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Menagerie, Familiar Controls and Butlers
First off, all combat familiars will now follow you into a fight much more promptly. We’ve also updated the Summoning status globe (the button near the minimap) so that you can configure what happens when you left-click on it. One of the many options will allow you to send your familiar into action against an NPC (or another player on a PvP World) with just one quick click.
If you want a place to keep your pets, you can now do this with a new room for Construction - the menagerie. It’s a pet-owned house to complement your player-owned one, if you will, in which you can store a number of fully grown pets of any kind. You could create a haven for all three god birds, for instance, or build your very own little dragons’ den.

Machima Contest Did you know that “RuneScape” is one of the top five terms searched for on YouTube? As such, we like to check out the latest films made by the many RuneScape movie boffins out there. They’re so good, in fact, that we’ve teamed up with one of RuneScape’s most talented machinima (films made with game engines) masterminds, TehNoobShow, to launch a competition to seek out the most entertaining player-made RuneScape video known to humankind. The rules are simple: create an original video short (around two minutes) that’s both entertaining and creative, in the RuneScape game. The competition launches today, and you have until the closing date of 25th August to submit your videos on the YouTube website. When the entries are in, Andrew, Mark Gerhard and some video-hungry members of the Community Management team will then shortlist five finalists. Those five videos will then feature in a RuneScape weekly poll, allowing the community to choose their favourite.

Phoenix fun! To begin completing tasks in your Achievement Diary, talk to one of the NPCs named at the top of the scroll. There are three categories of task: Easy, Medium and Hard. Easy tasks might require some quests to be complete, but they will generally be low level quests. Almost any player should be capable of completing all of the easy tasks. Medium tasks may require a few more quests, be in more dangerous locations, or require several of your skills to be advanced. Hard tasks may not appear difficult on first glance, but they may require you to enter incredibly dangerous areas, to have completed Master Quests, or to survive through all the horrors.

In Pyre Need
As adventurers who have completed In Pyre Need will know, the phoenix lives at the far end of a series of caverns. Since being restored to health, however, the phoenix has instructed its servants to do their utmost to defend these caverns. Anyone wishing to enter the phoenix's presence now has to battle their way through these massive, magma-filled monstrosities.
There are three types of guardian, one for each point of the combat triangle, with Combat levels up to 128. All of the caverns are multicombat areas, so it is possible to be attacked by many of the reborn guardians at once - a dangerous prospect!