We've got just some of the fruits of last week's Game Jam to show you, plus exciting merchandise updates and more!
It's back! Game Jam is a reoccurring event where the JMods take one whole week to explore personal projects, community suggestions, and other exciting ideas. We've seen loads of awesome projects on the go this week, so here's a preview of just a few of them...
Mod Dorn
Visualizing Seeds and Herbs - Mod Dorn is keen to help player visualize and differentiate items, and has taken a stab at diversifying the looks of seeds and herbs. Giving them more diverse colourings should players tell the difference at a glance!
Mod Pebble
What's the deal with Yanille? Mod Pebble has been learning more about our internal mapping tools and set the task of improving the tone/vibe of Yanille. They've even been getting player feedback on how players would like to see the town look!
Mod Sponge
Spongeatouille - Mod Sponge has taken a moment away from combat to look into the next greatest battle: cooking. Between gathering player feedback on what they would wanna see from the culinary skill.
Mod Fowl
Inclusivity fixes for Titles - Inclusivity is an incredibly important topic and Mod Fowl is picking up the torch from Mod Raven and working to update a ton of titles and the underlying systems to let players have more choices and options on how they wanna present themselves!
Mod Fox
Furniture Shark - Building off some of Mod Fowl's previous Game Jam work, Mod Fox has gone and created this beautiful concept art for a very Legally Distinct Furniture Shark...
Mod Chaose, Frosch, Kitsune, Fox and Blkwitch
Daemonheim Archaeology - Continuing their intrepid work on Daemonheim Arch Site, the team has been making stellar progress including developing mysteries, designing a relic reward, inputting achievements , touching up some of the base camps snow and lighting and even building out a new map concept!
Mod Helen
Organizing the War Retreat boss portals - Tired of trying to figure out where the boss you wanna face is in the chronological order? Well Mod Helen has heard your prayers and has created a new system to organize the boss list in either chronological or alphabetical order!
Mod Luma
Shooting Star Update - Mod Luma is getting cosmic and has dove into modernizing the Shooting Star D&D, aiming to keep the core event identity in place but improving the systems!
Such as making it more reasonable to solo without impacting groups, new locations it can appear, improving the xp & bonus xp gains and making them more convenient to use along side creating a shop for Stardust and new achievements to go with it!
Mod Stu & Grace
Combat Level Up Jingles - Miss the old level of jingles? Well not anymore! Mod Stu has done extensive research into the previously used combat jingles and Mod Grace has graciously (heh) modernized the older midi jingles so they can make a triumphant return!
RuneScape Kingdoms Board Game – last chance for exclusive bundles!
Backers of the RuneScape Kingdoms Kickstarter have started receiving their pledges over the past few weeks, and we’ve been so excited to see pictures of their hauls! Check out the goods:
If you missed out on the Steamforged Games Kickstarter back in 2022 and want to go all in – now's your chance! The Deluxe Edition Bundle and the Expansions Bundle are exclusively available on Steamforged’s online store right now.
While not quite the early bird deal snapped up by Kickstarter backers, these are now the best value for getting your hands on an all-in pledge for the core game and expansions, and will only be available until next week! Once the core game and KBD expansion release for retail February 29th, all the other expansions and core game will only be available individually.
If the Steamforged store doesn’t ship to you, you want to avoid shipping costs, or only want the core game, these are coming to retailers globally on February 29th.
That's all for now, but we'll have more to share next week on the retail release for the board game and separate TTRPG – including videos of your favourite JMods getting hands-on with both!
Fally Goodies from Angels Scapes
Relive your travels through Falador over the years with this range of pins and keyrings by Angels Scapes, exclusively available on the official merch store.
- The Rising Sun Bottle Opener celebrates Falador's most popular pub.
- Dwarven Stout has been added to the beer opener fridge magnet range, so you always have the right equipment to hand to crack open your favourite tipple.
- The limited edition White Knight Pin will always fight for you!
- Holy (giant) moley, there's even a Giant Mole Pin, with two mini baby moles escaped from beneath Falador park!
- There's also a limited edition Dragonfire Shield pin!
Had a little (or long) break from RuneScape and looking to get back into the swing of things? We're introducing a limited time offer for past Members to return, with 14 days of Membership and Double XP time for just $1!
If you've not been a RuneScape Member for a while, you'll be able to access this offer from February 27th to March 27th. If you're interested, return to this page on February 27th for a link to the offer.
New $1 Returning Member Offer
- 14 Days of Membership.
- 24 Hours of Double XP (to use within 30 days of purchase).
Eligibility
- Available February 27th to March 27th.
- Character must have been a Member in the past.
- Character must not have had an active Membership for 30 days.
- Character must not have been active RuneScape in the last 30 days
- Character must not have completed the Old School RuneScape tutorial.*
Note: Due to the eligibility terms, cancelling your subscription will not gain you access to this offer. This is an offer intended to attract past Members back to RuneScape.
Many of you reading this are likely to be seasoned veterans of RuneScape, so we feel it's important we give you more details behind this offer and what we want to achieve.
We have a wealth of past RuneScape Members (with plenty of goals still to chase!) who we would love to see rejoin the world of Gielinor. With so many games out there today, we want to trial some offers to encourage them back - similar to how other games might run Free Weekends, for example. In our case, we're picking a route that best protects the health of the game with a payment gate, while also getting people back into RuneScape's best version with Membership.
We've designed this offer to provide a great low-price reason to come back, but also to encourage these ex-adventurers to get back into the swing of things properly - and that's where the Double XP comes in. Coming back to RuneScape and finding your groove can be difficult, so by offering 24 hours of Double XP, we hope to make those early hours a little more rewarding and get players re-invested in chasing their dream levels over the long term.
That said, it's deeply important to us that we take existing players into account when making this offer – we don't want any Members benefitting from 'additional' Double XP time beyond what's available today. We've intentionally designed this so that no eligible returning Member for this offer will have participated in our most recent Double XP. This means we're offering some missed Double XP time as part of the incentive to return, but not giving additional Double XP time compared to existing Members.
If you've been looking for a way to get your friends back into RuneScape, we hope this offer will be a nice surprise in their inbox – and hopefully get them back in your party!
*Both RuneScape titles share Membership and we love seeing players use that benefit to play both games! However, as this is a promotional idea to attract past RuneScape Members back to RuneScape, we needed to include this restriction to ensure the offer is RuneScape specific as intended.
We have scheduled essential planned maintenance for all RuneScape and Old School game worlds on Tuesday February 27th at 09:00-12:00* (UTC) / 01:00-04:00* (PST) / 19:00-22:00* (AEST).
During this period, all game worlds will be temporarily unavailable for up to 3 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this downtime and will keep players informed of any changes to this estimated schedule.
*approximated end of downtime.
Thursday February 29th | 17:00 Game Time | RuneFest
Join Mods Ayiza, Doom and very special guest Mod Mark, who'll be sharing more info about this year's RuneFest! You've saved the date, now get all the info... Tune in live over at twitch.tv/Jagex for all the details from 17:00 GMT on Thursday, February 29th!
Friday March 1st | 17:00 Game Time | Combat Beta
Join Mods Sponge and Doom as they chat about all things combat. Watch the show live at Twitch.TV/RuneScape!
Starts February 27th | Ends February 28th | Mysteria
Mysteria constantly rotates multiple versions of Treasure Hunter over the course of two days. Jump in to see what's on the cards!
Starts February 29th | Ends March 4th | Potion Pandemonium
Gather potions and use them to complete collections! Earn multipliers and win brand new hex-cellent witchy-themed prizes from the Witch's Chest. Get your hands on the Dolorous Witch Outfit complete with matching wings! Lucille, the adorable bat pet, also returns.
Game Jam
Last week has been devoted to Game Jam, so regular tasks have taken a backseat while the JMods come up with new ideas and content. You can see in the above panel some of what they've been cooking! This means that there are no Patch Notes this week.
However, we’ve left this section in this newspost to avoid any confusion.
Community Showcase
@Snowy Rune continues building some beautiful pixel art stained glass pieces based on the elder gods.">[/url]
u/1to99Artscape has given the Dark Wizards' Tower a little makeover to give it a bit more of a menacing profile!
Runetube
@Zant brings the Legend's Guild to life with this beautiful piece set on a dark and stormy night...
Wondering how some of the new T95 Necromancy items look when dyed? @imxcrystal has assembled a showcase!
Unsure what to do with your Moonstones? @SilencedRS has a suggestion...
Scapers' Screenshots
Kawick has been doing some farming this DXP! Smart moves.
Meanwhile, Jay Sindab has been doing some zoological research and captured this dramatic shot!
Pink Skirts Player Events
Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:
K'ril Tsutsaroth Hardmode
- Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
- Date/Time: Tuesday February 27th, 18:00 Gametime
- World: 35
- Location: Zamorak Lobby
- FC: Helpscape
General Graardor Hardmode
- Hosted by: M e r c y & Helpscape
- Date/Time: Sunday March 3rd, 16:00 Gametime
- World: 35
- Location: Bandos Lobby
- FC: Helpscape
Town Square Q&A
- Hosted by: Princess Rae
- Date/Time: Saturday March 2nd, 23:00 Game Time
- World: 3
- Location: Varrock West Bank
If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!
Community Spotlight
One Small Adventure
The adventure continues over on the Official Discord – check out the #server-events channel to take part! This week Clue Chasers team up with Taskman to challenge your perception and puzzle-solving skills! Solve some devilish custom clue maps, or see if your up to snuff with Taskman's tricky tasks!
FashionScapers
FashionScapers is a Discord server where you can share FashionScape ideas, find inspiration and advice on outfits and individual cosmetics. They are a chill and friendly community and they love to have fun! Join the community here: https://discord.gg/Tfvxe22
They are hosting an event to celebrate reaching 10k members! It's time to show off your character's faces - in the most hilarious expressions possible! To join in, make a screenshot of your character doing something mid-animation, and zoom in on that silly facial expression. Then post that in the Not The Face! channel.
The best (funniest, highest quality, etc) submissions will be cleaned up by removing their backgrounds, and turned into server stickers! The event runs until March 1st, so get gurning!
- The RuneScape Team