Listen up Project, War has a new task for you. Combat Mastery Achievements are here.
Have you wrecked and ruined your way through the bosses of Gielinor? Ready to flaunt your PvM power level? Combat Mastery Achievements are made for players just like you—gain recognition for your PvM prowess by completing new combat-focused tasks.
This exciting new achievement system will have you tackling challenges of all difficulties as you take on bosses from 24 years of PvM history. The Combat Achievements are split into 6 tiers: Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite, Master, and Grandmaster! The question is, where will you land?
Where to get started
To get started on this journey you just need to open up your Hero menu (F1) and go to the Achievement tab, here you will find a new section for Combat Mastery and can track your progress and plan out your next goals. You can also head down to War's Retreat to speak with War about Combat Mastery.
How does it work?
Launching with this update is a whole slew of new Combat Achievements alongside several previous achievements being moved into this system. These Achievements are generally split into three main categories: Kill Speed, Kill Count and Mechanical achievements.
Kill Speed - Defeat a boss within a timeframe.
Kill Count - Defeat a boss a certain number of times
Mechanical - Defeat a boss in a specified way such as avoiding being hit by a specific boss mechanic.
Mechanical achievements may be split into two additional achievement subtypes. Unorthodox and Perfect.
Unorthodox - Complete the encounter in an 'unorthodox' way, such as not resolving mechanics
Perfect - Complete the encounter in a 'perfect' way, such as avoiding all avoidable boss mechanics
Kill times were calculated using boss completion data from the past year. We established breakpoints for each difficulty tier based on our target distribution of players across categories, further refining these with personal experience and insights from our internal team.
Kill count achievements will be retroactively applied to your account once the update goes live, but kill speed achievements will not be retroactive. Keep in mind that current kill times don’t account for the exact number of players in an instance—only that the total number of players was within or below the recommended limit for the encounter.
Each achievement will fall into one of the tiers, and you'll accumulate points based on the tier of the achievement you complete : [table] [tr] [th]Tier[/th] [th]# of tasks[/th] [th]Points per task[/th] [th]Points in tier[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Easy[/td] [td]19[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]19[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Medium[/td] [td]58[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]116[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Hard[/td] [td]173[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]519[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Elite[/td] [td]172[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]688[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Master[/td] [td]92[/td] [td]5[/td] [td]460[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Grandmaster[/td] [td]44[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]264[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Total[/td] [td]558[/td] [td][/td] [td]2066[/td] [/tr][/table] You don’t need to complete the achievements in any particular order—you’re free to tackle previous tiers or jump ahead to the next one. Chart your own path and progress through these achievements as you see fit!
As you reach key point thresholds (19 / 137 / 659 / 1351), you'll unlock "War's Blessing", a set of passive rewards that will help enhance your combat journey and further empower you as you push forward.
War's Blessing Tier 1:
Quick Access to the central Sarcophagus during the Barrows Encounter.
5% increased chance of activating Reaper's Choice
1 free attunement for War's boss portals per day
5% increase to earned Marks of War
War's Blessing Tier 2:
No longer require kill count for all God Wars Dungeon encounters (excludes Nex)
Your kill count requirement for all God Wars Dungeon 2 encounters are reduced by 50%. This stacks additively with any reputation rewards from the Heart of Gielinor.
Your Sign of Life cooldown is reduced by 50%
10% increased chance of activating Reaper's Choice
2 free attunements for War's boss portals per day
10% increase to earned Marks of War
War's Blessing Tier 3:
Ability to choose which rotation is active during the following encounters:
Barrows: Rise of the Six
Araxxor
War's Grimoire will now allow you to change your prayer book.
25% increased chance of activating Reaper's Choice
25% increase to earned Marks of War.
500 increased hourly cap on Marks of War
War's Blessing Tier 4:
Ability to choose which rotation is active during the following encounters:
Vorago
Adrenaline gain from Adrenaline Crystals is increased to 100% per action.
A one time completion reward of 1 War's Ancient Armour Gizmo (Costless)
A one time completion reward of 1 War's Ancient Weapon Gizmo (Costless)
Guaranteed chance of activating Reaper's Choice
50% increase to earned Marks of War.
1000 increased hourly cap on Marks of War
These rewards are designed to improve your quality of life throughout your combat journey, helping to remove obstacles when chasing specific achievements. However, they are intentionally not meant to grant any direct power boosts. Completing prior achievement tiers should not be necessary to progress in the harder challenges ahead.
Unlocking Tier 3 and Tier 4 will grant you the ability to select specific boss rotations, which can be accessed via the "Beasts" menu in the "Adventures" Tab (F3). This feature will assist you in tackling some of the more specialized achievements tied to these bosses!
Also Wars Grimoire? What is that?
New to War’s Retreat is War’s Grimoire, a handy tome that lets you swap between your unlocked spellbooks! Like many of the retreat’s amenities, the Grimoire is unlocked by defeating bosses—specifically after reaching 750 boss kills. Once unlocked, you can easily switch spellbooks, and upon reaching Tier 3 in War’s Blessing, you’ll also be able to change your unlocked prayers. Additionally, one of War’s Clan Representatives has arrived at the retreat to take over some of War’s more mundane tasks. They’ll decant your flasks and blubbers and sell challenge gems on War’s behalf, freeing up War for more important matters!
Improving the War-drobe
One of our key design goals for Combat Mastery Achievements was to create visually striking rewards that players would be proud to show off. We aimed for something reminiscent of the Completionist capes, with their extensive checklist of requirements, but without overlapping in the same item slot. Instead, we focused on two slots that offered both flexibility and strong visual impact: the necklace and aura slots.
Players can earn six cosmetic necklaces (one per tier) and two cosmetic auras (Master and Grandmaster) by completing all achievements within a given tier. Unlike War’s Blessing, which is unlocked through point accumulation, these rewards are tied directly to completion of all the achievements in a tier.
Combat Mastery Auras
Those who reach the pinnacle of combat by completing the Master and Grandmaster achievements will be rewarded with unique auras, serving as a bold testament to their power and skill!
Wars Medallion
Wear the symbol of War with pride! Each completed tier unlocks a new color: Blue for Easy, Green for Medium, Red for Hard, and Purple for Elite. And for those who conquer the Master and Grandmaster tiers, you'll unlock exclusive versions to match your powerful auras!
Chat Badges
Want to make a bold statement in your chats? With Combat Mastery Achievements, we're introducing two new chat badges—one for Master and another for Grandmaster. You can activate these badges by speaking with War, and they won’t just appear in your chat log—they’ll also be visible in your examine, ensuring everyone can recognize your prowess!
What comes next?
Combat Mastery Achievements is an ever-evolving system that will grow as new bosses and challenges make their way to Gielinor.War isn’t quite done with you yet, Project!
Group Ironman Launch - This Week In RuneScape
Group Ironman is here!
Steel yourselves for self-sufficient 'Scaping, this time with a team of friends by your side! Now's your chance to build a powerful squad of Ironmen and compete for the top spot on the leaderboards. It's a new way to experience Gielinor!
Group Ironman launches today and is a fresh spin on the classic Ironman format. Players are self-sufficient, are unable to trade (mostly) and have a DIY attitude towards the game - but now, you'll be working as a team instead of going solo. Group members are able to freely trade tradeable items to each other and have access to Group Storage, a shared Bank which lets you pass around select items that were previously untradeable.
You'll be competing for new leaderboard positions in both Competitive and Regular Group Ironman modes. You'll also have the opportunity to earn unique rewards like the Group Ironman Armour, which improves as the group smashes through their Journey Achievements.
Want to know more? Check out the Group Ironman Dev Diary, or our recent blog!
If you need a little direction on how to get started, check out the panel below this one for a crash course.
Lastly, we'd like to say a big thank you to the entire Group Ironman team.
Their dedication, creativity, and collaboration have brought this long-awaited feature to life, and we are looking forward to seeing the whole community come together to experience it. The effort they've all put into this update cannot be understated, from the initial design stages all the way to launch.
This is a huge milestone, and none of it would have been possible without each of your contributions. Here's to even more exciting updates in the future!
Getting Started
To start Group Ironman, you'll need an account which hasn't progressed past character creation. Step 1. Press "Select Game Mode"
Step 2. Choose "Group Ironman" Step 3. Customise your character and press "Done" when you're ready to proceed.
Step 4. If you want to dive straight into Group Ironman and do not need a tutorial, select "I have played recently".
Congratulations! You are now a Group Ironman! Just need to get the group going now...
Grouping up
Once you're on the Iron Enclave, you can form your group. When you have control of your character, check out the "Create Group" tab - it should pop right up on your screen. Here you will select either "Regular" or "Competitive" mode. Don't worry if you're not sure which one to pick yet - you can change between them while forming the group. Your next challenge is settling on a name! It can be up to 20 characters, but bear in mind that you’ll be unable to pick the same name as an existing Clan, as they share the same name space.
Once you have a name and your group mates, you're ready to set out. Remember, your group must be between two and five players, and one of you will have to take on the mantle of leader. Don't fear if all your planned group mates aren't all available at this early stage - you'll be able to add players to your team by returning to the Iron Enclave, so there’s no need to hang around waiting.
Join the game and start climbing those HiScores!
If you are a current Ironman player, you can head to Lumbridge and use the portal to the Iron Enclave to access the island and start forming or joining a group. Please note that if you are an Iron and wish to become a Group Iron, you will not be able to reverse this decision.
The Iron Enclave
The Iron Enclave is a new island only available to Iron players. It’s where you’ll form teams and learn the core elements of Group Ironman! You can speak with the Iron Tutor to learn more about the available Game Modes... Check out the Ironman at Group Ironman achievements at the plaque... ... and when you're ready, you can take the Portal to Lumbridge from the northern point of the island. Adventure awaits! If you want to know more about the Group Ironman experience, you can check out our recent wrap up blog or the Features and Gameplay video released last week!
Looking to find some like minded folks? Need tips on how to approach a situation from the Ironman angle? Check out these communities!
Irons of Gielinor
Irons of Gielinor is a one-stop shop for Ironman and Group Ironman game modes, whether you're a veteran or just starting out on your journey. Their server specialises in PvM content (with a dedicated team forming channel), as well as having plenty of discussion channels for PvM, Skilling and Group Ironman Mode.
They also offer a Group Ironman Group Forming channel for finding that perfect group of likeminded Ironmen, AND we have a lot of Ironman-friendly guides on offer. We're not just a combat server though - feel free to ask questions, share your accomplishments, or simply chat with fellow irons in a supportive and friendly environment.
F2PIronmanFC
F2PIronmanFC is a supportive community focused on helping free-to-play Ironman players, both new and experienced, progress through their journey and have fun while doing so! Whether you're just starting out, looking to form a Group Ironman team, or just wanting to refine your methods - we provide a space where players can share tips, ask for advice, and connect with others who are passionate about the Free-to-Play Ironman playstyle.
Other Communities
Boss Guild hosts boss masses for some easy kc, potential loot, and pet rolls.
Deep Sea Fishing helps irons obtain a bunch of items that can be very useful to gloss over content or complete certain requirements much more quickly.
Fast Sc can help irons obtain their Fletcher's and Artisan's outfits.
Taskman can help newer irons achieve structured goals and not feel overwhelmed by the long chains of requirements they often face.
General
Updated names on boss entrances to public and private encounters, instead of uninstanced and instanced encounters.
Removed Master of Assault Achievement from Trimmed Completionist Cape requirements.
"Assault and Battery" and "Pirates of Penance" music tracks are now unlocked by entering the Barbarian Assault lobby.
The Trouble Brewing music track will now unlock when you enter the lobby.
The Stealing Creation music track will now unlock when you enter the lobby.
Player examine now links to the Clan information web page, if that player is in a Clan.
Fixed an issue which caused various necromancy ability animations to not function as expected.
Fixed an issue that blocked players from equipping the spooky keepsake items.
The Mazcab raid puzzle section has been altered so it can be completed by less than 4 people. Now you only need 4 or the number of players in the group, whichever is lower, to be standing on the puzzle pieces.
For example a group of 2 players will only need two correct puzzle tiles to be stood on.
The time allowed to complete this puzzle has also been increased from 12.6 seconds to 15 seconds.
Ironman Changes
The following content is now available for Ironman and regular Group Ironman players - it is still blocked for Competitive Ironman groups:
Blast Furnace
Demon Flash Mobs (drops available for Competitive Ironman groups if they do 100% of the kill)
Sinkholes
Trouble Brewing
All Ironman accounts should now be able to correctly spend Zeal in the reward shop to purchase XP and charms.
We are delighted to announce that we have raised a grand total of $70,000 with our Froggly Fundraiser event which wrapped up on Monday. Over $27,000 of it was raised via player's RuneCoin donations and the entire sum will be split evenly among our wonderful charity Partners Blueprint for All, Safe in Our World and Special Effect.
It was inspiring to see how well this amphibious initiative was received by the community!
To ensure players have an optimal gaming experience, we will be discontinuing support for 32-bit Android devices in the first quarter of 2025. This decision allows us to focus exclusively on optimising the game for 64-bit Android systems moving forward.
By shifting our attention to 64-bit devices, we can unlock improved performance, increased efficiency, and an overall smoother experience for players. While this change may impact some users, it is an essential step toward future-proofing the game and ensuring we can continue delivering updates and enhancements.
Prepare to transform the appearance of your favorite weapon with the new Umbral Crypt Lord cosmetic in RuneScape. Be one of the first to access this exclusive weapon skin by signing up here!
Community Showcase
Always nice to have someone who's got your back. The Phantom-at-arms by NinthCloudArt. An adorable little chibi drawing by the wonderful Suizzyowl!
Runetube
@imxcrystal gave us a seasonal rundown of some spooky looks! @edimmuztv gives you some tips and tricks to help out anyone trying to take down this spooky spider.
Scapers' Screenshots
TheMidnightScene and the frog squad are ready to take on the horsemen.
Ves Helsing is recreating scenes from classic movies.
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Hosted By: Ghotic Fish, AoD 7-10 Man and RuneScape
Date/Time: Saturday November 2nd, 19:00 Gametime
Location: God Wars Dungeon - Nex Lobby
World: 23
Hosted By: MadClikr and the Lil Tuzzies Clan
Date/Time: Monday October 28th, 23:00 Gametime
Location: Fort Forinthry
World: 85
FC: Lil Tuzzies
Hosted By: Miss Misty
Date/Time: Wednesday October 30th, 20:00 Gametime
Location: Edgeville Bank
World: 60
FC: Miss Misty
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Come join our friends at Pink Skirts for Witch Please!, a fun Halloween themed Parade to celebrate the season in spookylicious style! Together with Mod Yuey, we will be creepin' and crawlin' through Gielinor, from Draynor Village to the Halloween Event Portal in Burthorpe. Along the way we'll be having some fun stops for boo-tiful Love Letters, Stroopwaffles and more. Who knows what giant scary beasts we might find along the way!
Dress: Feel free to come dressed in your favourite Halloween outfits, we can't wait to see what you come up with!
In the spirit of this event and to not undermine organisers, please show parade etiquette by not shouting out profanities, political slogans, or advertisements of any nature.
Where: Draynor Village Market When: Thursday 31st October at 17:00 UTC or Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:00 your local time World: 11 Hosts: Liefje, Lady Spyra, Apazos
Rellekka Area Graphical & In-Game Calendar Update - This Week In RuneScape
Rellekka is getting a glow up alongside the in-game calendar!
The Fremennik sure know how to pick a dangerous place to live, from the chill winds coming in off the Lunar Sea to the biting cold, Rellekka is a sight to behold. With today's update, this harsh landscape is more awe-inspiring than ever! Our wonderful environmental artists have built a whole lot of love into the rocks and trees of this great land, alongside an imposing look for the lighthouse and Rellekka itself!
Check out some of the comparison images below, then log in to visit the new Rellekka in-game!
The in-game calendar has gotten a brand new look and functionality! Players will now be able to find the Calendar nestled in the Adventures Tab (Default key F3) showcasing upcoming Community Events, Streams, Game Updates and News! Click into each event to find out more about it. We're continuing to improve this new system, so keep an eye out for more news! If you have any feedback or suggestions on functionality you would like to see in the Calendar. make sure to let us know!
Twitch Stream - Roadmap Reveal May 14th
The wait is almost over. It's time for us to give you a full look at the year ahead for RuneScape on May 14th at 16:00 Game Time on Twitch.
We'll be live in the our studio to give you a first look at our content plans for the rest of the year, along with a whole smorgasbord of guests from across the team to drop some first details about these newly announced updates.
Catch the stream live on our Official Twitch. Can't make the stream? We'll have an article covering all the key news live right after the show, as well as a VOD of the stream on our YouTube channel shortly after.
You don't have to brave the lair of the Corporeal Beast for these new Spirit Shield Keyrings from Angels Scapes! Each features translucent “stained glass” enamel and sigils that glow in the dark!
Check them out along with the full Angels Scapes range – available now on the official merch store!
Cookbook Cookout
It has been great to see all the excitement as Scapers around the world receive their official cookbooks.
Several of you have started sharing the scrumptious dishes you have bravely cooked – such as Dwarven Rock Cakes, Stuffed Snake, Short Green Guy and Bananas with Karamja Rum, Blackened Shrimp Tacos & Arc Gumbo to name a few! Check out a few below.
Have you got your copy and what have you been cooking? Do share photos or videos as you level up your culinary skills and attempt to beat the Culinaromancer (again!). Tag your creations with #runescapecookbook to share your photos and videos. No judgement here on cooking skill levels – we just love seeing your creations!
Community Hitlist
Mobile NPC dialogue can be enabled on desktop as a toggleable option.
Leveling up Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged and Magic now plays their unique jingles again.
Leveling up Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic and Slayer above level 50 now plays their unique greater jingles again.
Added a Search Bar to the Gameplay tab in the Settings menu.
Made improvements to the Wealth Evaluator:
Added a ""Miscellaneous"" row that gives the wealth within miscellaneous inventories, such as the Metal Bank, Archaeology Material Storage, etc.
Removed the Treasure Chest row from the interface and replaced it with the Currency Pouch.
Added the ability to see the wealth values for Bank tabs.
General interface polish: the interface and text within is now larger, and colouring is applied to wealth values (matching the Currency Pouch and Grand Exchange)."
GameJam
The Barrows door puzzle interface will remain while you are in combat.
Changed collection of daily sand and daily flax from hard resets (which reset at 00:00 game time) to soft resets (which reset upon your first logout after 00:00 game time).
Players may now choose which gendered voice they wish to use during combat and when playing emotes by visiting the Makeover Mage.
Quests
Adjusted a few potential spawn coordinates for the wandering soul and shambling horror random events on the Ungael ritual site, to avoid blocking.
Players now correctly state the name of the company they've joined in The Giant Dwarf quest.
Corrected an issue where the Merlin's Crystal quest accept screen could be triggered after starting the quest.
In-character references to Britain and England (in King Arthur's dialogue and his Varrock museum exhibit) now refer to Teragard, the home world of humans."
General
Harmony dust can now be made from Crystal Urchins using the Telekinetic Grind spell.
The skillguide icons for Powerburst of Opportunity (4)(improved recipe+1) and Powerburst of Opportunity (4)(improved recipe+2) have been updated to display the correct potion.
Tweaked the Hexer Braids hairstyle to better match the beard colour.
Players can now mature Burnt Tree's Stumps in order to progress the Rebuilding Edgeville miniquest without having to wait for the tree to regrow.
Starts May 9th | Ends May 13th | Phoenix's Rising
The Phoenix is on the rise and the rewards are red hot! Get ready to burn bonus experience, unlocking boosts and stronger Lamps.
Community Showcase
LegendArts offers an alternative look at Vorkath if his life went a little different.
Vorkath ate his dinner too quickly and threw up on the carpet.... again by ChunksofPlum
Emucrow has been crafting this imposing statue of the big man himself, Lord Zamorak!
Scapers' Screenshots
Upstart necromancer Taresu working hard to save Vorkath!
AWeeRedPanda getting ready to celebrate May!
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Penguin Tour
Hosted By: Miss Misty
Date/Time: Wednesday 8th May, 20:00 Gametime
Location: Edgeville Bank
World: 60
FC: Miss Misty
Penguin Hide and Seek
Hosted By: A Neb & RuneScape Discord Mentors
Date/Time: Sunday 12th May, 19:15 Gametime
Location: Ardougne Zoo
World: 60
FC: AHelp
Nex - Angel Of Death
Hosted By: Pippyspot & Boss Guild
Date/Time: Friday 10th May, 20:00 Gametime
Location: God Wars Dungeon - Ancient Prison
World: 88
FC: Boss Guild
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
- The RuneScape Team
Requiem For a Dragon Launch - This Week In RuneScape
Chase Vorkath back to the frozen wastes of Ungael to find out what happened and maybe what comes next!
The Battle of Forinthry may have concluded, but some mysteries remain. It’s time to follow the trail of the undead dragon Vorkath back to the bitter cold of Ungael. Uncover the chilling secrets of what happened on the isle, and catch a glimpse into what could be coming next... Requiem for a Dragon wraps up the story of Fort Forinthry and sets the stage for a new chapter in RuneScape lore. You can read more about what to expect in our recent blog and be sure to join us in the Official Discord for a stage on Friday the 26th to chat about the quest with some of the developers!
Requirements
This quest follows the story after Battle of Forinthry and requires the quests Tomes of the Warlock and Kili Row to begin. As such you will need the following skills to fully access the quest:
Speak with Aster at the Fort Forinthry Town Hall to get started!
The Official Cookbook has launched! If you have a hankering for some delectable cuisines or just want to look fresh in the Chef's outfit, be sure to check out our blog here for the full soup scoop!
Discord Stage
Join us on Friday, April 26th to chat with the developers behind our latest quest live on our Official Discord!
Creator Streams
Not gonna be able to dive right into the new quest? Have no fear these intrepid adventurers will be doing their best to document and navigate their way through it! Check them out: [table] [tr] [th]Streamer[/th] [th]Time[/th] [th]What's Planned[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Chevalric[/td] [td]Update Launch[/td] [td]Chevalric kicks things off by completing the related Cape requirements for the quest. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Stormy/Moonfairy[/td] [td]Update Launch[/td] [td]A super-chill playthrough of the quest with time to let it all soak in. [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Imxcrystal[/td] [td]Update Launch[/td] [td]A complete quest walkthrough, complete with relevant achievements![/td] [/tr][/table]
We have scheduled essential planned maintenance for all RuneScape and Old School game worlds on Tuesday April 23th at 09:00-13:00* (UTC) / 02:00-06:00* (PST) / 19:00-23:00* (AEST).
During this period, all game worlds will be temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this downtime and will keep players informed of any changes to this estimated schedule.
*approximated end of downtime. Starts April 23th | Ends April 24th | Mysteria
Mysteria constantly rotates multiple versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days! Dive in to find out what's next...
Starts April 25th | Ends April 29th | Crystal Capsules
Crystal Capsules return with a brand new Shadow Gem Pernix Armour override! Smash Shadow Gems to earn shards and exchange them for the outfit pieces! Or you can get lucky and win the whole outfit outright!
Shadow Gem Pernix? What about the original?
We have also updated the look of the original Pernix outfit to this more modern look. Don't worry, the outfit can still be earned in the traditional way - beating Nex senseless! As a bonus, the old version of the outfit is also available as an override as you equip pieces of the Pernix Armour.
Requiem For a Dragon
The Quest icon in the Quest Point Hub portal's interface now matches the size of the Quest Accept/Complete icon and includes a V/VI Age indicator as appropriate.
19 additional Quest XP Lamps have been added to May's storage chest when available to reclaim. Check the Lore→Experience→Lamp of Luxury achievement to see if there are any you've missed!
General
Adjusted the clickbox of the fallen palm tree in the Het's Oasis Agility Course.
Nastroth's skill reset now has an option to set the chosen skill to the lowest XP value, as that's the primary use case, and clarified the wording of the option to set XP to an input value.
Removed major skill reset options from Nastroth's dialogue, and simplified some steps in the minor reset userflow.
Players can now progress Mandrith's Slayer challenge by participating in the Wildywyrm Wilderness flash event.
Death's Store now requires a Bank Pin in order to access it.
Deathwarden Nexus can be used to craft Necromancy gear only when its in the player's inventory or when worn.
Fixed an issue that caused the rewards information text to overlap with icons within the TH probabilities interface for certain promos.
Fixed an issue that caused the silk merchant in Ardougne to react to the player stealing Silk in Menaphos.
Fixed an issue that made the Vorki pet drop broadcast show the incorrect number of total boss kills.
Listed The Hunt for Surok (miniquest) as a 2008 quest to match its actual release date.
Sydekix' hitbox was adjusted to make interacting with the NPC more intuitive.
The Banebane achievement now checks both toolbelt and equipped pickaxe to determine whether its requirements are met.
The Skill Guide icons for both the Magic and Elder Shieldbows have been corrected and no longer display a Maple Shieldbow.
Tweaked the position of the Flower Farmer Backpack cosmetic override.
Updated the layout of the report abuse screen.
Text and Typos
Corrected a line break formatting error in the quest overview interface.
The info text on the Infernal Puzzle Box has been updated to reflect the end of the 2022 narrative season.
Fixed a number of typos and text inconsistencies within the Herblore Skill Guide.
Fixed a typo found within the 3rd page of the 'Dinosaurs 101' book.
Fixed a typo in Celia Diggory's dialogue.
Fixed a typo in Prehistoric Potterington's dialogue.
Fixed a typo within the 'Fur 'n Seek' quest complete text.
Fixed typos observed with the Place of Power examine text during the Vorkath boss encounter.
Fixed a typo within the purchase text of the 'Floral Loot Beam', unlocked from Nougat Bunny's shop.
Fixed a typo within the requirement text of the 'Sun Shade' achievement.
Community Showcase
@Legendarts already digging up some great art of the upcoming boss Osseoues! @Ayrieton with another beautiful character piece!
Runetube
Check out this amazing compilation of Rong_Rong's adorable animations showcasing tonnes of RuneScape skills!
Scapers' Screenshots
AWeeRedPanda has brought Lil Helwyr home for a visit. Pippyspot has been having a bit of a rave in the Owlery in Um.
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Learner Event: Rex Matriarchs
Hosted By: Chiev Hunter and Im Crystal
Date/Time: Friday 26th April, 21:30 Gametime
Location: Rex Matriarchs Lair
World: 76
FC: AHelp
Stealing Creation
Hosted By: Lady Spyra, bigmapcaller, and Fast SC
Date/Time: Saturday 27th April, 21:00 Gametime
Location: Stealing Creation Lobby
World: 99
FC: Fast SC
Skill n Chill
Hosted By: MandyPandy, Holbytla, and Spirits of Arianwyn Clan
Date/Time: Thursday 25th April, 19:00 Gametime
Location: Fort Forinthry
World: 252
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Community Spotlight
Mega Duck
Their aim is to create a welcoming environment where like-minded players can come together to socialize, get a chance at the Mega Ducklings pet and the Totally Quackers title. Bring breadcrumbs to Falador Park if you wish to help summon Mega Duck. Otherwise, please wait near Mrs Duck.
Event Date/Time: Friday, April the 26th @18:00 Game Time - World 39. Join there discord for more information - https://discord.gg/7e6NdnAsXJ
- The RuneScape Team
Hop into the Blooming Burrow - This Week In RuneScape
Spring has arrived in Gielinor – hop on down to our new seasonal hub the Blooming Burrow!
Spring is in the air, and chocolate is everywhere! It's time to embark on a whimsical adventure at RuneScape's new and beautifully blossoming Easter hub - the Blooming Burrow…
Within this serene land of plenty, the Easter Bunny has been catching up on his beauty sleep, leaving his nephews and nieces to work on all things egg related. But – uh-oh! He’s overslept, and now the bunnies need your help getting back on track!
Hop on down to the Blooming Burrow, your new seasonal hub, from March 18th until April 8th! Help Cocoa Bunny come up with some new chocolate flavours in the new seasonal quest, collect spring tokens from the different skilling activities around the burrow to earn themed rewards from the Grand Eggs-change, and try your hand at the Egg Hunts for more spring-tastic goodies.
Read all about the Blooming Burrow, and how you can get your hands on these smashing seasonal rewards here!
Starts March 19th | Ends March 20th | Mysteria
Mysteria constantly rotates multiple versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days. This time around, jump on the Daily Reward track for a chance to get your hands on the exquisite Carmine Necromancer Outfit! Starts March 21th | Ends March 25th | Rainbow Trail
Rainbow Trail makes a return! Earn Rainbow Dust and spend it on multipliers for even more chests! Also making its debut is the brand new Rainbow Dragonbreath override! As part of this improved VFX we have updated the Azure and Regular Dragonbreaths aswell.
Blooming Burrows
The currency pouch has a new 'Seasonal' category.
Overhead emotes with multiple colour variants are now grouped together, with a right-click option to customise which emote to show.
This applies to the Santa Hat and Party Hat overhead emotes.
Some text has been updated in the book 'The Queen and the King'.
During Easter, penguins will now dress up as Easter eggs for the Penguin Hide and Seek D&D.
The Tree of Balance's appearance will now update seasonally.
During Easter, Lumbridge, Varrock and Falador will have seasonal decorations.
General
The Housing of Parliament is now listed as a 2024 quest.
Fixed an issue that resulted in a player's mouth not showing properly when switching from male to female and vice versa.
When charging the Totem of Navigation it's now possible for up to 3 Temporal instabilities to spawn.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Bank preset preview window from loading when opened for the first time.
The last Bank preset will no longer load after requesting to trade with Fadli in Het's Oasis.
Community Showcase
It's the year of the dragon and Seakara is celebrating with all their favourite dragons!
@Suizzy taking a quiet moment under the Zanaris night sky, a beautiful piece full of all manner of hidden penguins and objects!
u/Bucket_Cultist shows us just how things would have gone if Bandos would have been able to claim his champion.
Runetube
@SilencedRS has been diving into how Ranged and Necromancy combat stack up after the recent combat updates.
@RatCypher sits down and chats with Mod Owly about his role in the stream team and more!
Scapers' Screenshots
0h Lily ♡ just soaking in some rays.
While they wait for Easter, Party has taken up ship watching in their off time.
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Group Achievement Completion
Hosted by: Redwigon & Aarie
Date/Time: Saturday March 23rd, 18:00 Game Time
World: 46
Location: Varrock Square
FC: Mod Events
Vindicta & Gorvek
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Sunday March 24th, 18:00 Game Time
World: 35
Location: Zaros lobby
FC: Helpscape
Skill n Chill
Hosted by: Princess Rae, Firesteal918 & Spirits of Arianwyn Clan
Date/Time: Monday March 18th, 02:00 Game Time
World: 116
Location: Fort Forinthry
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
This week, the Ironman DG Chatcombines forces with Archaeologyto challenge you with Dungeoneering and Archaeology themed questions as you follow May on her journey!
Last week the challenge had been around your fashionable caving outfits and there we so many wonderful pieces
Ironman DG Chat
Ironman DG Chat is the one-stop Discord server for your ironman team-forming needs! Share DG tips, tricks, and achievements with fellow ironman players looking to play some group Dungeoneering. It's also a space to share Yak Cards for Meilyr recipes and to complete the Hard Mode achievement. Come join the community at this link: discord.gg/bd6Tpqvh9J
This week they will be hosting a week-long Spotlight Event – submit a screenshot of one solo floor of your choice with a 13% bonus room completion, and you'll be entered into a draw to win Bonds! Check out the Discord for the full rules and info on how to submit your screenshots.
- The RuneScape Team
Post Game Jam and Merch Update - This Week In RuneScape
We've got just some of the fruits of last week's Game Jam to show you, plus exciting merchandise updates and more!
It's back! Game Jam is a reoccurring event where the JMods take one whole week to explore personal projects, community suggestions, and other exciting ideas. We've seen loads of awesome projects on the go this week, so here's a preview of just a few of them...
Mod Dorn
Visualizing Seeds and Herbs - Mod Dorn is keen to help player visualize and differentiate items, and has taken a stab at diversifying the looks of seeds and herbs. Giving them more diverse colourings should players tell the difference at a glance!
Mod Pebble
What's the deal with Yanille? Mod Pebble has been learning more about our internal mapping tools and set the task of improving the tone/vibe of Yanille. They've even been getting player feedback on how players would like to see the town look!
Mod Sponge
Spongeatouille - Mod Sponge has taken a moment away from combat to look into the next greatest battle: cooking. Between gathering player feedback on what they would wanna see from the culinary skill.
Mod Fowl
Inclusivity fixes for Titles - Inclusivity is an incredibly important topic and Mod Fowl is picking up the torch from Mod Raven and working to update a ton of titles and the underlying systems to let players have more choices and options on how they wanna present themselves!
Mod Fox
Furniture Shark - Building off some of Mod Fowl's previous Game Jam work, Mod Fox has gone and created this beautiful concept art for a very Legally Distinct Furniture Shark...
Mod Chaose, Frosch, Kitsune, Fox and Blkwitch
Daemonheim Archaeology - Continuing their intrepid work on Daemonheim Arch Site, the team has been making stellar progress including developing mysteries, designing a relic reward, inputting achievements , touching up some of the base camps snow and lighting and even building out a new map concept!
Mod Helen
Organizing the War Retreat boss portals - Tired of trying to figure out where the boss you wanna face is in the chronological order? Well Mod Helen has heard your prayers and has created a new system to organize the boss list in either chronological or alphabetical order!
Mod Luma
Shooting Star Update - Mod Luma is getting cosmic and has dove into modernizing the Shooting Star D&D, aiming to keep the core event identity in place but improving the systems!
Such as making it more reasonable to solo without impacting groups, new locations it can appear, improving the xp & bonus xp gains and making them more convenient to use along side creating a shop for Stardust and new achievements to go with it!
Mod Stu & Grace
Combat Level Up Jingles - Miss the old level of jingles? Well not anymore! Mod Stu has done extensive research into the previously used combat jingles and Mod Grace has graciously (heh) modernized the older midi jingles so they can make a triumphant return!
RuneScape Kingdoms Board Game – last chance for exclusive bundles!
Backers of the RuneScape Kingdoms Kickstarter have started receiving their pledges over the past few weeks, and we’ve been so excited to see pictures of their hauls! Check out the goods:
If you missed out on the Steamforged Games Kickstarter back in 2022 and want to go all in – now's your chance! The Deluxe Edition Bundle and the Expansions Bundle are exclusively available on Steamforged’s online store right now. While not quite the early bird deal snapped up by Kickstarter backers, these are now the best value for getting your hands on an all-in pledge for the core game and expansions, and will only be available until next week! Once the core game and KBD expansion release for retail February 29th, all the other expansions and core game will only be available individually.
If the Steamforged store doesn’t ship to you, you want to avoid shipping costs, or only want the core game, these are coming to retailers globally on February 29th.
That's all for now, but we'll have more to share next week on the retail release for the board game and separate TTRPG – including videos of your favourite JMods getting hands-on with both!
Fally Goodies from Angels Scapes
Relive your travels through Falador over the years with this range of pins and keyrings by Angels Scapes, exclusively available on the official merch store.
The Rising Sun Bottle Opener celebrates Falador's most popular pub.
Dwarven Stout has been added to the beer opener fridge magnet range, so you always have the right equipment to hand to crack open your favourite tipple.
The limited edition White Knight Pin will always fight for you!
Holy (giant) moley, there's even a Giant Mole Pin, with two mini baby moles escaped from beneath Falador park!
There's also a limited edition Dragonfire Shield pin!
Had a little (or long) break from RuneScape and looking to get back into the swing of things? We're introducing a limited time offer for past Members to return, with 14 days of Membership and Double XP time for just $1!
If you've not been a RuneScape Member for a while, you'll be able to access this offer from February 27th to March 27th. If you're interested, return to this page on February 27th for a link to the offer.
New $1 Returning Member Offer
14 Days of Membership.
24 Hours of Double XP (to use within 30 days of purchase).
Eligibility
Available February 27th to March 27th.
Character must have been a Member in the past.
Character must not have had an active Membership for 30 days.
Character must not have been active RuneScape in the last 30 days
Character must not have completed the Old School RuneScape tutorial.*
Note: Due to the eligibility terms, cancelling your subscription will not gain you access to this offer. This is an offer intended to attract past Members back to RuneScape.
Many of you reading this are likely to be seasoned veterans of RuneScape, so we feel it's important we give you more details behind this offer and what we want to achieve.
We have a wealth of past RuneScape Members (with plenty of goals still to chase!) who we would love to see rejoin the world of Gielinor. With so many games out there today, we want to trial some offers to encourage them back - similar to how other games might run Free Weekends, for example. In our case, we're picking a route that best protects the health of the game with a payment gate, while also getting people back into RuneScape's best version with Membership.
We've designed this offer to provide a great low-price reason to come back, but also to encourage these ex-adventurers to get back into the swing of things properly - and that's where the Double XP comes in. Coming back to RuneScape and finding your groove can be difficult, so by offering 24 hours of Double XP, we hope to make those early hours a little more rewarding and get players re-invested in chasing their dream levels over the long term.
That said, it's deeply important to us that we take existing players into account when making this offer – we don't want any Members benefitting from 'additional' Double XP time beyond what's available today. We've intentionally designed this so that no eligible returning Member for this offer will have participated in our most recent Double XP. This means we're offering some missed Double XP time as part of the incentive to return, but not giving additional Double XP time compared to existing Members.
If you've been looking for a way to get your friends back into RuneScape, we hope this offer will be a nice surprise in their inbox – and hopefully get them back in your party!
*Both RuneScape titles share Membership and we love seeing players use that benefit to play both games! However, as this is a promotional idea to attract past RuneScape Members back to RuneScape, we needed to include this restriction to ensure the offer is RuneScape specific as intended.
We have scheduled essential planned maintenance for all RuneScape and Old School game worlds on Tuesday February 27th at 09:00-12:00* (UTC) / 01:00-04:00* (PST) / 19:00-22:00* (AEST).
During this period, all game worlds will be temporarily unavailable for up to 3 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this downtime and will keep players informed of any changes to this estimated schedule.
*approximated end of downtime.
Thursday February 29th | 17:00 Game Time | RuneFest
Join Mods Ayiza, Doom and very special guest Mod Mark, who'll be sharing more info about this year's RuneFest! You've saved the date, now get all the info... Tune in live over at twitch.tv/Jagex for all the details from 17:00 GMT on Thursday, February 29th!
Friday March 1st | 17:00 Game Time | Combat Beta
Join Mods Sponge and Doom as they chat about all things combat. Watch the show live at Twitch.TV/RuneScape!
Starts February 27th | Ends February 28th | Mysteria
Mysteria constantly rotates multiple versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days. Jump in to see what's on the cards!
Starts February 29th | Ends March 4th | Potion Pandemonium
Gather potions and use them to complete collections! Earn multipliers and win brand new hex-cellent witchy-themed prizes from the Witch's Chest. Get your hands on the Dolorous Witch Outfit complete with matching wings! Lucille, the adorable bat pet, also returns.
Game Jam
Last week has been devoted to Game Jam, so regular tasks have taken a backseat while the JMods come up with new ideas and content. You can see in the above panel some of what they've been cooking! This means that there are no Patch Notes this week.
However, we’ve left this section in this newspost to avoid any confusion.
Community Showcase
@Snowy Rune continues building some beautiful pixel art stained glass pieces based on the elder gods.">
u/1to99Artscape has given the Dark Wizards' Tower a little makeover to give it a bit more of a menacing profile!
Runetube
[TAG-200] has given the Dark Wizards' Tower a little makeover to give it a bit more of a menacing profile!
Runetube
[TAG-200] [TAG-201]@Zant[TAG-202] brings the Legend's Guild to life with this beautiful piece set on a dark and stormy night...
[TAG-204] Wondering how some of the new T95 Necromancy items look when dyed? brings the Legend's Guild to life with this beautiful piece set on a dark and stormy night...
[TAG-204] Wondering how some of the new T95 Necromancy items look when dyed? [TAG-205]@imxcrystal[TAG-206] has assembled a showcase!
[TAG-208] Unsure what to do with your Moonstones? has assembled a showcase!
[TAG-208] Unsure what to do with your Moonstones? [TAG-209]@SilencedRS[TAG-210] has a suggestion...
Scapers' Screenshots
has a suggestion...
Scapers' Screenshots
Kawick has been doing some farming this DXP! Smart moves.
Kawick has been doing some farming this DXP! Smart moves. Meanwhile, Jay Sindab has been doing some zoological research and captured this dramatic shot!
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
K'ril Tsutsaroth Hardmode
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Tuesday February 27th, 18:00 Gametime
World: 35
Location: Zamorak Lobby
FC: Helpscape
General Graardor Hardmode
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Sunday March 3rd, 16:00 Gametime
World: 35
Location: Bandos Lobby
FC: Helpscape
Town Square Q&A
Hosted by: Princess Rae
Date/Time: Saturday March 2nd, 23:00 Game Time
World: 3
Location: Varrock West Bank
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule Meanwhile, Jay Sindab has been doing some zoological research and captured this dramatic shot!
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
K'ril Tsutsaroth Hardmode
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Tuesday February 27th, 18:00 Gametime
World: 35
Location: Zamorak Lobby
FC: Helpscape
General Graardor Hardmode
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Sunday March 3rd, 16:00 Gametime
World: 35
Location: Bandos Lobby
FC: Helpscape
Town Square Q&A
Hosted by: Princess Rae
Date/Time: Saturday March 2nd, 23:00 Game Time
World: 3
Location: Varrock West Bank
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Community Spotlight
One Small Adventure
The adventure continues over on the . There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Community Spotlight
One Small Adventure
The adventure continues over on the Official Discord[TAG-280] – check out the – check out the #server-events channel to take part! This week channel to take part! This week Clue Chasers team up with team up with Taskman to challenge your perception and puzzle-solving skills! Solve some devilish custom clue maps, or see if your up to snuff with Taskman's tricky tasks!
FashionScapers
to challenge your perception and puzzle-solving skills! Solve some devilish custom clue maps, or see if your up to snuff with Taskman's tricky tasks!
FashionScapers
FashionScapers is a Discord server where you can share FashionScape ideas, find inspiration and advice on outfits and individual cosmetics. They are a chill and friendly community and they love to have fun! Join the community here: FashionScapers is a Discord server where you can share FashionScape ideas, find inspiration and advice on outfits and individual cosmetics. They are a chill and friendly community and they love to have fun! Join the community here: https://discord.gg/Tfvxe22
They are hosting an event to celebrate reaching 10k members! It's time to show off your character's faces - in the most hilarious expressions possible! To join in, make a screenshot of your character doing something mid-animation, and zoom in on that silly facial expression. Then post that in the Not The Face! channel.
The best (funniest, highest quality, etc) submissions will be cleaned up by removing their backgrounds, and turned into server stickers! The event runs until March 1st, so get gurning!
- The RuneScape Team
Community Hitlist & Necromancy Embargo - This Week In RuneScape
Hitlist is back and filled with Quality of Life updates, we are also lifting the Necromancy embargo!
Hitlist is back! Last month we asked you to submit your suggestions for the next round of Community Hitlist changes. We are still currently going through the bounteous feedback, so to tide you over, today’s update includes a few things that weren’t ready for the end of last year – but are ready now!
This time around the team have been smoothing out Fire Spirits, making improvements to the Player Owned Farm, giving various animals graphical updates, adjusting the Herb and Gem bags to work with noted items, enabling players to move the central information box from the middle of the screen, tweaking deathtouched darts to work on a few more bosses and making improvements to the fletching bench in the Fort's workroom.
Phew! And that's not all of it, either.... Check out the patch notes below for the full list of changes!
Our combat beta has been in full swing since November and we are pushing a new beta patch out starting on Thursday January 25th!
We're polishing changes that will be making their way into the live game in the near future but we need your help: We want you to jump in and do battle with your favourite foes. It doesn't matter if you are a slayer master who speedruns tasks with your melee build or you're a budding mage who has been finding their feet, whoever you are we want to hear from you about these changes.
Dive into the beta on Thursday and try out your usual combat scenarios and let us hear from you on how they play and feel with these changes under your belt!
We will have more details on how you can share your experiences with the beta on Thursday January 25th as we will make a post when it launches!
Since Necromancy's cold embrace enraptured the world of Gielinor, we've seen so many of you master a brand-new Combat Style and we've been delighted to follow your journeys to become the most powerful Necromancers around.
From today, we're lifting the embargo on Necromancy to help those of you looking to give an extra nudge to your progression to be combat-ready.
Players will be able to use experience granting items (such as Lamps and Stars) with Necromancy, along with all other experience granting systems that are available to all other skills!
We absolutely loved partnering with Makeship last year to bring you adorable RuneScape plushies – so much that we’re following up with a new, Dragon-themed menagerie ready for the new lunar year!
You can pre-order these draconic (and iconic) plushies right now to add to your ever-growing collection. Check out our store page at the Makeship website here: https://www.makeship.com/shop/creator/runescape
Starts January 23th | Ends January 24th | Genie's Wishes
Be careful what you wish for... you might just get it! Find Karima in your chest to make your wish come true – or enhance your next wish for even greater rewards!
Starts January 25th | Ends January 29th | Soul Showdown
It's time for a showdown between good and evil! Necromancers from both sides will be duking it out on behalf of Death and Rasial.
Spend keys to attack the Necromancers and earn Sigils based on which you defeat. They can then be exchanged for their unique outfits and weapons! Occasionally a defeated Necromancer will be replaced by either Death or Rasial, and you get two Sigils for defeating these mightiest of foes!
Collecting a whole set will reward you with a themed Conjure override – either the Ghul Guardian Zombie or Soul Reaver Skeleton Warrior!
Update to Oddment Generation
With today's update we are making some alterations to Oddments generated via Keys and Treasure Hunter reward conversions.
Increased Oddment Key Daily Purchase Limit from 10 to 15
Base Oddments awarded per key reduced per rarity
Convert Oddments' volumes are no longer affected by reward multipliers
Community Hitlist
Herb and Gem Bags will now store noted items.
The information box that appears above the player to display feedback can now be moved using Edit Mode.
When a monster dies, its options are now hidden during the death animation, so you can more easily pick up the items the monster has dropped.
You can now disable dragging of items in your backpack, using the new padlock button at the bottom.
Hovering over the Invention button on the backpack, and the charge pack in your toolbelt, now displays your remaining charge time and drain rate.
The health of Runes in Zamorak’s solo phase 7 has been halved.
Dev Note: this is to reduce the difficulty between solo and group play; the mechanic was meant to be memory-based and missable if not enough attention was paid, so we elected for halving the health rather than reducing the Rune count further.
Added a wiki button to the top-right corner of the quest overview/journal interface. Clicking it opens the quick guide for the selected quest.
Player Owned Farm name and trait re-rollers can no longer re-roll the current trait/name in the selected slot, and will reopen the roll menu if the player hasn't run out of rerollers.
Completing the Breeding Log for a category of animal now passively grants the tier 1 perk for this animal.
For example, if you have completed the You Had a Zygomite achievement to breed the five types of zygomite, you are now granted the tier 1 Zygomite perk Uncapped Potential, without needing a Zygomite in one of your pens. You still require an animal in a pen to get its tier 2 perk.
Normalised produce and seed amounts required for farming requests based on produce and seed type, removed some outlying annoying crops/seeds it could require (e.g. Bloodweed Seed, Goutweed, Goutweed Tuber).
Reduced possible animal types from small and medium farming requests, increased allowed breeds from medium and hard farming requests, and removed the need for specific traits on hard requested animals.
Making planks via NPCs and the Elite Skilling outfit is now more streamlined.
All types of Fire Spirits will now send rewards directly to the Bank, or to the Inventory if the Bank is full – otherwise the rewards will drop to the floor.
Messaging is now output to say exactly what rewards the Fire Spirit has given.
Messaging is now output when a Fire Spirit despawns without collecting its reward.
A buff is now added to the buff bar when adding logs to a bonfire, if you have any bonus XP from a Fire Spirit.
Added a 15 second reminder that incense sticks will run out, in line with potion effects.
The following bosses are no longer immune to Deathtouched Darts: Commander Zilyana (hardmode), Araxxor in duo mode, Seiryu the Azure Serpent. Note that darting Seiryu only skips phases where you can damage Seiryu.
You will need to destroy the crystals on Seiryu's back (which are dartable) to complete the final phase and get your reward drop.
Black Unicorns have been graphically updated.
The Unicorn Stallion familiar has been graphically updated to match White Unicorn, using special attack for healing animation, and retaining the current chathead.
Unicorns now use melee instead of magic attacks to better suit their animations.
Black/white foals have been graphically updated, with slight adjustments to their examine.
Black bears and grizzly bears, including their cubs, have been graphically updated.
Updated Chuck the Polar Bear in the Ardougne Zoo to use the newer polar bear model.
Updated arctic bear familiar and in the Three's Company saga to use the newer polar bear model.
Turael, Spria and Jacquelyn's novice Slayer Master outfits have been graphically updated.
Updated Vannaka the Slayer Master, body and chathead, including his appearance in Beneath Cursed Tides, Tutorial Island, and the NPC Contact spell.
By popular request, we’ve added a copy of Vannaka to his temporary encampment in south-west Edgeville Dungeon, and updated the Note from Vannaka accordingly.
Repositioned a god ray in the Varrock Sewers under the ladder leading to its manhole exit.
The Magic Store owner that sells runes in the Yanille Mage's Guild no longer wanders and has trimmed robes to more easily distinguish him.
We've also graphically updated the attackable wizards wandering around him.
Updated the Angry Unicorn, Bear and Giant Rat in Tolna's Rift to use newer models.
Added a column for Necronium salvage to the Spring Cleaner interface.
Increased the maximum length of chat history from 100 to 200.
'Loot Custom' will now grab any noted or stackable items from the ground if you already have one in your backpack.
The fletching bench in the ranger's workroom now has a ‘use’ option which checks what fletchable ingredients you're currently carrying and attempts to guess whether to open its Ammo, Fletch or String option.
Combined the fletching bench's ‘toggle’ and ‘check wisdom of Anima’ options as it already had the maximum of five options.
In response to feedback, the fletching workbench and portable fletcher's Ammo option now prioritises tipping headless arrows over feathering arrow shafts, imbuing essence over tipping Dinarrows, and the Fletch option prioritises standard Logs over Protean Logs.
Unwearable items will be moved to the Inventory noted when withdrawing them from the worn tab of the Bank, if withdrawing items noted is toggled on.
By player request, removed Chick'arra's screech and Herman's yell and footstomp during the idle animation of these boss pets.
Graphical Update
Blocking tiles were added in Catherby to fix an issue that allowed players to clip through the environment.
A rock is no longer going through the fence at the Fishing Guild.
Blocking has been added to a rock cliff near the water edge at the Coal Mine in North Kandarin.
The bushes no longer clip through the walls at the guest house north of the Wizards' Guild in Yanille.
Rocks added to the wall near Sinclair Mansion.
Rocks near the Eagle's Peak lodestone should now have similar colours.
Added bubbles to the Lava near Ourania Altar.
The hidey-hole near the Outpost north-west of Ardougne has been added back.
The Sinclair Mansion hidey-hole has been remapped at the correct coordinate.
Fixed a blocking issue causing some Red Salamander traps to become unreachable near the Ourania Altar.
An inaccessible fishing spot north of the Combat Training Camp can be accessed once again.
Fixed an issue which caused a tree to float east of the Grand Exchange.
Stalls in Ardougne Market will no longer twist around abruptly when players steal from them.
Adjusted blocking around the Ardougne Market.
The inactive stalls in the centre of Ardougne market are now examineable.
Blocking has been added to a fence next to the church in East Ardougne.
The fence corner has been replaced with the correct fence piece at the Ardougne Zoo.
Fences extend to the south side of Ardougne Zoo.
Fixed some blocking north of the Observatory and added a shortcut icon for the Plant to the map.
Adjusted some blocking around the Ourania Altar area.
Fixed some blocking issues at the cliffs near the West Ardougne wall.
The fence model at the Ardougne Market has been replaced.
World Gate Engram no longer appears hidden under the terrain.
Grounded the floating rocks into the rock wall at Eagle's Peak.
Added Shells back to the shore north of Barbarian Assault.
Blocking has been added to some rocks and high mapping has been fixed on the beach near Eagle's Peak.
Removed the Elven overpass easy/medium/advanced cliffside shortcut entries from the Agility skillguide.
Removed the A Screwball Scramble achievement, as there's no longer Agility longcuts in Arandar Pass to trigger it, and the Elite Tirranwn area tasks already required more than 85 Agility via the Weave Come A Long Way achievement.
Note that removing this achievement reduces max Runescore by 25.
Blocking has been added near the Grand Tree area.
Terrain gaps in Prifddinas Max Guild have been closed up.
Healthorg and Oaknock Statues are fixed and don't float.
The dead tree is reachable and blocking is added near the Outpost area.
Blocking has been added near the Kingdom of Kandarin.
Players are able to search the boxes at the Ardougne market.
Fixed the texture blending in East Ardougne.
General
The 'Load Last Preset' option is now available on Banks found in the Dominion tower, Neitiznot, Darkmeyer, Lunar Isles, and the Lumbridge basement.
The song 'Dinosaur Slayer' should no longer start to play when crossing the spine of the skeleton during the Agility course.
Necromancy is no longer taken into account when scaling the Dungeoneering monster/boss levels.
Adjusted the font size used in the Achievements tab.
Hammer overrides are now present when smithing normal bars and Protean Bars, and the audio is now played correctly.
Christmas decorations have been removed from the Player-Owned Port.
Primary/secondary hair color buttons are now deselected and cannot be reselected until another hairstyle has been chosen.
Some force-walk tiles near Rimmington have been removed.
The rowdy slave task has been removed from Menaphos City Quests.
Special Minions now despawn when Vorkath leaves the battle.
Christmas decorations have been removed from the Fish Flingers area.
We're bowled over by Night Parade of the Slayer Monsters by @SpoonyLoony!
Runetube
In the hunt for the largest PvM broadcast,@TheRSGuy goes on a trip to all corners of Gielinor!
@A_C_P_L talks about the visual design of the Ranged style.
Scapers' Screenshots
Oh Lily is on a quest to cast the one ring into the fiery depths of the mountain, or just enjoying the new skyline of Kandarin.Plegsi is checking in on the local monk population after the terraforming of their altar.
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Corporeal Beast
Hosted by: Patrick K & Clackworthy
Date/Time: Monday January 22nd, 19:00 Game Time
World: 123
Location: Corporeal Beast Lair
FC: Patrick K
Gregorovic
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Wednesday January 24th, 12:00 Game Time
World: 35
Location: Fort Forinthry
FC: Helpscape
Skill n Chill
Hosted by: MandyPandy, Holbytla, & Spirits of Arianwyn Clan
Date/Time: Thursday January 25th, 19:00 Game Time
World: 252
Location: Varrock West Bank
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
- The RuneScape Team
Kandarin Area Graphical Update - This Week In RuneScape
The Gielinor glow-up continues! How pretty is Kandarin right now?
Gielinor’s largest kingdom gets a graphical overhaul today, including dramatic lighting and extensive terraforming! The team has added a formidable mountain range to the skyline and laid down a carpet of lush and lovely grass throughout. Kandarin never looked so good – check out some of the comparisons below...
We recently announced some updates related to our Fan Content Policy and the Official Forums. When you've got a moment, please check out the linked blog posts for further information.
Starts January 16th | Ends January 17th | Mysteria
Mysteria constantly rotates multiple versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days. Jump in to see what's on the cards!
Starts January 18th | Ends January 22nd | Vault of Riches
The Vault of Riches is set to open once more... That means a chance to get a hold of the incredible spiffy Emerald, Ruby, Diamond and Gold outfits!
Graphical Update
To continue our work in refreshing older areas of the game to the visual standard we all want to see, we have made changes to Kandarin.
Hotfix
Fixed an issue with keepsaked items not functioning correctly.
Vorkath & Zemouregal
Removed a safe spot from Zemouregal's bone spikes attack during the Battle of Forinthry.
The new Sirenic and Dracolich set effects now work in PvP.
The contents of a Deathwarden Nexus are now visible after death.
A typo in the Dracolich armour tooltip has been removed.
Zemouregal's voice lines during the Battle of Forinthry have been trimmed down. He will now shout at you less!
Slightly tweaked the timing of Vorkath's hovering breath attack so that the animation lines up with the damage hit better.
Fixed a crash when both the player and Zemouregal die at the same time.
Fixed an issue where Vorkath was no longer treated as the correct priority by the Death Skulls ability after a Skeleton Shielder had been killed.
Undead dragon, Dracolich, and Elite Dracolich armour pieces now have unique weights.
General
The Ancient Awakening cutscene progresses without interruption while the player is wearing the Ring of Death.
Laniakea's special task can now be cancelled using Slayer points, just like all the other special tasks.
Fixed an issue that caused the Deathwarden armor set tier 50 and 60 to stretch while the rock climbing animation is played.
Stretching does not occur when equipping the Skull Lantern with the 20th Anniversary Cape override.
The stretching of the Augmented Skull Lantern doesn't occur on any obstacle on the Prifddinas Agility Course.
The Christmas Warsuit is now displayed correctly.
Removed multiple force walk tiles from the Grand Exchange.
Attuning the boss portal to a certain boss now matches the voiceline.
A Clockwork Syringe quest now points towards the players current Player Owned House instead of Pollnivneach Player Owned House
The starting location of the Gower quest now leads to Andrew Gower.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to rest while the Running Scared override was applied.
The clickbox is now aligned to the model of Tolna's human form during the quest A Soul's Bane (in the Rift).
The blocking has been removed in the fence gaps south of Evil Dave's house.
The Cake Hat keepsake stays in the Keepsakes interface after logging out of the game.
A black background screen has been added to block the view until everything has loaded up in your Player Owned House.
All instances of letter style interfaces can now be closed using the X in the top right hand corner.
Highlighted items will now set and unset correctly on the Toolbelt.
Blocking has been added to the rocks northwest of Senntisten's entrance, preventing you from walking through terrain textures.
The XP from the Troll Invasion Reward Book is now correctly based on the progress made.
Fixed an issue that stopped Abyssal Lords, Abyssal Savages and Abyssal Beasts from dropping items from the Wilderness shared drop table.
Using Sunshine and Death's Swiftness with the Planted Feet perk active will now last 37.8 seconds, to match Greater Sunshine and Greater Death's Swiftness respectively.
Greater Sunshine and Greater Death's Swiftness have had their tooltip amended to more accurately display how long the abilities are active.
Summoned reinforcements within GWD2 should no longer be able to enter a state where they can attack the player if the player uses the AoE attack of a Summoning familiar.
The Bladed Dive ability can be used with non-weapon off-hand items and non-weapon main-hand items after unlocking it from the Shattered Worlds Reward Shop.
Skull Sceptre can be crafted if the player has another Skull Sceptre keepsaked.
Reward Caskets will no longer drop items on the ground if opened in short succession (spam clicking).
The inventory space required to open the Treasure Trail Reward Caskets was increased by one (10 inventory spaces are now required to open the Reward Casket).
The buffs from Golden Cape Hunt now expire as intended.
The Blink boss no longer disappears after raising the pillar at the very last moment.
The Teralith, Tempest and Primeval Sets, including all Achto variants, have had their tooltips updated to better reflect how many pieces are required to unlock the Defensive ability's Cooldown reset chance. This is a visual change only, and does not reflect a mechanical change.
Reverting the Crystal Hatchet to the Dragon Hatchet will show a confirmation message and won't use 4,000 Harmonic dust.
Fixed an issue with the Wilderness Sword Teleport cooldown. Players now should be able to use the teleport to Wilderness Flash Events without waiting 45 minutes for the cooldown to be over if the teleport action was blocked.
Laniakeas neck has been fixed, and there are no longer holes in the texture while in the Chat interface.
The fountain in the east of Falador has been added back.
Fixed lighting and shadows in Varrock and Fort Forinthry
Script errors during the heist sequence during the Heartstealer quest have been fixed.
Community Showcase
u/1to99Artscape has some interesting ideas for that 4th conjure slot!Now that all the gods are banished they can get back to whats important... which is go karting, obviously. @SprigganSir
Runetube
Trying to get back into the swing of things in 2024 @InitYeah has some great tips for getting started.
@CrunchieRS has been making a ton of progress – and has condensed it all into one super informative video!
Scapers' Screenshots
Dacia is the lizard queen!Party is in a bit of a festive mood.AWeeRedpanda having a wee winter moment
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Soul Wars
Hosted by: Jen & Pinky Swear
Date/Time: Monday January 15th, 21:00 Game Time
World: 45
Location: Soul Wars Lobby
FC: Pvplatform
Penguin Tour
Hosted by: Miss Misty
Date/Time: Wednesday January 17th, 20:00 Game Time
World: 60
Location: Edgeville Bank
FC: Miss Mist
Special buried treasure
Hosted by: Aarie & Redwigon
Date/Time: Saturday January 20th, 18:00 Game Time
World: 117
Location: Varrock Grand Exchange
FC: Mod Events
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Community Spotlight
Fast SC's 15th Anniversary Celebration!
Fast SC is turning 15 years old this month, so they have put together 15 fabulous events across the next 15 days! Fast SC is the World 99 Non-Combat Stealing Creation Friends Chat, ‘Where friends are gathered as much as clay.’ They focus on non-combat Stealing Creation, safely collecting and depositing clay.
Here's a sample of their upcoming events!
Monday, January 15th at 17:30 GMT - Claymunity SC: Help us kick off the birthday celebration with a learner-friendly version of non-combat SC games! Note: Another learner-friendly SC event will be held on Saturday, January 27th at 22:00 GTM. Come dressed in your favorite red and blue override.
Sunday, January 21st @ 21:00 GMT - Combat SC: Have an itch for some PvP and traditional SC gameplay? Join us for our Combat ScCtournament and shoot your shot at a split of a 1.5 billion GP pot among your teammates!
Join the Fast SC community in the Discord: discord.gg/fastsc and check out the Event Calendar for a full list of 15th birthday fun!
- The RuneScape Team
Master Cape Customisation & December Community Hitlist - This Week In RuneScape
This update is stuffed with changes in our December Community Hitlist strike, Mod Ramen’s Cape Customisation and some new deals on currency packs!
The end of the year is fast approaching, but we've got just enough time to squeeze in a hitlist strike and tackle some more of your most-requested QoL changes.
This time around the team have been working on turning Revenant Enhancers into a currency to free up those precious Bank slots, updates to several audio requests players have been asking for, adding in the ability to drop items from your Backpack by shift-clicking them, adding a Load Last Preset option to bank chests, bank booths and bankers, refreshing the rare and super rare loot tables, and changing how Excalibur functions when clicked.
Phew! But that's not all the team's been up to. Check out the patch notes below for the full list of changes!
With all that out of the way, the Community Hitlist will be taking a break until January, when we'll be back to address more player pet peeves!
As if the Christmas Village wasn't colourful enough, Mod Ramen has been busy in the workshop getting his GameJam project up and running! As of today's update, you'll be able to customise your Master Capes with all the colours (and shades) of the rainbow! As if that weren't enough, you can save your prettiest particles as presets. We can't wait to see what festive patterns you come up with! Now there's even more reasons to polish off those last few achievements and earn your Cape! You can do it!
Planning to treat yourself in RuneScape this Christmas?
The Ultimate Christmas Currency Packs offer the best value Key bundles this season, with a bumper offering of RuneCoins, Knowledge Bombs, Prismatic Stars and and some wonderfully wintery Holly Knight cosmetics! Our Medium and Large Currency Packs also contain over double the usual amount of Keys, as well as some additional Umbral Chests. [table] [tr] [th] [th]Small Christmas Currency Pack[/th] [th]Medium Christmas Currency Pack[/th] [th]Large Christmas Currency Pack[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Price[/td] [td]£8.99[/td] [td]£44.99[/td] [td]£88.99[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Umbral Chest[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]1 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]3 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Runecoins[/td] [td]420[/td] [td]2400[/td] [td]5200[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Prismatic Star[/td] [td]10x Medium (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]10x Large (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]20x Huge (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Knowledge Bombs[/td] [td]4 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]8 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]16 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Keys[/td] [td]35 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]450 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [td]950 (0 for Ironmen)[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Cosmetics[/td] [td]Holly Knight Swords (Cosmetic override)[/td] [td]Holly Knight Armour (Cosmetic override)[/td] [td]Holly Knight Sword and Armour (Cosmetic override)[/td] [/tr][/table] All three Ultimate Christmas Currency Packs are a one-time purchase for each offer, and will be available from today until January 3rd. You can find them in the Treasure Hunter shop on RuneScape.com.
While the Holly Knight cosmetics are part of our bumper Christmas bundle offers above, we know this offer won't be for everyone who would be interested in rocking the festive warrior look. If you're one of those players, we'll be making sure you can pick up the Holly Knight Armour & Sword from the Premier Token Store next Christmas!*
*Updating the Premier Token Store in general is still very much on our radar and something we're investigating for next year.
Starts December 4th | Ends December 10th | Academy of Heroes
The Echo of Arch-Glacor is back again, bringing with it a second chance to get your hands on some seasonal Azure-themed overrides! Keep an eye out for the Treasure Goebie - defeat them, and you'll receive extra Wrapping Paper!
Community Hitlist
Excalibur, Enhanced Excalibur and Augmented Enhanced Excalibur now have a consistent default action (Activate) when equipped and in the Backpack. This allows Excalibur's healing special to be activated with ease.
Players can now use the 'Configure' option to choose whether to instead use Wield/Remove as the default action.
After dragging Excalibur from the Backpack to the Action Bar, you can choose which default option the Action Bar uses.
The 'Configure' option also lets you choose what you'd like to shout when Excalibur is activated. 'Silent' is the default option.
You can now hold the Shift key and click items in the Backpack to drop them (if they support dropping, of course).
Doubled the output of Dinarrow components (Sharp Shell Shards, Tempered Fungal Shafts, 'Propellant') from the 3 'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking activities south of the Anachronia dinosaur farm, and entirely reworked the eggsperimentation eggtivity to support a greater range of low- to high- intensity gameplay.
Wherever possible, Bank chests, booths and bankers now have a Load Last Preset option. This reloads your most recent Bank preset without needing to open, populate and close your Bank interface.
The 'Dare to Die' song that plays at War's Retreat now fades in more gently and plays at a lower volume, so that its drum track is gentler on the ears when passing through the PvM hub.
A looping ambient sound of crystal chimes has been removed from the Tower of Voices and Max Guild in Prifddinas, to better suit extensive bankstanding.
A repetitive moan in the Zombie Walk idle animation, audible to all nearby players, has been removed.
A repetitive meow in the idle animation of some cats and kittens, audible to all nearby players, has been removed.
By player request, we've reverted the sound played during clue scans to its pre-June version.
The individual charges of Revenant Drop Enhancers can now be stacked in your Currency Pouch, freeing up Bank space.
When loading a Bank preset including items that can be filled with essence, their current contents are now emptied into the Bank before refilling them, in case they contain a different type.
Rebalanced and updated the rare and super-rare loot tables to remove some of the less valuable items (Runite Stone Spirits, Molten Glass and Raw Lobsters) and increase variance of items dropping in multiples.
Players standing on charging pads during the Zamorak boss battle when the Infernus witch dies no longer need to step off and on again to charge the pad.
Clarified the Start Point description for the TokTz-Ket-Dill quest.
Multiple items can now be added to the Keepsake Box:
Enhanced Boots
Protea Flower
Superior Zuriel’s Staff
Superior Dragon Weapons
Superior Rock-Shell Armour
Superior Spined Armour
Superior Skeletal Armour
Monkey Trinkets
Cake Hat
Mud Mask
Fairy Wand
Pendant of Lucien
Mining Helmet
Gofannon Amulet
Cattleprod
Mouse Toy
Elite Death Lotus Dart
Legatus Pendant
Bug Lantern
Imcando Hatchet
The list of overhead emotes can now be filtered to only show the emotes you've unlocked.
GameJam
Misty, in the Deep Sea Fishing hub, now has two shiny new chat options:
She will tell you how long it has been since the current encounter started. No more guessing how fresh the travelling merchant is!
If no event is currently present, she will instead tell you how long it has been since there was an encounter.
She will pass on the rumours of what stock the travelling merchant has that day.
When purchasing the items in slots 2, 3 and 4 of the travelling merchant, it would erroneously show "Locked" instead of "Sold Out" to show the items were out of stock. This has now been corrected.
When the game servers reboot as part of the weekly update, there was a minimum of 45 minutes before the first encounter in deep sea fishing (such as the travelling merchant) could appear. This is no longer the case and such encounters can now potentially (depending on RNG) appear immediately after a game server reboot.
Zemouregal & Vorkath
Lord of Bones now reduces armour at 0.2% per stack to maximum of 40%
Vorkath's 'Ice Circle' attack no longer damages dreadnips or Seren spell prisms.
Vorkath breath attack has been updated to provide better visual feedback
Hard mode achievements have been added for the Zemouregal & Vorkath battle.
Insane Final Boss achievement now correctly shows and track hard mode as well as pet requirement
Some items obtained from Battle of Forinthry reward chests are now noted.
Zemouregal summons spawn location changed to avoid spawning under Vorkath
Players now only take damage if they stop in a poison pool, however, if a poison pool spawns on them, they can mitigate damage by running to an empty square, when the pool appears.
If crossing a single pool they will only take damage once a player stops in it.
Added the Vorkath Necromancy weapon overrides to the Zemouregal and Vorkath encounter's drop table.
Christmas Village
Ironmen can now purchase double wrapping paper from the marketplace.
Updated the bank chest in the Christmas Village to better fit the environment.
Updated trees in the Christmas Village
Fixed texture on snowpile to craft snowballs
Smokey the coal now moves more slowly and is easier to interact with.
Some missing windows have been rebuilt within Falador & Lumbridge
Removed some unnecessary options on the advent calendar icon on mobile.
Fixed several graphical issues with Christmas lights in Falador & Lumbridge.
Vorkath will now appropriately award wrapping paper
Some Christmas lights in Fort Forinthry will no longer float when remove roof is enabled
The stolen decorations from the southern Varrock have been returned by the imps!
Fixed some duplicate text within the combine text on the Christmas scarves and hats.
The Varrock Eastern Gate can now be passed through correctly.
Players will now have their transmog removed when speaking to various NPCs around the Christmas Village.
Fixed the Christmas Shop purchases for F2p (TBD)
The Ice fishing water hole has been slightly adjusted so it no longer has a darker square shadow within it.
Clicking on a button to open a different interface on the Treasure Hunter progress bar will now reopen Treasure Hunter when closing the interface.
Some various typos & inconsistencies have been fixed across the Christmas Event.
A Christmas tree in the Grand Exchange now has a fence around the trunk.
The advent calendar now mentions the prize received when opening a window.
Some lamposts in Varrock have had their string lights appropriately attached.
Mince pies can now be noted and traded.
The text on the 'Advent' and 'Event' buttons within Treasure Hunter has been made brighter.
Snowballs made within the Christmas Village should now give you up-to-date reclaim information upon attempting to destroy them.
Fort Forinthry's chapel decorations have been returned by the Snow Imps! To see the changes, re-enable the Christmas decorations via Zoe.
General
The 'But It Won't Warp You Anywhere' achievement can now be completed again.
Fixed an issue that made certain items equip while using 'Fill' or 'Empty' options within the bank interface.
The "Samurai outfit" override should now appear in correct categories.
The "King and Queen of Hearts Pack" and "King and Queen of Spades Pack" weapon overrides should now appear in correct categories.
Fixed an issue where players could be disconnected when attempting to empty the giant pouch.
Fixed an issue where selecting the 'Lost Items' button in the bug report interface would open an incorrect web page.
Items in Ore Boxes will now be saved on death unless it is a PvP death
The ladder inside the Blue Moon Inn functions once again.
The in-game clock now should refresh as expected.
Engine
Fixed an issue where Necromancy conjures were failing to find the right route during combat, causing them to get stuck.
Fixed an issue where setting a high framerate limit would result in dramatically lower performance on some machines running recent versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Fixed an issue where forcing anisotropic filtering via the Nvidia Control Panel would result in the game's interface rendering incorrectly.
Fixed flickering artefacts of point light shadows on some less common hardware.
Fixed interactions between interface scaling and field of view.
Fixed an issue where the game failed to launch via Steam for some users with Intel GPUs.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when minimising the game window on AMD GPUs.
Fixed various Android crashes.
Improved quality of game render scaling.
Improved quality of interface scaling on desktop.
Improved quality of FXAA on mobile, and on desktop when game render scale is not 100%.
Improved performance and game rendering quality when interface scale is set to less than 100%.
Improved performance and quality when 'Game View' is resized using Edit Layout.
Reset game render scale setting to account for Windows/macOS DPI scaling, due to performance issues.
Players wanting native 4k can manually change the setting back to 100.
Players using 4k resolutions may observe UI and game rendering being upscaled to 4K at high quality, costing some FPS depending on your system display scaling settings.
Community Showcase
Need a sword to slay a god or one made from a god? u/1to99Artscape might have something.@TaffingSpy knows Sliske loves a bit of Karaoke.Vilmokas didn't feel like being merciful when they finally stopped Vorkath.
Scapers' Screenshots
u/jordantylermeek is taking a moment to enjoy the little things at the Christmas Village.Bjorngomes trying to think what they want from Santa this year.Festive Party has given Falador a sprucing up.
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Croesus
Hosted by: Aarie & Redwigon
Date/Time: Wednesday December 6th, 18:00 Game Time
World: 117
Location: Croesus Front
FC: Mod Events
Monkey Takeover!
Hosted by: Apazos, f2pironmanfc & Spirits of Arianwyn
Date/Time: Saturday December 9th, 17:00 Game Time
World: 3
Location: Varrock Square
FC: F2pironmanfc
Town Square Q&A
Hosted by: Princess Rae
Date/Time: Saturday December 9th, 23:00 Game Time
World: 3
Location: Varrock West Bank
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy! - The RuneScape Team
Christmas Season Update - This Week In RuneScape
Christmas is upon us, with a new quest, festive events, weekly buffs and more! We've also got a very special limited edition plushie for pre-order… Break out the eggnog and start dressing the tree, because Christmas is coming to Gielinor! In the Land of Snow, Santa needs help building up Christmas Spirit. Hop in today to explore the beautiful Christmas Village, help the snow imps festively decorate the cities of Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador in our new seasonal quest, and collect Christmas Spirit to exchange for old and new items from the seasonal store!
Also make sure you collect and deliver your letters to Santa each week to earn Nice Points and be in with a chance of winning the Black Party Hat!
Read our in-depth blog for everything you need to know about our Christmas update here!
...And there's more!
Beyond the village, we'll have additional seasonal events going on too - including a Wrapping Paper event, the Advent Calendar, weekly buffs and more. See the full list here. Omen the Necromancy pet is swooping by - in plush form! He's available to order today from our partners Makeship, but be quick. Orders close on December 13th!
He's 16 cm high, super soft and best of all - he glows in the dark!
This cuddly pal is strictly Limited Edition - it's going to be a one-off production run once pre-orders close - so get yours now before he flaps back to the City of Um! Orders are due to ship in March 2024. For more details and to order your glowy pal, visit the Makeship store.
Need some gift inspiration? The Merch store has Black Friday deals and new lines ready for the holidays!
Here are some of the highlights right now: Orders over £50/$64/€58 get a free Black Matt Max Cape Keyring - it glows in the dark!
Holiday Bundles and popular lines are back in stock –present ideas for the 'Scaper in your life - or a cheeky Christmas treat for yourself?
New and best selling Angels Scapes lines –check out the Christmas DDS and Baby Santa Mole pins, plus the ever popular Party Hat keyrings and more! Make sure Santa’s got his order in well before last shipping dates - check them out on the merch store page.
For the full range visit the store now! Starts November 27th | Ends December 3rd | Loot Rooms
Wrap up warm before you head into the Loot Rooms! The Snowy Chest will award players who open it with bigger drops of wrapping paper!
Vorkath, Battle of Forinthry
Changed the buy limit for Vorkath's Spikes from 10 to 100.
Grouping system is now functioning as intended. Players should now have no issue grouping up as long as they've completed Story Mode.
Fixed an issue preventing the Salve Amulet from working on the horde phase minibosses during the Battle of Forinthry boss fight.
When re-joining Battle of Forinthry, the player is less likely to be spawned on poison pools.
Made a small tweak to Vorkath's Zonal Ice Breath attack - it's now possible to dodge damage by stepping into a previously targetted area at the right moment.
The Zonal Ice Breath will no longer damage familiars if you escape the attack yourself.
Vorkath hard mode loot has been improved.
You will need to open all of your existing hard mode loot containers before you can start a new encounter and access the new drop table. Story and normal mode drop tables have not been adjusted.
The chance of receiving some lesser valued loot has been reduced (such as banite stone spirits).
The chance of receiving some more desirable loot has been increased (such as black stone hearts).
The chance of receiving armour upgrade materials has been increased.
The chance of receiving a codex has been increased.
The number of rolls per loot container has been increased from 6 to 8.
Hotfixed
Fixed an issue that caused the Vorkath Hunt Event interface to display incorrectly.
Fixed an issue that was causing the 'Death Skulls' ability to revert to previous behavior when choosing between some targets that are immune.
T90 Dracolich now requires a needle and thread to craft.
Augmented Dracolich Armour no longer uses a degrade to dust system.
Players should now be able to load into boss phase without issue, regardless of solo or group size.
Abilities that require Necromancy Runes or Ectoplasm are now available when equipping the Nexus from your Bank.
Zemouregal's Death Skulls ability should now find its target correctly.
General
Spencer the Imp's UI that showcases previous and upcoming winter updates has been refreshed to a more modern style, with the title of 'Festive Releases'.
Text on the signposts is now larger, bolder and easier to read.
We've unwrapped and removed the Blue Present that was hiding under the snow near Spencer.
Portable Stations can once again be placed inside Fort Forinthry's Workshop.
Community Showcase
Zemouregal is looking fierce in this amazing piece by Quardri!Another beautiful piece by @Suizzy - what could be more peaceful than woodcutting by a stream?Ever thought about how cool it would look to drift on a dragon? @Legend_Arts knows what we all want to see.
Runetube
Need the rundown on the Christmas event kicking off today? @ProtoxxGaming has you covered!
Scapers' Screenshots
Taresu might need to break out the fire runes to clear up the fort...Wings bringing their pet boulder out for a walk. Gotta give them their exercise...
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
Kree'Arra Hardmode
Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
Date/Time: Thursday November 30th, 17:00 Game Time
World: 35
Location: Armadyl Lobby
FC: Helpscape
Nex - Angel Of Death
Hosted by: Pippyspot & Boss Guild
Date/Time: Friday December 1st, 20.00 Game Time
World: 88
Location: God Wars Dungeon - Ancient Prison
FC: Boss Events
Nex - Angel Of Death
Hosted by: Spotleewolf & Nexaodmass
Date/Time: Friday December 1st, 23.00 Game Time
World: 92
Location: God Wars Dungeon - Ancient Prison
FC: Nexaodmass
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
u/1to99Artscape has given the Dark Wizards' Tower a little makeover to give it a bit more of a menacing profile!
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