Hello everyone,
Ahead of our 10-Year Anniversary event, we are releasing an update to freshen things up -- including some updates to round out the previous couple months of updates, such as Sailing combat functionality & Combat Achievements for the recently released bosses. We've also added some brand new content, such as the AFK Zone which will allow you to continue training your skills when you are not at your PC, as long as you leave your client open and have recently voted. This zone also awards AFK tokens to spend in the AFK shop, which introduces many new items for you to obtain.
If you have not already entered the upcoming giveaways, make sure to read more and leave a comment & like on the thread below to enter:
http://alora.io/forums/topic/101987-aloras-10th-anniversary-100b-drop-party-the-biggest-yet-2250-value-giveaway
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https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/102072-alora-10-year-time-capsule-giveaway
10-Year Rewards:
Grab a slice of cake at ::event to celebrate!
Alongside the cake, four 10-year anniversary items have been released:
10th anniversary 5x5 hat
10th anniversary helmet
10th anniversary warrior tabard
10th anniversary skeleton tabard
AFK Zone:
A new AFK skilling zone has opened in Edgeville. Type ::afk or ::afkskilling to get there.
Claiming a vote auth gives you 10 hours of access, plus 15 minutes per donator rank (more for immortal/eternal/divine).
This does not stack, so claiming multiple auth claims will not stack the time allowed in the afk zone, it will simply reset it.
While you're inside, you'll be told how much time you have left every 10 minutes.
Players without access are moved outside the gate.
Training
Click any training spot ("Train-<Skill>") and your character will keep training on their own, with no tools or supplies needed.
Every skill can be trained, including Prayer and Sailing. Use the combat dummy for Attack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Ranged, Magic and Slayer.
You need level 50 in a skill to train it here.
XP scales with your level (non-linearly), up to 136,604 XP per hour at level 99.
Lower XP rate game modes earn a reduced experience rate.
Donator perk: +1.5% XP per donator rank, up to +13.5% for Divine.
Players can also trade AFK Thurgo, who is standing outside the AFK zone, offering rewards for AFK zone tokens.
AFK zone tokens are earned passively at a rate of 1 token per minute while AFK training a skill.
This shop contains mostly cosmetic except for the Arkan blade, and the zealot robes:
Arkan Blade:
This is a one-handed sword requiring level 60 attack to wield.
It’s comparable to a dragon scimitar, and has a special attack that has 50% increased accuracy and damage, and will inflict 10 damage points worth of burn damage if the player lands a successful hit.
Zealot’s robes:
These robes, when equipped provide a 1.25% chance per piece to prevent various remains from being consumed whilst training prayer (5% for full set).
Trading Post:
If you're in the AFK zone when your item sells, you get 100% of the fees back instead of the usual 50%.
Sales to your own accounts no longer get any fee refund, and you can no longer buy your own listings.
Sub-Menus:
Players may now see arrows on some items when they right-click them in their inventory and equipment tabs.
Hovering over these options will show “sub-menus” which are shortcuts to perform actions (for example teleports) so players can skip going through some standard menus.
For example, hovering over the Amulet of Glory (4) will now show an arrow on the “Rub” option, which will allow players to directly use the glory teleports in 1 click, rather than needing to click rub, then select the destination.
Players can also use the menu-entry swapper to swap the left/shift click overrides to these sub-menu options.
Sailing Combat:
Players can now attack creatures at sea.
This can be done both with range/mage, or the cannons on the player ships.
Sea creatures attack your boat rather than you, so keep an eye on its hitpoints and bring repair kits.
Cannons:
Operate a cannon on your boat to man it, then attack a creature to fire at it.
Cannons fire cannonballs from your inventory. The captain's cannon can also use the ones stored in the cargo hold.
Use a cannonball on a cannon, or the ammo button on the sailing side panel, to choose which type it fires.
Chainshot cannonballs slow the target and incendiary cannonballs burn it over time.
A ballistic attractor on your boat recovers 60% of the cannonballs you fire.
Loot:
A slain creature leaves its corpse on the water. The killer can harvest it with a net to collect the loot.
On the tougher creatures (great white sharks, orcas, narwhals, and armoured, vampyre and veiled krakens), bounty parts and unique drops are shared between everyone who helped, based on damage dealt.
Bounty tasks:
Port notice boards now offer bounty tasks: collect parts from a sea creature and hand them in to any port master for Sailing experience and coins.
While on a bounty task, that creature's unique drops are more common.
Other:
Chainshot cannonballs can be made at an anvil from cannonballs and chains.
Narwhal horns can be crafted into a narwhal horn knife, which works as a regular knife.
Combination Runecrafting:
You can now craft Mist, Dust, Mud, Smoke, Steam and Lava runes.
Go to one of the two elemental altars for the rune you want.
For example, Lava runes are made at the Earth or Fire altar. Bring pure or daeyalt essence, the runes of the other element, and that element's talisman.
Your talisman is used up each time you craft. Without help, binding only works half the time. Wear a Binding necklace for a 100% success rate. Each necklace lasts 16 crafts, and you can right-click it to see how many it has left.
Donator perk
Donators have a chance to keep their talisman when crafting combination runes, and higher ranks get a better chance (from 5% for regular donator, up to 50% for Divine).
New Lunar spell: Magic Imbue (82 Magic)
For about 12 seconds after casting, you can craft combination runes without a talisman.
Talismans in the shop
Air, Water, Earth and Fire talismans can now be bought from Aubury's Runecrafting shop for 500 coins each.
Fairy Ring interface update:
Updated the fairy ring interface to use a more modern layout.
Wilderness PJ Timer Update:
The Wilderness PJ timer from an NPC's attack is now 4.8 seconds instead of 12 seconds, matching OSRS.
After an NPC attacks you, you can attack another player 4.8 seconds after its last attack.
Likewise, a player fighting an NPC is only protected from other players for 4.8 seconds after the NPC's last attack.
Courier Task Changes:
Updated many courier tasks to give 15% more experience, to be in line with a recent OSRS change.
Courier tasks now reward port coin bags and port reward bags.
There is a 1/5 chance players get the port reward bags, ranging from tiny to huge, which can give many different items, depending on which port task was completed, and the size of the bag.
Rewards range from things like repair kits, to dragon metal sheets, and even zulrah’s scales.
Mad Angel Combat Achievements:
Mad Angel now has 9 combat achievements for players to complete.
Maggot King Combat Achievements:
The Maggot King now has 9 combat achievements for players to complete.
Ancient god cape:
Players can now purchase the ancient fabric from the Pk point shop.
This will cost 2,500 pk points, and require that players have 100 player kills to purchase.
Players can use this fabric on any god cape to turn it into the ancient version.
Players can also imbue it into the deadman version by using it on Nigel if they have unlocked the armageddon cape fabric.
The ancient cape also has a max/completionist cape variant.
Players can use the imbued ancient cape on a max cape to turn it into the imbued ancient max cape.
Players can transform their completionist capes into the imbued ancient completionist cape if they have the imbued god cape requirements, and have used the ancient fabric on a cape in the past.
Mobile Tap Lock:
A new custom plugin has been added to the Mobile plugin sidebar called “Tap lock”.
This implements a feature that, when activated, will fade the user’s screen to black, and restrict all taps until they drag the lock icon out of the circle in the centre of the screen.
This is meant to be an extremely power efficient mode, to allow the player to keep the game active when not using their phone.
Quality of Life:
Some shops (vote shop, leagues shop, afk zone shop) have received a facelift.
Smoke devils will now stack on top of each other automatically, ignoring occupied tiles.
Players can now install the “monster HP percentage” plugin from the plugin hub.
Players can now install the “collection log popup enhanced” plugin from the plugin hub.
The Crystal felling axe can now be stored in the enchanted valley stash unit.
Dharok’s Greataxe now uses the correct crush animation.
Adjusted the infernal completionist cape particles so they are now symmetric.
Norana Tytanin will now be able to give players noted daeyalt essence when converting daeyalt shards.
Players must speak to her and ask her to do so.
Players can now use a jatoba log on the beaver to make the jatoba beaver variant.
Item searches will now always use the OSRS item name.
This prevents confusion where players would have to search “Dragon Hatchet” instead of “Dragon axe” on 2010 mode in the trading post.
Players can now store the Butler’s uniform in the costume room toy box.
Players now have a "Join last player's instance" option when joining instances.
It will only show the last active instance that a player joined that belongs to another player.
Adjusted the positioning of the second chatbox lines so they are closer to the left side of the chatbox.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug where Nigel was showing up as a level 3 man on 2010 mode.
The colossal blade can now be used to cut through webs.
Fixed a bug where the quick prayer tab would not show upgraded prayers.
Fixed a bug where players could not select colors on certain mobile plugins.
Bloodbark boots/gloves no longer give +1% magic damage bonus.
Fixed a bug where the quick prayers interface would not properly display upgraded prayers.
Fixed a bug where other players would appear late when teleporting.
Players should now appear on-screen sooner.
Fixed a bug where the price guide interface would show “-1” as individual item prices.
Fixed a bug where there would be a 2-3 tick lock after teleporting.
Players can now move instantly after arriving at the teleport destination.
Fixed a bug where the CIS (Arceuus) fairy ring was a “Glowing portal” rather than the actual fairy ring object.
Fixed an issue on 2008 HD where logging in would sometimes cause the login screen box to go black, and not log the player in, requiring a client restart.
The Red and Purple hats in the Canifis clothes shop will no longer make the player’s face invisible.
Fixed a bug where achievements completed in the quest tab would sometimes show the incorrect value.
Fixed a bug where banned players could still hold killtime records, but they were not directly visible.
Banned players will now be skipped for killtime record checks.
Fixed a bug where the serpentine helm didn’t negate the damage from the maggot king poison tiles.
Fixed a bug on mobile where taps/clicks would be inaccurate (for example a player could click an npc/object and it wouldn’t register a click on that npc/object).
This was generally an issue when FPS was lower (due to caps or performance issues).
Fixed a bug on iOS mobile where haptics would sometimes be sent when they should not have been (and vice versa).
On iOS players still may not experience haptics when they should if they had a very fast tap (1 frame) due to iOS limitations.
Fixed a bug where the magic damage % bonus was not refreshing properly in the equipment interface.
Fixed a bug where the “Mute ambient sounds” plugin would sometimes cause some sounds to repeat, even if the game audio was muted.
Fixed a bug where Yaks were not visible on the Monster tab in the teleport interface.
Fixed a bug where sometimes highlighted sailing objects would remain after leaving a boat.
Fixed a bug with the dark bow spec not working properly with dragon seeking arrows.
Fixed a bug where clicking “cancel” on some jewellery teleports that had 4 options would not close the chatbox interface.
Properly fixed the bug where “remove dead npc menu entries” would remove the “pull back” option on bloodwood tree pull-back click boxes.
Fixed a bug where players could just stand near the goat pit and lure goats to them to get them in.
Players now need to lure goats to them while the pit is in between the player and the goat.
Fixed doom scoreboard not loading correctly.
Fixed a bug with the mastering mixology plugin sometimes failing to startup/crashing.
Fixed a bug where the Golden tench would sometimes not have the “whack” option.
We hope you enjoy this update, and we hope to see you at our 10-Year Annivesrary Event!
Best,
Omicron
