Mining

The 2024 Roadmap is here and it finally delivers news on updates for the rest of the year. We also hear from Mod Markos and how he’s helping rebuild trust. Also this week, High Contrast mode and why it’s RuneScape’s best accessibility update ever.

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Hosts: Shane, Tanis, Pyrnassius, and Xurdones
Duration: 1:56:29

• 2024 Roadmap: Group Ironman, Skilling Boss, Combat Content & More
• Clarification on Mod Keeper from Mod Hooli
• RSBANDB is on Patreon
• 2024 Player Survey
• High Contrast Mode
• Patch Notes
• What have we been doing in RuneScape?
• Achievements of the Week
• Help Wanted: RSBANDBUpdate!
• Xurdones’ Pick of the Week: The Phantom of the Open

It’s Valentine’s Day and this year we’ve got a new quest, Once Upon a Slime! King Slime, a shrink machine, and inside jokes makes a perfect RuneScape quest – we discuss! Then we dissect Mod Jack’s whiteboard TED talk and break down where Mining is going.

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Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Diana
Duration: 2:15:29

• Once Upon a Slime
• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)
• General Q&A: Mining & Smithing, Activity Pets (Notes)
• RSBANDB is on Patreon
• Listener Questions and Discussions
• Half-Life: Alyx release date is March 23
• Protecting users from insecure downloads in Google Chrome
• Activision Blizzard pulls all its games off Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service
• Achievements of the Week
• Diana’s Pick: Coffee Talk
• What have we been doing?

We detail the changes to Smithing and how their ultimate goal is to improve the Mining economy. We also provide updates on the weapon diversity beta and have a frank discussion about the progress that has been made thus far on RS mobile.

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Hosts: Shane and Tanis
Duration: 2:05:36

• Smithing Quality of Life
• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)
• Changes to the weapon diversity beta
• Weapon Diversity Feedback forum
• Mobile Dev Blog – June
• The Land Out of Time – Big Game Hunter
• The Land Out of Time or Fossil Island?
• Summer Special 2019
• RSBANDB is on Patreon
• E3: Project Scarlett + Halo Infinite
• AT&T cancels all Galaxy Fold pre-orders, gives $100 gift card to say sorry
• Improving Security and Privacy for Extensions Users
• June Skills of the Month: Divination and Runecrafting
• Achievements of the Week
• Shane’s Pick: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
• What have we been doing?

We have a first hand experience with the Player Owned Farm Farmhands and the many Farming quality of life updates this week. We also have a rundown on the Valentine’s day Twitch Prime offer and a discussion on smithable salvage and the comp cape!

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Hosts: Shane and Tanis
Duration: 1:24:25

• PoF Farmhands and Improvements
• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)
• Twitch Prime Offer + shot b (Promo)
• RSBANDB is on Patreon
• Listener Questions and Discussion
• A crypto exchange can’t repay $190 million it owes customers because its CEO died with the only password
• Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Live cross-platform gaming to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and more
• Protecting your data, no matter where you go on the web
• February SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week
• Tanis’ Pick: Steam Lunar Sale
• What have we been doing?