After the big cleanup, the team knew that it was time to jump back into tackling some of the big projects they had been planning. Ryan started by heading down to the Quest Library and grabbing some of the in-progress books that had been sitting on the Quest Development bench for over a year. As he picked them up, a massive cloud of dust filled the air. "Wow, these have been sitting here forever!" he exclaimed. He sat down and started reading over the Quest books to see what work still needed to be done, then whipped out the AllGoFree Tools developer pen and started writing.

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Hello everyone! We hope that you are enjoying the first few months of 2019. After our big cleanup update where we got the majority of the crusty code out of the engine and plugins, we are back to working on content for all you of. One of the areas that we want to focus on is Quests, as they are fun interactive parts of the game that not only provide engaging and nostalgic content, but also are key to unlocking other areas and aspects of the game. With that said, we are very happy to announce the release of the Black Knights' Fortress Quest! Sean and Matt did over 90% of the work on this quest, and I want to thank them for all the hard work they put in.
- The RuneRebels Dev Team

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Tools:
• Added SavePlayerLocation step to the cutscene editor.
• Added support for temporary dynamic content in cutscenes.

Engine:
• Fixed a bug where sometimes leveling up would play the Scape Main theme.
• Fixed a bug where the copyFrom() method in the ItemList class didn't properly set the item's slot, leading to BlitzErrors when doing activities such as trading.

Shops:
• Fixed a bug where Npc owned shops didn't restock properly.

Dueling:
• Fixed a bug where the Dueling plugin was capturing trade item events.

Npc Spawns:
• Removed some Npc Spawns that were leftover from WorldScape.

Quests:
• Added the Black Knights' Fortress Quest!


Marshmallow's summary for the Phoenix release:

Game Engine:
RuneScape Blitz: merge 18 commits into master

Libraries:
AllGoFree: merge 1 commit into master
Blitz API: merge 3 commits into master

Plugins:
Agility: merge 1 commit into master
AllStarX: merge 1 commit into master
BanHammer: merge 1 commit into master
Bank: merge 1 commit into master
Barrows: merge 1 commit into master
BattleField: merge 1 commit into master
BugPoints: merge 1 commit into master
CastleWars: merge 1 commit into master
Christmas2010: merge 2 commits into master
Christmas2011: merge 1 commit into master
Christmas2012: merge 1 commit into master
Christmas2013: merge 1 commit into master
Classic: merge 1 commit into master
Commands: merge 4 commits into master
Cooking: merge 1 commit into master
Core Engine: merge 10 commits into master
Crafting: merge 1 commit into master
DeepWilderness: merge 1 commit into master
Documentation: merge 14 commits into master
Donators: merge 1 commit into master
DoubleXpWeekend: merge 1 commit into master
Dueling: merge 1 commit into master
Easter2012: merge 1 commit into master
Easter2014: merge 1 commit into master
Easter2017: merge 1 commit into master
Easter2018: merge 1 commit into master
Emotes: merge 1 commit into master
Farming: merge 1 commit into master
Firemaking: merge 1 commit into master
Fishing: merge 1 commit into master
Fletching: merge 1 commit into master
FoodAndDrink: merge 7 commits into master
FreeToPlay: merge 2 commits into master
Halloween2011: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2013: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2014: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2018: merge 1 commit into master
Herblore: merge 1 commit into master
HouseBuilding: merge 1 commit into master
IoSessionLogger: merge 1 commit into master
ItemWieldRequirements: merge 1 commit into master
Karamja: merge 1 commit into master
Magic: merge 3 commits into master
Members: merge 1 commit into master
Memorial: merge 1 commit into master
Mining: merge 1 commit into master
Moles: merge 1 commit into master
NewUserRedirect: merge 1 commit into master
NpcDrops: merge 1 commit into master
ObjectScripts: merge 1 commit into master
PestControl: merge 1 commit into master
PlayerOwnedShops: merge 1 commit into master
Prayer: merge 2 commits into master
QuestScripts: merge 1 commit into master
Quests: merge 9 commits into master
RandomEvents: merge 1 commit into master
Ranged: merge 1 commit into master
ReadyPlayerOne: merge 1 commit into master
RewardTokens: merge 1 commit into master
RuneRebels: merge 26 commits into master
Runecrafting: merge 1 commit into master
ServerEvents: merge 1 commit into master
Shops: merge 1 commit into master
SkillCapes: merge 2 commits into master
SkillMenus: merge 2 commits into master
Slayer: merge 1 commit into master
Smithing: merge 2 commits into master
SpecialAttacks: merge 1 commit into master
StPatricksDayEvent: merge 1 commit into master
StaffAreas: merge 1 commit into master
Summoning: merge 1 commit into master
TeleportStyles: merge 1 commit into master
Thieving: merge 3 commits into master
Trading: merge 2 commits into master
Transport: merge 1 commit into master
Tutorial Island: merge 1 commit into master
Twilight: merge 1 commit into master
UniversalScape: merge 1 commit into master
WelcomeTutorial: merge 1 commit into master
Wilderness: merge 1 commit into master
Woodcutting: merge 1 commit into master
WorldMap: merge 1 commit into master
Zombies: merge 1 commit into master


Total: 180 commits


RuneRebels 2.8.7 Black Eye

After the extensive holiday partying, the RuneRebels headquarters was a mess. There were scrolls of code scattered all over the place, tons of admins passed out in various rooms, dwarven stout spilled all over the floor, and redberry pies with swarms of flies laying all over the floor. There was a lot of cleaning up to do, so the team quickly got to work! While they were putting things away, they noticed that their cabinets and drawers were a a complete unorganized mess. Onur couldn't even find the dish soap to clean out all of the pie dishes! "Guys, if we want to be able to live here this year, I think we are gonna have to do some serious cleaning" said Bill. With that, the team got to work scrubbing the headquarters to get it to be as clean as the water from Baxtorian falls!

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Happy new years players! We are thrilled about reaching our one update per month goal for 2018 and are very excited about doing the same for 2019. While working through many of the updates from the past year, we improved a lot of the tools and processes that we use to develop the game, and I've been able to greatly expand the ways that the other developers can contribute to the game. As part of setting ourselves up for some very large content focuses updates this year, I took some time to massively clean up and modernize many plugins and the server game engine itself. There is a large amount of low-level code that I wrote back in middle and high school that still powers the game to this day that is starting to show its age and is making development harder. With this update, I've cleaned up, removed, or re-written a significant amount of that code, which is why you will notice that Marshmallow's summary at the bottom of this post is excessively long. Almost every plugin has also been modified or cleaned up as well. This not only makes it easier and faster for me to add new features to the engine and plugins, but also means that all of the things we build on top of it will contain fewer bugs from the start and cause less headaches for developers.

That being said, if you notice anything that was previously working that is now broken after this update, let us know via the forums or Discord and we will fix it ASAP. At one point during development I accidentally broke interacting with Npcs (including the bankers!) with a one line change, so if any other issues crept past us we want to hotpatch them immediately. Over 9000 lines of code in over 300 files have been modified:



We have some really cool features and content in the pipeline, and this update is the first step in delivering them to you!
- The RuneRebels Dev Team

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Tools:
• Added author field to quest files.

Castle Wars:
• Fixed various cut off dialogue when talking to Lanthus.

Engine:
• Refactored over 9000 (literally) lines of code in the game engine spanning over 300 files.
• Fixed a bug where ItemAddedToInventoryEvent could cause Blitz Errors in various locations, such as High Alching, Crafting, etc.
• Fixed a bug where you could gain negative XP by auto retaliating against Flytraps.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't note or unnote claws.

Core Engine:
• Fixed a bug where you could follow players while wearing a morphing ring.

Commands:
• Added ::teletonpc.
• Added ::whereis to locate players.

Shops:
• Fixed various incorrect shop prices.
• Added the ability for shops to have multiple owners.
• Fixed buying behavior so buying a greater amount of items than free slots available in your inventory will simply fill the free slots rather than failing.

Crafting:
• Fixed a NullPointerException when repeatedly using the spinning wheel.
• Fixed the amount of leather needed to craft Hard Leather bodies.
• Fixed a bug with the spinning wheel animation.

Prayer:
• Fixed a bug where the player might face the wrong direction when praying at an altar.

Tutorial Island:
• Fixed a possible Blitz Error in dialogue.
• Disabled random events on Tutorial Island.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to smuggle invincibility off of Tutorial Island.

Farming:
• Added the majority of the missing farming messages; you should no longer see "INSERT MESSAGE HERE" messages.
• Made the number of roots you get from digging up a tree base itself on your farming level; previously you would only receive 1 root.
• Fixed a bug where some farming messages were cut off.

Herblore:
• Added the correct messages for mixing potion doses.
• Added the ability to mix 3 and 3 doses or 2 and 3 doses to make a 4 dose.
• Fixed a bug with poisoning weapons and bolts.

Runecrafting:
• Added the ability to craft combination runes!

Magic:
• Added the ability to use combination runes to cast spells!


Marshmallow's summary for the Black Eye release:

Game Engine:
RuneScape Blitz: merge 86 commits into master

Libraries:
AllGoFree: merge 7 commits into master
Arctic: merge 4 commits into master
Blitz API: merge 34 commits into master
BlitzMySQLData: merge 3 commits into master
Core AllGoFree: merge 3 commits into master

Plugins:
Agility: merge 3 commits into master
AllStarX: merge 2 commits into master
Areas: merge 1 commit into master
BanHammer: merge 2 commits into master
Bank: merge 6 commits into master
Barrows: merge 1 commit into master
BattleField: merge 2 commits into master
Bosses: merge 4 commits into master
BugPoints: merge 1 commit into master
CastleWars: merge 4 commits into master
Christmas2010: merge 1 commit into master
Christmas2011: merge 1 commit into master
Christmas2012: merge 3 commits into master
Christmas2013: merge 3 commits into master
Classic: merge 2 commits into master
Commands: merge 23 commits into master
Cooking: merge 1 commit into master
Core 317: merge 1 commit into master
Core 317 Clipping: merge 1 commit into master
Core 508: merge 1 commit into master
Core Engine: merge 15 commits into master
Crafting: merge 3 commits into master
Deadman: merge 1 commit into master
DeepWilderness: merge 1 commit into master
DeveloperQuotes: merge 1 commit into master
Documentation: merge 6 commits into master
Donators: merge 1 commit into master
DoubleXpWeekend: merge 1 commit into master
Dueling: merge 5 commits into master
Easter2012: merge 2 commits into master
Easter2014: merge 2 commits into master
Easter2017: merge 2 commits into master
Easter2018: merge 1 commit into master
Emotes: merge 2 commits into master
Farming: merge 10 commits into master
Firemaking: merge 1 commit into master
Fishing: merge 2 commits into master
Fletching: merge 1 commit into master
FoodAndDrink: merge 1 commit into master
FreeToPlay: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2011: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2013: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2014: merge 1 commit into master
Halloween2018: merge 1 commit into master
Herblore: merge 11 commits into master
HouseBuilding: merge 1 commit into master
IoSessionLogger: merge 1 commit into master
ItemWieldRequirements: merge 1 commit into master
Karamja: merge 1 commit into master
Magic: merge 4 commits into master
Members: merge 1 commit into master
Memorial: merge 1 commit into master
Mining: merge 11 commits into master
Miscellania: merge 1 commit into master
Moles: merge 1 commit into master
NewUserRedirect: merge 1 commit into master
NpcDrops: merge 3 commits into master
ObjectScripts: merge 3 commits into master
PestControl: merge 1 commit into master
PlayerOwnedShops: merge 1 commit into master
Prayer: merge 2 commits into master
QuestScripts: merge 1 commit into master
Quests: merge 5 commits into master
RandomEvents: merge 5 commits into master
Ranged: merge 1 commit into master
ReadyPlayerOne: merge 1 commit into master
RewardTokens: merge 1 commit into master
RuneRebels: merge 5 commits into master
Runecrafting: merge 19 commits into master
ServerEvents: merge 1 commit into master
Shops: merge 18 commits into master
SkillCapes: merge 3 commits into master
SkillMenus: merge 1 commit into master
Slayer: merge 2 commits into master
Smithing: merge 1 commit into master
SpecialAttacks: merge 1 commit into master
StPatricksDayEvent: merge 1 commit into master
StaffAreas: merge 3 commits into master
Summoning: merge 1 commit into master
TeleportStyles: merge 1 commit into master
Thieving: merge 4 commits into master
Trading: merge 5 commits into master
Transport: merge 1 commit into master
Tutorial Island: merge 6 commits into master
Twilight: merge 1 commit into master
WelcomeTutorial: merge 2 commits into master
Wilderness: merge 1 commit into master
Woodcutting: merge 24 commits into master
WorldMap: merge 1 commit into master
Zombies: merge 2 commits into master


Total: 428 commits


RuneRebels 2.8 Castalia

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After finally getting out of the Abyss, the RuneRebels team went back to the developer headquarters and crashed for a good rest. The holiday season was coming up, which is always a favorite time of year for the team. Bill and Onur planned to make a big ass turkey for Thanksgiving, and had Ryan PM the Freaky Forrester to see if he could set aside one of the bigger turkeys for the RuneRebels Thanksgiving Feast. All was going according to plan, and Sean got started on baking up some yummy pies in the kitchen. However, just as Sean was pulling his first mouthwatering Redberry Pies from the oven at around 2 AM, he heard quiet a bit of noise outside the door, along with what sounded like the fumbling of keys. He quickly grabbed Ryan from the Disney Dungeon where he was watching movies, then grabbed Bill and Onur from Bill's Blunt Shop where they were doing some baking of their own. "Guys, I think someone is trying to break into the Dev House" said Sean. They all quickly ran back upstairs, where they noticed a figure had already entered the doorway. They stood in silence as the figure moved into the light and it became clear who had just entered the house. "Whats up guys, I'm back from the store!" said James. "JAMES??" the entire team yelled out in unison. "You've been gone for like, a year man" said Onur. "I guess I lost track of time a bit at the bar" said James; "but my key still works! Is all my stuff still in my room?" continued James. "Oh yeah, its exactly as you left it; we don't do much cleaning here" said Ryan. "Its good to have you back man!" exclaimed Bill. "Oh shit, don't we have to release an update now?" said Sean. "Oh crap, its almost the end of the month!" said Ryan. "Don't worry, I have just the thing" said Sean as he pulled out a slightly dusty Quest scroll from his bank chest. There were a few small pieces missing from the Quest, so Onur went to his arts & crafts room to grab some extra dialogue lines and Ryan grabbed a bit of code glue from the cabinet. After fixing up the Quest, they put it in the mailbox for Postie Pete to pickup for the next update and headed back into the kitchen to bake more delicious pies!
- The RuneRebels Dev Team

All kidding aside, we would like to welcome back James to the RuneRebels Team from his extended leave of absence. We've missed you!

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• The Prince Ali Rescue Quest has been added! Do you have what it takes to help save the prince from his royal mistakes?



Quests:
• Added the Prince Ali Rescue Quest.

Slayer:
• Fixed various Slayer tasks that would be assigned but not be able to be completed.
• Started on the weight system for tasks so some tasks are more common than others.


Marshmallow's summary for the Castalia release:

Game Engine:

Libraries:

Plugins:
Quests: merge 1 commit into master
RuneRebels: merge 4 commits into master
Slayer: merge 91 commits into master


Total: 96 commits