RuneScape Discussion

• Free to Play Content Additions & NovtumberFest

• Hops gathering (Farming)
• Sausage Cooking (cooking)
• Kegger (Agility)
• Stein crafting (Crafting)
• Table Dancing (Prayer)
• Barrel Smithing (Smithing)
• Wolpertinger Zapping (Summoning)
• Carousel (Invention)
• Crossbowman (Ranged)
• Ice Skating (Constitution)
•         Pretzel +XP
•         Stool -XP
•         Keg -XP and remove from track
• Gunther: Keg theft, Keg rolling, and Where's Wolly?
• Bar crawl

• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)

• The issue preventing retro skillcapes from activating has been resolved.
• The measure of progress for blueprint discovery has been improved with the addition of 'Very Good', placed between 'Good' and 'Excellent'.
• Players now stop pulling prawn crackers once they are destroyed. (KJTH Tweet)

Ninja Skill Fixes

• Green, blue, red, black and royal dragonhide boots have been added, available in a similar manner to the corresponding vambraces.
• Basilisk, turoth and kurask boots are now power armour instead of tank armour, to differentiate them from dragonhide boots.
• Conversation options on sawmill operators have been rewritten to loop back to the start of chat.
• Limestone bricks and mystic armour have been added to the Crafting skill guide.
• The soft and hard leather sets can now be purchased from: the gnome shopkeeper in Burthorpe, Lowe's Archery Emporium in Varrock and the Ranging Guild. The latter two also sell the studded leather set.
• Players can now craft a black strip of cloth from balls of black wool. Neither strips or balls are destroyed once dropped.
• Sheared sheep now take drastically less time to regrow their wool.
• The sheep in south-east Taverley no longer wander from their pen.
• A herd of black sheep has assembled between the Dark Wizards' Tower and the Makeover Mage's house.
• Strips of cloth now require two balls of wool instead of four.
• Wizard armour can now be crafted from strips of cloth, as can the wand and book.
• Black wizard armour can now be crafted from strips of black cloth.
• The wizard armour set has been completed with a set of level one wizard boots, which have been added to the same drop table as the wizard gloves. The level 20 wizard boots have been redubbed as the 'Wizard boots (t)' for the sake of clarify.
• Black wizard gloves and boots have been added to the black wizard armour set.
• Wizard (and black wizard) shields have been added and can be crafted by free players.
• The wizard, black wizard and imp hide magic armour sets can now be purchased from: the gnome shopkeeper in Burthorpe, Zaff's Superior Spellcasting in Varrock and Betty in Port Sarim. The latter two also sell the spider silk set.
• Players can now speak to Suak in the Artisan's Workshop to find out how many pieces of burial armour are still needed by Doric.
• Mystic cloth has been added to the drop tables for regular and elite Ankous, the Giant Mole, the King Black Dragon and the Chaos Elemental.
• Blue mystic armour on drop tables has been replaced with an equivalent amount of noted mystic cloth.
• The issue preventing retro skillcapes from activating has been resolved.
• The measure of progress for blueprint discovery has been improved with the addition of 'Very Good', placed between 'Good' and 'Excellent'.
• Players now stop pulling prawn crackers once they are destroyed. (KJTH Tweet)
• Green, blue, red, black and royal dragonhide boots have been added, available in a similar manner to the corresponding vambraces.
• Basilisk, turoth and kurask boots are now power armour instead of tank armour, to differentiate them from dragonhide boots.
• Conversation options on sawmill operators have been rewritten to loop back to the start of chat.
• Limestone bricks and mystic armour have been added to the Crafting skill guide.
• The soft and hard leather sets can now be purchased from: the gnome shopkeeper in Burthorpe, Lowe's Archery Emporium in Varrock and the Ranging Guild. The latter two also sell the studded leather set.
• Players can now craft a black strip of cloth from balls of black wool. Neither strips or balls are destroyed once dropped.
• Sheared sheep now take drastically less time to regrow their wool.
• The sheep in south-east Taverley no longer wander from their pen.
• A herd of black sheep has assembled between the Dark Wizards' Tower and the Makeover Mage's house.
• Strips of cloth now require two balls of wool instead of four.
• Wizard armour can now be crafted from strips of cloth, as can the wand and book.
• Black wizard armour can now be crafted from strips of black cloth.
• The wizard armour set has been completed with a set of level one wizard boots, which have been added to the same drop table as the wizard gloves. The level 20 wizard boots have been redubbed as the 'Wizard boots (t)' for the sake of clarify.
• Black wizard gloves and boots have been added to the black wizard armour set.
• Wizard (and black wizard) shields have been added and can be crafted by free players.
• The wizard, black wizard and imp hide magic armour sets can now be purchased from: the gnome shopkeeper in Burthorpe, Zaff's Superior Spellcasting in Varrock and Betty in Port Sarim. The latter two also sell the spider silk set.
• Players can now speak to Suak in the Artisan's Workshop to find out how many pieces of burial armour are still needed by Doric.
• Mystic cloth has been added to the drop tables for regular and elite Ankous, the Giant Mole, the King Black Dragon and the Chaos Elemental.
• Blue mystic armour on drop tables has been replaced with an equivalent amount of noted mystic cloth.

Ninja Skill Fixes: Fletching

• Free players can now cut gems, from opal through to diamond.
• Teak logs, mahogany logs and magic logs are now free to play objects. However, some trees can still only be found in members' areas.
• Evil trees are now free to play. As such, the the Woodcutting outfit can now teleport to (but not spawn) evil trees in free worlds.
• Dungeoneering equipment up to and including T50 (Zephyrium, Bovistrangler, Spinoleather, Duskweed, Empowered Water staff) is now equippable and craftable by free players.
• Dungeoneering T60 equipment (Argonite, Thigat, Gallileather, Soulbell, Empowered Earth staff) isn't craftable for free players, but is still equippable and can potentially be acquired through drops.

Ninja Quest Fixes

• The anger mace from A Soul's Bane is now wielded and named as a two-handed maul. The anger axe has also been made two-handed to better suit the model.
• Cosmetic overrides for the anger sword, anger battleaxe, anger maul and anger spear can now be unlocked by completing the A Soul's Bane quest.
• The skill checks in Perils of Ice Mountain are no longer boostable.
• The member skill level requirements for Perils of Ice Mountain have been reduced from 10/11 to 5 to accommodate the member skill cap for free players.
• The XP reward for completing Perils of Ice Mountain is now given in the form of a lamp.
• A list of recommended quests has been added to the accept window for Missing, Presumed Death.
• The quest information for Death Plateau no longer asks for a pickaxe, since all players now possess this in their toolbelts as a default item.

Other Fixes

• The healing area at the Grand Exchange is now larger.
• The area at the Grand Exchange that hides familiars is now smaller.
• The Tuska Warpriest's armour effect will now only work when three or more pieces are equipped.
• The entire Lava Maze has now been restored to single combat only.
• The client no longer crashes when the window header is placed over the ribbon in edit mode.
• Improved likelihood of receiving low chance components when auto-disassembling while logged in, to better match chances with regular disassembly.

Ninja Wilderness Fixes

• Free players can now pass through the high-risk Wilderness wall, which remains intact. The wander range of the Chaos Elemental remains unchanged.
• Blue dragons have been added to the Wilderness north of the Forgotten Cemetery to provide a source of blue dragon hide for free players.
• Red dragons now drop between one to eight rune darts. Eight is no longer guaranteed.
• The deep wilderness is now accessible to free players, as is the deep wilderness dungeon (accessed south of the Pirates' Hideout).
• The south-east corner of the Wilderness (west of the Morytania Slayer Tower and north of Silvarea) is now a free area.
• The Mage Arena cave (accessed from a lever north-west of the Mage Arena) is now accessible to free players.
• Gundai the banker and Lundail the rune seller are now visible on free worlds in the Mage Arena cave. However, Kolodion is not visible.
• Free players can now use the lever in the Deserted Keep to teleport to Edgeville. Members using the lever are still teleported to east Ardougne.
• The lever in Edgeville that teleports players to the high-risk Wilderness is no longer blocked in free worlds.
• Green dragons are now available for free players.
• Red dragon isle is now accessible to free players.
• Red dragonhide is now accessible to free players via red dragons. However, it still cannot be tanned, crafted into leather or equipped on free worlds.
• In free worlds, Blue dragons no longer drop the bass. They drop lobsters instead.
• The boss pets for the Chaos Elemental, Giant Mole and King Black Dragon can now drop in free worlds. However, the King Black Dragon boss pet still has a 99 Summoning requirement.
• The Last Riders book now drops from the King Black Dragon in free worlds.

Ninja Free to Play Fixes

• Remora's necklace, the coral crossbow and coral bolts, the first level of the grotworm lair and the royal cape dropped by young grotworms are now all free to play.
• Kittens (from Gertrude's Cat) are now free to play. They can grow into cats, become overgrown, and can even become a purple cat upon completion of Swept Away.
• Free players can now complete the Varrock achievements to choose the colour of their kitten. They can also obtain a cat training medal from Gertrude by killing 100 rats.
• The first four tasks from Doric and Boric after What's Mine Is Yours are now available to free players.
• Swept Away's post-quest content (excluding the Sorceress' Garden and members area rewards) are now available to free players.
• The first four tasks from Doric and Boric after What's Mine Is Yours are now available to free players.
• The Shooting Star and Evil Tree D&Ds are now available to free players.
• The Warriors' Guild in Burthorpe is now available to free players.
• The area south of Paterdomus and north of the Duel Arena is now available to free players.
• The members fence east of Varrock has been removed to allow unrestricted access to Silvarea (the area east of the Lumber Yard up to and including Paterdomus). The eastern border of the free area is now defined by the River Salve.
• The barrier east of the Mage Training Arena has been removed.
• The fences and blocking between the Mage Training Arena and the Exam Centre have been removed.
• Free players can now enchant, wear and trade sapphire jewellery including the ring of recoil, bracelet of clay and the games necklace (sans teleport) in addition to the amulet of magic.
• Free players can now pay a sawmill operator to convert regular logs into planks.
• Free players can now smith bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant and rune pickaxes after completing The Perils of Ice Mountain.
• Free players can now smith all blurite items following Knight's Sword.
• Free players can now smith crossbow limbs up to runite.
• Free players can now craft T50 mystic armour from mystic cloth.
• Limestone, crafting limestone bricks and even the humble 'rock' are now available to free players.
• The Empowered Water Staff can now be dropped by Unholy Cursebearers for free players in Dungeoneering.
• Bronze and iron nails are now available to free players, as are saws and bracelet moulds.
• Although inaccessible, the bottom section of the Shattered Worlds entrance in Lumbridge Swamp has been marked as a free area to better mark the perimeter.
• Death Plateau has been marked as a free area so it can be seen on the world map to aid navigation while playing the eponymous quest. It still requires 15 Agility.
• The Odd Old Man is now visible in free areas for the sake of Missing, Presumed Death.
• Strange fruit can now be eaten in free worlds, and can be obtained by defeating the Chaos Elemental.
• Free players can now bury dragon bones for Prayer XP.
• Looms can now be used by free players.
• The strip of cloth used in Regicide (crafted from balls of wool) can now be spun in free worlds. The required Crafting level has been reduced from level ten to level one.
• The maximum total level milestone message for F2P has increased from 1656 to 1750 now that Fletching is a free skill.
• The following errors in the skill guide have now been corrected: free players can stop burning rabbit at cooking level 34; Marrentill is now marked as members only; the wooden shield, salve, protoleather and novite armour in Daemonheim have been added at Defence level one, as well as soft leather armour; the tangle gum shortbow and longbow, the novite arrows and protoleather equipment in Daemonheim are now accessible at Ranged level one; mentions of wizard, imphide, spidersilk, batwing, splitbark, mystic and grifolic shields have been removed from wand/orb/book entries, since shields only require Defense.

• Araxxor's, Kalphite King's and Rise of the Six's drop rates.

Listener Questions and Discussion

Question from Choto

Hoods fellow noobs! So I'm not here with you today but my questions are!

1) First of all, how would you rate from 1 to 10 the f2p updates introduced earlier this week?
2) Fletching was changed to a free skill, so does this mean the next skill introduced in game will be p2p?
3) I was surprised to find that many updates benefit f2p ironmen, as we can now obtain and craft armours like Mystic and Dragonhide. We can also access new abilities and d&ds. And 7 new quests! So the question is: is it correct to assume that f2p is now kinda completed and will not receive major updates for a long time?
4) Dragon Slayer has always been considered to be the door to the member's world. But now Missing, Presumed death is here. It's more like it introduces the player to the 6th age and the Endgame's storyline. What do you think about that? Better to have higher requirements like Dragon Slayer or large amounts of lore like MPD to lure free players to the p2p worlds?
5) Do you think f2p pking will be revitalized now that the Wilderness has more opportunities and open areas for free players?
And lastly, Meneer Naab achieved 99 fletching in a day and is aiming towards max xp for the second time! Kind regards to him, and thank you rsbandb as usual!

If you want to send questions or discussion topics for Update you can send to questions@rsbandb.com, call or text 571-57-BANDB (571-572-2632), or leave us a DM on Twitter @rsbandb

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Other Things

• October SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week

• Classicr2d2 - 99 Attack, October 11, 2017
• Tora_te_hipi - 99 Crafting, October 9, 2017
• Choto_3000 - 99 Woodcutting, October 9, 2017
• Mamamystic - 99 Summoning, October 8, 2017
• Duke_juker - 99 Dungeoneering, October 7, 2017
• Thevyrewatch - 99 Defence, October 7, 2017
• Mamamystic - 99 Agility, October 7, 2017
• Mamamystic - 99 Prayer, October 7, 2017
• J1j2j3 - 99 Invention, October 7, 2017
• Choto_3000 - 99 Cooking, October 6, 2017
• Tora_te_hipi - 99 Slayer, October 6, 2017
• Matts374 - 99 Crafting, October 6, 2017
• Rowtatoes - 99 Slayer, October 5, 2017
• Silverwiz9 - 99 Hunter, October 5, 2017
• Sina_atn - 99 Firemaking, October 5, 2017
• Day_dreamer - 99 Fishing, October 3, 2017
• Jade_gizmo - 99 Construction, October 3, 2017

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• What have we been doing?

Show Data

• Episode Title: The Free to Play Expansion: Fletching, Lore, and More
• Teaser: We’ve got a full roundup of the free to play expansion of RuneScape, lore pit-traps for F2P, and an overall analysis of why this freshens up RuneScape. Also, NovtumberFest is not forgotten, activity overview and our favourite rewards!
• Recorded Date: October 12, 2017
• Release Date: October 13, 2017
• Hosts: Shane and Tyco Elf
• Duration: 2:20:58
• Editing Notes: None