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Mod Kari

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This week we’re trying to address some of the feedback we’ve been receiving on Mining and Smithing, as well as continuing to monitor and implement hotfixes to the Winter Chill Off and War’s Retreat. We’re listening closely to any and all feedback, especially with War’s Retreat, so make sure to keep it coming!



Mining
Smithing
Winter Chill Off
Audio
Bossing
Engine
Graphics
Interface
Skilling
Textual

Mining



To meet the aims of improving the value of ore, as well as to further increase the value of stone spirits, we’ve made some changes to player stamina while Mining.



  • Damage dealt to rock’s HP now scales with the player's current mining stamina. With no stamina remaining, swings provide only 20% of the damage that is dealt at full stamina (outside random damage variation and critical hits). Rocks that don't reduce stamina (like red sandstone and Arc crablets) aren't affected by these changes. As before, you can restore stamina by clicking/tapping on a rock again.

  • Modifiers from pickaxe tier, rock hardness, strength level, and critical hit damage are unchanged and work as before.

  • Stamina is restored automatically when stone spirits are consumed while under the effect of a perfect juju mining potion.

  • Stamina no longer depletes while mining Seren Stones, as such Seren stones have had their HP increased from 1500 to 2000.

  • Updated the mining skill guide to include Anachronia mining locations for various ores.

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    Smithing



    To meet the aims of improving the availability of invention components that were more easily obtained before the M&S rework via weapons & armour we’ve made some changes. We’ve buffed the chances of obtaining components rather than parts from Elder Rune equipment. Due to these large increases in available parts & components, the breakdown perk's activation chance has been adjusted to compensate.



  • All smithable items now disassemble into 4 Invention parts or components per bar used in their creation.

    • For example, a 2h sword with no upgrades, which requires 4 bars to create, breaks down into 16 parts or components. An elder rune platebody + 5, which requires 160 bars to create from scratch, breaks into 640 parts or components.


  • Elder rune equipment now has a higher chance of breaking into components rather than parts, compared to other tiers of equipment. Component 1 increased from 3% to 9% per roll. Component 2 increased from 2% to 6% per roll.

  • Breakdown Perk Activation Chance from 0.8% per rank per bar, down to a flat 0.8% per rank.

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    Winter Chill Off


  • Empowered Blight Staff and Sword are now available as rewards from the Winter Chill Off.

  • Hotfix: Fixed Norm in the Winter Chill Off event to allow you to correctly purchase the Currency Doubler through the dialogue options if you have the Blightreaver unlocked

  • Hotfix: Some skilling stations have been adjusted in Winter Chill Off as they were changing states quicker than anticipated.

  • Hotfix: The Winter Chill-Off interface will now correctly display how much increased experience a player will earn from the event.

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    Audio



    A recent patch caused some issues with sound effects in the game. This week we are launching a fix that should resolve the issue on desktop. A fix for mobile is in the works.



  • Resolved an issue preventing specific sound effects from playing on desktop.

  • Audio for attuning the Shadow Reef portal and Liberation of Mazcab have been fixed to play the correct sounds.

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    Bossing


    God Wars Dungeon


  • The War’s Retreat Reaper Portal now checks for all normal access requirements when pointed at a God Wars Dungeon boss.

    • Nex


  • Hotfix: Ancient Ceremonial will once again bypass the kill count requirement when trying to enter the Nex boss area.

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    Engine


  • Resolved an issue preventing the client from launching on some Intel HD Integrated Graphics.

  • Fixed an issue preventing the launcher installer from working on older versions of OSX.

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    Graphics


  • Graphics issues with NPCs at longer draw distances while using the free cam has been fixed.

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    Interface


  • Boss pets will now show the correct player’s killcount when examined.

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    Skilling


  • Non-direct combat methods can now be utilized to progress a variety of slayer tasks that previously could not be progressed in this manner.

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    Textual


  • Various Mining & Smithing typos have been fixed and corrected.

  • The description of the Balancing Wand has been cut down in order to fix an issue where the text was overlapping.

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    Community Manager


    Needs more Ben & Jerrys

    03-Feb-2020 10:34:41 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2020 10:52:49 by Mod Poerkie

    CrazyDawg
    Feb Member 2011

    CrazyDawg

    Posts: 374 Silver Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
    Still have the same issue with sound effects in the game, no teleport sound, wood cutting sound, mining sound, these are the ones i tried out. This is on desk top.

    03-Feb-2020 12:20:05 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2020 12:20:49 by CrazyDawg

    Aimme
    Aug Member 2010

    Aimme

    Posts: 1,371 Mithril Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
    Why did you patch winter chill off after it has finished? Seems an utterly pointless waste of time. Maybe fix the right click decant at rodri instead, something people actually care about?

    Aimme xx

    03-Feb-2020 12:53:05

    Nathxn
    Dec Member 2019

    Nathxn

    Posts: 348 Silver Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
    Was also kinda curious as to why the winter chill off has had some patches considering it's ended O_o

    Edit - Also is the photo booth feature broken? I've tried to update my avatar picture the past few days and it's having none of it. Cheers.

    Nathxn

    03-Feb-2020 13:43:36 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2020 13:45:38 by Nathxn

    Rikornak
    Oct Member 2013

    Rikornak

    Posts: 9,165 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
    It's nice to see that you finally (well over one year late - but better late than never I guess) try to tackle the demand side of that stone spirit disaster - but I guess it's fairly save to assume that you still have no clue how to fix the supply side? That sheer abundance of worthless adamant, gold and runite spirits and the lack of most new ones?

    You also might want to remove the stamina mechanic from other stuff, that doesn't feature rockertunities or stone spirits - since there are no spirits there is no need to nerf them to make non-existent spirits more attractive. Sandstone certainly would be a first thought for that.

    Kronhos said :
    This stuff was 100% already inplemented several weeks ago (at least the mining/smithing part). Are you trying to sell old stuff as new?...

    They did a couple of mining/smithing changes a few months ago that had a similar sound, but this stuff is new - except for that perfect juju mention, which probably is just there as a reminder for those who want to continue afk mining.     Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
    Quick Fixes: Invention

    03-Feb-2020 14:10:31 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2020 14:20:31 by Rikornak

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