Winter Weekends (2015)

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Winter Weekends (2015)
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Release date								4 December 2015 (Update)
End date								11 January 2016 (Update)
Rewards								See below
Preceded by								Winter Weekends (2014)
Succeeded by								Winter Weekends (2016)

Winter Weekends are a series of events that took place over weekends in December 2015 and January 2016. All events started at 12:00 GMT on Friday and finished at 12:00 GMT on Monday.

Events

Weekend 1: Dungeoneering

4-7 December 2015

• Double tokens from regular Dungeoneering and Sinkholes.
  • Dungeoneering Wildcards do not stack with the weekend effect.
• Base Sinkholes lamp XP increased by 50%.

Weekend 2: Bossing and Slayer

11-14 December 2015

• Improved drops from the following bosses: Kalphite King, and Giant Mole.
• Increased chance of rare drops and enhanced ring of Wealth.
• Charm drops give one more charm than normal.
• 50% increased base slayer experience.
• Double points from regular and group slayer assignments.
• Over the period of the weekend, all assigned Slayer tasks are treated as using a Slayer VIP ticket.
• 10% cheaper instance fees.
• Extra training points from Boss Training.

Weekend 3: Minigames

18-21 December 2015

• +1 Castle Wars gold ticket per game.
• Extra 600 daily bonus points in Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza.
• Double points from Pest Control/Conquest.
• Double Bonus XP and gamble rewards in Barbarian Assault.
• Bosses killed in Dominion Tower count as two for the purposes of reward unlocks.
• Double produce points at Livid Farm.
• Double points from Stealing Creation.
• Double zeal from Soul Wars.
• Extra points and +1 medals from Fish Flingers.

Weekend 4: Skilling

25-28 December 2015

• Double XP and reputation at Artisans' Workshop.
• Increased node spawns and double reward points at Runespan.
• Double chance for gold relic, sceptre and Black Ibis drops at Pyramid Plunder.
• Enriched divination nodes spawn every 10 minutes.
• Fishing spots stay in place twice as long.
• Divination wisps last twice as long.
• Mining nodes and trees replenish twice as quickly.
• +50% base Big Chinchompa XP.

Weekend 5: Mazcab and Raiding

1-4 January 2016

• Double reputation gain from the Nemi Forest and Trinks' tasks.
• Ability to loot Mazcab raids once per day during the weekend.
• Increased XP from discovery in the Nemi Forest.
• Supply run twice as frequently and allow another participation per day.
• Supply run XP doubled.

Weekend 6: Invention

8-11 January 2016

The benefits of this weekend are aimed at helping players catch up with the required skills for Invention, ahead of its release.

• 50% base XP increase in Guthixian Cache.
• Enriched spawns every 10 minutes instead of every 20 minutes.
• Double the supply of battlestaves in stores and rewards.
• All chromatic dragons drop an extra hide on top of whatever drops.
• Ithell harps have a reduced chance of going out of tune.
• Double XP and reputation at Artisans' Workshop.

Update history

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• update 4 December 2015 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• During the second weekend, Barrows: Rise of the Six were initially included but were later removed from the newspost.
• Supply runs were listed as a 50% increase but it was actually doubled.
• If the player already completed a supply run before the weekend bonuses started, they can only complete an additional one.