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Penguin Hide and Seek is a mini game which was released in September 2008. You have to be a member to play this mini game once a week. It resets every Wednesday. It is a fun mini game and best done in a group. There are dedicated clan chats (cc’s) where players help each other to locate these penguins. This mini game can be played on any world, but world 60 is the dedicated world for this game.

No quest is needed to play this mini game but in order to receive a maximum of 16 points each week, it is recommended to complete the following quests to access all areas:

• Cabin Fever
• Icthlarin's Little Helper
• Ghosts Ahoy
• Mourning's Ends Part I
• Regicide
• The Fremennik Trials
• The Fremennik Isles
• Monkey Madness
• Priest in Peril
• Hunt for Red Raktuber

Pop over to Larry at Ardougne Zoo and chat to him. He will explain the mini game to you and he will give you clues to the locations of the 10 penguins and 1 polar bear and give you a book to help you keep track of your points.

When you see a penguin, spy on it. You can check your penguin book to see if it has been registered. There are 6 penguin disguises. The polar bear is always found in a well and will not move until it has been reset the following Wednesday.



Recommended things to take:

• Teleport runes
  
• Teleport jewelry
• Coins
• Summoning creature
• Food
• Anti poison
• Water tiara or water pouches

Rewards
Once you have found all the penguins, go back to Larry at Ardougne Zoo and you can not cash in your points for gold or experience. The majority of players take the experience. Players can save up to a maximum of 50 points before spending them.

You can choose between:

• 6500 coins per Penguin Point or
• Experience in any skill – all points will be spent at once

Experience point calculation:
25 × skill level × points exchanged = Experience gained for the desired skill

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.

Have fun hunting the penguins this week.

Animation Pack 1

Recent additions to the RuneScape engine have allowed us to make some improvements to the game’s animations.

As you can see by the heading, this release is called Animation Pack 1, as this will be an ongoing project. These improvements will take time, however, so we have grouped the animations that we're improving into packs, so we can release them as we complete them, rather than keeping you waiting.

This pack focuses on some of the most popular melee weapons and their animations (abyssal whip, the godswords, Zamorakian spear, Saradomin sword, Dharok’s axe, and dragon and rune longswords and scimitars), tweening (animation smoothing), and updates to the Agility animations.

We hope you enjoy these updates as much as we've enjoyed creating them; make sure to keep an eye out for future animation updates.

For a more in-depth look at these improvements, check out this recent dev blog. It takes you through the process in more detail.

Mod Paul B
RuneScape Lead Animator


Poison Arrow Pub and Aquanite

From time to time, we like to open up a forum thread to give you, the players, the chance to come up with specific ideas to add to the game. We then put our favourite ideas into a poll and let the community vote for their favourite. This time, it was to name and fill the vacant pub in Ardougne, and to name a new Slayer creature.

This isn’t because we run out of ideas – far from it! - it’s so you get a chance to genuinely contribute to the content in the game. Of course, we read as many suggestions as we can every day, but running forum threads, discussing your suggestions and knowing that there would be a definite result at the end of the work is a great way to add content to the game.

So, this month, we’re delighted to add the Poison Arrow pub to Ardougne and the aquanite Slayer creature. The pub is just south of Ardougne’s east bank and is filled with a host of suggestions that all came from you! The aquanite is a level 78 Slayer creature that deals magic damage, so do take care if you’re going to visit. You’ll find them at the end of the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon, past the kurasks – you can’t miss them.

Mod Mark
Lead Designer


In other news...

You will now be properly classed as being 'in combat' when you are attacking someone else, even if you've not been attacked back. Also, if you teleport while in combat, you will now lose 20% of your Earning Potential (EP).

Korvak in the Runecrafting Guild has had his chat improved to make it easier to ask for help with any essence pouches you may have on you.

Last night I was happily doing Barrows when I got doubled teamed by one of the brothers... the worst one. I got an item on my first trip, Dharok's platelegs. I thought that it was a sign of something good to happen. On my 10th trip (and no further items), I was a bit two-minded about doing that last trip as I was getting tired.

Off I went hoping for one more item ... running around the tunnels in barrows looking for the door to the chest room when Dharok finds me. What I usually do when I find Dharok or Karil in the tunnel, I go back through the doors I came to recharge prayer and then go out and kill them. Well, I did that and another Dharok appeared. This is the 3rd time it's happened to me and it's happened with Dharok on all 3 occasions. I get attacked by both Dharok's. Just as I'm about to kill the one Dharok, my prayer runs out and they both hit me...and I found myself in Falador.

I rushed back to the bank to get some teleports and food and rush down to Barrows, but I had forgotten to take a spade so had to teleport back to the bank. I finally made it to Barrows again... and I'm soooo close to where I died... and my 5 minutes run out.

Jagex really need to fix that bug and a 5 min grave (the best one) is just not long enough if nobody is prepared to bless it. So yeah, I lost my items... and now I'll have to do Barrows again until I get them all back again. *sniff*.

I'd really love it if a 10 min grave was introduced.

This was a short, fun and easy quest to do. This is a members quest.

Requirements to start The Curse of Arrav:

Recommended items: pickaxe, trollheim teleports or games necklace and climbing boots if you are walking up, a weapon and some food, pharaoh scepters, crossbow, grapple and a water tiara.

Starting point: Ali the Wise in Nardah.

In your adventures you may have heard of an unusual gathering in the north - a gathering of powerful and dangerous creatures called the Mahjarrat. Ali the Wise has received news from one of his contacts of a tunnel underneath the area where the Mahjarrat are supposedly gathering. It’s not a natural cave, either: someone deliberately made it. But who? What connection did they have to the Mahjarrat now gathering above? Have they left any clues behind? Some exploring may be in order!

This quest is a continuation of the Mysteries of the Mahjarrat quest series. It’s also a sequel to a previous quest I wrote - Defender of Varrock. I’m glad that I got to expand on some of the themes I started in the previous Arrav-based quest. There is more to come, though…

Paul
RuneScape Content Developer


In other news...

We've improved the behaviour in the Mobilising Armies waiting rooms to start more games with the required 20 players, rather than just one at a time.