Um ritual site

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Um ritual site
Release						7 August 2023 (Update)
Members						No
Location						City of Um
Teleports						Underworld Grimoire 2 / 3 / 4 City of Um Teleport
Music						Between Life and Death
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The Um ritual site is a facility located within the City of Um. It can first be accessed during the Necromancy! quest and is used to perform rituals.

Achievements

• Underworld achievements
  • Easy
    • Don't Lose Your Focus ( 5) – Deposit a ritual focus object into the focus storage at the City of Um ritual site.
    • Lesser Ritualist ( 5) – Complete a Lesser Necroplasm ritual.
    • I'm Ready to Believe You! ( 5) – Dispel any ritual disturbance while performing a Necromancy ritual.
  • Medium
    • Mourning Ritual ( 10) – Complete a communion ritual using a memento.
    • Glyph it a Try ( 10) – Use any alteration glyph in a ritual.
• City of Um achievements - On Death's Head Be It ( 5) – Catch a deathshead moth.

Gallery

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  Ritual site and Well of Souls colour sketch
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  Ritual site floor concept art
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  Ritual site paintover
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  Glyphs and spots ideas
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  Ritual site alternative designs

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!

• patch 8 April 2024 (Update):
  • A new ritual has manifested in Um to help players gather up Ectoplasm. It's called 'Manifest Ectoplasm', and will require level 95 Necromancy. When completed it will reward 55 Ectoplasm as baseline, perfect for restocking on supplies!

• patch 4 March 2024 (Update):
  • Increased the drop rate of moonstones from ritual disturbances.

• patch 12 February 2024 (Update):
  • Using the Captain's Log with a fixed camera on the ritual site will no longer break the fixed camera.

• patch 18 September 2023 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where occasionally Glyphs may not be recognised for the active ritual.

• patch 11 September 2023 (Update):
  • Ritual components can no longer revert to a locked state.
  • Ritual components no longer randomly lose their durability border colours during rituals.
  • Pathing has been improved for sparkling Glyph and Soul Storm random events.
  • The Ritual Progression bar no longer shows progression as divided by 10 in Legacy Combat Mode.

• patch 4 September 2023 (Update):
  • We will be adjusting Ritual XP rates in the following ways:
    • Ritual Output XP is increased.
    • Random events will have their XP rewards reduced.
    • At levels 60+, XP will be reduced overall by approximately 20%, with Rituals below level 60 affected less than this.

• update 29 August 2023 (Update):
  • The ritual minigame tab now shows the output as affected by any multipliers, such as Multiply Glyphs and the Underworld Grimoire.

• patch 21 August 2023 (Update):
  • Made several improvements to ritual random events:
    • Added smoke clouds when spawning Wandering Soul and Corrupt Glyphs.
    • Added passive audio to Soul Storm and Defile.
    • Added spawn audio to Shambling Horror and Corrupt Glyphs.
    • Added success audio to Shambling Horror, Corrupt Glyphs and Soul Storm.
    • Added audio when the Defile Pool crackles.
    • Increased the brightness of the Wandering Soul and Shambling Horror.
    • Slowed down the speed of the Wandering Soul.
    • Changed the pop-up text when clicking on the Shambling Horror to chatbox only.
    • Tweaked the Shambling Horror so you can continue to guess on ritual components after failing, without having to reclick the Horror.
    • Moved pop-up text from when random events spawn and despawn to appear over the random event, rather than in the middle of the screen.
    • Improved 'funkiness' of forcewalk when completing random events.
  • Depositing All into the focus storage will no longer give an error message.
  • Clicking away from the ritual platform before starting no longer force-walks players back to the platform.
  • The Dragonkin Bones model on the ritual pedestal no longer uses the Rune Dragon Bones model.
  • Teleporting to the ritual site via the Underworld Grimoire, with fixed camera view on, will now show the ritual site correctly.
  • Wandering Souls can be dismissed during Rituals when op'd without the need to re-op.
  • Added messaging that says how much of the focus object is left in the focus storage when used.
  • The materials required to repair a ritual component are now listed in the error message.
  • Added messaging when attempting to Repair All on a component you don't meet the level requirements to repair.
  • The front two ritual light source spots have been moved, to clear a path between the ritual platform and the pedestal. Note that some of your light sources may now be in different places.
  • Unavailable focus objects in the ritual selection interface now use a grey colouring, for higher contrast against the available focus objects.
  • The fixed camera angle for the ritual site has been adjusted to give a better view of the components behind the pedestal.

• patch 14 August 2023 (Update):
  • When hovering over the input items in the ritual selection interface, a tooltip will now display the amount you have in your focus storage, and in your backpack.
  • If you have none of the same focus object left, the highest tier focus object will now be placed on the pedestal after finishing a ritual, rather than the lowest.
  • A new Necromancy gameplay settings option has been added, which will allow ritual output to be sent to the focus storage, rather than the ritual chest.
  • A message is now output in the chatbox when a focus object is used from the focus storage.
  • A message is now output in the chatbox when a focus object is removed from the pedestal.
  • A message is now output in the chatbox when a ritual is completed, detailing the rewards.
  • The spacebar will now consistently work to select a ritual in the ritual selection interface.
  • A message will now appear in the player's chatbox when a ritual disturbance spawns.

• hotfix 9 August 2023 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where some players were blocked from progressing the ritual tutorial by mounds of dust. Affected players are now able to clear the mounds and continue their rituals.
  • Defile event & Necromancer's Tomes of Experience are re-enabled. Tomes now go directly to inventory or on the floor.
  • Tweaked XP gained from Ritual random events.
  • Capped the types of random events that can spawn for T1, T2 and T3 rituals.

• hotfix 8 August 2023 (Update):
  • The Defile ritual disturbance has been temporarily disabled—including the tomes that come from them—due to some unexpected behaviour.
  • Players can no longer place portable skilling stations, challenge gems or light fires on the ritual site.

• update 7 August 2023 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Upon release, the ritual site was a target of heavy griefing that made it difficult for players to use. As a result, many obstructive actions like resting or dropping items on the platform can no longer be done.