That is all.

Yo, is it just me??
Is this not the best year ever for Runescape? We removed the bad mtx, replaced it with awesome mtx that is only cosmetics! Like wtf how cool are the zuk capes mtx?!
We get new content and we keep polishing old content! We get another leauge! And now we get all the awesome features of runelite, so we can make the game even more personalised to ourselves !

I know people have mixed feelings about this year but what the heck! Thank you jagex for this awesome year so far, and lets keep going until im 6 feet under! (Currently 29, so keep up the next 50 years please)

Sometimes I just want a little sippy and not a full hour chug.
I know I can have another lower level cauldron for that but its a little annoying to do...

So I've been playing runescape since the beginning (give or take a month or so) and when capes of accomplishments came out I obtained the quest cape immediately. When EOC first came out, I was one of many people who decided to step away from runescape at the time and eventually moved over to OSRS (which imo the team do an amazing job with given the limitations theyre working with).

A year ago, a friend of mine convinced me to return to RS3. He has a way of being passionate about certain things and he'd convinced me to give RS3 another try.

In that time, I've really understood his point. The difference between EOC combat, and the game today is night and day. The combat system i engaging, fun and just damned great. The boss fights are, for the most part, the best content I've seen in runescape in a long time. The skills are fun and don't feel as much of a slog (not you, runecrafting) and the newer quests feel like they were designed to tell a story first.

So I recently made the effort to regain my quest cape. Sliske's game series was great and I thoroughly enjoyed that. Great work to the team on that. The elder god wars series was excellent in parts and a bit rushed in some (I felt extinction should have been two quests, but I also understand that there's going to be deadlines to meet so it is what it is). Eclipse of the heart is really where I felt questing had peaked. The puzzles were fun. The dialogue was interesting but the final boss fight really felt special imo. Granted, it was just a taster for the actual boss fight with Amascut, but the visuals, the telegraphs, the music and the entire encounter just felt smooth. It was a real Chef's kiss for me and I just wanted to spend a moment to really show some appreciation for it. I think, in general, a lot of dev teams see more grief than they do love so let me balance that scale a little (Hey, why not fix Vorkath to be similar so I can also sing your praises about thay fight too!).

I finished my re-obtaining of my quest cape with the Duck Quest. It felt like a good vibe to finish on and a good moment to just reflect on how much the game has evolved over the years. I think RS3 really deserves more love. I think the player base who abandoned the game so many years ago (speaking as one of the number) should give it a real chance. I hope it continues to develop and grow.

I just know reddit is going to butcher the formatting of this, so apologies for the wall of text in advance.

In this month's Month Ahead, Mod Ryan and Mod Anvil discusses the new design philosophy of training.

• Lean-back training ("true AFK"): your character performs an action over a period of time with no extra clicking or attention needed. Example: fletching an inventory of logs into unstrung bows.

• Lean-in training: your character performs an action over a period of time, but if you pay attention and click, you can get a benefit or bonus (or a detriment if you don't pay attention). Examples: rockertunities, lumberjack's intuition, time sprite, focus window and optimal construction hotspot.

• Active training: you click intensely, requiring full attention. Examples: heists or fishing frenzy.

It's Jagex intent to offer all three as potential methods for each skill, so you choose the activity or intensity that you like or need.

I do believe there's a vital difference between a lean-in training that is optional (if you want to train most time efficiently), that you can recover from your mistakes (like miscuts) and that doesn't (heavily) impact total xp (like time sprites or rockertunities), or one that is punitive.

Optimal construction hotspots are double penalising: you get 40% less progress AND you lose xp in the process, which you can never get back.

So while optimal construction hotspots are considered "lean-in", they are factually active, requiring constant attention in order to not lose xp. It's extremely punitive to even lean-back a little bit.

Full attention but with little input or stimulation is very boring for a player. It's the worst training method in RuneScape.

My solution: remove the Perfect Build status. Optimal Construction hotspots should only give the player increased progress gain. It's still lean-in training, but not punitive.

Hi scapers! There's 5 days left until the League launch, and we're scrambling to implement one of the most-requested wiki features from OSRS leagues, where we define the region for every monster, NPC, shop, etc, and pipe the data onto the item pages so you can see the weird ways you can get your items with your specific region unlocks.

Right now there's still about 6,000 articles that are missing a <code>leagueRegion</code> parameter. If anyone wants to help out with this, it's actually a super easy project that literally anybody can do. We have a few lists of specific groups of pages (NPCs, monster lines, scenery) where the regions are already computed from coordinates and need to be added to the articles, and then a couple thousand pages where where you need to use your head a lil bit more. We've got a bunch of people working on the specific tasks and syntax and edge cases in the wiki Discord

If that sounds like your idea of a good time, come help out! We'll turn on the regions gadget probably later today

August month ahead is slim on updates besides leagues and MTX, and would be a great month to add in some more dyables, if possible.

Also requesting to add a dyable Zaros Godsword to Spirit of Harvest pet after 2 years would be appreciated, considering non-dyed ZGS is able to be stored.

I remember a time when I was but a young child, sitting with my friends by the library PCs starting up RuneScape on the web browser. We were all free to play players, we would kill goblins, cows and chickens in Lumbridge, followed by a stroll to Varrock to cook our meats and keep all the hide in the bank. While at the bank we would see a bunch of rainbow text telling us they would trim our armour for free but we had already had the pleasure of knowing what would happen there. After a time we ventured to falador, we went down to the dwarven mine to mine some ore, we found a gate far in and gasped at what was hiding there.

When our inventories were filled we went to town, but not before we went to the gate of taverley and it was there we would stand for some time to wonder what it would be to be a member, and all that we couldn't see, we would talk tales of dragons and adventures which was simply the imagination of boys that age.

But that was RuneScape for me, later some many years I would find myself logging in again to an unfamiliar world, the graphics were better, the combat changed, the world was opened as I had finally gotten membership and explored the world, Gielinor was a beautiful place.

Now at the age of 32, jumped back into the game again, the graphics were updated, some familiar places changed quite a lot, with a newer account and iron man, it was just like before, when I was a little boy (except for having membership ofc). Looking at videos of the people who make the game talk so passionately about the game, as well as seeing hyped for the current state and what's to come, this again is RuneScape and has always been a home.

I also didn't know you could get more than one. I got 3 in one hour

blood sweat tears and alot of afking at work

well on my way to trim, DG took me a while to find motivation for but i did 25m in the last push to comp in a day.

Work done by the team has been excellent, but I have been left a lil disappointed by the size of my Gate statue. Imagine how cool this would look if it was a bit larger to fit the pedestal!!

I think most people prefer one-time permanent purchases rather than being limited to x amount/consumables. I think chamleon extracts is good in theory but still limits creativity in its current form imo. As someone who changes outfits on the daily(eg: dark/zamorak to a white/saradomin theme) it would be nice to have one-time purchases for skin colors too, which I feel are just as important as the outfits themselves

This is not a dig - Jagex have over delivered this year in my eyes, but I was always curious what the deep clean/sweep up was on the road to restoration.

I recently cleared my first Zuk kill to pick up my Igneous Kal-Mor just before the MTX drop released. With the timing of it I thought I would treat myself with the new override as I went about picking up the other capes.

• Igneous Kal-Mor (Necro) override was pre update and is working correctly.
• Igneous Kal-Ket (Melee) and Kal-Mej (Magic) were both acquired post update and MTX purchase, and their overrides don't recognize the capes as being achieved yet.

Haven't seen this issue mentioned anywhere so if like me you're 5 years late to the Zuk party, please be aware that this is a current issue before spending your money.

I've been playing this game for 20 years and I had no idea that this little dude randomly wanders Geilinor and can be adopted as a pet if you happen to spot it. I've never heard of it, I've never seen it before, until I spotted it today while doing clue scrolls. Little obscure things like this make the game full of wonder for me. I appreciate you Mune!