RuneScape Discussion

The Liquid Gold Nymph in the Lava flow mines will no longer attempt to guild a crystal pickaxe, which would result in the icon for pickaxes changing to a bronze pickaxe.
The tooltip on the slayer counter now correctly tracks whether or not you've captured the souls of corrupted creatures and soul devourers.
The price of the Livid plant from the Travelling merchant has been increased from 500,000 to 1,000,000 coins to justify the amount of points it awards.
An issue where the Livid plant from the Travelling merchant was displaying the incorrect amount of produce gained has been fixed.
Splitting granite into 10 pieces now awards the intended amount of XP.
Dwarf multicannons are now built in a single step like Invention cannons, instead of 4 steps. (They still have four components.)
The drop rate of obtaining Raptor key parts from Ripper Demons and Living Wyverns has changed from 1/512 to 1/256.
The amount of damage taken from fire orbs during The Firemaker's Curse quest has been reduced
Having a line of fire between you and an exploding fire orb during The Firemaker's Curse quest will reduce damage taken by 75%
The progress overlay within one of Char's trials will now correctly display within the entire game window instead of only within the minigames window.
Players can now left click funeral pyres to add their highest tier shade remains ready for burning.

Mod Osbourne explains delays and why they are so apparent in rs.
Bank place holders vs. rework.
Mining and smithing has a large list of things to do but is progressing nicely. Mining areas being mapped out. Trying to be sensitive to pvm but balance is not a core concern atm.
Design: Drop Tables & Spring Cleaner

Farm: we're not going to own it more like sharecropping.Animals will be available from a shop,quest,drops, there will be an internal currency.
Animals reward xp at different growth stages, can be sold to travelers for xp, animals will breed.
Animals at launch include rabbits, cows,sheep, spiders, yaks, dragons, zygomite mushrooms and mature animals offer global perks.
Not instanced, social.
Ultra compost from poop.

Elite dungeons located in arc. Story mode npc's have half health and do 1/3 damage of regular mode.
Act like mini quest.
1-3 player challenge.
Rewards dung xp and tokens.
Loot chest mechanic.

WOW moment while skilling. Works the same as uncharted islands in terms of getting maps.
Find the dungeons as you do a scan clue
On a timer similar to the premier vault. 3 minutes.
Can change between XP mode and resource mode.
Resource gathering rates will be increased.

"Not working on either of our currently live RuneScape products"
Adding more social "fun" to RuneScape
finding a use for underused content in the game
Talking to players about social tools that would help group management
Life imitating art imitating life. "RuneFest imitates RuneScape, RuneScape imitates RuneFest"
The Costume Parade: An NPC pops up in the game world and wants to do a costume parade with a certain theme. Points awarded if the costume is appropriate to the theme.
Points awarded for matching your twin.
Pop up events for finding a unique costume or help someone find their unique costume part that they lost.
Potential to win older costumes or overrides from Solomon's store or even RuneFest tickets.
Portable Hunter: Buy a hunting creature that is released into the game world. Find the hunting creature for hunting XP. Gain more XP for finding another player's hunter creature.
Petcetera: Monthly mini game, players turn into different creatures by eating different foods. Turn into pets and eat each other.
Chat channel improvements: Making it easier for players to be social. Minimum level/playtime. Right click respond to broadcasts. Clan chat list name display alphabetically. Increase FC size to 200. Add a notes section.
Use for Shops
Non combat, for skillers, crafters, rather than the pvm crowd.
Fight off invasions from nearby shops.
Aim to reward decent GP and XP.

The aim is to have this be the kind of quest, that people will want to do 27 of.
Take out a Rharni Wildcat, the fur used to make skillcapes.

Moving new players over to tutorial island!!!
Move back to Lumbridge instead of Burthorpe.
Achievement Paths: essentially a list of things to do, in any order that new players can complete.
Includes large tasks such as getting to Prifddinas or The World Wakes
F2P Construction for levels 1-5, previously was only trainable by lamps. Now trained in Burthorpe.

"Ultimate Teleport Compactor" - Ring
Getting even more charges out of the teleport compactor and combining more items into one item.
100x the maximum charge of a given item. i.e. Glory 400 charges.
Max amount of charge = 5000

Half drain rate reduction on Seren prayers.
Chance to spawn a crystal chest while skilling. Hazelmere's from skilling. A skilling WOW moment.
Access to max guild portals from anywhere.

What Jagex wants guilds to become - 4 to 5 tiers of the guild. Apprentice, accomplished, artisan, and master.
Miniquests unlock the different tiers.
Dough balls
Brewing
Smoking
Stewing
Contract cooking

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Episode Title: Pitching Line Firemaking
Teaser: Char’s training cave is the main attraction and this has severely hot ramifications, heralding the return of line Firemaking. Also a recap of the Summer Content Showcase and Game Jam 2018.
Recorded Date: April 19, 2018
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Hosts: Shane and Tanis
Duration: 2:02:37
Editing Notes: Achievement blip