Shooting Star Refresh - This Week In RuneScape

The Shooting Star D&D has been updated with new star locations, a revamped reward store, rebalanced mining XP and progress, and various quality-of-life improvements—all designed to enhance the overall experience!

Starry-eyed adventurers have long tracked mysterious meteorites streaking across Gielinor's skies, racing to their landing zones to gather Stardust and meet the Star Sprite in pursuit of cosmic rewards. This refresh retains those beloved core elements while building upon them and addressing some of the less stellar aspects with quality-of-life improvements, including:

• More variety in Star locations
• Rebalanced Mining Experience
• Streamlined progress to improve solo and group mining
• Public and portable telescopes for easier tracking
• Ease of access with new teleports

To get started meet up with Wizard Rosalina who can be found on the second floor of the Wizards' Tower researching the Shooting stars and the Stardust found mined from them.

You will still be using Telescopes to watch for Stars either your own, the new public telescopes found at Varrock Palace Library/the Observatory or the Wizards Tower or the new portable telescopes, then rushing off before mining to the center of them to meet the Star Sprite, who is looking very snazzy these days.

Now the difference is the Stardust you mine is no longer a daily capped resource, it is instead a currency and can be placed in your currency pouch, you also don't hand it into the Sprite but instead it can be used to teleport straight to Rosalina and purchase rewards from the brand new reward store!

The stars themselves have also gone through an update, first we have returned the Mining level requirement to each layer along with adding a new biggest star. A size 10 star will require a mining level of 100 to crack the first layer with each subsequent layer needing (star size * 10 mining levels), if you are early in your mining journey be sure to call in some seasoned adventurers to help you crack the first few layers so everyone benefits!

As mentioned the stardust is no longer capped but instead you will be able to mine up to 3 Stars per day, the Mining experience and the progress has been rebalanced so that regardless of how many players are involved you will be making steady progress and you can still receive a reward from the Star Sprite once per day, they will still give you a mining boost, runes, gold stone spirits and coins as before but it would be as if you had handed in the max 200 stardust.

Once you have gathered up some Stardust check the new rewards such as your very own Star Sprite pet.

The new Stargazer title

Portable Telescopes that allow you to locate stars from anywhere

And even permanent unlocks that increase the length of the Star Sprites double ore mining boost all the way up to an hour long! Don't worry you can still get Cosmic & Astral Runes along with Gold Stone Spirits like previously but you will also find a new bundle of gems that can be repeatedly purchased and even a Shooting Star teleport token! Speaking of teleports, your Magic Golem outfit will gain a once per day teleport to an active star as well so don't forget it!

Along with the new reward store there are new achievements such as "Friend of the Star Sprites" which unlocks a retro skin for the Sprite pet, and "Out of this World" for purchasing all unlockable rewards in the reward shop, this will be part of Trimmed Completionist Cape and have a 3 week grace period.

Check out the Patch notes section for a few more quality of life additions as well! Keep watching the stars!

With the festivities nipping at our heels, game updates and the weekly newspost "This Week in RuneScape" will be taking a brief reprieve.

• 23rd December - No Update, No News post
• 30th December - No Game Update, Server will have a short reset, No News post
• 6th January - No Update, Small News post
• 13th January - Regular Update, Regular News post

Between now and the 13th things will be a little lighter as the staff and teams all enjoy their well deserved Christmas holidays but there may still be some small things popping up periodically. We also wanted to shine a little light on some events and on goings that will continue over this time period.

December 25th - Christmas Village and the Giant Present

The Christmas Village is in full swing and will continue until January 6th, you will be able to engage with all the activities, quests and surrounding systems during this time but be sure to get any goals done before midnight on the 5th. Especially get your nice letters in and check in with Santa on the 22nd and 29th at the lodge for your chance at a Black Party hat and collect your Giant Gift between the 25th and the 6th!

January 4th - RuneScapes Anniversary

RuneScape will be 24 years old on January 4th and there will be little celebrations for it happening during January, these will kick off from the 4th and will be outlined in the TWIR on the 6th. Like most 24 year olds we aren't gonna be too loud this year and saving it for the 25th anniversary but we still wanted to do something to mark the occasion.

January 6th - Makeship God Plushies

You only have until midnight GMT, on 6th Jan to pre-order these fluffy deities and own them IRL. Remember, this is a limited production run and they wont be available to buy once pre-orders close , so don't miss your chance! Visit the Makeship store for full details now!

January 13th - Next Upcoming Quest

Beneath Scabaras' Sands is the first in a trio of quests we are calling the "Return to the Desert" series and it will be kicking off the year on January 13th, these quests will bring the Desert storyline to its finale with a showdown against Amascut so if you wanna be prepare for that you will need to get questing. Check out our recent prep blog here to familiarize yourself with what lies ahead.

Other Bits

Shaking off the snow and the Christmas dinner in January we will continue working on the Combat Mastery Achievements & 110 Runecrafting updates and will aim to have some insights into those projects early in the year, there are also some other ideas that will hopefully (fingers crossed not 100% locked in) arrive in January such as adding a transmute via divination to change boss weapon pieces into their counterparts, this has been a bit of a friction point for GIM and main players and so we hope to address this early in the year.

December 16th: J-Mod Runeskill and Boss Stream

Mods Yuey sets his sights on bashing Hermod and with a little help from the Discord team we think he can do it. Catch the stream live on our Official Twitch Channel at 17:00 Game Time.

December 17th: Christmas Parade

Time to deck some halls and spread some festive cheer! Meet up with the Jmods at Fort Forinthry on World 11 to take part, Festivities start at 17:00 Gametime. Catch the stream live on our Official Twitch Channel at 17:00 Game Time.

Shoot Star Refresh

• Added a new host for the activity, Wizard Rosalina, on the second floor of the Wizards' Tower.
• Converted stardust from an object to a currency.
• Stardust objects can be clicked to add to the currency pouch.
• The currency offers a teleport to Wizard Rosalina.
• No longer capped at 200
• Added a new reward shop to spend stardust in. This can be accessed from Wizard Rosalina.
• Added a whole host of new locations to where a shooting star can land:
• Anachronia
• Ashdale
• Burthorpe
• Taverley
• Catherby
• Piscatoris
• Tuska
• Daemonheim
• Feldip Hills
• Menaphos
• Tirannwn
• The Lost Grove
• Added proximity triggers for nearby crashed stars.
• Rebalanced Mining XP and progress.
• Added back level requirements for crashed stars (star tier * 10).
• Added a new tier of star, size 10 (requiring Mining level 100).
• Added headbars to show overall progress and layer progress when mining a star.
• Progress has been tweaked, so it is now added at the same rate when mining a star, regardless of how many players are mining it.
• Added a daily cap of mining 3 crashed stars a day.
• Added a 2 minute cooldown before a star can be mined, if it's found within 10 minutes of landing. This has been added to give other players time to arrive at the star, as larger star layers now progress very quickly.
• Public telescopes have been added to Gielinor:
• Oak telescope in Varrock Palace library
• Teak telescope in the Observatory
• Oak telescope on the second floor of the Wizards' Tower
• Added an observation of the upcoming star's size to the telescope hint.
• Added 4 new achievements that can be found in Activities → Shooting Star.
• Updated and recategorised the existing 'It's Lake and I'm Awake' achievement
• Offers 2 rewards:
• Starstruck title
• Star sprite pet retro appearance
• Updated the Shooting Star noticeboard interface.
• Added a daily teleport to the active crashed star to the Magic golem outfit.
• Added Mining skillguide entries for each crashed star size.
• Split the daily reset option for Shooting Star into 2 options, either reset the daily cap of stars mined, or reset the daily Sprite reward.

Hotfixed

• Fixed an issue that caused the context menu to appear when adding logs to a Bonfire while having only 1 type of logs.
• Eternal magic campfires now correctly set the right amount of time when used for the Bonfire buff.
• Added a prompt to ensure the player has a free space in their backpack when creating an in-progress fletching object, to ensure the object is not dropped on the ground.
• The Bolt Proficiency levelling benefit now increases stack size when tipping bolts as expected.
• Corrected the GE buy limit of Eternal logs to 25,000 with an initial GE cost of 4,000.
• Increased the GE buy limit of Rune to Primal hatchets from 10 to 1,000, to match the buy limit of Bronze to Adamant hatchets.
• Consumables from enchanted bird's nests are now tradeable.
• Resolved an issue affecting the drop rates of Perfect Eternal Magic Branches.
• Smithed masterwork equipment can no longer be doubled by the Fortune perk.
• The Bow of the Last Guardian no longer gains stacks from unexpected sources such as Crackling or when switching weapons before hits land.
• Fixed an issue with main-hand Leng weapons not triggering the Primordial Ice passive effect.
• Players will now receive a message when converting a wrapping paper booster into wrapping paper.

110 Woodcutting and Fletching

• Wood boxes now have an inspect option that displays the list of contents within them, like ore boxes.
• Fixed a bug in which Witchwood could be acquired from 50% Luke's leg without fully completing Pieces of Hate.
• Fixed an issue that caused Superior Locator to occasionally teleport the player to Maple trees instead of Yew trees.
• The name of non-combat variants of hatchets and pickaxes now has a (non-combat) suffix to more easily distinguish when they've been changed to this type.
• Non-combat variants of the Imcando hatchet and crystal hatchet can now be used as an ingredient in the hatchet of ember and glade.
• The default stack make-limit of bolts has been reverted to 60, instead of the default 20 used by other types of ammunition.
• Buckets of wax now have an option to empty them.
• Clarified the messaging on the Shard of the Lumberjack to specifically direct to the dragon forge.
• We've added some missing information to Lumberjack Intuition's tooltip including its name.
• The "Everything Is Treemendous" achievement is now progressed even when an ensouled moonstone eats the logs that count toward this achievement.
• Removed a rogue teak tree from the road near the Musa Point banana plantation.
• Resolved an issue which resulted in inflated XP when creating Eternal Magic ammunition.
• Increased the XP gained for creating Eternal magic stocks.
• Slightly increased the window of time to receive a guaranteed bird's nest when reacting to a Lumberjack's Intuition.
• Upgraded Eternal/Primal fletched weapons can no longer be made or worked on with a portable fletcher, and require a fletching workbench as intended.
• Added Normal and Oak wood spirits to more drop tables:
• Minotaur
• Replaced Small Plated Bronze Salvage with Normal Wood Spirits.
• Replaced Tiny Spiky Bronze Salvage with Oak Wood Spirits.
• Pickpocketing HAM members
• Replaced Small Spiky Bronze Salvage with Normal Wood Spirits.
• Replaced Tiny Spiky Steel Salvage with Normal Oak Spirits.
• Banshee (Slayer Tower only)
• Replaced Small Spiky Bronze Salvage with Oak Wood Spirits.
• Flesh Crawler
• Replaced Tiny Plated Steel Salvage with Oak Wood Spirits.
• Young Grotworm
• Replaced Bronze Javelin with Normal Wood Spirits.
• The skeletons in the Lumbridge catacombs have loosened their bony grip on oak wood spirits and now drop them as intended.
• Added noxious and ascended essence to Smithing interface's Energies and essences category.
• Corrected the number of bars required to upgrade primal warhammers +2, +3 and +4.

General

• Menaphos reputation requirements have been removed from the following quests: Crocodile Tears, Our Man In The North, and 'Phite Club.
• The stags in the Christmas Village have been updated to look like reindeer.
• Added a hungry reindeer and food trough to the Christmas Village.
• The reindeer can be fed un-noted Christmas food in exchange for Christmas spirit, with a daily cap.
• Christmas food can also be donated to the trough in exchange for Christmas spirit, at a lower rate, and with no daily cap.
• Players can no longer use portables or challenge gems in Santa's lodge.
• Portables can no longer be placed on holiday decorations.
• Peppermint outfit is now unlocked in the wardrobe for players who receive or have received the outfit pieces from Santa's lodge.
• The following monsters have had their Slayer experience reduced:
• Cerberus Juvenile from 10,000 to 2,500
• Maelstrom, Raging Waterfiend from 10,000 to 2,500
• Smoulders, the Revenger from 10,000 to 2,500
• Denizen of Infernus from 10,000 to 2,500
• Chaos Demon Savage from 8,000 to 2,000
• Sign of the porter can now be noted.
• Elves in Prifddinas will now correctly reset their debuffs on defeat allowing Group Ironman players to obtain loot if they deal 100% of the damage without outside assistance.
• World First broadcasts will no longer show up multiple times in chat.
• The examine text for the Evil Tree will now show if Competitive Group Ironmen will receive rewards upon completion.
• Head icons for Distraction and Diversion hosts are once again visible.
• Map icons have been added for a variety of Distractions and Diversions which were missing them.
• The following items can now be stored inside the Group Ironman Storage:
• Siege engine parts
• Blood amulet of fury
• Ascension signets
• Pernix's quiver
• Blessed flask
• Magic butterfly net
• Seiryu's claw
• Muspah spines
• Equipment separators
• Crystal tree blossoms
• Brawling gloves
• Hermodic plate
• A variety of extra hatchets and pickaxes can now be added to group ironman storage.
• Used or charged Grace of the elves can now be stored inside the Group Ironman Storage.
• It's now possible to report offensive clan or Group Ironman group names via the report interface.
• Fixed an issue with action bar lock toggle which made the action bar toggle change only on relog, the action bar lock can now be toggled off without the need to relog.

Starts 16th December | Ends 5th January | Snow Imps Grotto

The Snow Imps have once again hijacked Santa's Grotto and unleashed mayhem by 'imp-proving' it. This year the grotto comes jam packed with new prizes including the new Aurora Trail aura override, new Winter Sports Outfit, Aurora Dye and Pink Santa hat!

Community Showcase

Scapers' Screenshots

Pink Skirts Player Events

Each week the Pink Skirts put on a selection of fun activities that everyone can join. Here are the main events this week:

Evolution of Group PVM - Barrows: Rise of the Six

• Hosted By: a I I y & The RS3 Legionary Team
• Date/Time: Saturday December 28th, 23:45 Gametime
• Location: Barrows - ROTS Well
• World: 23
• FC: a i i y

Penguin Tour

• Hosted By: Miss Misty
• Date/Time: Wednesday December 18th, 20:00 Gametime
• Location: Edgeville Bank
• World: 60
• FC: Miss Misty

Kalphite King

• Hosted By: M e r c y & Dung Titan
• Date/Time: Saturday December 21st, 13:00 Gametime
• Location: Exiled Kalphite Hive
• World: 35
• FC: Dung Titan

If these don't take your fancy, take a look at the full events schedule here. There’s sure to be something you’ll enjoy!

Community Spotlight

Christmas Parade

Come join with our wonderful Jmods, Pink Skirts friends and the RuneScape Community for a fun Christmas Parade to celebrate the season in fabulous festive style! Together with Mod Yuey, and a whole array of other Jmods, we will be slippin' and sliding' through Gielinor, from the site of Fort Forinthry to the Christmas Village Portal in Burthorpe.

Along the way we'll be having some fun stops for lovely cups of Iced Tea, Christmas Love Letters, Seasonal Stroopwafels and lots of dancing Our special guests might appear in any form to delight, surprise and fill us with festive cheer! It's going to be a fabulous and fun end of the year!

Dress: Feel free to come dressed in your best Festive & Seasonal outfits, wrap up warm and don't forget your sparkly Christmas accessories!

Where: Fort Forinthry

When: Tuesday 17th December 17:00 Game Time

World: 11 Everyone is invited, hope to see you there!

Boss Guild

Boss Guild is a learner friendly pvm friend's chat and discord that invites you to join for masses and small team pvm in a relaxed and chill environment, along with a great community of knowledgeable and friendly players ready to assist with any questions or help needed! Christmas With Boss Guild!

• December 16th - 13:00-15:00 - Corporeal Beast // 16:00-20:00 - HM GWD1 Tour
• December 17th - 18:00-21:00 - Arch Glacor
• December 18th - 14:00-16:00 - Regular Nex
• December 19th - 14:00-16:00 - Arch-Glacor
• December 22nd - 10:00-14:30 - Vorago // 15:00-19:30 - HM Vorago

Special Bossmass Event!

• December 17th - 16:00-22:00 & December 18th 16:00-22:00

Friend's Chat: Boss Guild

Discord: Discord.gg/bossguild