Zaros Updates - Town Board - Daily Tasks

[Hope]

Good Morning, Zaros!Today's update takes a break from 1:1 OSRS features and adds a variety of new custom content for players to enjoy on Zaros. Have a read over the patch notes and let us know what you think in the comments below!

 

Town Board:

• After a bit of brainstorming on implementation, longevity, and rewards -- we're finally proud to bring you a daily task system, now known as the "Town Board".
• Can be accessed in edgeville by visiting the town board object.
• Rundown of Mechanics:
  • There are a total of 6 task slots that can be utilized. The first three are available to all players while the last three are locked behind donator ranks; regular, extreme, and legendary respectively.
  • Tasks shown on the town board are permanent until the player either:
    1. Right clicks and chooses "Reject" - this will delete the task and make room for another to take its place once the task rotation timer finishes.
    2. Completes and turns in the task.
  • Task rotation is every four hours. If you are currently in the process of working on a task or still have one occupying a slot while a task rotation takes place, a new task will queue up behind the current one. This is to not penalize players for missing a rotation period while still working on a task.
  • Tasks consist of a variety of skilling and combat activities, some which require you to bring materials back to the town board to turn in. These items can be in noted form when turned in.
  • Each task completed grants town board experience and points.
• Leveling:
  • The town board features a leveling system from 0-100 (with room to expand in the future). Since experience is time-gated, reaching max level should take between 1-3 months depending on active server bonuses, time played, and donator status. Players can click on the "Levels" button to view permanent unlocks they'll receive when leveling up the town board every 5 levels.
    • You can view a picture of all Town Board unlocks here.
    • Special Notes:
      • Pet/Drop Rate Increases: These are cumulative and stack with other bonuses such as server events and your game mode bonus.
      • Boss Casket: These will not show up on the drop table viewer on boss tables until you have reached level 90 to unlock them.
• Points:
  • Points earned through completing tasks can be spent at the exchange. Some items have no requirements while others will require both points and a certain town board level to purchase. All items are currently untradeable. Point prices for each item are not final and may be adjusted in the next update based on feedback:
    • Level 0+:
      • Twisted & Trailblazer banner
      • Twisted & Trailblazer cane
      • Barrows Re-roll (x5) - Take these with you on your barrows trip to re-roll for loot. You can re-roll an infinite amount of times, provided you have enough of these with you.
    • Level 25+:
      • Trailblazer Globe
      • CoX Room Skip Scroll - Take these with you on non-challenge mode raids to auto-complete rooms (besides olm). Upon using a skip scroll, achievements and speed-records are disabled for the current raid.
    • Level 50+:
      • Twisted & Trailblazer Relic Hunter (t1)
    • Level 75+:
      • Twisted & Trailblazer Relic Hunter (t2)
    • Level 100+:
      • Twisted & Trailblazer Relic Hunter (t3)
      • Trailblazer graceful ornament kit
      • Trailblazer tool ornament kit
      • Custom Pet - Postie Pete
• New Player Titles:
  • Worker - Town Board Level 50
  • Eager Beaver - Town Board Level 75
  • Multi Tasker - Town Board Level 100

 

 

 

New Instance Bosses:

• Can be accessed through the teleporter under the bosses category. These bosses are UNSAFE for hardcore ironman players. Should anyone die in these instances, a gravestone will appear outside of the perspective entrance.
• Judge of Yama:
  • Can be fought every 24 hours. This will reset globally at 0:00 UTC each day.
  • Mechanics:
    • Upon entering the fight, players must dodge oncoming waves of fire that the judge throws to slowly inch themselves closer in order to deal damage.
    • Immune to magical and ranged attacks. Use melee to effectively kill him.
    • Twice during the fight at 75% and 25% health the judge will teleport the player back to the end of the boardwalk, requiring them to dodge fire waves to reach him again.
  • Drops:
    • Cosmetic Mystery Boxes
    • Game Bonus Scrolls
    • Coins (250k-500k)
    • Barrows Re-rolls
    • CoX Room Skip Scrolls
• Xamphur:
  • Can be fought infinitely. Offers two difficulties; normal and challenge. Challenge offers similar mechanics as the original with increased health, damage, defence, and better loot.
  • Mechanics:
    • On initially spawning, xamphur will spawn pools that will inflict mark of darkness upon stepping on or over them. The number of pools is greater in challenge mode. Marks of darkness increase the accuracy of Xamphur's basic attack.
    • Basic attack: Grasp spells from the arceuus spellbook
    • Special attacks:
      • Phantom Hands - Xamphur will spawn two hand minions to attack the player. Xamphur cannot use this special attack again until the hands are (optionally) defeated.
      • Ghostly Hands - Xamphur will summon ghostly hands that come crushing down on the tile the player is stood on every game tick (similar to vorkath's attack).
  • Drops:
    • Book of the dead - Grants double damage to summoned thralls while the book is wielded by or in the possession of the owner (equipment or inventory). The book is not needed to summon thralls by default.
    • Misc resources and alchables

Minigames:

• Theatre of Blood:
  • Fixed spectators not being able to leave the theatre via the exit button.
  • Fixed an issue where players would gain invincibility against Verzik after previously dying to Verzik in Entry mode.

 

Bosses/Monsters:

• Fixed being able to attack other player's resurrected prayer monsters.
• Being splattered by the Giant Mole will no longer disconnect you.

 

Items:

• Cosmetic, halloween, and christmas mystery boxes:
  • Will now yield 3 loot rolls in the respective table when landing on clue rewards.
  • Can be viewed on the drop table viewer by searching or right-click selecting "check" on the boxes themselves. Drop rates for items on these tables will show as "Classified".
  • Drop rate for hitting the rare items table slightly buffed for all of these boxes.
• Fixed an issue when reverting crystal armour that made seeds stack in your inventory.
• Fixed clipping issues with dragonstone armour pieces.
• Raised the price of hunter kits.
• Food shop additions (regular and ironmen)
  • Purple sweets - 15k each
  • Locator orb - 1gp
• Fixed the healing effect of watermelon slices.
• Updated the dragonbone and bonecrusher necklace so there is no longer a "warm up" period before granting prayer restoration effects. This was changed by OSRS in April of this year.

 

Other Changes/Fixes:

• Wandering Trader:
  • The trader will no longer restock his entire shop every 8 hours. Instead, each item will now have its own randomized expiry timer (3h-5h) Once expired, an item is either removed from the stock or replaced by a new item.
  • A small visual progress bar has been placed on each stock item to give you an indication of how soon it will expire (picture below).
• Fixed the "Group Storage" button from OSRS appearing over size information in the bank.
• Fixed the thieving icon at the edgeville gold stall not appearing.
• Bank Space Changes:
  • Default bank space for non-donators has been increased to 500 (from 400).
  • Donator Tiers now yield the following additional bank space:
    • Regular Donator: +100 (total 600)
    • Super Donator: +300 (total 800)
    • Extreme Donator: +500 (total 1000)
    • Legendary Donator: +800 (total 1300)
    • Uber Donator: +1300 (total 1800)
  • The Town Board grants extra space at the following levels:
    • Town Board Lv. 30: +50
    • Town Board Lv. 65: +50
  • Bank space information can be viewed by hovering over the available space in the top left of your bank.
• The event tab will now visually tick event timers every second opposed to every 15 seconds previously.
• Other players will no longer be able to interact with your phoenix pets.
• Some trading post clerks were added to the gambling zone.
• Ironmen can now purchase items from Scavvo's Rune Store at the champions guild.

 

 

 

 

 

Patch Notes (12/8/2021):

• Town Board:
  • Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not get their tasks rotated upon logging in after a rotation.
  • Fixed task slots sometimes showing up as an empty green box for ~30 seconds near a rotation.
  • You will now get notified in the chatbox when new tasks are available (both on login and during a rotation)
  • Tasks will automatically update on your interface when a rotation hits; no need to re-open now!
  • Fixed tasks that were not counting towards progress:
    • Wintertodt
    • Pyramid Plunder
    • Dragonfruit Trees
• NPCs in barrows (aside from the barrows brothers) will now be non-aggressive
• Xamphur:
  • Slightly nerfed defence
  • Fixed the ghostly and phantom hands dealing damage to players after they have killed Xamphur
• Judge of Yama is now marked as a "demon".
• Fixed crystal gear degrading back into seeds upon a PvM death.
• Fixed the max hit of thralls at each tier.
• Fixed not being able to open halloween mystery boxes.

[E G G]

Great Update! Can we get a fix to the Wilderness Sword 4 next? 75% achievement is no simple task and to go through all that work and not have noted wildy dbones is very sadge

[Fake Harry]

Cool update!

[GIM Hopeless]

Super awesome update, it's really great seeing the dev team let their creative juices flow with some custom content. 

Can't wait to get home and try it out, thanks guys!

(Personal thank you for fixing mole, was driving me insane.)

[II]

Very pleased with the updates here! Good work dev team!

[BC]

Ironmen when we get these mystery boxes only get a MSB. Any reason why we can't get any drop if we get one of these mboxes

 

Other than that, great update!

Edited December 7, 2021 by iPJ

[Hope]

7 minutes ago, iPJ said:

Ironmen when we get these mystery boxes only get a MSB. Any reason why we can't get any drop if we get one of these mboxes

 

Other than that, great update!

These cosmetic mystery boxes only contain cosmetic rares and clue reward items. For this reason, Ironmen are allowed to have them. If there were other things in it such as weapons and armour then Ironmen would not be able to open them.

[BC]

28 minutes ago, Hope said:

These cosmetic mystery boxes only contain cosmetic rares and clue reward items. For this reason, Ironmen are allowed to have them. If there were other things in it such as weapons and armour then Ironmen would not be able to open them.

I received one of these christmas mystery boxes yesterday at the drop party in the party room and I rolled on a hard clue scroll I think and it just gave me a MSB. 

 

Unless these are completely different boxes. 

I did see there were only cosmetics and clues in those too but just wanting to check.

Edited December 7, 2021 by iPJ

[dzoodz jr]

3 hours ago, X V Egg said:

Great Update! Can we get a fix to the Wilderness Sword 4 next? 75% achievement is no simple task and to go through all that work and not have noted wildy dbones is very sadge

support, also cool looking update.

[Hope]

13 minutes ago, iPJ said:

I received one of these christmas mystery boxes yesterday at the drop party in the party room and I rolled on a hard clue scroll I think and it just gave me a MSB. 

 

Unless these are completely different boxes. 

I did see there were only cosmetics and clues in those too but just wanting to check.

They are reward rolls on the respective clue table, not actual clue scrolls:

Edited December 7, 2021 by Hope

[BC]

Ahh that makes sense!

 

[Sub]

Fantastic updates, looking forward to trying out the Town Board in particular

[gim meth]

good job on the bosses they look amazing, hopefully i will have the time to fight them soon.