Mining & Smithing 110 Launching Today! - This Week In RuneScape - News - RuneScape - RuneScape (2024)

Skills have always been the backbone of the RuneScape experience. They guide the adventures you undertake, the challenges you master, and how you interact with the world of Gielinor.

Back in the day, 99s were a distant dream, but nearly 25 years of content updates bringing bonuses, faster training methods and events have made them more achievable than they once were. Today, we're bringing two iconic skills up to the lofty heights of level 110: Mining and Smithing.

This is just the first volley in our plan to raise the level cap of all skills to 110 as part of future skilling updates - so stay tuned for more!

Today you'll be able to dive in and start mining new ores in Daemonheim in order to create Primal Equipment. You might also like to set aside some time to craft a new T100 Masterwork Sword and an accompanying T100 Augmentable Pickaxe! These new tools are sure to improve your Mining and Smithing experience as you start training once more.

Check out our recent blog and the patch notes below for more information on today's launch!

RuneScape Ahead is just around the corner! Be sure to catch the 10 minute video premiere and share in the moment alongside your fellow 'Scapers on August 15th at 17:00 BST at YouTube.com/RuneScape.

In case you haven't heard, Runescape Ahead is a brand new show where we'll take you inside our future plans for RuneScape. In this first edition of the show, we'll be revealing our Content Roadmap up to mid-2025 - and even a little beyond too.

Check out our recent blog to learn more!

13th August - RuneSkill & Chat

Join Mod Yuey as he chats with Mod Breezy, Mod Stu & Mod Mickey as the chat about the Mining and Smithing Update! Check them out on the official Twitch channel from 16:00 Game Time!

16th August - RuneScape Ahead Expanded

While all the main announcements for future RuneScape content will be in RuneScape Ahead, we're hopping online the next day for an extended discussion in our livestream show - RuneScape Ahead Expanded!

During the show, we'll be hosting panel style discussions about the future of RuneScape - from Combat to Skilling to Lore - while offering a few new details on our intentions or plans for the content revealed during RuneScape Ahead. We'll also be answering your questions live from the chat to answer what's most important to you.

Join us on August 16th at 16:00 BST at Twitch.TV/RuneScape. We hope to see you there!

Mining

• Light animica rocks at the core Mining site in the Kharidian Desert are now sandy brown rather than dark grey.
• Corrected a minor inconsistency in Bane and Elder Rune pickaxe penetration.

Tier	Old Penetration	New Penetration
Bane	185	180
Elder Rune	235	225

• Corrected a minor inconsistency in Banite and Elder Runite mining rock hardness.

Rocks	Old Hardness	New Hardness
Banite	185	180
Elder Runite	235	225

• Depositing an item into an ore box of insufficient level now gives more specific information about why the item couldn't be deposited.
• Primal Stone Spirits have been added to the following loot tables:

Dev note: Primal Stone Spirits have been added to the above tables with the intention of keeping them somewhat steady in supply compared to other Stone Spirits. For this reason you may see them drop in lower quantities and at lower frequencies than you'd expect. As this is a new update, prices will adjust accordingly over time. We have not intended this as a buff or nerf to any particular loot table, and will keep an eye on data and feedback as time passes.

Smithing

• The Smithing interface now has a make-x quantity slider to allow creation of multiple projects of the same type without reopening the interface!
• Items created in stacks in the Smelting and Smithing interfaces now suffix their stack size to the project item name.
• Fixed a live Make-X bug where ingredients from multiple sources were cycling their item icons even if the recipe multi had an override object.
• The Metal Bank interface viewable from your Bank or Ore Box now has a scroll bar to accommodate additional core ores.
• Armour Spikes:
• All variants of Armour Spikes are now tradeable with a Grand Exchange buy limit of 10,000.
• Armour Spikes will require the Smithing level to create them in order to be used.
• The Smithing requirement for Abyssal Armour Spikes has been corrected from 1 to 99.
• The proc chance of Abyssal Armour Spikes' secondary effect has increased from 25% to 100%.
• The buy limit of Abyssal Flesh on the Grand Exchange has been increased from 500 to 5,000.

Quests

• The Family Crest quest is no longer required to store Silver and Gold in the Ore Box and Metal Bank. The quest still unlocks the Smelting Gauntlets.
• During Defender of Varrock, you can now interact with the sacred forge to use Blurite Ore on it and to start the cutscene.

Graphical

• Camdozaal has been graphically updated. Made some slight adjustments to the start of the sacred forge cutscene to accommodate.
• Added a World Map link to the entrance and exit of Camdozaal.
• Resource dungeons now have an exit animation to match their enter animation.

Audio

• Seagulls at Daemonheim no longer sound like crows. Cor!

Combat

• Fixed an issue where switching between different Essence of Finality abilities caused both special effects to trigger.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Soulfire special attack not being reset if the special procs alongside Greater Chain.

General

• From now on the Giant Ent familiar should affect the yield of Cactus Spines and Cactus Potatoes.
• Hiding invention cogs no longer unsheathes weapons when equipping new armour.
• The hide cogs toggle now works on the Crystal Pickaxe Mining animation.
• Updated the reward track to not minimize during certain Treasure Hunter promotions.
• Fixed an opacity issue with the Time Clone version of the Kerry pet.
• My Arm's herb patch will now correctly tell you which seed is planted when inspected. The Scroll of Life will now also work with this patch.
• Fixed an issue where augmented Necromancy Lanterns would look rigid in combat.
• Fixed an issue where augmented items wouldn't appear sheathed with cogs turned off.

Starts August 13th | Ends August 14th | Loot Rooms

Do you take your chance with a Rainbow Chest? Or want something spicier like a Phoenix Chest? When a chest is selected, a copy is placed into the Loot Room. Once the Loot Room is full you can open all those chests for free!

Starts August 15th | Ends August 16th | Potion Pandemonium

Gather potions and use them to complete collections! Get your hands on the Arcane Apprentice Outfit which comes with a stylish hat and sunglasses and the Arcane Apprentice Umbrella!

Starts August 17th | Ends August 19th | Vault of Riches

The Vault of Riches is overflowing once more... Another chance to get your hands on the new Emerald, Ruby, Diamond and Gold Top Hat!

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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:

• Hosted By: Lady Spyra, Adebisi, and Fast SC
• Date/Time: Saturday August 17th, 16:00 Gametime
• Location: Stealing Creation Lobby
• World: 99
• FC: Fast SC

• Hosted By: Discord Mentors
• Date/Time: Sunday August 18th, 19:15 Gametime
• Location: Ardougne Zoo
• World: 60
• FC: Ahelp

• Hosted By: M e r c y & Dung Titan
• Date/Time: Saturday August 17th, 13:00 Gametime
• Location: Rex Matriarch Lobby
• World: 35
• FC: Dung Titan

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!

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RuneHQ

Check out these events RuneHQ will be hosting on world 88 this week, remember to join the FC "EventHQ" aswell.

• Tuesday, August 13th - 23:59 (Gametime) - Tues-Di-Straction Stream. Come join on the Stream.
• Saturday, August 17th - 18:00 (Gametime)- General Graardor (hardmode)
• Sunday, August 18th - 18:00 (Gametime) - Kalphite King