Awesome April

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Awesome April
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Release date								12 April 2021 (Update)
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Awesome April is a series of events that take place over the course of April and May 2021. All events start on Monday after the game update and last until the game update on the next Monday. Unlike the Grand Party this is not limited to just the Lumbridge Crater and as such the activities there have not returned.

Events

Easter event

29 March–11 April

Spring festival event.

Skilling week

12 April–19 April

Players get 50% increased experience in all gathering skills:

• Archaeology
• Divination
• Farming
• Fishing
• Mining
• Hunting
• Woodcutting

Players also get a 50% bonus to precision while working on Archaeology.

Ironmen do not benefit from any bonuses.

Combat week

19 April–26 April

• No reclaim costs on death
• No ring of death charges lost on death
• Increased luck on the rare drop table
• 50% chronotes discount for harnessing relic powers
• 50% Invention drain rate
• Double Reaper and Slayer points (it includes extra Slayer points for 10th and 50th tasks but does not for 10th and 50th Reaper task streaks)
• Double experience in Attack, Constitution, Defence, Magic, Prayer (cleansing crystals included; gilded altar, ectofuntus and chaos altar excluded), Ranged, Slayer, and Strength (ironmen excluded)
• Two Elder Overload Golems in War's Retreat, giving an hour of elder overload potion effect upon being successfully attacked (ironmen excluded)

Dailies & Distractions & Diversions week

26 April–3 May

• Player-owned port boosts:
  • 10 extra voyages per day
  • 30% more resources and trade goods
  • Barmaid's Tip voyage available throughout the weekend in addition to Thursday
• Double vis wax from Rune Goldberg Machine
• Daily challenges extended automatically for free
• Extra Distractions and Diversions rewards:
  • Killing Bork for the first time of the day doesn't count as the daily kill
  • Lighting the pyre in Phoenix Lair for the first time of the day doesn't count as the daily lighting
  • Entering Sinkholes treasure room for the first time of the day doesn't count towards the daily cap of two enterings
  • Participating in Big Chinchompa for the first time of the day doesn't count towards the daily cap of two participations
  • Up to three Fish Flingers tickets may be obtained from fishermen per day, up to a total cap of ten
  • Interacting with Evil Trees for the first time of the day doesn't count towards the daily cap of two interactions
  • The first 100 points from Guthixian Cache don't count towards the daily cap of 200
• Player-owned farm bonuses:
  • Animals grow twice as fast
  • Baby spawn chance triggers twice as often
  • Beans multiplier increased by 1 when selling animals
  • Animal buyers' maximum numbers of bought animals per visit increased by the base amount
  • Animals don't become diseased
  • Animals consume half as much food
  • Double produce for each animal
  • Adam Antite gives double the animals
• Double shop stock:
  • Feathers from fishing shops stocking them, Gift Shop, Survival Shop, and Ava's Odds and Ends
  • Jug of water packs from the Shantay Pass Shop, Beefy Bill's Supplies, and The Lighthouse Store
  • Yak-hides and yak-hide packs from Contraband Yak Produce
  • Broad arrows, broad arrowheads, unfinished broad bolts, and slayer gem packs from Slayer Equipment and Slayer Equipment (Burthorpe)
  • Plant pot packs from all Farming shops stocking them
  • All runes from all rune shops
  • Erzille, ugune, argway, shengo and samaden seeds from Papa Mambo's Shop
  • Raw rabbit packs, raw beef packs, raw bird meat packs, raw rabbit, raw beef, and raw bird meat from Fresh Meat
  • All stock from the Anachronia Gem Shop

Transcript

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• hotfix 4 May 2021 (Update):
  • New players will no longer receive log in messages about automatic daily challenge extensions while in tutorials.
  • Escaping Bork early with a free play will no longer cost the daily play as well.
  • Both Ironmen and regular players will now be able to interact with their allotted number of Evil Trees each day.

• update 26 April 2021 (Update):
  • Combat weeks end and Dailies & Distractions & Diversions Week begins
  • The third week of Awesome April is about three things: Dailies, Distractions and Diversions! Here's what you can look forward to:
    • Player owned ports boosts
      • Set sail for fun with an extra 10 voyages a day, adding up to a total of 25! On top of that, voyages will also return 30% more resources or trade goods, except in cases where the reward is random or unspecified. You'll still get the same amount of XP as you normally would from this activity.
      • Lastly, The Barmaid's special voyage will be available throughout the weekend as well as on Thursday.
      • This boost is available to Ironman accounts.
    • Double daily vis wax
      • Your daily use of the Rune Goldberg machine will provide double the amount of Vis Wax, to a maximum of 200 units.
      • This boost is available to Ironman accounts.
    • Free daily challenge extensions
      • During the event, all Daily Challenges will automatically be extended for free! This includes Challenges that you've re-rerolled.
      • You won't be able to extend the Challenges beyond this point.
      • This boost is available to Ironman accounts.
    • Extra D&D rewards and tickets
      • Several Distractions & Diversions have various extras this week. You may now:
        • Fight Bork twice a day
        • Enter the Phoenix Lair twice a day
        • Explore Sinkholes three times a day
        • Play Big Chinchompa three times a day
        • Get up to three Fish Flingers tickets per day, to a cap of 10 tickets
        • Fight up to three Evil Trees a day
        • Plus, the daily Guthixian Cache points cap is now 300
      • These boosts are not available to Ironman accounts.
    • Player owned farm bonuses
      • For the whole week, timers on the Player Owned Farm will be running twice as quickly - so animals will grow twice as fast and the baby spawn chance will trigger twice as often!
      • You'll also get the following bonuses:
        • Double Beans
        • Increased animal sale cap
        • Healthy animals cannot become diseased
        • Animals will consume half as much food
        • Double produce for each animal
        • Trapper awards double the animals
      • These bonuses are all available to Ironman Accounts.
    • Double shop stock
      • Feathers and feather packs from all Fishing shops, Frawd's Gift Shop, the Survival Shop, and Ava
      • Jug of water packs from the Shantay Pass Shop, Beefy Bill, and the Lighthouse
      • Yak-hides and Yak-hide packs from Contraband Yak Produce
      • Broad arrows, broad arrowheads, unfinished broad bolts, and slayer gem packs from all Slayer shops
      • Plant pot packs from all Farming shops
      • All runes from all rune shops
      • Erzille, Ugune, Argway, Shengo and Samaden seeds from Papa Mambo's Shop
      • Raw rabbit packs, raw beef packs, raw bird meat packs, raw rabbit, raw beef, and raw bird meat from Fresh Meat
      • All stock from the Anachronia Gem Shop

• update 19 April 2021 (Update):
  • Combat week begins and skilling week ends.
  • Players with normal accounts will get all the same buffs and boosts they enjoyed the first time around, along with a few new additions including:
    • No reclaim costs on death
    • No Ring of Death charges lost on death
    • Increased luck on the Rare Drop Table
    • Reduced cost of swapping Archaeology relics
    • Reduced Invention drain rate
    • Double Reaper Points
    • Double Slayer Points
    • Double Combat and Slayer XP (Not available to Ironman accounts)
  • In addition, for non-Ironman accounts, the Elder Overload golems have taken up residence in War's Retreat. Defeat them in glorious battle (by giving them a very light tap on the head) and you'll get an hour-long Elder Overload buff.

• update 12 April 2021 (Update):
  • Awesome April kicks off with Skilling Week. From From April 12th to midnight on April 19th, regular accounts (not Ironman accounts) will get 50% increased XP in all gathering skills, including:
    • Divination
    • Farming
    • Fishing
    • Mining
    • Hunting [sic]
    • Woodcutting
    • Archaeology (Screening and excavating only)
      • You'll also get a nice 50% bonus to precision while working on Archaeology.