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Spawns happen at Pumpkin Parties (1 party per hour) and regularly while skilling etc.

Now that the event has run through each of the areas, the first thing we're focusing on is lowering the number of Pumpkins required to successfully complete the event communally.

We'll have updates to share shortly.

The Halloween promotion Grim Harvest goes live at 00:01am tomorrow morning.

If you're looking for H'oddments and potentially some of the Halloween rewards also available from the event, it's best to wait till tomorrow to use them.

Thank you for all the feedback in responses to this!

We're discussing it all now. Plan is to let a full cycle of each location happen (which should be completed 1 1/2 hours from now) and then decide on the best solutions from there. We're already working up potential options.

Um is the most complex, so we just want to see how it plays out across the other locations to see if it's Um changes needed most or event-wide changes.

The team enabled this due to the fact you can earn the item through smashing pumpkins during the event.

We're open to feedback from Irons on this though - so if you're an Iron reading this, feel free to drop your thoughts either way as a commented response. We're keen to hear your takes.

Posted this in the other thread, but on this:

We're keeping a very close eye on it. Team are already discussing how that first one looked - we were in there with you to experience it in live and a lot less were smashed than expected.

It's worth mentioning the spawns are always the same, and Um is the most complex, so there will be some learning on knowing where they can appear - but we may make changes quickly if not enough pumpkins are being smashed on average.

We're keeping a very close eye on it. Team are already discussing how that first one looked as we were in there with you to experience it in live.

The spawns are always the same, and Um is the most complex, so there will be some learning on knowing where they can appear - but we may make changes quickly if not enough pumpkins are being smashed on average.

I expect the Wiki will have the locations mapped soon enough which should help too.

The H'oddments Store will be available at midnight game time (which is also when Grim Harvest activates).

Hey there. So if you're seeing this, it will be due to selecting an option saying you don't play RuneScape or you haven't heard of Hero Pass before.

As the survey is focused on gathering deeper feedback on existing conversation - in a way the dev team can most effectively use to guide them - we need responses from players who play the game and know what Hero Pass is already.

If that doesn't align to your experience, drop me a reply and I'll pass it to our Player Research team to have a look at.

The surveys will give you an alternative way to do this as well as we appreciate open discussion spaces aren't for everyone. Look out for those beginning in October.

What that means is the concerns that were raised about Content Buffs in Hero Pass and concerns of what it might mean beyond that. It's not a signal of a direction.

We want to have that conversation in more depth and make sure we get to the root concerns that were raised on it. That will guide the team on making sure we come out with the right directions/solutions in response to those concerns.

I just want to be really clear that's not what this means.

We just wanted to show we recognize the conversation we've seen surrounding their inclusion and let you know we will be including it as part of this process - because it's clearly an important one to all of you. It's called out for that reason.

We understand Content Buffs created some clear concerns even beyond Hero Pass itself. We want to have that conversation, get a deeper perspective on any thoughts/fears in as much detail as possible and how we should address those concerns properly.

We do not have a plan for their future either way. This is purely about getting the root of those concerns in detail, and using that to inform us on where we go from here.

It isn't intended to be more intense - this is an example of where our design may not be aligning with our intent, which is something we're looking at. There's a reason we've been transparent on our goals, and that's so we can get more direct feedback on how you feel it's performing knowing what it should be playing like.

A lot of the design has been matched to data on existing player time spent in game, but that might not be how it's working in practice (and there's some other things we'll be going into that come into play that we'll go into in the post).

Balancing is something we need to monitor closely and adjust as needed. We're only a couple days in so far, so we don't have a lot of data, but we do have a lot of feedback to already begin guiding us while we wait for the other half of the picture to start forming.

We've spent all day discussing your feedback at length and there's been plenty of design discussions throughout today.

We are going to be sharing our plans to address key feedback points as soon as we can, ideally tomorrow.

Thanks for this feedback, we just passed it to the team to consider.

We are absolutely looking at that feedback yes. We're hearing Irons loud and clear - working on what we can do with the team.

We're waiting on an engine fix for this - /u/JagexDoom may be able to share the latest dates from the team.

We hear you on this, and began conversations last week about how to improve Hero Pass for Ironman players based on the feedback we saw then. The intention of Hero Pass clearly isn't hitting the mark for the Ironman experience as it stands.

It's a focus for the team at the moment and we'll hopefully have some updates to share in the near future.

You can do absolutely anything to progress it.

You just gain bonus progress from a randomly assigned Skill associated to it, which is purely for optimisation (ie. if you want to finish all three tiers of rewards in half the time).

The Vis Wax is there if you want to get that bonus progress specifically in what you are doing regardless of what is originally assigned you as the bonus skill.

This is feedback we're discussing with the team now. Hearing this loud and clear from initial hands-on experiences.