RuneScape: Dragonwilds news & patch notes

Dedicated Servers will need to be restarted to sync updates. Here's what we're fixing in this hotfix.

• Resolved an issue where users couldn't use Mounts after completing an Agility Course.

• Fixed an issue with shadows not showing correctly on Grass at certain times of day/lighting conditions.

• Fixed an issue where Traditional Chinese wasn't available as an in-game language option in the settings.

We're still testing a potential fix for the issue affecting users encountering a freeze when failing an agility course.

Dedicated Servers will need to be restarted to sync updates.

Here's what we're fixing in this hotfix.

• Resolved an issue affecting the Great Body Robbery where players could soft-lock themselves out of dialogue.

• Agility Completion Times now persist between sessions on both Dedicated Servers and Hosted Worlds.

• Fixed an issue where TokTz Ket Xil shield vestige would not drop in some circumstances.

Agility

With the 0.12.1 release, we're delighted to be introducing a long-overdue addition to RuneScape: Dragonwilds - Agility! Our latest skill will allow you to build up your stamina and sculpt yourself into a speed machine.  Across Ashenfall, you'll find SIX new stations with flags for you to interact with. There, you'll find a leaderboard of times, and a trail of orbs to gather along a fixed course. From there, you'll be able to continually repeat the courses over and over, improving your time, getting XP with every lap.

You'll earn rewards for completing Agility courses, and mastery of the courses will net you Gold Medals. You can throw those on your walls, like Pristine Fish from Fishing, as trophies to show everyone who's the boss of the course. Mastering the region's agility course will also grant you a gilded trimmed version of the regional cape as an extra reward.

Firstly, let's talk about passives: 

You'll be able to gain XP passively while running across the world, too - but you won't get XP on mounts. Stop cheating and get those knees up! As you level up through the Agility Skill tree, you will passively consume less Stamina while you sprint. 

At levels 50 and 75, you'll also unlock passive increases to your maximum carry weight. 

You'll also be able to use Agility Shortcuts to make use of Kebbit Burrows situated across the world. They'll be dotted on your map, and you can dig them up to open up tunnels to cut across side routes in the world. In early Agility levels, you might take damage when failing to squeeze through unharmed, so be careful using the shortcuts on low HP.

At higher levels, you'll start to break your falls from higher up by rolling out of them to avoid taking as much damage. Fatal falls will still kill you though. 

The skill tree also, of course, comes with its own Skill Spells and unlocks.

Windstep is now an Agility skill spell, rather than a Runecrafting skill spell.

At higher levels, Windstep will also cause you to send out a blast of air when you land, sending enemies to the floor.

So, you can run further, carry more and scoot across the world in shortcuts. But that's being fast - not agile.

How about... an aerial dash? A short, horizontal dash to cross small gaps and add extra evasive manoeuvres during combat? 

Sounds good. What if we gave you... a second jump? You'll be able to jump, jump again in mid-air and then dash horizontally to get over and around enemies. Pretty cool, right?

You'll also be able to use a new skill spell - Recall.

Leave a runic marker on the ground, and then recast to teleport back to the initial marking spot - great for quickly grabbing something urgently and getting out of danger. If you fall to your death while tethered, you'll also teleport back, and the tether will be consumed. 

All of this is built to make you faster, leaner and meaner - and we'll be factoring it in moving forwards in how we design exploration, puzzles and more. So don't start thinking you'll be able to make an Agility Pure account - it's time to do some cardio.

The Great Body Robbery

Our longest Secondary Quest to date can be found in Bloodblight Swamp - an unfortunate experiment has rendered the Good* Doctor* Fenkenstrain in a bit of a pickle. You'll need to help him out. Your rewards are a new club weapon that's shockingly good, and a buildable decoration: the Pylon. This functional decoration will generate an area of effect in a radius around it that intercepts lightning strikes to allow you to build in places known for... inclement weather.

* = The validity of this claim is highly disputed.

Combat and Movement Improvements

• We're introducing the Ascension Cores feature to the Mystic Forge - use those cores to upgrade Masterwork and Vestige weapons to higher tiers using the relevant cores!

• We're adding a radial hotwheel for both Controller and Keyboard + Mouse users to speed up selecting primary items, as well as adding the quick cast shortcut for either a spell OR an item.

• Stability changes are coming to make jumping more consistent in suboptimal networking conditions that led to losing the ability to jump in some circumstances.

• You'll be able to cycle through your runes/arrows in mid combat to save you having to open your inventory.

• Jumping will cost 10 stamina, down from 20 - reducing further when Agility levels are reached.

  • Leggings of Lightness, Mounts and Windstep should each be unaffected by this, so your general mobility won't change!

• We're making good progress on improving performance, additional ambient VFX and tons of optimisation for Fog, trees, grass and even the coastline. All of that is intended to make the experience more stable/smooth for you to focus on what you do best. Smacking the living daylights out of goblins.

• We're also adding more to the existing jump to improve its "ledge forgiveness" - as in, if you walk off a ledge, there's a small window of time for you to jump before you cartoonishly plummet to your demise. 

Visual Fidelity

We've done a bit of a pass over the starting areas (Brynmoor and Ghornfell) with an emphasis on visual improvements, performance and clarity. We've improved how trees will look nicer at a distance, the visual clarity of moss and fog, our existing grass and foliage to include more flowers, and we've improved performance at lower ends of the settings.

We've revisited night sky visuals, volumetric fog across the world, storm weather visuals and we've also added additional ambient VFX across the region and along the coastline. 

Known Issues

• Power Level 7 (PL7) Shards do not exist in the World, but the recipe to convert PL7 Shards to Cores does exist in the Mystic Forge. This is not intentional. We will be removing the recipe with our 1.0 update.

• PL7 Cores are only obtained from the Nightmare Crucible directly and not through converting shards.

Bug Fixes

• We're resolving an issue where Axes were dealing incorrect damage to trees. 

  • We misplaced a decimal. Oops! 

  • We'll be reverting this to its intended value with 0.12.1, alongside several other bugfixes to woodcutting, including Splinter and Axetral Projection removing stumps.

  • This was giving people disproportionate XP based on the damage dealt - we're putting values back to where they should be! 

• Fixed an issue where Axtral Projection upgrades would not chop down all intended/highlighted trees.

• Fixed an issue where Splinter would destroy tree stumps if used on an adjacent log.

• Fixed an issue where the Yew Farming Plots did not snap in building modes correctly. 

• Fixed an issue where Rune Vents would appear full for clients in multiplayer worlds even when depleted. 

• Fixed an issue introduced in Umbral Sands where game music would loop repeatedly, primarily triggered upon respawning.

• Fixed an bug where summoning Buddy in a wall would cause the game to crash. 

  • Get it? Bug? Becau- oh, forget it. 

• Resolved an issue where a part of the Burning Spire zone where the player could fall through Lava. 

• Fixed an issue where returning to the main menu after dying would respawn the player back at the location of death. 

• Fixed an issue where Potion Effects would be removed between game sessions/on logout. 

• Fixed an issue where Lodestone teleports placed on the edges of the map could only be used one-way as they would fail to be displayed on the map.

• Fixed an issue where the search area on the map for the "Saga of the Adventurer" Quest Step was incorrectly aligned.

• Fixed an issue where Wild Jade Vines would die to poison in the Toxic Swamp. 

• Resolved an issue where Ascension Cores weren't displayed correctly in the Mystic Forge of the crafting menu.

• Fixed an issue with the TokTz-Mej-Tal staff would not consume runes on attack.

• Fixed an issue with some items would display a white square placeholder depiction.

• Resolved an issue where the Right Stick on controllers would not turn the camera within a 30% radius in some contexts.

• Fixed an issue where some shaded areas would let Scorch stack up to 500% without triggering.

  • That's probably going to leave a mark.

• Tweaked the lighting in the Velgar Arena to improve visibility when fighting him at night.

• Fixed an issue where the Spellwheel would not show descriptions for spells as a client in Multiplayer worlds.

• Fixed an issue where the Fire Cape would refill Stamina even if the enemy was not afflicted with burns.

• Fixed an issue where the Kharidian Inner Corner 45° Stairs would be unclimbable.

• Fixed an issue where players could walk under a specific Sand Dune.

• Fixed an issue where an Air Anima vent was situated inside a pillar within the Umbral Sands.

• Fixed an issue where the Chamber barrier in the Contact! quest would be invisible at very low, low and medium graphics settings.

• Fixed an issue with the Special Attack of Hammer weapons which could stunlock Lesser Dragons.

• Fixed an issue where the "Shrimp Catcher" quest completion would not contribute to the Achievement "Brynmoor Helper".

• Fixed an issue where the Kalphite Queen would respawn in an invisible state after being defeated. 

• Fixed an issue where the Kalphite Queen's Sting Attack would become angulated. 

• Fixed an issue where the dunes behind the Kalphite Queen Vault had missing collision.

• Fixed an issue where the ground atop the Cave of Screams was missing collission. 

• Fixed an issue where there was a small invisible barrier blocking pathing in the Dunes of Uzzer when moving on foot.

• Fixed an issue where Quicksand and its VFX were showing in areas that weren't actually quicksand.

• Fixed an issue where a Sanguine Urn icon was incorrectly placed in the Bloodblight Swamp.

• Fixed an issue where users could get stuck in a small spot in the Burning Spire. 

• Fixed an issue where Desert Weed did not have any healthy growth stage assets when planted. It looks as healthy as it is, now!

• Fixed an issue where part of a rock surface in the Burning Spire would behave like lava and damage the player when walking on it.

• Fixed an issue where the Menaphite Desert Cape was missing a Journal Entry.

• Fixed an issue where the Rapid Growth Skill Spell had a placeholder icon in the Spellbook

• Fixed an issue where collision remained on the Zi Core quest item after it had been collected. 

• Fixed an issue where Korean Subtitles were not showing correctly during the opening cutscene.

• Fixed an issue where the Skills Necklace has an unclear description in the interface. 

• Fixed an issue where Localised text for the Construction Skill bonuses was not displayed correctly.

• Fixed an issue where completing a quest for Lagra, Alcarrid's Butcher would not yield rewards if the player's inventory was full.

• Fixed an issue with the Yew Shortbow when fully drawn back causing visual clutter. 

• Fixed an issue where the Fishing Minigame could not have the keybinds rebound.

• Fixed an issue where Bones to Peaches would not mention the stack limit is limited to 10.

• Fixed an issue where the Blue Dragon was incorrectly labelled as "Lesser Blue Dragon" instead.

• Fixed an issue where Stamina would instantly regenerate after jumping when wearing the full set of Wizard Robes.

• Fixed an issue with a typo in the Hall of Heroes Journal Entry. 

• Fixed an issue where Miniaturized Mushrooms in the Dunes of Uzzer could not be gathered.

• Fixed an issue where Torches in the doorways in Umbral Sands were unnaturally bright. 

• Fixed an issue where attempting to cast Fishnado on a Net Fishing Spot would show an incorrect error message: "Your fish has escaped!" 

• Fixed an issue where Green Dragons' flame attack VFX were not aligned to their mouths properly. 

Hello Adventurers! Dragonwilds' final update before the Scorned Wilderness Raid arrives is coming to Steam Early Access soon! Let's get an early look at what it'll contain:

Agility

With the 0.12.1 release, we're delighted to be introducing a long-overdue addition to RuneScape: Dragonwilds - Agility! Our latest skill will allow you to build up your stamina and sculpt yourself into a speed machine.  Across Ashenfall, you'll find SIX new stations with flags for you to interact with. There, you'll find a leaderboard of times, and a trail of orbs to gather along a fixed course. From there, you'll be able to continually repeat the courses over and over, improving your time, getting XP with every lap.

You'll earn rewards for completing Agility courses, and mastery of the courses will net you Gold Medals. You can throw those on your walls, like Pristine Fish from Fishing, as trophies to show everyone who's the boss of the course. Mastering the region's agility course will also grant you a gilded trimmed version of the regional cape as an extra reward.

Firstly, let's talk about passives: 

You'll be able to gain XP passively while running across the world, too - but you won't get XP on mounts. Stop cheating and get those knees up! As you level up through the Agility Skill tree, you will passively consume less Stamina while you sprint. 

At levels 50 and 75, you'll also unlock passive increases to your maximum carry weight. 

You'll also be able to use Agility Shortcuts to make use of Kebbit Burrows situated across the world. They'll be dotted on your map, and you can dig them up to open up tunnels to cut across side routes in the world. In early Agility levels, you might take damage when failing to squeeze through unharmed, so be careful using the shortcuts on low HP.

At higher levels, you'll start to break your falls from higher up by rolling out of them to avoid taking as much damage. Fatal falls will still kill you though. 

The skill tree also, of course, comes with its own Skill Spells and unlocks.

Windstep is now an Agility skill spell, rather than a Runecrafting skill spell.

At higher levels, Windstep will also cause you to send out a blast of air when you land, sending enemies to the floor.

So, you can run further, carry more and scoot across the world in shortcuts. But that's being fast - not agile.

How about... an aerial dash? A short, horizontal dash to cross small gaps and add extra evasive manoeuvres during combat? 

Sounds good. What if we gave you... a second jump? You'll be able to jump, jump again in mid-air and then dash horizontally to get over and around enemies. Pretty cool, right?

You'll also be able to use a new skill spell - Recall.

Leave a runic marker on the ground, and then recast to teleport back to the initial marking spot - great for quickly grabbing something urgently and getting out of danger. If you fall to your death while tethered, you'll also teleport back, and the tether will be consumed. 

All of this is built to make you faster, leaner and meaner - and we'll be factoring it in moving forwards in how we design exploration, puzzles and more. So don't start thinking you'll be able to make an Agility Pure account - it's time to do some cardio.

The Great Body Robbery

Our longest Secondary Quest to date can be found in Bloodblight Swamp - an unfortunate experiment has rendered the Good* Doctor* Fenkenstrain in a bit of a pickle. You'll need to help him out. Your rewards are a new club weapon that's shockingly good, and a buildable decoration: the Pylon. This functional decoration will generate an area of effect in a radius around it that intercepts lightning strikes to allow you to build in places known for... inclement weather.

* = The validity of this claim is highly disputed.

Combat and Movement Improvements

• We're introducing the Ascension Cores feature to the Mystic Forge - use those cores to upgrade Masterwork and Vestige weapons to higher tiers using the relevant cores!

• We're adding a radial hotwheel for both Controller and Keyboard + Mouse users to speed up selecting primary items, as well as adding the quick cast shortcut for either a spell OR an item.

• Swapping to a 2H weapon and then back to a 1H weapon will automatically re-equip your off-hand item too. 

• Stability changes are coming to make jumping more consistent in suboptimal networking conditions that led to losing the ability to jump in some circumstances.

• You'll be able to cycle through your runes/arrows in mid combat to save you having to open your inventory.

• Jumping will cost 10 stamina, down from 20 - reducing further when Agility levels are reached.

• Leggings of Lightness, Mounts and Windstep should each be unaffected by this, so your general mobility won't change!

• We're making good progress on improving performance, additional ambient VFX and tons of optimisation for Fog, trees, grass and even the coastline. All of that is intended to make the experience more stable/smooth for you to focus on what you do best. Smacking the living daylights out of goblins.

• We're also adding more to the existing jump to improve its "ledge forgiveness" - as in, if you walk off a ledge, there's a small window of time for you to jump before you cartoonishly plummet to your demise. 

Visual Fidelity

We've done a bit of a pass over the starting areas (Brynmoor and Ghornfell) with an emphasis on visual improvements, performance and clarity. We've improved how trees will look nicer at a distance, the visual clarity of moss and fog, our existing grass and foliage to include more flowers, and we've improved performance at lower ends of the settings.

We've revisited night sky visuals, volumetric fog across the world, storm weather visuals and we've also added additional ambient VFX across the region and along the coastline. 

Bug Fixes

The 0.12.1 update will contain the following fixes:

• We're resolving an issue where Axes were dealing incorrect damage to trees. 

• We misplaced a decimal. Oops! 

  • We'll be reverting this to its intended value with 0.12.1, alongside several other bugfixes to woodcutting, including Splinter and Axetral Projection removing stumps.

  • This was giving people disproportionate XP based on the damage dealt - we're putting values back to where they should be! 

• Fixed an issue where Axtral Projection upgrades would not chop down all intended/highlighted trees.

• Fixed an issue where Splinter would destroy tree stumps if used on an adjacent log.

• Fixed an issue where the Yew Farming Plots did not snap in building modes correctly. 

• Fixed an issue where Rune Vents would appear full for clients in multiplayer worlds even when depleted. 

• Fixed an issue introduced in Umbral Sands where game music would loop repeatedly, primarily triggered upon respawning.

• Fixed an bug where summoning Buddy in a wall would cause the game to crash. 

• Get it? Bug? Becau- oh, forget it. 

• Resolved an issue where a part of the Burning Spire zone where the player could fall through Lava. 

• Fixed an issue where returning to the main menu after dying would respawn the player back at the location of death. 

• Fixed an issue where Potion Effects would be removed between game sessions/on logout. 

• Fixed an issue where Lodestone teleports placed on the edges of the map could only be used one-way as they would fail to be displayed on the map.

• Fixed an issue where the search area on the map for the "Saga of the Adventurer" Quest Step was incorrectly aligned.

• Fixed an issue where Wild Jade Vines would die to poison in the Toxic Swamp. 

• Resolved an issue where Ascension Cores weren't displayed correctly in the Mystic Forge of the crafting menu.

• Fixed an issue with the TokTz-Mej-Tal staff would not consume runes on attack.

• Fixed an issue with some items would display a white square placeholder depiction.

• Resolved an issue where the Right Stick on controllers would not turn the camera within a 30% radius in some contexts.

• Fixed an issue where some shaded areas would let Scorch stack up to 500% without triggering.

• That's probably going to leave a mark.

• Tweaked the lighting in the Velgar Arena to improve visibility when fighting him at night.

• Fixed an issue where the Spellwheel would not show descriptions for spells as a client in Multiplayer worlds.

• Fixed an issue where the Fire Cape would refill Stamina even if the enemy was not afflicted with burns.

• Fixed an issue where the Kharidian Inner Corner 45° Stairs would be unclimbable.

• Fixed an issue where players could walk under a specific Sand Dune.

• Fixed an issue where an Air Anima vent was situated inside a pillar within the Umbral Sands.

• Fixed an issue where the Chamber barrier in the Contact! quest would be invisible at very low, low and medium graphics settings.

• Fixed an issue with the Special Attack of Hammer weapons which could stunlock Lesser Dragons.

• Fixed an issue where the "Shrimp Catcher" quest completion would not contribute to the Achievement "Brynmoor Helper".

• Fixed an issue where the Kalphite Queen would respawn in an invisible state after being defeated. 

• Fixed an issue where the Kalphite Queen's Sting Attack would become angulated. 

• Fixed an issue where the dunes behind the Kalphite Queen Vault had missing collision.

• Fixed an issue where the ground atop the Cave of Screams was missing collission. 

• Fixed an issue where there was a small invisible barrier blocking pathing in the Dunes of Uzzer when moving on foot.

• Fixed an issue where Quicksand and its VFX were showing in areas that weren't actually quicksand.

• Fixed an issue where a Sanguine Urn icon was incorrectly placed in the Bloodblight Swamp.

• Fixed an issue where users could get stuck in a small spot in the Burning Spire. 

• Fixed an issue where Desert Weed did not have any healthy growth stage assets when planted. It looks as healthy as it is, now!

• Fixed an issue where part of a rock surface in the Burning Spire would behave like lava and damage the player when walking on it.

• Fixed an issue where the Menaphite Desert Cape was missing a Journal Entry.

• Fixed an issue where the Rapid Growth Skill Spell had a placeholder icon in the Spellbook

• Fixed an issue where collision remained on the Zi Core quest item after it had been collected. 

• Fixed an issue where Korean Subtitles were not showing correctly during the opening cutscene.

• Fixed an issue where the Skills Necklace has an unclear description in the interface. 

• Fixed an issue where Localised text for the Construction Skill bonuses was not displayed correctly.

• Fixed an issue where completing a quest for Lagra, Alcarrid's Butcher would not yield rewards if the player's inventory was full.

• Fixed an issue with the Yew Shortbow when fully drawn back causing visual clutter. 

• Fixed an issue where the Fishing Minigame could not have the keybinds rebound.

• Fixed an issue where Bones to Peaches would not mention the stack limit is limited to 10.

• Fixed an issue where the Blue Dragon was incorrectly labelled as "Lesser Blue Dragon" instead.

• Fixed an issue where Stamina would instantly regenerate after jumping when wearing the full set of Wizard Robes.

• Fixed an issue with a typo in the Hall of Heroes Journal Entry. 

• Fixed an issue where Miniaturized Mushrooms in the Dunes of Uzzer could not be gathered.

• Fixed an issue where Torches in the doorways in Umbral Sands were unnaturally bright. 

• Fixed an issue where attempting to cast Fishnado on a Net Fishing Spot would show an incorrect error message: "Your fish has escaped!" 

• Fixed an issue where Green Dragons' flame attack VFX were not aligned to their mouths properly. 

"She is here: the pinnacle of dragon creation, the queen, fused with divine blood and now housing the elemental power of my kin." - Rasthin

Hello adventurers! 

Our road to the end of Kuldra's Saga is clear. Our 0.12.1 update will be the last stop before we put you face to face with the God-Eater herself. Darkness gathers. Wild magic storms overhead. The only way out is through.

We're going to be sharing a full breakdown of Agility, as well as a Dev Diary condensing 0.12.1's features very soon ahead of it's release at the end of this month. Firstly though, let's talk about Scorned Wilderness.

Until now, we've shipped Major Updates that are expansive continents that add a new region, rich with resources, quests, secrets and lore for you to explore at your own pace. These expansion-like updates have grown the world and set the stage for the adventures you'll be undertaking within it. Scorned Wilderness is not like these updates. Scorned Wilderness represents the culmination of our learnings from everything we've built within RuneScape: Dragonwilds so far - but it is not the end. Our journey is only beginning, and we're excited to share more about what's coming after Scorned Wilderness once we launch it. Rest assured, our intentions are the same as they always have been - to keep delivering more of the game you love, at a pace that delights and excites you. 

We've referred to it so far as a "Raid" because we know that for those of you chasing Twisted Bows, ending up at the toothy end of Zebak, or who've earned the scars from the Liberation of Mazcab, RuneScape Raids mean something. We agree.

For those of you unfamiliar with RuneScape raids, we've got you. A Raid is typically a high-end challenge pitched against a player, or groups. You'll be subjected to a gauntlet, delving into a dungeon, raiding a tomb, or... say... charging into an Anima storm to take down a God-Eater. We're the latter. A raid includes unique mechanics or combat challenges testing your mettle and survival skills to hold out against onslaughts of enemies as you fight for a foothold and every inch of ground gained is a victory in itself. Ultimately, you'll rise to the challenge and earn the right to challenge the boss.

Our first Raid pits you (and your cadre of adventurer allies, if you so wish) against a landscape that was ripped apart by wild anima, and the fury of Black Dragons. You will traverse across floating islands, fighting through attacks by the God-Eater herself to reach her. Each of her tyrannical, terrible heads channels the fury of Gielinor's dragons - but she is more than the sum of her parts. Those of you who have slain countless Dragons on the Gielinor mainland will recognise some of her attacks. She shares heritage with other Dragonkin experiments, but she is more. 

Beyond Kuldra, you'll be able to harvest resources to craft Ancestral Robes, Black Dragonhide gear and of course, Rune Armour. Claim your rewards for a dragon-slaying job well done, and you'll be able to gear yourself up with some new kit that will let you roam the entirety of Ashenfall in relative safety and security. For now, anyway... 

Killing Kuldra will ensure you get the latest version of the Dragon Shield as you've come to expect with the previous Dragons, and then a Cape to wear with pride. There is also going to be a selection of pieces of the iconic Dragon armour - glorious, resplendent and red, including the Dragon Scimitar and the Dragon Crossbow. There's a few extra secret goodies on that RDT (that's a Rare Drop Table to you and me) that we're not spoiling yet - you'll have to slay that Dragon and get spooned to find them out.

We're excited to keep working on finishing up what is undoubtedly our most vertical, most anima-warped update to date. We're really excited to get it into your hands, and for you to be able to enjoy the entire RuneScape: Dragonwilds experience so far with new combat, new movement, and so much more. With that in mind, while we've aimed to share things early, give you sneak peeks and even some deep dives in things like blog posts, we're going to be making a conscious choice NOT to spoil the Raid.

We'll be sharing more about our work towards the release, including our process for finding and fixing bugs, and the changes we're delivering to change combat and movement from minute one, but the Raid is something else entirely.

It's going to be something you can only experience for the first time once, so we want it to be totally new, and completely engrossing. We hope you can understand, and we're excited to see you taking on the God-Eater when it launches on September 15th. 

 - The RuneScape: Dragonwilds Team

Heads up adventurers! We'll be shipping another hotfix this morning - your dedicated servers will need to be restarted to apply the update!

• Kharidian Flax and Redberry Floor Pieces will no longer cause a crash if you log out standing on them.

• Fuzan can no longer follow the player out of Umbral Sands if you teleport away.

• Combat Music now correctly resolves in Umbral Sands. Anxiety begone!

You can also still give us your feedback in the survey here, so get involved!

Our 0.12 survey is live now!

We know not everybody will have detailed feedback to share or have experienced everything we ask about yet. Text boxes throughout the survey are optional, but we would love as much feedback as possible, so we appreciate you taking the time to give us more detail where you can.

This survey should take about 10-20 minutes to complete.

Click here to complete the survey!

Thank you so much in advance for your feedback. We love hearing your thoughts and gathering your feedback to help the team make the game the best it can be!

We're making combat less clunky - here's a look at what's coming in our next few updates. 

For a long time, we've been listening to feedback around combat - your steam reviews, your comments on Reddit and Discord, and replies on our socials, everywhere! We went back and forth, chatting to hundreds of you, combing through thousands of survey responses, and gathering info. One word kept coming up - clunky! Clunky clunky clunky.

We've boiled it down to some core principles. Here's what we want to address: 

• Blocking doesn't clearly or consistently reduce damage as expected. 

• Stamina management is a challenge.

• You want to quick-switch and quick-cast more fluidly.

• Switching ammo types in combat is punishing.

• Weapon Specs should feel stronger, and more impactful to use. 

• You can't move while casting skill spells.

• You want to really punish enemies for parrying them. 

• Fall damage hurts.

Right - let's fix that. Enter: The Core Improvements Team. 

In our July update, 0.12.1, we'll be deploying the following changes. There's plenty of content, and the Agility skill, too. We won't get into those yet, we want to focus on Combat today. 

• With the introduction of the Mystic Forge in 0.12, we're adding the functionality to Upgrade Masterworks and Weapons to higher tiers using "Upgrade Cores". 

• Swapping to a 2H weapon and then back to a 1H weapon will automatically re-equip your off-hand item too. 

• We're adding a radial hotwheel for both Controller and Keyboard + Mouse users to speed up selecting primary items, as well as adding the quick cast shortcut for either a spell OR an item.

• We've had a few reports of players losing the ability to Jump, either due to action inputs going missing, or poor network performance. We've ironed out some creases to make jumping even nicer, as well as the improvements to air control and vertical height already live with 0.12.0.

• You'll be able to cycle through your runes/arrows in mid combat to save you having to open your inventory.

• Jumping will cost 10 stamina, down from 20 - reducing further when Agility levels are reached.

• Fall damage has been rebalanced to start later. As part of the Agility Skill launching with this update, you'll have access to perks that make this even more lenient, as well as a breakfall mechanic that will allow you to absorb damage from higher falls. 

  • Leggings of Lightness, Mounts and Windstep should each be unaffected by this, so your general won't change!

• We're making good progress on improving performance, additional ambient VFX and tons of optimisation for Fog, trees, grass and even the coastline. All of that is intended to make the experience more stable/smooth for you to focus on what you do best. Smacking the living daylights out of goblins.

• We're also adding more to the existing jump to improve its "ledge forgiveness" - as in, if you walk off a ledge, there's a small window of time for you to jump before you cartoonishly plummet to your demise. There's more to come with agility, but we'll speak to that separately.

But that's not all! With 1.0's release, we're also adding even more:

• Camera-relative aiming will become the default controller input.

  • Where your camera is looking will be where your attacks and spells will go.

  • This is currently set to where your character is facing, but is a toggle. We're flipping the default, but anyone who has selected an option will keep their preference. 

• Damage Telegraph Time

  • Improvements to responsiveness when telegraphing attacks between server and client.

  • Reducing the number of "phantom hits" you get from just-killed enemies, and making your damage output much more in line with what's on screen.

• We're reducing the Block animation and starting the block window earlier, which means you'll be able to block more often, and more effectively. 

  • We're also improving the UI to show the damage mitigated.

• We've heard your feedback around casting and switching spells mid-fight. Starting with 0.12.1, you'll be able to WALK (not run) during Tempest Shield, Surge, Enchant Weapons and Spectral Arrow skill spell casts.

• We're adding extra refinement to camera shake (optional toggle) and feedback on hits. 

• Players will be able to attack while sprinting as a combo opener. 

• Parrying successfully will grant you 50% of your max stamina back.

• Parrying successfully with allow you to land a single, cinematic Visceral Attack, with a camera adjustment so you can savour the satisfying hit.

• Stamina costs across weapon types will be rebalanced, as well as shield stamina costs.

• You'll be able to animation cancel from combat actions.

• You'll be able to animation cancel Skill Spells by blocking or dodging.

• You'll be able to animation cancel Magic Attacks by blocking or dodging.

• Increased duration of Enchant Weapon and Spectral Arrows

• Reduced Cooldown for Tempest Shield and Snare

• Early-exit cancels for bow and spell attacks. 

• Dire Wolf attacks shortened so they can't hit you while fully sprinting away from them.

• We're adding 9 enemy variations to Brynmoor, Ghornfell, Fellhollow and Dowdun Reach, with new attacks that will apply debuff effects - poison, shock, wither rot, etc.

Mum Was Right, I Am Special

The Old School RuneScape classic, the Special Attack bar, is also coming to Dragonwilds.

Players familiar with RuneScape will be familiar with how this will work already, but as of 1.0, Special Attacks will consume a portion of the player's special attack bar. This allows us to strengthen some of these attacks and reduce their stamina costs so that they can be more powerful now that we can limit the frequency of these attacks. Your special attack bar will slowly recharge over time meaning players will want to ensure they time their attacks well to get the most out of their limited special attack potential! You will be able to use them less often, but they will feel more powerful with each use. Things like the Titan's Wrath and the Greatsword Special will hit harder, and be more of an active ability choice.

They'll feel less like "another move", and more like a conscious decision to use a Special Ability. 

One Hit Wand-er

For 1.0, we're also adding a new magic weapon type... Wands! 

Wands are a more mobile, fast-paced way to deal more damage at a comparatively lower damage output. These will still apply buildup of knockdowns, burns and slows that you expect from Air, Fire and Water magic. You'll be able to use wands to move more fluidly in combat and get around, but also hang back with a Staff and lay down more damage if you want!

All of this is in service of making a combat experience that feels truly brilliant, and has been designed around your feedback from the outset. We're so excited to share more with you soon - for now, we hope this is a reassurance that Combat is getting more improvements, and we hope you're excited to get your hands on it soon.

Dedicated Servers will need to be restarted to apply the update.

This patch resolves an issue where the Tzhaar-Ket-Om would crash the game after doing a specific chain of inputs.

• Resolved an issue where various fishing locations were unusable.

• Adamant Bolts can now be created without needing to first crafting Adamant Arrows.

• Tok-Xil enemies now correctly drop items on death as intended.

• Removed the old "Hard Leather" entities were being found in Umbral Sands chests.

• Wading into quicksand and then into any water no longer shows the Sand VFX.

• Users who can craft the Fire Cape cannot give the cape to unworthy recipients. 

• Crafting a skillcape for a skill should now trigger the Achievement for reaching level 99 in a skill.

Hello 'Scapers, we're back at it. Another scorching day under the sun, and Umbral Sands is pretty toasty too! Last night we deployed 0.12.0.2 - This patch re-enables localisation support for Steam Clients - the language your Steam Client is in will now automatically inform the game what language to start in.

A quick update from us about what we're investigating, fixing and deploying.

Here's what we're also looking into, with the aim of hotfixing as soon as we have a resolution.

• Big headline is the visual issues around Trees, and by extension HLODs.

• We're aware of Yew Plots not snapping correctly as other Farming plots do.

• The team are continually investigating this, and your reports have been super helpful. Thank you! Targeting a hotfix this week.

• We are looking at a fix to allow users to earn the achievements for 99s by crafting a skill cape, OR by reaching the required level.

• This should only affect folks who don't already have it, but just a way to guarantee that everyone can achieve it moving forwards.

• We're investigating the Splinter crash on Dedicated Servers - it's not just Willow as we previously highlighted in the blog post below.

• Targeting a hotfix this week.

• We're checking an issue where Status effects remain on screen after the bar has emptied.

• Some crafting/processing stations are disappearing on Dedicated Servers but still leave invisible blocking behind.

• Thanks to everyone reporting this one, we're investigating the cause.

  • Targeting a hotfix this week.

As for actions - we're looking to deploy 0.12.0.3, our next patch, today. Here's what we're targeting for a hotfix as soon as possible:

• Fuel Pellet Journal Entry incorrectly states where you craft it.

• Issue affecting Death Exchange or Evil Emporium vendors requiring reputation from Umbral Sands.

• Notification showing incorrect value of inventory items' stacks at Umbral Sands' Merchants.

• Garou Chit values are incorrectly displayed on inventory items.

• Fixed an issue where Food healing values were incorrectly halved on localised text strings.

• Quantities in the UI popup on the left are doubling up on Dedicated Servers.

• Certain Terrorbird variant consumables unlock the same variants, preventing others from being used.

• "Contact!" and "Mapping the Sands I" show the player receiving two named rewards on the UI instead of one.

Here's what we're targeting for this week (0.12.0.4+ - these might not all be in the same hotfix.)

• Fishing Locations in Fellhollow and Brynmoor are reporting that they cannot be fished in.

• Adamant Bolts require users to have crafted Adamant Arrows first.

• Tok-Xil enemies are not dropping items on death.

• Dedicated Servers: Crafting Stations disappear if the server is restarted.

• Dedicated Servers: Crashes when using the Splinter Skill Spell.

• Wading into Quicksand, and then into water, shows the sand VFX.

We appreciate everyone's patience as we're tracking down causes and fixes as we go. As always, we're checking Reddit, Discord and Steam. Thanks to all of you for being patient, thorough in your reporting and giving us great feedback. We'll be in touch again soon.

This fix resolves issues where achievements were not unlocking correctly!

Hello adventurers! 

The shadow of Fuzan looms overhead, and as such, we're presenting this "Vital Information" doc that contains info you should know about before jumping into the Umbral Sands update. 

We'll look to keep the list below up to date as best we can as issues are resolved. The best way to let us know of a problem is via the Discord Bug Reports channel! Read the formatting guide before you post to help us track down issues faster! 

Latest Update

12.0.3 Is Live!

You will need to update your Dedicated Servers to sync up.

• Fuel Pellet Journal Entry incorrectly states where you craft it.

• Issue affecting Death Exchange or Evil Emporium vendors requiring reputation from Umbral Sands.

• Notification showing incorrect value of inventory items' stacks at Umbral Sands' Merchants.

• Garou Chit values are incorrectly displayed on inventory items.

• Fixed an issue where Food healing values were incorrectly halved on localised text strings.

• Quantities in the UI popup on the left are doubling up on Dedicated Servers.

• Certain Terrorbird variant consumables unlock the same variants, preventing others from being used.

• "Contact!" and "Mapping the Sands I" show the player receiving two named rewards on the UI instead of one.

0.12.0.2 is live!

This patch re-enables localisation support for Steam Clients - the language your Steam Client is in will now automatically inform the game what language to start in.

0.12.0.1 Is Live!

This fix resolves issues where achievements were not unlocking correctly!

Top Issues Being Investigated

General

• The team are investigating an issue where using Splinter or cutting Willow Trees into logs is causing a crash on Dedicated Servers.

• We're aware of an issue where Yew plots don't snap correctly.

• We're investigating the issue surrounding Axetral Projection and Splinter also deleting tree stumps on cast.

• We aren't currently able to replicate the Dowdun Reach Barrier issue being reported where some users can't progress through it.

• The team are investigating an issue where using Splinter or cutting Willow Trees into logs is causing a crash on Dedicated Servers.

• Achievements are not triggering when completed on new OR existing characters. Both kinds should be able to trigger achievements from now on. 

  • Achievements will NOT unlock retroactively. 

• If the player cuts down a tree with one axe swing, they will not unlock the Achievement "Chop Chop".

• There are two greyed-out flying carpet mounts which cannot be unlocked.

• If the player unlocks a new mount skin before they acquire a Terrorbird mount from completing The Wild Hunt quest, they will have a defunct "mount" prompt on their HUD until the quest is completed.

• There is a short delay where players can be attacked on first login (~3-5 seconds).

• Four of the Terrorbird mount drops all unlock the same variant of Terrorbird mount, we are investigating a fix.

• Rune count is visible when equipping the Vestige Staff from Umbral Sands.

• There is no video for the spell 'Trunk Totem' in the spell book. 

Items

• There are a few instances of "Hard Leather" situated in loot chests in Umbral Sands which are now defunct and do not merge into recipes.

UI

• Scrolling down the skills page requires manual input (no hold action) for controllers.

• The Fuzan Shield displays the incorrect icon in some places. 

• Fire Cape vestige reward drop in the right side of the screen shows an incorrect icon. 

• Input glyphs disappear from the dialogue UI if the player switches control method when starting the interaction. 

• The in-game Air & Water magic Tutorial videos incorrectly show Fire magic. Toasty! 

Quests

• The map marker for the Umbral Sands quest 'Contact!' has incorrect location and size in some instances. 

• Some textures on the Avisk model are not displayed correctly on the Umbral Sands quest 'Contact!'

• On Medium graphics settings and below, the Chamber barrier Umbral Sands quest 'Contact!' is not visible. 

• The Sand VFX trail for the 'Beast in the Sand' quest is not visible for clients. 

• Lagra, Alcarrid’s Butcher will not accept quest items if the players inventory is full. 

• During the 'Rogue Trader' quest, if the player has picked up a  Moonstone prior to the quest the map icons can show incorrectly.

• Quest Started audio sting plays when talking to Hedric The Hunter even if the player already has the task.

Dedicated Server-Specific Issues

These issues are only currently replicated in Dedicated Servers. 

The following interfaces show the incorrect values in the right-hand side. 

• Players moving stacks while trading in the Merchant's Shop may show the incorrect currency value when trading with the vendor. You are receiving the correct amount. 

• Axetral Projection only highlights the first tree in range.

• Quest Rewards for "Contact!" and "Mapping the Sands" incorrectly show the player receiving 2 of the named reward when they actually receive 1.

• Sale value of items is incorrectly displayed. The actual value is double the listed value.

• Players not playing in English: Food item descriptions are currently showing old health values - these have since been doubled. 

• Lightning can strike players in their own bases despite being sheltered in some instances. Bendy lightning!

World/Environment

• Trees are "blooming" or distorting when approached - the team are investigating a cause but are currently unable to reproduce the bug on either AMD or Nvidia hardware, but we have seen reports from both.

Audio

• Creating three Trunk Totems then harvesting them will cause the third to not be able to be harvested.

  • This will also cause the audio to persist.

• Combat music may not resolve when exiting to menu or dying. 

Hello Adventurers! We're back with yet another Major Update - tomorrow, we release the Umbral Sands!

We're also on sale from NOW until June 25th, at 30% off!

Explore an entire new region, inspired by the iconic deserts of mainland Gielinor, and battle across the desert with its dynamic weather systems, seeking shelter, shade and shadow to progress! Battle your way through the Fight Cave to earn the right to challenge Fuzan, and return to the Fight Cave to repeat the challenge for more rewards including rare materials and rewards. Yew, Adamant and Red Dragonhide crafting materials are available, allowing you to craft an additional tier of gear, alongside powerful Vestiges for each combat style.

There's going to be new bosses for you to take on including Fuzan, the new Dragon General, but Fuzan is not alone. Amongst other named bosses, you'll also be able to find keys to access the Nightmare Crucible, a challenging arena that throws the worst of Ashenfall at you. 

Form a fragile alliance with the scattered tribes of the Moon Garou, aided by the Jackal-headed God of the Underworld, Icthlarin! Complete quests for the Garou to earn access to new resources, rewards and cosmetics.

Steam Achievements are here! At last, you get another bar to fill and another number to go up. 

Woodcutting and Mining Skill Trees will be filled out to 99 with new spells, recipes, perks and rewards! 

We've got tons of new music, ambience and soundscapes for your listening pleasure, so don't touch that dial now, we're just getting started.

Let's dive into what's coming in - spoilers ahead, so tread carefully. 

New Features

The Umbral Sands region has been added. Fell the Black Knight Titan to pass beyond the gates and enter the Umbral Sands...

3 new vaults have been added in the Umbral Sands region.

Environmental hazards have been added:

• Sunscorch: Prolonged exposure to the sun will wither you away. The Scorch debuff, once applied, causes hydration to deplete rapidly. Build shelter, stick to shade, or adventure in the dawn and dusk to avoid the worst of the Sun's fiery wrath.

• Quicksand: Areas of treacherous sand will subsume any poor adventurer who missteps when exploring. You'll need to find a way over these spots.

The Fight Cave has been added. At the end of the questline, you will be able to take on the Fight Cave to challenge Fuzan. Earn your reward and bring down the last obstacle between you and the Dragon Queen, Kuldra. 

New Items

Adamant Ore has been added, and with it, new items.

• 4 New Tools:

  • Spade

  • Watering Can

  • Pickaxe

  • Logging Axe

• 8 New Weapons:

  • Crossbow

  • Dagger

  • Greataxe

  • Greatsword

  • Hammer

  • Mace

  • Scimitar

  • Sword

• 1 New Armour Set

• 1 New Shield

• Adamant Ammunition for ranged weapons.

Yew Wood can be found across the Umbral Sands:

• Added the Yew Fishing Rod

• Added 3 New Weapons

  • Yew Shortbow

  • Yew Longbow

  • Yew Stock for Crossbow

Infinity Cloth can be spun:

• Added Infinity Robes

Red Dragonhide can be tanned and crafted with:

• Added Red Dragonhide armour. 

4 Vestige Armour Sets have been added to the game:

Magic:

• Lunar Garou 

• Desert Robes

Ranged: 

• Kalphite Carapace

Melee: 

• Obsidian

New Buildings

We talked about this in a newspost recently in more detail! Your crafting stations will be deleted on login and you will need to replace them - your components will be refunded.

• Blacksmith's Bench - Tools and Melee Weapons

• Fletching Bench - All Ranged Weaponry

• Mystic Forge - Magic weapons and Vestiges

• Armour Bench - All armour sets

• Ore & Stone Storage - Unlocked at Mining Level 59

• Lumber Storage - Unlocked at Woodcutting Level 59

Additional Kharidian Building Pieces have been added. 

New Enemies

Added the following Bosses and Mini-bosses:

• Fuzan

• Tok-Xil

• Red Dragon

• The Kalphite Queen

Added the following enemies:

Kalphites:

• Kalphite Worker

• Kalphite Solider

• Kalphite Guardian

KotHaar:

• KotHaar-Xil

• KotHaar-Kal

• KotHaar-Ket

Wildlife:

• Desert Kebbit

• Goat

• Vulture

Steam Achievements

There's a heap of new achievements being added! We're not spoiling the list for you, but there's more to come with later updates. For now, enjoy the 43 (fourty-three!) achievements to dig into. Good luck, adventurers. 

New Skill Progression for Mining and Woodcutting

Mining has been populated from levels 50-99. 

• New Spell  51- Divine Rock : Turn 5 ore on the ground into a personal mining vein for your continued use.

• Recipe 59 - Ore &  Stone Storage: Unlocks Ore & Stone Storage building piece for you to stash your goodies.

• Perk 69 - Ultimate Burst: Increased Rocksplosion area of effect. Nice.

• Perk 71- Accelerated Veins: Chance for Divine Rock (Level 51) to drop gemstones. 

• Perk 74 - Ingot Weight Reduction: Reduces the weight of ingots by 50%

Woodcutting has been populated from levels 50-99. 

• New Spell 52 - Trunk Totem: Transmute scattered trees into a single totem.

• Recipe 59 - Lumber Storage: New buildable piece with high storage capacity for logs & planks.

• Perk 67 - Wood Weight Reduction: Reduce the carry weight of wood by 50%. 

• Recipe 78 - Lumber Backpack: Increases woodcutting XP, increases rare drop chances and reduces wood weight when worn. You guys wanted a backpack, right? 

• Perk 88 - Axtral Projection Upgrade: Upgrades to 3 spectral axes for bigger Area of Effect. Chop chop! 

The Nightmare Crucible

Chills. Anyway, find Engrams around the Umbral Sands to gain access to the Nightmare Crucible, an ancient Dragonkin experiment pitting you against the biggest and baddest monsters Ashenfall can throw at you. This challenge, boss-rush style mode will pit you against enemies and reward you with rare rewards - Ascension Cores, which will be used for powerful upgrades ahead of the Scorned Wilderness' release. 

New Mount 

• Players will be able to earn the Magic Carpet mount through Moon Garou quests.

• Added customised variations for both the Terrorbird and the Magic Carpet. 

  • You will need to complete The Wild Hunt quest in Fellhollow to access the mount even if you unlock customisation options.

New UI

New UI menus for:

• Character Screen

• Skills Menu

• Spell book

• Mounts

• Spell Wheel

Character Re-customisation

• Players can now edit character customisation at character select - change your look to fit the mood!

Adjusted Jump

• Players will now have more forward momentum at the start of the jump. You currently have less rotation in the air, but you have more control during the jump.

• You should now be able to jump over walls and ledges you are against! 

Additional Updates

We're also adding:

• Advanced Tannery:

  • For making better leathers!

• The Fermentation Barrel:

  • Allows you to upgrade Tier 3 Potions into more powerful Tier 4 potions.

• We're adding traders across ALL of Ashenfall for you to trade with!

  • These will accept some of your materials and spare loot in exchange for stuff in their shops.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Terrorbirds would randomly dismount the player while moving.

• All items that stack can now stack to 99.

• Fixed a bug which caused the Emberwood Village barrier in Fellhollow to come back after being destroyed, and vault progress was being lost despite having been completed.

• Resolved an issue where casting Humidify on Diseased Plants would automatically consume a Plant Cure if one was available in the player's inventory.

• Fixed an issue where the Last Played tab in the Server Selection only showed servers joined by that character, rather than all previous server joins.

• Fixed an issue where a post between Emberwood and Dragon's Run in Fellhollow had unexpected sunlight passing through the fog. Begone, light!

• Resolved a bug where Rune Vents would not properly show the fact that they were depleted for clients in multiplayer worlds.

• Fixed an issue where changes to in-game font sizes would not persist after closing the game.

• Cape Hooks now correctly swap capes.

• Resolved an issue where attempting to delete a character would end up deleting the first character from list in some instances.

• Stones outside of the Saradomin Temple can be picked up again as intended. Woo! Free stones! 

• Titans Wrath can no longer be enchanted by swapping to it during casting. 

Tomorrow with launch we'll be sharing a Known Issues live page that we'll be updating throughout the week with Vital Information of issues we're tracking!

You know the usual - follow our socials (Twitter, BSky, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok!) and get involved with Reddit and join the Discord. As always, we love seeing your comments and feedback, and we're very excited to see you in-game tomorrow.

Until then, be good, and we'll see you in Ashenfall!

Hello adventurers, another day, another update - today, we're going to talk about Crafting Tables!

On login on Umbral Sands' release, your existing Fletching Benches and Smithing Anvils will be destroyed and the resources will be there in their places for you to rebuild the new resources!

So, on top of your new quest to explore the game and find the Sanguine Urns to raise your Max HP cap, you will also need to rebuild your benches to get geared up!

Mod Deluxe and the team have been working on a range of new crafting stations intended to streamline the process of creating new gear. Each new "bench" has a much more obvious gameplay purpose.

Introducing...

• The Armour Bench

• The Blacksmiths Bench

• The Mystic Forge, and...

• The Fletching Bench (again!)

Initially, we funnelled crafting recipes into the Smithing Anvil for anything to do with metal progression. Unfortunately, that made it difficult to manage from a design AND a UX perspective. We saw the consistent player feedback around how difficult it has become to navigate and filter through the information currently packed into a single bench.

The player feedback was very clear that navigating and filtering the information was difficult when everything was packed into a single bench.

Splitting the crafting responsibilities across multiple specialisations allows progression to be clearer to understand, and allows players to not be piling onto each station to try and get crafting. The restructuring is future-proofing for us to have a cleaner foundation for future expansions and progression systems.

The Mystic Forge in particular is setting us up for some really cool progression rewards in the future - but we won't talk about those just yet. Soon™️. You'll find out about Ascension Cores and our plans for those in the near future.

The Fletching Bench returns with a new facelift, a new mesh and an overall art pass to better represent its purpose and gives it a distinct silhouette within the crafting table ecosystem.

All in all, while we are ADDING buildable furniture, our hope is that these changes make it easier for players to understand where things are found, how they're made and makes it easier for each archetype to have their own dedicated space.

You know the usual - follow our socials (Twitter, BSky, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok!) and join the Discord. As always, we love seeing your comments and feedback, and we're very excited to share more news with you soon.

Until then, be good, and we'll see you in Ashenfall!

In our first sneak peek at Umbral Sands, a lot of you rightly noticed a player casting a new kind of spell - Water Magic! Since we launched into Early Access and since we built out the Magic Skill Tree, we heard your feedback around wanting additional magic types, and Water was a natural fit for us. 

Here's Mod Pointy, Lead Designer to talk about how Water Magic is going to work in combat:

We knew Water Magic was going to be next up as soon as we looked at the Magic Skill and where we wanted it to go. It's a natural progression and it's also how our RuneScape veterans expect progression to go. With that in mind, we wanted to take a look at our magic styles and what they offered. We've got special attacks from Staves like the Zamorak Staff, and the core identities of Fire and Air magic are pretty clear, too. Fire magic deals widespread damage and burning enemies continually tick down, while Air magic is targeted, but combos and special attacks can floor most lower-level enemies and keep them controlled at a distance. 

What we wanted to think about, with Water Magic in the context of Umbral Sands' release, was about Water as an element as a whole, powerful, deep, and a source of life. 

Water, naturally, is slow to move through and weighs you down - so dealing damage with Water Magic will build up a gradual slowing effect on enemies, making it harder for them to approach. This buildup will peak at 30% reduced movement speed, giving you a noticeable advantage in movement and mobility over a slowed target. 

We also wanted to lean into the "healing" aspect of Water, so enemies afflicted with Water magic will have a chance, once you've levelled up enough, to spawn "Water Orbs". These are floating items in the world you can collect, and upon gathering them, they'll restore around a third of your maximum health, over time. 

There'll be all the standard fare you expect from magic - combos, special attacks, the works! 

We're so excited for you to get your hands on the new Spells and we hope it gives you a better chance of survival out there in the Umbral Sands!

We spoke to Mod Mosey about how we made Water Magic sound crisp and refreshing:

The goal for water magic was to have supporting audio that feels powerful but still sounds full of movement and has the unique timbres associated with water. I started by building a bank of as many different recordings, luckily water has so much to offer, whether it's squeezing a cloth or bubbles underwater or even gurgling some water in my mouth!

The palette ended up being quite large and varied. I then processed them in my digital audio station using techniques like sound morphing (taking two completely different sounds and blending their timbres, pitches and rhythms), reversing the sounds to achieve a "sucking" sound effect for casting and made sure to have a nice blend of my organic water elements with supporting bassy layers that while they aren't necessarily sourced from water recordings they really take the sounds a step further by sweetening it and give the player that desired satisfaction when casting a spell in combat!

We also chatted to the VFX art team to talk about VFX - here's what they had to say:

To create the visual effects for the water spells, we wanted the magic of RuneScape and its world to be reflected in these spells as well, so we decided to create meshes shaped like waves, whirlpools and bubbles.

Once we had the necessary meshes, we created a material which, after some iterations, gave us the look we were after, highlighting the refraction of the water, its colours and, most importantly, adding dynamism to those meshes with internal movement, for which we used vertex movement.  We then put it all together and applied the necessary motion dynamics and synchronisation to adapt the animations and behaviour of the spells within Niagara and Blueprints. In the end, we created water spells that seem imbued with the magic of RuneScape, where the player can feel as though they are controlling the water when using them. We're really happy with the result and we hope players enjoy making a splash with it! 

We hope this update is going to make a big splash, so we're listening out for feedback! Let us know thoughts and discuss more in our official Discord and Reddit. We have dedicated spaces for our French, German and LATAM Communities so come and say Hallo or Bonjour while you're at it. 

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This land was once a thriving civilisation. The Moon Garou, followers of the River Mother, called this home. They built great halls and towers across the land, and found peace here. Fuzan put an end to that. 

Sandstone buildings eroded from unnatural sandstorms, and oases dot the landscape of this fraught and corrupted place. The Moon Garou cling to survival in the ruins of their former home, holding back the Kot'Haar. These ancient elemental beings were brought to life in an Age long-forgotten. The fire that bore them has been corrupted and the young dragon Fuzan wreaks havoc with an obsidian army in tow. Kalphites stir from their hives, their glossy carapaces protecting them from the heat as they march to serve their brood. Chitinous, chattering creatures swarm both Dragonkin vaults and Garou ruins.

Garou-ins? Is that anything? 

It's not looking great. Thankfully, you aren't stepping into the desert alone. Icthlarin, the Jackal-headed Guardian of Souls and Desert God of the Underworld, is looking to bring order back to this land - and you might just be the ones to help him do it. A fragile peace has been brokered between the distrustful Moon Garou and Icthlarin, and he is hoping to use you as a way to carve a path to Fuzan, and end his reign of terror. 

He's just there, at the top of the active volcano. No pressure.

Something New Under The Sun

Sunlight in Umbral Sands is no joke. Stepping into direct sunlight will afflict you with Scorch, a withering effect of Fuzan's corruption that will worsen the longer you are exposed to it. Once triggered, you will rapidly drain Thirst and Hunger - ignore that, and your health is forefeit next. 

So, plan your journey. Move from shade to shade, pace yourself and wear protective clothing. Whack a few hasty shelters together, bring a cooling snack or two, and you'll be there in one piece.

At night the air is cool but Fuzan, the Dragon General, brings the heat. With Red Lesser Dragons going to ground, Fuzan attacks from on high - no time of day is safe here. 

Gear Up

Adamantite Ore is scattered across the region, offering you increased survivability and the chance to wreak havoc on Dragons, Kalphites and Kot'Haar. You can use the newly raised level caps for Woodcutting and Mining, both of which are now filled up to level 99, to get even more gear stowed away for your team! That's not all - you'll be able to take Red Dragonhide and craft Red Dragonhide ranged armour, and spin cloth to make the tastefully vibrant Infinity Robes! They're as gorgeous as you remember. 

Take that gear, and head into the Fight Cave at the base of Fuzan's Tower... the Fire Cape is waiting. 

The Fight Cave is our take on the iconic challenge from RuneScape - waves of enemies, lava on all sides, and the promise of glory at the end if you make it.

You'll fight stronger Kot'Haar, new mechanics and overcome environmental hazards to earn the right to climb the tower, fight Fuzan and claim a Fire Cape of your own. The Fight Cave is a replayable mode with advanced modes, rare crafting rewards and powerful Vestiges for you to bag.

Exceed Your Limitations 

The Fight Cave will shape you, but there is more.

A gateway. A door.

Haunted memories of battles past, powered by Dragonkin conduits across the desert. Enemies reborn - stronger, more unpredictable, more overwhelming. But that is what you must overcome to be greater. The Dragonkin's "Nightmare Crucible" is a test to push you to greatness - because Kuldra will accept nothing less. Your reward for the Nightmare Crucible will be rare materials, allowing you to craft even more "masterful" weapons in the near future.

Unroll A New Ride

Magic Carpets are coming to RuneScape: Dragonwilds as a new mount type in this update. Designed to move you over the dunes - and especially quicksand - safely and swiftly, this new unlock will have you scooting across the sands in no time. We've also gone ahead and added a bunch of new colour variants for your mounts, too! 

Architecture and Artistry

We're delighted to be adding an additional set of building pieces for you to sink your teeth into and develop even more masterpieces with - we're excited to see what you create! Your journey through the Umbral Sands will be accompanied by a range of amazing new music tracks for you, including new musicians adding their talents to the score. Firas Zreik lends their talents of the Qanun, Saied Silbak playing the Oud and Hüseyin Kemanci on violin. Amazing talents coming together to blend familiar RuneScape themes with Arabic music from leading world musicians. Lush, richly textured music will run the gamut from loose improvisational solos in the open dunes by day to wonderfully haunting arrangements from dusk until dawn, courtesy of Peter Michael Davidson and our very own Mod Debris. Headphones recommended.

This is our last Major Update before the Scorned Wilderness Raid, the Kuldra boss fight and our full launch onto Steam, EGS, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 on September 15th.

Watch your step though - there's something moving in the sands. 

Don't wake her up...

Hello Adventurers - with the release of 0.12.0, we're changing how Food and Drink work. Here's what's changing:

• Wardstones and Wardshield is being removed. 

• In their place, you will instead increase your total HP by finding Constitution shrines around the world.

• Food will now instantly restore HP, as well as provide other perks.

• Healing potions will be removed (stat pots are staying). 

Let's get into why. 

Wardshield

Damage will now go directly to your health. The core issue with Wardshield as a mechanic was that it placed too much weight on the armour you were wearing. As we added new content and higher level enemies, we reached a point where the Wardshield bar became the only viable source of survivability. Once it was gone, even a single hit from a stronger enemy could kill you outright. It offered an additional layer of protection that scales with your armour, making each material upgrade feel more powerful than the last, but you have to actively engage with that system to benefit from it, otherwise it's empty health that we're balancing around but not giving you outright.

We looked at two options - leaning into Wardshield, outscaling the base health bar and rendering HP largely irrelevant, or move towards a system where your single HP pool scales over time. We chose the latter, because it's easier to balance and tune around. Being able to steadily increase your health outside of armour means you have a clearer path to get stronger even when you're struggling. 

This ALSO, as an important note, moves us closer to your expectations of what you'd get in RuneScape, where HP is just HP, and you grow that pool of HP as you progress. Speaking of health progression...

Max HP

Players (that's you!) will now be able to increase their maximum HP beyond 100. Your health will reflect your growth throughout your journey, getting stronger all the time - so how do you get more HP? Introducing... the Constitution Shrine. These shrines are situated across Ashenfall, by someone or something. These are rewards for exploring, and key progression milestones. If you're finding shrines, you're doing something right. Stack those shrines up and your journey to become a Dragon Slayer legend will be a lot easier. 

I tick eat those

We're shifting the focus away from healing potions. They feel a lot less RuneScapey than the combination of "Stat Pots" and cooked food in your inventory, so we're turning our attention towards our latest skill - Fishing. Food will now serve as a key driver in healing a significant chunk of your HP, quickly. Fish, following RuneScape, will be best in class at healing - in terms of sheer HP Value - other foods types have buffs. This also has the desired outcome of making sure that fishing has a fundamental place in the core gameplay loop, like farming does, and makes satiety and thirst less of a "meter to fill" and more a system that should organically be topped up by your play. Please remember to drink water, adventurers, I can't stress it enough.

Your existing potions will still exist but will be disassembled on use, rather than consumed. You'll get your components back, and won't have to disassemble them one by one!

I don't know what's going on with adventurers on mainland Gielinor, but those folks can stomach a truly horrifying amount of Karambwan without taking a break. We've not got Karambwans on Ashenfall, but we are removing the existing animation that comes with consuming food, drinks and potions in-game, to remove the friction with currently trying to heal during combat. There will be a brief cooldown between consumptions to prevent you stuffing even the slightest of wounds with a whole meat pie (do not try this, please), but you will no longer be prevented from eating when you fill up your sustenance bar. Instead of healing at the end of an existing 2 second animation, you'll receive the healing immediately and then have a short cooldown before your next snack.

You will be able to continue eating and healing even if your sustenance is at 100. 

We're exploring this change as a way to deepen our connection to our RuneScape roots, offer more player power through natural gameplay progression, and make Fishing an even more integral part of your experience. Balancing and values on this are not final so we're eager to take on feedback and make adjustments with future updates.

As always, we're all ears, so let us know thoughts and discuss more in our official Discord and Reddit. We've got support for French, German and LATAM Communities with dedicated spaces within our Discord, so come and say Hallo or Bonjour while you're at it. 

Check out our Socials (Twitter, BSky, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok), too! 

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Mark your calendars, book your time off work, whatever you have to do - it's time!

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is leaving Early Access and arriving onto consoles on September 15th for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S!

And yes, we've got crossplay. 

Launching simultaneously across PC and consoles for the first time, the full release will include the brand-new Scorned Wilderness update, as well as all our content so far including our upcoming Umbral Sands expansion arriving later this Summer.

Wishlist us, or grab Dragonwilds and join us for the rest of our Early Access journey on Steam here!

What is RuneScape: Dragonwilds? 

Dragonwilds is a lovingly hand-crafted Survival RPG adventure set in the legendary world of RuneScape. Players must forge a foothold in a hostile, deeply magical land under the looming shadow of ancient Dragons. You'll grind 13 unique skills all the way to level 99, embark on magical and strange quests and explore a beautiful, hand-crafted world, all of which is deeply immersed in the iconic RuneScape lore. Battle the Black Knights, towering Zogres, Chromatic Dragons, Kalphites and more across an enormous continent filled with perilous vaults, ruthless dragons and boundless mysteries.

Use the magic in the air of Ashenfall to summon a spectral axe to fell trees in an instant! Blink away from danger in a cloud of magic. Turn bones into... peaches? Conjure a tornado of fish from a lake! Explode ore veins with a snap of your fingers! Jump really high! Your Skill Spells will turn surviving into thriving.

Build breathtaking homes with our incredible building system to fortify yourself against the ever-present Dragon threat. Use hundreds of unique building pieces to create a truly unique home with countless possibilities! 

What's Happened In Early Access?

When Early Access launched in April 2025, you had one dragon to slay and a continent waiting to be explored. A lot has changed since then! 

In December, Fellhollow arrived - our first Major Update! A hauntingly beautiful realm, enlisted in the service of Death, himself. You faced Imaru, a corrupted guardian dragon, learned to farm with a magical twist, and even got to ride a Terrorbird. Wheeeee! 

Then in March, Dowdun Reach opened its doors. A dense, dangerous Zamorakian fortress packed to the chaos-worshipping gills with Black Knights, Blue Dragons, and Mithril-tier gear. Speaking of gills, we added Fishing to the game, Skill caps hit 99, Runecrafting got a much-needed overhaul, and dedicated server support let you get more friends hooked into the chaos. Get it? Hooked?

Ah, comedy. Anyway, most recently, we've shared the Kuldra's Saga roadmap, setting the stage for Umbral Sands, the Scorned Wilderness, and our ultimate showdown with the Dragon Queen herself. We're ready to build the final pieces of this Saga of RuneScape: Dragonwilds together with our amazing community and deliver an experience we're truly proud of to so many of you on PC AND Consoles!

What's on the Roadmap? 

Umbral Sands is launching on Steam Early Access later this month, and introduces our largest region to date, alongside an additional tier of gear for players to craft, wear and survive in - including iconic Infinity Robes and Red Dragonhide.

Forge yourself into a Dragon-slaying weapon of war in the Fight Caves, and challenge yourself against Ashenfall's most fearsome foes in the Nightmare Crucible.

We're adding the Agility skill to give you more ways to navigate the world. We're building out our minor updates month on month with a selection of QOL Fixes driven by player feedback, as well as quests, items, and additional items for you to build and decorate with! 

Take on every challenge to prepare yourself for the final clash with Kuldra, the God-Eater dragon queen, in the Scorned Wilderness raid! We'll be delivering this final update for Early Access alongside our full release onto all platforms, including iconic Rune armour, and so much more. We're so ready to show you everything that's coming your way on PC and consoles on September 15th.

Want to get the latest news? Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to find out more about RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Check out our socials for all the news we’re yet to share. Wanna dive right in and start asking questions? Great! Check out the official Reddit, or Discord too.

- Resolved an issue where the Fishing Frenzy and Fishnado spells were not working properly.

- Fixed an issue where Runecrafting Anima Siphoning perks

- Rebalanced the XP granted by bonus runes

Hello Adventurers - it's been a while since we talked in detail about our roadmap, and we're eager to check in with you about our progress so far, our journey ahead and changes we're making to deliver the best possible experience every step of the way. So, let's talk Roadmap! 

The Headlines 

• Umbral Sands will be launching in late June. 

• Our Minor Updates will continue to deliver more quests, rewards and content every month.

• We're bringing the Agility Skill forward to release in July.

• The Prayer Skill is moving to our Winter Update.

• The Scorned Wilderness will be launching in September, on more platforms. 

• In December, we'll be delivering Prayer alongside the next update we're currently developing - currently under the name "Luminance". Oooh.

Now, let's deep dive into everything coming in more detail.

What's Coming

Umbral Sands

This Major Update brings Ashenfall's largest region to date, alongside everything you've come to expect from these kinds of updates. We'll be adding an additional tier of material progression, including Adamant Armour, Infinity Robes and Red Dragonhide. Complete quests to help Icthlarin root out the cause of the chaos that has corrupted the sands of this region. Cross the sands on a Magic Carpet, and introduce the chitinous carapace of the Kalphites to cold steel- I mean, Adamantite. We'll also be introducing a new in-game challenge called the Nightmare Crucible. A heightened challenge that pits you against the toughest enemies Ashenfall has... so far.

Want to prove your mettle even more? The Fire Caves are a wave based combat challenge that pits you against the might of the desert, culminating in a showdown with the tempestuous and incendiary Fuzan. And yes, there's a cape. 

Agility

We're pulling forward Agility as a skill for a range of reasons. Firstly, we've heard so much feedback about the jumping feeling... off. With that in mind, the team has been working on ways to improve the experience including vertical jump height, in-air control and feel. We're currently tinkering with ways to make this feel better, and we don't want to wait to fix this. Bundling in this change with a broader reassessment on how we look at Agility feels like a natural fit.

Our aim with agility is to deliver on your expectations of a skill - Abilities, Skill Spells, Stat Upgrades and bonus unlocks that change how you engage with the world around you. When you think Agility, most of you would be right to think "laps". Our aim is to build on that idea of practicing courses to create traversal challenges - paths marked along a space that challenge your movement abilities to reward you with XP, asking you to do more with an expanding toolset of agility spells and ability upgrades as you progress further into the world.

We know that Agility Shortcuts have been a part of RuneScape from its conception, but we're focused on the core skill system and what it can offer you beyond just the occasional shortcut at this stage. All of this should come together to open up new opportunities, new movement tech, and new rewards for you to earn. 

Prayer

Prayer is going to be a Combat and Support Skill that allows you to unlock powerful passive effects, boosting combat capabilities, restoring health, improving resource gathering efficiency- and yes: protecting against specific damage types. Bury bones, build an Altar within your base, unlock your first prayer slot and start toggling on your chosen prayer. Running low on prayer points? Refill your prayer points at Altars in the world, or at home... but be on your guard, as some enemies will sap prayer points on-hit. Expect skill spells, buffs, passive unlocks, stat upgrades and extra unlocks along the way, drawing on the rich RuneScape history for some inspiration. 

Scorned Wilderness 

Work is really moving along with Scorned Wilderness, and we're excited to be delivering the climactic confrontation of Kuldra's Saga. This includes the Runite Tier, as well as filling out the Skill Tracks for existing skills to 99 with more features. We're also working alongside its development to bring the experience to more platforms. We have mentioned this a few times since we launched into early access, but as we approach this release, we'll share more information, so stay tuned.

Minor Updates

In August, we are electing to not release a minor update to do our due diligence on refining the experience for the Scorned Wilderness release, as well as support for more platforms. We want this release to be the absolute best update yet, and we're taking the additional time to make sure that this release feels as big and smooth as our scaly God-Eater herself. The entire team are piling on to this update to deliver something we're really proud of. This means that August will not have a minor update, but once Scorned Wilderness releases, we're back to our monthly cadence, so look forward to those! 

Winter Update

Our next major update after Scorned Wilderness is being designed out already, and we're excited to see what it's bringing alongside Prayer. For now, we're focused on Kuldra's Saga, but rest assured - there is more RuneScape: Dragonwilds on the way. Like the other major updates, this will be a free update for all players with a bunch of cool content to get involved with. We'll share more about it in detail at RuneFest, so be sure to tune in to the livestream or be there on the day to find out more.

(Still thinking of coming to RuneFest? Tickets are on sale now, and there's still some spaces available!)

As we continue to work on developing RuneScape: Dragonwilds, we're continually reminded how lucky we are to have such an amazing community around us. Feedback is coming through to us every day across Steam, our socials, our Discord and our Reddit. We're thrilled to continue to work on this project and share our working with so many of you. Thank you, as always.

Runecrafting fixes, a free Community Cape, Hide Helmet and Durability Rebalancing! 

Our monthly update is arriving Tuesday 19th May, and we're happy with the Runecrafting feedback we received, so it's coming into this update. We'll get into that. We've also got a big chunk of fixes, and of course, more quest content heading your way.

Incoming Content

• We've added a new quest: "A Melody Remembered".

  • A mysterious jewellery box lays on an abandoned desk in the Stormtouched Highlands.  There's a riddle printed on the lid, and a strange recess in it.

  • Completion of this quest will reward you with a new piece of equipment. 

• There's a new activity for you - keep your eyes peeled for Statues of Saradomin can be found dotted around the world.

  • Track down the clues and earn a reward that shows your loyalty and faith.

Runecrafting Changes

We dove into this initially in the Runecrafting Changes Proposal, but here's what we've parsed through the discussion and what we've settled on. 

More Runes, More Often

We're lowering the base Rune conversion ratio from 1:10 → 1:5. 

1:10 Conversions will still be available by completing High Attunement difficulty when performing the minigame.

Anima vents will now produce 1:10 output ratios.

Concentrated Anima Vents will offer even bigger bonuses. 

• 100 Runes per standard anima vent, up from 40.

• 300 Runes from a concentrated vent, up from 80.

When you just want runes now and are not fussed about getting maximum XP gains, Auto Crafting will now give the 5:1 ratio of runes, at 25% of the base XP earned. This auto-crafting will yield 10:1 ratio if you have the relevant skill perk (e.g. level 23 for Air Runes).

We've set the respawn time of Rune Essence and their resource yield to scale with over 4 players in a world. 20% more resources with 5 players, and a slightly reduced respawn time with 6 players.

Teleport Costs

We've brought down teleport costs by half on average. This, combined with the propotionally higher access to Law Runes in the early game makes moving from the same spot everyone builds a house in in Bramblemead Valley to somewhere a bit more ambitious is less punishing to lodestone around from! We also looked at how much carry weight affects the calculation. For example, if you've got 388 carry weight and you want to travel from the very tippy-top northern-most point in Fellhollow, all the way back to the lodestone in the Saradomin Temple, this will now cost 58 Law Runes. Even being several times over the carry limit will now not cost you 1000 Law Runes, you'll be able to shift your stuff with limited cost. 

Attunement

Attunement should now be visually clearer, with a numerical indicator showing the exact number of runes you'll receive - and the number will tick down to show when you need to fix cracks in the runes! 

Attunement rewards are 33/66/100% bonus runes depending on the difficulty. 

Bonus Rune loss when cracks appear is now consistent across difficulties, so fixing those runes is still a priority, but not devastating if unchecked for a second.

Attunements should take 25% less time than before. Same output, just faster. 

Skill Tree Perks

Skill tree perks now increase the yield of autocrafting runes to match the attunement yields. 

Features

• We've added the winning design from our Community Cape Contest - congratulations to SuizzyOwl for the amazing design! Please check out the full list of entries here. 

  • The cape will be available at the Crafting Table for all players! Pick up some Ash Logs to unlock the crafting bench and the cape will be available.

• We have now added a toggle setting to "Hide Helmet" for players in the in-game settings menu. This will hide the visual aspect of the Headwear, but you will still be able to benefit from its effects.

• Spades and Nets have had their durability values reconfigured. The time it takes to break tools is now much more in line with expectations. No sudden durability drops! 

• Fishing activities now trigger music as intended. Lovely.

Fixes

• You can now skip the Jagex logo cutscene upon startup. 

  • We'll judge you though, that dragon looks so cool. 

• Players who unlocked the Farmers Hat prior to a hotfix we deployed can now retroactively gain the recipe by speaking to the Scarecrow.

• Resolved an issue where only one node was damaged by a tool despite damage floaties showing multiple hits.

• Fixed a bug where the Compost Bin would only accept Dwellberries that had already been dried. Juicy.

• The entrance to Dowdun had two torches positioned right on top of each other - thanks to community member arkamos.odc for reporting this!

• Fixed an issue where in-game chat would require "Enter" to be input twice to open the chat after the first use.

• Resolved an issue where Cows, Chickens and Kebbits would still not aggro onto a player once they had been attacked. 

• Fixed an issue with "Cook's Assistant" where exiting dialogue with the Cow after feeding it wheat would consume the wheat without progressing the quest. 

• The "Advert-Inna-Bottle" now correctly specifies that the Arrow Grabba collects "Arrows and Bolts" to accurately define that it works with both.

• Fixed an issue where Trees would not respawn when too close to player constructions due to the larger blocking radius.

• Fixed an issue where the "Return to the Dreaming Stone" and "Defeat the Gatekeeper" quest objectives lacked an objective marker. 

• Fixed an issue where Ghost Mode incorrectly depicted the Stone Range as built, rather than in it's ghostly, unfinished form. Oooh, spooky. 

• Fixed an issue where Fishing Potions did not display correct tooltips. 

• We've updated the Sugar Rush perk's icon and description, you lucky little cooks, you.

• Patched various holes and collision meshes in Dowdun. Gosh, it's like this place is falling into chaos or something...

• Resolved an issue where controller menus within the settings screen could sometimes cause a crash.

We hope you're excited about this update - let us know thoughts and discuss more in our official Discord and Reddit. We've got support for French, German and LATAM Communities with dedicated spaces within our Discord, so come and say Hallo or Bonjour while you're at it. 

Check out our Socials (Twitter, BSky, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok), too! 

Looking for LATAM socials? We've got Instagram Español, Instagram Brasil, TikTok Español, TikTok Brasil, Facebook Español and Facebook Brasil! Until next time, have fun, be good, and we'll see you in Ashenfall.

The input to summon Mounts has been reverted from 2 seconds to 0.25 seconds. Tap and mount away!

The One Where They Add Fishing

Hello adventurers! It's been a few weeks since we launched Dowdun Reach, and we're celebrating our 1-year anniversary with you in style!

This one's reel good, so let's catch you up on what you'll be hooked on for the next 99 levels! Cast your eyes over this. 

Fishing

Hooray! We're launching Fishing today with a dozen fish types to catch. Have a chat with the Wise Old Man in Brynmoor (awww, it's good to be back - simpler times, eh?) to start your quest and get Fishing! Starting out, it'll be just a net and a dream, like the noobs over on the mainland, but as you progress, you'll climb the levels and start reely getting into it.

bitf0x edit: To start the quest, craft a fishing net (which requires coarse thread be unlocked; Flax + Spinning wheel). This will then prompt the quest with the Wise Old Man in Bramblemead Village. From there, to unlock your first rod, level up to Fishing 3!

Fishing launches with 3 new skill spells for you - Fishing Frenzy, Infernal Rod and Fishnado. No prizes for guessing what that one does.

Fishing Frenzy: A fishing node springs to life with a significantly increased number of fish in the water.

Infernal Rod: Infuse your fishing rod with the power of fiery anima and cook your catches on contact.

Fishnado: Plunge a storm of magic into the water and catapult a hearty helping of fish into the air, and right into your backpack. Might need to wash your pockets out after this one, it'll start to smell.

You'll be able to cook (and burn!) fish to stock up your storage with plenty of fish. In the event that you pocket a Pristine Fish, you'll be able to craft a decorative Fishing Trophy out of it, and proudly mount it on your wall! They don't sing though. Do we say "Sorry" or "You're welcome"?

And, of course - reaching Level 99 in the Skill will allow you to craft the Fishing Skill Cape. Time to get hooking and cooking! 

Quests and Activities

We've added a selection of new quests that channel the classic RuneScape feeling that you've been asking for - we heard you!

Added three new quests: Cook's Assistant, Room With Garou and Animal Magnetism. 

Cook's Assistant: Slopfinger, the overworked Goblin, is desperate to make an impression. A cake should do the trick. The reward for your work is a recipe for a Victoria Sponge Cake that provides a buff for 5 minutes that reduces your fatigue drain rate! 

Animal Magnetism: You're a long way from Draynor Manor - but Manktongue the Goblin has found an advert in a bottle with a recipe for something he calls the "Arrow Grabba". Find the materials he needs, get the parts and you'll be able to craft something you can place on your back which will... accumulate arrows you've fired in a radius around you. 

A Room With Garou: The Elder Garou has lost his eyesight with age. Looking to see out the later years of life in a quiet, tranquil place, the Garou is looking for help from a young pup with the know-how to build a home. They can't tell if you're a Garou or not, but they trust you to help them.

We've also added new activities for you to get stuck into: 

Scarecrow Scavening: Find a strange Scarecrow pointing out something - follow the clues, piece together the sketches and slowly unravel the mystery. Completing the trail will next you the new Farmer Hat. Dashing!

Buried Treasure: We've got a few more secrets stashed away for you to dig up, including rewards including new torches.

More Updates

Masterwork Weapons

Two Masterwork Weapons are getting updated with NEW Special Attacks with this update - Unleash the unholy fires of the Zamorak's wrath with the Zamorakian Staff, and cleave your enemies asunder with the Titan's Wrath special attack. Ignite your blade and let the rampage begin - kills will extend this ability's duration. 

Enemy Aggression

Chickens, Cows and Kebbits will now no longer attack the player unprovoked. Just in time for you to stand around not getting attacked while you patiently fish. You're welcome! 

Auto Run

You'll be able to toggle on the feature where you can now automatically sprint to save you a button press! 

Auto Magnetise Items

You'll be able to toggle on the feature where nearby items in the world are pulled to you from a short distance to reduce the number of inputs required.

Rune Stacks

Rune Stack caps have been raised to 9,999. We added a nice round 9000 to that limit. Fill 'em up!

Black Metal Drop Rates

We've heard your feedback around Black Metal drop rates. We’ve doubled the drop rates of Zamorak Warrior Packs from Elite Black Knights, and Zamorakian Warrior Packs now guarantee a Black Metal Salvage drop. We’ve also increased the rate at which Black Metal Scraps drop from these. 

Assorted Fixes

• Resolved an issue where using "Sort" in chests would make some items disappear. Itemo reappearus!

• Fire magic hitsplats no longer get stuck in the world. 

• Fixed an issue causing the Ring of Life to work incorrectly in Dedicated Servers.

• Runecrafting decorations no longer give Runecrafting XP. Stop that, those things are fragile you know!

• Patched various holes in Dowdun Reach. 

Known Issues

We've got a few pieces that are on our radar that we're still investigating and/or have fixes lined up for.

• The Staff of Subjugation may fall through the landscape if dropped in certain conditions.

  • We're targeting a hotfix for this as soon as possible!

• Ava's Attractor will not collect arrows if you have disabled Auto-Magnetise World Items in the Settings Menu.

• Ava's Attractor can be placed on Cape Racks, Hooks and Mannequins but currently sits further from the decoration than desired.

• The tooltip for the Victoria Sponge Cake is not visible, but it reduces the drain rate of Fatigue by 25%.

• When attempting to use a fishing net of the correct tier for the region, an error message occurs stating "Unable to catch fish, net tier is too low" - this is incorrect, and the net will function as intended. The text string will be getting fixed with our next minor update. Feel free to ignore it! 

• Focused Fishing potion presently shows "x%" in tooltip text.

Bug Fixes

• The Lesser Dragons' Spiral Fire attack deals the right amount of damage to the player - which is to say, tons. 

• Controller prompts and Focus now switch correctly when a Controller is plugged in while in a Crafting menu. 

• Fixed an issue affecting a Lorebook in Brynmoor being impossible to interact with.

• Fixed an issue where the progress wheel in the UI for the Processing Stations would not function correctly. 

• Fixed a bug where a buried chest could be interacted with through the ground. 

• Tuned down Anima Vent volume in Dowdun Reach. 

• Fixed an issue where dying in the elevator near the Demon Gate of Dowdun Reach would cause Gravestones to respawn in mid-air.

• Resolved an issue where casting the Eye of Oculus skill spell in the Saradomin Temple would push the camera under the map.

Hi Adventurers, 

It's been a while since we talked about Runecrafting. We sat down with Mod Deluxe and Mod Pointy to look into the ways in which we want to revisit the skill and the changes we intend to make. Let's start with the basics. 

We're reducing teleportation costs, increasing the volume of runes from vents, boosting XP, and scaling Essence in multiplayer worlds. We're reducing crafting times across all attunements and reducing punishments when cracks form in attunements. Here's what we've found.

Our Findings

• We feel that the XP Curve for Runecrafting is in a good place but we will be revisiting the XP rates to assess what changes we may be taking there. 

• The number of Rune Essence Geysers you find along the "golden path" (the most direct route to each quest objective) feels appropriate.

• The volume of runes you need to make in order to level feels extreme - part of that is the essence to rune conversion. 

• Levelling is slower in multiplayer worlds, and the more players in a world, the harder it is to skill.

• Skilling feels slower because the target is Level 50 to unlock Law Runes as they are essential for teleportation. 

• The Runecrafting Skilling Activity (Attunement) duration is too long to feel worthwhile relative to the rewards.

• The Attunement activity's signs and feedback are not clear around difficulty and the success and failure states.

So, with that in mind, we set about making changes. Here's what we're putting forward as our intent and direction looking ahead. 

Proposed Direction

We want to bring Rune output numbers back into line, and make the skilling activity more rewarding. You put more effort in, you should receive more rewards. 

To address this, we will be:

Adjusting Rune Ratios

We're lowering the base Rune conversion ratio from 1:10 → 1:5. 

1:10 Conversions will still be available by completing High Attunement difficulty when performing the minigame.

With Attunement, we're adjusting bonuses to base crafted Rune amounts:

• Low Attunement: +33% Runes

• Normal Attunement: +67% Runes

• High Attunement: +100% Runes (Equivalent to 1:10) 

Updating Skill Tree Perks

All of the current "Rune Efficiency" perks that currently boost the "High Attunement" rune gains will instead be reworked to better enable a sense of mastery as you progress the skill tree:

• Per Rune Type: Autocrafting will now award High Attunement rune output (1:10 Ratio)

  • You'll get less XP than the Skilling Activity rates this way, but you'll get runes faster as a result.

This allows players to bypass the need to play the skilling activity for rune types you've outlevelled and just focus on easily creating those runes when you need them. These perks will serve as a core chase aspect of the skill tree right up until the later levels.

Updating Anima Vents

• Anima vents will now produce 1:10 output ratios, matching rune alters and Concentrated Anima Vents will offer even bigger bonuses. 

• Our maths on this is expected to be:

  • ~100 Runes per standard anima vent, up from 40.

  • ~300 Runes from a concentrated vent, up from 80.

Adjusting Teleportation and Law Runes:

• We’ll reduce teleportation costs from our initial calculations that we launched with - they're currently too high.

• We’ll increase Runes distributed from Anima Vents (as we mentioned above), giving players more teleport resources earlier.

Shortening the Activity Time Commitment

• Reduce the Infusion Phase (sealing cracks in the Runes) phase duration by 25%. Same output, just faster.

• We'll also adjust the drain rate during the infusion phase of runes across all attunements.

Improving the Skilling Activity Signs and Feedback

• We're replacing the Low/Medium/High bonus rune chance with the exact number of runes you'll get. 

• We’ll normalize the bonus Rune loss when cracks open. Currently, high attunement can lead to 15-20% loss per second with multiple cracks, which is excessive. We’ll bring this down to a sensible value across all attunements.

• Adding clearer signs and feedback when you're failing at the minigame so that it isn't confusing.

Adjusting the Autocrafting XP Rates

• To better lean into Autocrafting being the option for when you just want runes now and are not fussed about getting maximum XP gains, you'll be getting the 10:1 ratio of runes, at 25% of the base XP earned.

• We'll add a UI message to clearly communicate this penalty to players.

Why this direction?

Our intent here is to create a more balanced overall Runecrafting experience. We want to give players a chance to more clearly understand how to perform the Skilling Activity "well" and understand what success means in the activity. Engaging with the minigame will mean you get the chance to earn the 1:10 conversion ratio you desire, but you must use the active skilling method. AFKing is never optimal! We also want to make sure there is a clearer value and purpose for the skilling activity in both training and crafting. As you level up, your focus will be less on the XP, but instead on Rune Production at scale - reinforcing the feeling of mastery as you progress through the levels.

"Why not just move Law Runes earlier in the Skill Tree?" 

It's possible, but the problem stems from the number of Law Runes being consumed, rather than the runes being unlocked too late.

It's worth noting that unlocking runes in the Skill Tree is meant to be a step towards Mastery of the Rune - it is the resolution of the supply and demand driven by using Skill Spells. As an example, a full inventory of high end gear with a decent amount of heavy resources, at present would cost around 1000 Law Runes to teleport from the furthest point in Dowdun Reach to the very beginning of Brynmoor. That's a problem, rather than the way the Runes are unlocked.

By fixing this problem, we can resolve the issue and lessen the burden on needing to have so, so many law runes, and the idea of having to make your own vs finding them from Anima Vents and Chests around the world keeps the Law Rune as the mid-level Skill Tree chase reward we want it to be. There's a Law Rune Anima Vent in most vaults, and a few dotted around on the surface for good measure, so you'll want to orient yourself around them as sources to tap into at regular intervals. We want these to give you a stronger impulse to seek out the vents and add gathering the runes to your resrouces runs.

What's the timeline on this?

We're going to be launching these updates in 0.11.2 which will rework the "Rune Efficiency" perks and balancing discussed above, and shorten the Imbuing Skilling Activity by 25%. Secondly, we want to rework the minigame UI & UX. That means messaging, improvements to the experience, clearer signposting of failure and success. 

We're targeting these fixes to be delivered in 0.11.2. We're eager to ensure that we don't let the Runecrafting experience be off-kilter any longer than it needs to be, and also ensure that these fixes that have been driven by the feedback we've heard from you, are in the game as soon as possible.

All that being said, myself, Mod Deluxe and the entire Dragonwilds team are still listening and taking on feedback around this, and so many other things. We'll be in touch soon with more proposed changes coming with future updates, and we're excited to discuss these with you further.

An update will be going live. To protect save file integrity, users on Dedicated Servers are encouraged to collect any belongings from gravestones and rest at beds before forcing restarts of servers to apply this fix.

• Resolved an issue where users could equip Skillcapes without the required level in the skill.

• Resolved an issue where gravestones were missing after deaths in the Fractured Plains.

• Map markers should no longer guide you to the wrong location on respawn.

Hi Adventurers,

We've loved seeing everyone dive into RuneScape: Dragonwilds' latest update and gettings hands-on with Dedicated Servers. We wanted to use this opportunity to check in with you about how our work is progressing and give you some good news about pricing.

The team have been hard at work continuing to optimise the game and we've been using vital data from our current Dedicated Server worlds to explore more ways to refine and improve the experience for our players. From our partnered provider, Shockbyte, we've seen metrics that exceeded our expectations - servers are running efficiently, memory usage is below our originally expected amount and the overall stability has been impressive. Shockbyte agrees.

With that in mind, we've agreed with Shockbyte to reduce resources allocated to each of their plans, and those savings are being passed directly back to you.

New, Lower Prices

Plan

Players

RAM

Old Price

New Price

Starter

2 Players

3GB

$14.99/mo

$9.99/mo

Standard

4 Players

4GB

$20.99/mo

$14.99/mo

Premium

6 Players

5GB

$25.99/mo

$19.99/mo

From Shockbyte themselves: 

A 2-player server with now starts at under $10/month, making it easier than ever to jump into Dragonwilds with a friend. To be clear, this isn't a downgrade. Our data shows that the extra resources simply aren't being used, and we don't think you should be paying for something you don't need. Performance will remain exactly the same, but for less. 

Already a customer? Shockbyte will be refunding the difference to all existing customers automatically. If you purchased extra RAM add-ons, those will be refunded as well. You can re-add more resources manually if you want to. 

What We've Been Working On

Since launching the service, we've been hard at work and we wanted to give you an overview of what's been done, what's coming soon and what's on the horizon.

Server discovery improvements:

• Direct IP connections: Join a server directly via its IP address, without needing to rely on the in-game server browser.

• Improved server search: Fixes are underway to make finding servers in-game more reliable.

• Auto-discovery: Your own server will soon show up prominently for you in-game, so you won't have to search for it.

Setup experience:

• Config file stability: A fix for server configuration values resetting unexpectedly.

Simplified ownership: The Owner ID requirement is becoming optional. You'll be able to claim your server with an admin password when you first join.

We're delighted to be continuing to improve, refine and deliver on the experience for our players, and we're so glad to see so many of you choosing to experience Dragonwilds with this new functionality. We're excited to keep improving the experience with Shockbyte's support, and we hope this change allows more players to dive into the game and play their way!

In the meantime, we're excited to hear more about your experiences and feedback, and the Shockbyte team are happy to support with any queries you may have. 

Thanks for being part of this journey, and we'll be in touch again soon. See you in Ashenfall!