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four new skills and the OSRS sidebar

The new skilling masters standing in a row at home, with the blood fountain in front of them
The new skilling masters standing in a row at home, with the blood fountain in front of them

Fishing, Cooking, Crafting and Construction are all playable for the first time, and each one has a master at home selling what it needs. Alongside them the sidebar has moved onto OSRS's own panels - the music tab, friends, ignore, chat channel and the full minimap orb column - and the Blood Pacts tree has grown from eighteen pacts to twenty-seven.

Highlights

  • Four new skills - Fishing, Cooking, Crafting and Construction all work now, with a counter at home for each of them.
  • Every fishing spot and every range in the world - the 74 fishing spots and the roughly 1,500 ranges, ovens and fires baked into the map did nothing at all when you clicked them. They all work.
  • A house of your own - Construction had no way to earn a single point of experience, which quietly made the Max cape impossible for everyone. Ten rooms, 190 pieces of furniture and eight styles.
  • Nine new Blood Pacts - a sixth branch on the tree, and the board now pans and zooms so you can see where a line is going.
  • OSRS's own sidebar - the real music tab with all 853 tracks, the friends, ignore and chat channel panels, and the full orb column over the minimap.

New content

  • Fishing - shrimps at level 1 through to dark crab at 85, at every spot the map holds: Lumbridge Swamp, Barbarian Village, Catherby, the Fishing Guild, Rellekka, the Gnome Stronghold and the rest. Bait is on the tackle counter, and monkfish, karambwan and dark crab spots have been added where OSRS has them.
  • Cooking - 52 foods on any range, oven or fire in the game, plus the assembly half that makes them: doughs, pie shells, the pizza chain, cake, stew and curry. Cooking gauntlets and the Hosidius clay oven each cut your burn rate, a fire is worse than a range, and a Cooking cape stops you burning anything.
  • Crafting - jewellery and silver at any furnace, glassblowing, pottery, the spinning wheel and the whole leather and dragonhide ladder. Dommik sells the needles, moulds and pipes, and Ellis will tan your hides.
  • Construction - a player-owned house on ten rooms with eight styles, a sawmill and an estate agent. The menagerie keeps your pets out of your bank, and the obelisk lets you choose which Wilderness obelisk you come out at rather than taking a random one.
  • The skilling masters at home - the Master Chef, Dommik and the Sawmill operator join the row by the blood fountain, and the ground around them has been tidied up.
  • Nine new Blood Pacts - the tree is 27 pacts over six branches now, including a new Avarice line: coins and blood money from a kill go straight into your bag, and the last pact on it adds 5% to every rare drop roll. There are also three Crystal Catalyst tiers for bossing, two more blessing tiers, and Fountain's Reach, which lets you commune from anywhere outside the Wilderness.
The Blood Pacts tree with Coin Collector picked out, its cost and the Forge button beside it
The Blood Pacts tree with Coin Collector picked out, its cost and the Forge button beside it

Combat and balance

  • Araxxor - his corpse pays the whole reward now, so nothing appears under him when he falls and destroying the corpse really does forfeit everything. Acid no longer lands inside the rock walls, a ruptura leaves no pools where it explodes, and the acid ball costs you one hit rather than one per tile it crosses.
  • Fountain's Blessing - lasts a flat five minutes, or ten with Everflowing Blessing forged. It used to run anywhere from five to nineteen minutes depending on your Strength level, for no reason you could see.
  • Dart fletching - ten darts on the click itself, with no menu in front of it, which is how OSRS does it and makes darts the fastest experience in the game. It is one set per tick, so the rate is your own clicking rather than one click and a wait.

Interface and quality of life

  • The music tab - OSRS's own player in the sidebar, listing all 853 tracks with Area, Shuffle and Single modes, a Skip button, three playlists and a filter.
  • Friends, ignore and chat channel - the real OSRS panels, and they update while you are looking at them. A friend logging in used to show up only after you relogged, and someone joining the clan chat never showed up at all.
  • The minimap orbs - hitpoints, prayer, run energy, special attack, experience and the world map, all on OSRS's own column. The run orb never lit up before, and poison, venom and stamina now colour it properly.
  • Rearranging the bank - drag an item to a new slot, and the list scrolls when you drag to the top or bottom edge. Placeholders now fade out and offer Release rather than a list of withdraw options that do nothing.
  • Bank search - the prompt appears in the chatbox when you start a search, so it is clear you are searching rather than looking at a broken bank.
  • Presets - a preset loads back into the exact slots you saved it in, gaps included, instead of packing everything up against the top.
  • Teleport search - just start typing on the teleport window and it filters. You no longer have to click the box first.
  • The vote shop has an address - it is the Quartermaster inside Edgeville bank now, rather than a button on a window you could open thirty levels deep in the Wilderness.
The music tab open in the sidebar with Harmony playing and 853 of 853 tracks unlocked
The music tab open in the sidebar with Harmony playing and 853 of 853 tracks unlocked

Fixes

  • Following another player - you trailed two tiles behind someone walking and three behind someone running, and you could not follow anybody who was in combat at all. You now stay right behind them.
  • Talking to an NPC - walking up to someone opened their dialogue and closed it again a moment later. The conversation now waits until you have actually arrived.
  • Shops now check where you are - a counter opened at home stayed open, and spendable, wherever you walked afterwards. Shops are gated the same way banks are.
  • The server information panels - the player count, uptime and your own totals were written once when you opened the tab and then never moved. They update as you watch them.