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Distractions and Diversions: Penguin Hide and Seek

The penguin locations below are where I last found them. Please go to a penguin cc, namely: w60_penguins or penguins_w60 and ask for updated locations.

1. Sawmill/Lumberyard – Crate – 1 point
2. Wilderness - lvl 11 - just north of edgeville - but runs all over the place as far as Bounty/Wildy Volcano – Rock – 2 points
3. Mage Arena/Al-Kharid – on top of duel arena - Bush – 1 point
4. Lighthouse – near bridge - Rock – 1 point
5. Mos Le' Harmless – running around near the dock - Barrel – 2 points
6. Sophanem – -hiding at the alter - Cactus – 2 points
7. Lletya (Elf city) – near the town gate -Toadstool – 2 points
8. Castle Wars - SW of CW west of the fairy ring– Rock – 2 points
9. Karamja – in Tai Bwo Wannai town - Bush – 1 point
10. Witchaven – near the bridge at the dugneon - Rock – 1 point
11. Polar bear - Rimmington Well - 1 point

Have fun hunting the penguins this week.

First off, all combat familiars will now follow you into a fight much more promptly. We’ve also updated the Summoning status globe (the button near the minimap) so that you can configure what happens when you left-click on it. One of the many options will allow you to send your familiar into action against an NPC (or another player on a PvP World) with just one quick click.

If you want a place to keep your pets, you can now do this with a new room for Construction - the menagerie. It’s a pet-owned house to complement your player-owned one, if you will, in which you can store a number of fully grown pets of any kind. You could create a haven for all three god birds, for instance, or build your very own little dragons’ den.

While we’re on the subject of houses, your butler has learned when it’s time to talk and when it’s time to get on with it. So, when you are training and need the same materials you just used, you won’t need to explain what you’re after. If they come back from the bank with logs, you can send them straight to the sawmill. And if the butler’s payment is due and you don’t have any money on you, they can fetch it from your bank the next time you send them there. They also follow you around unless told otherwise. Other features include a ‘Make-x’ option for flatpack furniture and teleport tablets, and some options for the Teleport to House spell. You can set the spell to deposit you outside your house’s portal or into your house (with building mode switched on or off). More details for these updates can be found on the Knowledge Base.

Mod Fetzki
Head of RuneScape


In other news...

All longswords, as well as the rune and dragon scimitars, have received a slight graphical adjustment, as well as having their inventory icons modified to match.

In a similiar fashion to Soul Wars and the Fishing Trawler minigames, we've added an activity bar to the Great Orb Project. As expected, your activity is maintained when contributing, but if the bar drops too low you'll be removed from the game.

Since the release of Mobilising Armies, we’ve been in-game and scanning the forums to see what has worked well and what hasn’t. As can be expected from a project of this complexity, some things didn’t quite pan out how we intended. So, we’ve made a few amendments that we hope will create a better gaming experience:

The Conflict scenario has changed from 4-player to 2-player
The idea of the Conflict scenario was for players to consider a variety of tactics and to really engage in an all-out battle to the death. There turned out to be one unwanted and dominant tactic, however: wait for the other teams to beat each other up, then join in later when you have the advantage. Although you could argue this was a legitimate tactic, we didn’t feel that doing nothing for a few minutes was any fun. We considered a great many options to fix this, but decided to change this scenario (and only this scenario) to make it 1 versus 1.

Squad levels removed
Mobilising Armies was built with five levels of squad that you could purchase as your Rank increased, which allowed larger amounts of reward credits. The issue with this was that it led to far too many waiting rooms (4 scenarios x 5 ranks = 20 rooms) and, with each room requiring 20 players, we needed 20 x 20 players for a game to start in each room. Even if games started more quickly, there would not be enough players available, so to simplify the waiting rooms, we have changed it so only one level of squad is available. If you previously had higher-level squads in your inventory or bank, you will find them gone and your credits reimbursed as investment credits. This will hopefully make it easier for people to experience all four scenarios.

Waiting room system improved and five simultaneous games
Twenty players are required for a game of Mobilising Armies to start, and, when a player doesn't get picked, they get an increased priority for the next game. Originally, only four out of those twenty players were picked to join a game at a time, but we improved this a little while back so that three games started at any one time. This was only a temporary fix, so five games will now start simultaneously, as soon as there are enough players.

Selling reward items back
When buying rewards, many players felt the best idea was to save up their reward points until they had increased their Rank and unlocked the best rewards, neglecting the earlier rewards. We want you to make use of the lower-level rewards, so you can now sell reward items back to the reward shops in the officers' tower for 100% of their initial cost. This should encourage you to buy the rewards as and when you can afford them, since you can upgrade them at no extra cost. The only exceptions to this are the resource locators and quest kits (which remain a partial trade-in), and spoils of war.

Mod Tim
Lead RuneScape Content Developer

The penguin locations below are where I last found them. Please go to a penguin cc, namely: w60_penguins or penguins_w60 and ask for updated locations.

This is a members quest.

Requirements to complete Fur 'n' Seek:

Recommended items: Teleports, armour and weapon, Dramen Staff, mirror shield, Slayer ring, 9 bags of salt (bought from slayer masters), 9 logs and a tinderbox.

Length of quest: very short - 5 to 10 min

Starting point: Odd Old Man

There is an after quest/mini game once you have completed Fur 'n' Seek. The Odd Old Man will tell you about his wish list. The wish list is pasted against his shack wall.

The Odd Old Man is again in need of a hand, but this time it’s not all going to be about bones. Apparently, he has new needs that will require adventurers to seek the hides, pelts and skins of creatures commonly found in the Fremennik Province.

Players will be able to allow the Odd Old Man to take his plan fur-ther. More experienced players will then be able to help him the rest of the way, getting extra rewards and uncovering the truth behind one of RuneScape’s most guarded secrets – just what is in that mumbling bonesack?

Mod Maylea
RuneScape Content Developer


Summary:
Where to start Fur 'n' Seek:
Speak to the Odd Old Man near his shack between Varrock and Paterdomus.

Requirements to complete Fur 'n' Seek:

In other news...

For those of you who might have missed it last week, we reintroduced some features to the Grand Exchange section of the website, including a 30-day average line to the graphs.

Beserker ring can now be imbued by Mobilising Armies officers, just like the other Fremennik rings.

Below are the penguin locations. Please go to a penguin cc, namely: w60_penguins or penguins_w60 and ask for updated locations.