Patchnotes! 2015-2018 - Archive

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 23r January 2017

Graphical


The super disco outfit can now be recoloured while keepsaked.

Players are now able to rest with the Zombie or Conga walk animations active.

A blocking issue with a crate on Cyclosis has been fixed.

Treasure chests on Uncharted Isles now consistently use the correct open model for their type.

All remaining 15 year anniversary decorations have been removed.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


The colour of the doubloons message has been changed, and the box that appears when adding them to the currency pouch has been removed.

Players will no longer be assigned the Queen Black Dragon from Death without 60 Summoning.

Players will no longer have the Fenrir broadcast upon on his arrival if they have claimed their XP from his tooth.

The message when players gain memory strands has been filtered.

The message when the Guthixian Cache buff replaces the double loot effect due to Memorial to Guthix perk has been filtered.

It is no longer possible to place a duelist cap or wildstalker helmet commemorative statue near a portable skilling location.

Teleporting wobbegongs to the bank via a sign of the porter will now correctly contribute towards the total count which can be seen via Quick Chat.

Runes will now correctly be taken from a large rune pouch while manufacturing invention items.


Other


A Quick Chat option has been added which states whether a player has completed the pre-Yakamaru puzzle section in a Raid.

The Berserker aura effect can no longer stack with multiple activations.

Concentrated Blast, Fury and Needle Strike are now buffed while Sonic Wave is slightly nerfed. See Mod Pi's post for more details.

Statius warhammer now drains 5 times less divine charge per special attack, making it last for around 1000 special attacks.

After achieving the Voyager title (by completing the Arc journal), Uncharted Isle treasure chests are marked on the minimap with an icon.

Golden bamboo and wobbegongs now have a progress bar, similar to ancestral energy and mushroom clusters.

Filtered messages have been added for Uncharted Isles' rare resources at different stages of depletion.

Tortle traps can now be placed over the tile occupied by the hunter icon on Uncharted Isle ornate tortle spots.

A message has been added for players who have had Intercept casted on them.

Two new buff icons have been added for Intercept, one for the caster and one for the player receiving the spell.

Legendary pets can no longer automatically pick up the Hellfire bow.

The talent scout will no longer speak to players who have a Hellfire bow.

Players can once again craft chaotic claws by using chaotic spikes on dragon claws.

The teleport checks on the juju teleport spirit bag have been adjusted, ensuring that it is only consumed upon successfully teleporting.

A spelling error in the tooltip of the ethereal skilling outfit sets has been corrected.

A typo in 'The Diary of Jebediah Omnis' has been fixed.

The message that informs players if they cannot use a grand seed pod on Anniversary island has been updated.

The 'right click to open interface' loot option now works consistently.


Last Week's Hotfixes


16/01, 13:20 UTC: Monkey barrels were disabled, as they caused a client crash in NXT.

16/01, 16:15 UTC: The Grouping System changes launched in Monday's game update were reverted.

16/01, 21:10 UTC: Sköll's spawning script was tweaked to ensure that he would consistently spawn.

17/01, 09:15 UTC: Monkey barrels were re-enabled.

17/01, 11:50 UTC: Gaining XP when harvesting from the Wilderness herb patch without a demonic skull was enabled.


Ninja Fixes


Players may now Quick Chat their current Soul Reaper assignment.

Players collecting only 1 item from the Grand Exchange with the "collect all" feature will now have it given to them unnoted.

Chartering a ship will now place players directly on the dock.

A Duel Arena clue scroll has been re-positioned to no longer require entering the arena.

Walk and rest overrides are now hidden within PvP areas.

Players may now right-click the pirate message during Pirate's Treasure to dig.

The volume of the Drake and Shadow Drake wing sounds has been reduced.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 30th January 2017

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Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


The daily challenge to create 184 fire runes can now be completed on free worlds.



Other


The 'unlock all permanent effects from Death's Store' option on the Trim Requirements tab of the Completionist interface now takes into account the latest Death's Store rewards.

Examining a player's Tiny Death pet will now state how many Soul Reaper assignments they have completed.

A Quick Chat bubble icon has been added for the "Raids Puzzle" Quick Chat message.

Examining degraded tradeable variants of Player-Owned Ports armours will no longer show an incorrect cost if an interface is open.



Last week's hotfixes


23/01, 11:45 UTC: The new Death's Store rewards are now a requirement for the trimmed completionist cape.

24/01, 11:30 UTC: An issue which was causing the Deathmatch lobby to occasionally allow PvP combat has been fixed.

24/01, 14:00 UTC: The Shadow Gorilla's emote now uses the same camera shake effect as the Jungle Gorilla pet.



Ninja fixes


Provoke has been changed to be substantially more effective.

The destroy empty bowls option in the Miscellaneous settings window has been modified to include pots, cake tins, pie dishes, and buckets.

Players may now toggle the ability to have a Legacy mode skin while using the non-Legacy interface mode.



NXT

Fixed some rendering issues/crashes that might appear on older drivers or graphics cards.

Improved apperance of water at extreme camera angles.

Added support for SSAO in compatability graphics mode.

Added support for soft particles in compatability graphics mode.

Fixed water refraction on compatability graphics mode.

Fixed particles not interacting with bloom.

Fixed 'protesting' Edgeville guards (This also fixes the odd issues seen with stretching bones).


There's a new NXT launcher update with this as well which includes the following:
Added an auto update feature to the NXT launcher (fully for Windows, partly for Mac and not required for Linux).

Added the ability to open multiple clients on Mac.

Added a "do not warn me" again option to exiting the client when logging in.

Added a "do not warn me again" option on the graphics card malfunction warning.

[Raist Fasa]

Thanks Cally!

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 6th February 2017

Graphical


Updated the models of the cyclopes (and the cyclossus) in the Warrior's Guild.

Added a new chat head to Umi's ports mini game.

Fixed an animation issue with Vanstrom hanging in the air during the blood bomb attack.

The Mahjarrat in 'Fate of the Gods' have been graphically updated.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Araxxi, Queen Black Dragon, Beastmaster Durzag, Yakamaru and Rush of Blood loot chests now show their total value.

The Plank used in the Yakamaru Raid encounter should now appear on top of other items by default when dropped.

God tokens from World Event 2 will now count as the appropriate god faction when in the God Wars dungeon.

The baked potato now correctly shows as F2P on the Cooking skillguide.

Attempting to get a bounty from Feng exactly one year from the date of last bounty completed now works and assigns bounties correctly.


Quest, Challenges and Achievements


Sensei Hakase on Tuai Leit will now give you a full list of your remaining requirements to "complete" the Arc (achieve the Salty title).

Players can now set specific colours for their Memorial to Guthix plinths, provided the colours have been unlocked.

Nightmare creatures are now less likely to want to run away from you.


Other


The Sunspear can now be activated as a cosmetic override from the wardrobe interface for each combat style.

Fixed an issue where Airuts were only spawning as melee-variants on Mazcab.

Buy options of 25 and 50 have been added to the Waiko reward shop for Arc teletabs, contract contacts and the Banky crablet.

The teleport to Port Sarim on the Arc journal no longer uses a teletab animation, since it doesn't consume a teletab.

Breaking teletab animation is also no longer used for short-range teleports where the item remains intact.

The 'Salty' title is now a suffix on PT-BR worlds.

The Arc journal's progress bars will now represent your current progress towards completion slightly more accurately.

Lookout Ekahi on Waiko previously had nothing to say about the area after completing Final Destination. This has been fixed.

Bosun Higg's dialogue before and after the malevolent entity's demise was reversed. This has been fixed.

The contract board behind Sojobo in Waiko previously skipped contracts that could only be completed on permanent islands. This has been adapted to also block contracts for low-tier resources found on authored islands (such as non-golden bamboo, sea salt, berries and non-ornate tortles).

You can no longer overwrite a tortle trap with another tortle trap if it was placed on a tile containing a Hunter area icon.

The message when attempting to place a tortle trap on a trapped tile has been made clearer.

The population of Whale's Maw has increased.

Players in differing timezones to runescape will no longer see the incorrect dates on their promo info.

Players dying to non-pvp combat within the wilderness will no longer have their augmented items instantly deleted.

Having your special attack leeched whilst at 100% will now begin to recharge it again.

The target info panel in PvP will no longer display the amount of stacks the Revenge ability has on every icon.

The quick chat message for the Nex: Angel of Death killcount now displays current prestige properly.

Added Nex - Angel of Death boss kills quick chat into the correct section.

Players spectating from the balcony of a Nex:AoD kill they died in are no longer eligible to roll for loot.

Fixed an issue, with the meteorites stating the wrong amount of XP given.

The virus message has been changed to a chat message during the Nex: Angel of Death encounter to prevent missing the instant-kill message.

Players trapped in an icicle during the Nex: Angel of Death encounter can no longer deal damage.

Increased the icicles armour and bleed count for lower thresholds during the Nex: Angel of Death encounter.

Increased the damage of smoke blades in the Nex: Angel of Death encounter.

Increased the armour of the blood reavers in the Nex: Angel of Death encounter.

Added a broadcast for the intricate chests from Nex: Angel of Death.

Deathmatch reward armour can now be reclaimed from Death or the gravestone upon death.

Augmented variants of the Decimation, Annihilation, and Obliteration will now clear their special attack effects when switching weapons.

It is no longer possible to store 2 of the same rune type in a rune pouch.


Ninja Fixes


Players may now drink a cup of tea to remove the effects of the Aggression potion. Nothing like a nice, calming cuppa tea!

We've updated the Tea Flask animation.

Wildywyrms are significantly more likely to spawn.

Uncharged Junk refiners now stack.

Completing a reaper task now allows the player to say they have no task via quick chat.

The ninjas have waved their wand and added an "Ascend to top floor" and "Descend to bottom floor" options to the Wizard's Tower!

Prevented players from protecting demonic skulls in the wilderness by noting them with magic notepaper.

The Port Sarim Fishing Shop has also had a permanent door stop adding by the Ninjas... again.

The Catherby Range house has had a permanent door stop adding by the Ninjas... again.

The Fremenniks have moved some fencing on Waterbirth island to allow quicker access to the Waterbirth Dungeon.

Do you forget about adding compost before planting stuff? Me too. It sucks. Now you can place compost in the ground just after planting something! Yay!

Favourite worlds are now saved at the top of your "Hop Worlds" interface in game.

Increased the chance of receiving Raptor key pieces from tasks, and Raptor armour from the chest!


Last week's hotfixes


30/01, 17:08 UTC: Nex: Angel of Death no longer attempts to target players that are out of reach, viewing on the balcony.

30/01, 17:08 UTC: Players will now receive an appropriate message when attempting to buy event currency & extenders after the event has ended. Additionally the Memorial to Guthix signs have returned.

30/01, 17:24 UTC: You are now able to progress the wanted quest correctly again after killing a Black Knight.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 13th February 2017

Graphical


An issue with the Legacy skin which caused columns in the backpack to not appear correctly has been fixed.

Saradomin - as he appears in The Death of Chivalry, Missing, Presumed Death, One of a Kind (including Dominion Tower) and Fate of the Gods - has been graphically updated to match his (non-diminished) Sixth Age appearance in Sliske's Endgame.

In response to player feedback, White Knight initiates now wear red and partisans wear blue, as before.



Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


The chance of the Prosper perk giving a clue scroll is now doubled.

The Tinker perk now has a 5% chance per rank to give +25% XP, as opposed to the previous 1% chance per rank to give +10% XP.

The Pyromaniac perk now gives an increased chance of obtaining Bernie the skilling pet when triggered.

Cooking fish oil has been added to the Sojobo contract board toggle blacklist.



Quests, Challenges and Achievements


The Shield of Arrav quest has been reworked to no longer require a player partner in the opposing gang. Players can now choose their current gang by talking to Straven or Katrine. (Changing gang allegiance is blocked during some stages of Heroes' Quest).

The Shield of Arrav quest (and to a lesser extent Heroes' Quest) has received a variety of quality-of-life improvements.

Combat scaling in The Death of Chivalry quest has been tweaked to be fairer to high-level non-members, since they have restricted access to high-level gear. Dying in each of the tomb's combat encounters will also gradually reduce the difficulty.

Players can now reclaim Wolfsbane from Drezel if it is keepsaked.



Nex: Angel of Death


A number of changes have been made to the Nex: AoD reward curses:

They no longer occupy your overhead slot.

They are no longer removed by abilities such as Sever.

Prayer drain rate is increased slightly.


It is now possible for Nex: AoD to drop the Umbra cosmetic robe set.

Nex: AoD's icicles can no longer be moved with the Kick Ability or the Shove special attack.

Nex: AoD's elemental crystals will no longer retaliate against players.

7 players now roll on the main drop table while 3 players now roll on the participation table.

A torch in the Nex: AoD lobby area has been re-aligned.



Other


Borrowed Power can no longer be used from any spellbook.

The Stone of Jas buff now works inside God Wars Dungeon instances.

Purchased unlocks from Death's Store now correctly appear as unlocked on the interface.

Objects in the currency pouch are now usable from the Loadout tab.

The value of a Raids reward selection will now update when rerolling for new rewards.

Orla has been removed from Burthorpe.

Nightmare gloves no longer trigger the effect in PvP on non-member worlds.



Last week's hotfixes


06/02, 11:30 UTC: Nex: AoD has been stopped from attacking familiars to attacking the pillar crystals.

07/02, 09:00 UTC: Nex: AoD reaver and crystal life-points have been reverted to their previous value.

07/02, 09:00 UTC: Nex: AoD pillar life points during the last phase have been lowered by 50,000.

07/02, 15:15 UTC: An issue that was causing interfaces to close after gaining XP such as when casting the NPC Contact spell, has been fixed.

07/02, 16:50 UTC: An issue that was causing players to get stuck in a pit room in the labyrinth during Sliske's Endgame has been fixed.



Ninja fixes


The font has been adjusted for some letters to better distinguish between the I, l, 1, O and 0 characters.

The Quick Chat option for slayer and bossing kills has been updated to no longer state "with 0 prestige".

[Twirlindana]

The font has been adjusted for some letters to better distinguish between the I, l, 1, O and 0 characters.

Is this because of you and your imposter Cally?!

[Cally Raven]

Is this because of you and your imposter Cally?!

I'd love to say it is Twirl but no, it's been happening to quite a few clans and I think it became too big a problem to ignore there were so many complaints in various forums about it something had to be done, and I assume it wasn't a massive fix to make.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 20th February 2017

Graphical


The texture on a coal rock in Lumbridge Swamp has been fixed.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


The Trophy Taker perk no longer works with only 1 kill remaining on a Slayer Task, to prevent skipping awarding slayer points.

Players now gain item XP and use relevant perks when smithing spears and hastas.

Chaotic equipment can now be bought from the Dungeoneering reward shop without the previous combat requirement.


Other


AoE abilities on NPCs will no longer target another player's familiar in the Wilderness.

Players can now keepsake their Staff of Devotion.

Two new boss pets have been added to the game, Yakaminu (Yakamaru) and Diddyzag (Beastmaster Durzag). They are a requirement for the golden Final Boss title, and have a 1/300 drop rate, with a threshold of 60 kills. They can be won in an "off-loot" kill, and will still be awarded if a player is disconnected or leaves the group after winning the pet, before managing to claim it.

Signs and portents of death will now correctly activate with Death's Support unlocked.

A scrimshaw of sacrifice can no longer be deactivated immediately after killing a creature to obtain both the bonus XP and a drop.

The Christmas wand and fairy wand are now classed as magic weapons.

The Christmas scythe is now a slashing weapon.

A number of typos in Tiny Death's chat have been fixed.

The Wilderness Wyrm's drop table has been reworked.

The chance of the Wilderness Wyrm spawning has been lowered.

Players can now correctly wear trimmed skillcapes if their second level 99 skill is Invention.

Cyclopes in the Warriors' Guild now have the correct weaknesses.

Examining Lil' Tuzzy without a pet override active will now display the Beastmaster Durzag kill count.


Last week's hotfixes


13/02, 12:10 UTC: It is no longer possible to use Fortitude & the Nex: AoD curses at the same time by activating them in a specific order.

13/02, 14:10 UTC: A check has been added to recalculate quest points after the Shield of Arrav single-player login check to ensure players don't appear to have lost 1 QP until they next log in.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 27th February 2017

Graphical


The shoreline wobbegong fishing spot is once again visible when using the Java client. Wobbegongs out in the sea remain unchanged.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


The level requirement has been removed from the Dungeoneering skillcape's Kal'gerion dungeon teleport.

Ganodermic armour can now be crafted without thread with the Crafting skillcape perk active.

The elven mushroom patch now works correctly with Farming cape perk.

A typo formerly seen when combining skillcapes with the max or completionist cape has been fixed.

The bloodweed herb patch now functions correctly when harvesting herbs with the farming skillcape perk active.


Other


A variety of lucky items from Treasure Hunter can now be stored with Diango. Please note that dying and not protecting the items will still permanently lose the item.


Last week's hotfixes


20/02, 14:30 UTC: Using a skillcape on a hooded max cape will now prompt players about adding skillcape perks.

20/02, 14:45 UTC: When fletching items with no strung component, such as bamboo bundles, players will now receive the finished product.

20/02, 17:35 UTC: Players will now be given Durzag's helmet directly to their backpack or bank instead of potentially dropping underneath Durzag's corpse.

20/02, 17:35 UTC: Logging in to a free-to-play world with skillcape perks active on a Max or Completionist cape now functions correctly.

20/02, 17:35 UTC: Harvesting a Morchella mushroom patch with the Farming skillcape perk no longer switches the patch to bittercap mushrooms.

21/02, 14:50 UTC: Dying while under the effects of the Desert Pantheon aura will no longer put the Defence skillcape perk or sign of life on cooldown if the perk benefit is available.

23/02, 13:10 UTC: Yakamaru's helmet drops are now added straight to the backpack or bank.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 13th March 2017

Graphical


Moved the rare tree map icons to match the new positions of yew trees near the Lumbridge crater.

Fixed a force walk tile in the updated Lumbridge crater.

Tiers 1-3 of the 'Loved Up' lootbeam have been increased in size.

Seasinger Umi's reward chest has been removed from Port Sarim.

Players will now consistently face the correct way when crossing stepping stones in Taverley.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Players now only need to click on a Clan Citadel loom once, continuing to weave automatically until there is no thread left to weave.

A timer bar has been added when using Crystalise to show the duration of the spell.

Players are now able to check when they're next eligible to force a slayer task with a slayer mask. This can be done via the 'Check kills' option on all masks with a 3 day cooldown.

Added a configure option to portable braziers, portable crafters and portable fletchers.

Removed the "Check duration" option on portable skilling locations, moving the information to the examine option.

The Invention skillguide now lists the level unlocks (instead of '???') when the level requirements are not yet met.

It is no longer possible to destroy augmented items by dragging them from the worn interface.

Adding bloodweed to a vial of water now awards XP when wearing the Factory outfit.

Tweaked some information for elite woodcutting outfits to better explain what variants of the outfit it can be combined with.

Fixed a typo when building a mahogany armour case.

Removed second full stop from the message received when receiving a skilling pet with a full backpack.

Players can no longer cast alchemy or disassemble on baby Icefiends from the Perils of Ice Mountain quest. You monsters.

Logging out in Bounty Hunter safe zones once again runs the countdown to the penalty timer.

The correct ore name will now appear when using skillchompas while mining.

Unlocking TzRek-Jad via the spotlight store as the final requirement for the insane final boss title will now send the relevant broadcast.

Players with a certain layout in their player-owned house can once again enter without disconnecting.


Quests, Challenges & Achievements


Players with keepsaked versions of Varrock armour can now continue to claim the rewards for higher task sets from the relevant NPCs.

Fixed a typo in a message received upon completing Hard mode Nomad.

Corrected a reference to the "ranger" skill in the Animal Magnetism quest journal.


Other


Added and updated various audio assets in West Ardougne, the underground pass and Isafdar.

Combined the Twin Furies adventurer log entries into 1 per fight.

The golden Final Boss title is once again visible on the titles interface if all requirements are met.

Araxxi will no longer rarely instantly kill herself upon spawning.

Updated the combat stats on the Lunar helm (e) and (charged) variants to match the regular Lunar helm.

Updated the combat stats on Lunar ring (i).

Fixed a number of typos on various combat ability tooltips.

Fixed multiple incorrect spellings of 'receive'.

Corrupt minions and Volcanic minions no longer have their abilities mixed up on the Telos entry on the Beasts tab.

Added an "Enrage additions" section to the Telos section on the Beasts tab.

Corrected a couple of cases of The Architect's name, Lidylla, being misspelled on Waiko.

Corrected "Wear" to "Wield" for the Linza's hammer variants.

The ribbon interface in legacy skin mode will now correctly use disabled variants of the icons when relevant.

Audio has been added to pouring tea to and from the tea flask, and when drinking from the tea flask.

Players can no longer enter a Nex: Angel of Death fight that's in progress.

Aggression potions no longer affect blood reavers.


Last week's hotfixes


06/03, 13:25 UTC: The Master quest cape check for the Last Riders book is now also set when reading the book, for players that obtained the book from a solo kill.

06/03, 14:25 UTC: Overrode the Final Boss entry on the titles interface to activate the golden variant if requirements have been met.

06/03, 14:25 UTC: Players can now claim a golden Soul cape if they have the red Soul cape stored in their player-owned house.

06/03, 15:05 UTC: Using springs without a spring cleaner in the backpack will no longer cause the player to disconnect.


Ninja Fixes


Prayer potions are now tradeable in free-to-play worlds.

Added some keybinds to the interface when building furniture in a player-owned house.

Players can now choose where the Attack option should appear:

On left click

On right-click, dependant on combat level

On right-click

Completely hidden

Emote clue scrolls which require no items equipped will now ignore auras.

Players can now check when their account was created and the amount of time spent playing at Hans in Lumbridge.

It is now possible to create an attuned crystal teleport seed with unlimited charges for 4,000 harmonic dust.

Non-attuned crystal teleport seeds now have 8 charges, up from 3. The price to recharge non-attuned crystal teleport seeds has been increased slightly to compensate.

Several texts (including the Tale of Scorpius, The Times of Lathus, and Varrock museum display cases) have been modified to improve the accuracy of early Kandarin history records. Thanks to Fswe1/Lord Drakan for exhaustive research and citing references.

Spawn rates (with the exception of object spawns) will no longer scale with server player count. Instead, they are fixed at a rate equivalent to a half-full server prior to this change.

Bombardment damage in the Final Destination miniquest's Harbinger sequence is now calculated from the number of zyclops cannoneers currently operating the cannons, making this more lenient for players who couldn't kill them fast enough.

Several Arc miniquest NPCs no longer give combat XP when killed.

Bats and animated pickaxes within Daemonheim now have larger click areas.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 20th March 2017

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Previewing full outfits in the wardrobe that do not have boots or gloves now show bare feet and hands.

Cosmetic overrides no longer display in the wilderness after leaving The Pit.

The ramp by the Fishing shop previously leading into the Lumbridge Crater has been removed from the minimap and worldmap.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Players will no longer lose slayer points if they click out of the task selection interface after purchasing an additional Soul Reaper task.

Removed an invisible blocking wall in the Castle Wars staging area.

The Healing Orbs in Dominion Tower are now much easier to click on.

Changed the option "Attack" on Castle Wars barricades and ballistas to "Demolish".

Lucky items are now listed as reclaimable on the Treasure Hunter prize management interface.

Unfiltered the message received when acquiring a clue scroll via the Prosper perk.

The ironman purchase restrictions have been lifted on buying the Master RuneCraft outfit. Ironmen can now purchase this 4 piece set from either the Thaler shop or the new Runespan shop.


Other


Players can no longer teleport to Evil Tree locations they don't meet requirements for using the Nature's Sentinel outfit.

Players can now buy runecoins and keepsake keys from the wardrobe.

The Dragonkin Forge is now consistently lit when teleporting to Kuradal via the Slayer Skillcape if the forge has been previously lit.

Players are once again able to correctly land a critical strike with the Onslaught, Tuska's Wrath and Shadow Tendrils abilities if using the equilibrium perk.

It is no longer possible to receive a skull in the Wilderness by attempting to attack your own familiar.


Last week's hotfixes


14/03, 15:00 UTC: Prevented players with less than 250 total skill levels from changing their display name in game.

[Cally Raven]

Patch Notes 27th March 2017

Graphical


Some environment issues surrounding the island "The Faraway Place Where Things Are Kept" have been fixed.


Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Players no longer receive extra extenders when world hopping.

It is no longer possible to gain more than 10 supplies' worth of XP per day from handing in Goebie supplies. Handing in any more than 10 supplies will not give XP and the extra objects will be removed.

The Temple Trekking tasks from the Morytania Task Set now require the NPC to be taken only on routes that match their difficulty.

Achieving maximum points (100) in a Guthixian Cache will no longer bring up a confirmation box when attempting to leave early.

Stackable junk refiners can now be used to complete invention tech tree tasks.

The augmented Seren god bow now correctly says 'disassemble' instead of 'destroy'.


Quest, Challenges and Achievements


The Garden of Tranquility quest now correctly states Bernard's location as Taverley.


Other


Telos's shockwave will no longer hurt you on the transition between phases 3 and 4.

Telos's "SO. MUCH. POWER!" attack will no longer injure you if you get hit by it while transitioning from Phase 1 to 2.

Sunshine's animation when used with the Planted Feet perk has been extended to match the active duration the perk.

Deathmatch taunts 6 to 10 can be set up correctly once again.

A warning will be displayed in your chat (if it isn't filtered) should you have less than 500 charges left in your blood essence when you activate it.

You can no longer alch or drop the demonic skull while in combat.

You can now track your current Telos kill streak in the Beasts tab.

A erroneous pose has been removed from the Vindicta & Gorvek 'learn' page found within the Beasts tab.

The 'Salty' title will now be removed whenever/if new requirements are added to it. This includes the Hanto armour hence those who have not yet purchased the pieces from Boni will be unable to activate the title.

Certain problems that could be caused by entering Death's office on a Bounty Hunter world no longer occur.


Ninja Fixes


The Imp Catcher quest now requires 4 unique *non-tradeable* beads discovered during the quest, instead of the beads dropped by imps. If you've not yet completed Imp Catcher, talk to Wizard Mizgog for written directions to the sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic imp.

The Imp Catcher quest now gives its Magic XP reward in the form of an XP lamp.

Wizard Mizgog's wander range has been reduced.

Dialogue trees on Wizard Mizgog and Wizard Grayzag now loop back to the start of the conversation instead of dropping out.

An aggressive mugger near the earth altar has been removed.

The guidance system notification meant to display the first time the player burns food should no longer trigger when the recipe doesn't create a burned food object.

Heroes' Quest has undergone a suite of quality-of-life improvements. Most notably, while the partner gameplay has been retained, you can now complete the quest on your own. Bring a lockpick.

After completing Heroes' Quest, the oily fishing rod can now be reclaimed from Gerrant.

After completing Heroes' Quest, ice gloves can now be reclaimed from the high priest of Entrana.

Camorra and the origins of the Ice Queen are now mentioned in Heroes' Quest.

After being freed from his cell in Taverley Dungeon, Velrak the explorer now resides at the entrance to the dungeon.

Loot beams for the lore book drops that were recently granted bad luck mitigation have been updated, in order that they clear more reliably (and generally behave like other loot beams).

Adamant dragons in the Brimhaven Dungeon now have the same chance to drop lore books as the adamant dragons in the Ancient Cavern.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 3rd April 2017

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Players can no longer disassemble dyed weapons in combat.

Stealing Creation arrows now deal the correct damage.


Quests, Challenges and Achievements


The objects 'Bowl of hot water', 'Cup of hot water', and 'Cup of water' are now available to free players.

Velrak the explorer can now be convinced to leave Taverley dungeon if you have a dusty key on your keyring or in your bank, rather than needing to have the key in your backpack.

A blank task from the Lumbridge/Draynor Task Set has been removed.


Other


The regular version of the Ring of Stone now transforms the player once again.

Telos's weak anima bomb no longer carries over from Phase 4 to Phase 5.

The Ragged Abomination will now correctly drop loot for Ironmen.


Last week's hotfixes


27/03, 12:10 UTC: The alchemical onyx blueprint no longer needs inspiration to discover.

27/03, 14:00 UTC: The Imp Catcher quest can temporarily be completed with a bowl of water instead of a bowl of hot water, as the latter is a members-only item.

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 10th April 2017

Graphical


The Tuska teleport has been tweaked so that it no longer flashes as much.

An issue with shadows on scorch marks in Edgeville when using the NXT client has been fixed.

Three height map issues around the Lumbridge Swamp have been fixed.



Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Logging out will no longer remove the effects of a wilder pie.

Members' items can no longer be purchased from the Runespan store on a free world.

The hint arrow for Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza is now accurate.

The skill guide tooltips for Sacrifice, Transfigure and Devotion have been updated.

A members-only icon has been added to the "stop burning fish using cooking gauntlets" skill guide entries.

Empty pots will no longer be destroyed without the 'Destroy empty containers when cooking' option enabled.

Possessed pickaxes no longer drop loot when fighting Treus Dayth in Dominion Tower.



Gemstone Dragon changes


The Gemstone Armour set effect now works with three items equipped, and improve as you equip up to five pieces of armour.

Gemstone dragons have had their combat experience increased.

Gemstone dragons will no longer repeatedly use their special attack back to back.

Players now pay for gemstone dragon kills and charge the gemstone armour with incomplete hydrix, instead of uncut hydrix.

Gemstone dragon special attacks now hit a 3x3 area, down from a 5x5 area.

Dreadnips can now be deployed and deal damage against hydrix dragons.

Dragon slayer gloves now function correctly when killing gemstone dragons while on the relevant slayer assignment.



Buff bar changes


Buffs and debuffs have been separated into two interface components. The buffs interface can display 18 icons, and the debuff interface can display 12 icons.

The NPC target interface is now slightly wider.

Players can now filter which icons are displayed using 12 different filters, located in the "Gameplay settings" interface.

The following buff/debuff icons have been added:

Enhanced Excalibur cooldown

Stun Immune cooldown

Blood Essence cooldown

Dreadnip timer

Beastmaster's four stackable debuffs: Rage, Combust, Bitten, and Fatigued

Yakamaru's drench stack counter

Aftershock percentage tracker

Devoted perk timer

Enhanced Devoted perk timer

Crackling perk cooldown

Achto Armour cooldown

Wise Perk tracker

Sign/Portent of life & Defence skillcape perk cooldown

Gorajian Mushroom active

Gorajian Mushroom cooldown

Clan Avatar player XP boost

Clan Avatar world XP boost

Portent of restoration cooldown

Nex: AoD Rage stacks

All Priffdinas thieving clan cooldowns

All Arc islanders thieving cooldowns



The following buff icons have been tweaked:

The Revenge icon now has a duration on top of the stacks gained.

Transfigure now displays the percentage of health you'll regain once it has finished charging.

Added buff/debuff stack counters for combat skill boosts.

Tweaked all buff icon text from orange to white for better readability.

All of Yakamaru's current boss buff icons have been visually updated.

Added a percentage tracker when charging up Detonate.



Added an icon to the NPC targeting interface which triggers when using a special attack with the following weapons:

Statius Warhammer

Guthix Staff

Dragon Hatchet

Barrelchest Anchor

Bone Dagger

Bandos' Book of War

Quake ability





Other


Adamant and rune dragon bones have had their names and examines changed to Hardened dragon bones and Reinforced dragon bones respectively.

A 'hide-all' shortcut has been added to the wardrobe, along with the ability to hide slots individually from the right-click menu.

A whispering voices ambient sound used in a few eerie places has been edited.

The lucky dragon claws' destroy message has been updated.

A quick chat response has been added for the Raids Puzzle when another player mentions the same quick chat phrase.

A warning message will now display when players have fewer than 500 runes remaining in their rune pouch.

Players will now remain attackable after unequipping the demonic skull in the Wilderness.

The autopinning tasks feature has been disabled for new account holders who have played RuneScape before.

Ice cream and anti-sun potions are no longer tradeable.

Various items from the beach event will now correctly remove themselves when being claimed from the Grand Exchange.



Last week's hotfixes


03/04, 11:05 UTC: The Bake Pie lunar spell now functions correctly with wilder pies.

03/04, 15:15 UTC: The gemstone dragons' drop table is now more generous.



Ninja fixes


The broadcast text for achieving virtual level 120 in a skill has been updated to mention level 120.

A global broadcast for achieving virtual level 120 in all skills has been added.

A warning when attempting to disassemble an attuned crystal teleport seed has been added.

Attuned crystal seeds can now be equipped in the pocket slot.

The Attuned crystal teleport seed now matches other attuned crystal graphics.

The size of the main action bar has been decreased to allow players to create a 'block' of action bars with no gaps.

The agility shortcut fail rates for the Ardougne log balance, Sinclair mansion log balance, Cosmic temple shortcuts, and the Lumbridge fence shortcut have been adjusted to be less harsh.

A small amount of experience has been added for the Lumbridge fence shortcut and the elven overpass shortcuts.

World 48 now requires 2,600 total skill levels, up from 2,400.



NXT Release Notes


A crash that sometimes happened when a mass amount of players and locations overlapped has been fixed

Launcher frame has been removed

The client has been changed to deal with its own window, including save, restore of position, scrolling, access to launcher options

The OSX and Linux clients have been changed to binary executables

Fixes have been made to OSX and Linux crash reporting

The ability to turn off terrain blending has been added

The ability to turn off ground décor has been added

RAM and video memory usage has been reduced

Script functions have been optimised

An audio-related crash has been fixed

Compression has been added to the disk cache, reducing its size from 12GB to 3-4GB. As a one-off, you are recommended to leave your client at the login screen for 30 mins to apply the compression without slowing down your gameplay.

Performance of disk cache validation has been optimised (up to 7x faster)

Performance of loading for non-SSD users has been optimised (up to 2x faster if fully defragged, more if not)

A crash that would primarily occur during disk cache download at high speed or on a bad connection to the server during gameplay has been fixed.

A minimum width and height has been added to the NXT client

A freeze some players experienced after re-logging from the lobby has been fixed

Particles should no longer look washed out. Red particles will no longer look pink!

An issue where hint markers would sometimes cause freezing and crashing - such as in Fist of Guthix or Castle Wars - has been fixed.

An issue with low-spec machines crashing before start up has been fixed

Inconsistent normals have been fixed

A race condition with audio has been fixed

Linux keyboard input issues have been fixed

An issue which caused dragging on Mac to be inconsistent has been fixed

Copyright info has been updated

The Jagex logo has been updated

[Cally Raven]

PATCH NOTES 18th April 2017

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames


Fixed an issue that caused players to automatically continue mining after a rock has been depleted.

The uncut onyx and onyx ring skill guide entries are now consistent with their actual requirements; Onyx rings now require 72 Crafting to make, in line with the level to cut the gem.



Quests, Challenges and Achievements:


Added a quest accept screen to Jungle Potion.

Jungle Potion no longer requires the Druidic Ritual quest to be completed, only level 3 Herblore.

Jungle Potion's Herblore XP reward has been converted to an XP lamp.

Added blue box highlighting and tidied up the quest journal, dialogue and interactions of Jungle Potion.



Other


Nex's Ice prison attack no longer deals damage after death.

Joining a new Nex: Angel of Death instance as the boss dies no longer awards loot.

Nex: Angel of Death reavers will no longer damage those outside the arena if not dealt with.
A typo on the buff bar filtering interface has been fixed.

Buff bar filtering has been inverted on the interface; by default all icons now show up when the checkboxes are unticked, ticking the relevant category's checkbox will hide the relevant icons.

Activating berserk blood essence will now display a cooldown buff icon.

Nex: Angel of Death curses will now be filtered by the buff bar's prayer category instead of the overhead prayer category.

Clan Avatar buff icons are now filtered by the skilling buff bar category instead of the boosts category.

All interface presets now correctly save the position of the debuff bar.

The tracker used on the 'Defence decrease' buff icon when hitting monsters has been capped to 10.

Players will no longer see the Debilitiate buff icon if it happens to miss an enemy.

Players will now see a Debilitate debuff icon after being hit in PvP with it.

When using Torment, Turmoil or Anguish and draining the enemy, players will now see only one icon on the monster information bar instead of three for each curse, saving space for more combat icons to fill the gaps.

The buff icon timer for dreadnips now counts down correctly.



Last week's hotfixes


10/04, 19:30 UTC: Fixed an issue with performing melee weapon special attacks for no adrenaline cost.

12/04, 01:25 UTC: Corrected a check that was giving some players no reward when using autoredeem XP on the first prize won on the Rainbow's End promotion.

12/04, 15:00 UTC: Returned the prizes lost due to the above bug, and added messaging telling eligible players about the reward placed in their bank.



Last week's coldfix (12/04, 13:00 UTC):

Content changes:

Re-added the minimise/maximise button onto the action bar in EoC mode.

Fixed the size of the revolution highlight on the action bar.

The Prifddinas holiday portal will now direct players to the Easter event.

The Wise perk’s status icon now displays an accurate percentage.

The Reflect icon once again displays a timer.

The login message for Lunar Spheres will now only appear if a player has been logged out for over 5 minutes.

NXT client changes:

Fixed a crash primarily during cache download but also randomly.

Fixed cache download randomly stopping or losing connection.

Fixed crash in disk cache.

Restored standard OSX full screen button.

Removed broken in game full screen option on OSX.

Fixed the BOOPY! Noise when typing certain keys in OSX.

Entering caves and instances will no longer remove terrain blending options.

Added the ability to start NXT from the client executable, fixes issues when having two taskbar icons.

Fixed an issue with indefinite loading, black screen on log in and scenery not loading.