Quack.
Quack.
Spring is in the air and the Blooming Burrow returns on Monday April 14th!
Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/blooming-burrow-returns
Alongside the burrow we are also launching Duck Quest, a permanent adorable quest, read more about that here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/duck-quest
Is there an Easter event article coming out today?
Tomorrow.
Skilling Update: Augmented Runecrafting and Thieving (released in March)
Ummmm
Has been flagged up as a typo, as mentioned in the RF blog that update is aimed at May.
Howdy Scapers, Let’s talk what's next, at Runefest we gave a comprehensive look into our plans for the rest of this year and so we're kicking off the 2025 RuneScape Player Survey, designed to put your voice right at the heart of our roadmap planning.
Check out the survey here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/2025-player-survey
in the video u/jagexshrike mentioned a teleport to the soul altar but leela's favour doenst seem to offer that. did she mispeak and meant soul obelisk? or is there a soul altar teleport coming? it would be very appreciated to have a quick teleport to behind the menaphos pyramid! :)
Think this was a case of crossed wires, the Dev Diary has to get filmed a couple weeks before the project is 100% finalized and the script for it has to get locked in earlier then that and it looks like there was just a mix up on what the rewards were that was missed, the teleports are intended to be to the Soul Obelisks while the Soul Altar receives the productivity boost.
That's a funny looking Imcando pickaxe...
Thurgo, cmon man your supposed to be good at this job.
Boating
I knew we’d get Sailing before OSRS!
Although it would seem they did get a beekeeper outfit before us…
Where Duck Quest?
Edit: Duck Quest is also coming the same day, my mistake.
Duck Quest is also on the 14th, its spring themed but not tied completely to Easter and will be available all year round so there is a level of separation we are doing with the communications.
once again tagging onto this guy's comment
I completed the Elite Seer's Tasks before the Hards and now the cosmetic override of the headband 3 cannot be unlocked.
Hey we have a bug in, but it isn't yet resolved.
I actually figured it out. There are two Leelas about 10 tiles from each other.
Was on the way to mention this, There is currently 2 Leela's if you are on the BSS quest, team will be changing it so Pharaoh's Folly Leela won't appear if you haven't finished BSS
You mention bugs specifically but what about quality of life changes that used to frequent the patch notes? Personally that is what I most look forward to week to week
Those are part of the Mod Yuey's work on the Player Panel stuff as well! Any suggestions for QoL internally or from the community are captured, and those also get assessed in the same way.
it's weird to see so little on the patch notes when there's so much patch work to be done in the game.
big old nothing burger this week on the patches again.
We're working on this at the studio at the moment and it's an area we want to improve this year. Completely valid criticism.
Felt like I should drop in with a bit of context on what's up with this, and what we're doing about it given there's actual work happening on this at the studio!
So, a lot of last year was shaping our development effort to be more consistent on delivery of core content and involve players more where possible. We're in much better shape on that front, but we are still learning and improving how we go about it.
The casualty of that focus was a drop in our Patch Note output. Mod Yuey has been great at representing feedback on this within the community to the team and the team are responding. There's a bunch of stuff going on, but a couple of the key changes already have been:
- Fix It Fridays now happen once a month, which focus the entire development team on bug squashing for an entire day (on top of time for bug fixing as part of their normal workload). We've...
Read more1. Describe the bug you are experiencing.
Keepsaked santa outfit top and legs are unequipable.
2. List the steps to reproduce the bug.
Attempt to equip keepsaked santa outfit top and legs.
3. Do you have any additional information that would be useful?
To update you - this has been fixed and is awaiting QA to check it over.
Menaphos is in peril! Team up with Leela & Ozan and challenge Osman in Pharaoh’s Folly, the latest Return to the Desert quest.
Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/pharaohs-folly-quest-launch---this-week-in-runescape
Get ready for the next chapter in the Return to the Desert trilogy with Pharaoh’s Folly, launching on Monday April 7th!
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/return-to-the-desert-pharaohs-folly
FYI, some items that were used as equip models during certain animations also got mistakenly deleted with this update (I guess they had login checks mistakenly given to them, despite never being actually obtainable). As a result, those animations no longer play correctly.
At a quick glance (in no way meant to be comprehensive), this includes the Christmas 2005 Marionette handles, and the honey you feed to Baby Sarah during the Meeting History quest.
Should uh, probably double check that any of the other deleted items weren't used by anything. Since I doubt these (plus the dinosaurs) were the only ones mistakenly affected.
Since they got totally deleted yesterday, I am also once again requesting that the basket of eggs (with associated human_skipping_ready and human_skipping_walk animations) and ghost buster 500 be reintroduced as cosmetics at some point.
I would imagine there is a few oddities in the list like the baby dinos that had login checks associated that we are gonna be chasing up as they arise, if you have a list of things you noticed aren't working as expected do feel free to send them over to me to pass along.
Will this fix the yak issue aswell ? Now when you have a yak as fam you crash all the time.
If that issue arrived since this week update potentially but if that had been around prior it would likely require some further investigation.
This is understandable, even if I dislike losing some of my items. But changes like these should be announced before it goes live so players can prepare, maybe take screenshots of their collections. Very sad.
This has been a takeaway action point from this situation for us in the CM team, originally the team who were working on the login flow stuff had been showcasing it on a technical level and we in the CM team missed the minute to minute impact of these changes as we should have realized what this would have meant to players and given a heads up on what was going to happen.
We plan on syncing with teams more directly on things like this that may have unexpected side effects.
Howdy Scapers,
With a few changes - both intended and unintended - popping up in Monday's release, we wanted to check in and provide more information on what's going on.
Tomorrow morning at 08:45 UTC there will be a short server reset to resolve both the Wandering NPC issue and the Green Skirt Item issue. Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/post-update-check-in-wandering-npcs-green-skirts--item-removals
The NPCs spawning in weird places is unfortunately not an Aprils fools joke (it would have been great if it was planned) , team is investigating how best to resolve it and for the time being we have left the warning up on the launcher.