BoomScape Updates - Farming Changes, Bolt Pouch, Arceuus Spellbook, Slayer System changes & more!

James · March 18

New Additions

PvP Farming: Adjusted checks for improved balance.
Amulet of Chemistry: Now functional, granting a chance to create a 4-dose potion instead of a 3-dose one.
Potion Making: Added filtered in-game messages (e.g., "You mix the snape grass into your potion.").
Announcements: Introduced new global messages to enhance player awareness of BoomScape features.

Farming Updates

Bottomless Compost Bucket: Now fully functional, holding up to 10,000 charges of one compost type.
- Each compost added provides 2 charges.
- Emptying the bucket will result in losing all stored compost.
- Supports adding both noted and unnoted compost.
Ultracompost: Now functional, reducing crop disease chance by 90%.
Fertile Soil Spell: If at least 2 volcanic ash are in your inventory, the patch will be treated with ultracompost.
Crop Disease Rework: Adjusted rates to improve compost effectiveness while keeping overall balance.

Bolt Pouch

Now fully functional, storing up to 10,000 bolts per slot (4 slots available).
Extra ammo slot allows seamless bolt switching from the equipment tab.

Godwars Dungeon

Boss Respawn Timers: Reduced to 30 seconds for all bosses.

Arceuus Spellbook

All spells are now available—see highlights below:
- Degrime: Cleans all grimy herbs, granting half the usual XP.
- Shadow Veil: Grants a 15% chance to avoid pickpocket stun (up to 36.25% with a Dodgy Necklace).
- Vile Vigour: Converts prayer points into run energy.
- Resurrect Crops: 50% chance to revive a dead patch (scaling to 75% at 99 Magic).
- Mark of Darkness: Doubles grasp spell bind chance, adds 25% damage & 20% accuracy to Demonbane spells.
- Demonic Offering: Offers up to 3 ashes, tripling prayer XP.
- Sinister Offering: Offers up to 3 bones, tripling prayer XP.
- Ward of Arceuus: Reduces demonic creature damage by 10%, prevents corruption, and reduces grasp spell binds.
- Death Charge: Restores 15% special attack energy after a kill within one minute.
- Dark Lure: Forces a monster to approach and prevents retreat for 6 seconds.
Grasp Spells (Bind targets for 2 ticks, halved if under Ward of Arceuus):
- Ghostly Grasp: Max hit 12, 10-20% bind chance.
- Skeletal Grasp: Max hit 17, 25-50% bind chance.
- Undead Grasp: Max hit 24, 50-100% bind chance.
Demonbane Spells (25% damage bonus on demons, scaling with Mark of Darkness):
- Inferior Demonbane: Max hit 16, +20-40% accuracy.
- Superior Demonbane: Max hit 23, +20-40% accuracy.
- Dark Demonbane: Max hit 30, +20-40% accuracy.
Corruption Spells (Drain opponent’s prayer over time):
- Lesser Corruption: 50% chance to drain 1-3 prayer points every 10 ticks (5 ticks with Mark of Darkness).
- Greater Corruption: 50% chance to drain 2-6 prayer points every 10 ticks (5 ticks with Mark of Darkness).

Slayer System Update

New Slayer Task Teleports via the BoomScape Teleport System.
- Locations are based on popular OSRS spots.
- Players can provide feedback on potential changes or additional locations.
- Available under "Misc" & "Training" categories or by searching "Slayer Task."

Bug Fixes

Discord notifications for GE transactions now trigger only when an item is fully bought or sold.
Fixed an issue allowing cape perks to be used without required stats.

Server-Side Improvements

Optimized player data saving for reduced server strain.
Item saving system improved, reducing lag during mass saves (e.g., system updates).

Web Enhancements

Vote Page Adjustments: Added validation checks to prevent special characters, double spaces, and email misuse as usernames.
Store Page Updates: Implemented the same security measures as the vote page.