Today's update brings a nice gold sink to provide some server-wide boosts for every player - if you're feeling generous, contribute to the new Well of Goodwill!

Well of Goodwill

The well object at home now has a use! You can access the Well of Goodwill interface by clicking the well object at home, right to the east of the home bank.



This will bring up the new Well of Goodwill interface, which you can choose to donate to four different buffs! Each buff will cost a total of 100m per level to activate for 2 hours - for example, 100m for level 1, 200m for level 2, and 300m for level 3. At the max level, you just have to pay the same amount for it to add to the timer.



The buffs are:

- Bonus experience: Grants 10% bonus experience per level, up to level 3.
- Double points: Grants 2x points at Pest Control, Wintertodt, Mage Arena, and skilling points.
- Superior spawn rate - Grants a 10% spawn rate increase to superior slayer monsters, up to level 3.
- DDR: Grants a 10% DDR boost per level, up to level 3 and removes the DDR cap for easy mode players while the buff is active.

Additionally, when 50m coins or more are donated at once, your name is broadcasted!



All of these buffs also stack with current modifiers too!

Lootbeams

After a lot of backporting to our client, lootbeams are now live! Thanks to the work of Advistane as well, ground item text will now have trading post integration - meaning it will display the average price of the item if it had been traded in the trading post! You can configure the lootbeam settings in the Ground Items plugin in the RuneLite client.

In other news:
- The defence requirement for the enriched black mask has been removed.
- Desert scorpions should now be killable under a Scorpion slayer task.
- Greater nechryael spawns in the Kourend catacombs have been adjusted.
- The events page should now properly update when the server is restarted.
- Fixed some achievement name issues in the Construction achievement diary.
- The Alchemical hydra should now drop 2 items at once.
- It is no longer possible to use a multicannon at the Cryptic lair.
- Fixed an issue where Cave worms and Kyren fish were disappearing.
- Added placeholders for the Ancient godsword, Zaryte crossbow, Master skillcapes and hoods, Torva armour, and custom pets.
- The Serenity pet will now send overcap drop rate drops to the bank as well as ancient shards and dark totems.
- Arrows/bolts will no longer drop to the ground if an Ava's device is equipped.
- You can now correctly save the gnome agility course shortcut as a favorite teleport.
- Crystal tools now only require level 71 in their respective skill to use.
- Worked on a lot of networking on the backend to try to improve stability.

Today's update brings a new midgame oriented dungeon - the Cryptic Lair. This dungeon is host to two new monsters - the Cryptic bearer and the Cryptic pharaoh, each requiring level 74 Slayer to kill.

Cryptic Lair



The new dungeon, the Cryptic lair, can be accessed through the Dungeons category in the teleport interface. You'll be greeted with the first new monster immediately: the Cryptic bearer. Beware however, as these monsters have a slight chance to hit through prayer and can only be injured by Ice spells! 

Notable rewards from Cryptic bearers are:

Cryptic armour pieces at a 1/750 rate: 



This new armour set provides some great offensive stats at the cost of defensive stats - but also boosts melee damage by 15% and accuracy by 20% when the entire set is equipped!

Cryptic head - a new cosmetic headpiece thanks to the modeling efforts of Custard!



At the end of the lair you'll see a barrier that prevents access unless you have a Cryptic creatures Slayer task. This is the lair of the Cryptic pharaoh, a new Slayer boss that has some unique mechanics associated w/ it - but shouldn't be too hard for the more experienced players! Notable drops from the Cryptic pharaoh include:

Cryptic mace recipe - Another type of upgrade for the Barronite mace, this mace provides slightly higher stats than the Barronite mace (i) and a 5% higher chance at proccing its special effect. When paired with the full Cryptic set, also provides a 10% chance at dealing a second hit!





Lightbearer - Same effect as OSRS, the lightbearer doubles special attack energy gain while equipped.



This is our first attempt at a new set with recolored assets from different kinds of items, so please give us your feedback!

New perk interface

Our new perk interface is now accessible within the "Perks" button in your Journal tab! The new interface will give more in-depth descriptions of each perk, be easier to navigate and toggle perks on/off, as well as show players where each perk is obtained! Credit to Speane for the design!



Herb sack

The herb sack can now be opened to automatically store grimy herbs that are picked up or harvested!

In other news:
- Barronite maces have been added to the melee and ironman melee stores.
- The home island should now properly appear on the world map!
- Task weights for Ethereal-specific Slayer monsters have been slightly increased to widen variety.
- Boss slayer tasks now require a minimum of 10 to prevent easy point farming.
- Fishing explosives should now properly work on the Kraken in instances.
- You should no longer be damaged by Verzik's pool attack while dead.
- Moss giants in the Kourend catacombs should now count for your daily task.
- Brimstone keys are now a guaranteed drop from a superior Slayer monster.
- Monsters that are not normally aggressive in the donator dungeon will now be aggressive when the option to make NPCs aggressive is toggled.
- Your cannon should no longer target monsters that are not your slayer task in the donator dungeon.
- You must be in combat within the last 10 seconds for the Magical reload perk to work.
- The price checker button in the equipment interface will now direct the player to ::exchange.
- Pyromancer outfit pieces, tome of fire, and the bruma torch have all had their drop rates buffed.
- It is no longer possible to obtain duplicate pyromancer pieces until you have one full set - however this is not retroactive so you have to get one of each piece first.
- Fixed a bug that prevented a divine spirit shield from being smithed.
- You can now store a gilded scimitar in the elite treasure box.
- Planted spirit trees should now properly teleport to the Etceteria spirit tree patch.
- Fixed a bug that did not display task amounts when a Seren's tome or Slayer VIP ticket were used.
- Fixed a bug that did not allow you to toggle transparent side panels.

Another update today that aims to help ease players more into the mid-late game. 

Medium General Acheivements

Starter achievements have finally been expanded to include the Medium tier of achievements now! These achievements can be accessed in the General achievements button in the Journal page, then clicking Medium achievements.



Notable unique rewards include:

Bank slots - Two of the medium achievements will award +50 bank spaces each! Note that a new benefit for donators have also been added, which is +100 bank spaces!

Barronite mace (i) recipe - A new recipe to create the Barronite mace (i), an upgraded version of the current Barronite mace. This mace will have its stats buffed to slightly better than a Dragon scimitar, as well as gains a passive that gives it a 10% chance to deal a hit with 100% increased accuracy and 50% increased damage, as well as restoring hitpoints and prayer by a flat 5. This will be a decent early game weapon that doesn't have any requirements to wield and will help new players learn how recipes work!





Passive 0.5% triple drop rate - One medium achievement will permanently give the player 0.5% triple drop rate, giving a 0.5% chance upon a monster kill for it to drop 3 items on its drop table!

Fancy/Fighting boots - You can now retrieve a pair of fighting or fancy boots from the Cradle of Life at the end of the Stronghold of Security - just a little fun thing I added that also fulfills a medium achievement.



New Brimstone chest rewards

2 new rewards have been added to the Brimstone chest: a luck enhancer (Arzinian) and the perk, Arzinian aimer. The luck enhancer is more potent than the other luck enhancers, boosting the drop rate for an arzinian weapon by 100%! The perk enhances Arzinian weaponry to ensure its special attack will always hit at least half of its max hit. 



More options added to the teleport button

It is now possible to teleport directly to home and donator island using the teleport button below your minimap!

In other news:
- While I work to completely fix pest control portals when it comes to ranging/maging them, a small half-fix has been applied, allowing you to range/mage them initially but you have to constantly run away from melee range. I'll keep looking into this.
- Fixed a bug which made it so you couldn't complete a particular hard Construction achievement.
- Fixed a bug which the Abyssal protector's pet perk did not work correctly.
- Ores received from the Motherlode Mine will now be noted.
- Masori will now work with the Crystalline efficiency perk.
- Added the effect of the bonecrusher necklace.
- The Serenity pet will now pick up Slayer bonus drops.
- Fixed an issue that prevented you from being able to uncharge a dragonfire shield.
- Fixed an issue that disassembled a corrupted Crystal helmet into the wrong pieces.
- Fixed an issue that prevented an Ardougne achievement from being completed if strawberries were planted in the south patch instead of the north.
- Fixed an issue that prevented a master Morytania achievement from being completed.
- You will receive a message upon login that will tell you the current skill for the day.

Today's update brings probably the biggest diary yet (in terms of rewards) - the Construction achievement diary. Kit out your house to the max with the new rewards from this diary!

Construction Achievement Diary



The Construction diary has been added, with new achievements from easy-elite. The main perk from this diary is the Frugal homeowner perk, giving a 5% chance per level to completely save materials needed to build anything. Some individual achievements also has benefits associated with them!

Bagged herbs - Can be used to create a Vine herbs patch in a garden, which you can pick from every 12 hours to receive a random assortment of herbs.



Super combat keg - Can be built in the kitchen to be able to drink from it to receive a divine super combat boost! Even visitors to your house can drink from this keg.



New portal chamber teleports - New portal chambers can be unlocked from one of the achievements; this includes a portal to Dreamland, and each Godwars boss (note that they will take you directly into the boss chamber, so be careful!) The Godwars portals can only be used within your own house, however.



Gregg's eastdoor - a new cosmetic weapon you can wear! 



Gilded rejuvenation pool - The reward for completing all of the Construction achievements, you can create a Gilded rejuvenation pool that has the added effect of overcapping your Prayer when drank from. 



The last reward deserves its own section, however...

Gilded fountain

The main reward for completing all of the achievements up to Hard in the Construction diary is a Gilded fountain. This centrepiece space furniture can be interacted with to open a new interface to toggle passive buffs that require raw materials to activate!







Each buff will cost 2,500 credits to activate for 1 hour - this buff will pause upon logout so you don't have to worry about maximizing your time while the buff is active. However, once credits are added, you cannot pause the timer besides logging out. Hopefully this increases demand for some raw materials as it gives some hefty PvM bonuses!

Donator fountain

Along with this is a new centrepiece item that can be purchased in the Donator Enhancements store, the Donator fountain for 200 Donator points. This fountain can be drank from every 24 hours to receive 5% triple drop rate chance, 5% experience boost, and 2 random buffs for 30 minutes. The random buffs can be:
- 50% increased chance for diamond, ruby, and dragonstone bolts to proc.

- Maul/godsword attack speed will become whip speed.
- Blood spells will heal for 100% of the damage dealt.
- Mining resources will be noted.
- Fishing resources will be noted.
- Woodcutting resources will be noted.
- Coal is not required while smelting.

Those were all I could really think of for the time being, but there will be more in the future.

Smiths outfit



The Smiths outfit has been added to Rasolo's daily point store - granting a 35% Smithing experience boost when the full set is worn!

In other news:
- Added zenyte shards to the tortured gorilla drop table.
- Craw's bow (crystal) should require a normal bowfa now, not a corrupted one.
- Fixed the coordinates for the Crazy Archaeologist and Chaos Fanatic slayer ring teleport.
- Fixed an issue with Venenatis reducing damage when out of a multi area.
- Fixed an issue with a Shooting Star not responding when completely mined.
- Added Rellekka fish stalls to the daily task possibilities.
- Added a Crystal saw to Leenz's skilling point store for 250 points, allowing you to construct materials 3 levels higher.
- Fixed a typo in the Morytania achievement diary for the Super energy potion creating.
- Fixed an issue with players' points resetting when reaching the individual cap in CoX.
- Fixed an issue where the Arzinian Avatar of Magic would stop using its special attack.
- Added a 5 tick delay to using the Revenant cave's entrance/exit to prevent abusing it.
- Ancient shards and dark totem pieces can now be obtained in the Donator dungeon.
- The release all placeholders button should work properly now.
- The carpenter outfit has been added to the Magic wardrobe in your POH.
- Fixed an issue where the Taxidermist would not stuff a Vorkath head.
- Fixed an issue where the 45 def Zerk tournament would give a platelegs that requires 60 def.
- Rewrote some of Kree'arra's push/pull code to stop desync from happening.
- Onyx donators and up can now use the ::bank command instead of having to type ::b instead.

Smaller update this week, but expect 1-2 more updates over the next few days as I add more diaries as we get closer to our achievement shop! 

Runecrafting Achievement Diary

Our newest achievement diary should help out one of the skills many players really...dislike. However, I've given a lot of more fun achievements with this one, that way players have more fun going for these achievements! 



Rewards

New pet - Abyssal protector - Essence pouches will hold 50% more essence when the pet is out. Received from completing all of the Runecrafting achievements.



Colossal pouch - A one inventory space pouch that can hold up to 40 essence. Created using an Abyssal needle from one of the elite achievements with every single pouch in the game.

Ring of the elements - A ring that you can rub (and equip) to teleport to any runic altar in the game. Received upon completion from one of the elite achievements.

Master combiner (perk) - Making combination runes will grant 15% more experience per level (max level 4) and will not require a binding necklace for 100% success rate. Received upon completion from several achievements.

Not so dense (perk) - Chiseling dense essence blocks will give 50% more fragments than usual.

Item Examines



Examining equippable items will now show a new interface to show its stats and any special effects the item might have! Note that I may have missed quite a few item effects, but I will add it as time goes on. I will also add a new interface to access all of the item info that is displayed here in the near future! This should help identify what custom items recipes may craft or are in stores.

Cure Plant

The lunar spell, cure plant has been added! You can cure diseased plants by using this spell on a diseased patch.

Chambers of Xeric and Theatre of Blood CM rewards

Due to Ethereal not having a challenge mode for these raids, the special items received as a reward from OSRS's challenge mode versions of these raids were omitted initially. They are now added! Get a chance at receiving a Twisted ancestral kit from CoX or a Holy ornament kit and Sanguine ornament kit from ToB!

In other news:
- Kyren fish (both cooked and raw) should now be tradeable.
- All elemental tiaras have been added to Bob's Skilling Supplies.
- Rune platebodies and platelegs should now be noted from the enhanced crystal key chest.
- The rejuvenation pool at home should now cure poison regardless of donator rank.
- The release placeholders button in the bank should now work properly.
- You can now autocast ice spells with an ice sickle granted you have previously autocasted a spell with a previous staff (similar to how you can autocast with an Arzinian staff)
- Added a new item, the Seifuku top to the AFK store for 100,000 AFK tokens.
- The Zaryte crossbow special attack should now be able to deal damage without an enchanted bolt.
- Fixed an issue with the Masori recipe cache giving out the actual equipment rather than the recipe.
Aqunyan's contributions:
- Fixed a dialogue issue when trying to withdraw items that would cause message bloat.
- Rewrote some logic with receiving ores so multiple benefits can stack.

Today's update brings probably the most anticipated update since release - presets. Every player will have access to two presets from the start, and each donator rank will receive one additional preset! No worries however - you can change your presets at any time. 

Presets

You'll notice a new button on the top right of the bank interface - you can now access the presets interface this way! 



Clicking it once will access the preset interface, and you can right click this button to quick-load your favorited preset as well. 



This will open up the preset interface, where you will see all the presets you have on the left. You can click on each to access each preset, and right click it to open more options! You can:



Select preset - shows the equipment and inventory of the selected preset, where you can choose to load the preset or save the preset over it.
Load preset - loads the selected preset.
Add to favorites - favorites the selected preset, allowing you quick-load it from the bank interface.
Rename - renames the preset.

Please report any bugs regarding presets which might happen - but otherwise, hope you enjoy the QoL it brings!

New Recipe Interface

This update brings a new interface to our crafting recipes as well! 



This helps give players a more visual representation on the recipe requirements and what you craft out of the recipe. I will be updating this in the near future to be able to examine the item to view its stats/special effects as well, so stay tuned for that! You can now examine recipes in shops as well to view the recipe.



Blowpipe nerf

This is news that many probably would not like to hear, but is very much needed. The blowpipe accuracy and damage has been nerfed from its current extremely buffed state to something between pre-nerf blowpipe and post-nerf OSRS blowpipe. This was needed to bring other Ranged weapons into viability as well as other combat styles.

Runecrafting skilling outfit

The Runecrafting skilling outfit, the Raiments of the Eye, have been added to Rasolo's daily task store! Wearing the entire set will grant a total of 35% bonus Runecrafting experience, with each individual piece granting a small experience boost as well. The colossal pouch will be released when the Runecrafting achievment diary is released sometime later this week.

Arzinian donator rank

Due to the requests of some higher-tier donators, a new rank - the Arzinian donator rank - has been added. This rank is the new $2,500 rank - a rank that I expect very very few (if any) players to achieve and thus does not provide any insane benefits over the previous ranks but still some slight improvements of every aspect over the Ethereal rank. The most notable are these two perks:

Upon reaching the rank, the player will be granted the option to choose 3 items to be recolored and added to the cache.
Upon logging in the server will announce that they have logged in!

In other news:
- The range of the Sanguinesti staff has been increased to match other tridents.
- Fixed some issues with the Kree'arra final orb attack.
- Fixed some issues with being able to eat while getting pushed/pulled off at Kree'arra; there still may be some client desync that happens, which is still under investigation.
- Zaros items and Masori items will now provide protection against all Godwars followers; the Ancient staff will no longer provide this.
- Sergeant Steelwill's magic damage has been nerfed.
- General Graardor and K'ril Tsutsaroth will no longer use their Ranged/Magic attacks respectively when the player is out of range.
- Fixed an issue with disappearing Kyren fish.
- Kyren fish will now be noteable.
- Monsters that previously didn't have drops in the Wilderness GWD will now be able to drop Ecumenical keys.
- Added more hit sounds when the player gets hurt.
- Added the jingle when the player runs out of Prayer.
- You can no longer access the teleport interface while in a pest control game.
- Removed an extra space in the message you receive when receiving an enhanced crystal key.
- Buffed the rate in which you can catch Anglerfish to make it more comparable with sharks.
- Fixed an issue where the Bar Alchemiser perk would prevent the player from smithing.

Quite a big update - if not the biggest one in quite a long time. This update brings a new anticipated endgame boss - Kree'arra (elite) - as well as a new holiday event, the Winter event!

Kree'arra (elite)




Kree'arra (elite) has arrived, boasting some extremely powerful mechanics that will prove to be a challenge! To fight Kree'arra (elite), you will need either 250 Kree'arra killcount or have read an Elite armadyl scroll, which is dropped by Kree'arra at a 1/150 chance and is tradeable. Once these requirements are fulfilled, gather the necessary killcount that you would need to normally access the Kree'arra chamber, right click the door, and choose the Instance option to fight the elite version.

There are many mechanics to trek through, but I won't be giving you much information about them yet! That's for you guys to figure out, and I can assure you that you will be rewarded handsomely! Rewards include:

Masori gear - the new BiS ranged armour set, each piece giving a Ranged strength bonus! They can be crafted via Masori recipes found as a drop from Kree'arra (elite) - each recipe will require level 90 crafting and their respective Armadyl piece, starting at a 20% chance to craft at the base Donator rank.





Zaryte crossbow - previously only usable in PvP tournaments, this crossbow will increase the effectiveness of enchanted bolts by 10% and guarantee a proc with its special attack! The recipe will require level 90 fletching and an Armadyl crossbow and a Vorkath's head per attempt.





Masori's assembler - the new 2nd BiS (only beaten by comp cape) ranged cape, granting the Ava's device effect and provides great stats for its slot.



Left-tipped judgement (perk) - Decreases your accuracy by 20% but increases your damage by 20% in PvM situations.

Right-tipped judgement (perk) - Increases your accuracy by 20% but decreases your damage by 10% in PvM situations.

Hope you guys find the fight fun!

Winter Event

Winter is here, and Ethereal's home area has been revamped to reflect this!



You'll notice that where the Killer previously was now stands a new lost adventurer - Astea Frostweb. She stands for everything snowy and frozen; yet she's lost her magic. Help her by finding snow tokens around Ethereal to purchase some event-exclusive items in her shop! This event acts very similar to the Fall event previously, but with some added benefits!



You can still obtain Snow tokens the same way you did Bat tokens with the last event, but you now also obtain them via:
- Voting
- Pest Control
- Tournaments

Also, whilst slaying monsters and skilling, you may come across a Christmas buff. These provide temporary buffs to your character to kind of distract you and spice up the typical grind! These buffs include:

- 10% experience bonus for 10 minutes
- Double snow tokens gained for 10 minutes
- Noted resources from mining and woodcutting for 10 minutes
- Noted resources from Fishing and food will never be burnt for 10 minutes
- Bars smelted will not require coal for 10 minutes
- 10% chance to deal double damage per hit for the next 5 minutes
- Prayer points will not drain for 5 minutes
- Consumables will heal 10% more hitpoints for 10 minutes

Let's take a look at Astea's shop, shall we?



You'll recognize some familiar items, such as enhanced crystal keys, overloads, and point caches; so let's list the new items.

Ice sickle

The new exclusive recipe for this event creates the new Ice sickle. The ice sickle is a new magic staff that provides infinite water runes when held, and acts as a trident that provides a slightly higher max hit than a toxic trident without requiring resources! Ice spells casted using the staff also have their accuracy and damage increased by 25%. The Sanguinesti staff has been slightly buffed to compensate for this powercreep; magic has been far too underutilized. There are plans for the sickle to change the hit effect of Ice spells as well, so stay tuned!





Christmas aura

Very similar aura to the pumpkin aura - and yes, it stacks. However, rather than a DDR boost and flat damage boost that its predecessor had, this aura reduces damage taken by 10% and provides a 5% chance to deal an extra hit with every hit!

Snowman ring

Yes, it's a recolored easter ring. I'm not that creative, okay? But at least this ring turns you into a snowman!



Once again, I thank all of you players for sticking around with us despite the lower playerbase recently - I hope you all have a great holiday season!

With this, we're starting a donation promotion for the holiday season - every bond purchase $25 and over will grant mystery caches and cosmetic keepsake keys proportionate to the amount donated! Here's a total list:

$25 bond - + 1 mystery cache and 5 cosmetic keepsake keys
$50 bond - + 3 mystery caches and 10 cosmetic keepsake keys
$100 bond - + 7 mystery caches and 25 cosmetic keepsake keys

In other news:
- Cosmetic keepsake keys are now tradeable.
- Fixed an incorrect teleport location for the Crazy Archaeologist via the Slayer ring.
- Fixed an issue where the Trading post would not sort by age correctly, often displaying offers from a long time ago at the top.
- Fixed an issue where cleaning herbs at Zahur would result in incorrect herb amounts.
- Added Zahur to the donator zone to access her more easily.
- Verzik's ball attack now checks if the player is indeed alive before sending the ball towards the player.
- The Batwing bow now shoots a more appropriate bat-themed graphic.
- Crystal axes, harpoons, and pickaxes should now inherit its dragon predecessor's special attacks.
 - Gem rocks in the donor dungeon will no longer deplete.
- Ruby donators and higher can now receive noted gems at a 90% chance from gem rocks.
- You can now make divine bastion and battlemage potions with crystal dust.
- Buffed the dark core pet rate to 1/250.
- Sacred eels should now properly give cooking experience when cut.
- Slightly adjusted mystery cache rates to be more forgiving.
- Kyren fish should now give proper adjusted fishing and cooking experience.
- Shooting stars now last 30 minutes instead of 15.
- The collection log should now properly track gauntlet clears and fight cave clears.