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This (understandably) comes up often and it would be a huge quality-of-life update to fix this across the game. Unfortunately it's not super simple, but the reasons that OSRS is the way it is are quite interesting.

The original philosophy of RuneScape's engine and scripting language was "write once, run everywhere", maybe taking some inspiration from Java. In the context of RS though, this means that a developer would write their game scripts once, and not need to worry about intricacies of a networked game (like whether Player A's client showed something different to Player B's client, or latency issues if server-side scripts need to hand over to client-side scripts). The earliest versions of RuneScape 2 had virtually zero gameplay code running on your game client; it would simply receive and display updates from the game server, and send inputs back. This was true not just for in-world gameplay, but also for menus and interfaces.

So, all game scripts originally ra...

Aw tell them I'm sorry!

An optimisation to how server-side game scripts are cached had an off-by-one error (a < rather than <=). It broke two scripts: one related to this ladder, and one that we don't think anyone would ever find, notice, or have any impact before next week's update.

Leagues 4: Harder, Better, Faster

That doesn't make sense it's just ham

about what

There should be an update available from the App store/Google Play to address this issue as of yesterday.

Could you let me know a handful of specific worlds you're playing on?

Wish I'd seen your stuff sooner, this is insane. Gz!!

Lord almighty

but still...

Yes

Move the G.E. to /r/place

I'm literally the only UIM jmod you'll be ok

how prevalent is "abusing" death mechanics and how necessary is it to succeed as an uim?

You can get pretty far without using death mechanics or a looting bag at all. Once you get to things like farming and herblore, though, where you need to acquire a large amount of resources over time, they tend to go in your looting bag and the best way to get them out is by dying to create a 'deathpile' (they'll stay on the ground for 1h as opposed to 3 minutes). If you can store enough items elsewhere that you can hold the entire contents of your looting bag in your inventory, though, there's less of a need to make a deathpile.

There's also certain bosses that store your items when you die (e.g. Hespori), which can be useful for doing non-dangerous but inventory-intensive activities. I've not used them too much though.

what are some common pitfalls/inconveniences/roadblocks etc. that i should be aware of?

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The users folder should be in the same location as the Highlight folder was - Your file structure should end up like:
AppData\Local\Jagex\Old School RuneScape\users\1234567890\Highlights\

Thanks for the feedback! On each point:

1. Highlighted objects - This is a bug and we'll be fixing it in the next couple of weeks.
2. Transparency - Unfortunately we're opting to keep the icons consistent across all clients for the time being, so we won't be reverting this change.
3. Marked tiles - We moved the folder that your user settings are stored in this update, and neglected to automatically move your old files to the new location. To get your highlights back you will need to:
   1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Jagex\Old School RuneScape\
   2. Right-click -> Cut the Highlight folder
   3. Navigate into the users folder, and then into the folder named with a lot of numbers
   4. Ctrl+V to paste the Highlight folder into the new location (this might overwrite any highlights you've made since the update)

Hopefully this helps! I appreci...

I've never been very satisfied with the mobile UI and have been looking at a few improvements like this recently. As we look to add the Steam client's sidebar to mobile, and the ability to mark tiles, now's the time to be making tweaks to the layout (short of a full rework).

Yep, the fix we end up with should protect your items from other players hitting the tile item limit. I reckon we'll be able to have a per-player limit rather than a per-tile limit, although a limit will still exist (so still be careful with your caskets).

tbh I just want to go afk and not panic 10 minutes later wondering if I wasn't 100% safe

Have seen some concern about how a tile can only hold a certain amount of items, and how multiple UIMs all doing deathpile metas on the same tiles might cause items to be lost. Want to confirm here that we will have a solution to that before launching any changes - the whole point of this update is to protect items from things outside your control!