Minescape Season 9 Update 4 - Quests & QoL

Hello everyone and welcome to the 4th Minescape content update of season 9!

This update focuses on improving new & existing player quality of gameplay by introducing quest revamps on 10 old quests, various small map fixes and other bugfixes reported by players. Although the update is not aimed at being big, it still introduces a couple of QoL changes.

Quest rework

Both new and existing players may have noticed that Minescape has some unique, small quests focused on getting players used to the mechanics of various skills. These quests, together with some other well known quests, have been introduced to the game a long while ago, mostly right after the release of the current iteration of the game and have not changed since...

However, the quest system has changed a lot: a new dialogue system was introduced, multi-quest, modelled & conditional entities and many more changes were introduced over the time without any impact on the pre-existing quests. Today we've decided to change that. Introducing the quest rework (part 1) with 10 reworked quests:

  • Cook's assistant
  • Lumbridge stripped Guard
  • Lumbridge tree anomaly
  • Lumbridge Weirdo
  • Marriage delivery
  • Marriage bestman
  • Palace designer
  • Al-Kharid Rocks
  • Al-Kharid runner
  • Al-Kharid Warrior's lost ring

These reworked quests have adjusted requirements, rewards, steps and dialogues. The quests are now faster to complete, more detailed and polished when it comes to interactions with entities and clarity on what to do next.

Resource-pack, sound and map changes

We have noticed that some areas & actions of the game lack something... So we spend some time training, playing and just exploring various parts of the game and with it some changes were made:

  • Water & Grass (both block and foliage) textures have been replaced on the vanilla resource-pack to more closely represent the osrs feel.
  • A sky shader was added to the resource-pack to make the sky more osrs like.
  • Various areas of the map had small issues like misplaced blocks, trees that couldn't be chopped down, etc., and those areas were fixed.
  • Interacting with beacons now produces a sound.
  • Thieving now has a sound.
  • Interacting with sacks/bags now has a sound.
  • Juliet's maids have fixed her bed and the broken bulbs in the building. It should feel a lot warmer there.
  • There's now a way to leave the shipyard.

Bugfixes & QoL changes

New update - new fixes & Quality of Life changes!

  • Bags (Ore, gem, essence) can now be opened from within inventory by right-clicking on them.
  • Added a way for players to drop quest items after the quest is completed (/drop and then drop the item). This is especially important for UIM players.
  • Thieving skill UI (/skills thieving) now has proper descriptions of the Ardougne thieving tables.
  • Construction workers have left Jatizso.
  • Added a message recommending the latest version of the game (1.21.4) for players joining on older versions.
  • Receiving an ore spirit will no longer send a message (no more chat spam).
  • Added extra advanced gardeners to various locations.
  • Fixed a bug allowing starflower to be harvested outside it's dimension.
  • Fixed the Lumbridge smoker hologram location.
  • Fixed Tanglefoot being present in the boss collection log.
  • Fixed the bug allowing players to kill hunter implings using magic/ranged.

Staff applications

GamesLabs is actively accepting Staff Applications! We are looking for players passionate about contributing to the GamesLabs Network, Minescape, and other exciting projects. We are specifically looking for players to assist on the following teams:

  • Build team: Responsible for bringing the GamesLabs Network to life! Builds include Minescape Points of Interest, Minigames, Network Lobby, Convention Booths, etc. Previous build experience is helpful and preferred.
  • Asset design team: Responsible for creating monster/item models, new UIs, icons, and more! Experience in all these fields is not necessary, but is preferred!

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply on our website at the following link: https://www.gameslabs.net/apply

We look forward to receiving & reviewing your applications!

The end

That's all for the 4th update of the 9th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!