24-Nov-11 - Herblore Habitat

24-Nov-2010 Herblore Habitat

 

Way down in the Kharazi Jungle' date=' a witchdoctor going by the name of Papa Mambo has been combining his strange magical powers with a spot of gardening. His unique brand of 'juju magic' has infused a jade vine offshoot with an abundance of life, causing it to sprout new strains of flowers, bushes and herbs, and he's inviting players to try their hand at farming these new plants.

 

If this weren't enough, the flora is attracting strange, plant-like creatures called jadinkos to the area. You will need to experiment with various combinations of flowers, bushes and herbs native to this habitat to find out what attracts the many different breeds of jadinkos to the area.

 

Papa Mambo has discovered that plant trapping and tracking these jadinkos can earn you secondary ingredients to be mixed with the vine herbs, in order to create special juju potions. These juju potions are untradeable, and offer a variety of benefits, including increased herb yields, attracting spirits to transport logs and ores to your bank, and the ability to fish the elusive baron shark.

 

Finally, if you hunt all of the basic jadinko breeds in any given week, Papa Mambo will give you an experience reward (in Farming, Herblore or Hunter) as well as garments from the ever-fashionable witchdoctor collection. There are also three special jadinko breeds the enigmatic Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak jadinkos. Catching these will prove difficult, as the habitat they are drawn to changes on a weekly basis. If you manage to find the right combination of flora, though, you will not only get a further experience boost, you'll also receive the much sought after witchdoctor mask AND a 30-minute XP boost to all your Farming, Herblore and Hunter activities within the habitat area.

 

Mod Raven

RuneScape Content Developer

 

 

Summary:

 

Where to start using the Herblore Habitat:

Speak to Papa Mambo in the south-east of the Kharazi Jungle (you can teleport there with a juju spiritbag, purchased from Bettamax in north Taverley for 2,000 coins)

 

Requirements to use the Herblore Habitat:

54 Farming is essential to start using the Herblore Habitat and farm juju plants

70 Hunter is required if you wish to start hunting jadinkos

54 Herblore is required is you wish to start mixing juju potions

56 Construction would also be useful, but is not required

 

 

In other news...

 

The Thanksgiving turkeys have made a reappearance in Lumbridge! Pay a visit to the cook's brother in Lumbridge and help to prepare his Thanksgiving feast.

 

The ogre chefs of the Feldip Hills have branched out a little. You will now be able to access spit-roasting spots in a number of new locations around the area.

 

Weve upgraded the Software graphics mode to allow use by players with Macs and Linux. Weve also made changes to our other graphics modes, allowing them to all look the same as Safe mode, should you want your game to look that way. As such, theres no longer any need for anyone to use Safe mode - unless there is a problem with the game client - as every other mode performs significantly better! We have, therefore, removed the option to enter Safe mode from the options screen; it will instead only be activated when a problem with the other modes has been detected. Players currently in Safe mode will be asked to re-run the automatic setup when they load their client.

 

Weve added a new system to allow us to message every single online player with update warnings and other information. We will be trialling this with the next game update.

 

The right-click menu can now handle a situation where there are more options than can fit on your screen. It will now try to bunch options into categories to conserve space.

 

The Dungeoneering coal bag now has a handy fill option for use within the bank screen.

 

The XP counter is now comma-separated for ease of reading. [/quote']

 

24-Nov-2010 Changes for New Accounts

 

Creating New Accounts

 

From now on' date=' when you create a new account, you will be asked to supply your email address rather than a username. This email address will be requested on the RuneScape login screen whenever you attempt to log in. For existing accounts, please continue to use your current username to log in.

 

By introducing an email login for new accounts, we are able to greatly improve your security. Since your email address is not visible in-game, it becomes much harder for anyone to hijack your account. Existing players can get the same level of security by creating a character name (if they have not done so before) and submitting their email address in the lobby.

 

The change also allows us to improve several areas of our customer support, as most password requests for email-registered accounts can be answered quickly if you have used your correct email address.

 

Note: If you cannot supply an email address, you will not be able to create a new account.

 

Character Names

 

Over the coming weeks, we're planning to free up millions of unused character names (previously known as display names) for you to use. A character name is considered unused if it fulfills ALL of the following criteria:

 

It hasnt been logged into in the last year

It hasnt been used to purchase any membership

It has no RuneScape skills of level 30 or above

 

Note: If you are a free player, you will retain your character name if you have logged into your account in the past year, or if you have any skills over level 30.

 

You will still be able to use your account if your character name has been reclaimed. An interface will pop up and ask you for a character name when you log in.

 

Unused character names will become available as we identify them, and we'll keep you up-to-date as the process goes on. In the meantime, if you've had your eye on a specific character name, it may be worth finding out if it's available!

 

Mod Fetzki

Head of RuneScape [/quote']