Past server updates [last: 30 August 2024]

[Rapsey]

New development system

At long last the new development system I've been working on is finally ready and has been put into use, Hurray!

I will spare you the boring technical details. In summary, the new system:

• allows developers to work with less hassle and obstacles in their way, speeding up development
• enables content to be released more quickly after it's implemented and more frequently
• makes it trivial for developers to run public test servers with up-to-date database snapshots from the live server
• is a big step towards making it possible for @Raj to release updates autonomously

This will be the first update deployed with the new system, so cross your fingers and knock on your wooden desk.

Travelling salesman events

Every now and then the travelling salesman will grace us with his presence. These donator sales will keep happening at random intervals and will be announced in the same way as every other upcoming event (i.e. through the homepage, ::events and in-game announcements). They will not always be announced with news posts since they happen automatically.

To start off with there are two sale events, but more will be added down the road:

• The AFK chair sale, an account perk which lets you set your AFK chair color to red, blue, the default white, or the one you have in your POH. The perk costs 25k credits (event lasts 2 weeks by default)
• The Shattered Cannon Ornament Kit sale, which converts all 4 cannon pieces with just 1 kit and costs 7,500 credits. (event lasts 1 week by default)

Both events will run in parallel for a little over 2 weeks, from Friday March 7th up to and including Sunday March 23rd.

Starts in:
Ends in:

Other improvements

Credit to @Raj for:

• Added donator sale events for customizable AFK chairs and the Shattered Cannon ornament kit.
• A keybindings option has been added to remap number keys to function keys.
• Added the Book of Darkness and Ancient Robes to the list of Zaros items for GWD protection.
• The Nylocas boss will now drop the Nylocas pet at a 1/500 rate.
• Beer barrels in POH's will fill all the beer glasses in a player's inventory at once.
• Dragon arrowtips have been added to Brimstone chests with the same drop rates and quantities as dragon darts.
• The expeditious enhancement percentage chance per perk tier has been increased from 2% to 8%. See viewtopic.php?f=134&t=86033.
• The Ring of Suffering and its imbued variant will now return the rings of recoil when uncharged. Some text was improved for clarity. Players should free to report text issues when charging/uncharging various charged items.
• The multi-logging restriction has been removed from the Nightmare.
• The LMS minimum player requirement has been reduced to 2.

Credit to @Mike for:

• Admin+ can now restore players' HCIM status with a command.
• Prevented COX killcounts from counting as doubled when claiming COX capes.
• HCIM crowns are now updated immediately on death.
• The LMS lobby is now a safe area when dying.
• Picking up Dawnbringer should no longer cause the "no banking" TOB achievement to fail.
• Attempted a fix for removing guardians in POHs.
• The Black Kiteshield (t) has been added to easy clue rewards.

[Raj]

Changelog

• Added Noted Recoil Rings to the Armor and Weapons Store for 3m each
• Added Clan Announcements to Clue Scroll loot (87320)
• Increased the amount of XP obtained from cutting gems (87638)
• Increased the amount of coins obtained from thieving (87885)
• Added 3rd Age Druidic pieces to the Mimic table at very rare rates (86110)
• Allowed buying multiple Rune Pouches (83830)
• Added a warning to the Stonemason that he accepted noted gold bars (85676)
• A number of bugs were fixed

[Brant]

Today's update comes with a nice minor update that pkers have wanted for a while, #Capes2Preset2018? Well, sorta.

Due to technical limitations, we weren't able to do exactly that, but we have developed a system which should effectively remove such nuisance.

Introducing - Death's Coffer



This system will allow you to store 100m and coins in it as a way to pay for items that cost money to claim from refund but only on death



If you were to die with sufficient cash in your coffer, the cash will pay the cost of the item and the item will be kept in your possession.
You can talk to Skully to enable a setting which will notify you when your coffer runs out of coins.

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That's it for the main update, but we do have a couple of minor changes:

• Slayer Helms can now be stored in the Armour case in the POH viewtopic.php?f=134&t=87341
• Removes the Costume Room warning viewtopic.php?t=87497 viewtopic.php?t=87915
• Ceremonial Set in POH storage works as a full set (must have a full set in POH storage, can't mix and match from bank and storage) viewtopic.php?t=87201

That's it for today. We haven't forgotten about the Runelite Client, it's still being worked on, albeit slower due to some hiccups. As for what I'm working on next, lets just say you should probably start collecting your favorite little critters

[Brant]

While we continue to work on our main projects, there were a host of updates related to the cache that we were sitting on, so without further ado:


New Vote Store Item:


Prices:

Spoiler: show

Beach Boxing Gloves Yellow - 400
Beach Boxing Gloves Pink - 400
Lava staff upgrade kit - 600
Steam staff upgrade kit - 600
Torture ornament kit - 750
Anguish ornament kit - 750
Tormented ornament kit - 750
Occult ornament kit - 750
Soul cape (red) - 500
Soul cape (blue) - 500
Offhand Ale of the Gods - 1000

Alongside the new items, Iron Man can now vote. There will be more items to come in the future!

New Item Sets

• Torva Set
• Pernix Set
• Virtus Set
• Armadyl Set
• Bandos Set
• Ancient Cere Set
• Overload Ingredients set (all extremes and clean torstol)
• Third Age Druidic Set
• Initiate Set (for those who have them)
• Proselyte Set (not obtainable yet)

Equipable Items
Every equipable item should now go to the correct slot and no longer glitch the character. Seeing as this is done via cache, there might be a couple of exceptions where things didn't get transferred over properly. If you find an item that gets messed up, please let me know.


Other Minor updates:

• All 2b capes have been visually improved, no more glitchy icons (this includes the npcs also)
• The music for Varrock is now the proper Garden track instead of Scape Santa.
• The Tzhaar track will now play within the fight caves
• The Inferno track will now play within the Inferno
• Boxing gloves now have their proper animations for attack, defence, idle, and walk
• Other misc changes under the hood that will help development time go down in the future.

Update 5/5/2025

• Fixes Druidic set prices
• Fishbowl and net now goes to the right slot
• New ornament items have had there stats fixed to match there non ornament items
• The ornament lava staff and steam staffs now have the proper runes
• Infernal cape has its texture back
• New armour sets are droppable now
• Soul cape now has its proper bonuses
• Null npcs should no longer show up
• Mithril spear (and its poison variants) was wrongly having 18 prayer bonus instead of strength bonus
• Vote points for ironman refresh in the store