Patch Notes (7 October 2009)

These official Patch Notes are copied verbatim from this forum thread of the RuneScape forums. It is copyrighted by Jagex.
These Patch Notes were announced on 7 October 2009.

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

Game Engine

• Stopped NPCs dancing with each other.
• Prevented being able to add your previous display name to your Friends/Ignore Lists.
• All interfaces in an older custom file format have been converted to the newer format.

Graphical

• Improved farmers’ animations with rakes and spades to be smoother.
• Adjusted the black smoke on Ape Atoll.
• Improved the smoke from the chimney of the house in Vinesweeper.
• Fixed a render issue with a bench while NPCs are sat on it.
• Fixed an issue with the prince tunic whilst resting.
• Stopped the ringmaster top causing you to look odd when resting.
• Fixed the lighting in the dungeon under the Karamja volcano.
• Fixed some lighting issues in Morytania.
• Adjusted some incorrectly coloured fog in various places.
• Removed a wooden support that clipped with a chest.
• Adjusted the priority of Firemaking animations.
• Tweaked some scenery in the Brimhaven Agility Arena to work better with the fog.
• Graphically fixed the sides of Varrock’s west bank.
• Fixed some height mapping at the fishing shop in Catherby.
• Fixed some height mapping issues around Varrock that were affecting the walls.
• Fixed some height mapping in Port Sarim near the docks.
• Updated the model for tree spirits.
• Updated the skull of a skeleton to match the rest of its, er, body.
• Fixed shadows on the Barbarian Agility Course log balance.
• The fixed device now uses more recent human animations.
• Put some moss back on Aggie's house in Draynor in High Detail.
• Stopped lava looking grey near the entrance to Ourania Altar.
• Black Knights' swords no longer look white.
• Ensured a chest opens to the correct and matching version.
• Added animations for lily pads.
• Fish hats no longer disappear when playing the cowbells.
• Improved the minimap for Al Kharid to actually show all of the walls.
• Fixed the agility log between Seers' Village and the coal trucks.
• Fixed the colours of the Corporeal Beast's animations in Standard Detail.
• The Lumbridge cook has had his model updated.
• Fixed the inventory icon for various magic staves.
• Fixed some clipping issues with some of the newer male hairstyles.
• Reduced clipping on the Ectofuntus.
• Improved the lighting near the fire obelisk.
• Modified the look of the gas mask on female characters.
• Improved the graphics for trees that are on fire.
• Slowed the animation speed of the flags in Falador.
• Fixed a gap between some steps.
• Improved falcon animations.
• Re-textured the edge of the Clan Wars area.
• Fixed a render issue in A Tail of Two Cats.
• Stopped most wielded items appearing outside the crate used in Merlin's Crystal.
• Prevent walls in the Digsite dungeon area from flashing when rotating your camera around.
• Removed some curtains from the outside of a window.
• Better matched King Roald's crown to his chathead.
• Moved a tree to stop it growing into the roof of a house.
• Cows and calves have a death animation once more.

Audio

• Adjusted the sound effects for a couple of wooden doors.
• Matched the timing of defend sounds with their animations.
• The music system now randomly selects a song when entering an area from a list of similarly themed groups.
• Added various sounds to the final cutscene in As a First Resort.
• The Doomsayer has been given a few more sound effects.
• Improved the sound effects in Another Slice of HAM and My Arm's Big Adventure.
• Revised and updated the song "Rising Damp".
• The “Attack 5” song has been slightly adjusted.

Minigames

• Restored various interface stones after the Mobilising Armies tutorial.
• You can now store Mobilising Armies clothing in your POH.
• Removed a door from the fencing in the Vinesweeper minigame.
• Added a few messages from the Fishing Trawler to the spam filter.
• Prevented emotes in all areas of the Duel Arena and Tournaments.

Miscellaneous

• Items dropped near a spirit tree should no longer float.
• Given a farmer in Draynor a combat level.
• Increased the stock of monkey nut and bars.
• Added some messages to the spam system.
• Clarified the messages you can receive when a dragon breathes on you.
• Fixed a typo in a book.
• Stopped players being put in a blocked location after the gravedigger random event.
• Removed the mine cart tickets as they're no longer needed.
• Ensured all weapons and shields are removed before taking a carpet ride.
• Improved the clickable area of kalphite soldiers.
• Fred the farmer will no longer talk about Lumbridge jobs.
• Swapped a door around so you don't have to close it to continue on your journey.
• Patched various gaps of missing overlay and underlay around the world.
• Falador wall posts can no longer be walked through.
• Prevented menaphite thugs half disappearing in certain circumstances.
• Removed members’ ops from the TzHaar cave entrance.
• Put the correct map icon back for the tanner in Varrock.
• Prevented standing on the pools in Oo'glog.
• Corrected a typo in the Legacy of Seergaze quest.
• Rewritten several pieces of code to conform to newer methods and standards.
• Resolved a few grammatical issues with the sawmill chat.
• Fixed the camera angles for certain carpet rides.
• Stopped the Wilderness overlay disappearing in some circumstances.
• Updated the code to give you a lantern in Lunar Diplomacy if your inventory was full.
• Players can no longer stand on a tile of water in Burgh de Rott.
• Ensure pets are still present and reappear after random events.
• Modified the walls in Dorgesh-Kaan so a narrow corridor can now be traversed.
• Fixed a bug with logging in to the mole hole and the lighting associated with it.
• The Lumbridge windmill has an icon on the world map again.
• The makeover mage no longer charges you if there hasn't been a swap.
• Fixed a message from the lunar spell when curing others.
• Rotated the Lumbridge weather vane to actually point north!
• Improved the logic dealing with the value of items you can store in a familiar's inventory.
• You should be able to mine creatures you kill in the living rock caverns even if you lose connection.
• Increased the size of the orrery in your POH to its former glory.
• Smoothed out some mapping in Mort Myre swamp.
• Ensured various bridges appear on the minimap correctly.
• Adjusted some dialogue to check your gender first.
• Prevented an error from occurring in very rare circumstances while using Quick Chat.
• Improved the code handling of the last name entered for the Clan Chat feature.
• You'll get a more informative messages if trying to use Clan Chat while not in a Clan Chat channel.
• Properly aligned unranked and ranked names on the Clan Chat interface.
• Fixed a problem where the Clan Chat window would cut off three digit words instead of showing them.
• Fixed a bug when casting the lunar spell Humidify.

Missed off the original list

• Added a curtsey emote for females, right click on the bow emote for more info.
• Added a 30 second cooldown on special attack restore potions.