6/20/2023: Pest Drone, Wilderness achievements, more!

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Hey Etherealians,

Today's update brings a new boss - The Pest Drone - as well as a new achievement diary geared towards the Wilderness! These bring some nice upgrades for players hitting the midgame to upgrade their void equipment to become even stronger; increasing its damage output and tankiness. The achievement diary also has some nice rewards for players who complete it!

The Pest Drone

Within the depths of the Void Knight's Outpost, where the battle against the malevolent void pests rages on, an ancient relic of immense power has been discovered. Hidden for eons beneath the Outpost's foundations, this relic was infused with an otherworldly energy, drawing upon the raw essence of pestilence itself.
Unbeknownst to the valiant defenders, this relic underwent a dark transformation. In a cataclysmic event, the relic fused with the shattered remains of countless void pests, absorbing their essence and knowledge. From this unholy union emerged the Pest Drone—a colossal, sentient abomination now seeking to assert its dominance over the Void Knight's Outpost.
Prepare yourselves, brave adventurers, for the Pest Drone is a threat that demands our utmost vigilance. Rally your allies, hone your skills, and stand united against this abomination born of pestilence and darkness. The fate of the Void Knight's Outpost—and indeed, all of Gielinor—hangs in the balance.

The Pest drone will spawn every 4 hours, in which a portal to enter the arena will spawn at Void Knights' Outpost near the bank. Like other world bosses, contributing players only need to deal at least 1 damage to be eligible for full loot. The fight is geared to be easy, but players will still have to work together to kill it in a timely manner! 

In addition to guaranteed Pest Control points and a chance for Void Knight equipment, the notable drop from the Pest Drone is the new Gilded void patch - these can be attached to the Void knight gloves, Void helmets, and Elite void robes to increase their stats. Additionally, when the full gilded void set is equipped their damage and accuracy boosting effects are increased by 50% from their Elite version.







Wilderness Achievement Diary



The Wilderness achievement diary has been added, bringing some new achievements to grind for some nice rewards! Notable rewards for completing each set of achievements include:

Easy: All webs will now be guaranteed to be successfully cut with a sharp weapon and the Wilderness resource area will be free to enter.

Medium: Ecumenical key drop rates will be twice as common and you can hold up to 5 instead of 3.

Hard: You will now have the ability to set your destination when using Wilderness obelisks and player kills will reward 25% more blood money.

Elite: Dark fishing bait is no longer required to fish dark crabs and unique Wilderness-based Slayer drops will be 20% more common.

Wilderness swords - specifically the 3rd and 4th tiers will have a teleport option to the Fountain of Rune.

Finishing all the achievements will grant an Imbued zaros cape recipe and Pet greater demon! The pet greater demon has a passive event of increasing damage and accuracy by 10% against demons.





There's also individual perks that can be awarded from certain achievements!

Wild Duplication - Grants a 5% chance per level to double loot from Larran's chest, the wilderness slayer drop table, and Wilderness reward caskets.

Wilderness Resourcefulness - You will receive 20% bonus experience within the Wilderness.

Revenant Relinquisher - Acts as a Bracelet of ethereum in terms of Revenant protection, and increases damage and accuracy by 10% against Revenants.

Theatre of Blood Additions

The Theatre of Blood now has a collection log reward associated with it! Unfortunately we are currently unable to provide rewards retroactively, so we've decided to make the reward from it more lucrative! Presenting the Ghrazi polearm - a mixture between the Sentinel polearm and Ghrazi rapier, craftable by the recipe received from completing the log. To get the Sinhaza shrouds required to finish the log, speak with the Mysterious stranger outside to receive a cape for the following killcounts: 10, 25, 50, 100, and 250.





The Ghrazi polearm loses the benefits of increased damage against Desert monsters, but has added stats as well as a new passive effect: a 10% chance to drain 10% of your current hitpoints to deal 30% extra damage and accuracy for the hit.

QoL Features

Some QoL features have been added, such as some interfaces being revamped!





You can also use Sanguine dust on Lil' Zik now to give it the ability to metamorphosis! These new pets retain her pet effect as well.



You can now right click the home teleport in your spellbook to access the teleport interface.



Changed some healing effects to show a healing hitsplat, but note that this does not apply to everything yet!

In other news:
- The Fountain of Rune now provides unlimited runes while in its vicinity. However, due to some client issues the spells will not light up - but you can still use them.
- It is now no longer possible to complete the Gauntlet with 0% reward efficiency - you will be given a minimum of 1%.
- Fixed an issue that prevented a player from creating Sinew in a range.
- Increased the speed in which you create orbs.
- Temporarily removed bonds from the Golden ticket store as we re-evaluate receiving bonds ingame.
- Added cosmetic override keys to Rasolo's Weekly Task store.
- Fixed a bug that prevented some double-hitting Achievement relics from working properly.
- Fixed a bug that awarded the wrong amount of Achievement points for the Revenant shortcut agility achievement.
- Fixed a text error that incorrectly showed how many golden tickets are left.
- Added dagon'hai equipment to Larran's chest.
- Significantly increased the amount of gold granted by exchanging Ancient relics with the emblem trader.
- Changed the free donator days from the first 3 days since making the account to 3 days of playtime instead.
- Removed the jailer random event because it was causing issues for new players.
- Increased the chance for Bandos equipment and Armadyl equipment from mystery caches from very rare to just rare.
- Added Ancestral equipment to the very rare drop table of mystery caches.
- Death chest is now free - the area where the death's coffer is will be reworked soon.
- Fixed an issue that would cause a Slayer task to null if a repeat task is chosen after the player had logged out since receiving their last task.
- Deathtouched darts will no longer count for a player's personal best. We will be working on removing dtd timed kills shortly.