That sounds like something Mod Giragast (engine developer) started in a 2023 gamejam and was working on further during the Q4 community hitlists.

Looks like his engine work that it was dependent on has released but the content side of it is unstarted. Everyone who was assigned to work on community hitlists throughout Q4, including me, were assigned back to developing Q1/Q2 episodic projects at the start of 2024.

That specific issue (a task he created named "add variant of Surge that doesn't break pathing" looks to be what you're describing) seems to have been reassigned to the combat modernisation team in late January, so perhaps that's something they might explore after the release of the combat beta frees up Ryan and Sponge to work on other things.

(I can't confirm whether or not that's an imminent priority - that's just going off what I can see in our ticketing system, that the task is now listed under the combat modernisation team's backlog.)

I'm looking forward to both too! :) Happy 'Scaping.

Good idea, but not going to happen. When and if gamejam projects are released is outside my control.

Happily we did recently get confirmation that several of the smaller updates developed and completed in prior gamejams are currently scheduled to release in a ninja strike in May, and that currently includes combat skill levelup jingles. Plans change, so no guarantee, but that's the current ETA.

I can understand wariness to include additional projects in Monday's release, as the combat beta was a massive amount to get through release candidate testing in one week. I've got a few fixes from the quest requirement cleanup developed during Feb gamejam week that are waiting in the release queue but couldn't be accepted this week as they're relatively minor. All in good time, and we have to be patient.

I'm pleased to report that Mod Easty hotfixed the pink dye issue earlier today. Just got home and checked on my main to confirm and yep, you can definitely get pink dye from Betty. Happy Falador area tasking!

We don't have patch notes this week, as production was shut down the last few days for the quarterly gamejam so the release candidate team could participate.

So earliest for a cold fix would be next Monday - but combat beta is in RC this week, which is huuuge, and likely to limit how many bugfixes can be accepted into RC this week.

I've requested a hotfix for the pink dye issue (it's a server-script only change, so can be hotfixed), but whether that passes is at the release candidate team's discretion.

Thank you! That looks to be due to relying on inheriting the 59 Magic req via Defender of Varrock that used to be on Family Crest to defeat Chronozon.

Have requested a bug report from our QA.

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Thanks! Have raised this with QA to investigate a fix.

Thanks! Have requested a bug report for this.

Thanks! Have requested a bug report for this to make that line conditional.

The Q1 gamejam is next week, and I committed in this week's livestream https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2061690966 (00:46:47) to fix a long-requested niche issue, reinstating unique levelup jingles for combat skills.

There's a very dedicated voice that requests this fix in every weekly game update newspost: eg

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Yeah, as noted in a similar reply elsewhere in this thread, if you're on ironman, you'll still have to kill chompies yourself to get the 2 raw chompies for As a First Resort.

For players who can trade, though, removing the requirement opened their options a little.

This looks to be a similar question to that asked by -Zakh- above? Hope that answer is useful to you. :)

Righto, so your issue is that King of the Dwarves has a 77 Strength requirement?

That appears to be due to needing Strength to lift big rock and Big Rock to recruit the trolls, which seems somewhat justified. https://runescape.wiki/w/King_of_the_Dwarves#Recruiting_the_trolls

A potential avenue could be providing an alternate method of recruiting the trolls that isn't a feat of...

I don't think that would be suitable for this project. King of the Dwarves was built around introducing the lava flow mine, and consequently takes place partly within it. Access to the lava flow mine is one of its rewards.

Could you elaborate on why you want to access the lava flow mine without completing King of the Dwarves? Is there something about that quest that's preventing you from doing it?

Originally before we had quest accept screens, requirements were handled by checking the state of quest variables and levels of skills in dialogue with the quest giver. Because all the checks were bespoke, some checked your base skill and some checked your boosted skill.

Now that all quests have accept screens, they consistently check your base skill.

As noted elsewhere in the thread, I've put that one on the list for a potential future gamejam project more focused on skill requirements of quests, now we've had a go at quest requirements.

Other than Tortle Combat moving up from Pathfinder (its skill reqs should put it after Dragon Slayer at least), I don't recall any other deliberate changes to Timeline, or changes to age classification or release dates that might influence Timeline.

If you spot any issues with Timeline order when the project releases, please do let me know!

That is an unusually high skill requirement for a quest, I agree, but is the level the Necromancy team intentionally used for your confrontation with the First Necromancer along the path to 120 Necromancy. I'm not at liberty to change it.

I sure hope not!

Seriously, though, no it shouldn't affect your quest cape.

Various requirements to start various quests have been pruned, but that shouldn't impact your progress through those quests.