Past server updates [last: 30 August 2024]

[Mike]

Ironman Mode released!

What Ironman mode players do not have access to
> Bounty Hunter & the Bounty Hunter store
> Loot from NPC's that are not killed entirely by them. If another player tanked hits for them from an NPC, they will also not get the loot, even if they dealt all the damage.
> Loot or drops from any other players (no matter how the other player died or whether it's a regular or ironman mode player).
> The vote shop (you cannot vote on an ironman account)
> The donator shop
However, you can obtain donator status once you have completed at least 1 quest or all achievements. You can then purchase it for either 2B coins and 2000 PkHonor Points or 2500 Donator Credits
Once you have donator status and either completed 2 quests total or have level 99 in at least 7 non-combat skills, you can purchase a premium status (again either for 2500 credits or 2B coins and 2K PkHonor Points). Donator & premium are the only two things you can donate for as ironman mode player.
On an ironman account, you cannot choose to take off the premium or donator status, but once we add in the option to revert your account to regular, your status will automatically be taken off and you'll automatically get the appropriate amount of credits back (or coins and PkHonor Points, depending on what you chose).


What's different for ironman mode players
> Ironman mode players can only play Pest Control games on their own
> Ranged store: only plain shortbows and bronze arrows
> Armour store: only bronze and iron equipment
> Armour & weapons store: no helmets (except the tyras helm), no amulets, no rune & dragon equipment, no tzhaar equipment
> Pickaxes & axes store: no axes except bronze, but it does have all pickaxes
> Crafting store: no cowhide, no green dhide, no wool, no ball of wool and no bowstring. The wool and ball of wool can be obtained from shearing sheeps in Lumbridge
> Supplies store: no lobsters, no sharks, no potions, no bones, no soft clay, no unholy book and no rune limbs. Soft clay can be made by using clay on a water source or combining it with a bucket of water.
> Herblore store: no herbs
> Magic store: no runes except astral runes
> Premium store: no bolt racks, no dragon chainbody, no dragon full helm, no potions and no bones

> Hard clue scroll caskets opened by ironman mode players have a chance of containing an ex-ex-parrot, brown afro, rainbow afro, any colored dark bow, book of law, book of war, book of darkness, ancient prayers book (for 1 hour curses), ring of vigour or imbue scroll (on top of the normal items).
> Elite clue scroll caskets opened by ironman mode players have a chance of containing a rare item that can otherwise only be obtained from the vote or donator shop.
Possible items are: any custom whip, a black partyhat, a rainbow partyhat, any of the 7 other partyhats, any h'ween mask, sled, santa hat, fancy boots, fighting boots, a chicken costume piece, powdered wig, flared trousers, pantaloons, sleeping cap, any of the elegant robes, any cane, top hat, any animal head, any animal staff, easter ring, basket of eggs, scythe, fox, chicken, camel mask, jack lantern mask, rogue mask, reindeer hat, rubber chicken, bunny ears, fishbowl helmet or a monkey gree'gree.

This way, ironman mode players can obtain every single item in existence in the game (aside from discontinued items, of course). Once we add in the option to revert an account back to normal status (with a 7 day delay and with necessary restrictions), all of the above listed items on an ironman account will be automatically swapped for their appropriate hard/elite clue caskets which can then be sold or re-opened.

[Mike]

• Dragon implings now also give dragon daggers as possible loot
• Mithril dragons now also drop dragon daggers
• The warrior helm has been added to the armour & weapons shop
• The Dagannoth kings now also drop berserker, warrior, archer and farseer helms, as well as magic comp bow and seercull (the bows are more common on the supreme than on the others)
• The Tzhaar monsters in the Tzhaar city now drop every single piece of tzhaar equipment (cape, shield, mace, spear, dagger, maul, staff and throwing rings)
• Moss giants, hill giants, troll guardians (in POH and the skilling center), elf warriors (on crash island), abyssal demons and the 5 GWD bosses now all drop dragon daggers, dragon maces, dragon longswords, dragon scimitars and dragon battleaxes
• Talk to the mage of zamorak to teleport to the essence mine. There, you can mine pure essence, which gives 3x the amount of runes and XP when runecrafting.
• Stealing from a gem stall now gives a gem most of the time (including dragonstone). The higher your thieving level, the higher the chance of getting better gems. If you get coins instead, you'll now get 10k or 20k coins instead of always 10k coins.
• Gem rocks (at the crafting guild) now give somewhat better gems overall (less lower level gems, more higher level gems). Mining level also affects this as of now.
• As a regular player, if you kill an Ironman mode player in pVp and they drop an item worth 500M or more, they will receive 1/4 of the item coin value instead of the item. The item will be placed in the ironman mode's refund box for half the price of the item (so double what the other player received for it). This way, item transfers (of expensive items) between ironman and regular players becomes impossible and ironman mode players won't lose their items as easily in the wilderness (especially considering they also can't get loot from PK'ing nor can they play Bounty Hunter).

[Mike]

> Falconry has been fixed
> Fixed a bug where you could abuse the keris to do hard hits on kalphites by swapping it quickly
> Added some shades at barrows (in the single combat zone)
> Ironman mode players can now play Pest Control games on their own
> You can no longer use ::pure before finishing your character creation. We'll probably look into resetting the appropriate combat stats for the ironman mode players who did use the command (tomorrow).
> You'll no longer get a bounty hunter penalty due to server restarts
> Cutting an onyx into bolttips now results in 500 bolttips instead of 10
> Ironman mode players can no longer kill NPC's in someone else's Player-Owned House Dungeon (however, they can still kill the NPC's in the skilling center dungeon)
> Fixed a bug where Ironman mode players couldn't always pick up their own arrows or items for NPC's they had killed themselves
> Cows now properly drop cowhide, bones and raw beef
> The ranged store has been fixed for Ironman mode players and now contains a shortbow and bronze arrows
> Requirements for donator/premium as Ironman have been changed:
For donator, you now need 1 quest or all achievements or level 99 in at least 5 non-combat skills
For premium, you now need 2 quests or level 99 in at least 10 non-combat skills
> You can now choose to either buy or create 1,000 enchanted onyx bolts for the Wise Old Man achievements. Ironman mode players can only create them themselves.
> Ironman mode players will now get their kills and deaths in the wilderness counted (especially considering you need 500 kills in the wild for the comp cape). Boss requirements for comp cape will be taken care of soon.

[Mike]

> Pest Control has been fixed for regular players, and the doors have been fixed for ironman mode players. Our apologies for this long delay, but at least we'll be holding a pest control weekend to compensate!
Sadly, ironman mode players cannot participate in the event (or any event except holiday events, at least for the time being), so they receive normal PC rewards.
> You can now use the '::m' command to send a private message to anyone without having to add them to your friends list
Usage: ::m-name-text (for example ::m-mike-thanks for this feature)
> The rune essence drops from essence implings have been reduced
> Ironman mode players now enjoy personal boss rooms! This applies to all GWD boss rooms (at Nex you'll always have the Wise Old Man to help you), King Black Dragon, Kalphite Queen, Corporeal Beast and Dagannoth Kings. I might look into adding a private chaos elemental and wildywyrms for ironman as well, but I'm not sure if this is really necessary. Let me know if you think I forgot an important boss or NPC.
Also note that the Corporeal Beast for ironman mode players has been slightly nerfed, with lower hitpoints and maximum hit
> Teleporting to the Morph world inside the Godwars Dungeon will no longer cause you to lose your killcount

[Mike]

> The Armadyl room door in GWD has been fixed (was only broken for Ironman Mode players)
> Relogging while in the zombie minigame will no longer cause you to end up at KBD
> The Saradomin Sword's special attack now has a bigger accuracy bonus than before. Its regular attack and the way the special works have not been changed (keep in mind that the magic damage on the special attack will only activate if the melee attack hits)
> Barrelchest, Ice Strykewyrm and Tormented demons now also have personal, instanced rooms, the same way as all other boss rooms

[Mike]

> Ironman Mode players will no longer have their pets vanish when they leave a GWD boss room.
> There is now an instanced, private risky barrows minigame for ironman mode players. Of course, this means you'll need to bring your own dwarf multicannon.
> The donator NPC's (Ice Strykewyrm, Barrelchests and Tormented Demons) now respawn properly
> We now have extra safety measures in place in regards to account PIN's. As of now, you can only enter 3 wrong pins per hour on an account, after that you'll need to wait 1 hour before trying again (this limitation is per computer, so hackers can't get someone's account locked this way)

[Mike]

> Ironman accounts now have appropriate crowns!

Spoiler: show

Regular:


Donator:


Premium:


In-game example:

> The Risky Barrows minigame has been fixed and should now work properly without problems
> The ::m-name-text command bug has been fixed, where you wouldn't see whatever you were writing to the other player
> Elite clue caskets now have a chance of containing a third-age druidic equipment item (ironman mode players only!)
> Transformed players in the wilderness can no longer drop items for other players - whatever they drop will only be visible to themselves. They cannot trade others while in the wilderness either.

[Mike]

> The Armadyl Godsword and Zaros Godsword their special attacks now do +25% damage (instead of +35%), but they received a +10% accuracy bonus to compensate (this accuracy bonus only applies to the special attack, not the regular hit).
> New players (including ironman mode players) now receive +10% XP and +10% Slayer Points for the first 6 hours time played. This is on top of the +200% XP bonus players have always received in combat skills for the first hour of time played
> Ironman Mode players can no longer participate in the lottery (viewtopic.php?f=73&t=51206&view=viewpoll)
> You can now autocast normal and ancient spells with a master wand
> Using the dragonfire shield special will now tell you how many charges you have left on your shield (that is, the amount you have left after discharging it)
> Fixed the Risky Barrows minigame for Ironman Mode players (a bug allowed a lot of them to be spawned at once)
> Fixed the initial elf tracker dialogue for the Christmas event, he'll now give you the hints again if you talk to him
> Added the ::bork command which will tell you when you can receive your next 'first Bork kill of the day' bonus
> The prices of Morrigan's Javelins and Thrownaxes have been lowered to 15 PkHonor Points each (from 25 each). For the Corrupt versions, the prices have been lowered to 10 each (from 15 each).

[Mike]

> The Bounty Hunter teleport crystal allowed players to teleport from anywhere, even if they were in deep wild or teleblocked, this is now fixed
> The instanced Risky Barrows minigame for Ironman Mode players has been fixed

[Mike]

> Fixed a bug where Barrows brothers from the regular Barrows minigame would drop items when killed
> Fixed the Nex and Saradomin room in GWD for Ironman mode players, these rooms became bugged if you logged out and back in while in the room
> Added a measure to prevent Barricade spamming, as of now you can only put down 1 barricade every 6 seconds
> As of now, any beer barrels inside a Player-Owned House will give the mature (better) version when you use a beer glass on it, even if you're only a visitor in the house.