeable upgrade for Viggora's Chainmace. Requiring 70 Attack to wield, it has higher Crush and Melee Strength bonuses than Viggora's Chainmace and gains a special attack: Bear Down.

Bear Down costs 50% Special Attack energy and hits with 100% improved accuracy. If Bear Down hits, it deals 20 damage over 6 seconds (10 ticks), prevents running for 3.6 seconds (6 ticks) and reduces the target's Agility level by 20. If you see somebody sporting this ursine upgrade, make sure to bring some stat restoring potions!

Hitting your opponent at just the right time might enable you to put some distance between the two of you if you're able to make use of any nearby Agility obstacles, so Bear Down sparingly!

That's all of the upgrades coming with today's game update, but we've still got room for one more reward...

The Voidwaker

The one you've all been waiting for. It's some kind of a PvP weapon, with Void associations? It rings a bell, but we just can’t place it…

Each of the three bosses will drop a piece of the separated Voidwaker; the blade, hilt and crystal. As components, these items are tradeable. An NPC beneath the Old Nite in the Ferox Enclave will offer to reassemble the Voidwaker for 500,000 GP. The completed Voidwaker is also tradeable and behaves like any other item on death.

The Voidwaker requires 75 Attack, 75 Strength and 60 Magic to equip.

At a glance, the Voidwaker should slot in as a strong non-degradeable Strength training option for 75 Attack builds with limited Defence. Which admittedly sounds pretty niche, but it's a nice little bonus on top of being a pretty consistent ‘Spec weapon'!

And what would a 'Spec weapon' be without a neat Special Attack?

Disrupt costs 50% Special Attack energy and deals guaranteed Magic damage between 50-150% of your Melee max hit.

While this void-y blade is predominantly aimed to shake things up a little in PvP, it definitely packs a punch in PvM encounters too. HiImSido put together this neat summary showing off how the Voidwaker (and the other weapons from today's update) compare to other Spec weapons in a handful of PvM scenarios.

Pets

While not strictly a new reward for today's update, we've made some changes to the Wilderness Boss pets that we think you should know about.

Since Callisto, Vet'ion and Venenatis have all been given graphical upgrades, the Callisto Cub, Venenatis Spiderling and Vet'ion Jr. have had their appearances upgraded to match.

Understandably, some of you preferred your pets just the way they were – which is why they now have a ‘Metamorphosis’ option which will let you choose between their old and new appearances.

Got your eye on some of the rewards above but don't fancy taking on a multi-combat menace? If you don't mind a slightly longer grind, we've got you covered!

New Single-plus Bosses

Today's update not only reworks the multi-combat bosses you've come to know and safespot, but also adds some solo-focused bosses that take after their multi-combat counterparts.

Artio, Calvarion and Spindel are the toned-down, soloable relatives of Callisto, Vet'ion and Venenatis, and have their very own lairs located in and around the Graveyard of Shadows below level 30 Wilderness.

Here are the new, soloable boss lair entrances! Watch out for zombies and ghosts...

Access to these lairs makes use of the same fee system outlined earlier in the blog, but there's no web of Escape Caves involved for these bosses.

Instead you'll enter a lair, pay the fee, fight a boss, and (assuming you don't meet an untimely end) either teleport out or exit the lair to arrive back on the surface where you entered. Logging out inside one of these lairs will place you gently back at the entrance when you log back in.

Artio resides in Hunter’s End, Calvarion stirs in the Skeletal Tomb, and Spindel lives in the aptly-named Web Chasm. Their mechanics are identical to their tougher counterparts, they just don't hit so hard, and fall over faster.

If you’re brave enough to take them down all by your lonesome, you’ll be rewarded with familiar loot, including rings, pets, and the elusive Dragon Pickaxe. There’s also a significantly lower chance of walking away with the uniques listed above.

The aim for Artio, Calvarion and Spindel is to have a 'time-to-complete' for the Wilderness Rings and Pet Log slots that's similar to Callisto, Vet'ion and Venenatis before today's update. We'll be keeping a close eye on kill times, drop rates and your feedback to make sure they're delivering on this!

Additionally, these single-plus bosses will count towards Achievement Diary tasks or Combat Achievements that currently exist - since many of you have grown accustomed to soloing the pre-rework bosses anyway, this feels like it makes sense.

That's a wrap on the Wilderness bosses for this week's update, but there’s still much more to the Wilderness rework. Let’s pay a visit to everyone’s favourite haunted caves…

Revenants

In a poll alongside the Phantom Muspah rewards, we asked you a handful of questions about Revenant weapons.

To sum up, you voted for us to increase the base drop rates of the Revenant weapons by 50% and for them to be dropped five times more often if you're killing them on a Slayer task. If you'd like to see those numbers visualised in a massive table, check out this blog from November 2022.

We hope that this goes some way to keeping the price of the attachments added in this week’s update as healthy as possible, and we’ll be closely monitoring the markets over the coming weeks.

Now, if you're not a fan of Wilderness content, this next bit is likely the moment you've been waiting for…

The Dragon Pickaxe

As of this week’s update, the Dragon Pickaxe will be available from the Kalphite Queen and the Volcanic Mine.

The Kalphite Queen now drops the Dragon Pickaxe at a rate of 1/400. While this infamous insect isn't for the faint of heart, this update might give you a little something to look forward to if you're yet to tick off the Desert Elite Diary. On the other hand, if you're named after a Herblore secondary and have a YouTube series documenting the progress of your extreme one-chunk-at-a-time Ironman, and happen to have the Kalphite Queen's respective chunk unlocked..

Meanwhile, back at the Volcanic Mine, Petrified Percy is over the moon because he’s been given a seemingly unending pile of Ore Packs to exchange for your Volcanic Mine points. There’s a chance for each one to contain a Broken Dragon Pickaxe. Just don’t ask how it got broken in the first place…

You remember Nurmof the Dwarf, right? Luckily for you, he still remembers how to repair broken Pickaxes, and he’s willing to fix up your Broken Dragon Pickaxe for a mere 2,500,000 GP. This hefty cost helps the Pickaxe retain some of its value while making it obtainable for those who don’t fancy PvM. Plus, the values of the ores in the Ore Packs should go some way towards the cost of repair!

Nurmof's ready to fix pickaxes once again, though this time it's at a hefty premium!

Lastly, the handsome three-headed King Black Dragon has had his Pickaxe drop rate adjusted from 1/1,500 to 1/1,000. Lovely!

On top of all this, we'd like to remind you that you'll still be able to obtain your fancy red Mining upgrade from the Wilderness bosses – in fact, that’s still the quickest way to obtain it. Variety is the spice of life, though, and we hope this update brings Pickaxe-hunters a few more attractive options.

Zaryte Crossbow and Sapphire Bolts

This isn't strictly related to the Wilderness Boss Rework, but the Rework means it's a good time for us to make an adjustment to a fairly divisive weapon.

To get everybody up to speed, enchanted Sapphire Bolts and enchanted Sapphire Dragon Bolts have a 5% chance to trigger the Clear Mind effect. Clear Mind reduces the target's Prayer Points by 5% of the attacker's Ranged level, rounded down. This Prayer drain effect was able to apply in full regardless of a target's Hitpoints, meaning it was possible for a group of players to consistently and completely drain a target's Prayer Points to 0 while securing kills.

In the past, this effect wasn't particularly potent due to its low proc rate. The Zaryte Crossbow changed things, since its Special Attack guarantees the Clear Mind effect will trigger on your next hit. Since the Zaryte Crossbow's addition, we've seen feedback from players that there feels like very little counterplay for those on the receiving end of this interaction. We agree that this is something we may have overlooked when allowing players to guarantee an enchanted bolt's effect, and would like to make an adjustment to Clear Mind in PvP scenarios.

Following today's update, if the target's remaining Hitpoints are less than 5% of the attacker's Ranged stat, the Prayer drain will be calculated using the target's remaining Hitpoints instead. Additionally, the Prayer drain will only activate if a bolt passes its accuracy check - the Zaryte Crossbow doubles the accuracy on the next shot, so this is unlikely to crop up.

This should provide players with a little more counterplay by keeping their Prayer Points higher than their Hitpoints, similar to the Ancient Mace.

We've also seen some players suggest that this Zaryte Crossbow Smiting technique was pretty effective at discouraging one-item raggers in some PvP scenarios, including wars between clans. While we're sticking to our guns and believe this is the right change to make from a game design perspective, we’re open to conversations about better ways to combat ragging and disruptive behaviour. We've seen a handful of interesting suggestions already and are sure we'll see even more, so watch this space!

That’s all for the Wilderness Boss Rework this week, but a little Mahjarrat has told us there are some other changes going on up north that you ought to know about…

Secrets of the North and Phantom Muspah Tweaks

Those of you who’ve uncovered the Secrets of the North have been sinking your teeth into Gielinor’s newest nightmare: the Phantom Muspah. If you haven't gotten around to finishing the quest yet, drop everything and get it done! It's chock-full of puzzles, dripping in mystery, and crucially, you'll need it completed if you want to get stuck in to Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire later this year.

If you missed it in last week’s newspost, we’ve adjusted the Muspah’s melee behaviour to allow players to perform the ‘stepback’ mechanic. This was initially removed during a bugfix, with the Muspah’s accuracy knocked down a peg to compensate. Ultimately, this means that if the Phantom Muspah is moving while attacking you’ll probably take 0 damage. If it isn’t – bad news, you’re probably getting hit.

We're glad to see many of you back at the boss and enjoying well-timed movement to lessen the damage you're taking. For those of you who still aren't too sure what this 'stepback' mechanic is, we'd recommend checking out this quick guide also by HiImSido, who will explain all…

While it's great to see some members of the community giving this nightmarish horror a nickname, we'd like to make some further tweaks to the 'money slug's’ loot table this week to get things into a slightly healthier spot. We've made the following changes:

Torstol Seeds from 5 to 4
Snapdragon from 31 herbs to 5 seeds
Dragon Platelegs from 3 to 2
Runite Ore from 23 to 18
Ranarr Seed (rare) from 10 to 8
Toadflax from 74 to 55

We’ve also rotated the Ancient Sceptre. No, seriously, we had a word with health and safety and that thing was playing hell with your character’s wrists. You should notice that it’s held in a more comfortable position following this week’s update.

We'll be making some tweaks to the Venator Bow next week to make it feel a little more reliable. Namely we're looking to increase the bounce speed of projectiles, allow arrows to bounce from dead NPCs, and make sure bounces are still able to deal damage even if the initial hit is a 0.

Other Changes

If you've made it this far, thanks for sticking with us!

Here's a list of this week's smaller changes to help you wind down:

Some missing texture has been restored to the steps west of Paterdomus. Once you pointed it out, we couldn't un-see it...
Corrected grammar in a menu at Pyramid Plunder.
A warning against accidentally burying bones, previously used at the Chaos Temple in the Wilderness, has been extended to the bone grinder room above the Ectofunctus, too.
Separate, more informative warnings have been added when entering the Wilderness on a High-Risk world via the ditch, Ferox Enclave, or canoes.

Crack the Clue 3

Towards the end of last year, we released the first few in-game clues for Crack the Clue 3, made by one of Old School's most legendary players: Woox.

The clues this time around are certainly delightlyfully devilish, but he'd like to help you see more progress. With that in mind, we have two messages to share with any would-be Clue Crackers.

That should give you enough to chew on this week. We'll be sharing Woox's helping hands weekly, so make sure to keep an eye out if you're trying to Crack the Clue.

If you'd like to learn more or get involved yourself, head on over to the Crack the Clue Discord server to see the community's progress so far and solve the next steps collaboratively!

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

That's everything we've got for you this week! We're excited to see you tackle the reworked Wilderness bosses or perhaps snag that Dragon Pickaxe you've been putting off grinding for so long.

We'll be keeping a close eye on all of your feedback, so make sure to get in touch and let us know what you think!

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Secrets of the North Feedback Changes & More | Weekly Game Update (January 18th)

January 18, 2023

This week we’re making some tweaks to Secrets of the North and adding a new batch of quests for you to speedrun!

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Changelog: January 18th

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Secrets of the North and Muspah Improvements

Various hotfixes from last week.
The Saturated Heart is now tradeable and usable at Castle Wars.
The Muspah now has the ‘spectral’ attribute.
The Muspah's defensive stats can now be seen using Monster Examine.
The Muspah entry in the Collection Log will now turn green when filled.
Reduced the Alchemy value of the Venator Shard.

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #4

Below Ice Mountain and Temple of the Eye are available for speedrunning.
X Marks the Spot and A Kingdom Divided have been added for Beta testing.
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Other Changes

Grouped melee stats together on the Equipment screen.
Group Iron Players will now be placed in the same instance when fighting God Wars Dungeon Generals.
Players can now use the Make-x option on more interfaces.
Fixed a bug related to the crossbow traps in the Hallowed Sepulchre.
Increased the max range of Hellhounds in the Wilderness Slayer Dungeon.
The Clan Rank icon will now remain displayed after a clan member logs out.
Reordered the clickable options in Temple Trekking.
Filling vials in The Gauntlet no longer interrupts Fishing.
Re-enabled a multi-way combat area southeast of the chuch in Lovakengj.
Ecumenical Keys can no longer be alched.
The Player-Owned House Armour Case now stores the top-tier Decorative Sword from Castle Wars when a Trouver Parchment has been applied to it.
The boost to Clue drop rates gained from completing Combat Achievement tiers has been extended to Drift Net Fishing.
Spiritual Warriors' attack animations are no longer interrupted by their defend animations.
Fixed a typo in a couple of Magic level-up messages.

Next Week in Old School

Get ready to return to the north as the Wilderness Boss Rework debuts next week!
t̸̛͉̽̒̈́h̸͈̺̻̯͍̆̉͆̌͠e̸̫̻͑̕ ̷͎̇̀̅̂̆l̷̯̓̿͗̇̕ả̵͙͊͛ͅs̴̢̺̦̞̓t̶̢̡̠̔́̂ ̶̖̮̖̽p̵̞̊̑̂̋̂ì̶̙̜̬̋̀̇e̷̠̳͔̦͙͋́c̷̡̜̻̀͘é̵̡̯͇̠̫

PvP World Rota

The PvP World Rota has been changed to Period B. World 390 has been deactivated.
The PvP Arena is using 'Max/Med' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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Secrets of the North and Muspah Improvements

It’s been a week since the long-awaited return of the Mah̶̹͚̯̫̹̿̊̔̀̇̆̐̀̃͜jarrat and the reveal of the new Muspah boss! We’re ovḙ̴̛͖̣͕͑͋́̐͝͝rjoyed to see how much love Secrets of the North is getting.

That said, we’ve made the usual array of changes and improvements, including a few hotfixes from l̶̞̝̜͇̙͉̟͓̰̩̙̺̱͔͌̎̐͂́͂̑̾̊̃͜ast week:

P̷̬̹̣̦̝͂̈́́̾̀̿͝REVIOUS CHANGES:
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Freezes can now land more frequently on the Muspah.
Updated the Muspah loot table:
- Yew Seed: Reduced from 3 to 2
- Palm Tree Seed: Reduced from 3 to 2
- Torstol Seed: Reduced from 6 to 5
- Grimy Snapdragon: Reduced from 38 to 31
- Grimy Toadflax: Reduced from 86 to 74
- Ranarr Seed (Uncommon): Reduced from 4 to 3
- Ranarr Seed (Rare): Reduced from 12 to 10
You can now only receive Muspah Slayer tasks once Secrets of the North has been completed.
The Muspah’s melee attack is now more consistent, with reduced accuracy.
The Muspah should no longer get stuck if 'killed' during its teleport animation.
The Venator Bow can now be used in Barbarian Assault.
Ricochet damage from the Venator Bow now correctly scales to 66% of the player's max hit.
The Venator Bow will now be dropped in its uncharged state if a player is killed by another player.
The Player-Owned House Dummy will now show max hits from the Venator Bow.
Players can now use Saturated Hearts while in the Bank interface.
Ancient Icons and Charged Ice can now be dropped instead of destroyed.
The Forgotten Brew now correctly gives a +10 Magic stat boost.
Frozen Caches can no longer be opened on Entrana.
Death piles from the first quest boss will now appear in a safe location.
Fixed an issue where players would become stuck if they teleported out of the Ghorrock Dungeon during the puzzle section.
Fixed a couple of typos during the quest.

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Now, onto this week’s changes!

We’ve heard your call to make the Saturated Heart tradeable, which means you’ll now be able to swap it between party members just as you would the Imbued Heart – useful if you’re planning on raiding any time soon! This also means you may be able to find one on the Grand Exchange… if you’re lucky.

Now, onto the boss themselves. The post-quest version of the Muspah now has the ‘spectral’ attribute, which means that should you slay it with the Ectoplasmator on h̶̦͙̬͇̖̰̋͋̌̉̔̏ͅḁ̴̧̦̭͈̤̠̿͆̓͌͊̔͑͊͌̂͂͐͋͝n̷͓̝̒̍͝d̷̳̭͓̟͍͍͔̠͈̭̎́͊̒̂͒͌̏͜͜, you’ll gain Prayer XP equal to 20% of its max health, rounded down.

You can see this new detail and more when using Monster Examine on the Muspah. We’ve also ensured that your Collection Log will now show that you’ve collected all the Muspah’s drops by highlighting the relevant section in green!

Finally, we’ve reduced the Alchemy value of the Venator Shard.

Although that’s everything for this week, do keep an eye out for further improvements in future, including Combat Achievements and some minor visual changes to the Ancient Sceptre!

Oh, and before we forget, here are the drop rates from the post-quest version of the boss, as per our new, t̷̗̖̬͇̄r̷̡̠̠̀́̇̈a̸̱̙̹̼͐̄̚͝ņ̷̟̼̱̞̓̆̈́s̸̥͑͑̈́̌͆p̵̯̝̻̫̦̄͒̅ä̸̘͉͙́r̸̤̯͉̿̈͐̚e̶̯͔͎͖̟̓͛̆̐͝n̸̢͉̎́̽̾͠t̵̝͙͌ approach. Enjoy!

Venator Shard: 1/100
Ancient Icon: 1/50
Frozen Cache: 1/25
Muphin (Pet): 1/2500

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #4

Below Ice Mountain and Temple of the Eye have been officially a̷̧͐̐͑͂d̶̢̟̘̭̙͒̔̈̑͝d̸̠̹̙̟͒̽͝e̶̹̐͗̉̚̚d̶̘͕̲̩͍̓ to the Quest Speedrunning roster! Here are the details:

NEW QUESTS
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[table] [tr] [td]Quest[/td] [td]Requirements[/td] [td]Items[/td] [td]Trophy Times[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Below Ice Mountain[/td] [td]30 Mining
30 Agility
30 Cooking
Base 25 combat stats
16 Quest Points (given via miscellaneous quests)[/td] [td]500 Coins
Stamina Potion
3 Energy Potions
5 Tuna[/td] [td]Bronze: 19:00
Silver: 16:00
Gold: 14:00
Platinum: 13:00[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Temple of the Eye[/td] [td]Enter the Abyss
10 Runecraft
30 Agility
30 Mining[/td] [td]100 Coins
5 Energy Potions[/td] [td]Bronze: 19:00
Silver: 17:30
Gold: 16:30
Platinum: 16:00[/td] [/tr] [/table]
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For our next batch, we’re heading back to Kourend and adding X Marks the Spot and A Kingdom Divided. Both quests are now in Beta testing, so you can give us your feedback before they launch!

Remember, you’ll be able to test these quests from any regular Quest Speedrunning world, but they won't be g̸̢̟̈́i̵͔͕̓̔v̵̬̩̋i̸̺̻͆̈́n̵̪͆g̷̱͍͆͒ you Trophies or best times yet. Let's take a look at the stats:

BETA QUESTS
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[table] [tr] [td]X Marks the Spot[/td] [td]10 Agility[/td] [td]100 Coins
Energy Potion[/td] [td]Bronze: 3:15
Silver: 2:30
Gold: 2:00
Platinum: 1:45[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]A Kingdom Divided[/td] [td]Tale of the Righteous
The Ascent of Arceuus
The Forsaken Tower
The Queen of Thieves
The Depths of Despair
Architectural Alliance
Recipe for Disaster
Monkey Madness I
The Fremennik Isles
Horror from the Deep
Animal Magnetism
65 Agility
52 Thieving
52 Woodcutting
50 Herblore
50 Mining
38 Crafting
Base 70 combat stats
A Player-Owned House in Hosidius[/td] [td]12,000 Coins
8 Stamina Potions (4 in Bank)
30 Sharks (20 in Bank)
4 Super Restore Potions (2 in Bank)
Superantipoison
Kharedst's Memoirs
Xeric's Talisman
Defence Potion
Dragon Scimitar
Dragon Defender
Fighter Torso
Dragon Platelegs
Dragon Boots
Helm of Neitiznot
Obsidian Cape
Amulet of Glory
Berserker Ring (i)
Rune Gloves
500 Adamant Bolts
Rune Crossbow
Red Dragonhide Body
Red Dragonhide Chaps
Ava's Accumulator
Book of Law[/td] [td]Bronze: 86:00
Silver: 74:00
Gold: 66:00
Platinum: 62:00[/td] [/tr] [/table]
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As always, we’d like to give a big ṣ̷̛̻͖̊̌ḩ̷̟̫̹̘͕͕͊̋͒̍̾o̴̦̮̬̰͙̲͕͖̝̐̏̂̌ȗ̶̡̦͙̆͋́̉t̶͔̥͖̺̦͎̰͗̎̔o̷̟̘̫̪͑̀̎u̶̻͕̎͐̂̃̒͊̒̚͝t̶̢̢͚̪̜̖̘͇̓̽ to the speedrunning community for all their help! If you’re looking to get started with Quest Speedrunning or to find some friendly advice, check out these fantastic resources:

RuneScape Speedrunning Discord
Quest Speedrunning Discord
Speedrun.com
f̵͎̟͌̑̈́̊̚ì̴̢͈͉̞͍n̸̘̩̤͕̄͛̾d̸̡͍̹̬̅ ̴̢͈̝͉͕̂͌͆̋͝ḯ̸̢̥ṭ̵̛̱̾̏

Other Changes

Before we get started on this week’s miscellaneous improvements, we want to give you a small update regarding the Fairy Rings c̷̡̢̢̨͓̝͚͙̥̄͑̈͂͛͘͘h̵̻̺̤̭̩̲̦̆̓̂̌̂͋a̶̢̠̮̥̩̻͒ń̸̡̡̳̣̞̯̘͍̞͍̌̈́͒̓g̸̱͙̐é̴̢͚̳̠ ̴̥̬̱̰͙̽̉̄̔̍͝f̷̣̜̪͍̬̦͇̊͑̃̏̋̀̾̎̏r̷̹͔͒̈́̉̃o̸̧͇̙̬̺͑̀̔̎ḿ̵̨̧̹̩̝̱̯͌̂̃͜͠ ̸͚̟̠͙͎̻̂̾̅̍̏̎̅̕͜ļ̸̻͇̱͖̄̊̀͆͠ǎ̷̛̺̲̣̹̬̬̱̪͕̯̇͊̈̕s̵̥̲̤̥͚̣̅́͛t̸̡̝͔̮͑͒̕ ̵̖̰̖̈̑́̿̀͘w̴͇͊̓́̕̕e̴͈͓̎́̓̕ẽ̷̻̗͙̖̉̎̇̂̍̈́ḱ̴̢̨̢̩̰̤͓̤̄̄̚͘͝. After discussions with the team, we intend to make the beam less obtrusive – so you can look forward to that soon!

In the meantime, here are this week’s changes:

Melee stats are now grouped together on the Equipment screen.
Group Iron Players will now be placed in the same instance when fighting the God Wars Dungeon Generals.
Players can now use the Make-x option while Smithing or when Crafting gold and silver items.
Fixed a bug where crossbow traps in the Hallowed Sepulchre would occasionally be highlighted even though they were not about to fire.
Increased the max range of Hellhounds in the Wilderness Slayer Dungeon, m̵̤̟͈͚̣͛̆̒̔͠a̴̗͑͒͌͐̇̈́̏̓̅͂k̷͎͖͔̺̏́i̴̧̛̬̝͉͙̪̠̿̒̈̓̍̇̈́͌͗n̶̢̔̉g̴̢̠̝͕̯̅̂͐̚͜ ̴̘͎̓͒͌͆̈́̽̈́t̵̡̏̇͊̃͐̎͝ḧ̵̢͔͉̼̤̗͎́͐e̶̢̳͈̹̤͖̝͙͑̚͜ͅm̴̹̙͛͒̄͗̄͌͛͝ easier targets for cannons.
The Clan Rank icon will now remain displayed after a clan member logs out.
We've re-ordered the clickable options during Temple Trekking, meaning that you can now left-click to continue your trek!
Filling vials in the Gauntlet no longer interrupts Fishing.
The organized crime meetup on the first floor of the houses south-east of the Lovakengj church once again happens in a multi-way combat area.
As an extra effort to help reduce botting, Ecumenical Keys can no longer be alched.
The Player-Owned House armour case now stores the top-tier Decorative Sword from Castle Wars when a Trouver Parchment has been applied to it, rather than accepting only the non-locked version of the sword.
The boost to Clue drop rates gained from completing Combat Achievement tiers has been extended to Drift Net Fishing.
Spiritual Warriors' attack animations are no longer interrupted by their defend animations.
Fixed a typo in a ç̴̧̺̻̆̕o̷̺͊̓͂̋̕u̵̖̱̟̾̿̽́̉͑̊͠p̵̡̡̛̭̣̮̀͆͛͊͂͘ͅĺ̸̰͉̫̭̤͕͇̼̬̌̔͛ͅé̷̡̟̰̽͂ ̸̛̛͓̦̱̘͖͐͠o̷̯̬͐̈̈̒̋͒̓͝f̵̞͕̮̠̪̼̣͕̑̀́͑̍͑͐͌̑́ Magic level-up messages.

Next Week in Old School

Next week we’re finally ready to release the long-awaited Ẁ̶̨͈̱͓i̵̹̤̺͕̊̊l̴̰̜̯͐͜͠d̷̖̩̈́̉͘̕e̵̙͙̔͜r̴͈̅͋̊̋̋n̶̲̼͗̿̈́̄̐e̵̫͚͂̈́̊s̴͚̀̔͑̌͜͝ş̷̛̪͉̺̾͛̓ ̶̨̛͓̜̥̈̈́̋̃͜B̷͖͉͕̦̺̈́̈̿̑ò̸̧̭̗̂̃̎s̸͇̅̋ś̶̻͊̊̐̚ ̵̢̯̍̔R̵̪̪̈́̏̓̌̃ę̷͔̦̩̐̄̈͐w̸̪̾̐̆̏́o̶̻̭̤̫̓͂r̵̢̜̱̪̓̅́͘k̸͉̠̰̘̈́̾̉͂̚! There are a couple of bosses hanging out in the wild, wild Wilderness that could be tweaked to give you all a better experience. Their names are Callisto, Venenatis and Vet’ion!

The rework will include updated visuals and brand-new lairs for each of the bosses. We’re also introducing two variants of each boss – one that retains the true multi-combat experience, and a less risky one that can be found in a single-plus combat zone.

We’re also offering brand-new rewards including an upgraded version of Thammaron’s Sceptre, two new Melee weapons, and a new Ranged weapon.

Ȋ̵̭̤͈͙̯̞̟̝̞͈̄́͂̕t̷̨͚̹̖͍͑̓̂͛̇͘͠'̴͙̹̾͛́̑̐̊̀͗͝ṣ̷̛͉̩͕̫̻͔̭̤͚̓̂̽ ̴̧͎̙̣̾̽̄̎̇͘͜͝ȩ̸͚͖̦̹̦̖̤̈́͘̚x̴̨̘̪͕͍͎̹̋̓̕c̸̜͓͓̼͛͗̐̎ͅi̷̢̻̜̼͈̟̯̩̦͊̑̌̓ͅt̶̡̏̚i̵̱̻̼̤̇̀͜n̶̖͎̲̣̞̟̈́̽̀̉g̷͔̱̋ ̷̗̑̌̆̊͗͊̏̌͝ṡ̵̨̢̢̞̜̦͇̽̋̿̀͝t̵̨͇̭̻̬̞̼͔́͛͛͌̉͑͐̎͜͝ͅǔ̴̧͇̭̜͔͓͋̓̈́̈́͜f̶͔̳̗̞̳̘̌̊͊̽͜͝f̵͕̜́̈́̈̌̚͘͠ͅ – so be sure to get your gear ready to hop over the ditch before next week’s update!

Ṗ̶̡̢̪̟̠̤͕̜͚̙̞̞̩͎̤͕̤͔̹̩̪̞̙̦͆̀͛̀̒̊͗̽̇͋̈́̍̔̿̍̍̈́͒͜ͅͅv̴͈̤͒̋̐́̌̀̈́͒͊̎͛̆͆̉̏̑̑͊̏͋͂̎̈́̚̕͝͝͝P̸̢̛̛̞͉̫̲̬̮̱̀̈́̇̓͑̀̈́̓͒͌̀͆͂͊̉͊̐͆͂̇̔̚͝͝͝ ̶̧̢̗̯͉͈̖̜̪̟̥̥͎̟͇̹́Ẅ̴̡̤̗̳̘̤̅̆̋̎͂̐̀̊̇̎̐̌̒̈́̊̐̇͜ǫ̵̨͓͎̰̮̖̦̙̩̮̺͖̜̥̪̱̙̤̰̥͖̮͕̦͔͙̜͚̫̾̌̈̈́̓́̀̽͂̅͊̽̐̊̋̏͌̑̈́̆̈́̕̚͘͝͝͝͝͝͝r̷̢̘̳̳͎̤̩̫̦̣̋͑̈́̂́͋̈̓̒͝͝ͅḻ̴͔̺̗̺͍̝̝̮̲̇́̀̀̿͊́͋͆͂̑̇͗̚͠d̸̢̢̧̛͔̱̮̱̱̹͍͇̙́̑̏͗͛̀̈̈́͑̈͌̾͌̉͊̈͂̀̏̋͊̕͘̕̕͝͝͝ ̶̛͇̺͓͖̥̘͇̩̦̣̘̺̘̠̺̥̣̥͇̹̪̻͓͍̣̙̟̋̔̄̓̆̔̿̔̑̃̒̽͋̈́͌́̆̚̚͜͝ͅŖ̴̡̢̹̝̪̝̖͉̣͙̳̮̺̙̰̮̖̗̭͉͓̿̈́̉̆̅͛̓͊͂̄̒̋̈́͒̏͑̈́̑͝ơ̶̡̧̡̨̡̜̝͉͙̪̣͈̭͙͍̪̲͕̲͎͓̹͖̱̝̜͋̀͒͗̀̌͆̓̆̍̿̅́̓̾̕͜ẗ̴̢̧͕̠̦͙̙͎̳̻̰̝̖̫̘̖͇̝̹͖̘͈̹͎̪͇̜̠́̎͋̍̾͋ḁ̴̹̺͎̘̹͉͙̪͚͚͙̋̀́ͅ

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

560 - (UK) - PvP World
579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive h̸̨̨̘̳̙̫̘̬̟̩̥̜̥̤͚̜̰͎̫̞̻̥̺̬̠̠̼͆̐̾̋̌̂̊̾͐́̐̀́́͊̚͝à̵̡̡̢̪̦̣͕̥̝̞͕̝͚̲͔̳͈̮̻̳̯̮̯̗̣͇̍̊̓̆͑͛́͊̈́̄͑̈̔̉̕͜͝ͅs̵̨̨̼̦͔̘̞̝̭̫̣̲͉̦̹̺̬̳̙̳̪̩̬̰̬̤͛͒̅̉͑̉̎̈́͊͋̽͗́̊͂͂̌̏̐̔͑͋͌̚͘̚͠͝ ̴̜͖̓̈́̑̈́͑͊͒̓̾̅̈́̎̆̿̇̐̒̿͐̅̕͝ḅ̸̨̧̧̬͈͇̠̜͖͎̣̮͕͙̑̎͑́͗̓̈́͒̊͋͊͊e̶͇̖̹̞̭̞̫̜̥̯̩̮͖͕̟͕͕̗̘̝͘e̷̢̝̰̦͚̗̜̱̮͓̱͕͛͋́̓͗̓̿̍͜͜͝ͅṋ̶̡̘̭͕̂̂̊̑ de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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Secrets of the North | Weekly Game Update (January 11th)

January 11, 2023

We’re back with the first update of 2023 – and what an update it is! We’re kicking off the new year with a brand-new Master-level quest featuring a repeatable solo boss and a bunch of new items to grind for – but that’s not all! We also have a ton of changes and fixes to content all across the game, so you can start your new year off right.

Changelog: January 11th

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Secrets of the North

Added a new Master-level quest called Secrets of the North.
Added a repeatable solo boss unlocked via quest completion.

Xmas 2022

Removed the 2022 Christmas event from the game.

Wilderness Boss Rework

Updates on the status of and changes to the proposed rework. Keep scrolling for more details!

Combat Achievements

The 'Perfect Wardens' Combat Achievement no longer fails in cases where the group/split orb mechanic in Phase 1 was solved correctly.
The 'Tombs Speed Runner' Combat Achievement now completes for players in purgatory.
Various Tombs of Amascut Combat Achievements that rely on specific Raid Levels no longer complete if a time limit Invocation is missed, lowering the final Raid Level.
Group Iron groups with just two people are no longer asked to complete the 'Personal Space' Combat Achievement at Bloat.
The 'Hesporisn't' Combat Achievement no longer fails when the final hit with a Special Attack includes a zero-damage hitsplat.

Other Changes

Changes to Ordan's Blast Furnace Ore Shop now match what was polled. The shop now functions the same way for regular accounts as it does for Iron players.
Added various unique items from Nex and Tombs of Amascut to the Grand Exchange item sink.
The Nutcracker Staff no longer always hits 0.
Improved the clickbox for Fairy Rings.
Improved the clickbox for the top of the Agility Pyramid.
Equipment interface now shows Attack Speed for current weapon and attack style.
Players can no longer receive duplicate Runecraft Pouches from the Rewards Guardian in Guardians of the Rift when in possession of a degraded Colossal Pouch.
Stat Restore and Boost Potion Share spells now take Holy Wrench, Max Cape, Prayer Skillcape and Ring of the Gods (i) into consideration.
Stuffed heads can now be mounted in the Player-Owned House without gaining Defence XP.
Adjusted the capitalisation on various Slayer interfaces.
Players can no longer grief each other inside Tombs of Amascut by teleporting away after picking up mirrors on the Path of Het or after telegrabbing water containers on the Path of Crondis.
Automatic Arrow equipping and Rune Pouch storage options from the Ranged and Magic Tutors in Lumbridge can now be turned on in the Settings menu.
Added a confirmation message for removing all Bank fillers from the Bank.
Achievement Points on Fresh Start Worlds now update without needing to switch tabs.
World crashes no longer reset Quest Speedrunning timers.
Players can now store over 1,023 items in a single Bank tab.
Changing chat channels via commands such as /@f no longer sends an empty message.
Rellekka's mine gate no longer visually breaks when two players try entering at the same time.
Bonus damage from the Salve Amulet now correctly applies to the ghosts inside Soul Wars.
The TzHaar Fight Pit scrying orb no longer hides your skull on High Risk PvP worlds.
Chinchompas triggering box traps once again face towards the trap they're triggering.
The Achievement Diary task for picking up Potato Cacti in the Kalphite Hive now works for Iron players in their alternate version of the Kalphite Queen's chamber.
Pending combat damage no longer clears as players go in and out of the cave or up the lift at the damaged tower at Ferox Enclave.
The in-game name change menu now has 'Confirm' written on the confirmation button.
Players bound by spells including Bind, Snare and Entangle will now receive an audio cue and chat message when their freeze is due to expire.
Fixed a graphical issue in the Ardougne Clocktower.

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Secrets of the North

It's here at last: our first continuation of the Mahjarrat storyline! Those of you who paid close attention throughout November last year and saw our 2022 Winter Summit already know quite a bit about this quest, but let’s refresh your memory before you get stuck in to this intriguing murder mystery.

Our story begins - as all good murder mysteries do - with a mysterious murder! To start the quest, head to the Carnillean household just north of the Clock Tower in the south-west corner of East Ardougne.

To make sure you're equipped with everything you need to crack the case (and clear your own name as a suspect!) you'll need the following:

Quest Requirements
- Making Friends with My Arm
- Devious Minds
- Hazeel Cult
- The General's Shadow

Skill Requirements
- 69 Agility
- 64 Thieving
- 56 Hunter
- We'd recommend a Combat Level of 85.

Be prepared to form an uneasy alliance, dig up secrets best left buried deep, and walk away with more questions than answers...

For your troubles, you can expect the following rewards:

Rewards
- 2 Quest Points
- 60,000 Agility XP
- 50,000 Thieving XP
- 40,000 Hunter XP
- Access to a repeatable, solo-only boss.

It’s also worth noting that Secrets of the North is a direct prequel to the highly-anticipated Desert Treasure II – The Fallen Empire, coming later this year. Read all about it in the Winter Summit Summary Blog!

You also voted for a selection of new rewards from the repeatable boss unlocked at the end of the quest. We went over the details in the relevant poll blog, but here’s a quick overview – along with the actual item names!

Venator Bow

The Venator Bow is a tier-80 Ranged weapon which uses charges to bounce arrows between nearby targets!

To assemble the Bow, you’ll need to obtain five Venator Shards, which also drop from the boss.

What sets the Venator Bow apart from other ranged weaponry is its ability to hit up to three targets with a single shot. When charged with Ancient Essence, the bow consumes one charge per attack to make arrows bounce between NPCs.

Once the initial attack hits an NPC, the arrow will try to find another nearby target. If the arrow finds another target, it performs an accuracy roll. Should the bounce 'hit' the target, damage will be rolled between 0 and 66% of your max hit. From the second target, the arrow will try to bounce back to the original target and perform another hit (again capped at 66% of max hit). If your original target has perished or isn't in range, the arrow will look for a third target instead.

The specifics of the bounce mechanic are explained in greater detail in the poll blog. Remember, back then we were calling this the ‘Bloodletter Bow’!

Both the Venator Shards and the uncharged Venator Bow will be tradeable.

We'll be keeping a very close eye on your feedback about the rate at which you're gaining and losing charges with this weapon - so make sure to let us know your thoughts if you're fortunate enough to snag one early on.

Ancient Icon and Sceptre

The Ancient Icon is an untradeable magical artefact that’s absolutely brimming with potential power. Take it to a specific NPC and they’ll be able to combine it with the Ancient Staff to create the Ancient Sceptre!

This is an untradeable weapon that is designed to sit between the Ancient Staff and the Kodai Wand. It not only provides a +5% magic strength bonus, but also buffs the effects of all Ancient Magicks by 10%. Here’s how that works:

Blood Magick:

Healing from these spells becomes 10% more effective.
This means that all spells will heal the caster with a base of 27.5% of the damage dealt (a 2.5% increase).
The effect from the staff also stacks multiplicatively with Bloodbark Armour: (25% + (Bloodbark Armour)) x 1.1 = 32.5% x 1.1 = 35.75% increased healing when wearing Bloodbark Armour and wielding the Soulblight Sceptre.

Ice Magick:

The freeze duration from these spells becomes 10% longer.
- Ice Rush: Does not benefit. Ice Rush is an 8 tick (4.8 seconds) freeze. A 10% increase would take this to 8.8 ticks, and Old School always rounds down, so we're right back where we started!
- Ice Burst: 16 ticks (9.6 seconds) → 17 ticks (10.2 seconds)
- Ice Blitz: 24 ticks (14.4 seconds) → 26 ticks (15.6 seconds)
- Ice Barrage: 32 ticks (19.2 seconds) → 35 ticks (21 seconds)

Shadow Magick:

The stat drain effects from these spells are 10% more effective.
- Shadow Rush and Shadow Burst will reduce your opponent's Attack by 11%.
- Shadow Blitz and Shadow Barrage will reduce your opponent's Attack by 16%.

Smoke Magick:

Increases the 'Poison Value' of the Poison effect by 10%.
- Poison Damage will be dealt 11 times, instead of 10, when casting Smoke Rush and Smoke Burst.
- Poison Damage will be dealt 22 times, instead of 20, when casting Smoke Blitz and Smoke Barrage.

All of these effects will be enabled in PvP situations, so they will be usable across the full range of content in-game.

To wield this Ancient upgrade, you'll need 60 Strength and 70 Magic. Here's how its stats shape up:

Some of you have been wondering how the Ancient Sceptre behaves on death in PvP situations. Currently, if you die in PvP the Ancient Sceptre is destroyed and must be re-obtained. The PKer receives a plain old Ancient Staff.

We’ll be exploring adjustments to this behaviour in the near future, such as having the Sceptre break and require a repair cost, the value of which will be dropped to the PKer. The repair cost would slot somewhere between that of Ahrim’s Staff and the Master Wand, since that’s roughly where the Ancient Sceptre sits in terms of PvP power. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this issue!

Saturated Heart

Some rewards make your heart leap out of your chest. This reward, however, is someone else’s heart. Delightful!

Using enough Ancient Essence on an Imbued Heart will transform it into the Saturated Heart, absolutely dripping with magical energy.

Aside from being super gross, the Saturated Heart buffs Magic by 4 + 10% of the player’s base Magic level (rounded down). This boost won't drain over time, similar to a Divine Potion effect, so you'll be able to continue firing off spells at maximum power to your heart's content. Literally.

Bear in mind that the Saturated Heart shares a cooldown with the Imbued Heart, so you won't be able to use them both at the same time.

Forgotten Brew

Just like the Saturated Heart, the Forgotten Brew is created by adding Ancient Essence to an Ancient Brew, increasing its potency and boosting your Magic level even higher.

Ancient Brew boosts the player's Magic level by 2 + 5% of their base Magic level and restores Prayer Points equal to 2 + 10% of their base Prayer level (with the ability to restore up to 5% over the player's base Prayer level).
Forgotten Brew boosts the player's Magic level by 3 + 8% of their base Magic level and restores Prayer Points equal to 2 + 10% of their base Prayer level (with the ability to restore up to 5% over the player's base Prayer level).

Both potions will still drain Attack, Strength and Defence levels by 2 + 10% of your current levels - so drink responsibly!

To cook up one of these Forgotten Brews yourself, you'll need a whopping 91 Herblore. Each Brew will net you 145 XP. Delicious!

Ancient Essence

In case it wasn't clear, this is a resource you can either obtain from the new boss or by breaking down Venator Shards.

It's used in the creation of some of the rewards outlined above, to charge the Venator Bow, and as an ingredient in Forgotten Brews.

And that’s about all we have to say about the new boss! We’re excited to watch you come together and figure out exactly how it works.

In the meanwhile, let’s move on to the rest of this week’s update!

Christmas Event 2022

The Nutcracker Pub will be closing its doors today as the festive season comes to an end. Those of you who last logged out inside the pub – don’t worry mate, we’ve all been there – will find themselves just west of Barbarian Village when they next log in. If for some reason you find yourself in some sort of endless Christmas purgatory with no escape, let us know. We’ll do our best to get you out before the Gnome Child gets hungry.

We hope you enjoyed this year’s event, and we’ve loved seeing your new festive fashionscape on show! Perhaps we’ll see if the Nutcracker will have you back some time in the future…

Speaking of, we’ve made a small change to the Nutcracker Staff’s stats to bring them in line with other ‘fun’ weapons. We saw a handful of feedback from skillers that the Staff’s guaranteed zero damage re-enabled methods and metas that haven’t been seen for some time. We don’t want to spoil all the fun, so we’re actively looking into these so-called ‘splashing’ weapons and the conversation surrounding them. Keep an ear to the ground for more news!

An Update on the Wilderness Boss Rework

The next major update you’ll see this month is the Wilderness Boss Rework, making its way to a barren wasteland near you on January 25th.

We’ve been running all kinds of tests since our last update, and we’ve made a few changes based on the results. Have a read!

Non-multi Boss Variants

We’ve already spoken about our plans to provide alternative, weaker versions of the reworked Wilderness Bosses that will be outside multi-combat zones. They’re designed for players who prefer to do things solo and will offer unique items for completionists. In exchange, there’s a lower monetary reward compared to their multi-combat equivalents.

These solo bosses have lairs of their own, with entrances in and around the Graveyard of Shadows north of Ferox Enclave. They’re all below level 30 Wilderness.

During testing, we found that having the lairs be true, single-way combat didn’t make players feel they were engaging in real, risky Wilderness content. The ability to teleport away at any point during a kill, even with PKers in the cave, took the ‘risk’ out of the ‘risk vs. reward’ philosophy we built the Wilderness on.

As a result we’ve decided that for the time being these lairs will actually be Single-Plus combat zones, similar to the Revenant Caves. You’ll still be able to teleport out, but won’t be able to avoid the inherent risk associated with Wilderness content.

The Dragon Pickaxe

There’s been a lot of hype about bringing the Wilderness bosses in line with modern standards, but we also want to highlight our plans to fix the issues surrounding the Dragon Pickaxe.

From January 25th the King Black Dragon will drop the Dragon Pickaxe at a rate of 1/1,000 instead of 1/1,500. The Kalphite Queen will also have the Dragon Pickaxe added to her loot table, at a rate of 1/400.

Now, let’s move on to another ‘hot’ topic – the Volcanic Mine.

Petrified Pete looks more than ready to see some fresh faces!

Implementing the Pickaxe at Volcanic Mine proved a bit more complicated than adding it to an NPC's loot table since many players already have vast quantities of points saved up.

We’re implementing a trade-off for players with points to spare, which should make chasing the Pickaxe a goal in itself and won’t risk locking its value at a fixed price.

To do this, we’re adding an Ore Pack to the shop which you can buy with points. There’s a chance for the Ore Pack to contain a broken Dragon Pickaxe left behind by an unfortunate ex-miner. Players looking to maximise their profits are still encouraged to buy Runite Ore instead – these Ore Packs exist exclusively for players chasing the elusive Pickaxe.

Those of you who’ve been playing for a while will remember Broken Dragon Pickaxes from the exploding rock random event. Even though it’s been a good seven years, Nurmof the dwarf remembers them too, and he’s willing to flex his repair skills for 2,500,000 GP. This hefty cost helps the Pickaxe retain some of its value while making it obtainable for those who don’t fancy PvM. Plus, the values of the ores in the Ore Packs should go some way towards the cost of repair!

We’d really like to hear your thoughts about the new repair system and fees, so be sure to let us know through the usual channels.

Other Changes

Since it’s been a hot minute since our last update, we’ve got a lot more changes than usual – so get scrolling!

Combat Achievements

'Perfect Wardens' was occasionally failing during Phase One even when players cleared the group/split orb attack successfully. This should be working as intended with this week’s update.
Players who meet their untimely demise and landed in purgatory during the Wardens fight will no longer be locked out of the ‘Tombs Speed Runner’ combat achievement. The task should retroactively complete for players who should have checked it off already.
Various Tombs of Amascut Combat Achievements require specific Raid Levels for completion. These were made significantly easier by using time-limit Invocations to boost the Raid Level, because the Achievements would complete even if players failed the time limit. As of this week Achievements will trigger based on the Raid Level upon entering the Loot Room, so players will either need to complete the raid within their chosen time limit or use different Invocations.
Group Iron groups consisting of just two players no longer need to complete the ‘Personal Space’ Combat Achievement at Bloat, which requires three players.
Some weapons with multi-hit special attacks (such as the Crystal Halberd) were incorrectly failing the 'Hesporisn't' Combat Achievement if one of the final attacks hit for zero damage. This behaviour has been corrected.

Miscellaneous

Ore prices at the Blast Furnace Ore Shop now remain static, as polled in Poll 77. Although we initially made this change for Iron players, we’ve now decided to implement it in all versions of the Shop.
Various unique rewards from Nex and the Tombs of Amascut have been added to the Grand Exchange's Item Sink list:
- Zaryte Vambraces
- Zaryte Crossbow
- Torva Helm
- Torva Chest
- Torva Legs
- Ancient Godsword
- Osmumten's Fang
- Masori Mask (f)
- Masori Body (f)
- Masori Chaps (f)
- Tumeken's Shadow
- Lightbearer
- Elidinis' Ward
The Equipment interface now shows the Attack Speed for your currently equipped weapon and selected attack style. This shows the 'base' attack speed, as well as any modifiers that might be in place. For example, a Magic shortbow would show as a 2.4s base attack speed, with a 1.8s 'actual' attack speed when using the Rapid attack style.

Stat Restore Pot Share and Boost Potion Share spells now take into account the Holy Wrench, Prayer Skillcape, Max Cape and Ring of the Gods (i)'s respective effects when used to share the effects of any potion impacted by these items.
Players looting the Rewards Guardian at Guardians of the Rift should no longer receive duplicate Pouches when looting with a degraded Colossal Pouch. You’ll get Abyssal Pearls and like it!
Mounting stuffed heads in your Player-Owned House now gives you the option to avoid gaining Defence XP, in case you'd like to make your pure's living area a little more homely.
Players can no longer grief each other inside the Tombs of Amascut by teleporting away after picking up mirrors on the Path of Het or after telegrabbing water containers on the Path of Crondis.
Various Slayer interfaces, such as the Rewards interface accessed through various Slayer masters, have had their capitalisation made more consistent with other interfaces in the game.
The Ranged and Magic tutors in Lumbridge let players automatically equip Runes and Arrows or place them in the Rune Pouch. You can now toggle these options in the Settings menu, instead of schlepping all the way to Lumbridge. If this is the first time you're learning about this setting, enjoy your newfound QoL!
Some players reported catastrophic effects on Bank organisation when accidentally removing all of their Bank fillers at once. We've added a confirmation option to prevent a misclick from ruining your hard work.
Players can now store over 1,023 items in a single Bank tab.
Fresh Start World players no longer need to switch tabs to see their Achievement Points update.
Some players reported impossible Quest Speedrunning times around world crashes, since the speedrun would remain active but the timer would reset to 0. We've fixed this behaviour.
You should have an easier time clicking Fairy Rings from now on, because we’ve improved the clickbox. We’ve also given it a quick lick of paint to make it even more obvious!

This butterfly-filled beam indicates the adjusted clickbox for Fairy rings and looks suitably magical to boot!

Similarly, we've improved the clickbox for the obstacle at the very top of the Agility Pyramid, meaning you'll be able to secure your loot without accidentally running around the whole top level, falling down an obstacle, and logging out in frustration.
Changing chat channels via commands such as /@f will no longer send an empty message in chat.
The gate to Rellekka’s mine no longer breaks visually when used by two players at the same time.
Any Soul Wars ghosts reading this should watch their back, because the Salve Amulet's combat bonuses will now apply correctly when inside the minigame.
Players can no longer 'hide' their Skull by using the TzHaar Fight Pit Scrying Orb on High-risk PvP Worlds.
Chinchompas have been showing off by strafing, moonwalking or otherwise trick-shotting their way into Box Traps. They should now face towards the trap that they're actually triggering.
Potato Cacti pickers rejoice, the Achievement Diary task for scooping five of them now works for Iron players in their alternate version of the Kalphite Queen's chamber.
Pending combat damage no longer clears as players go in and out of the cave at Ferox Enclave, or up the lift in the damaged tower. We received reports that this behaviour was disrupting combat on DMM worlds.
The in-game Name Change menu now has 'Confirm' written on the confirmation button and will display your chosen name in the 'Status' field instead. We hope this will make things a bit clearer!
Ancient Magicks’ Ice spells had previously been given an audio cue and a message to tell their victims when the freeze was about to expire. A similar message and audio cue has now been added to various other holding effects, including Bind, Snare and Entangle.
Finally, and arguably most importantly of all: a door in the Ardougne Clocktower has been refitted so that it no longer extends into the roof, saving the structural integrity of this historic and culturally relevant building.

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using '1 Defence Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

That's a wrap on the first of many jam-packed updates we have in store this year!

We can't wait to see all of you get stuck in to unravelling the Secrets of the North. Be sure to let us know your thoughts on anything shared in this week's update using the links below.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Christmas Event 2022 | Weekly Game Update (December 13th)

December 13, 2022

PSA: Please expect approximately 5 minutes of downtime for German Worlds after the game update at 11.30 GMT. We're carrying out a quick reboot for essential maintenance work. We'll keep you updated via the Game Status Page if this work takes longer than expected. Thanks for your patience!

Dwarves sure do love their ale, but this year we're hearing that they want to celebrate the season with something a little more festive.... It's time for the Old School Christmas event 2022!

As we wrap up for the holiday season, this festive update will be the last one until January 11th. See you on the other side!

https://youtu.be/WadwM6TqXJk

Check out this awesome trailer, featuring Mod Ash, to find out about this year's Christmas event!

Getting Started

Begin the event by speaking to Guss Mistletoad. You'll find Guss hanging around the red carpet on the road connecting Barbarian Village to Falador.

Between the road connecting the Barbarians to Falador, you'll see Santa's given the landscape a gorgeous Winter makeover!

This ambitious Dwarf has set his sights on the hottest pub for NPCs - The Nutcracker. It's an exclusive spot with festive drinks, treats and more. It's all he's ever dreamed of. But there's one problem.... Santa won't let him in!

Being exclusive and all, the Nutcracker is only accessible to those who prove their worth in a series of challenges known as Santa's Festive Games! Impress Santa and you'll get access to his secret tavern. If you don't, you'll be joining the long queue of NPCs trying to get in!

Mod Halo, the developer of this year's Christmas Event, would like to say a few words:

Message from Mod Halo (developer of 2022's Christmas Event)

Hey 'Scapers! Thought I'd write a few lines for you all after releasing my first project for OSRS! Exciting stuff! As many of you know, I've been working as a QA on the team for quite some time, on projects like Tombs of Amascut. I wouldn't be where I am today without that team - they work exceptionally hard! Moving over to the design team has made for an incredible couple of months so far, and I've had a blast constructing this event for you all. Christmas events are so iconic for Old School and to be able to make one is simply amazing! I went to the extra effort of giving some of the characters their own lore too. I hope Mod Ed will be proud. Spacebarring not allowed!

While I'm here, I'd love to give a quick shout out to the Art team. They have done a stellar job not only with the rewards but with a brilliant new environment. They never miss!

I can't wait to be a part of some REALLY awesome projects coming next year. Stay passionate, and I'll meet you in the Nutcracker for a swift half...

Thanks Halo! It's also worth noting that all of the minigames in this year's event will be replayable, so you can stay in the festive spirit yourself, or stick around to cheer on your friends. PvP is also enabled inside the Nutcracker Pub on DMM and PvP worlds, with relevant restrictions on entry if you were to enter an instanced version.

There are some fantastic new rewards to be earned through this year's Christmas event. We'd like to highlight a couple of them in this newspost... but we'll let you discover the rest!

Nutcracker Outfit

The Nutcracker Outfit has two styles. Each piece can be changed with the 'Change Style' option, both in the Inventory and when worn.

Could you see yourself Bankstandin' at the Grand Exchange wearing this?

Seasonal Backpieces

Have you been naughty or nice this year? Be honest...

Winter Summit Recap

We held our Winter Summit last Saturday, on the 10th December! If you tuned in, we'd like to say a huge thanks - especially if you're a football fan! The feedback on the stream and our roadmap has been incredibly positive so far. We're really excited to work with the community using our new polling system, involving players right from the very start.

If you missed the Winter Summit - not to worry! We've compiled a top-level summary for you in the Winter Summit Summary blog.

Additionally, you can catch the full stream VOD below. Make sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments below and tell us what you're most excited for!

https://youtu.be/YUzc_4N8yaI

It's what you've been waiting for! Old School's content roadmap. Hype! Please note, the Wilderness Boss Rework is still planned for early 2023.

Recent Downtime

A note on the recent downtime players experienced on December 10th that led to us performing a game-wide rollback.

As you are aware, issues occurred over the weekend and our team worked tirelessly to get game services back up and running. Our priority has been to get players back in-game, ensure our services are running correctly, and then we had the Winter Summit to focus on.

We're also aware that players have reported issues with lost items following the rollback that occurred.

Now we're back in the office, we're investigating what happened and if there is anything we can do for those who lost items. We want to assure you that when we're able to, we'll provide more information as to what caused the issues and what we're doing going forward to help prevent them from happening again, and to better protect our players should we need to.

Thank you for your continued patience.

More Changes

With it being Christmas an' all, you'll now see pets and some Bosses strolling around Gielinor in festive hats.

Poll 77

We have created a 'Buy all that you can afford' button on the Grand Exchange, which automatically sets the quantity to the maximum number you can afford. There will also be a warning message when placing a buy offer that's more than 10 times the guide price, or a sell offer that's lower than 10% of the guide price. This can be disabled in your Settings menu.

Poison Dynamite

We've corrected an issue where a single-placed Poison Dynamite bomb did not explode correctly. We've also enabled Poison Dynamite to work on the guard dog in the Priest in Peril Quest.

Quest Speedrunning Balancing Changes

We've been monitoring the latest quests (A Taste of Hope and Temple of the Eye) which were added to the Quest Speedrunner last week. At the moment we feel they are substantially easier than any other quest. As such, we have decided to update the times required to better reflect their difficulty relative to speedrunning. Please see these updated times below.

A Taste of Hope
- Bronze - 44:00
- Silver - 35:00
- Gold - 29:00
- Platinum - 26:00

Temple of the Eye
- Bronze - 19:00
- Silver - 17:30
- Gold - 16:30
- Platinum - 16:00

Other

Fixed a bug with the 'But... Damage' Combat Achievement so items of level 75 or above are no longer usable.
Fixed a bug with the 'Perfect Wardens' task which did not account for Obelisk attacks as intended.
Players can once again rub the Camulet in their inventory to teleport without having to equip the Camulet first.
The Elven Scout who provides Ilfeen's services during her absence in Song of the Elves was overcharging players who hadn't used Ilfeen's services before. You should be charged the right price now.
Mapped purgatory for that whole area.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Max/Med' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments at the time of this newspost going live. However, the PvP Arena will switch to 'Zerker' loadouts on Wednesday December 14th.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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The Old School Team.

The Garden of Death, Poison Dynamite & More | Weekly Game Update (November 30th)

November 30, 2022

All game worlds will be unavailable for approximately one hour between 11:30 - 12:30 GMT as scheduled maintenance is performed.

Game Status Information Centre

Following last week's downtime, this week’s update is a double feature! Enjoy!

Changelog, November 30th

Some of you expressed interest in a condensed list of changes for when you’re short on time. So… we’ve made one!

We’re still looking at other ways we could update our updates, so watch this space!

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The Garden of Death

Added a new quest called 'The Garden of Death' to the game.

Improved Quest XP Rewards

XP Rewards (excluding Combat skills) from Master and Grandmaster level quests have been improved.
Players can retroactively receive this experience by talking to Perdu and a handful of other NPCs.

Combat Achievements Expansion

Added Combat Achievements for Tombs of Amascut.
Added further rewards for all tiers of Combat Achievements as per the results of this poll.

Poison Dynamite

Added Poison Dynamite to the game.

Poll 77 Changes

Players can now get back to Ape Atoll without accepting Daero's Training, after completing Monkey Madness I.
Clue Scroll drop rate boosts earned via Combat Achievements now correctly apply inside the Hallowed Sepulchre and for Chests within the Shades of Mort'ton minigame.
Iron players can now buy and sell ores at a fixed price from Ordan's Shop at the Blast Furnace, regardless of stock levels.
Players can now toggle their default Player-Owned House (POH) teleport to 'Building Mode' via the POH settings menu.
Added a setting to the Confirmations category, in the Warnings settings tab, to disable confirmation for Charter Ship payments.
Charlie the Tramp will now accept items sourced from anywhere.

Other Game Changes

Prifddinas Agility Course portals are now highlighted on the C++ client.
Dragon Defenders are now prioritised higher for protection on death.
Soul Wars public games now only require two players per team to start on Fresh Start Worlds.
Players can now light fires near the Bank in Nex’s antechamber.
Shadow Spiders will no longer drain your Prayer if they’re not in combat with you.
On the Deadman world, PvP combat is now blocked in Tombs of Amascut raids.

Mobile Client

We've released a final fix for the black screen issues some players have been experiencing.
However, we've deprecated support for OpenGL ES 2.0, meaning devices that don't support OpenGL ES 3+ will no longer work with the mobile client.

Behind the Scenes

Tomorrow, we'll share further news regarding the 'Make Good' incentive from the recent outage.
Newspost regarding last week's service issues can be found here.
Deployed fixes to improve game stability.
US West and Australia server maintenance planned for December 6th (10:30 - 13:30 GMT and 14:00 - 17:00 respectively) . US East server maintenance planned for January 2023.
Schedule subject to change.

The Garden of Death

In our newest Twisted Tale, you’ll piece together a long-lost language and unravel the mystery of some ancient ruins. Welcome, adventurer, to The Garden of Death.

This quest contains no dialogue and focuses solely on environmental storytelling, so make sure that you set aside some time and prepare to be fully immersed in the world around you!

You’ll need 20 Farming to start the quest, and you can begin your investigation at the campsite south of the Lizardman Settlement in the Kebos Lowlands.

The starting location of The Garden of Death.

Improved Experience Rewards from Master & Grandmaster quests

That’s not all the questing news we have for you this week! Y’all ready for some improved XP rewards?

You voted overwhelmingly in support of this, so we shan’t keep you waiting any longer. Here’s the full list of all the quests impacted, and details of where you early-bird adventurers can claim your extra XP.

[table] [tr] [th]Quest[/th] [th]Tier[/th] [th]Old XP Reward[/th] [th]New XP Reward[/th] [th]Where to Claim + Additional Info[/th] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Beneath Cursed Sands[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]20,000 Agility XP[/td] [td]50,000 Agility XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Desert Treasure[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]20,000 Magic XP[/td] [td]20,000 Magic XP[/td] [td]Unchanged as it's Combat XP.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Dream Mentor[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]15,000 Hitpoints XP

10,000 Magic XP[/td] [td]15,000 Hitpoints XP

10,000 Magic XP[/td] [td]Unchanged as it's Combat XP.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]The Fremennik Exiles[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]15,000 Slayer XP

15,000 Crafting XP

5,000 Runecraft XP[/td] [td]50,000 Slayer XP

50,000 Crafting XP

30,000 Runecraft XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Grim Tales[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]14,000 Woodcutting XP

6,000 Agility XP

6,000 Thieving XP

5,000 Herblore XP

5,000 Hitpoints XP

4,000 Farming XP[/td] [td]60,000 Woodcutting XP

25,000 Agility XP

25,000 Thieving XP

15,000 Herblore XP

5,000 Hitpoints XP

10,000 Farming XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.

Hitpoints is unchanged as it's a Combat skill.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Legends' Quest[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]7,650 XP in four skills of choice[/td] [td]30,000 XP in four skills of choice[/td] [td]Radimus Erkle in the Legends' Guild

Choice is limited to Attack, Defence, Strength, Hitpoints, Prayer, Magic, Woodcutting, Crafting, Smithing, Herblore, Agility and Thieving.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Making Friends with My Arm[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]10,000 Mining XP

10,000 Agility XP

5,000 Firemaking XP

2,000 Construction XP[/td] [td]50,000 Mining XP

50,000 Agility XP

40,000 Firemaking XP

10,000 Construction XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Monkey Madness I[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]N/A[/td] [td]N/A[/td] [td]Quest gives no XP itself. Instead, XP can be gained post quest by talking to Daero. This XP won't be changed as it's combat XP.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Mourning's End Part I[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]25,000 Thieving XP

25,000 Hitpoints XP[/td] [td]40,000 Thieving XP

25,000 Hitpoints XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.

Hitpoints is unchanged as it's a Combat skill.[/td] [/tr]
[tr] [td]Mourning's End Part II[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]20,000 Agility XP[/td] [td]60,000 Agility XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]A Night at the Theatre[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]3x 20,000 XP Lamps[/td] [td]4x 20,000 XP Lamps[/td] [td]The Mysterious Stranger outside the Theatre of Blood.

Quest gives Lamps instead of XP.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]Sins of the Father[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]3x 15,000 XP Tomes[/td] [td]6x 15,000 XP Tomes[/td] [td]Ivan Strom in the Meiyerditch Myreque hideout. Have fun getting back there!

Quest gives Tomes instead of XP.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]Swan Song[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]15,000 Magic XP

10,000 Prayer XP

10,000 Fishing XP[/td] [td]15,000 Magic XP

10,000 Prayer XP

50,000 Fishing XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.

Magic and Prayer are unchanged as it's combat xp.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]Dragon Slayer II[/td] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]25,000 Smithing XP

18,000 Mining XP

15,000 Agility XP

15,000 Thieving XP[/td] [td]80,000 Smithing XP

60,000 Mining XP

50,000 Agility XP

50,000 Thieving XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]Monkey Madness II[/td] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]25,000 Slayer XP

20,000 Agility XP

15,000 Thieving XP

15,000 Hunter XP[/td] [td]80,000 Slayer XP

60,000 Agility XP

50,000 Thieving XP

50,000 Hunter XP[/td] [td]Perdu, who can be found in several locations.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]Song of the Elves[/td] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]20,000 Agility XP

20,000 Construction XP

20,000 Farming XP

20,000 Herblore XP

20,000 Hunter XP

20,000 Mining XP

20,000 Smithing XP

20,000 Woodcutting XP[/td] [td]40,000 Agility XP

40,000 Construction XP

40,000 Farming XP

40,000 Herblore XP

40,000 Hunter XP

40,000 Mining XP

40,000 Smithing XP

40,000 Woodcutting XP[/td] [td]Perdu , who can be found in several locations.[/td][/tr]
[tr] [td]A Mysterious Quest...[/td] [td]Master[/td] [td]16,000 Agility XP

12,000 Thieving XP

8,000 Hunter XP[/td] [td]60,000 Agility XP

50,000 Thieving XP

40,000 Hunter XP[/td] [td]Unreleased[/td][/tr]

[/table]
As the table suggests, most of the XP you’re owed can be claimed from Perdu, although a few other NPCs are also getting in on the game.

If for whatever reason you don’t want to be showered in XP the next time you speak with Perdu, you can politely decline and come back another time.

Please do bear in mind that accepting XP from Perdu is an all or nothing decision – you won’t be able to pick and choose which rewards you get. If you’re keeping one of the impacted skills at a specific level, or holding off on getting a 99 until your friends are around to celebrate with you, we suggest giving Perdu a wide berth until you’re ready.

On that note, we’ve opted not to increase Combat XP rewards retroactively. We don’t want to risk ruining restricted account builds with a single dialogue option, but neither do we want people to feel locked out of rewards that they’ve earned. Additionally, leaving Combat XP as it is allows restricted account players to enjoy all the same quests they’re used to.

As a general rule, if you obtained the end-of-quest XP from a dialogue option, Tomes, or Lamps, you’ll have to go speak to the NPC who gave you those options instead of Perdu. We’ve linked the OSRS Wiki entries for all of them in the table above, so you can see exactly where they hang out and what they’ll give you.

Lastly, as per your vote, the XP reward ranges given above are going to be the standard for future Master and Grandmaster quests. Hmm, looks like there’s a new one coming up soon! Perhaps you’ll learn more at the Winter Summit…?

Combat Achievements Rewards Expansion

Alongside all of the questing goodness above, you also voted for additional rewards for Combat Achievements. In case that particular poll blog passed you by, here's a list of all of the rewards we’ve added:

Easy

100% bonus Warrior Tokens from the Warriors’ Guild.
Gain one additional Void Knight Commendation Point per game of Pest Control.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 40.

Medium

200% bonus Warrior Tokens from the Warriors’ Guild. Note that these rewards are cumulative, meaning you'll have to complete both the Easy and Medium tiers for the 200% bonus listed here. This same rule applies to any other rewards that increase per tier.
Gain two additional Void Knight Commendation Points per game of Pest Control.
No longer affected by the Prayer drain effect at Barrows while Ghommal's Hilt is equipped.
Your cannon can hold up to 35 Cannonballs.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 45.

Hard

Imbues at Nightmare Zone and Soul Wars cost 50% fewer points.
Gain three additional Void Knight Commendation Points per game of Pest Control.
Your cannon can hold up to 45 Cannonballs.
Kill Count required to access the bosses at God Wars Dungeon is reduced from 40 to 36.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 50.

Elite

Bracelets of Slaughter now have a 10% chance to fully recharge instead of breaking.
Expeditious Bracelets now have a 10% chance to fully recharge instead of breaking.
Superior Slayer monster spawn rates are increased to 1 in 150.
Your cannon can hold up to 60 Cannonballs.
Kill Count required to access the bosses at God Wars Dungeon is reduced from 40 to 32.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 55.

Master

Thralls resurrected via Arceuus spells last 50% longer.
Ghommal's Hilt 5 can now be combined with the Avernic Defender for a cosmetic upgrade.
Kill Count required to access the bosses at God Wars Dungeon is reduced from 40 to 25.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 60.
Unlocks a new ammo-slot item, Ghommal's Lucky Penny, which gives a 5% chance to not consume charges when worn with charged weaponry such as the Trident of the Seas or the Scythe of Vitur.

Grandmaster

Thralls resurrected via Arceuus spells last 100% longer.
Ghommal's Hilt 6 can now be combined with the Avernic Defender for a cosmetic upgrade.
Kill Count required to access the bosses at God Wars Dungeon is reduced from 40 to 15.
The upper limit for Boss Slayer tasks, unlocked with the Like A Boss perk, is increased from 35 to 65.

Tombs of Amascut Combat Achievements

Speaking of Combat Achievements, we’ve added nearly 50 of them to Tombs of Amascut! Hooray!

Now, we’re not going to list them all here – you’ve had your fill of tables for the day – so make sure to check them out in-game after the update.

You’ll notice they’ve been added under three new ‘monsters’ – Entry Mode, Normal Mode, and Expert Mode. Completing a challenge at a higher difficulty than specified should unlock the relevant Combat Achievement regardless – so if you complete 50 Expert Mode Kill Count, it’ll count towards the Entry and Normal Mode Kill Count Achievements too.

We’re excited to see you get stuck into Tombs of Amascut all over again, and hope you have loads of fun challenging yourselves with this new batch of Combat Achievements!

Poison Dynamite

Most of you will already be familiar with Poison Dynamite, which we first offered in Poll 76. For those of you who aren’t, Poison Dynamite is a new weapon which lets skilling pures secure kills (when necessary) without gaining Combat XP.

Players can now use their Firemaking skill (at level 50 or above) to craft untradeable Poison Dynamite from one Dynamite and three Cave Nightshade.

Once assembled, simply place the Poison Dynamite on the ground and light it as you would a pile of Logs to deal damage in a 3x3 area. For a more precise attack, you can also stick the Poison Dynamite to your target by using it on them. Using the Poison Dynamite in either fashion will net you a bit of Firemaking experience.

What is that mysterious fizzing noise...?

After 5 ticks (3 seconds), the Poison Dynamite will explode, dealing between 0-6 damage. This scales with your Firemaking level. If the explosion hits, there’s also a 25% chance to poison the target. Poison damage begins at 6.

The Dynamite’s damage roll is based on your selected combat stance – so enemies weak to Ranged are more likely to take damage from the explosion if you’re holding a bow instead of a scimitar.

The damage type is the same as your currently equipped weapon, too – so if you’re attacking an enemy that’s immune to a certain damage type, watch what you’re wielding!

You can only deploy one piece of Poison Dynamite at a time (sensible…), and only one Poison Dynamite can be active on any given square. This means that multiple accounts are unable to stack their explosions on the same square.

Additionally, you’ll only be able to hit a single target, even if a 3x3 explosion is in range of several NPCs.

One final thing: the TzHaar have forbidden the lighting of Poison Dynamite within the Fight Caves. Scorching hot volcanic undercities are not the kind of place you want to leave this stuff lying around – and besides, it sets off Jad’s allergies.

Behind the Scenes

Note: This section was originally written to be included in November 23rd's Game Update Newspost and doesn't include the service outage issues from Tuesday, November 22nd. If you'd like to learn more about those, check out this post.

UPDATE: We’d like to thank everyone for their patience following last week’s server outage. The team is still committed to delivering our ‘Make Good’ plan, and we’ll have more news to share tomorrow! Keep your eye on the newspost above for updates.

We recently had a period of extended downtime for UK and German worlds, which allowed us to perform some much-needed upgrades in the relevant data centres.

Since this maintenance, we’ve seen loads of positive feedback about the server stability and latency for the affected worlds, leading players who frequent other data centres wondering ‘when’s our turn?’

Well, we’ve got good news! We currently expect to upgrade the Australian and US West worlds before Christmas (only a month away now!) on December 6th. Maintenance will take place between 10:30 - 13:30 GMT for the US West worlds and between 14:00 - 17:00 GMT for the Australian worlds. This means that all worlds in that region will be unavailable during the alloted times.

We are also looking to tackle the US East worlds in January 2023. Now, this is subject to change, but nevertheless, we hope to have more of you enjoying consistent and stable performance before long.

This week’s update also comes with some ‘under the hood’ work to optimise the game’s performance and make it more stable. All this hard work means that you can enjoy existing and future content in the best way possible.

Mobile Client

Good news, everyone! Our ace mobile team have figured out a solution for the black screen issues players have been experiencing on mobile platforms.

Unfortunately, in fixing the problem we’ve had to deprecate support for OpenGL ES 2.0, so devices that don’t support OpenGL ES 3 or higher will no longer work with the mobile client.

If your device is not supported, you’ll still see the black screen for around 5-10 seconds before the game crashes. If your device is supported and you’re still experiencing the black screen issues or any other problems, please do send us a report.

Poll 77 Changes

Players who have completed Monkey Madness I may now return to Ape Atoll to complete Monkey Madness II without accepting Daero’s training. They will have to complete both Duke and Daero’s training in order to use Heavy Ballistae. Please also note that Culinaromancer’s Gloves beyond Mithril-tier have their own Defence requirements, so 1 Defence accounts will still be unable to use the Adamant Gloves.
Clue Scroll drop rate boosts earned from Combat Achievements now apply to the Hallowed Sepulchre and Chests in the Shades of Mort’ton minigame.
Iron players may now buy and sell ores at a fixed price from Ordan’s Shop even while it's overstocked. However, they'll pay a static price for this rather than getting the discounts that a non-Iron player would for buying an overstocked item. Additionally, Ordan's shop now resets its contents towards the default stock (100) faster than before.
Players can now set their default Player-Owned House teleport to ‘Building Mode’ from the POH Settings. All the usual restrictions still apply, meaning this option won't work if there are already guests inside the POH or if the player has a follower.
Players can now disable confirmation messages for Charter Ship payments. To do so, open up the Settings Menu, navigate to Warnings and scroll down to Confirmations, where you’ll find the new toggle.
Charlie the Tramp has embraced the phrase ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ and will now allow players to bring him requested items acquired by any means. This means that players doing Beginner Clue Scrolls can fetch his favourite items direct from their own Bank, by trading other players, or buying from in-game shops, instead of having to craft the items themselves.

Other Changes

Portals on the Prifddinas Agility course are now highlighted like any other obstacle for players using the C++ client.
Dragon Defenders were unusually easy to lose on death, considering how long they can take to re-obtain. We’ve bumped up their value, so they’re now prioritised higher for death protection purposes. Of course, there’s always the alternative solution: just don’t die!
Players can now light fires near the Bank in Nex’s antechamber. This should give UIM players an opportunity to rustle up some scran and extend their trips to this exciting locale.
Shadow Spiders will no longer drain the Prayer Points of innocent bystanders and will instead only use this ability on players they are in direct combat with.
You will now get full XP from helping your Throne of Miscellania citizens with Mining, Fishing, and Woodcutting.
You can now toggle off the confirmation screen which appears upon paying to protect your crops.
Fresh Start Worlds players can now start public Soul Wars lobbies with just two players per team, as opposed to the usual 10 players per team.
PvP combat is now blocked in Tombs of Amascut on Deadman worlds, as it is for the other raids. There’s enough danger in the tombs without your friends turning on you!
The RuneFest 2014 and 2017, plus the Premier Club 2018 cosmetic rewards are now unlocked by default for everyone, on all world types.

In Case You Missed It

This year’s Winter Summit is a little over two weeks away and will take place at 20:00 GMT on December 10th. It’s THE place to be for news about everything coming up in 2023, so don’t miss out!

Don’t forget, if you tune in a little earlier you can catch EVScape’s Battle Royale where your favourite creators face-off for their chunk of a $15,000 prize pool. Get yourself in the competitive mood and check out this epic cinematic trailer by Golden Gnome Winner Hooti Tooti!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiaKV-4DxT8

And if that wasn’t thrilling enough, check out Soup’s YouTube channel, where you can watch the first episode of Season 3 of the Gielinor Games! This is without a doubt the most important sporting event going on in the world right now, so do give it a look.

An Update On The Wilderness Boss Rework

Originally, we’d planned for this section to tease the Wilderness Boss Rework, scheduled for next week’s game update. Unfortunately, yesterday we made the difficult decision to delay the release until January 2023.

We understand that you’re as excited as we are to get your hands on the reworked Wilderness bosses, and that this delay is disappointing. In the late stages of testing we discovered a number of significant issues that must be fixed before the content can launch. At any other time of year, this wouldn’t lead to a significant delay – but during December, we operate at reduced capacity, with many members of the team taking holiday to spend time with their family members at Christmas.

We apologise to everyone who was anticipating this update, and hope you understand that we’d rather delay content so that it meets our strict standards than rush a release that falls short.

Next week in Old School

With the unfortunate news above, next week's update may not be as hefty as we imagined it might be but we want to commit to giving you all a small taste of what's to come (where possible) so that you're not caught off-guard and have some time to get excited about upcoming updates.

This game update and the one before brought a large chunk of the Poll 77 changes to you all but if you're waiting on any in particular then it's likely you'll see additional Poll 77 changes making their way to you next week.

On top of that, those of you who enjoy both Morytania and going fast can look forward to the full releases of A Taste of Hope and Sins of the Father on Quest Speedrunning worlds, as well as another batch of quests entering their betas so that we can fine-tune completion times!

Merch

Last week we shared some pictures of a fancy new ceramic 'Jolly Boar Inn' tankard and a Father Gnome Child Xmas jumper, two of the latest goodies to arrive at the Merch Store.

We also mentioned a handful of swanky tourist tees – so here they are, in case you’re still looking for the ideal gift for the globetrotting adventurer in your life!

Check out all these new lines, plus the range of official pins and keyrings by the talented Angels Scapes.

PvP World Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

539 - (US) - PvP World
548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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Feb 22, 2013

ToB Entry Mode & Other Poll 78 Changes | Weekly Game Update (March 1st)

Change Log

Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode Improvements

Poll 78 Changes

Combat Achievements: Phantom Muspah

Other Changes

Crack The Clue 3

PvP World Rota

It's Our Birthday! | Weekly Game Update (February 22th)

2023 Birthday Event

New Cosmetics: Ten Rewards For Ten Years

Old School's 10th Birthday Livestream

Quest Speedrunning

Wilderness Boss Rework Fixes

Other Changes

Community

Crack The Clue 3

OSRS 10th Anniversary Merch

PvP Rota

More Poll 78 Changes! | Weekly Game Update (February 15th)

Poll 78 Additions

Other Changes

Coming up...

Crack The Clue 3

PvP World Rota

Poll 78 Changes & More! | Weekly Game Update (February 8th)

Change Log

Poll 78

Wilderness Boss Rework Tweaks

Secrets of the North Changes

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #5

Fairy Ring Design Changes

Welcome Screen Changes

Other Changes

Crack The Clue 3

PvP World Rota

Wildy Boss Tweaks & More | Weekly Game Update (February 2nd)

Change Log

Wilderness Boss Rework

Fairy Ring Graphical Update Coming Next Week

Welcome Screen Changes

Secrets of the North

Enhanced C++ Client Improvements

Other Changes

Poll 78 Next Steps

Crack The Clue 3

PvP Rota

Wilderness Boss Rework | Weekly Game Update (January 25th)

Changelog: January 25th

Wilderness Boss Rework

The Escape Caves

Rewards

New Single-plus Bosses

Revenants

The Dragon Pickaxe

Zaryte Crossbow and Sapphire Bolts

Secrets of the North and Phantom Muspah Tweaks

Other Changes

Crack the Clue 3

PvP World Rota

Secrets of the North Feedback Changes & More | Weekly Game Update (January 18th)

Changelog: January 18th

Secrets of the North and Muspah Improvements

Quest Speedrunning: Batch #4

Other Changes

Next Week in Old School

Secrets of the North | Weekly Game Update (January 11th)

Changelog: January 11th

Secrets of the North

Christmas Event 2022

An Update on the Wilderness Boss Rework

Other Changes

PvP World Rota

Christmas Event 2022 | Weekly Game Update (December 13th)

Getting Started

Nutcracker Outfit

Seasonal Backpieces

Winter Summit Recap