Dev Log
Group Ironman, CoX, Pest Control and a ToB rebuild
276 pull requests this week. That's a lot, even for us.
The headliners are Group Ironman, the Chambers of Xeric and Pest Control. But the thing that ate the most work was ToB. Almost 30 fixes went into it, mostly Verzik, checked against real footage of the fight until her three phases stopped feeling made up. Her P1 shield blocks almost everything now, so go find the Dawnbringer. It's on a skeleton outside Xarpus.
We also moved to the latest OSRS revision, and pulled in a big batch of shared work from the open source server we build on: Hunter, Fletching, Agility, Construction, the cannon, Zulrah, the Hueycoatl, the Royal Titans and a handful of quests.
Added
- Group Ironman. Groups of 2 to 5, set up through Adam or the game mode window. Groupmates trade, share drops and fight the same monsters, and there's an 80-slot group storage chest at banks #1009 #2095
- The Chambers of Xeric under Mount Quidamortem: every combat and puzzle room, the Great Olm, solo up to 100 players, and Challenge Mode #1851 #2043 #2258
- Pest Control on all three landers, with the Void Knights' reward shop, Elite Void upgrades and the Western Provinces diary tasks. The first few days had portals that wandered round the island #2137 #2141 #2280
- The Fractured Archive raid, with its Nexus hub, Quartermaster and per-player vault chests. Zorya's tome, the Ascension crossbows, the Obligator and the Rondache work, charges and specs included #1998 #2218 #2225 #2226 #2230
- Giants' Foundry and Sleeping Giants. You need the quest done to use the foundry #2192 #2289
- Two world bosses. The Mad Angel wakes in her cathedral (::worldevent to join), scales to your combat level, can't be safespotted and drops Angel's keys for the chest at home #2077 #2094 #2106 #2110 #2138 #2285
- The Barrows Kings started as a world boss and became a solo three-round fight in the Barrows crypt by the end of the week, with their own tracker. Their armour sets have the Stalker and Plague effects #2058 #2059 #2076 #2111
- Infernal Contracts from the chest start an hour of double drops, bonus loot or double Slayer points for everyone. Hand them to the Demon scholar #2058 #2094
- Boss points from every boss kill, and a Boss Point shop with the cannon, imbue scrolls, Slayer block slots, master clues and more #2180
- The Vault shop (::vaultshop) with personal boost tokens, plus ::boosts to see what you've got running #2108
- A reworked crystal chest, crystal keys dropping from monsters, the Crystal cannon core and the Crystalline mimic pet #2215
- Wilderness league content: the Wilderness diary and Lesser Fanatic, the agility course gate and dispenser, revenant weapon upgrades and ether charging, and Wildy PvP that drops your items to a gravestone #1934 #1935 #1936 #1937 #1938
- Quests: The Knight's Sword, Doric's Quest, Sheep Shearer, Goblin Diplomacy, Prince Ali Rescue, Romeo & Juliet and The Ides of Milk with Brutus. Tears of Guthix opens after its quest #2185 #2196 #2201 #2252
- Bird houses, Herbiboar, fish barrels, bird nests falling next to you, seeking arrows and a pile of new fletching recipes #2189 #2205 #2206 #2233
- A max hit combat dummy at home #2175
- Pets: the Antelope calf from sunlight antelope pitfalls #2293
- The Leaderboard at home with full Hiscores, player summaries showing their gear, and new PvM stats tracked from this update #2153 #2202 #2204 #2246
- Player Moderators with a silver crown and Community Managers with a gold one #1839 #2139
- Discord Tag perks for wearing the DamnedX tag, and the beta's top bug hunters got Bonds, a title and a plaque in the Civitas plaza #1730 #2107 #2154
- A soft launch countdown on the buff bar and ::launch, your active bonuses on screen, and examine on loot chests to see their table #2056 #2091 #2096 #2132
- Voidwaker assembly from Madam Sikaro, DT2 ring icons, the Soulreaper axe, the dragon sq shield and mixed hide armour can all be made #1923 #2030 #2252 #2308
- 21 more specs, from the Soulreaper axe to the Webweaver bow, and a dozen old ones reworked. Poisoned weapons poison on normal hits, plus the Blue Moon spear, Sunspear and Hallowed flail #1721 #2216 #2244
Changed
- The game is on the latest OSRS revision #1857
- ToB plays like the real raid: run up each corridor, rooms wait for their barrier, party of 5, dead raiders rejoin after the room, points-based loot and a saved KC #1916 #1918 #1956 #1968 #1979 #1982 #1991
- Verzik rebuilt: P1 shield and pillar cover, P2 lightning, crabs and Athanatos, P3 webs, power blast, tornadoes, green ball and tank swaps #1835 #1845 #1929 #1957 #1972 #1974 #1975
- Rebuilt from the ground up: Zulrah, the Kraken (private room for 25k), the Hueycoatl (pillars, tail shield, scoreboard), the Royal Titans (private arena, corpse loot) and the cannon, which decays now #2173 #2176 #2178 #2179 #2211 #2237
- Agility XP and marks of grace follow the wiki, Draynor rooftop needs level 1, and the Colossal Wyrm course moves like live. Construction uses the real furniture menu and needs a hammer and saw #2171 #2210 #2212
- The Teleports menu opens on a map of the league regions, with 51 new teleports, scrolling maps, a boss showcase, search on every list and a confirm before dangerous wildy spots #2163 #2172 #2177 #2245 #2278 #2288 #2294
- Ironmen only buy a shop's own stock, and keep combat XP at shared bosses like the Mad Angel, Nex, Nightmare and Yama #2089 #2123
- Monsters on more than one Slayer task count for all of them, a Turael task no longer resets your streak, and Konar and Nieve pay more after their elite diaries #1822 #1989
- Farming disease takes an hour to kill a patch and warns you in chat, and picking field crops can give a seed #2157 #2158
- New accounts start with OSRS default settings. Level-ups prompt the skill guide, quest journals float, and the XP drops Setup panel works #2193 #2198 #2214
- Thralls last longer after Master CAs and from relic tiers 4 and 7. League tasks for minigames we don't have yet are hidden or marked coming soon #1932 #2109
- Smaller ones: smithing keeps its decimals, 1,250 monsters got their real poison and venom immunities, teleport spells land on a random tile, and world news has its own chat colours #1984 #2075 #2113 #2165
Fixed
- ToB room by room: Bloat stood still, Maiden wouldn't fight back, Nylocas chased you instead of the pillars and Vasilias healed off thorns, Xarpus came back to life, and Sotetseg's maze could run two rows wide #1754 #1756 #1758 #1769 #1785 #1917 #1919 #1928 #1942 #1949 #1960 #1961 #1971 #1980
- Inferno pillars vanished and nibblers wandered off, Zuk's fireballs hit before they landed, and Jad challenge Jads hid their attacks #1719 #1748 #1759 #2004
- Boss fixes: Cerberus and her souls hit you after leaving, Vorkath specs after death, Doom shoving you through walls, the Nightmare's totems and parasites, Phantom Muspah vanishing, Vet'ion not transforming, Amoxliatl's ice off the arena, Kraken and Thermy ignoring thorns, and echo DKs you couldn't attack #1712 #1742 #1779 #1797 #1829 #1838 #1863 #1966 #2016 #2020 #2038 #2086 #2087 #2102 #2219 #2258
- Monsters with wrong animations or bones they shouldn't drop: dragons of every colour now breathe fire, plus wolves, moss giants, mummies, revenants, Colosseum enemies, ToA Wardens and more #1713 #1720 #1852 #1853 #2014 #2021 #2029 #2049 #2103 #2146 #2147 #2159 #2221 #2271 #2281 #2297 #2298 #2308
- Doors, stairs, caves and shortcuts all over: Lithkren vault, Deep Wildy Dungeon, Wildy GWD, Yanille dungeon, Tower of Life, the desert pyramids and Sophanem, Haunted Mine, Abyss, Brimhaven pipes, Tapoyauik ice walls, the Ancient Prison and plenty more #1712 #1740 #1741 #1768 #1821 #1829 #1874 #1889 #1891 #1913 #1915 #1922 #1930 #1948 #1954 #2053 #2054 #2086 #2102 #2219 #2221 #2236 #2258 #2271
- Travel: desert carpets, the Island of Stone boat, Mos Le'Harmless charters landing in the sea, Ancient teleports, worn jewellery teleports, the KBD teleport tile and the Prifddinas spirit tree #1720 #1809 #1864 #1874 #1978 #2030 #2078 #2131 #2135
- Skilling: glory recharging, Volcanic Forge wards, the libation bowl, bird snares, farming patches showing another farm's crop, the plank sack, vegetable sacks, leprechaun noting, the tome of water, Hunter Guild clog and rumours #1720 #1780 #1808 #1809 #1853 #1898 #1920 #1931 #2159 #2160 #2162 #2170 #2197 #2219 #2221 #2223 #2259 #2272 #2292
- Minigames: the Ranging Guild archery competition, Wintertodt's reward formula, Sepulchre shards and stairs, the Agility Arena and the Colosseum chest #1838 #1852 #1891 #1921 #1948 #1966
- NPCs and shops that wouldn't talk or trade: Osman, Yohnus, Pitri, Ali Morrisane, Elnock's jars, Aubury, Thessalia, Hajedy, general stores across the map, Karamja gloves in TzHaar shops and the music tab buttons #1741 #1808 #1822 #1837 #1890 #1899 #2071 #2166 #2194 #2261
- Leagues: the tutor's pets, items and rewards options, Regenerate refilling the rune pouch, the region lock missing Wildy lairs, Double Resources extras going to your inventory, the Forager's pouch, and Minion and avarice-noted rares going unannounced #1739 #1769 #1798 #1933 #2017 #2035 #2087 #2121 #2136 #2149 #2240
- League and diary tasks that wouldn't complete, roughly 25 of them, from the god cape and the cannon to Hunter rumours, Memoriam crystals and Royal Titans #1719 #1742 #1755 #1769 #1780 #1798 #1830 #1875 #1890 #1892 #1914 #1921 #1955 #1967 #1978 #2004 #2014 #2116 #2220 #2297
- Combat bits: powered staff longrange XP, gorilla prayer-pierce XP, the Lithic sceptre spec, the arcane grimoire for thralls, the Kings Barrage second bolt and Hunters' crossbow bolts #1822 #1864 #1955 #2070 #2259 #2307
- Interface: the camera getting stuck after a cutscene, level-up popups delaying death, XP drop dropdowns and Report logging you out, the fairy ring search box, and Noticeboard overlap #1985 #1986 #1987 #1993 #1999 #2013 #2090 #2167 #2291 #2308
- Drop rates: GWD armour and uniques, Nightmare uniques, superiors in the drop viewer, paladin hard clues and Forthos pages outside Forthos. Rare drop announcements show your boosted rate #2016 #2222 #2242 #2282 #2287
- Votes on Rune-Server count in the Vault, and the Moons' KC message names the moon #2007 #2057
- Fixed a few bugs #1729 #1800 #2001 #2021 #2035 #2044 #2070 #2121 #2174 #2222 #2248 #2272 #2282
Behind the scenes
- The revision update groundwork and a faster, lighter game engine core from upstream #1217 #1225 #1854 #1994 #1997
- Tester and staff tools: the rotten potato's slay, smite, unlock and rank options, task skip commands, moderator lookups, ::god showing real hits and safer spawn commands #1735 #1738 #1760 #1782 #1836 #1842 #1959 #1981 #2079 #2284
- Server errors now file themselves for the bug batch, death loss logging, drop rate boosts and new combat hooks for future content #1988 #1990 #2042 #2045 #2051 #2124 #2142
- An automated test pilot that plays the game, docs for Pest Control, and the new DamnedX VI logo on the login screen #1783 #1846 #1941 #2127
- Release fixes and cleanups #1908 #1996 #2064 #2187 #2234 #2235 #2241 #2250
276 pull requests merged this week: #1009 #1217 #1225 #1712 #1713 #1719 #1720 #1721 #1729 #1730 #1735 #1738 #1739 #1740 #1741 #1742 #1748 #1754 #1755 #1756 #1758 #1759 #1760 #1768 #1769 #1779 #1780 #1782 #1783 #1785 #1797 #1798 #1800 #1808 #1809 #1821 #1822 #1829 #1830 #1835 #1836 #1837 #1838 #1839 #1842 #1845 #1846 #1851 #1852 #1853 #1854 #1857 #1863 #1864 #1874 #1875 #1889 #1890 #1891 #1892 #1898 #1899 #1908 #1913 #1914 #1915 #1916 #1917 #1918 #1919 #1920 #1921 #1922 #1923 #1928 #1929 #1930 #1931 #1932 #1933 #1934 #1935 #1936 #1937 #1938 #1941 #1942 #1948 #1949 #1954 #1955 #1956 #1957 #1959 #1960 #1961 #1966 #1967 #1968 #1971 #1972 #1974 #1975 #1978 #1979 #1980 #1981 #1982 #1984 #1985 #1986 #1987 #1988 #1989 #1990 #1991 #1993 #1994 #1996 #1997 #1998 #1999 #2001 #2004 #2007 #2013 #2014 #2016 #2017 #2020 #2021 #2029 #2030 #2035 #2038 #2042 #2043 #2044 #2045 #2049 #2051 #2053 #2054 #2056 #2057 #2058 #2059 #2064 #2070 #2071 #2075 #2076 #2077 #2078 #2079 #2086 #2087 #2089 #2090 #2091 #2094 #2095 #2096 #2102 #2103 #2106 #2107 #2108 #2109 #2110 #2111 #2113 #2116 #2121 #2123 #2124 #2127 #2131 #2132 #2135 #2136 #2137 #2138 #2139 #2141 #2142 #2146 #2147 #2149 #2153 #2154 #2157 #2158 #2159 #2160 #2162 #2163 #2165 #2166 #2167 #2170 #2171 #2172 #2173 #2174 #2175 #2176 #2177 #2178 #2179 #2180 #2185 #2187 #2189 #2192 #2193 #2194 #2196 #2197 #2198 #2201 #2202 #2204 #2205 #2206 #2210 #2211 #2212 #2214 #2215 #2216 #2218 #2219 #2220 #2221 #2222 #2223 #2225 #2226 #2230 #2233 #2234 #2235 #2236 #2237 #2240 #2241 #2242 #2244 #2245 #2246 #2248 #2250 #2252 #2258 #2259 #2261 #2271 #2272 #2278 #2280 #2281 #2282 #2284 #2285 #2287 #2288 #2289 #2291 #2292 #2293 #2294 #2297 #2298 #2307 #2308