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10 Mar

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Hey,

Thanks once again for compiling the information shared in the stream, u/ImRubic!
I'll just expand on/clarify a point or two mentioned from this composition.

Excavation
Time-sprites - Similar to Rockertunities but also slightly different.
Permanently present but requires you to be active and follow them around the excavation site.

There are numerous different excavation spots within a site and there's a Time Sprite active at each type of excavation spots. Consider some trees in Woodcutting as an example... an Oak, Willow, and Maple tree are different types of hotspots, but there is a Time Sprite that travels between the Oak trees, then another one that travels between the Willow trees and so on. You do not have to move to a dif...

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Originally posted by MonzellRS

I have a feeling this is gonna end up like shifting tombs, hope I'm wrong

Could you contextualise what you mean?

There's a slight/minor thematic overlap, but they are vastly different pieces of content. I don't really see there being any direct comparison between them.

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Originally posted by GamerSylv

Yeah I'm still wondering about this as well (along with Ancient Herblore). Seems like a repeat of Invention initially teasing new weapons.

There is no ancient herblore in the release of Archaeology. At RuneFest it was mentioned as a potential reward from a future dig site called 'Orthen'.

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Originally posted by Bullstrode

Has the idea of restoring weapons for use in pvm been scrapped? I see that picture of a light crossbow, but is that only for handing in and stuff like the spear of annihilation that was mentioned in runescape been scrapped for more of ancient summoning and invention?

That light crossbow is an example of an artefact which sits inside of the core loop (excavate, discover, restore, repeat).

The spear of annihilation that was mentioned at RuneFest is still an artefact that you can obtain, however it is only similar in the sense that you have to restore it. It works differently and is not collected by collectors for example.

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Stupendously hyped for this, I was a noobie when Invention came out but I'm so ready to dive into this skill, think the team have smashed it, very much looking forward to more information as it releases!

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Originally posted by MonzellRS

I have a feeling this is gonna end up like shifting tombs, hope I'm wrong

There are mysteries to solve, and the occasional puzzle to complete should you wish to gain access to more of a site (which you should want to, as there are excavation spots there), however these are not repeatable.

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Originally posted by WasV3

Say it with me folks

Panic Buy Chins

Past that I don't think they'll be that useful, success rate looks to be 100% and when the bar fills up you get a damaged artifact, and the bulk of XP comes from restoration, so you're really only getting 10% more XP from the gathering step which is already low XP, so it might not be worth the cost of 2.5k per chin

EDIT: As I know J-mods will probably read this post, could you confirm that if I add an elder rune mattock to my toolbelt, and I'm 31 Arch, would I have access to the Mithril Mattock or will I have to add each Mattock individually to the toolbelt?

You'll get XP each time you excavate, similar to Divination. However, you'll gain more XP for successful actions (when you obtain a material).

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Originally posted by The_Ramokee

I was hoping they would put the Archaeology symbol where Invention is and put Invention at the bottom of the middle column.

Any way to pass the idea on u/JagexPoerkie

No need, this isn't a change we'd want to make.

Personally, the order of skills makes little sense as it is, but it is something players have gotten used to over the years. As much as I'd love to see the order of all skills here make better sense, there isn't an obvious choice for how best to do that.

If that ever was figured out, it makes sense to change the whole thing at once, rather than piecemeal, as everyone would have to get used to the new order. (To be clear, this is not something we're planning, just a personal musing.)

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Originally posted by Vengance183

Can they be changed back to 75%?

Unfortunately not; the system is automated and the earlier game restart caused the discounts to update. Not to worry though, other Oddments discounts will appear in the future.

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Just to clear up any confusion, the game update earlier caused the discounts to change. Don't worry, we're going to be doing Oddments sales a lot more frequently so if you missed out on a specific discount there will be another one around the corner. This will be on-going so be sure to check into the store every so often to make the most of your Oddments.

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Just to clear up any confusion, the game update earlier caused the discounts to change. Don't worry, we're going to be doing Oddments sales a lot more frequently so if you missed out on a specific discount there will be another one around the corner. This will be on-going so be sure to check into the store every so often to make the most of your Oddments.

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I'd like to think of this as a state of the art highlighting technique, but i understand if that's not cool

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Originally posted by caddph

Yea I've been following Mod Shogun's posts about them and I'm hoping his hinting at "them coming soon" is archaeology and tied w/ ancient summoning.

Sadly not coming with archaeology :(

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He still hits that square, stand closer to the boss to avoid the damage :)

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Originally posted by teenageninjapirate

u/JagexKalaya sounds like a fun little machine learning challenge for one of your data guys to automate for you (or you could post some of the labelled suggestions here / kaggle and I'll have a go)

Haha cheers for the tip, I'll keep it in mind ;)

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Originally posted by markitiman

any chance of making the system update box transparent by default or allow us to separately move it (right now its classed as "minigame hud")?..it completely covers important interfaces such as solak and telos life point thresholds..

Might be better to suggest this to the ninja team https://rs.game/ninja

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Originally posted by quietkills

If someone submits like a bug report or something else that doesn't fit ninja criteria do you just toss out those suggestions or do you forward them to relevant teams?

fwd to the relevant teams, in batches :)