[attachment=2395:Header.png] Hello everyone, and welcome to the May & June edition of The Alora Times! I am [member='18'], your new editor-in-chief. @[member='h'] has finally decided to go touch some grass and get a suntan. @[member='GL'] could not be reached as always (probably has notification muted again). Thus, you are stuck with me. I hope I could bring some interesting newspaper reads to you guys. First, I would like to wish all our US players a happy Fourth of July! Party, drink and light fireworks but remember that safety first and don't drink & drive. Stay safe! Second, we are currently beta (closed beta) testing Sailing so it should come out soon! Stay tuned for more info on it! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2396:News & Updates.png]   [topic='100853']Bonus Schedule for July[/topic]   [topic='100857']July Vote Competition [July 1st - July 21st][/topic]   [topic='100858'][30/06/26] Variable Ironman XP Rates, 117HD Improvements, Hops Farming, Emotes Update & more![/topic]   [topic='100886']Weekend Events 7/3/2026 | 7/5/2026[/topic]   If you want to check out our past updates, click here. For events, click here.   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2397:Rule Updates.png] None this month!   [attachment=2398:Rule GIF.gif]   Alora's Official Rules can be found here.   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2399:Staff Updates.png] The latest Staff Changes are as follows:   Promotions: [member="18"] has been promoted to Administrator. [member="Gl"] has been promoted to Administrator. [member="Cmdr Data"] has been promoted to Senior Moderator. [member="Mieu"] has been promoted to Senior Moderator. [member="Kohlrabi"] has been promoted to Game Moderator.   Secondary ranks: [member="Mieu"] has added a secondary rank to [member="Sakura"]   Resignations: N/A   Demotions: N/A   To see our past Staff Updates, click here.   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2400:RNG Showcase.png]       ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2401:Goals & Achievements.png] Stay up to date with some of our community members' recent Goals & Achievements:    [member='Cmdr Data'] Inferno Cape #1   [member='Nathy'] Nathy's Inferno Cape   [member='Real Alan'] The Driest Soul at Sarachnis - Part 2     Disclaimer: Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or send your achievement in the #newspaper_submissions channel in Alora Discord to be featured here! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2402:The Graveyard.png]   [attachment=2403:Gravestone.png] Here we honour our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a few of them! We wish them the best on their new ironman journeys and better luck next time!   Hardcore Ironman Hdrop has fallen at 1,855 to Corporeal Beast! Hardcore Ironman AssasinJT has fallen at 1,365 to stopcrying9! Hardcore Group Ironman Nagua has fallen at 1,947 to Kraken! Hardcore Ironman HC kneusje has fallen at 1,446 to Amexccard! Hardcore Ironman uselesshcv3 has fallen at 2,133 to General Graardor! Hardcore Ironman Dajasp1 has fallen at 1,810 to Vorkath! Hardcore Ironman Znaapof has fallen at 1,940 to Doom of Mokhaiotl! Hardcore Ironman Beardless has fallen at 1,217 to Blood Moon! Hardcore Ironman Iron Around has fallen at 1,127 to Classic alfi! Hardcore Group Ironman Sitcar has fallen at 2,105 to 93! Hardcore Ironman HCTW3LV has fallen at 1,364 to Retatrutide! Hardcore Ironman BigHondo has fallen at 1,958 to Amoxliatl! Hardcore Ironman Lapped has fallen at 1,916 to Araxxor! Hardcore Ironman velmas has fallen at 2,107 to Demonic gorilla! Hardcore Ironman leaky peenV2 has fallen at 2,013 to Alchemical Hydra! Hardcore Ironman Fe Santa has fallen at 1,789 to Hill Giant! Hardcore Ironman Mr Big Balls has fallen at 1,980 to Xudi! Hardcore Ironman Loppuasukas has fallen at 1,675 to Zulrah! Hardcore Ironman Fluitje has fallen at 1,771 to Dust devil! Hardcore Ironman leaky v3 has fallen at 1,060 to Fareed! Hardcore Ironman Calendar has fallen at 1,806 to Iron dragon! Hardcore Ironman Scooby Dooo has fallen at 1,433 to Cave horror! Hardcore Ironman saeedpod has fallen at 2,277 to Duke Sucellus! Hardcore Ironman HC Smith has fallen at 1,314 to Cave horror! Hardcore Ironman 1713 has fallen at 1,211 to BaBa Ya Ga! Hardcore Ironman 0c10 has fallen at 1,372 to Iron dragon! Hardcore Ironman Dead hets has fallen at 2,196 to Araxxor! Hardcore Ironman RNGoblin has fallen at 1,940 to Vorkath! Hardcore Ironman ILikeDying has fallen at 1,318 to ILikeDying! Hardcore Ironman 27x has fallen at 1,348 to Elder custodian stalker! Hardcore Ironman Wontsay has fallen at 2,048 to Doom of Mokhaiotl! Hardcore Ironman leaky v4 has fallen at 1,450 to Greater Nechryael! Hardcore Ironman HCI Michael has fallen at 1,007 to Cave horror! Hardcore Ironman trevnenant has fallen at 1,136 to Cave horror! Hardcore Group Ironman bald hcim has fallen at 1,806 to Araxxor! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2404:Interviews.png] For this edition, we are going to interview [member='Mieu']!   [member='18']: What is your most memorable moment while playing Alora? [member='Mieu']: One of my most memorable moments on Alora was the ICE 2026 bingo event, it was so much fun spending a lot of time with my friends pulling insane degen hours.   [member='18']: Do you have any current goal(s)? [member='Mieu']: Right now on Alora I'm trying to get soulreaper axe before returning back to the tob grind.   [member='18']: What place or country would you like to visit the most in your life? [member='Mieu']: I would go to a small town in southernmost Sweden where the grass is very green, the gargoyles are abundant, and everything is peaceful. [member='18']: If you can learn and master one skill instantly, what would it be? [member='Mieu']: I'd pick languages so that I can talk to anyone and everyone, and read all the ancient texts.    [member='18']: If Omicron gave you a chance to add 1 feature/update to Alora, what would it be? [member='Mieu']: I would add the color #404040 to the makeover mage, it's the best color in OSRS but not yet on Alora.   [member='18']: What made you pick Alora and what made you stay? [member='Mieu']: I picked Alora bcs it remains as close as possible to OSRS and doesn't feel like a private server most of the time. I like the smaller community vibe and I've stayed bcs of all the good friends I've made along the way.   If you are interested in being interview for the next newspaper edition, please contact [member='18'] via pm or discord. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [attachment=2405:Member of the month.png] The winner of May MOTM's is... [member='Thyroidz1'] Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :) The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2406:Content Creators.png] Make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. They would love to have you keep them company during their streams and check out the content they create for Alora!   [member="casa"] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMvGtkUxyxU--uIM8SSRkQ [member="walkchaos"] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfSUF-7-QehS6ALll4nl3OA [member="maxi rs"] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDXzfBMcClqATArQ6zI28Q [member="no bank mate"] https://www.youtube.com/@Luckyrsps ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   [attachment=2407:Video of the month.png] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdGPAhw5dI[/media]   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Did you know...   Wombat poop is cube-shaped. Wombats are the only known animals in the world that produce barrel-shaped, cubic feces. Their intestines have unique horizontal ridges and varying elasticity that sculpt the feces into rigid blocks. Because wombats have poor eyesight but excellent smell, they stack their droppings on rocks and logs to mark their territory and the flat sides ensure the poop doesn't roll away.   The total weight of all the ants on Earth used to be roughly equal to all humans, but we've been outnumbered. Biologists estimate there are roughly 20 quadrillion individual ants alive on Earth at any given time. If you were to weigh them all together, their combined biomass is about 12 million tons. While humans have since surpassed that total mass due to our population boom, the sheer sheer scale of the ant empire means there are about 2.5 million ants for every single human on the planet.   --------------------------   That is it folks! Thank you for taking your time and reading this edition of the Alora Times!   If you enjoy Alora content, make sure to hit the Subscribe button on their channels to show them your support!   If I've missed anyone I do apologize, just message me on the forums or on Discord with a link to your channel and I will add you in. That concludes this edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to message [member='18']! You can read the previous edition by clicking here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

  Hello everyone,   Today's update brings a wide variety of improvements to the server while we continue to work on Sailing in our effort to be the first server to release the massive new skill. We appreciate your patience as we work on bringing the new skill to Alora, we know that this update comes later than expected given our usual schedule, but we know it will be worth it once it is released -- we are beginning testing this week and are very close to the full release. If you haven't already, make sure to check out our Development blog: https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/100199-sailing-development-blog/ Variable Ironman Experience Rates: Players can now select one of 3 different experience rates when creating a new account that is a Regular Ironman, Ultimate Ironman, Hardcore Ironman, or Hardcore Ultimate Ironman. The exp rate options provided are 40x (15x after 99), which was the original rate for ultimate ironman and regular Ironman, 8x, which was the original rate for hardcore ironman/hardcore ultimate ironman, and 4x, a completely new rate for solo ironman accounts. Players can freely increase the experience rates of any of the game modes by speaking to the Combat Master in the ironman shack. For example, if you start your account on 4x, and wish for easier rates, you can go up to 8x/40x. Players who choose to do this will not ever be able to go back down to a harder experience rate. Each of these separate experience rate modes will have their own hiscores so that players will be competing/progress with other accounts in their experience bracket. This new system also means that players who are currently playing on a hardcore ironman or hardcore ultimate ironman will now keep their experience rate if they die. This applies to accounts created before this system was added as well, so dying on a hardcore ironman created before this update will no longer force the player to play an ironman with the 40/15x experience rate, allowing them to continue progressing a normal ironman account at the original 8x experience rate. Looking up players on the forum hiscores or using the runelite hiscores plugin will show the player’s current experience rate. Loom/Spinning wheel: Players can now use a loom to create the following items: Strip of cloth Bolt of linen Empty Sack Drift Net Bolt of canvas Bolt of Cotton The bolt of canvas and bolt of cotton cannot be created without hemp yarn and cotton yarn, which will be unobtainable until the release of Sailing. Players can now also spin Linen yarn (flax), cotton yarn (cotton boll), and hemp yarn (hemp) at spinning wheels. 117HD Performance Improvements: The 117HD plugin has received the same treatment as the GPU plugin, and should now be much more performant, leading to 50-100% increased FPS when used. Hops Farming: Players can now plant hops seeds in all 5 hops patches around the world. Planting a hops patch requires either 3 or 4 of that specific seed to do so. Plantable seeds: Barley seeds (4 required) Hammerstone seeds (4 required) Asgarnian seeds (4 required) Jute seeds (3 required) Yanillian seeds (4 required) Flax seeds (3 required) Krandorian seeds (4 required) Wildblood seeds (4 required) Hemp seeds (3 required) Cotton seeds (3 required) Flax/Hemp/Cotton seeds will be unobtainable until the release of sailing. Patches: Lumbridge, north of the chicken coup North of McGrubor’s Woods Yanille Entrana Aldarin All the new Hops patches have been added to the Farmer’s blessing teleport list. Emote Interface Update: The Emotes interface has been updated, and it now has 14 new emotes that players can access. The crab dance emote is currently unavailable until the release of Sailing. Game Mode Menu Icons: Players can now see a player’s game mode in the menu entry dropdown when right-clicking a player. This setting is enabled by default, and can be disabled in the settings interface in the “Interfaces” tab. Quality of Life: Players can now store the Sanguine torva items in their looting bag. Upon death to a player, the equipment will revert to normal Torva. The butler's tray/uniform cosmetics are now tradable. Increased the maximum bonus rate for Mixology events from 1.3x to 1.5x bonus resin. Removing demonic from a barrel of demonic tallow will now withdraw the entire amount noted. Advisor Ghrim now has a "Manage" Right-click option that players can use to quickly open the management interface. Players can now use blighted food/potions in the mage bank/ferox enclave. Added placeholders for the following items: Bond ($100) Bond ($100) (Untradable) Bond ($50) (Untradable) Ultimate Mystery Box Players can now use a knife on a max cape/hood variant to revert it to the default max cape/hood. When doing so, players will receive any input cape required to make the variant, for example using a knife on an infernal max cape will disassemble it into a regular max cape and an infernal cape. Players can now use Sherlock’s notes on another player to transfer them between accounts. When a player receives coins, if they cannot be added in their inventory/bank (due to having max cash stacks), the server will now try to add it to their inventory/bank as platinum tokens instead, only dropping the amount of coins that cannot be converted to platinum. This should stop any issues of players claiming or winning coins and not noticing they drop on the ground. The client will now save the player’s last resize/move dimensions when they adjust some specific interfaces, such as the world map, collection log, collection overview, and skill guide (v2). Players can now plant white lily seeds in flower patches. The beef pet will now complete the "Any boss pet" bingo tile. Players can now use the “ring” emote on the crier bell. If the game chatbox tab is set to "Filtered", filtered game messages will no longer cause the tab to flash when there is a new message. The ring of wealth (i)'s protection value will now be based on the imbuement scroll exchange price. The Doom of Mokhaiotl no longer drops sunfire splinters. Adjusted the wording of the “Do you have any coins or platinum in your inventory?” Random event question to indicate that it is a yes or no question. Updated the Plank-making interface at the sawmill. Bug Fixes: Fixed a bugged ladder in Neitiznot. Right-clicking the chat stones will no longer show "walk here" or other game scene options. Fixed a bug where the door in the axe hut would sometimes stay open. Added missing eternal slayer ring drops to many superior NPC's. Fixed a bug the Tzkal/Vampyric/Tztok slayer helms would not show the slayer plugin overlay. Fixed a bug where players could still get a clue scroll drop as the only drop in some rarer circumstances. Players can now revert the Amulet of Rancour (s) to the normal Amulet of Rancour. Players can now deposit the Grimy huasca herb into their herb sack. Fixed a bug where the wilderness escape caves had a safespot that was not considered wilderness. Players will now be able to complete the corrupt scavenger room even in the rare and mysterious event where the corrupt scavenger disappears/is not at his trough. The baker's stall in Civitas Illa fortis now gives 16 experience rather than 30. Revenant weapons such as the Viggora's chainmace will now be valued based on their uncharged value. Fixed a bug where players could not get multiple clue bottles at once. Fixed a bug where player’s would sometimes visually desynchronizing with the server when speaking to sawmill operators repeatedly. Fixed a bug where telekinetic grab required 2 law runes and 2 air runes, rather than 1 law rune and 1 air rune. Players can no longer setup a dwarf cannon at demonic gorillas. Fixed a bug where players could not withdraw empty vials from their bank potion storage. Players will now only have 1 chance to get a looting bag per kill, rather than once per drop roll. Infernal plates are now tradable. Fixed a typo in the Morytania diary interface that stated killing 10 banshee’s required 10 slayer (rather than 15). Fixed a bug with the non-marble cape racks, which had a limit on the number of non-accomplishment capes players could store. The accomplishment cape storage limit for cape racks (None for oak, 1 for teak, etc…) was being enforced for all capes. Players will now be able to store any non-accomplishment cape slot in the cape rack for any tier. Fixed a bug where the final hit on an NPC would sometimes not register properly if the damage was split between multiple hitsplats, allowing for some combat achievements regarding killing an npc with a specific weapon/spell to be completable with multi-hit weapons, such as dragon claws. Fixed a bug where the last 2 hits of Cerberus' soul attack would be delayed by 3-4 ticks. Fixed a bug where sometimes the end of the what the player was typing in the chatbox would get cut off with the new “side-scrolling” mechanic, so they could not see what they were typing. Fixed a bug where players could use the deadman armageddon weapon scroll on an AGS, which would consume the scroll and not let players trim the other weapon types with nigel. Fixed a bug with a lot of textures on 2010 mode being dark blue. Fixed a bug where the combat achievements interfaces wouldn’t update until the player logged out after a combat achievement was completed. Fixed a bug where going down a level in the Chambers of Xeric on mobile would cause a black screen. Fixed a bug with the chugging barrel configuration interface not working properly. Fixed a bug where Zalcano kill times were not being tracked properly. Fixed a bug where TOA/TOB collection log completion announcements would not tally up all modes. Fixed a bug where the Echo ahrim's staff could not autocast from the Ancient magicks or Arceus spellbooks. Fixed a bug where EIM Swap ticket was not claimable. Fixed a bug which caused the Well of goodwill model to appear in the Abyssal Sire Lair. Fixed a typo during the fight with the Whisperer. Players can now trade in ensouled minotaur heads for 25,000 coins each. Players can now reanimate ensouled minotaur heads at the dark altar. Fixed a bug where STASH units would sometimes steal an item if the player did not have all 3 required items. The entity hider will no longer hide Zalcano when the "Hide dead NPC's" option is enabled. Fixed a bug where players could claim loot from the Doom of Mokhaiotl delves without ending their delve. Fixed a bug where the MvP at vet'ion/Callisto was getting double-killcount. Fixed a bug where the minimized minimap was being cut off on mobile. Fixed a bug with Vespula's Abyssal portal pathing. Fixed a bug where a lot of projectiles in the Chambers of Xeric were starting from/going to the wrong locations.     We hope you enjoy this update! As always, please report any bugs as soon as they are encountered. Regards, Omicron

Summer 2026 Community Awards   Hello and welcome to the 2026 Summer Community Awards! This is the second of the four editions of this year's Community Awards, hoping for a good continuation of activity to this year's community award nominations.   This thread will be up until July 1st and the results/signatures will be posted by July 8th, don't miss your chance to vote!   Thank you for participating!   RULES:   1) Guest Accounts will not have their votes counted!   2) You must fill out the entire template provided below.    3) You may NOT vote for yourself.   4) You CANNOT vote for the same person more than 6 times.   5) Any troll posts will be removed and the poster will be infracted.   6) No buying/selling or asking for votes.   Any breached rule will result in disqualification.       Please fill out 75% of the template or your votes will not be counted!   Staff   Best Event Manager:   Best Administrator:   Best Global Moderator:   Best Senior Moderator:   Best Game Moderator: Best Server Support:   Most active on Discord:   Most active In-game:   Most active on Forums:   Most Respected:   Most Potential Promotion:   Funniest Staff Member:   Overall Best Staff Member:   Players   Most Active In-game: Most Active on Forums:   Most Active on Discord:   Most Active Overall: Funniest Player: Most Spooned:   Most Wealthy:   Most Addicted to Gambling:   Most Friendly:   Coolest Veteran:   Best Planker: Best Fashionscaper: Best Bankstander:   Best PKer:   Best PvMer:   Best Raider:   Best Skiller:   Best Clan: Best Normie:   Best Ironman:   Best Hardcore Ironman:   Best Ultimate Ironman: Best Hardcore Ultimate Ironman:   Best Elite Ironman:   Best Elite Ironman duo:   Best Group Ironman (Player):   Best Hardcore Group Ironman (Player):   Best Realism Player:   Best Classic Player:   Best GFX Designer:   Best Youtuber:   Best Streamer:   Top Overall:   Good luck to everyone! If anyone has any new suggestions for any new future community award categories please reach out to me via forums / discord @ loooooogan or any other staff member, much appreciated.