Welcome to This Week in RuneScape, your number one source for everything happening in the BEST MMORPG EVER (if we do say so ourselves). This week, Construction Contracts is going live, and there’s a sweet deal on membership with Premier Club. There’s also an impressive array of changes and fixes in the Patch Notes tab, and the usual shenanigans in the Community tab. Don’t take our word for it though: read on and see it for yourself!
Not to sound too full of ourselves, but we think we've nailed this week's update! From today you'll be able to play Construction Contracts, a new, less expensive way to train Construction. But that's not all - we've also got news about Premier Club, and a new deal from Prime Gaming. Hard hats on? Then let's check it out!
New Construction Training Method: Construction Contracts!
Today we're cutting the ribbon on Construction Contracts! For those of you who missed the in-depth newspost and the preview livestream, here's everything you need to know.
Normally, you'd be training your Construction inside your Player Owned House, toiling away for hours building oak larder after oak larder, without seeing a single soul except your Demon Butler. With the arrival of Construction Contracts, all that's about to change. Now, you can train Construction on the surface world, at less cost, and help some friendly NPCs out while you're at it.
Completing Contracts
To get started, you'll need at least 40 Construction, which will let you complete your contracts with standard planks. As you advance in levels, you'll be able to use more expensive materials - which will impress your clients and net you a bit more XP.
| Level | Plank Type |
|---|---|
| 40 | Regular |
| 50 | Oak |
| 60 | Teak |
| 70 | Mahogany |
Speak to an Estate Agent to get your first Construction Contract. You'll be sent to one of 11 different buildings in four of Gielinor's most iconic towns, where you'll be asked to spruce the place up a bit according to the resident NPC's grand designs. The furniture you're asked to build will vary, so come prepared for everything!
You'll get your XP once you've finished the job, along with the satisfaction of a job well done - and a bunch of Construction Credits, which you can use to buy some useful items back at the Estate Agent.
Rewards
Here's what's on offer:
Plank Box
The Plank Box is an upgradeable storage solution that will let you carry at least 25 extra planks of each type with you at all times.
Here's how many you can carry with the upgraded versions:
Base: 25 Planks of each type
Upgrade 1: 50 Planks of each type
Upgrade 2: 100 Planks of each type
The basic Plank Box will cost you 50 Construction Credits, the first upgrade will cost 150 Credits, and the second upgrade will cost 300 Credits.
Elite Skilling Outfit: Master Construction
From tomorrow you can get your hands on the Elite Skilling Outfit for Construction via Dressed to Skill, our latest Treasure Hunter promo, or you can get it in-game from the Construction Contracts Reward Store. You'll be looking mighty handy either way!
There are five pieces in the set, each of which cost 250 Construction Credits. Wearing all of them will net you the following bonuses:
- Option to automatically remove furniture immediately after building it
- Ability to convert logs to planks on the go
- Temporary +3 boost to Construction
- Increased build progress for Construction Contracts
- Chance to instantly finish repairs during Construction Contracts
- Unlimited teleports to your house, house portals, Estate Agents, and your current Construction Contract
Achievements
There are eight new Achievements in this update, one of which is required for the Completionist Cape.
Fully upgrade your Plank Box to earn the ‘Absolute Planker' Achievement and restore your Cape. There's no Grace Period on this one, so get building!
Premier Club Membership
It's the most wonderful time of the year - Premier Club Membership is back! For those of you who are new here, Premier Club is the absolute best value deal for RuneScape membership, and, for a limited time, we've slashed prices to celebrate our upcoming 20th Anniversary! You'll secure either 3, 6, or 12 months of membership and get loads of extras, up to and including the exclusive Ceremonial Guard Armour and Ozzie pet, access to the Premium Track for all Yak Track events, extra daily Keys, the Premier Artefact, and much, much more!
Ceremonial Guard Armour
Click and drag to rotate the model and scroll to zoom in!
Here's a taste of what you can expect from this year's packages:
| Bronze | Silver | Gold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £17.49 | £31.99 | £44.99 |
| Months of Membership | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| Loyalty Points | 20,000 | 50,000 | 150,000 |
| Access to Premier Artefact* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cosmetic Ceremonial Guard Armour | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ozzie Pet | - | - | Yes |
| Access to Premier Pass* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Extra Monthly Rewards* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly Oddments Bundle* | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Extra Daily Key* | - | Yes | Yes |
| Premier Club Reward Tokens | - | 1 | 3 |
| RuneMetrics Discount* | - | - | 50% |
| Access to the Premier Club Vault* | - | - | Yes |
| Access to VIP Premier Worlds* | - | - | Yes |
| Free Boss Instance* | - | - | Yes |
| Premier Bank Spaces* | - | - | 100 |
| In-Game Chat Badge* | - | - | Yes |
*available for duration of Premier Club membership
On top of all that, you'll get access to everything the wonderful world of RuneScape has to offer - new quests, new skills, and new areas to explore! Plus, you'll get the most from our 20th Anniversary Celebration event coming up in January. What a deal!
To learn more about Premier Club Membership, head to this page.
Prime Gaming
There's a new offer from our friends at Prime Gaming. Wahey! From now until December 15th, you can claim 7 days of RuneScape Membership - just the thing if you want to try Construction for yourself!
To claim this offer, simply link your RuneScape and Prime Gaming accounts. Full details can be found here.
The Ninjas might be busy exchanging blows in their dojo, but that doesn't mean we don't have loads of great changes and fixes to show you! Here's what's new this week!
Interface
Improvements
- The Tune Bane Ore spell will no longer show the X icon when hovering over items in the Backpack.
- The default size of the Activity Tracker has been increased, and the Paths window has been moved from left-centre to left-top, in the same position, so that they tab together nicely.
- The Events tab will now only ever appear when an event is active.
Fixes
- The tutorial for the Dwarven Discovery Treasure Hunter promotion will now display correctly on mobile devices.
- The Wiki button now immediately reappears if the player moves focus away from and back to the All Chat window while in Always On chat mode.
- Dossier text will no longer replace requirements in the Quest Overview tab.
- The tooltip for the Ignore Friends' List filtering button now features the correct information.
Graphical
Improvements
- The World Map now shows an anvil icon for the Barbarian anvil in Otto's Grotto.
Fixes
- The player's left arm is no longer out of place while wearing the Fenrir Body.
- Unholy symbols will no longer appear to sink into the player character's chest.
- Smithing tools seen on the odd-looking wall in Seers' Village Workshop no longer float when something spoiler-y happens.
- The face texture of Tanner, the Crafting Guild NPC, will no longer appear to be two different colours.
- The colours of bronze, iron, steel and mithril dragons will now display correctly.
- Cyrisus' hair is no longer visible through his dragon medium helm.
- The cup of tea which spawns on the desk in the Archaeology Guild no longer clips into it.
Other
Improvements
- A cutscene has been added for Merlin's escape during King's Ransom. Interact with the vent after discussing your plans with Merlin during the quest to see it.
- You'll no longer get an empty vial when mixing unicorn horns with Super Restore (3).
- The description for the Fury of the Small Relic has been updated to match its functionality.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Axe'll Grease' Achievement listed the incorrect pre-requisites. You must partially complete Blood Runs Deep to claim Balmung from Brundt the Chieftain.
- The Power of Light special attack can now be used when imbued into the Essence of Finality amulet without wielding the Staff of Light.
- A wall in Kharid-et is no longer missing collision boxes. That oughta hold it up for another few centuries!
- You can now use runes from your Backpack to restore artefacts while you have the Wicked Pouch equipped.
- The 2x multiplier modifier from Dwarven Discovery will now apply to prismatic stars and lamps.
- The Golden Mining Suit will now correctly apply its doubled ore chance effect.
- The correct animation will now play when crossing the bridge from Rellekka towards The Lighthouse.
- Ancient waterfiend familiars now correctly generate additional items whilst mining, fishing and woodcutting with Sign of the Porter equipped.
- During Dino Stampede, the Rex will no longer focus on the player as this could result in the gigantic beast derailing itself and never reaching the centre of Base Camp.
- Fixed a grammatical error in the messaging during Tutorial Island's Smithing section.
- Players are once again able to claim their weekly Bonus XP from the Quartermaster in their Clan Citadel, for any of the relevant skills.
- Skilling offhand effects no longer function in free-to-play.
In this week's Community tab, you can see Mod Hooli chat all things influencer with Mod Bolton, celebrate a birthday with our Featured Streamer, or sit back and watch how some amazing artwork is made!
Livestreams
J-Mod Livestreams
Tuesday November 17th | 17:00 Game Time | Premier Club and Construction Contracts Launch!
Join us as we showcase some of the perks from this year's Premier Club Membership and take on some general fixer-uppery for the citizens of Gileinor!
Already a Premier Club Member? Feel free to hop on VIP World 52 and play along with us as we go!
Friday November 20th | 19:00 Game Time | The 10th Annual Golden Gnome Awards!
You've cast your votes - now it's time to see the winners!
The 10th Annual Golden Gnome Awards livestream will take place on Friday November 20th from 19:00 GMT. We'll be celebrating the very best of our community, from artists, to video-makers, to streamers and even musicians. This year there's also prizes for our Community Champions - the players who've gone above and beyond to make the RuneScape Community great.
So don't miss out! Head to the official Jagex Twitch channel this Friday to catch all the action. Don't forget to rent a tux!
Featured Streamer
Our Featured Streamer this week is ScardyGinge, and it's an especially exciting one, because it's her birthday! The celebrations will include giveaways, boss masses, working on quests, and whatever else you folks want to do.
Join in the fun from 16:00 Game Time on Tuesday 17th on her Twitch channel, here.
Creative Corner
Steam Screenshots
by Thainá Bloodwell
by Zerstörer
by Fuyuhiko
Awesome Art
Ever wanted to see how artists like ACPL create their fantastic compositions? Well look no further than this amazing timelapse! Wow… the Cabbage of a Thousand Truths has never looked so dramatic.
Community
Featured Forum Thread
In this week's Forum Thread, the RS Wiki needs YOU! This is your chance to help Kings Abbot and the rest of the RuneScape Wiki team out. G'wan, give it a go!
Pink Skirts Event
This week's Pink Skirts Event is a real nightmare - you're taking on Helwyr! Head to the Seren Lobby in the Heart of Gielinor on World 68 at 20:00 - 21:00 Game Time this Wednesday, November 18th to take the beastie on.
This week's event is hosted by Pippyspot and LSPVM247. For more information, check this page!
The RuneScape Team