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Oct 21 2019 11:15am

News post: Oddments Refresh & Epic Jam
Oddments Refresh
Epic Jam
Patch Notes
MontyAtRuneFest Competition
Twitch Prime
LootScape
Livestreams this week
Pink Skirt Events
Anyone for blackberry jam? Apricot jam? Oh, alright then, how about an Epic Jam? We’ve spent the last week or so rootling around in the hedgerows to dig out the juiciest, most exciting content… but you’ll have to read on to find out the rest. Plus, we’ve shaken out the Treasure Hunter carpets and given Oddments a refresh.

Oddments Refresh
We wanted to make you aware of some the changes we’re making to Treasure Hunter Oddments in response to your feedback. We want to make Oddments more satisfying, while providing alternative ways to obtain some types of rewards.

It’s worth noting that there will be further changes as we experiment with balancing and we receive your feedback, so please tell us what you think.

First off, we'll be improving the Oddments exchange rate on all items – this will mean you receive double or triple the Oddments (depending on gem rarity). The price of items in the Oddments Store is also increasing slightly, but the end result is that the whole Oddments process will net you more than it did before.

As a bonus, we’ve also doubled everyone’s Oddments balance! Plus, we’ve added some new items to the oddments Store (Proteans, Small Portable Packs and Magic Notepaper) and tweaked the price of items to offer greater rewards for Bonus XP options over Direct XP (for instance, Lamps are more expensive while Stars and Pulse Cores are cheaper).

In the future we will be limiting both the number of items that can be purchased and adjusting how Oddments are obtained. Keep your eyes open for updates on this soon.

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Epic Jam
As you might have heard on last week’s livestream, our devs are currently busy working on a few small projects as part of our Epic Jam, a two-week long adventure where they try new things and find out what might and might not work for the game. Tune in later this week for the final update, but until then, here’s a sneak peek at some of the things they’ve been getting up to:

Untitled Waterfowl Update (uwu)
Elemental Workshop 5-7
Golden Clue Scrolls
Araxxor Quest
GE History Pins
Ripper Demon Pet
Elite NPC Droptables
Pet XP Broadcasts
Legendary Beast of Burden QoL
Vorago QoL
For more info on all of these, check out the VoD from last week’s livestream

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Patch Notes
Of course, while you're sweeping up the leaves and dusting off those dark corners, you're bound to encounter a few bugs. See what we did there? Anyway, here are the highlights from this week's patch notes:

The Elder Divination outfit's 'Chronicle Teleport' will now teleport you slightly closer to the Chronicle hand-in locations. (May Stormbrewer and the Guthix Monument)
Based on player beta feedback we have made it more easier to cycle between hidden, minimised and maximised chat box sizes on mobile by tapping the envelope icon.
Various Crashes are fixed include one related to Hunting God Jadinkos & swapping the enchantment on the family crest Gauntlets.
To read the full list, click here!

Achievements
Ali the trader achievement no longer gets triggered every time player closes the "selection of cloths" interface.
Combat
Kayle's Chargebow will no longer reference a sling when you use the weapon past level 10.
Fixed an issue where players in Legacy combat mode were switched into Revolution when gaining a level in a combat skill.
Signature heroes in the Burthorpe troll cave now have a confirmation prompt if choosing the option to set up your action bars if you are in Legacy combat mode.
Graphics
Rare Bug where Elena could not be found in her house during Mourning's end has been fixed.
The chickens outside Daemonheim have been graphically updated.
Fixed an issue with Barrows: Rise of the six bobble-heads not dancing when all 6 of them meet together.
Fixed an issue with the festive aura not displaying the wings when activated.
Yaktwee storage will now display stored items in full colour and no items as transparent, as well as always display 0 if there are no items in either your Backpack or Storage.
Players can now select the same colour shades as the shades they are wearing and it will no longer be removed.
Plague doctor contagion walk now works correctly with two crossbows equipped.
Other
Swapping between the different enchantments for the gauntlets awarded from the "Family crest" quest, can no longer cause the game to crash.
Hunting God Jadinkos will no longer disconnect players upon checking a trap
Fixed a crash that could occur when repairing banked Runecrafting pouches.
Crashes no longer occur when using a Celtic Knot skip ticket.
Fixed an issue where you could not access and use the bank under certain conditions.
Celtic Knots will now close when skipped with a Celtic Knot Ticket.
Ensured that players who completed Unstable Foundations prior to the Ashdale tutorial are treated as completing the new Tutorial Island, so that they are not trapped in a timey-wimey ball of weirdness where RuneScape thinks they're still on Tutorial Island. Simply logging in should now free the suffering few from this terrible purgatory.
A set of Rings that transformed the player into the barrows brothers now correctly transfer ownership when traded.
The Elder Divination outfit's 'Chronicle Teleport' will now teleport you slightly closer to the Chronicle hand-in locations (May Stormbrewer and the Guthix Monument)
The chat system will now suggest taking a break from the screen after 4 hours of continuous play.
Deactivating an aura, and then clicking on it, will no longer trigger a new aura to replace it.
The Portable Crafter will now tan Dinosaur hides.
Examining the items that create the Terrasaur Maul now say that "dino scales are needed"
The Talent Scout will recognise the Master Agility Skillcape when spoken to.
When completing a quest in a quest series achievement path, the next quest in the series is no longer automatically selected.
The Temple at Senntisten Quest will now correctly state that you need Telekenetic Grab runes under 'Required Items'
Fixed Karamja gloves 4 not giving double tickets during the agility arena, if the user hasn't claimed the medium award.
Shadow Gem Virtus death reclaim costs now matches the normal Virtus death reclaim costs.
The collector's insignia now works with Anachronia agility training, with XP bonuses triggered at the end of each of the seven segments.
Previously if a user was to destroy the Sous chef outfit and was to also have the cooking gauntlets in their backpack, the cooking gauntlets would be destroyed as well. This has now been fixed.
Corrected an issue where achievement path window could draw before stats were transmitted to the client, resulting in some achievements that required skills drawing as if all skills are level 1.
Fixed an issue when checking resources you have gathered for a clan displaying overlaying text.
When the interface is set to legacy mode, if the player has the second action bar active, the original action bar will no longer break the extra action bar if you switch the number. The extra action bar's arrows will also now change the bar being shown.
Updated the examine text of expensive spices to reflect the item effect.
Fixed an issue causing areas of Burthorpe to not play music.
Fixed in an issue with unrelated audio tracks playing when in Turael's house.
Normal Tanners across all of Runescape that make soft leather will no longer tell you it costs 1gp even though they made it for free.
Fixed an issue with the chat where ironman players weren't being informed that they can't pick up certain items.
The tasks in the MQC list are now in the correct alphabetical order.
Fixed an issue with Robin getting stuck thinking during a game of Runedraw.
Fixed the Mahogany pet feeder description, to let players know it can feed 30 pets.
Players who haven't obtained a Fire Cape should no longer be assigned Ice Strykewyrm tasks by slayer masters.
Elite clue scrolls from Treasure Chest in the Aquarium will now be added to clue scroll stack if user has a full inventory, or into the Charos' clue carrier if in inventory or pocket slot.
Cheesecake now works as a food for the "Feed the adventurers" temple trek event.
Runecrafting pouches can now only be destroyed, not dropped, and will now inform the player that, if they contain essence, the contents will also be destroyed along with the pouch before asking for confirmation.
Fixed an issue that allowed legendary pets to unlock a players inventory.
The Gloves of Passage effect, Enduring Ruin, is now applied after using the Smash ability as well as Havoc.
Fixed an issue where the user wasn't being asked for a bank pin while trying to add/remove pickaxe from the tool belt.
The Festive aura now shows the amount of experience left that it will attribute its bonus to when selected in the aura management interface, as well as when the buff icon is hovered over whilst the aura is active.
Achievement favorites can now be added and removed correctly.
Mobile
Based on player beta feedback we have made it more easier to cycle between hidden, minimised and maximised chat box sizes on mobile by tapping the envelope icon.
On mobile the interaction menu will now appear to the left/right of where you tap so you can see what you tapped
Added tooltip information onto the three icons (total level, combat level, quest points) on mobile.
When Dungeoneering the map is now fixed to the centre of the screen, you're still able to interact with game world with it open.

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MontyAtRuneFest Competition
Those of you who’ve joined us at RuneFest this year probably remember the cute-but-(probably)-deadly surprise found in your goodie bag: Monty! This little handsome devil was back again this year with a prehistoric appearance, and once again we invited you all to take pictures with it – you know, show them around RuneFest! And since we love to raise the stakes when it comes to community fun, the best picture shared on socials would get a 3-months membership & RS/OSRS Soundtrack vinyls!

Well, we’ve now had the time to review all entries and results are in! First, we’d like to thank you all for taking part in the competition and sharing such amazing memories of your time with Monty at RuneFest. We’ve seen a lot of funny entries shared – and we invite you all to check #MontyAtRuneFest on both Twitter and Instagram to have a good laugh!

Alright so, who’s won this year’s competition? *drumroll* Congrats Dad_Haz, who’s been lucky enough to capture two Montys in their natural habitat (with a peculiar “mommy”)!!

Daddy haz
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#MontyAtRuneFest #RuneFest2019 Dad looking after two newborn Montys

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Twitch Prime
There’s a WHOLE NEW Twitch Prime loot available!

All Twitch Prime members can now get a new chance to grab a Currency Pack (200 RuneCoins, 15 TH Keys, 40 Hearts of Ice). That’s right, this one is a whole new month of freebies, so even if you’ve redeemed the previous loots you can get this one for free!

How to redeem your new Currency Pack? Just click on the link below and make sure you follow all steps of the process (even if you’ve already redeemed a previous Twitch Prime loot).

For instructions on how to claim and redeem your loot, click here.

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LootScape
Our live streams are always a great opportunity to grab some awesome in-game prizes. And as our first adventurers set foot on Land Out of Time (or as we call it “LOoT”), we thought you’d like an update of the LootScape. Ok, roll the drums and behold… our LOoTScape!

This month, each and every RuneScape stream watched will give you a random drop from one of the following:

Guaranteed:

1 - 2 hunter marks
250 resources in a random Base Camp resource
Guaranteed drop from Basic Drop Table (see below)
View counter goes up on Orb
Chance based:

A random skilling outfit piece (if unowned)
Either Nature’s Balance or Loots Cape (if unowned)
Basic Drop Table: Prismatic small fallen star, Prismatic medium fallen star, Prismatic small lamp, Prismatic medium lamp, Spirit Ruby, Spirit Diamond, Advanced Pulse Core, Spring, Silverhawk down, Medium DG Token Box, Small DG Token Box, Uncut Dragonstone, Large Cash Bag, Medium Cash Bag or Small Cash Bag.

Exciting isn’t it?! So don’t wait up - connect your RS account to your Twitch account and find out more here. Once that’s done, have fun and watch our streams during the day for a guaranteed drop.

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Live streams this week
Each week, we host developer Q&As, exclusive in-game first looks and more. And it’s all live on our Twitch channel, join us! Missed a stream? Don’t worry, we keep them all on our YouTube channel. Be sure to Subscribe to be the first to know.

Monday, October 21st – 14:00 UTC (Game Time) – Omid Featured Stream
This week, our featured streamer is Omid! Join him for a full day of adventure in Gielinor whilst progressing on the Slayer Log!

This featured stream is also an opportunity to grab a LootScape! That’s right, you can now receive in-game loot when you watch a RuneScape streamer. It works exactly the same way as our official streams, just watch Omid‘s stream on (his Twitch channel) and you’ll receive the LootScape the following day.

LootScape will be enabled (see all details above).

Wednesday, October 23rd – 16:00 UTC (Game Time) – Epic Jam Content Showcase
Remember when we announced at RuneFest that an Epic Jam was on its way and even closer than you think? Well, our dev teams have been hard at work and surprise - we’re now ready to unveil the projects they’ve been working on! Get ready for some delicious Quality of Life improvements, and if you’re lucky there might even be a quest or two in there *wink*. Time for a proper showcase! Please remember that content shown during this live stream are work-in-progress – there’s the possibility that some might not make it into the game.

LootScape will be enabled (see all details above).

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Pink skirts Events
Of course, adventures continue in Gielinor even when we're too busy (PKing) creating the adventures of tomorrow. Our PMods are here to welcome you in a range of PvM Boss Masses, Events and Q&As each week. Check out all the community events organised by the Pink Skirts on their official schedule here.

Official Source:
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