Hey Etherealians,

Sorry for the wait - this was a bit of a passion project of mine and was a lot to work on. We'll have a lot of updates in this one, as well as GIM for the GIM competition starting tomorrow, Tuesday, July 19th at 10:00 AM PST.

Today's update introduces a new Distraction & Diversion that runs every four hours: Dreamland. Players will be notified in advance when the event is going to start, giving 3 minutes for players to gather at the location and enter the portal.



Once inside, players will be greeted with an ethereal-like platform; the book in the middle can be activated when the event is officially started.



What comes next will be a surprise; it's up to the players to play through whatever awaits them!

Rewards from Dreamland include various supplies, herblore secondaries, a new weapon recipe, and a new perk.

Lunar staff (i) 

A new weapon exclusive to obtain from Dreamland, requiring its recipe. It gives decent magic stats, defence, and can autocast spells from both the modern and ancient spellbook. It also has a passive effect that has a 10% chance at nullifying a magic hit.



Nightmare (perk)

A new perk that increases the damage Vengeance can deal by 25%.

You can now trade in Archaic emblems for either guaranteed blood money, or a chance at receive a new Wilderness casket. These caskets range between three tiers, and the chance at getting each depends on the tier of your archaic emblem.



With this, Archaic emblems can now be obtained (or upgraded) from killing players in the wilderness at a low chance; however, killing your bounty target will guarantee an upgrade.



Tool leprechauns now bring up a new interface when you talk to them - letting you teleport to various Farming patches across Ethereal.

Slayer tasks also have had their weights adjusted - it should be more in line with Duradel's task weights on OSRS. Let us know if you see a noticeable change!

In other news:

- Dagannoth kings spawn times have been adjusted to be more in line with Runelite's spawn timers
- Unsired drop rates have been slightly increased.
- A shop has been added to the top floor of the Myth's Guild that sells shield right halves.
- A tool leprechaun has been added to home island for convenience.
- Rolling out some more major tests to make sure the raids light and farming guild patches work now.
- A 3 minute timer before and after Chronozon spawns has been added to allow players time to get to the vote boss and collect loot.
- Chronozon will now drop a guaranteed 5-10 vote tickets upon kill.
- Fixed a bug where Dagannoth prime and supreme will hit players twice.
- You can now examine clues and their respective caskets to see potential loot.
- The COX recruitment board should no longer null.
- A COX party should now only disband when there are no more players left or if the leader specifically chooses to disband the party.
- You can now use a golden tinderbox at Wintertodt.
- The Ancient godsword special attack should now properly stack.
- Zaryte crossbow should now properly increase enchanted bolts' effectiveness by 10%.
- Magic shortbow special attack should now properly account for broad arrows against leaf-bladed vulnerable monsters.
- Magic shortbow scroll should now properly imbue a magic shortbow.
- Game message filtering and split private chat should now properly save.
- Superior slayer rare drop rates have been buffed.
- New players now have an option to skip the tutorial during the dialogue.
- Salve amulet (ei) should now properly increase damage to both forms of Vet'ion.
- Keris partisan from the Desert elite diary should now function properly.
- Nerfed the bonus coin drops while Thieving.
- Eternal gem should now be able to be used as a normal enchanted gem as well.
- Dragon harpoons can now be combined with a smouldering stone into an infernal harpoon, and its functionality has also been added.
- Players can now "check" their looting bag to see the items inside.
- Demonic gorilla kills should now properly show up in the collection log.
- Alchemical hydra kills should now have a killcounter associated with it.
- RDT drops should no longer show for everyone.
- Got rid of the Baker's stall in the ocean at home.
- You can now place a Dwarf cannon in various spots in the Wilderness, including the slayer dungeon.
- You can now retrieve pets from a menagerie.
- You can now catch and cut sacred eels in Zul'andra.
- You can now use a pestle and mortar on Crystal shards to create crystal dust for divine potions.
- Rolling out a possible change for box traps. Hard to test it on my own but hopefully this does the trick.
- Carpenter outfit should now give an experience bonus similar to the Angler outfit.

Post here if you're trying to find teams.

- Name and ingame username: Cody / Cloudy / CloudyMcRowdy

- Position applying for: Anywhere I can help/help is needed! (Support, Mod, Admin, Community Management, etc.)

- Timezone: US-East (NY timezone)

- Days and times where you are available: Pretty much always, lets be real lmao

- Preferred language: English

- Why we should choose you: This is a long one... Sorry in advance!
     I believe that I have more generalized RSPS knowledge, and experience, than most, if not all other RSPS players. Being a small YouTuber in the community, I have spent a lot of time server-hopping. I know what other servers offer, what they lack, and how to keep us set apart from anywhere else, without taking any QOL away from the game. I have experience in every possible field when it comes to RSPS, and have been around on-and-off since '07. Support to owner, dev to marketing, and anything in-between. I genuinely enjoy helping/entertaining people, and am always looking for something to keep me as busy as possible. I may not have been here very long, but I have gotten to know most everyone in the community, and I believe they all know me as well. I feel that I have more to offer, overall, than anyone else that will be willing to fill out an application. I have always generally played the part of a support/moderator. Googling things if I need to, in order to hopefully help whomever I can. As you know, I already make videos, and plan to make video guides for things as they come out. It would definitely add "hype" to the streams, and videos, if it was a staff member making them.  As stated earlier, I naturally play as I believe staff should act. That goes for streams and videos. Reporting bugs, attempting to diagnose potential culprits, and attempting to help anyone with issues that I can help with, just by talking through them as of right now.  I believe that staff need to be able to have fun, but need to know when things should be kept completely professional, and are not necessarily a joking matter. I am able to bring that to the table naturally. Along with literally anything else the server needs help with! I learn very quickly, and am willing to re-learn anything I once knew, to help out!
I am here to help, and want to do anything/everything I can to be a bigger part of something great! 

- Name and ingame username: Loki
- Position applying for: Ingame Moderator
- Timezone: EST
- Days and times where you are available: Monday - Sunday Anytime
- Preferred language: English
- Why we should choose you: Been around the private server scene for fifteen years+ and know the do's and don'ts of staff privileges. I was a moderator on a previous server for two years before they ultimately shut down, wont name names here can pm me. I'd like to do my part and help this server grow and help anyone out with any questions or concerns along the way.


Thank You
-Loki

Hey Etherealians,

Quite a short one here - this one's mostly just for bugfixes. The big update here is that Ironmen can now access tournaments - however they will only receive the Tournament point reward.

- Raids light should definitely work properly now.
- Possibly identified a source of the nulled NPCs - hopefully we shouldn't see it anymore, but if we do, then we were wrong.
- Added a lot of new tournament types, thanks to Dom.
- Random tools shouldn't disappear anymore.
- Venenatis shouldn't stack multiple magic hits anymore - it can still stack its melee/mage hit with a web attack though.
- Testing something to see what the birdhouse problem was - it was possibly due to it giving too many nests.
- Buffed drop rate of Unsired from the Abyssal sire.
- Removed some broken NPCs in Lletya.
- Added a teleport to BH target and BH sacks to the blood money store - the spell should now work properly.
- Trying a failsafe to prevent unintended ladders from working.
- Cerberus ghosts should now despawn once Cerberus dies.
- Arclight should now function properly against Cerberus.
- Slightly reduced the spawn rate of Death spawns from Nechryaels.
- Added functionality for the Ancient godsword and Zaryte crossbow for the PvP tournaments.
- Arzinian staff can now autocast ancient magicks.
- Herblore secondaries from Slayer have been increased.
- You should no longer gain Defence experience in a tournament.

Hey Etherealians,

Not quite a big update this time - but definitely a needed one as we've gotten reports of a lot of larger bugs recently, so I've tackled quite a few of them and hopefully can finish the rest of them soon with more content updates, as I don't like pushing out an update without adding something new to the table.

Mining achievements are here as the first wave of our skilling achievements - we'll do a lot more than one at a time in the future, just needed to push this out to test them out. Skilling achievements will be able to be access by clicking the skill tab, and then choosing to View Achievements.



You'll see that there's two new perks that comes with these achievements!

Golden Touch - Grants a 5% chance per level to automatically smelt the mined ore into a bar. Each level is obtained by completing certain achievements in the mining category.

Ecosystem savior - Grants a 10% chance to not use coal while smelting bars (upon writing this I realized I forgot to implement the actual part for this...haha...will come w/ a hotfix or next update.)

Next is a big nerf that a lot of players may not like but is a needed one - Double drop rate will now be capped at a hard 25%. To remedy this a little bit for people that are way over 25%, I've added an additional stat called RDT (DDR Overcap). This leftover chance gives you a percent to hit a brand new, rare drop table - which contains items that may help prolong trips, add future supplies, and give you a small chance at receiving a Ring of wealth (i).

I've also added another donator benefit to help add on to this because of the reduced value of DDR; cannons will have a small chance at firing a "charged shot" that will deal extra damage - the rates will be posted in the donator benefits post in the Knowledge Base.

Finally, I've also posted a poll above to the many complaints I've gotten about the scarcity of limestone bricks, gold leaves, and marble bricks - so please voice your opinions above!

In other news:
- Dwarf cannon should work properly now.
- Cerberus crystal drops should now all properly announce.
- Desert sentinels and desert basilisks have had their max hits slightly lowered.
- Zombies should now be attackable in the Stronghold of Security.
- There is now a tanner at home.
- Added impling jars to the General store.
- Added Fighter torso to the Tournament store.
- Tournament winners should now properly announce.
- The Ardougne teleport task in the medium Ardougne diary should now work properly.
- The starter tutorial has been adjusted to include the new achievements for new players.
- Cerberus ghosts have had their animations adjusted.
- The Celestial ring will now give you a chance to mine an additional pay-dirt.
- Chambers of Xeric raids should no longer remove farming supplies and tools from participating players' banks and inventories.
- The white/purple glow from a Chambers of Xeric raid loot should now properly show.
- Pure essence from the Chambers of Xeric should no longer appear as frequently.
- The chance at a rare loot has been reduced from 1% per 8675 points to 1% per 6000.
- Rune dragons, lesser demons, and greater demons should now be adjusted for most of their spawns to account for daily tasks.
- You can now examine the Larran's chest to see loot and drop rates.
- Revenant kills are now tracked in the collection log, and Demonic gorilla kills should now show up properly in the collection log.
- Added functionality for the Keris partisan recipe.
- Anti-venom and Anti-venom+ should make the player immune to poison for the intended time.
- Added bow strings and crystal shards to the skilling drop tables.
- Purchasing certain collection log gear from the Daily task shop should properly update your collection log.
- You can now deposit multiple amounts of compost/supercompost/ultracompost to the Tool Leprechaun AND in noted form now too.
- Fixed an issue where the donator benefit of having a chance at noting a cut log did not work properly for Teak trees.
- Added the commands "hiscores" and "market" to link the user to the respective website pages.

The staff have noticed that the current way our DDR works is not entirely fair. With the right items and donator rank, you can achieve 70+% DDR. We're thinking of lessening the rate from certain items and adding an additional cooldown between the DDR procs. Do you feel we're moving in the right direction with this change?

Hey Etherealians,

Thanks to the combined hard work of Advistane and Oki, we've finally got hiscores implemented on both the site and the client - as well as the exchange post implementation on the site to show all recent trades using the ingame trading post! Check it out here:

Hiscores: https://ethereal-ps.com/highscores.php
Trading post: https://ethereal-ps.com/exchange.php

In the case of hiscores, you can now look up people ingame by right clicking them and using the Lookup function! Note that the client hiscores may not be adjusted for everyone because every single player has to have logged in and out by today to have it updated in our database.



This will open up the respective tab in the RuneLite client, in which we have tracked numerous things such as the player's stats, clue scroll completions, Wilderness kills, and boss kills!



You can also access the hiscores using the respective link on the top, and can be accessed anytime by using the upper navbar on the home page. You can search any user this way, as well as filter them using the respective filters as well as show some things that the client doesn't track such as tournament wins!





The exchange post page will also show all recent trades done in the ingame trading post, and we will be implementing this to show in certain RuneLite features such as ground items and examine prices in the near future.



Again, everyone should say thank you to the hard work of Advistane and Oki to get this feature working!

Heard on the old Discord that the server is now accepting staff applications. I was slaying ye ol' Infernal Mages...


And what do ya know? This little thingy pops on the ground:


So I got to thinking, what should I do with it? What kind of applications does this staff have?

Slaying black demons


Praising Zamorak


This


Fairy Magic

Thanks for reading and I hope you consider my staff applications.