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Thanks! The altar (and entrance to skotizo) will stay inside the main catacombs but within the new areas there’ll be clear signs of dark altar corruption, like giant crystals and (if you’ve seen the entrance to the catacombs from the Forthos dungeon) dark vines growing throughout the area. The dungeons could also be connected so you can still hop between them easily.

I’d like to make some changes to the giants themselves too, just minor things like the other mobs found within the catacombs - just so they feel a little more unique.

The intention isn’t to change how current mechanics work, just to move them into their own thematic dungeon. There will be clear references to the dark altar within the scenery in the new caves that will explain as to why these monsters still drop totem pieces & shards.

I also mentioned on stream that if anything, more training spots will be added to ease up on any overcrowding issues.

Hopefully! The design is still in-complete and I'm a little unsure on a few things. I've already redesigned Arceuus twice! It depends on what's possible within the scope of the project as Hosidius ended up taking far longer than I had originally anticipated.

I wasn’t part of the team when Zeah was released, I joined a week or so after Gentletractor posted his map. Once seeing that I figured I’d make it my goal to try and implement as much as possible as I too, as a player at the time, was disappointed with the initial Zeah.

Some of the art was great (wall kits for Lova and Pisc are quite nice) but the mapping was bloated and lacked charm and character. That was my main focus when reworking Hosidius last year. I’ve get a fairly sprawling redesign (just imagery, nothing in-game) of the other houses in the works too, but unsure when I’ll be able to show it.

Haha :P Not a secret previously undiscovered continent then... suppose we won't know until we can sail there!

Oh no D: That's really cool though! I wonder what's on the other side...

No problem (:

Here's an uncompressed version. Just in case you still want it :P

I’ll give that a shot, thanks :)

N’aww, thanks <3

Great job! I’ll try find a better image uploader tomorrow that doesn’t destroy quality as I think this will look a lot better without the names and icons :P

EDIT: Here it is

It looks like the isle of stone. The image used is a little old while the height map data was rendered out yesterday.

Thanks for tagging me! This is great to see :)

Best I can do for now.

Unfortunately that website hates quality and has JPEGerised the image ):

Not an option, unfortunately :/ I can render out a map without any town names or icons but the walls and floors/paths/water don't seem to have a toggle.

Turns out our map editor has the function to export height data, so I suppose you're in luck!

This also made me realise how small Gielinor really is as each pixel represents a game tile that is roughly 1 meter. Therefor the width of the entire map is only 2,752 meters. It's also very messy due to how the maps are assembled out of blocks. You can see the seams between map files quite a bit in some areas but a little bit of blurring should solve that.

Hope this helps!

There are a few ways I suppose to avoid the summoning-esque feel to raising the dead to fight for you. Having them as timed persistent followers would certainly be a no due to the prevalence of pets and the potential of making it a meta for most situations. If they acted more as a physical representation of a damage over time effect (equivalent of a magical version of poison) with the cure being a set time (a minute or so) or running out of HP. That might work. Also, tying them to a specific item that needs to stay equipped which could have fairly high negatives to melee/ranged to encourage them to be paired mostly with magic. I recall reading the ideas GT put forward back when the original Spellbook rework was shared. They were great solutions to avoiding the summoning lite features that may not go down well with the more ‘anti-change’ players.

Just spitballing really :P there’s plenty of ways it can be done to be as unobtrusive to the standard combat systems that everyone...

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For sure, the balance will be super important and we wouldn’t want a repeat of summoning.

This is the best thing.

Just don’t equip a great axe...

Same. Think we’ll need to make a prototype and let players have a play with it on a tournament world though. Even then, it’s so alien to OSRS that I fear it won’t pass :/