Minescape - Runescape in Minecraft, MMORPG

Chapter 10 update 3 - Halloween 2026

RockTheFlag — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:01:14 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome to the 3rd update of the 10th Chapter of Minescape!

This update brings the 2026 Halloween event! Trick or treat in lobby, help the Draynor kids & collect orange candies for rewards, alongside a brand new Halloween hub bundle.

Halloween 2026

This year's Halloween event is now live and running until November 2nd (France) with the following activies & rewards:

Lobby

During the halloween event you can trick or treat with the lobby inhabitants (NPCs) for some candies (up to 50 candies a day)

Alongside the candy farming, a new cosmetics bundle was added with the following rewards:

Skeleton title
Jack o' lantern mask
Black & orange firework
Witch laugh sound effect
Wither attack sound effect
"A scary USERNAME slithers into the game" join message
Black ink death effect

The bundle costs 2000 orbs, however it is currently discounted to 1000 orbs.

Minescape

The spooky season has come to Minescape and with it the Draynor kids are once again in trouble... Can you help them recover the lost candies and unlock the ability to collect more?

This short miniquest can be started by talking with the Mother or any of the 3 kids in Draynor. Upon completion you unlock the ability to collect orange candies from any non-combat activity in-game.

Orange candies is the new in-game halloween currency that can be used to purchase both cosmetic rewards & new in-game item: Goodies bag!

The goodies bag can reward the player with the following items:

Pink Halloween mask (rare)
Candies (guaranteed)
Bonus candies (common)
Coins (500-5k) (common)
A random junk item from the kids (common) (trick rather than treat)
Holiday construction blocks (common)
Orbs (very rare)
Small XP lamp (legendary)

Lastly, we have fixed an issue where the holiday construction block store was available all-year-round and it should not dissapear after the event ends.

The rate at which you gather orange candies varies from skill to skill, from activity to activity and the rates may be adjusted at any time for balance reasons. We'll keep an eye out for too slow or too fast rates.

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!

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That's all for the 3rd update of the 10th chapter. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Chapter 10 update 2 - Stars

RockTheFlag — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:28:02 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome to the 2nd update of the 10th Chapter of Minescape!

Minescape Chapter 10 update 2 - Stars

This update brings a new mining activity - Shooting stars alongside small bugfixes & QoL changes.

Shooting stars

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a shooting star! A brand new activity has landed in the world Minescape.

Every 1 and a half to two hours, at a random time, a shooting star will fall down somewhere in the world from a list of 50 possible locations, and you have to find it! Once found, the star can be mined down to it's core for some afk mining xp and a new currency reward - stardust!

Minescape Shooting stars

Finding the location may sound hard, however the update comes with a brand new item, island furniture utility block & in-world block - Telescope. The telescope can be used to determine the size of the star, approximate landing time and even the size of the star!

Minescape Star Sprite

The telescope comes in 3 kinds:

Inventory item (can be purchased using stardust, comes in 3 variants, each providing more information about the next star to crash)
Construction island utility block - only gives an approximate size, time & location

Minescape POH Telescope

In-world block (Wizzards' tower & observatory) - only gives an approximate size, time & location

The first player to discover a crashed star gets some bonus mining experience. The star lasts until it's mined down completely or the next one falls.

Stardust can be spent on more than just telescopes. Visit the stardust store in the Wizzards' tower to unlock the following:

Minescape Star Reward Shop

Celestial ring (mine 4% faster)
Soft clay pack
Bag full of gems
Stargazer title
Star sprite pet
Portable Telescope v1, v2, v3

QoL changes & bugfixes

As always, we're finishing off this update with some bugfixes & quality of life changes:

Some NPCs were moved to their own booths in the Grand Exchange
Compacted the /slayer message - it should appear shorter, more descriptive
Added more light blocks to various areas around the game
Fixed the snake idle & walk animations
Fixed red dragons missing magic level (dragonfire damage)
Fixed the Games Necklace teleport icon for Barbarian Outpost
Reduced the length of the lobby id in the sidebar menu

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 2nd update of the 10th chapter. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Chapter 10 update 1 - Modernizing continues

RockTheFlag — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:58:35 GMT

Minescape Chapter 10

Hello everyone and welcome to the 1st update of the 10th Chapter of Minescape!

This small update focuses on bugfixes and continuous improvements towards modern Minescape.

Chapters?

Yes, you read it right. We have decided to change the way the updates are named / numbered from Seasons to Chapters as the previous approach of seasonal update meaning it has to be a big update to a new approach of Chapters where it's a bit more clear when a major change comes to the game compared to smaller updates.

The updates themselves are not changing: we are aiming at smaller weekly updates and big chapter releases once in a while.

Map updates

This update comes with a couple of small changes to the map, mostly focusing on future content and modernizing existing areas.

With the update, various areas of the map were re-checked for lighting issues, and new light sources were added to make gameplay during night (or in caves) much smoother without having to increase game brightness.

Minescape Sakura trees

We have updated the Sakura trees to use the modern Minecraft Cherry leaves with the particle effects, updated some other random areas of the map to use the new modern blocks like Firefly bushes.

Two new areas were added with content to them coming soon: Dragontooth Island and a crashed ship near Canifis.

Minescape Crashed Ship near Canifis

Finally, we have updated the Falador Rising Sun Inn interior and replaced the Jolly Boar Inn with a smaller and updated building.

Minescape Jolly Boar Inn

Version upgrade

We have once again updated the core version of the network (and the recommended version) to the latest 26.3 version. This update includes both Bedrock and Java editions of the game.

QoL changes & bugfixes

Although this update may be small, here's some quality of life changes and bugfixes that everyone can enjoy:

Added teleport to the Barbarian Assault to the games necklace
Added Dagon'hai armor to Larran's chest
Added an outline for all quest floor items so they can be spotted easier
Added overhead prayers to Kalphite Queen so players can easier spot that they are using the wrong combat style

Minescape Kalphite Queen

Added a shortcut to /store - /buy
Updated the thieving table text display to be taking up less visual space
Moved the Kalphite Queen minions to different spawn points
Fixed missing textures in the Hunter skill in-game Minescape wiki
Fixed the coins drop from Corporeal beast having inverted quantities (added a check for all future monsters so they cannot have that issue by default)
Fixed construction island teleport issue caused due to teleport animations
Fixed wrongly rendered ranged prayer glyph
Fixed a bug causing custom modeled entities to spawn without a model
Fixed a bug causing issues when switching gamemodes whilst inside Minescape
Fixed a bug with item cooldown causing parts of the UI to rotate
Fixed a bug with magic & ranged combat styles not aiming at the proper monster hitboxes
Fixed a bug causing issues when eating / casting spells / using tools whilst fighting monsters up close
Fixed a bug that prevented players from buying stackable items with inventory space available
Fixed the Musa Point <-> Karamja shortcut

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 1st update of the 10th chapter. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 10 - Staying up to date

RockTheFlag — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:38:26 GMT

Minescape Season 10

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th season of Minescape!

This update took longer than usual to release between the contributors being busy, the network backend being outdated and other issues, however we believe that this update comes with major changes that should make development & gameplay much better!

Bedrock support is back

We're very, very happy to announce that the GamesLabs network has brought back the bedrock support to the network! You can now once again join the official Minescape - Runescape in Minecraft recreation on any bedrock edition device: pc, phone, Nintendo switch and many more! To join Minescape simply use play.gameslabs.net or bedrock.gameslabs.net

Network version upgrade

It has been a while since we last upgraded our back-end, and there have been some amazing changes that came to Minecraft, allowing us to introduce a lot of the features mentioned later in this article.

The network (java) now runs on Minecraft 26.2 version, and will be updated to 26.3 as soon as it comes out. Therefore, the recommended version has been updated to reflect this, and we encourage all players to switch as soon as they can.

With the upgrade, we are increasing the minimum game version to 26.2 and will stop supporting versions below 1.21, so if you're using an earlier version - make sure to update. Whilst you can still join from versions 1.16 and up, a lot of the features will not work for you, and you may have graphical issues in Minescape specifically.

This upgrade took a lot of work from the dev side, however it now allows us to stay up-to-date much easier than before, and the game itself is a lot more friendly towards players with weaker computers.

It's also worth mentioning that some of the in-game UIs were changed to be modern dialogue UIs - bank search, number selection etc.

Model engine upgrade

With this update, we have also changed one thing that kept us limited in what we can & cannot do: We have changed our model engine to a new one and with it, we have upgraded 222 models! Yes, 222! All of the models have gained new / updated animations that should feel smoother, and apply across multiple scenarios: monsters being attacked, walking, attacking the player, staying idle and more!

Minescape King Black Dragon

We have also replaced some of the older mob models with modern Minecraft models (such as camels), added animations to monsters that have had none, moved the monster names to per-monster specific locations above their heads, updated hitboxes, updated monster AIs and attack speeds in specific cases.

This upgrade took time to finish, and now that it is - we are able to introduce better looking, smoother and much better models to the game, that includes furniture items (chests, chairs etc.): some of the new areas in-game already have new furniture displays that use the new engine changes allowing them to be scaled, rotated, flipped etc.

Minescape Gertrude's kids

Most notable changes:

Entities can now be scaled (some entities in-game were changed in scale already)
Animation are now much smoother and have no rotational limits
Meshes can now be used to summon non-squared shapes
Hitboxes can now be other shapes than square, and they can move together with the model (e.g. when a monster swings it's arms - the arm hitbox moves too)
The nameplate can now be put in custom location per monster
We can now allow heads / specific parts of entities rotate to face the player easier

Some of these changes can be seen on the brand new King Black Dragon model!

Sound effects, animations and entity dialogues

Have you ever wondered why some game actions felt not as immersive as they should? We have and some of the things that we have decided to upgrade are sound effects, animations and dialogues for various entities and monsters. You can view the entire SFX list below:

Together with the new SFX, we have also added some new animations / particle effects:

Each magic combat spell now has a unique particle effect
Magic teleport spells now have animations, including some classic Runescape teleport animations
Interacting with beacon now has a particle effect

Minescape new spell effects

And a small change for new player: the theme melody is now guaranteed to play for new players when they join the tutorial island.

Lastly, we have added unique dialogues to replace the default "Hello! How are you doing today?" to 167 entities! They will give players tips on specific skills, areas & content, say a joke or two and more! We hope this change makes the game more immersive than ever before.

New Minescape Dialogues

New & existing area updates

Larran's chest

Wilderness slayer tasks have always been risky & rewarding, however the reward for farming some lower level monsters may have felt disappointing, and the slayer tasks do take a longer time due to having to run around all over the risky wilderness, so we have decided to add a new chest & keys: Larran's chest & keys. The keys are obtained by killing any slayer monster whilst on a task from the wilderness slayer master - Krystilia.

Minescape Larran's chest

The chest can be all the way north of wilderness, near the Pirate's hideout and awards player 1 item stack for each key used.

Varrock museum

Whilst the museum itself remains mostly the same, we have laid down the ground work to support kudos! The museum has some new NPCs that will tell you how many kudos you have, and who knows - maybe they will have a use in the future?

Taverley dungeon extension

The Taverley slayer dungeon has received a new extension - the Black Knights' Base. This new area also gives Black Knights and Poison Spiders as a possible slayer task from Slayer Master Raff.

Minescape Taverley Black Knights

Agility courses

Agility is a love / hate skill in Minescape due to how it works, however, we hope that with this update more players can enjoy the skill by using the courses with the addition of some new courses with most of them being easier than usual:

Gnome agility course

This course has multiple paths across multiple spots that allow players to choose faster, but harder path or slower, but easier path. The course rewards players with 1000xp per lap.

Minescape Gnome Agility course

Canifis rooftop course

This course should be great for beginners that have gotten used to jumps and looking around for where they need to jump to reach the next target. The course rewards the player with 650xp per lap.

Minescape Canifis Rooftop Agility course

Barbarian outpost course & quest

This course, unlike others, will require the player to prove their worth before they can even attempt the course: the player must complete the brand new very short quest - Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl. Upon completing this quest, and having level 35 in Agility, you can access the course that will reward the player with 750xp per lap.

Minescape Barbarian Outpost

Pothole dungeon

A new dungeon has been added to Minescape - the Pothole dungeon is found on mainland Karamja with a bunch of Jogres protecting it.

Minescape Pothole dungeon

Ardougne castle & West Ardougne

Ardougne has been updated! The castle now stands tall and proud, overlooking the brand new West Ardougne area with its plagued out look. Both areas have a new beacon location, POI and monsters.

Minescape Ardougne castle & West Ardougne

Port Phasmatys

A new ghostly area has been finished by the Construction NPCs! This brand new city has some ghosts roaming around, ships in the port and more! Head on over to Canifis and explore this new port city!

Minescape Port Phasmatys

Some areas got smaller changes that are still notable:

Al-Kharid has a new chainbody shop - check it out by speaking with Ranael
East Ardougne now has a magic teleport requiring level 51 in magic to teleport there
Added a new agility shortcut between Musa Point and Karamja
Mining guild now counts as a POI, plays the correct songs inside, and applies night vision to players inside of it
Digsite now counts as a POI
Water mill cellar is now available to players with a new POI
Various NPCs across the map were moved into empty buildings to make the game feel more alive. A good example of this is Catherby where 8 NPCs were in a single building with other buildings remaining empty

Chat spam

We have noticed that some of the old features are a bit outdated and spam the players chat with messages that are either not relevant or just spammy, therefore we changed / remove a bunch of them:

Entering a POIs now sends an action bar message
Using the grand exchange should now feel a lot less spammy
Fighting barrow's brothers is now much easier
Farming warriors' guild tokens is now less spammy
Using /friend commands is now less spammy
Boss drop messages removed (they still exist due to usage of /drops, so they are no longer duplicated)
Opening impling jars no longer sends chat message

And others! We plan to continue reviewing messages and moving / removing them as needed.

Translations

With the release of season 10, we are happy to announce that the French language pack has been completed and a new language has been added - Dutch! You can switch the language in-game by using the /language (/langue) command. We do plan to add more language support in the future updates as well.

Other changes & bugfixes

Some of the important & impactful changes are too small to deserve a section of their own in this article:

Added a visual damage indicator for when player takes damage
Increased the rate at which golden nuggets are gained at the motherlode mine
Changed boss slayer task rolling to propose 3 different options based on the player's combat level
Changed the Rune Essence teleport back npc to teleport you back directly without a dialogue
Changed the shop logic so that shops no longer allow you to sell equipped armor pieces
Changed the tips timer so that the tips are less common
Changed the description of the thievable mobs so it takes up less space (less visual clutter)
Enhanced the UI for selecting quantities

Minescape Quantity Selector

Changed goblin attack rate so they attack less frequently
Updated the secret bell in Varrock - should be a bit louder
Removed some of the tips that are not relevant in day-to-day gameplay, the features mentioned in those tips still remain in-game (e.g. using comma before chat message to talk locally)
Fixed a bug allowing players to receive items directly to their bank from stores
Fixed a bug causing the scoreboard (side menu) to display the wrong skill levels in the wrong places
Fixed a bug allowing players to keep shop UIs open after teleporting
Fixed a bug preventing players from opening slayer master's UIs
Fixed a bug preventing the Corporeal Beast from dropping any loot on random occasions
Fixed a bug allowing players to gain creative flight in /lobby
Fixed a bug causing players to take damage on campfires
Fixed a bug causing a lot of heart particles to spawn when one-hit killing a monster
Fixed a bug causing cave of ordeals to be bugged out
Fixed farming shop description
Fixed dialogues in the Waterfall and Tree Gnome quests
Fixed the winter island teleport working outside of the winter event
Fixed noted item behavior: they can once again be moved, quick moved and put in offhand
Fixed the pointer going outside the screen when in the side menu (Shift+F)
Fixed how arrows look: they are no longer 2D texture
Added HP and Mana to the bottom HUD

Minescape Hud

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the release of the 10th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 9 - Beast

RockTheFlag — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:44:22 GMT

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

This small update brings you a big new boss, Corporeal Beast, alongside it's new items and various bugfixes.

Corporeal Beast

Some players may have already noticed a new beast deep in the wilderness in a large cave opening... Although no one managed to get through the magical barrier yet, it's believed that someone has found a way to allow players to pass it!

Starting with this update, players can now fight the Corporeal Beast - a new boss in Minescape with some best-in-slot shield drops, great supplies for skillers and a tough challenge for those seeking to max out their collection logs!

Minescape/Craftscape Corporeal Beast

We ask players to share their opinion of this new boss on the GamesLabs Discord server!

Minescape Spirit shields

Bugfixes & QoL changes

New update - new bugfixes (alongside new bugs for everyone to enjoy)!

Fixed issues preventing players from seeing custom UIs on newer Minecraft versions (past 1.21.4). Players should now be able to join using latest version (26.1.2)
Dragon spear was added to the game as a rare drop from the rare drop table (added previous update)
Updated the hub map to better represent the current season
Fixed a bug allowing players to equip noted helmets
Fixed a bug causing certain quest entities to not spawn
Fixed the location of the Exploration Skillcape perk - Eagle's Peak teleport
Fixed the description of Runecrafting skill body rune multipliers
Corrected the names of the pet tokens for all wilderness bosses
Updated various locations around the map with the reported issues

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 9th update of the 9th season. DXP & RNG are on until Monday, the 4th of April for everyone to enjoy this new update! Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 8 - Cold Winter

RockTheFlag — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:12:24 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th Minescape content update of season 9!

This update brings you Winter updates to the hub with a new bundle, advent calendar and more together with a new quest, a new Winter Event with an updated Winter Island, some bugfixes and QoL changes together with in-game spoilers for some future updates!

Winter changes

It is getting cold here at the GamesLabs workshop and to warm us up, we've worked hard to implement changes allowing us better represent the current season across the network. In this update we're releasing two major changes:

Hub changes:

Hub has been covered in snow and so the locals have changed their clothing accordingly thanks to the new COLD Bundle and a featured Winter shop!

Due to a late release of the calendar, we have made it so you can claim the first 7 days of the calendar. Make sure to grab your daily advent calendar rewards by using the /advent command each day in hub!

Minescape / Craftscape changes:

We have been working hard over the past months on some bigger updates, but before we can release them, we've decided to move up some of the things so everyone can enjoy some Winter changes together with some UI changes!

UI Changes

We have been working hard trying to make the game more appealing for players with no client-side mods via introduction of new displays like prayer side UI and other UI visibility changes. With this update, we're releasing the first part of those UI changes:

Action based side menu (sneak+swap item keybind (default: sneak + F), sneak (shift) to exit)
In-game item noted version display (each item now uses it's own texture)
The compass now indicates true north!

The new action based side menu allows you to switch between seeing combat information, skill levels, prayers (with the ability to activate / de-activate them), and magic spells (with the ability to cast teleport spells).

You may have also seen spoilers for a new in-game minimap, but we are postponing the release of it together with some other features until it is in a smoother shape. We are also aware that these new UIs & changes to existing ones will come with some issues / bugs and we want to ask you all to player report any issues you find to our discord.

Jungle potion

Although Karamja is not the first place that comes to your mind when thinking of winter, the locals there have not been blessed by snow, yet they have discovered a new ritual... Can you help them perform it?

Winter Island

The Winter Island (a.k.a. Xmas area) has been inaccessible for the last couple of years as it was going through some renovations that are finally finished! We have decided to change the island up to make it better for the long run and something that could be available each Winter season. This new island comes with some good spots for gathering resources (with deposit NPCs) and training for low & mid level players, or even a nice area for players to bankstand in the Assassin's village!

The Island contains:

Fishing spots
Woodcutting area
Farming & Herblore spaces
Hunter creature habitat
Cooking campfire
Assassin's village
Dwarf mine
A White Partyhat reward

The Winter Island is live from now until the January 4th, 2026 (inclusive) and can be reached via a magic teleport spell (no magic experience will be granted for this spell).

Future updates

As mentioned previously, we are actively working on some future content & game updates, multiple of them at once. Some of the content has already been spoiled for fans on our Discord, and even more has now implemented (still WIP staged) in-game for players to discover themselves (you cannot interact with them, they are still work in progress and will be changed before final release)!

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Although the Halloween is long over, some scary bugs have decided to stay for longer than intended... We have decided to deal with them and bring in some quality of life changes to replace their spot!

Added two new fairy rings: DIS - Wizards' Tower and CIQ - close to Yanille
Players can now get a random drop if they have 100% (or more) RNG (luck) boost when thieving (previously they would always get the same item)
Ardougne bankers were moved closer to the windows for easier access
Updated the ore bag full message to correctly describe the bag
Updated the location of the Skill Necklace Magic Guild teleport
Updated the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon POI: added entry message, changed the default music to match the main game
Added a description on items that are thievable inside the /mobs menu, specific monster sub-menu to clarify what items can be stolen from NPCs
Removed unobtainable food items: raw & cooked Ferret
Fixed the alchemy value of Dagon'hai Boots (gt) and Silver Sickle
Fixed a bug preventing players from accessing the Hardwood Grove
Fixed a bug with player grave spawning inside Fremennik Slayer Dungeon
Fixed a bug allowing players to teleport to the abyss without being close to the Mage of Zamorak
Fixed a formatting issue with skill buff icons in TAB
Fixed an issue with the new inventory UI preventing players from seeing the offhand item in the toolbar
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Mort Myre Pear item description
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Scroll Pouch item description
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Carnivorous Chinchompa name
Fixed a double spacing issue on slayer tasks in the TAB display
Fixed a an error displaying the wrong experience gained in the mining skill wiki for when mining Rune Essence
Fixed the hub Knife Gadget blood effect color
Removed the desert furniture mirage

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 8th update of the 9th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 7 - Hunter's dream

scipio3000 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:31:52 GMT

Season 9 update 7 - Hunter's dream

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th Minescape content update of season 9!

This update brings you an Easter event, a new quest, various skill buffs, Hunter skill improvements, bugfixes and QoL changes!

Easter event

Spring is here! The hard working players of Minescape / Craftscape have discovered chocolate-looking eggs all over the world: next to fishing spots, in the mines, hidden in flower fields and even in the pockets of various entities!

Minescape Olivia

These eggs used to belong to Olivia in Draynor but the Stellar Buddies have stole them and left them everywhere... Can you help out Olivia and bring them back some of the missing eggs for a reward?

Monk's Friend

The monk in Ardougne monastery kept yawning all through the last couple of days and citizens are upset... Can you figure out why? Head on over to Ardougne and start this new short quest!

Minescape Monk's Friend

Hunter changes

Hunter has always been a challenging skill, yet the rewards and unlocks have stopped in higher levels. To fix that and other issues, We're adding new hunter monsters, and various other QoL changes

Skillchompas

Minescape Crystal Skillchompa

A new type of hunter creatures started inhabiting the world of Minescape / Craftscape. These new creatures, although similar in looks to chinchompas, are unique and come in 5 different variants:

Cobalt skillchompa - unlocked at level 27 Hunter
Viridian skillchompa - unlocked at level 46 Hunter
Azure skillchompa - unlocked at level 68 Hunter
Crimson skillchompa - unlocked at level 89 Hunter
Crystal skillchompa - unlocked at level 97 Hunter

These new creatures buff the speed of harvesting blocks / resources from gathering skills.

Other Hunter changes

Together with the new creatures we are making the following changes to Hunter:

Implemented barehanded impling catching mechanics:
If a player hunter level is 10 above the unlock level of an impling, they can catch the impling without a jar or net (outside puro puro). When caught - it automatically gives the items rather than the impling jar.
Added Magical butterfly net - provides a better catching rate for Implings inside the PuroPuro
Changed the hunter armor sets to provide a small buff to the catch rate of hunter monsters
When caught, Hunter creatures now have a small chance of giving the player a cluescroll

Bugfixes & QoL changes

The GamesLabs network team has been listening carefully to player suggestions and bug reports in order to bring you another batch of bugfixes & QoL changes:

Farming:

Minescape Sugar Reeds

Xp obtained from harvesting apples has been increased from 47 to 48 and the time it takes to harvest reduced by 2 seconds
Xp obtained from harvesting lemons has been increased from 49 to 56
Xp obtained from harvesting tomatoes has been increased from 59 to 65
Xp obtained from harvesting sugar has been increased from 66 to 75
Xp obtained from harvesting corn has been increased from 76 to 85

Other changes & QoL fixes

Introduced a new construction block - auto imbuer: when using bones on it, it will keep imbuing them until you run out of not-imbued bones in your inventory

Minescape Auto Imbuer

Added new Agility buff: Every 10th lap of a given course completed will reward the player with 2x tokens and 1.5x experience points
Added new Exploration buff: New unique collection log entries will now reward players with 500xp in exploration
Increased the amount of Exploration experience given by the beacons inside wilderness by 100
Candy XP Lamps have been made to work past level 120 in a given skill
Fixed the locked item status not appearing for some capes
Fixed the Waterbirth Island dungeon exit not working
Fixed boss time messages sometimes showing the bosses health in the message
Fixed a bug allowing players to gain extra clue scrolls from the clue scroll pouch
Fixed a bug allowing players to obtain duplicate Capes of Ordeals
Fixed a bug preventing pickup sound from being played when items go directly to a pouch
Fixed a bug causing players to hear the fairy sound when not intended
Fixed a bug preventing players from leaving the dungeon during the Grand Tree quest bossfight part
Re-arranged the skills UI and moved the back button in skill in-game wiki pages so it's easier to access

New Minescape Skill UI

We have also added the following items to the Grand Exchange:

All of the new Skillchompas
Imbued infernal ashes
Secateurs
Trident
Cake
Bryophyta Staff
Kraken Soul
Mud Battlestaff
Bucket Of Milk
Dragon Metal Lump
Egg
Orlando Hat

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 7th update of the 9th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 6 - Let's explore

scipio3000 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:32:16 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th Minescape content update of season 9!

This update brings you new Treasure trail rewards, shop, a new quest in Brimhaven / Ardougne regions, bugfixes and QoL changes!

Tribal Totem

Kangai Mau has lost an artifact of his tribe... He needs a brave adventurer with a mastery in thieving to head on over to Ardougne and find his stolen artifact.

Minescape Kangai Mau

This new quest hopes to bring more players to the city of thieves - Ardougne, where they will use sneaky mechanics like lying, and password cracking to infiltrate into a mansion and get back the stolen artifact!

Port Khazard

A new area has been added! Port Khazard comes with a couple of small mines, a Smithing area, bank, and a general store together with some pirates on the dock.

Minescape Port Khazard

Treasure Trails

Adventurers of Minescape / Craftscape have been completing clue scrolls for nearly 5 years now and although a lot of them have gotten very lucky, sometimes it felt like the rewards they were getting were not the ones they were hoping for... Introducing Zaida and her clue shop!

Treasure Trail Points Shop

Minescape Zaida - Treasure Trail Points Shop

Zaida has arrived and settled right next to the main entrance to the Grand Exchange. She has set up a small shop offering those that love exploring some new items and unlocks to make clue grinding easier & faster for those focusing on treasure trails! The shop comes with the following items:

Skipping tickets (Beacon and Puzzle)
Reroll tokens (Easy, Medium, Hard and Elite)
Clue Scrolls (Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite)
Scroll Pouch upgrades: V1 and V2

These new items/unlocks will allow players to skip one beacon in their beacon clues, puzzle step, reroll the loot and even hold more clue scrolls in their scroll pouch.

Minescape Treasure Trail Points shop

To purchase the items you will need to collect Treasure Trail Points by completing various clues. Each tier of clue has a base amount of points they give and a multiplier is applied to those points for each tier completions of every 10, 50, 100, 250, and 500 clues of a given tier. You can check the amount of points you have by running the /clues command in-game.

To make it easier for players to enjoy this new shop, players that have completed clues prior to this update will receive all of the points they would have gained up to this update. Enjoy!

Orlando Smith's hat

Minescape Orlando Smith's hat

A new reward has been added to the Master Clue Scrolls - A historians hat that seems to boost the luck of adventurers opening clue scroll caskets. This hat will give players a small change to obtain a second casket inside the casket they are opening of a lower tier: e.g. Opening a master clue casket the player will have a small chance to get an elite casket inside of it and so on.

Bugfixes & QoL changes

As it is with each update, we have fixed some bugs and implemented some smaller QoL changes:

Buffed the alchemy value of Onyx.
Buffed crafting speeds of various items.
Fixed Party Mode bossing not working correctly.
Fixed (changed) the map for the Al-Kharid desert clue step to correctly represent the map after recent map update.
Fixed an anagram clue scroll for Cook.
Fixed clue scrolls giving the wrong directions in some cases.
Fixed /vote not working correctly.
Fixed /rarity command tip suggesting two different commands.
Fixed Agility times not showing correctly in chat upon completion of a course.
Fixed some entities spawning in the floor in specific areas.
Fixed the Ardougne thieving stalls from spawning the items on air in rare occurrences.

Minescape Ardougne Thieving Stalls

Fixed Quest monsters appearing in the boss log.
Fixed consistency issues with battlestaves.
Fixed double quantity message appearing when withdrawing items from the Grand Exchange inbox.
Fixed Diango not giving the backpack to players that have lost it.
Fixed Falador agility course having extra invisible blocks where not inteded.
Fixed sound spam when trying to pickup items with almost full inventory.
Added new items to the Grand Exchange - Orlando Smith's Hat and the Trident.
Added /transmog command.
Added the missing Estate agent in Ardougne.
Added new maps to elite clue scrolls. Enjoy finding them!
Added missing flora to various parts of the map.
Added new locations for implings to spawn at.
Changed /clues command to send 1 message for all tiers of clues instead of 6 messages.

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 6th update of the 9th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 5 - Witches, cats & more!

scipio3000 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:32:49 GMT

Season 9 Update 5

Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th Minescape content update of season 9!

This update continues on improving the quality of gameplay by introducing quest revamps on the last 6 old quests, and some other small changes. This update, just like the last is focused on QoL rather than big content.

Quest rework pt. 2

Many of you have noticed that the last update introduced reworks on 10 of the old quests, and with this update we've decided to finish off the last 6 of the original Minescape quests:

Crafting a backpack
From Flax to String
Haunted Manor
Hide and Seek
Lumbridge Runner
The Haunted Library

The quests had minor changes made to them to make them feel smoother and more modern.

New quests

With the old quests out of the way, the team decided to focus on bringing two new iconic quests from the oldschool version of the game:

Witch's House

A boy has lost his ball... It wouldn't seem like a big issue, if he hadn't lost it somewhere near the Witches house!

Head over to Taverley and help out the boy in recovering the ball, but be cautious: A legend says that the experimental monsters found around Morytania have originated in the shed of the Witch.. Could this be true?

Gertrude's Cat

Have you been to Varrock recently? The two kids of Gertrude that like to terrorize the locals have been talking about a problem at home... It seems Gertrude has lost her cat - Fluffs.

This short storyline quest will have you go out on a search mission for the cat for a small reward and eternal gratefulness from Gertrude herself. Are you ready to help her?

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Although the update is small, it still includes some bugfixes and Quality of Life changes:

Added a way to leave the Gnome Stronghold.

Added a sound when using special attacks.
Added course best time and lap counted to the agility skill menu.
Added a faster way to purchase Beer from bartenders.
Made completed quests glow in the quest list.
Test Bow has been removed from /items list.
Fixed an issue preventing players from opening ore, essence teleport scroll and gem bags from inside the inventory.
Fixed an issue allowing players to obtain a /job asking them to harvest quest only harvestables like Star Flowers.
Fixed missing flora around the map.
Fixed a broken agility shortcut.
Removed agility parkour course spam.

Staff applications

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!

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That's all for the 5th update of the 9th season. Make sure to join our Discord if you haven't already!

Season 9 update 4 - Quests & QoL

scipio3000 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:52:33 GMT

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

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!

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

Season 9 update 3 - Expanding Horizons

scipio3000 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:00:32 GMT

Season 9 Update 3 - Expanding Horizons

Hello everyone and welcome to the 3rd Minescape content update of season 9!

This update brings you over 20 locations, various location build improvements, bugfixes and a lot more! The update focuses on new quests, expanded transportation networks, and new points of interest.

Five new quests

It has been a while since adventurers had to face new challenges, solve puzzles and do anything it takes to help the creatures of Minescape, but today - that changes!

We are introducing 5 new quests linked to content unlocks:

Nature Spirit
Fairytale parts 1 & 2
Tree Gnome Village
The Grand Tree

Nature Spirit

Drezel needs your help! He'd like you to go on an adventure and bring his friend Filliman Tarlock some food, but it won't be easy: the swamp where he is meant to be found is haunted by spirits and those spirits hate adventurers like you! Prepare to face new enemies, unlock new methods and learn the truth about Filliman!

Successfully completing the quest will award players with 2 quest points, 3000 xp in Crafting, 2000 xp in Defence and Constitution and ability to harvest Mort Myre mushrooms, stems and pears to recharge your druid pouch.

Together with the quest a new crafting method has been added to the game: crafting silver sickles using a silver bar and a mould on a furnace after unlocking it upon reaching level 18 in crafting.

Fairytale I: Growing Pains

Ever since the lost city of Zanaris has been discovered, players have noticed that something is wrong... When visiting Fairy Chaeldar for their slayer tasks, players have started hearing some evil-sounding mumbling from the Fairy Godfather...

Meanwhile on the mainland Martin the Master Gardener has his own problems: Are you able to help him?

To start this quest players must first complete the new Nature spirit quest, have access to Zanaris and enough courage to face a level 150 monster, then talk to Martin the master gardender in the Draynor Village.

Completing the quest will reward players with 2 quest points, 2500 xp in Farming, 2000 xp in attack, 1000 xp in magic and a new farming tool - Magic Secateurs, a new tool for players to use in between shears and hoe.

Fairytale II: Cure a Queen

After a challenging fight you decide to return to Zanaris, and walk by Fairy Godfather except he has not left the throne yet? What is going on!

Players feeling extra adventurous can decide to investigate him and start the new quest by heading back to the Draynor Village where the master farmer may have more information about the Fairy Queens whereabouts.

The quest comes together with many new areas to explore, things to gather and a whole new transportation system - the fairy rings!

During the quest players will be tasked with finding and curing the fairy queen, by doing so - unlocking the new transportation system. Although not all locations will be present with the update, the fairy rings will already take you to 30 different locations!

Completing the quest will also reward players with 2 quest points, 3500 xp in Herblore, and 2500 xp in thieving alongside the fairy ring system unlock.

Tree Gnome Village

General Khazard has been causing troubles to our beloved gnomes for quite a while now, but this time he has caused trouble deep in the Tree Gnome Village. Sadly, the gnomes are not powerful enough alone to hold down the front in the battlefield and to get back the orbs of protection. Can you help them?

During the quest you will be challenged by General Khazard's army, and will have to avoid traps to help gnomes get back their protection orbs to restore the sacred spirit tree.

Completing the quest will reward players with 2 quest points and ability to use the Spirit Tree transportation network all around the world of Minescape!

The Grand Tree

Last, but certainly not least is the Grand Tree quest: The tree is slowly dying and King Shareen needs your urgent help to save his people! Is it a sabotage? Is it something else? Head past the waterfall area and investigate the troubles for a promise of great rewards!

Completing this quest will reward players with 5 quest points, 18400 xp in Attack, 7900xp in Agility, 2150 xp in Magic and access to a new mine together with 2 new transportation systems: The gnome gliders and Hot air baloons!

Both of the transportation systems will take you all over the world of Minescape. Are you ready to do whatever you can to save The Grand Tree?

New features

Transportation methods

Exploration is a very important part of Minescape. However, with each map expansion players have to travel further and further on foot to experience new features, new unlocks. This has been changed with the introduction of 5 new transportation systems:

Spirit Trees

Spirit Trees are a gnome transportation system that utilises ancient tree roots to quickly travel around the world. This system will allow you to travel between:

Grand Exchange
Feldip Hills
Tree Gnome Village
Gnome Strongholdy
Battlefield of Khazard
East of the Poison Waste
Prifddinas

Canoes

Players shall no longer spend time on walking to oftenly visited locations from Lumbridge all the way to the wilderness without having a high magic level! Canoe system allows players to Lumbridge, Champions’ Guild, Barbarian Village, Edgeville and wilderness.

To use canoes, players will require the following woodcutting levels:

Level 12 – Travel to one adjacent stop.
Level 27 – Travel up to two stops.
Level 42 – Travel up to three stops.
Level 57 – Travel freely to any stop.

Gnome Gliders

The Gnome Glider network will allow you to swift trough the skies to reach various locations around the map thanks to the talented gnome pilots. Players can now board a glider and fly to:

Karamja (Gandius)
Al Kharid (Kar-Hewo)
White Wolf Mountain (Sindarpos)
Digsite (Lemanto Andra)
Feldip Hills (Lemantolly Undri)
Ape Atoll (Ookookolly Undri)

Hot Air Balloons

Although the usage of hot air baloon network is unlocked from gnomes, the players will be navigating them themselves! This new transportation system will require players to load up on logs and avoid collision when navigating to their target locations:

Entrana, unlocked at level 20 firemaking
Taverley, unlocked at level 20 firemaking
Crafting Guild, unlocked at level 30 firemaking
Varrock, unlocked at level 40 firemaking
Castle Wars, unlocked at level 50 firemaking
Grand Tree, unlocked at level 60 firemaking

Fairy Rings

The great fairies are thankful for helping cure their queen and as a reward, they allow you to use their transportation system - the Fairy Rings!

This new transportation system will currently take you to 30 diffrent location all around the world of Minescape.

Farming

Stop using your hands and grab a new farming tool - secateurs! This purchaseable tool is unlocked at level 10 Farming and provides a slight speed boost for those harvesting crops. Additionally, upon completion of the Fairytale Part 1 quest, players will get Magic Secateurs, an upgraded version of the secateurs providing a farming harvest speed boost better than shears.

New & Updated locations

Mort Myre Swamp

Mort Myre Swap has become more dangerous with the introduction of the new monster: Ghasts. These creatures can only be attacked once the right tools are used. Perhaps Nature Spirit can help you with that?

Tree Gnome Village

The heart of the gnome resistance against Khazard forces has been expanded, offering a deeper look into their hidden sanctuary.

Tree Gnome Stronghold & Grand Tree

The gnome capital has been expanded with new structures, making it a bustling hub for adventurers. The Grand Tree feature, level 37 Agility shortcuts on the western and eastern sides allow for faster travel, though they are locked behind the completion of The Grand Tree quest, new monsters, mining site, and more!

Corsair Cove Resource Area

Three new Agility shortcuts have been introduced: a level 50 shortcut, a level 60, and a level 70. These additions make Corsair Cove an essential location for resource-focused players.

Zanaris Part 2 Areas

Zanaris continues to grow with new locations to explore, uncovering more of its mystical secrets.

Ardougne Farms

Farming plots and sheep areas have been added to Ardougne farms, making it a more viable location for farming.

Keep Le Faye

The stronghold of the mysterious knights now stands fortified, hinting at deeper stories to uncover in future quests.

Barbarian Outpost

This warrior training ground has been introduced!

Witchaven & Dungeon Secret Passage

A dark mystery lurks beneath Witchaven, will you be the first one to explore this area?

Fishing Platform (Not Yet Accessible)

A remote platform stands in the sea, waiting to reveal its secrets in a future update.

Ardougne Sewers

The underground labyrinth of Ardougne’s sewers has been expanded.

TzHaar City: Mor Ul Rek (No Mobs Yet)

The volcanic city of the TzHaar has been introduced.

Lumbridge Cellar

The cellar of the Lumbridge has been finally opened!

Lumbridge Swamp Caves

The murky depths beneath the swamp now feature a new training spot for low level players.

Bandit Camp & Mine to the South

The desert outlaws' hideout now includes an expanded mining area.

Ruins of Unkah

The remains of a once-thriving desert settlement now available for exploration!

Nardah

This desert town has been refined, making it a key location for future quests.

Giants' Plateau

A remote plateau where giants roam, offering a new place to kill them.

Ruins of Uzer & Dungeon

The ancient ruins and their hidden dungeon have been expanded.

Bug fixes

This update fixes various bugs and improves gameplay for a better experience:

Fixed various spelling errors in guild names and exploration messages
Fixed dragon metal lump texture not appearing correctly
Fixed missing Ardougne beacon
Fixed crafting particles playing when they shouldn’t
Fixed an issue with item dropping while the backpack is open
Fixed Lumbridge Cook’s skin issue

Restored missing foliage in various parts of the map
Added a night vision effect to the Cave of Ordeals
Added missing bankers to Falador West Bank
Updated the description of the Unstrung Symbol

Staff applications

Build team: Responsible for bringing the 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: Seeking digital artists to create monster/item models, new UIs, icons, and more! Experience in all these fields is not necessary!

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 reviewing your applications!

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

Season 9 Update 1 - QoL/Balance/Bug fixes

scipio3000 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:44:38 GMT

Season 9 Update 1 - QoL/Balance/Bug fixes

Hello everyone and welcome to the first update of Season 9.

This update implements various suggestions posted on our Discord server and brings QoL changes, gameplay balance, bug fixes, and several map changes/fixes!

QoL changes

Dialogues: If a new player does not choose an option in a multiple-option dialogue within 10/15 seconds, a reminder message to press T and click with the mouse will be sent. This applies to players with playtime under 10 hours.
Resource Gathering Blacklist: Made the blacklist work on resource gathering (e.g., stone) through an in-game setting.

Minescape Settings

Hunter Blacklist: The blacklist now works for hunter (e.g., bones on ferret).
Exploration: Balance job weights. You will now be getting jobs closer to your levels.
Drop List UI: Added an extra drop list UI. If there are more than 15 drops, "..." will be displayed. Clicking on the monster icon will open the full list of drops.
Drop Rarities: Added a star system to better indicate drop rarities for legendary and ultimate brackets.

Minescape Drop Table

/drops: Made /drops messages color-coded.
/collectionlog: Added the /collectionlog command.
/self: Added the /self command to provide player information in JSON format (useful for 3rd party mods).

Gameplay balance/tweaks

Thieving Stalls: Added random locations for thieving stalls. A new location is asigned every 5 minutes. Buffed overall XP gained through stalls.

Minescape Thieving Stall

Hunter mobs: Reduced hunter mobs HP from 300 to 100.
Ironman Shops: Ironman shops are no longer being shared.
Dragonfire Resistance: Becoming wet (either from the Trident's special or from jumping in water) now grants dragonfire resistance.
Adamant/Rune Dragons: Rebalanced their stats and drops accordingly.

Adamant and Rune Dragons

UI Actions: Opening UI (e.g., bank) will now stop skilling actions.
Stock stores: Increased overall stock.

Bug fixes

RSP: Addressed lag issues when loading RSP by implementing a slight delay.
Demon Slayer: Fixed the issue with the quest not updating when collecting three keys.
Green Dragons: Wilderness Green dragons have been added back to the game.
Sounds: Fixed sound issues on version 1.20.6 and above.
Dragon Pickaxe: The special attack no longer works on flowers/logs.
Max Cape: Fixed the glitch associated with the max cape.
Agility Master: Corrected the directional issue in the Agility Master's dialogue in Al-Kharid.
Ore Bag: Fixed the issue where smelting addy or runite ores with the ore bag consumed too many graphite ores.
/jobs: Fixed /jobs command not opening the job UI.
Hunter Cages: You can no longer kill trapped animals.
Runecrafting Necklaces: Fixed the issue with runecrafting necklaces where charges were being consumed inconsistently.
Wrath runes: Added missing wrath runes to the skill UI.

Minescape Runecrafting

Map updates

Floating Grass and Flowers: Fixed the floating grass and flowers in the north end of Feldip Hills.
Terrain Smoothing: General terrain smoothing to remove misplaced/dissimilar blocks in various places and small 1x1 gaps in ground surfaces.
Light Sources and Air Pockets: Removed potential render issue-causing light sources, empty pockets of air in the terrain, and isolated or active liquid sources and 1x1 water-filled trench lengths in the Lumbridge, Draynor, and Port Sarim/Rimmington areas.
Seafloor Smoothing: Smoothed out the seafloor inside the Port Sarim and adjacent ocean areas.
Barrier Blocks: Removed excess barrier blocks from south Karamja and the green dragon area of Taverley Dungeon to improve client-side performance for less powerful PCs. Added an aesthetically matching wall feature to balance accessibility and performance.
Tree Fix: Removed one leaf block from a tree next to the Lumbridge beacon to prevent players from getting stuck inside the tree.
Entrana Shoreline: Smoothed out and built up the length of Entrana's shoreline to match more evenly with the surrounding seabed.
Beach South of Port Sarim: Shored up the free-floating sand blocks underneath the beach south of Port Sarim to avoid accidental collapse.
Water Source Blocks: Removed over 60k loose/excessive water source blocks outside of accessible map geometry spaces around the Ice Caves.
Seabed Layering: Added over 150k dirt blocks to the seabed in the northwest regions of the map to even out its appearance from the adjacent shorelines.

Staff applications

Build team: Responsible for bringing the 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: Seeking digital artists to create monster/item models, new UIs, icons, and more! Experience in all these fields is not necessary!

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 reviewing your applications!

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Season 9 - A New Sunrise

scipio3000 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:43:46 GMT

Minescape Season 9 - A New Sunrise

A long time ago

Minescape was first released in 2012. We first approached Podcrash in 2011 & 2012 about a possible partnership (buying their map), but they declined as they were working on their own server called RuneCraft. In 2013 we partnered with Podcrash and purchased their map. A collaboration that slowly brought more attention to Minescape.

As a side note, before 2013, we first used a map shaped like the world, and then we tried to roll out our Runescape mechanics to the project Crafting Azeroth map.

Minescape has been evolving since 2013 on the current RS map. It has lived through many different game versions (from v1.2 to v2, v3, v4, Minescape Classic, Minescape Network, and this current final version: Minescape). Whilst we did several code rewrites, some of our configuration files, such as monster spawns, were imported from previous versions (nowadays, we estimate that a few hundred spawns are still from Minescape Classic).
In 2011, the sun in Minecraft was rising in another direction. The north was changed in 2011/2012 and thus made the entire map rotated 90 counter clockwise. Over the years, we never really considered it as being problematic and built upon it.

As of right now, Minescape contains a lot of data related to the map. Here is a small, non-exaustive list:

Monster coordinates (thousands and thousands of spawns in JSON format)
NPCs (hundreds of spawns)
Skill locations (e.g. fishing spots)
Holograms (floating texts)
Point Of Interests
Action/Trigger boxes
Game code: we, sometimes, instead of using configuration files for punctual features, write them in code. For instance, we may code a closed gate that moves the player in the northern/southern direction
Velocity: In some occasions, the players may be moved in an absolute direction
Player saves: We store coordinate related information
In-game minimap with waypoints

Rotating the map has been in the heads of many players, and we have always said that it was too complicated for us to do so. In order for you to understand the full scope of the problem, here is an example:

Canada estimated it would take years to properly handle non-binary genders. Right now, government systems use a binary approach (male/female). It may sound easy to simply add more genders to the system. In essence, it is very easy to do so. However, the implications of changing this simple nomenclature are insanely complex. There are so many services using their internal systems, that it takes years and years to fully map out and understand the repercussions.

Our game code is, very much simpler, but has the same scope of complications. What if we rotate the map 90° clockwise? What happens in the code? What do we need to do and test in order to make sure everything works fine?

These are the reasons why we never decided to rotate the map. We thought we would have to convert all our configuration files to match the new coordinates, go around the entire code base, and check where we use anything related to position. And after all of that, we would have to run a lot of tests, which would take an immense time. We estimated it as months and months of work, possibly even a year with the current size of our team. In that time frame, new features would either need to be using the new coordinates, but wouldn't be able to be pushed or old coordinates and be converted again later on.

However, in this equation, we forgot one simple but yet very powerful fact. Minescape does not rely on the Minecraft engine to work.
What does this mean?
This means that Minescape in essence, can be run on various server software as it directly runs on our in-house framework.

Eureka!

Minescape Map properly rotated

We always thought about the impacts on the game from the world rotating. We decided to take a new approach, and we successfully allowed the Minescape map to be rotated by 90° whilst having 0 impact on the game. This process took a few hours to set up. In fact, the game does not need to know that the map has been rotated.
It took us more time and effort to rotate the map itself: We made a few scripts to help us rotate the blocks and entities in their new positions.

North is now North

No more confusion! Minescape North is now where it should have been since the Minecraft Sun rotation!

Marketing

Let's move on to another important topic: Marketing. Due to some third parties, our ability to market our decade-old project has been impacted. Without delving too deeply into the topic (you can do your own research), our map and name have been stolen. Yes, stolen. Third parties are using our map as a base for theirs (claiming it as their own work). One of them has even registered a trademark on the name we've been using since 2012. They have been threatening content producers on various platforms with the trademark. We will never give up our name, Minescape. We have put too much work into it.

Nonetheless, we have to move forward. We have to be able to bring the project into a new era. We have decided on a solution that preserves our flagship name "Minescape" and opens up to new audiences. We will refer to it as A/B marketing.

New players or non-active old players will see the project as CraftScape (logos, texts, etc). We've added two commands:

/rebrand which toggles the name of the project (Minescape <-> CraftScape)
/craftscape explains why this change/rebrand command is needed

Rebrand mode being toggled

Call our flagship project whatever you like; at the end of the day, we believe we offer the best RS experience in Minecraft and one of the most complete MMORPGs in the Minecraft world. Our name means very little compared to the work we've been putting in over a decade.

/craftscape command

Content updates

This update also focuses on bringing more resources to the world! We have decided to split up season 9 into at least 3 targets. This target, and this update by default, focuses on enhancing the resources available in the world and ensuring each type of resource can be farmed efficiently.

Resources

We've encountered some complications when transitioning to 1 main world and 1 Ironman world. One of these issues was that resource areas and spawn rates were simply too small to accommodate the single world of players. This means that by removing a world, we essentially halved the amount of resources available to the players. A significant push from the players has helped us rectify this. Many skills—whether it be woodcutting, mining, thieving, runecrafting, or herblore—have seen increases in either the amount of resources available at a given spot or the time between their spawning.

Rune spot in deep wildy

Now, you may be wondering where exactly all of these new and improved resource areas are, and we hear you. Some are at familiar locations such as the abandoned mine, Entrana, and Edgeville. Some are being kept a secret to allow players to discover their own 'best-in-slot' areas before others. This promotes exploration and community hunts.

New Points Of Interest

Myth's Guild (Rune Dragons)

When deciding where we should focus next in terms of development, it was one throwaway comment that spiralled into a massive overhaul of the south side of our map. The comment "we don't have a dragon lump drop for the dragon platebody" took us on a path to correct that... Introducing the Myth's Guild! Initially locked behind Dragon Slayer 1 only, the Myth's Guild offers a new bank, teleports to 3 other guilds (Champions, Heroes, and Legends Guild), a new cooking spot, a new magic tree spot, and herblore spot(s). Oh yeah, in the basement somewhere there are also rune dragons now, but that's not important...

Minescape Myths Guild

Corsair cove dungeon

Below Corsair cove, a small movement of the earth has uncovered a vast dungeon from a forgotten time. On the east side of this dungeon, Ogres have made it their home. Over a large cavern sits a pretty worn out bridge, this bridge will take you to the west side of the dungeon, home to a number of different chromatic dragons as well as the illusive rune dragon! Something else was also uncovered when explorers mapped out this dungeon recently. An altar?

Minescape Corsair Cove Dungeon

Wrath altar

Within Corsair cove dungeon, you will find the entrance to the wrath altar, this altar requires 95 runecrafting to awaken and produce wrath runes, a super powerful rune needed in casting the highest level spells. Here is a list for the multiplier of creating this rune:
lvl 95 - 1 wrath rune

lvl 102 - 2 wrath runes

lvl 109 - 3 wrath runes

lvl 116 - 4 wrath runes

Minescape Wrath Altar

Ardougne farm areas

Fleshing out the southwestern areas of the map, the build team has been working hard to bring ardougne and below to life.

Minescape Ardougne farm areas

Chaos druid tower

Minescape Chaos druid tower

Clocktower

Minescape Clocktower

Witchaven

Minescape Witchaven

Eagles peak (new tp)

We're always striving to improve older areas to bring them 'up to code' per-say. Old eagle's peak was bad, new eagles peak is good. It does also come with the benefit of a new teleport there too.

Minescape Eagles peak

Exploration

Exploration has received some changes related to jobs. Jobs are now weighted depending on their skill difference, meaning you will be getting a lot more tasks closer to your skill level required to execute the task. We've also made the probability of landing on a certain skill (in a job task), constant. This means you will get as many mining tasks as hunter ones.

Exploration points

We've added a new task UI for jobs as well as points. Completing a job will reward you with one exploration point.

Cancellng a job: You can spend 3 points to cancel a job (or 1500 gp)
Partial completion: You can also spend 1 point to partially complete the job. You will receive coins and exploration XP depending on the tasks you completed.

Exploration points will, in the future, receive a shop similarily to the Slayer shop.

Crafting

We've added the ingredients listing in the wiki UI.

Candies

We increased the maximum amount of candies you can spend per day on loot-crates and xp-lamps.

Resourcepacks

We have fixed various issues regarding resource-pack loading.

Accuracy

We have buffed overall accuracy.

Quests

When starting a quest, various instructions will appear on the screen. These can be toggled off by clicking on the current quest in /quest. We've also improved our cinematic mode, by changing the view ratio when watching cinematics.

Minescape Questing

Top bar

We have finally fixed the top bar not appearing for certain players.

Monsters dislocating

We have fixed our rendering issues related to animated monsters.

Staff applications

GamesLabs is actively accepting Staff Applications! We are looking for players that are 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: Build team is responsible for bringing the 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: We are looking for digital artists to create monster / item models, new UIs, icons and more! Experience in all of the fields is not necessary!

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 reviewing your applications!

Where to next?

Season 9 is our first, big step in changing our stance and thinking on certain matters, as well as a big step in how we deliver content. With that in mind, where do we go from here? The next update to come will focus more on the movement side of the project, how we interact and get around the map as a whole. This will include new teleportation methods and new ways to get from point A to point B. After we have tackled the issues in getting around a map as big as ours, we will focus our attention on mobs, specifically the difficulty and complexity of mobs and bosses and bring everything more in line for a better experience for the players, with a sprinkle of the other miscellaneous stuff we like to come up with in the heat of the moment. Stay tuned for more to come this year and beyond!

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That's all for season 9!
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Season 8 Update 3 - Community Update

scipio3000 — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:23:58 GMT

Minescape Season 8 Update 3

Hello everyone and welcome to the third update of Season 8.

This update implements various suggestions posted on our Discord server and brings bug fixes, features and QoL changes!

Bug fixes/Corrections

Performance: Fixed various performance issues.
Tips: Removed the tip about requiring Optifine to see armor trims.
Chat: Illegal chat characters are now filtered out from chat.
GE: Selecting 0 as a price will no longer sell the item on GE.
Scoreboard/top bar: Fixed scoreboard/top bar vanishing under certain circumstances.
Trading: Fixed an issue where a locked armor item could vanish when trading the same item to a player.
Anvil UI: Items can no longer be put in the Anvil UI when selecting an amount.
Trident: We added the missing Trident to the Magic skill UI.

New features/Balance

Favorite items: You can now select up to three items as favourites. Favourite items will not be dropped on death, including PvP deaths. Only 1 item will be kept if within a stack.

Minescape Favorite Items

Eagles' Peak teleport: Requiring level 90 and 5 nature/death and law runes, you can now teleport to Eagles' Peak.
Tokkul shop: You can now buy rare gems (including Onyx) from the Tokkul shop located next to the Fight Caves! The shop restocks every 15 minutes!

Minescape Tokkul shop

Staff of dead/light: Increased the raw damage of the staff of dead and staff of light.
Ore bag: The coal bag has been replaced by the ore bag. You can purchase it for 120 golden nuggets. Existing coal bags have been transformed to ore bags.

Minescape Ore Bag

Prospector set: Wearing the full set now grants a higher chance of not breaking pay dirt.
120 capes: New capes available in the cape store! These capes have the same stats and benefits as the level 99 capes but have new cosmetic looks.

Minescape 120 max cape

Moss key: Buffed the drop rate of moss keys.
Dragon limbs: Buffed the drop rate of Dragon limbs from King Black Dragon.
Boss Slayer: Added GWD bosses and The Kraken to Boss slayer.
Skills necklace: Added a teleport to the mining guild.
Swamp tar: Removed Magmatius and Noiled tars from Exploration jobs.

QoL changes

Tips: Increase tips delay from 5 to 15 minutes.
Special attacks: Special attacks on thievable mobs now require the use of right click (instead of sneak + right click).
Speed potions: Speed potions are now allowed in wildy and boss instances.
Moss/Giant keys: These keys are now stackable.
DragonFire Shield: DFS special attack will no longer give Magic XP (=> opens up Defence pures). We also added a command to disable its special attack (/dfs). We also removed the DFS cooldown, it now uses 50% of the spec bar.
Overall XP: Added the overall XP leaderboard in the leaderboard menu.

Minescape Leaderboards UI

Boss killing times: Added a boss killing time leaderboard. As of right now, only kill times in instances are recorded.
Auto smithing: Shift clicking an anvil will automatically start smithing your previously smithed items.

Minescape Auto Smithing

Quests: Completed quests now show the rewards you obtained.
Home teleport spell: The home tp now shows where your spawn point is.

Minescape Home Teleport

Thieving: Thieved mobs (on cooldown) now have a visual indicator.

Minescape Thieving Indicator

/drops : We added a new command that lets you enable mob drop messages of given rarities. E.g. Running "/drops always" will show all drops, where running "/drops rare" will show rare+ drops.

Staff applications

Build team: Build team is responsible for bringing the 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: We are looking for digital artists to create monster / item models, new UIs, icons and more! Experience in all of the fields is not necessary!

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 reviewing your applications!

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That's all for the second update of the eigth season.
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Season 8 update 2 - Rise of the Kraken + 1.20

RockTheFlag — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:10:02 GMT

Hello everyone and welcome to the 2nd Minescape content update of season 8!

This update brings you a new boss, summer cosmetics, map changes, bug fixes, and QoL changes!

1.20 & Armor trims

We have upgraded our framework to support 1.20 natively! This means that our builders will be able to use the new blocks of 1.20 to expand the MinescapeVerse!
1.20 also brings armor trims, you can now fully enjoy armor trims without Optifine!

Minescape Armor trims

Kraken

Just a couple of months ago, our stellar buddies have discovered a new cave near the Piscatoris Fishing Colony, where they spent that time trying to understand how the cave formed, when all of the sudden - a huge creature with tentacles appeared - The Kraken!

Minescape Kraken

This new Minescape boss is not for everyone - its fierce magical attacks can cut through your armors with ease, so be cautious, and before heading there, make sure to bring some type of long distance weapon, as your melee weapons will not be able to reach or damage the beast.

The boss drops a new magic staff - Trident of the seas! This new weapon requires level 70 to wield, deals 70 base damage and an extra 20% when you are wet ! The special makes the player wet for 2 minutes, slightly reducing the player's speed as a side-effect. Trying to swim will also mark the player as wet.

Minescape trident

There is also a smaller version of the boss - Cave kraken! Just like the Kraken, they can only be damaged by ranged/magic attacks and slayer masters are currently trying to figure out the best tactics to kill them before they could be assigned as a task.

Minescape Krakens

RuneTale changes

Although we're nearing the end of the season, this update brings a couple of bugfixes and QoL changes to the first season of RuneTale:

Added a toggle command for the auto-imbue of bones and ashes - /autoimbue .
Fixed an issue preventing cut onyx task from being completed.
Fixed an issue preventing ores obtained from mining perk from being automatically banked with the right unlocks.
Fixed an issue preventing bonfires from giving a chance at RDT.
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Fishing convenience unlock description.
Fixed fire ashes (non-prayer ones) from being auto imbued.
Fixed broadcasts still showing up on RuneTale.

Summer lobby

With the update, we're also releasing a new summer themed event and bundle stores in the lobby of the GamesLabs network! Make sure to check out the new stores and grab some amazing cosmetics for a lower price!

GamesLabs Summer lobby

Bank search

We have finally brought one of the most requested features in to the game - bank tab searching! Simply right-click a bank tab and search for whatever you may need!

Minescape Bank Search

Dragon tool special attacks

Dragon tools are one of the best tools in-game and just recently our stellar buddies have discovered something...

If you put more energy into the tools, You'll find that you're able to smash the resource a lot harder and instantly harvest 1 of that resource! This special comes with a price of 60% of your special energy bar and all resource rules still apply (trees can still fall, ores can still break down ect. ect.).

Cloak of Ordeals

Cave of Ordeals has always been a fun challenge for new adventurers in the world of Minescape, but until now, the cave has only awarded players with boosted drops and some coins. This changes today.

Introducing Cloak of Ordeals: a new cape slot item that has 5 versions for 5 tiers of it. Each tier provides more damage to mobs inside the Cave of Ordeals when worn, and has a higher defence requirement.

To obtain the cloak, players must defeat at least 10 tiers of the cave and claim it in the pause room (deposit box room).

Minescape Cloak of Ordeals

Map changes

New update - new places to visit!

Our build team has been working very hard and have updated and introduced some new buildings worth visiting:

Mos Le'Harmless (updated)
Corsair cove
Cairn Isle
Ship Yard
Zanaris (updated)
Necromancer tower
Legends' guild
Combat training camp

Although these buildings do not have much functionality yet, we have planned a lot of future content in them, and will continue updating the map every update with some new buildings/areas!

New Minescape Regions

Even more new Minescape Regions!

QoL changes, new features & bug fixes

RNG boost now increases the odds of getting a golden nugget from the motherlode mine.
Players can no longer drop backpacks and pouches in the wilderness (death drop prevention).
Players logging off or switching profiles in the wilderness will now be teleported to the Lumbridge graveyard to prevent unfair wilderness scanning profiles.
Added and updated some new impling spawn areas (next to newly added buildings).
Increased the alch value of the Hill Giants Club.
Entering the shed near the Cooking guild will no longer require the player to click in chat to enter it, instead players will auto enter if they have the key in their inventory.
Updated some entity spawn points in newly built areas (e.g. bankers moved to banks, construction workers left to work on new areas).
Fixed the missing Ironman server icon in the lobby game selector.
Fixed an issue preventing players from chopping the dramen tree after the Lost city quest is completed.
Fixed an issue counting wilderness slayer monster kills outside wilderness if more than one of the tasks is active.
Fixed an issue preventing players from making god books.
Fixed an issue preventing monsters from dropping 2 of an item, if the max quantity is 2.
Fixed an issue allowing ironmen players to drop trade in the wilderness.
Fixed an issue allowing ironman players to trade in between profiles in the wilderness.
Fixed an issue with the fonts when joining on 1.20+.
Fixed an issue in the Lost City quest giving players the wrong dialogue when speaking to leprechaun for a second time.
Fixed an issue preventing players from crafting a slayer helmet unless the player is wearing some type of helmet.
Fixed the description of hard leather body mentioning the wrong unlock level.
Fixed the hard leather coif being the wrong color.
Fixed the damage received from the level 38 dwarf.
Fixed the missing defence buffers from certain monsters (chicken puppet, dungeon keeper, rock crab, scarecrow, skip's pet, tree spirit, zamorakian monks).
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Warriors' guild name.
Fixed a spelling mistake in the dragon chain and plate level requirements in the in-game wiki.
Fixed a spelling mistake in the in-game prayer wiki.
Fixed a spelling mistake in the steel arrow description.
Fixed a spelling mistake in the in-game mining wiki showing the wrong stone ore xp.
Fixed the grand exchange not showing pagination buttons after a certain page.
Updated the way arrows work, they should no longer go through walls in rare instances.
Updated the descriptions of Ava's attractor and accumulator to correctly describe what it saves (arrows -> ammunition).
Moved some "spammy" messages from the chatbox to the hotbar (thieving (both stall and NPC), checkpoint, music playing messages).
Added drop rate rarity ranges

Staff applications

Build Team: Build team is responsible for bringing the 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: We are looking for digital artists to create monster / item models, new UIs, icons and more! Experience in all of the fields is not necessary!

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 reviewing your applications!

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That's all for the second update of the eigth season.
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Minescape - Runescape in Minecraft, MMORPG

Chapter 10 update 3 - Halloween 2026

Halloween 2026

Lobby

Minescape

Staff applications

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Chapter 10 update 2 - Stars

Shooting stars

QoL changes & bugfixes

Staff applications

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Chapter 10 update 1 - Modernizing continues

Chapters?

Map updates

Version upgrade

QoL changes & bugfixes

Staff applications

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Season 10 - Staying up to date

Bedrock support is back

Network version upgrade

Model engine upgrade

Sound effects, animations and entity dialogues

New & existing area updates

Larran's chest

Varrock museum

Taverley dungeon extension

Agility courses

Gnome agility course

Canifis rooftop course

Barbarian outpost course & quest

Pothole dungeon

Ardougne castle & West Ardougne

Port Phasmatys

Other area related changes

Chat spam

Translations

Other changes & bugfixes

Staff applications

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Season 9 update 9 - Beast

Corporeal Beast

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Staff applications

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Season 9 update 8 - Cold Winter

Winter changes

Hub changes:

Minescape / Craftscape changes:

UI Changes

Jungle potion

Winter Island

Future updates

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Staff applications

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Season 9 update 7 - Hunter's dream

Easter event

Monk's Friend

Hunter changes

Skillchompas

Other Hunter changes

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Staff applications

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Season 9 update 6 - Let's explore

Tribal Totem

Port Khazard

Treasure Trails

Treasure Trail Points Shop

Orlando Smith's hat

Bugfixes & QoL changes

Staff applications

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Season 9 update 5 - Witches, cats & more!

Quest rework pt. 2

New quests

Witch's House

Gertrude's Cat