The April 24, 2023, update for RuneScape has arrived, and here are all the changes and improvements mentioned in the patch notes. According to the developers, this update is not exactly considered major. The update just focuses on small updates that might make big improvements when it comes to the end-user experience. The changes include graphical improvements, bug fixes, and UI fixes, among many other changes. Here is the complete list of patch notes for the April 24, 2023 RuneScape update:
RuneScape Update Patch Notes for April 24, 2023
Unwelcome Guests
- Hotfix – Players can once again build the fort wall next to the Guardhouse.
- Hotfix – The instant kill buff from the tier 3 Guardhouse no longer applies to the KBD Wilderness event. Our bad …
- The Edimmu room is now accessible with suitable Slayer Tasks such as ghost, zombie, undead, Creatures of Daemonheim, and Edimmu selected.
- Fixed a spawn animation issue with risen ghosts.
- Risen ghosts’ combat, XP has been reduced to bring them in line with the intended XP per hour.
- Doubled the chance of the player receiving a special Raptor assignment, with the chance to get it now set to 1/50
- The chance to receive a special Raptor assignment still increases by 1 after every consecutive task you complete.
- Fetid Zombies’ texture has been tweaked to differentiate them from standard Zombies.
- Fixed multiple typos, such as examining text on one of the skeletons in the recently added crypt – the text no longer references the Everlight defense.
- Updated the World Map icon description for the Unwelcome Guests quest.
- Zemouregal’s Undead are now correctly tracked and will show as 1 kill per enemy.
- Added the Guardhouse Fort building to Bill’s Building Status panel and included the tier benefits.
Skill Pure Accommodations
- The Constitution requirement on the following abilities has been lowered from 10, allowing them to be used by 9 Constitution accounts:
- Regenerate
- Sacrifice
- Transfigure
- Revolution
- Weapon Special Attack
- Ingenuity of the Humans
- Demon Slayer
- Undead Slayer
- Limitless
- Slayer’s Insight
- Kuradel’s Favour
- Essence of Finality.
- The cancel button on Nastroth’s skill selection interface for XP blocking and minor resets now goes back to Nastroth’s dialogue options instead of re-displaying the interface.
- To accommodate players who wish to lower their XP to a specific value for sentimental reasons when choosing a minor reset, Nastroth now has a prompt to enter the specific XP value you’d like.
Engine
- Fixed an issue making some animations unlit.
- Improved the visual quality of water effects.
- Improved legacy particle system expiration behavior.
- Adjusted NPC pathfinding.
- Removed support for ChromeOS.
General
- Fixed an issue causing lighting in the north of Dorgesh-Kaan to fluctuate in brightness.
- Resolved some lighting issues with the grass model in Fort Forinthry, so it doesn’t have very dark sides.
- The Chaotic Swiftness animation no longer stalls players after use.
- Fixed an issue with the Farming Guild Request showing incorrect times when the timer reaches two days or less. Timers should now update as expected.
- The Twitch link in the in-game calendar now links to the correct page.
- Corrected two typos in the Mysterious Letter during the Murder on the Border quest.
- Swapped the tier 1 and tier 3 fireplace models in the Fort Forinthry Town Hall back to their intended progression.
- Wilderness threat items have been made untradable by any means from one player to another or on the Grand Exchange.
- When unlocking the Dark Lord title, the chat phrase now ends with a full stop.
- Removed redundant quotation mark from the Dragon Slayer Ability Codex requirement of the Draught Includer achievement.
- The Build Them All! achievement for building all Treasure Trail hidey-holes will now consistently trigger when building the final one.
- A login check has been added to fix players who were affected.
The April 24, 2023, update for RuneScape is available on PC, Android, and iOS. For more information on future updates and patch notes, head over to the official RuneScape website here.