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15th August 2016 - Return of the Beach


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The Beach | Daily Treasure Map Rewards | Satyr Outfit

 

The Summer Beach Party has returned to Lumbridge Crater once again, making it the place to be until the 12th September.

 

Along with your old favourites, there's a new Treasure Map feature for daily free items, as well as two new activities: Terrorbird Racing and Hook-a-Duck, for Agility and Hunter XP respectively.

 

Be sure to check out the newest addition to Solomon's Store, too: the Satyr Outfit.

 

Finally, catch Mod Osborne talking live at Gamescom on 17th August at 15:00 UTC (game time) on the Twitch Main Channel!

Welcome to the BeachActivities

 

The fun, XP-giving passtimes from last year's Beach Party have returned , along with some awesome new additions.

 

NEW - Terrorbird Races

 

Complete laps as quickly as you can for maximum Agility XP and a chance to be on the hiscores page, viewable by clicking on the start gate.

 

Pick up a terrorbird mount by the starting gate to get started, or use your (now recolourable) April Fools' terrorbird mount.

 

Races start on the hour. Good luck!

 

NEW - Hook-a-Duck

 

Wield a rod and hook a duck for Hunter XP.

 

Fight Clawdia

 

The raging crustacean spawns every 45 minutes after the hour. Her damage scales to your current life points, so everyone can dive in and help drive her back.

 

Old Favourites

 

Of course, the summer fun from last year returns. Whatever you fancy training, there's something for you:

  • Sandcastles – Construction XP
  • Rock pool fishing – Fishing XP
  • Barbecues – Cooking XP
  • Coconut gathering/depositing – Farming XP
  • Coconut shy – Ranged XP
  • Beachball rolling – Agility XP
  • Muscle beach – Strength XP

 

Every 15 minutes one of the XP-giving activities will be spotlighted, yielding +10% XP. Please note that the spotlighted activity varies from world to world.

You can keep earning XP until your temperature gauge fills up completely, although this can be reset up to three times a day by consuming ice creams.

 

Please note that Ironman players earn 50% less XP for participating in beach activities.

 

JMods can activate Happy Hour on the beach to really get the party started. Happy Hour will spotlight all beach activities except for Terrorbird Racing and will freeze all temperature gauges, earning you a bonus hour of beach skilling!

 

Treasure Map | Daily Rewards

 

The Treasure Map is a new feature which you can use to collect handy items each day from 16th August until 11th September.

 

Speak to Reyna in Lumbridge Crater to collect the map, then click it in your inventory to get started.

 

The interface will update each day to show another cross on the map, which can be clicked to claim the treasure.

 

There's also the option to use a Bond to claim any prizes you have missed – see the right-hand side of the interface.

 

Note that using the Bond option also allows you to claim any prizes you may miss later in the event, as they are released, up until the event ends. You will never need to use more than one Bond to unlock missed Treasure Map items.

 

Rewards

 

There are a number of useful items that you can earn by fighting Clawdia and participating in other beach activities:

  • Ice cream: This tradeable, consumable item resets a full temperature gauge to 0. You can use up to three per day.
  • Anti-sun potion: Also tradeable, this item gives a +5% boost to any XP earned through beach activities and any other training on the beach. The effect lasts for 24 hours of real time.
  • Cocktails: These come in four fruity flavours, each boosting XP gain in a different group of skills – combat, artisan, gathering and support. By drinking more of the same type, you can stack the XP boost up to 10%. The effect lasts for 30 minutes of logged-in time.

 

Please note: These items will be removed from game on the 3rd October.

 

There's also a rare chance to get tradeable tokens that can be redeemed for one of several new beach items. Please note: The tokens will become untradeable at the end of this year.

 

Shark Fin 

Lifeguard chair hat
Clawdia wings 
Duck ring
Sand Dunk resting animation 
Ice lolly wand
Hacky Sack resting animation 
Water balloon launcher
Conga eel whip 
Coral sword
Coral dagger 
Starfish pet
Puffer fish pet 
 

These items can also be purchased from the vendors around the beach for RuneCoins, as can challenge gems, dwarven challenge barrels, party packs and masterwork music boxes.

 

Finally, there's a bunch of secret rewards available for fulfilling certain conditions on the beach. Have fun discovering them!

 

Satyr Outfit | Solomon's Store

 

Head to Solomon's General Store now and pick up the Satyr Outfit.

 

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As with the Flourishing Fairy Outfit which we released last month, the Satyr Outfit is designed with recolourable sections and comes with a teleport animation.

 

Grab it from Solomon's Store now!

 
 
Enjoy!

 

Top up that tan, eat those ice creams and - most importantly - have fun!

 

The RuneScape Team

 

See the patch notes for further details on this week's update.

 

Mod Osborne | Live at Gamescom

 

Our very own Mod Osborne will be at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany on 17th August, talking all about the Eastern Lands and how our community helped them come into being.

 

Live Streams This Week

Each week we live stream Q&As, in-game events and more. Watch our streams and find a full streaming schedule over on our Twitch channel.

 

Check our YouTube channel, too, for recap videos of streams you may have missed. Watch them now!

 

This week, it's time to check out a first look at our 19 new Skilling Pets, coming next week!

 

Tuesday, August 16th | 16:00 Game Time | Skilling Pets Q&A

 

They're a much-anticipated update, and we've brought it forward a week so you can enjoy them earlier!

 

But we know there have been a lot of questions about Gielinor's newest pets.

 

Watch from 16:00 Game Time to find out more about what we have planned. Ask your questions on our forums, Reddit, or by using #RSQA on Twitter!

 

Friday, August 19th | 20:00 Game Time | Update preview with Mod Shauny

 

Find out what you can expect from Monday's patches and more with Mod Shauny this Friday night!

 

Sunday, August 21st| 19:00 Game Time | PvM with Mod Lee!

 

Mod Lee will be hosting some Community PvM goodness live on Twitch!

 

[spoiler=Patch Notes]

  • Based on your feedback, the Flourishing Fairy teleport now uses the colour set on the outfit when the outfit is not equipped.
  • The shape puzzle from the Eyes of Glouphrie quest has had some colours tweaked to be more accessible for players with colour blindness.
  • Moved a piece of scenery to prevent you getting blocked occasionally when teleporting directly to the centre of the abyss.
  • Ensured that the light and dark form curse visual effects are cleared when leaving Troll Invasion and Daemonheim.

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames

 

Graphical

  • Amended the fail rates for the Wilderness agility course. It is no longer possible to fail at Level 99 Agility.
  • Cursed energies now convert into other energy types at 100 to 150 per action, rather than 10 to 15.
  • Training at the cursed divination colony whilst under the effect of the divination cache buff will now grant the correct experience.
  • Enriched cursed wisps can now have their spring duration extended by offering a cursed memory or enriched cursed memory.
  • Corrected the Herblore level requirement to create unfinished bloodweed potions.
  • The Elder Divination Outfit's colony teleport no longer shows a Wilderness warning for every colony.
  • Familiars no longer berate their owner when they fail to pickpocket a rogue.
  • Standing in the bank with the Fortitude prayer active now heals during a duel for the correct amount.
  • The Barbarian Assault tutorial can no longer be started with a follower present.
  • It is once again possible to obtain a ranged skillcape shard.
  • The camera no longer continues shaking after sinking the Fishing Trawler.

Quests, Challenges and Achievements
  • The Wilderness sword tier 4 can now be used to teleport from up to level 30 wilderness.
  • Ensured that Kolodion doesn't rudely stop talking when asking about task system rewards.
  • Added the missing Woodcutting requirement to the Smooth Bakriminel task.
  • Added the Slayer requirement to the Lava Palava task.
  • Checking someone else's trap no longer completes the Doyouthinkhesaurus task.
  • Added a missing step to the Liquid Luck task hints.
  • Increased the deathkeep values for Wilderness swords from 2k to match the reclaim costs.
  • Equipped Wilderness swords now have a right-click Edgeville teleport option.
  • Fixed a typo in The Light Within quest.
  • Corrected the spelling of Dimintheis' name during the quest Dimension of Disaster.

The Arc
  • You will now find even more items washed up on uncharted islands, based on the island’s size. Logging out will still wash unpicked items away.
  • You will now be able to find some different items washed up on uncharted islands, such as fruit or bones.
  • Ornate tortles will now respawn instead of normal tortles when ornate tortles are caught, if the two species are on the same island.
  • Shark's tooth necklaces now give 5% additional Fishing experience whilst fishing wobbegongs.
  • You can now use surge on uncharted islands.
  • Signs of the porter no longer transport sea salt and alaea salt to the bank.
  • The Waiko teletab is now visually different to the Watchtower tab.
  • The messages you receive when claiming an island to clarify that claiming another will NOT refresh the daily cap on claimed islands have been refined.
  • Claiming a new uncharted island will now allow you to exhaust it correctly, even if their previously claimed island had been exhausted.
  • Spam-clicking on salty crablets no longer causes them to deplete too quickly.
  • Fixed an issue with wobbegongs respawning on login if they had been previously depleted.
  • Wobbegongs will no longer remain visible after depletion if they are very far away from the shore.
  • The destroy option on Seiryu's fang now works.
  • The player now states the correct amount of fish oil outstanding to the Aminishi moai when hiring the crew during the Head of the Family miniquest.
  • A missing beard has been added to a cyclops labourer.

Other
  • Steve the monkey butler will now ask to take un-noted logs to the sawmill for the usual fee.
  • Free players no longer receive members’ objects from looting the muddy chest.
  • It is no longer possible to keep a camouflage potion's effect longer than intended.
  • Added the music track "Arise Legend" to the Legends' Guild.
  • Replaced several hundred synthesized looping sound effects with more realistic non-synthesized ones.
  • Blocked some rocks in Lletya that could be walked into.
  • A number of punctuation marks weren't being recognised by the game and have been updated.
  • Fixed some chat with Oldak when asking about “Technology” before having unlocked Invention.
  • The bonecrusher now works correctly when hunting pawyas.
  • Adjusted the Helwyr teleport from the Max Guild portal to ensure that it no longer places you on the wrong side of the barrier.
  • Fixed some environment blocking issues around the Prifddinas light rift.

NXT
  • Fixed a bug where certain objects would be incorrectly hidden when textures were turned off.
  • Improved world map stability.
  • Numerous sky texture quality improvements have been implemented including fixing crashes solid white sky in certain areas on low-end graphics cards and putting in place foundations for higher resolution textures.
  • Fixed Lighting for Scrying and Building Mode in a player-owned house.
  • Particles should no longer appear under a location instead of on it.


Ninja Fixes
  • The Hero, Adventures & Powers parent interfaces can now be kept open during combat.
  • The Quest List may now be used as a smaller child window. Each quest opens the relevant entry on the parent interface as usual.
  • Duke Horacio has moved the two families displaced by the Battle of Lumbridge into better accommodation across the river, away from the threat of the goblins.
  • The magical defence wardsmen, hired to defend the castle during the Battle of Lumbridge have been dismissed.
  • Now that the threats posed by the Battle of Lumbridge are long gone, the elite Lumbridge guardsmen have been reassigned to protect the main bridge from goblins.
  • The Doomsayer, fearing his doom at the hands of goblins, has moved to the (probably) less doomy side of the river.
  • The 'manage-crisis' option on Duke Horacio in Lumbridge has been removed.

 

 

 

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