Hidden updates

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Hidden updates are updates which are not mentioned in the RuneScape news or the official forums. Jagex used to add many small updates and bug fixes which were too trivial to announce; they now include most of their updates in the Patch Notes sticky of the Recent Updates forum. However, there are still some updates which are not included in the Patch Notes for various reasons. Hidden updates that occur separately from major updates can sometimes also be recognised due to the build changing, which can be found in the Developer's Console.

This page lists hidden updates for 2020.

August

• 3 August
  • Game servers have had their maximum player count reduced to 1500, from 2000.

July

• 27 July
  • Hidden blocking of various tiles around the anachronia base camp have been removed.
• 20 July
  • Ice cream can no longer be traded.
  • Flickering Effects has been removed from the Graphics Settings.
• 15 July
  • The option to randomise the prize pool is changed to upgrading the prize probabilities in the Diamond Dozen Treasure Hunter promotion.
  • Prizes are no longer doubled in the Diamond Dozen Treasure Hunter promotion.
• 13 July
  • Trouble Brewing games sometimes start on the Trouble Brewing–themed world even without the normally required number of players in teams.
• 6 July
  • The Magic skill guide now states that the Divine Storm spell requires it to be casted 100 times in the Mage Arena.
  • Monster Examine spell icon has been updated.
• 1 July
  • The option to randomise the prize pool is added in the Diamond Dozen Treasure Hunter promotion.
  • Some prizes are doubled when obtained in the Diamond Dozen Treasure Hunter promotion.

June

• 29 June
  • Sign in with Apple is now supported on macOS devices and some PCs. (Patch notes only state iOS devices are supported)
• 1 June
  • Fixed an issue where the World Map dungeon and map links were not functioning when selected.

May

• 11 May
  • Players can once again buy lamps and stars without a maximum limit in the Oddments Store.
• 7 May
  • Oddments Store has been updated so that players can only buy lamps or stars ten times during one day. Both items have separate counters.

April

• 10 April
  • Guide Prices for the tradeable Invention bluprints have been manually decreased. The affected items include 'Ancient gizmos' blueprint, 'Ancient tools' blueprint, and 'XP Capacitor' blueprint.
• 9 April
  • Guide Prices for some Archaeology-related items have been manually increased. The affected items include 'Ancient gizmos' blueprint, 'Ancient tools' blueprint, 'XP Capacitor' blueprint, Abyssal Block scroll, aetherium alloy, ancient vis, animal furs, Archaeology teleport, Armadylean yellow, binding contract (abyssal demon), binding contract (blood reaver), binding contract (gargoyle), binding contract (hellhound), binding contract (kal'gerion demon), binding contract (ripper demon), binding contract (waterfiend), Blood of Orcus, Blood Siphon scroll, cadmium red, chaotic brimstone, cobalt blue, Crit-i-Kal scroll, Death From Above scroll, demonhide, dragon mattock, earthen clay, Everlight silvthril, Eye of Dagon, fossilised bone, goldrune, Hammer Rock scroll, hellfire metal, imperial steel, inquisitor staff, keramos, large crate (classic components), large crate (historic components), large crate (timeworn components), large crate (vintage components), leather scraps, malachite green, Mark of the Kyzaj, orthenglass, quintessence, samite silk, small crate (classic components), small crate (historic components), small crate (timeworn components), small crate (vintage components), soapstone, Soul Food scroll, Star of Saradomin, Stormguard steel, Straight Flush scroll, Third Age iron, tyrian purple, vellum, vulcanised rubber, warforged bronze, white marble, white oak, Wings of War, XP Capacitor 5000 (Charged), Yu'biusk clay, and Zarosian insignia.
• 7 April
  • Ground textures at the Clan Camp and Falador Farm have been updated.
  • Players can now renew an ancient familiar's timer by sacrificing a binding contract, just as they would with a pouch for a normal summoning familiar.

March

• 30 March
  • A tile of blocking has been removed that prevented players to walk behind the Treasure Trails Reward Shop.
  • Life points, prayer points, and summoning points bar has been updated using gradient colours.
  • The Lodestone Network, gnome glider and wisp colonies interface maps have been updated.
  • Eliza and Alpheus have been graphically updated.
  • Ground textures have been updated in areas surrounding the dig sites, including north-east Varrock, Varrock Palace, Jolly Boar Inn, Sawmill, Hemenster, Ranging Guild, Legend's Guild, Sorcerer's Tower, South Feldip Hills, and Ice Mountain.
  • Icyene graveyard can now be accessed without starting River of Blood by using Agility shortcut from the Everlight dig site.
  • Some of the Jack of trades auras' message colours have changed from white to green: the messages triggered when gaining experience in a new skill and the numbers when checking the aura time remaining.
  • Some item names were changed to reflect different capitalizations, such as many summoning scrolls, IOU, the Pickaxe of Earth and Song, and the four lower tier of luck rings. "Candle" was also renamed to white candle, and the lit versions of candles had their status moved to parentheticals.
• 23 March
  • Bug fixed that occasionally allowed players to click through their active social interface tabs.
  • Sack of duck food and duck food have been added to game. Both can be found south of Falador Park.
• 18 March
  • Associate Reiniger has been graphically updated.
  • Professor Tony has been updated into Guildmaster Tony and received new graphics.
  • The mysterious monolith and its surroundings have been updated.
  • Various pieces of dialogue started appearing as part of Archaeology teasers.
• 10 March
  • Oddments Store has been updated to receive Oddments Sales with randomised discounts for Treasure Hunter keys, prismatic medium fallen stars, and medium prismatic lamps resetting at each midnight and server restart.
• 2 March
  • Defence animations have been removed from most bosses. This was mentioned before release, but was not noted in newsposts or patch notes.
  • Fastest kill times for Solak have been cleared. This was mentioned before release, but was not noted in newsposts or patch notes.
  • Tess examine text now shows highest enraged reached. This was mentioned before release, but was not noted in newsposts or patch notes.
  • A collection of tiles that prevented familiar movement have been removed behind Nature Grotto.

February

• 28 February
  • The dinosaurs' aggression in Big Game Hunter is shown with bars above the dinosaurs and a tooltip above the player. The tooltip shows the highest current aggression.
  • Several teleports will now use the active teleport animation override instead of the default teleport animation.
  • Using the Teleport to Lodestone option in the minigames tab will now correctly use Quick teleport when Quick teleport is toggled on.
• 25 February
  • Amateur Archaeologists, budding archaeologists, Elven Archaeologist, researchers, and wannabe archaeologists have appeared around various lodestones.
• 24 February
  • The Pet Shop accessible in Taverley and Yanille has its stock of flies reduced from 1,000 to 200.
• 18 February
  • The Hunter and Woodcutting elite skilling outfits are reclaimable by talking to Diango.
• 17 February
  • The Hunter and Woodcutting elite skilling outfits aren't reclaimable from Diango's Item Retrieval.
• 13 February
  • Prismatic medium fallen stars and cinder cores have been discounted by 66% in Oddments Store until the end of 17 February.
• 5 February
  • A number of items have had their Grand Exchange prices adjusted. In addition, common green frog (unchecked), green salamander (unchecked), powerburst of sorcery (1), powerburst of sorcery (2), powerburst of sorcery (3), and spicati apoterrasaur (unchecked) have had their prices updated even though they were not listed.

January

• 27 January
  • Rhodri Dail, Rhobert Dail (herbs) and Bob Barter (herbs) can now decant flasks. The right-click option "decant" is changed to result in normal dialogue options, "decant-X" has been removed, and the "info-herbs" option is removed for Rhobert Dail and Rhodri Dail.
• 4 January
  • 19th Anniversary celebrations are active.

See also

• Unannounced phenomena