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As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'm gradually putting together a design for a similar project focused on skill requirements. (Though I'll probably do some smaller gamejam projects for a bit - I started this one in Dec 2022!)

This point in the Elder Kiln is on the list - I appreciate various flavours of pure would love the challenge provided by the Fight Kiln.

From a mechanical perspective, this scene is faking the casting of spells to heat an egg via an interface. You don't gain any XP from heating the egg, you don't have to be on the standard spellbook, and it doesn't consume runes.

I'd want there to be suitable narrative justification for not casting the spells with your own magical skill (you're guiding a TzHaar-Mej's attacks, or are provided with a limitless staff or spell tablets or suchlike), and it may be preferable to bring another of the quest's requirements up to 75 to keep the Elder Kiln in a suitable difficulty bracket, but I'm opening to a...

Definitely a controversial take, but the Waterfall Quest and Knight's Sword predate our current best practice for quest XP rewards, and from a balancing perspective, it would be preferable if their lamps (or quest accept) either had a suitable level requirement or awarded less XP.

They skip a massive chunk of the initial levels for their skills, and that's where you're learning how to level those skills and getting the most satisfying succession of rapid 'dings'.

On the other hand, the 'mastery knowledge', that there are techniques experienced players can use to accelerate their progress when making alts, is something some players enjoy, so it's a tricky thing to nerf.

In a 2017 TAPP project, I did an improvement project to the Knight's Sword that included converting its 12k Smithing XP reward to a lamp with a suitable level requirement. We ultimately removed the 28 Smithing requirement from the lamp a few months later due to the ongoing outcry.

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I certainly agree that Legends' Quest should have legendary requirements!

I think it still achieves that even with a few cuts, though (particularly via that signature Quest Point requirement, as Kobra noted).

It's hard to see from this patch notes format, so here's the updated Legends' Quest requirements:

* 107 Quest Points

* Heroes' Quest

* Jungle Potion

* 50 Agility

* 50 Crafting

* 45 Herblore

* 56 Magic

* 52 Mining

* 42 Prayer

* 50 Smithing

* 50 Strength

* 50 Thieving

* 50 Woodcutting

Literally couldn't have done it without you, Kobra. Thank you for all the time you put into your initial design and investigation that kicked off the project, and your feedback throughout its gamejam iterations. :)

If this goes well, I'm hoping to do a follow-up gamejam project focusing on skill requirements in future. (A few skill pure requests slipped into this project due to poor impulse control, but had to stop myself to manage scope.)

I've created a ticket for In Aid of the Myreque's 7 Magic req to ensure it's on the list for the future. :)

Oh, I do apologise! I mis-assumed gamez-x was a prior handle of the player Follow / 5-x who's a reddit admin here.

In that case, here's my official statement that credit for the quest requirement tree in my dev blog is very much yours!

Also thank you again for your https://www.deviantart.com/gamez-x/art/Runescape-Multiverse-601594844 which I partially utilised in a cosmology presentation at Runefest many years ago.

Greetings, fellow players! We've just posted a developer blog I wrote to contextualise my upcoming gamejam project.

I've also got a preview of the full patch notes below, hopefully releasing on 19th of February.

There's a narrow window today and tomorrow before it's code-frozen for release candidate testing on Monday. So if you foresee any issues with any of these changes, I welcome your discussion in the thread below.

Another Slice of H.A.M.
• No longer requires The Dig Site quest; made some dialogue referring to its earth sciences test conditional
• Now req...

That one's out of my hands as a content developer, alas, as it's an engine bug with how static world map elements are parsed, and new engines release on a relatively infrequent schedule (more monthly than weekly).

Had a poke at our ticketing system to see what's up. Looks to have initially been reported in May, investigated quite extensively (looks like it was quite a tricky issue to isolate) and then a fix developed in September. Given the defect's relative gameplay impact severity, it's flagged as minor priority, so presumably some more critical engine fixes have beaten it to the testing suite a couple times.

Looks like the fix has been QAed and ready to merge since early December. Wasn't included in the most recent (January) client update, so presumably it's waiting for the next full stack (server & client) engine release.

EDIT: Investigated further. It won't be in the next engine (releasing mid Feb), but is scheduled in for the one after that.

Ho...

Sorry to disappoint you, but I submitted a fix to recolour the untextured polys of grizzly/black bears last week. (Slightly too late to go into this week's patch notes.) Enjoy your purple drank bears while you still can!

Also added steel armour to the unicorn stallion familiar, to help distinguish it from other unicorn pets.

FWIW, over a few of 2023's gamejams, I did a big cleanup of various quest requirements, which included removing this Memorial to the Myreque timegate and some other adjacent points of questing friction (eg moved the Archaeology collector prompt on some quest NPCs into their dialogue tree).

That gamejam project completed localisation over Christmas, so it's in the pipe and I'm hopeful it'll release in the coming months.

Currently on holiday in a different country, so unable to check the codebase to confirm if the confirm screen has a remove option. But as it's a data-driven system, seems theoretically viable to add an option to disable the confirm screen on shops of this type.

Those options are configurable in the generic reward shop interface. Could make the first option Buy All.

Sounds like that would be the primary use case for this type of shop.

Just a thought... What if such shops used the same generic front-end interface used by most reward shops nowadays? (Ref. Christmas spirit shop, Waiko reward shop, Treasure Trails reward shop, etc)

I wonder if it might also be time to do away with zero-stock Sell items in most shops, to reduce some UI clutter? I can't see much of a use case for them nowadays (other than the occasional outlier like Summoning training shops) since they became personal stock shops.

Lovely! Glad you were able to request a Constitution reset.

When you activate your reset in a week, you'll be able to lower your XP to an input value. So read Nastroth's confirmation carefully to ensure you agree to lower your Constitution XP to the value you want. It's thrown a couple players who mis-read the instructions, and there's a 6 month cooldown before you can request another minor reset to try again.

Are you sure you tried the minor skill reset option?

From Nastroth:

Let's talk about skill resets. -> One skill of my choice (minor)

The two (major) resets, that also reset content associated with Constitution & Prayer or Defence, are the ones that are no longer available.

From your screenshot, it looks like, assuming your Constitution XP is below 2,745 XP, and you haven't used a minor reset in the last 6 months, a minor reset would qualify.

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Not enough.

Working as intended.

I've just implemented a fix to force those "Remove to bank", "Remove to inventory" options onto all the Excaliburs in the bank's worn equipment panel.

Release'll probably roll to January's community hitlist, as we have limited update slots for the remainder of the year, and it can be worked around.

Thanks for raising the issue!

It's a consequence of you now being able to dynamically flip Excalibur's first two options specifically in the backpack, worn equipment and action bar. The bank replaces "Remove" with "Remove to bank" and won't find it in this case because it's now "Activate" from the bank's perspective.

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/18aokzm/rare_drop_table_official_rates/