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The Fractured Archive

• The Fractured Archive will unlock today at 11:00 UTC.

• The lobby area will be accessible once game worlds go back online, giving you time to chat to the NPCs and familiarise yourself with the lobby.

• We'd very much advise checking out the detailed blog copy for this section, there's far too much to sum up in a changelist

• Note that players on world 345 (permanent Deadman) won't be able to access the raid on release.

Other Changes

• The Free-for-all Clan Wars arena on F2P worlds now requires 100 Total level.

• Nex's Crush Defence has been reduced from +60 to +35. There was a lot of initial hype around the Obligator (back when it was called the TzHaar-Breaker) being a big upgrade at Nex, this change means that the final iteration will shine against Zaros' most-feared general.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• 539 - (US) - PvP World

• 318 - (UK) - Bounty Hunter World

• 548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World

• 577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World

• 559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using '1 Def Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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The Fractured Archive opens today. It's time to put all of your theorycrafting, all of your best guesses, all of your PvM knowledge and perhaps even your friendships to the test as you step into Guthix's archive. If you've not already got While Guthix Sleeps completed, then you better get to it ASAP!

You won't be able to access the raid immediately following today's update, we'll be running some last-minute tests after the update and once we're satisfied that nothing catastrophic seems likely (beyond the imminent threat of a mysterious figure attempting to ascend to godhood), we'll deploy a hotfix to open up the archive.

The lobby area will be accessible once game worlds go back online, giving you time to chat to the NPCs and familiarise yourself with the lobby. Our current aim is to open the raid at 11:00 AM UTC, but if we need to delay this to make sure things run safely and smoothly then we'll keep you updated on this post and the Game Status page.

Assuming all runs smoothly, we'll also be going live on our Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] at 10:45 AM UTC for an all-day watch party with Mod Ayiza and Mod Kieren! They'll be tapping into Twitch streams on release while our data team behind the scenes bring you cool stats to try and give you the full picture of the initial push to raid completion. This should be a laid-back stream to chill out in throughout the day, but we'd still very much recommend you bounce around between your favourite creators to see their progress directly, hear their comms and show your support - we'd also welcome you jumping into our chat and letting us know if somebody's making solid progress and isn't on the big screen!

We'll be running a number of giveaways throughout the stream for three prints of the beautiful artwork made by Enkoro (shown off just below this section) as well as twenty-six pin sets featuring the unique rewards from The Fractured Archive. Make sure to join the Official OSRS Discord[discord.gg] to be able to enter, tune into the stream to know when giveaways are about to start, and check out the full T&Cs here[cdn.runescape.com].

As for the Fractured Archive itself, we'd very much recommend you check out the Everything You Need To Know blog[secure.runescape.com] that we released earlier this month, it covers all of the most important bases and we're not going to repeat much of it here. We will share one additional reminder, just in case anybody needed reminding:

Deaths in The Fractured Archive are not considered 'safe' deaths. If you are a HCIM or HCGIM, you will lose your status on death inside the archive. The Fractured Archive is a tough encounter that will undoubtedly become manageable before too long, but if you are going in blind on release without knowledge of all mechanics, then you will die. You have been warned!

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A huge thank you to community artist Enkoro[x.com] for this beautiful artwork!

During the events of While Guthix Sleeps, the Mahjarrat Lucien's meddling with the Stone of Jas has opened an ancient entrance to a cache of Guthix's most prized possessions: the Fractured Archive.

Whispers of the archive have persisted through the ages, and the gods have taken notice of this accidental grand opening. Some have sent agents to plunder the archive and bolster their strength, while other interested parties have their own motivations for making this daring descent.

If even a single one of these artefacts were to fall into the wrong hands, it could spell Gielinor's ruin, so it falls to you to defend the archive from those who would misuse it. Fortunately you are not alone, and the Alliance that you helped assemble during While Guthix Sleeps will join you in the depths to aid in your endeavours.

Upon login after our hotfix - assuming you've got While Guthix Sleeps completed - you'll be greeted by a messenger, they'll give you a note to help direct you to the action. Note that if you're already logged in then you don't need to wait for a messenger to arrive, you can just make your way to the entrance.

Make your way to where Lucien showed his hand, and seek the archive's entrance on a cliff face near the entrance to the Guthixian Temple. Perhaps all of those scrolls you've been accumulating will come in handy! Keep in mind that the Archivist's Folio is an untradeable reward that you'll be able to obtain from the archive and charge with Ascension shards for teleports, so it won't be long before you'll be able to return in the blink of an eye.

We'd still advise you to check out the blog we linked earlier, but here's a rapid-fire rundown of the most important bits:

• The raid scales between 2-8 players. We'd recommend you bring 3-5, since we feel these are the most enjoyable scales to run from our own testing.
  
• Create a group using the Grouping Board at the eastern side of the lobby area. There's also a toggelable option on the Grouping interface to allow or disallow spectators.
  
• You can spectate groups using the Strategy Board on the western side of the lobby area.
  
• The spectate system has been given an overhaul, while spectating a group or if your group are carrying on with a room after you've died, you can click the party orbs to view that player's POV. Additionally, if you're in the same party as somebody that you're spectating, you can even helpfully ping inventory slots for them - click fish!
  
• The raid layout offers you a handful of choices:
  
  • The Archive Guardian, who will stop at nothing to defend its master's archive.
    
  • Choose between the ferocious Bork (and the notably less ferocious Smorks) or Ezekiel, a justiciar of Saradomin who believes his ends always justify the means.
    
  • Choose between Dreadnoth the Jellied, the abominable result of a demonic ritual gone wrong, or a mysterious necromancer with a mastery over undeath.
    
  • Choose between Xarth, a Tormented Demon unlike any you've seen before, or the highly co-ordinated Dagon'hai Trio.
    
  • The final boss, a mysterious hooded figure... for now.
• All of the 'choose between' options above offer the same total number of contribution points, so there's no one option that's better than another when it comes to your chances of seeing a unique from a given raid completion.
  
• If your team wipes, you'll be removed from the raid and have a gravestone placed outside. Gravestone fees will be reduced by 75% until you have at least five completions.
  
• Practice Mode will not be available on release, we'll give you a full rundown whenever we opt to release it.

To top this all off, our audio team have done a wonderful job bringing our artists' and designers' vision to life, so we'd highly recommend turning sounds and music on to enjoy all of their work!

For those of you chasing your first-clears today, you might be able to win something in recognition of your achievement! We've got bronze, silver and gold medals to give away to all members of the first three teams to clear The Fractured Archive, as well as a number of exclusive pin sets featuring the unique rewards from the raid for all of our medallists. Full T&Cs can be found here![cdn.runescape.com]

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Obviously with a brand new raid comes brand new rewards. You're likely already familiar with these from our rewards poll blog[secure.runescape.com] so we're not going to go into great detail on all of them.

Those of you lucky enough to make your way to the end of The Fractured Archive could walk away with...

• Elemental Fragments, untradeable items that add +2 to your base max hit for their corresponding element. This means their additional damage will benefit from increases to Magic damage, and will be multiplied by Elemental Weaknesses. These have some dupe protection mechanics, so you shouldn't find yourself in a scenario where you've got a bunch of fragments for one element.
  
• The Archivist's Folio, an untradeable teleport item allowing quick returns to the archive, left behind by archivists from long ago. You can charge this with Ascension shards at a very generous rate, so these teleports won't be a pain to upkeep.
  
• Ascension shards, a stackable resource used to charge the Archivist's Folio and the Obligator, and to make Ascension bolts for the Ascension crossbows.
  
• Zeal, an unlockable upgrade to the Piety prayer, adding an additional +5% Attack and Strength. The item to unlock this will be tradeable, but you'll have to do something a little more interesting than just reading a piece of paper at a bank - perhaps the Record Keeper can help? Zeal will be automatically unlocked in Last Man Standing or Pete Kayer's challenges.
  
• The Rondache, a tradeable shield which mitigates incoming Melee, Ranged and Magic damage by 2. The mitigated damage is stored as charges, which can be fired off without delay for a rapidfire Shield Bash.
  
• Zorya's Tome, a tradeable, two-handed book that fires off spells every three ticks. Its primary purpose is for its Special Attack, which imbues you with arcane energy to fire off rapid hits with increased damage and accuracy.
  
• Ascension Crossbows, tradeable, dual-wield crossbows that fire the new Ascension bolts (made using Ascension shards). These are effectively a raid-tier upgrade to the Toxic Blowpipe.
  
• The Obligator, a ferocious Crush-based megarare. The Obligator rolls damage up to four times - depending on how weak your target is to Crush relative to other Melee styles - then picks the best result, meaning it hits consistently hard. Additionally, it gains 20% and 40% bonus damage vs. 2x2 and 3x3 (or bigger) targets respectively. It's also able to slam through multiple enemies in a line, or lose its damage re-rolls and multi-target capabilities in exchange for faster attacks.

Most of these rewards are pretty self-explanatory and work about how you'd expect, but we'd like to dive into the Rondache a little more since we know there are lots of questions around how it might be used.

When equipped alongside a weapon with no Special Attack, the Rondache will add a special attack bar to your Combat Styles tab and will override the Special Attack orb next to your minimap. Most one-handed weapons that see use fall into this category, so this seemed like an especially simple option.

When equipped alongside a weapon with a Special Attack (in this example, the Abyssal Dagger), things get a little more complicated. but hopefully stay intuitive! In this scenario, you'll have your regular Special Attack bar and the Rondache's Special Attack bar in your Combat Styles tab, allowing you to use both in rapid succession. Your mainhand Special Attack orb can be found next to the minimap, but can be right-clicked to use your Rondache's Special Attack without having to navigate to your Combat Styles tab. There's a small bar just beneath your Special Attack energy on the orb that will fill up to indicate your Rondache's charge, it's subtle but should be easy enough to tell when you've got enoug charge - we didn't want to add a bunch of clutter or add any overbearing UI elements!

Note: the Rondache's Special Attack will grant XP in your currently selected Attack Style. If you're using Aggressive, the Rondache will grant Strength XP, if you're on Shared then Shared XP, etc.

Let us know what you make of this approach, if it works nicely for you then we can explore retrofitting this onto the Dragonfire Shield in a future update. Alternatively if you get your hands on a Rondache and find it to be clunky or annoying to use then we'd welcome and and all suggestions for improvements!

If you can't jump into the raid for yourself or catch our watch party today, then check out our YouTube channel tomorrow where we'll have a highlights video for everything that you've missed, made by the wonderful Behemeth crew.

We cannot stress enough how excited (and nervous) we are for you to get stuck in to Old School's fourth raid, we hope you have an absolute blast getting to grips with it and mastering it and we're looking forward to all of your feedback. Given the nature of releases like this, it's unlikely that we'll be looking to make balancing changes or significant tweaks without a lot of consideration and observation, so while we'll do our best to stay hot on any bugs or issues, don't expect us to be pumping out feedback changes all week long - we want to take our time and make sure that you've got a good understanding of the content so that you can give us informed feedback.

See you in the Archive and best of luck - you're going to need it.

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While you wait for The Fractured Archive to unlock, we'd love for you to consider voting for us in The Golden Joystick Awards[www.gamesradar.com]!

We're honoured to have been nominated in the 'Best Still Playing (Mobile)' category which celebrates online/ongoing games like ours that keep people coming back. Nothing says 'Still Playing' like us celebrating 25 years of RuneScape this year, with many more to come!

It's no secret that many of you reading play on Mobile as your primary way to play, and even more of you jump in and out of mobile for a variety tasks, so we're over the moon to be in this category against the likes of Genshin Impact, Wuthering Waves, Pokemon Go and loads more stacked titles.

If you'd like to vote for us (or check out any of the twenty-five categories) then please check out this page and take a look[www.gamesradar.com]!

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• The Free-for-all Clan Wars arena on F2P worlds now requires 100 Total level.
  
• Nex's Crush Defence has been reduced from +60 to +35. There was a lot of initial hype around the Obligator (back when it was called the TzHaar-Breaker) being a big upgrade at Nex, this change means that the final iteration will shine against Zaros' most-feared general.

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The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• 539 - (US) - PvP World
  
• 318 - (UK) - Bounty Hunter World
  
• 548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
  
• 577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
  
• 559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using '1 Def Pure' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the official OSRS Discord[discord.gg]. For more information, check the official Old School Wiki[oldschool.runescape.wiki].

Mods Abe, Abyss, Acorn, Ape, Arcane, Archie, Argo, Ash, Asherz, Ayiza, BigRig, Blighted, Blossom, Boko, Brooksie, Bruno, Bulb, Chilly, Criminal, Curse, Daizong, Default, Doctor, Ed, Elena, Enigma, Entropi, Frogs, Fuzz, Gecko, Ghost, Gizmo, Goblin, Grace, Grub, Halo, Harold, Hend, Hornet, Husky, Ivory, Jalo, Jamesy, Jerv, Keyser, Kieren, Kirby, Kurotou, Leebleh, Lenny, Liron, Lotus, Lykos, Mack, Maeve, Manked, Markos, Maylea, Mobius, Moogle, Morty, Moz, Necro, Nin, Nixon, Nox, Nylu, Oasis, Ori, Other, Otter, Pheasant, Philomel, Pork, Pumpkin, Puppi, Pyro, Rach, Redfield, Rice, Romy, Roy, Ry, Saiyan, Sarnie, Schmidt, Shogun, Shroom, Sigma, Skylark, Smithy, Sova, Spacebar, Spyro, Squid, Starry, Suharun, Surma, Sween, Tide, Titania, Titus, TJ, Tomb, Tsourorf, Tyran, Veda, Vegard, West, Wolfy, Yozora, Yume & Zaf

The Old School Team

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Pete Kayer's Challenges Feedback

• Pete's attack range has been slightly reduced during Pete's Final Challenge to match that of the players.

• The chance for Pete to plant Mithril seeds during his Final Challenge has been reduced.

• Pete's HP during his Final Challenge has been reduced slightly.

• Special attack energy will now continue regenerating after leaving the Special Attack PvP Challenge.

• Planted mithril seeds are now fully cleared in between fights during Pete's Penultimate and Final challenge, meaning you will no longer get the message "you can't plant seeds here" when visually there were no seeds planted.

• The back button within the PvP Challenges interface on Mobile has been slightly resized to fit within the interface.

• Completion of the Easy Wilderness Diary is no longer required to claim rewards from Pete's PvP Challenges.

• Pete's Combat level during his final challenges has been lowered to 126 to match that of the player's max combat level.

• Pete's attack delay after healing in Pete's Final Challenge has been increased to match that of the players.

Gathering Efficiencies

• Infernal Tools can now be recharged without needing to be fully depleted first.

• A toggle has been added to disable the auto-burning functions (cook, light, smelt) on Infernal Tools.

• Players can now store a knife and a hammer in the Tackle Box.

• Players can now more reliably receive at least one Runite Ore from a Runite Golem before it respawns.

• Players now have a chance to receive additional Runite ore when successfully mining from a Runite Golem. The number of ores received scales with diary tiers.

• The Expert Mining Gloves' chance to prevent ore depletion now also apply to Runite Golems.

• We've adjusted the 'bonus resource' rounding on the Kingdom Management activity in Miscellania, effectively providing the player with more bonus resources.

• On Fossil island, you can now deposit fossils in fossil storage crates without having to enter a bank pin by merely using the fossil on the crate. This will respect the Bank Deposit Box item quantity check setting, to know whether to ask you for quantities to deposit or not.

• The Skill Guide & Runecraft level-up messages at levels 50, 75, and 85 indicate that the Colossal pouch can now hold more essence.

• The primary/left-click option on Roe (from Barbarian Fishing) is now 'use'.

• Removed the 'E' icon when a farm patch is empty. (Official Client / Mobile Only)

• Adjusted the position of the compost icon as it sometimes covered the planted seed. (Official Client / Mobile Only)

Mining & Smithing Survey

• We recently launched a survey in-game to help us understand what you want to see with Mining & Smithing: Re-Forged!

Other Changes

• Entering barbarian assault will now correctly check for dragon arrows and arrows in dizanas quiver before letting players into the minigame where it was not before. Dropping normal arrows (non barb assault arrows) will no longer be destroyed on drop without warning inside barb assault.

• Pets now correctly follow you through teleports (i.e. Fairy Rings, PoH Exits, etc)

• Removed a couple of rogue fences floating near the Colossal Wyrm.

• Dogs will no longer appear with enlarged heads due to being dropped in F2P worlds (Big Head Mode: OFF).

• Tweaked the message trees used in net trapping on to indicate how to make a net trap. (By using a rope on a net)

• The buy limit on empty butterfly jars is now the same as empty vials and impling jars.

• Active Daeyalt Essence now stand out more.

• The Grid Master PoH wallkit's mismatched ambient and contrast values have been fixed.

• Fixed the small gap between dungeon wall tops causing them to misalign.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

• 560 - (UK) - PvP World

• 319 - (US) - Bounty Hunter World

• 579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World

• 561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World

• 580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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Old School's fourth raid, The Fractured Archive, is coming NEXT WEEK! We're currently aiming to open the raid at 11:00 UTC, but will let you know ahead of time if anything's changing on this front.

This is your reminder that you have less than 7 days to gear up, get your squad together, figure out which ailment is just believable enough for some last minute sick days at work, and get ready to step in to our toughest raid yet.

In case you missed it, we published an Everything You Need To Know blog last week[secure.runescape.com] which - as you might have guessed - details just about everything you need to know about how the raid works, so make sure to study up to free up your brain to focus on the bosses themselves after release.

We'll also be live on our Twitch channel to try and keep up with people's progress, where Mod Ayiza and Mod Kieren will be bouncing between various streams, talking through the raid itself, trying to bring you as much of the race to world first as possible. The stream's set to be a casual kickback but hopefully serve as a nice central hub for you all to figure out which stream to pile into and chat spam, but we'll be chatting with our data team throughout the day to bring you cool stats as we go.

The Fractured Archive being less than a week away feels a little surreal, we're so excited for you all to get stuck in, keep your eyes peeled for teasers and countdowns across all of our socials, and we'll see you on the 20th!

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Pete Kayer made his way to Ferox Enclave last week and has since become the centre of attention! We'd initially not planned on having a game update this week in advance of The Fractured Archive's release next week on October 20th, so don't have a huge number of changes for you.

Before we get to chatting, let's get you up to speed with changes that have been made either with today's update or via hotfixes from last week:

• Pete's attack range has been slightly reduced during Pete's Final Challenge to match that of the players.

• The chance for Pete to plant Mithril seeds during his Final Challenge has been reduced.

• Pete's HP during his Final Challenge has been reduced slightly.

• Special attack energy will now continue regenerating after leaving the Special Attack PvP Challenge.

• Planted mithril seeds are now fully cleared in between fights during Pete's Penultimate and Final challenge, meaning you will no longer get the message "you can't plant seeds here" when visually there were no seeds planted.

• The back button within the PvP Challenges interface on Mobile has been slightly resized to fit within the interface.

• Completion of the Easy Wilderness Diary is no longer required to claim rewards from Pete's PvP Challenges.

• Pete's Combat level during his final challenges has been lowered to 126 to match that of the player's max combat level.

• Pete's attack delay after healing in Pete's Final Challenge has been increased to match that of the players.

Those first three changes in particular reduce RNG reliance for Pete's Final Challenge, so if you've found yourself getting close but unable to finish the fight then it might be worth jumping back in!

The rest of this section's more focused on how the update's gone, future plans and general thoughts from the team, so if you're only here to look at changes then you can scroll on by.

Just over half of the people who've engaged with Pete Kayer's challenges have never engaged with PvP prior to the update. We've seen a considerably higher number than we'd anticipated of this group of players go on to engage in Wilderness PvP or LMS after engaging with Pete's challenges, which is pretty good going. 

Having said that, we hadn't set out to make Pete's challenges something that would specifically make you want to PvP or go out into the Wilderness, we understand that issues and feelings towards the Wilderness are systemic and far-reaching and don't expect some challenges focused on mechanically piloting your character in PvP scenarios to change this significantly. What we do think people have gotten better at is shoring up their fundamentals and having a stronger framework for defending themselves in situations where they do find themselves in the Wilderness - we've seen comments for years now about the number of PKers with years and years of experience feeling like an immediate death sentence, so hope that people can find some value in practicing versus the suped-up training dummy that is Pete's Final Challenge.

We also agree that Pete's Final Challenge was overtuned on release and hope that the changes we've made make it more achievable for those of you willing to get your reps in on the tutorial elements and shore up your skills. Pete hadn't been finalised at the time of us polling the Imbued ancient cape cosmetic, and turned out to be a little tougher than is reasonable for something that so many of you have been wanting for ages, which has lead to many players treating it as aspirational content and resulted in large numbers looking for 'cheese' strategies just to secure the cape rather than using it for practice.

While we've not finalised anything yet, we're having internal discussions and leaning towards offering the Ancient fabric from Pete's Penultimate Challenge instead, then offering another small cosmetic or perhaps a trim from Pete's Final Challenge so that players still know you're tough as nails.

Loads of you have had great suggestions for additions to Pete's curriculum, including things like 'tank tests', introductions to Vengeance or damage-stacking, or extra parts of existing challenges like reacting to a big outgoing hit before rushing in with a special attack. We love hearing your ideas for things you'd like to see and have made loads of notes, but don't currently have plans to make any additions in the immediate future. Pete's tutorial system is set up so that it's possible for us to add more whenever we like, so we'll be keeping these in mind for future - let us know if you have other cool suggestions for us to consider!

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Our next batch of Gathering Efficiency updates is here! 

When you're venturing into the Wilderness Resource Area to take on the Runite Golems, you want to be sure you'll come away with pockets full of ore. We've increased the chance to receive a Runite ore from a defeated golem, so you can more reliably get your hands on at least one ore before the golem respawns. OK so you've got one, how about more? Well we're introducing a chance-based system to give you additional ores based on your Wilderness Diary completion. Completing the Medium Diary gives the chance to receive 2 total ores per successful mining action, Hard diary has the chance for 3 and Elite has 4.

Also, got your mits on a pair of Expert Mining Gloves? Their chance to prevent ore depletion now works on Runite Golems as it does for standard Runite rocks, handy! However, stay sharp, when you kill a Runite golem, it will turn into a rock you can mine for one minute (which has always been the case). Whilst the Expert mining gloves may stop the rock from depleting once, it will not stop the golem from respawning!

You can now recharge Infernal tools without previous charges being depleted, across your Infernal pickaxe, harpoon and axe. No more XP-waste exhausting the charges!

To burn or not to burn? That's a question you can now answer with our new toggle for your Infernal pickaxe, harpoon and axe! No more smoked swordfish when you're wanting to stockpile your resources without having to lug around two pieces of equipment. Toggling auto-burn off won't affect your current charge count, and the setting will stay the same between sessions. Find the toggle through the right click minimenu. 

Speaking of carting fishing equipment around, you're now able to store a knife and hammer in your Tackle box, giving you more space for your catch of the day.

We've removed the pesky E icon when a farm patch is empty, and we've adjusted the position of the compost icon, too, making it easier for tapping those green thumbs.

 

• We've adjusted the 'bonus resource' rounding on the Kingdom Management activity in Miscellania, effectively providing the player with more bonus resources.

• On Fossil island, you can now deposit fossils in fossil storage by simply using the fossil on the crate, no more bank pin requirement! This will respect the Bank Deposit Box item quantity check setting, to know whether to ask you for quantities to deposit or not.

• The Skill Guide and Runecraft level-up messages at levels 50, 75, and 85 correctly indicate that the Colossal pouch can now hold more essence.

• The primary/left-click option on Roe (from Barbarian Fishing) is now 'use' rather than eat.

That's everything in this batch of Gathering Efficiency updates. We'll be taking a break from these to focus on The Fractured Archive next week, but we'll be back with more before long!

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If you missed it, on Monday we released our Mining & Smithing survey to help us understand exactly what you'd like to see with the upcoming Mining & Smithing: Reforged! Whether you agree, how far you would want us to go, and where you would prefer we did not change anything.

None of the ideas suggested in this survey are decided but your answers will directly shape whether we pursue them, drop them, or rethink them. We want to understand your current experience regarding Mining and Smithing and whether that experience satisfactorily grows with you.

There's a lot to think about when it comes to these skills as separate entities, skills that intertwine closely and how they affect the rest of the game. So jump in-game, head to a Poll Booth or use the option in your Account Settings tab and let us know your thoughts!

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• Entering barbarian assault will now correctly check for dragon arrows and arrows in dizanas quiver before letting players into the minigame where it was not before. Dropping normal arrows (non barb assault arrows) will no longer be destroyed on drop without warning inside barb assault.

• Pets now correctly follow you through teleports (i.e. Fairy Rings, PoH Exits, etc)

• Removed a couple of rogue fences floating near the Colossal Wyrm.

• Dogs will no longer appear with enlarged heads due to being dropped in F2P worlds (Big Head Mode: OFF).

• Tweaked the message trees used in net trapping on to indicate how to make a net trap. (By using a rope on a net)

• The buy limit on empty butterfly jars is now the same as empty vials and impling jars.

• Active Daeyalt Essence now stand out more.

• The Grid Master PoH wallkit's mismatched ambient and contrast values have been fixed.

• Fixed the small gap between dungeon wall tops causing them to misalign.

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The RuneScape Art Community annual Scapetober challenge started on October 1st!

Scapetober is an OSRS/RuneScape-centric variation of Inktober. It challenges artists to draw a picture based on the daily themed prompt list, for the whole month of October. Unlike Inktober though, artists do not have to use ink, they are free to use any media they choose.

Here's the full list of themes:

Wanting to partake without the intensity of daily art for a month? Feel free to only do the orange prompts for a more chill prompt list!

Ultimately, it’s up to you to do as many or as few prompts as you’d like, at the level of finish of your choosing, and at your own pace, this is meant to be fun, not stressful!

Post your art on social media with the hashtag #Scapetober and in the ⁠⁠monthly-prompt channel in the RuneScape Art Community Discord to share your creations!

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In case you missed it, we’ve teamed up with celebrated OSRS community artist Scape Ink[www.instagram.com] to bring six all-new, exclusive designs to life in a brand-new apparel capsule. Featuring iconic designs from the world of Gielinor on streetwear-inspired faded and dyed black garments with a relaxed and oversized fit, this gear is all you need to hit 99 FashionScape and look the part wherever your next grind takes you. Each garment features a bespoke neck-print commemorating the collaboration.

The full collection is available to pre-order now from https://runescapemerch.com.

A premium oversized hoodie that pays tribute to one of OSRS's most popular skills, packed with Slayer-inspired details such as the Slayer Tower, the skill icon, a slayer ring and a slayer gem.

A Scape Ink take on one of Gielinor’s most iconic characters, the legendary Wise Old Man.

Forged for strength, a Scape Ink take on the powerful Bandos Godsword, reimagined in chrome.

Just you, Gielinor and one hell of a grind.

Harness the power of Ancient Magicks, featuring the ancient spellbook and the unmistakable Ice Barrage.

Celebrating a Gielinor classic, the iconic DDS in all its glory on a relaxed fit sweatshirt in faded black.

Whether you're planning to add this to your own inventory or grabbing a gift for a fellow 'Scaper, get your pre-orders in now from https://runescapemerch.com.

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The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

• 560 - (UK) - PvP World

• 319 - (US) - Bounty Hunter World

• 579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World

• 561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World

• 580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been de-activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been de-activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

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You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the official OSRS Discord[discord.gg]. For more information, check the official Old School Wiki[oldschool.runescape.wiki].

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