Zaros Updates - The Nightmare of Ashihama [29/12/2020]

[Chaflie]

Happy Holidays, Zaros! The staff team here hopes you all had a fantastic time slaying goblins, cutting yews, eating turkey, and connecting with loved ones. After a long-awaited launch, and working hard to ensure that the server was stable, the development team took a short Christmas break and are now back to deliver the updates you've all been waiting for! Without further ado, let's begin.

 

 

Nightmare of Ashihama

 

 

The long awaited group boss is finally here! 

The Nightmare of Ashihama can now be woken up from her everlasting slumber. Upon disturbing her, players will be pulled into her dream world, which consists of a fight arena. The Nightmare is known for giving her victims horrible nightmares until their life force is completely drained. Do you have what it takes to defeat her?

While there are no requirements to fight The Nightmare, it's quite challenging so make sure to team up with some friends before taking her on. 

If you were to die, you can collect your items from Shura. Make sure you collect them before dying again, or they'll be lost forever!  This isn't a safe boss, hardcore status will be lost on death.

Remember that we’re running an event alongside this release, you can find more info about the event on our launch thread

 

+ Content Additions & Changes:

 

Theatre of Blood:
- Fixed a few issues revolving around spectators being able to do things they shouldn’t be allowed to.
- Buffed the base (deathless) unique rate to 1 / 7.1
- You can now use the Crystal Halberd on Verzik

- All wilderness monsters now have a smaller aggression radius.
- The Ice plateau group teleport spell now highlights the wilderness level on the interface.
- Numulite is now tradeable.
- The staff list will now show staff from all worlds.
- Clue scrolls now have proper step lengths.
- Rada’s blessing 4 will now protect against the harmful damage in Karuulm slayer dungeon.
- Buffed the rate at which you receive Golden Nuggets from the Motherlode Mine
- Buffed the rate at which Volcanic Ash piles will deplete
- Cows can now Moo!
- General Stores, or stores that purchase your items for coins will now purchase items at their low alchemy value
- The Pharaohs Sceptre now only costs 500K
- The Dragon Claws special attack has been improved
- Coin Pouches and their rewards from pickpocketing now scale with your total level
- Grapes at the Culinomancers chest have had their price raised to 1,750 coins
- The Tool Leprechaun has opened shop at the Weiss and Harmony Island patches
- Relicym’s Balms are now available at the Head Chef shop
- You can now make Relicym’s Balms
- You can now purchase clothing from Agmundi in Keldagrim
- You can now interact with and explore the Jogre Dungeon
- Slayer tasks now more closely resemble OSRS in terms of the number of monsters assigned and how they're weighted

 

+ Group Ironman Changes

- You can now talk to a Banker to switch between opening GIM bank by default or not
- When depositing all of your inventory or equipment, non-tradeables will now go to your main bank
- Added new tools, combat, farming tabs 
- Added new placeholders that should encompass more useful things for GIM

 

+ Other bug fixes:

 

- Fixed an issue where Trident of the Seas (full) that were dropped from Kraken could not be traded to other players or placed on the trading post.     All existing tridents (full) prior to this update will still have to be used or uncharged to trade it.
- Fixed an issue where Twisted Bow could not effectively be used on Zulrah.
- Fixed an issue where players could not load their cannon manually by using cannon balls directly on the cannon.
- Fixed issues with Hespori dealing two bind attacks in quick succession.
- Fixed an issue where anima seeds, skilling outfit pieces, and font of consumption items were not added to the collection log.
      We will be working on a way next update to add these items to your collection log so that you will not have to re-obtain some or all of them. 

- Fixed an issue where instance boss containers could not hold the full contents of looting bags upon death.
- Fixed an issue with chopping farmed mahogany trees not being recognized for the achievement
- Fixed an issue where if you lost your dark essence fragments, you wouldn’t be able to craft more
- Fixed “the Devoted” title being pre-fixed on your username
- Fixed an issue with Dark Essence venerating not giving runecrafting experience
- The Sled is now tradeable
- Fixed an issue with the Kalphite Queen damaging players at home
- Fixed an issue with your BH target PJing you while you were in combat with an NPC
- Fixed an issue with the Theatre of Blood scaling
- The Rubber Chicken can now Dance and Whack
- Redwood and Dragonfruit seeds & saplings are now tradeable
- Fixed an issue with losing coins when withdrawing from your Blast Furnace coffer
- Fixed an issue with obtaining Smith’ers or Baba Yaga
- Fixed an issue with non-team members being able to interact with Verzik P1
- Fixed an issue with Elite and Master clue scroll steps
- Fixed an issue with Numulite not being tradeable
- You can no longer logout with the Ancient Casket

Edited December 29, 2020 by Oaky

[Diamond]

Thanks for all these top updates!

We all really appreciate your efforts!

 

[Vobleriz]

no nickname change still? Good job for fixes

[Fewlsz]

Great job, alot of fixes for the time of year tbh

[Valid]

Thanks for this, lots of much needed fixes and hopefully this approach towards thieving bots will resolve something hopefully !

[She]

Good stuff Chaffey!

 

[Forest Gump]

Catacombs stacking NPCs fix comming soon orrrr...? @Chaflie

[Nulled]

the cow update came in clutch

[Tranquillo]

Thanks for fixing cows 😄

 

Also 2 chances to spell Relicym right just saying

Edited December 29, 2020 by Tranquillo

[HC Wizard]

Well done team, awesome updates again!

[Internet]

Awesome updates!

[dzoodz]

good stuff

[Zachery]

Sweet fixes my dudes

[WU-TANG]

28 minutes ago, Chaflie said:

- Cows can now Moo!

This is what I've been waiting for.

Good job guys

[HostilePride]

Any estimate as to when compost bins are going to be fixed?

Great work on the other updates team.

Edited December 29, 2020 by HostilePride

[Soulcist]

That cow update is hilarious, love it. As for the rest, thanks for all the updates! I knew I should have started slayer sooner but that's alright, seeing the economy tuned for the long run is the best interest of the server. 😉

[Mad son]

So still not able to scout raids on mobile?

[Daking]

47 minutes ago, Chaflie said:

Happy Holidays, Zaros! The staff team here hopes you all had a fantastic time slaying goblins, cutting yews, eating turkey, and connecting with loved ones. After a long-awaited launch, and working hard to ensure that the server was stable, the development team took a short Christmas break and are now back to deliver the updates you've all been waiting for! Without further ado, let's begin.

 

 

Nightmare of Ashihama

 

(Please note, this piece of content will not be available until 6PM Server Time (6PM UTC), Tuesday December 29th)

 

The long awaited group boss is finally here! 

The Nightmare of Ashihama can now be woken up from her everlasting slumber. Upon disturbing her, players will be pulled into her dream world, which consists of a fight arena. The Nightmare is known for giving her victims horrible nightmares until their life force is completely drained. Do you have what it takes to defeat her?

While there are no requirements to fight The Nightmare, it's quite challenging so make sure to team up with some friends before taking her on. 

If you were to die, you can collect your items from Shura. Make sure you collect them before dying again, or they'll be lost forever!  This isn't a safe boss, hardcore status will be lost on death.

Remember that we’re running an event alongside this release, you can find more info about the event on our launch thread

 

+ Content Additions & Changes:

 

Theatre of Blood:
- Fixed a few issues revolving around spectators being able to do things they shouldn’t be allowed to.
- Buffed the base (deathless) unique rate to 1 / 7.1
- You can now use the Crystal Halberd on Verzik

- All wilderness monsters now have a smaller aggression radius.
- The Ice plateau group teleport spell now highlights the wilderness level on the interface.
- Numulite is now tradeable.
- The staff list will now show staff from all worlds.
- Clue scrolls now have proper step lengths.
- Rada’s blessing 4 will now protect against the harmful damage in Karuulm slayer dungeon.
- Buffed the rate at which you receive Golden Nuggets from the Motherlode Mine
- Buffed the rate at which Volcanic Ash piles will deplete
- Cows can now Moo!
- General Stores, or stores that purchase your items for coins will now purchase items at their low alchemy value
- The Pharaohs Sceptre now only costs 500K
- The Dragon Claws special attack has been improved
- Coin Pouches and their rewards from pickpocketing now scale with your total level
- Grapes at the Culinomancers chest have had their price raised to 1,750 coins
- The Tool Leprechaun has opened shop at the Weiss and Harmony Island patches
- Relicym’s Balms are now available at the Head Chef shop
- You can now make Relicym’s Balms
- You can now purchase clothing from Agmundi in Keldagrim
- You can now interact with and explore the Jogre Dungeon
- Slayer tasks now more closely resemble OSRS in terms of the number of monsters assigned and how they're weighted

 

+ Group Ironman Changes

- You can now talk to a Banker to switch between opening GIM bank by default or not
- When depositing all of your inventory or equipment, non-tradeables will now go to your main bank
- Added new tools, combat, farming tabs 
- Added new placeholders that should encompass more useful things for GIM

 

+ Other bug fixes:

 

- Fixed an issue where Trident of the Seas (full) that were dropped from Kraken could not be traded to other players or placed on the trading post.     All existing tridents (full) prior to this update will still have to be used or uncharged to trade it.
- Fixed an issue where Twisted Bow could not effectively be used on Zulrah.
- Fixed an issue where players could not load their cannon manually by using cannon balls directly on the cannon.
- Fixed issues with Hespori dealing two bind attacks in quick succession.
- Fixed an issue where anima seeds, skilling outfit pieces, and font of consumption items were not added to the collection log.
      We will be working on a way next update to add these items to your collection log so that you will not have to re-obtain some or all of them. 

- Fixed an issue where instance boss containers could not hold the full contents of looting bags upon death.
- Fixed an issue with chopping farmed mahogany trees not being recognized for the achievement
- Fixed an issue where if you lost your dark essence fragments, you wouldn’t be able to craft more
- Fixed “the Devoted” title being pre-fixed on your username
- Fixed an issue with Dark Essence venerating not giving runecrafting experience
- The Sled is now tradeable
- Fixed an issue with the Kalphite Queen damaging players at home
- Fixed an issue with your BH target PJing you while you were in combat with an NPC
- Fixed an issue with the Theatre of Blood scaling
- The Rubber Chicken can now Dance and Whack
- Redwood and Dragonfruit seeds & saplings are now tradeable
- Fixed an issue with losing coins when withdrawing from your Blast Furnace coffer
- Fixed an issue with obtaining Smith’ers or Baba Yaga
- Fixed an issue with non-team members being able to interact with Verzik P1
- Fixed an issue with Elite and Master clue scroll steps
- Fixed an issue with Numulite not being tradeable
- You can no longer logout with the Ancient Casket

Finally cows are fixed

[XIII]

Nice updates!

Will prifddinas clothing store eventually be added like the gnome clothes? 😄

[V12]

Good work 👏🏻

[Fresh Prince]

1 hour ago, Chaflie said:

- Fixed an issue where anima seeds, skilling outfit pieces, and font of consumption items were not added to the collection log.
      We will be working on a way next update to add these items to your collection log so that you will not have to re-obtain some or all of them.

 

thank you for working on this, much needed for those of us who are completionists, another great update thank you!

[Fancy Bear]

-1 ironman keeps being neglected

[Christmas]

Good luck at Nightmare everyone!

[November]

Nutty updates, thanks Chaf.

[Falsey]

Ty for fixing cows