Hello everyone, welcome to this month's edition of the Alora Newspaper!
Hope everyone has had a good March! So without further adieu let’s get into it.
We’ve touched up a disclaimer for those that do not have 2fa applied to their account(s), as well as added a section under Rule #4 regarding Hacking/DDoS Threats..
Basically, The Staff Team can only do so much to help keep your account(s) safe. 2fa is the best we can offer to you and it’s quite effective when it comes down to it. Any account that has become compromised without 2fa will NOT be able to get a refund.
- Here on Alora, we offer many methods of security by insisting our players use unique passwords and constantly reminding players to enable 2FA. This being said, our Staff Team works hard to keep our players' accounts secure, but it is ultimately up to the player to ensure that security with the tools we have available. Hacked accounts that do not have 2FA enabled are NOT ELIGIBLE for a refund.
• b. Threats against Alora as a whole will not be tolerated. When you threaten Alora you are also threatening every single member of our community, and thus will be held responsible for threats against each and every player. Those who threaten to DDoS Alora will receive a permanent removal from the community with no chance of appeal.
Last Man Standing max players fixed (was still 24 following the last update)
Miscellaneous:
Previously, the Font of Consumption (Abyssal Sire) items were not being added to the collection log. This has been fixed.
GIM removal ticket changes:
Purchasing GIM removal tickets has been fixed for ironman.
Kicking yourself:
You can now kick yourself from your group without having to vote on it / have other team mates vote on it. You will be instantly kicked upon using the ticket and typing in your own name.
This can be done with any group size (even 1 or 2 player groups), but if you want to vote on another player you must still have at least a 3-player group.
Fixed combat bugs with new prayer changes:
A few NPCs' damage blocking effects were not being properly applied, and have since been fixed:
Demonic gorillas were attackable through prayer
The gray (melee-only) spiders in ToB were attackable
Inferno changes:
You can no longer safespot any of the JalTok-Jads in the second to last wave (3 Jad wave). Even if you stand in a safespot or run to the corner, they will still be able to hit you.
Farming updates:
Whiteberry seed is now tradable.
Banana tree contract has been fixed.
Hey guys,
Today’s update took a bit longer than anticipated to wrap up, due to some major changes to the farming system and having to understand the way the new patches are configured. Nevertheless, we pushed through these difficulties, and as promised, the Farming guild has arrived! You’ll be able to plant many new seeds in new types of patches, and we’ve also pushed some important fixes for non-farming guild related aspects of the skill (calquat trees, cactus patches, bushes, etc). Aside from Farming, we’ve implemented the Group Ironman removal tickets which will allow players to vote on kicking players from their group. The full details are below:
Group Ironman Removal tickets:
Due to popular request, we've decided to add a way for ironman groups to vote to remove players from their team.
Here's how it works:
1. A Group Removal ticket is required, which can be purchased from the store for 350 tokens. Any player in the group can use it, and this will initiate a vote in the group to kick a player out.
2. At this point, any online players will be asked if they would like to kick the selected player. For the next 48 hours, team members will be reminded that they need to vote on login.
3. The majority of the team must vote yes to kick the selected player. See the table below for the required amount of votes:
5-man team: 3 players required
4-man team: 2 players required
3-man team: 2 players required
Any lower: duos and solo group ironman teams cannot use these tickets.
4. If the requirement is met within 48 hours, the player will be kicked from the team. If the requirement is not met, the vote will fail and another one can be re-initiated with a new ticket.
Notes:
Only 1 vote can be ongoing at any given moment, so if you'd like to kick 2 players, you need to wait until the current vote is concluded. This can take minutes if all players are online, or it could take 24+ hours to wait until the required # of votes is met.
If the vote fails, and the majority of the players in the group do not want to kick the player being voted on, you will still lose your ticket.
A group can only vote to kick a player once every 7 days, unless the current vote fails, in which case they can immediately kick another player.
The ticket is tradable (between group members), but normal accounts can transfer the ticket over by using it on a GIM player.
Farming updates:
General updates/fixes:
Though previously available across Alora, these patches/seeds were not functional and now work as intended:
Spirit tree patches:
Although Spirit trees don't technically exist in Alora (due to the convenience of the Teleport wizard), these seeds give a great sum of XP when fully grown and the seed drops are quite rare, making them a viable training method. All of the following patches can now be planted with Spirit seeds:
Etceteria, Brimhaven, Port Sarim, Hosidius, Farming guild
Snape grass seeds can now be planted in any allotment patch, and will enable you to conveniently obtain Snape grass!
These seeds can be dropped by seed packs, the Master Farmer or from many different NPCs.
Potato cactus seeds
Obtainable from Seed packs or pickpocketing Master farmers.
Dragonfruit seeds:
These seeds can be used to plant a Dragonfruit tree in any Fruit tree patch, and can be obtained rarely from Bird's nests, but also from Konar's loot table and as rare drops from certain NPCs such as the Alchemical Hydra and Demonic Gorillas.
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug which caused the Catherby fruit tree to appear as a different tree than the one you had planted at times.
Bird's nest loot additions:
Spirit seeds, Calquat seeds, Redwood tree seeds, Dragonfruit tree seeds, Celastrus seeds
Accessible to those with 45 Farming and higher, the Teleport wizard can teleport you here from the Skilling teleports menu.
The guild has 3 main areas, each requiring a certain Farming level to use the patches within the area.
The main area and the east wing can be used by anyone who can enter the guild.
The west wing can be used by those with level 65 Farming or higher.
The only exception here is the Anima patch, which requires level 76 Farming.
The Hespori dungeon can be used by those with level 65 Farming or higher.
The north wing can be used by those with level 85 Farming or higher.
The Guild contains many new patches, and introduces new seeds to plant. Here's a rundown:
New patches:
Exclusive to the farming guild:
Celastrus patch
You can grow Celastrus trees with Celastrus seeds in this patch, which can give you Celastrus bark.
This bark can then be fletched into Battlestaves with level 40 fletching.
The seeds can be obtained from Bird's nests, Seed packs, Hespori, Konar's drop table and certain high-level/boss monsters.
Redwood tree patch
In the north-west wing of the farming guild, a huge patch allows you to plant an entire redwood tree. This tree takes a whopping 106 hour to fully grow, but will give you a considerable amount of experience upon health-checking it at full growth.
The seeds can be obtained from Bird's nests, Seed packs, Hespori, Konar's drop table and certain high-level/boss monsters.
Anima patch
Anima seeds are unique in that they are untradable, and only obtained after defeating the Hespori (which spawns from the Hespori patch beneath the guild).
3 seeds, which all have passive effects within the guild while they are planted:
Attas seed:
Increases the yield of farming patches
Iasor seed
Decreases the chance of patches becoming diseased
Kronos seed
Provides a chance for farming patches to skip a growth stage (growing more quickly)
Hespori patch (See below)
Contracts:
Guildmaster Jane can assign contracts to players looking for work within the Farming guild.
You'll be told what they need you to grow inside the guild, and upon successfully growing the requested crop, you'll be rewarded with seed packs, which can be opened for rare seeds (particularly the ones exclusive to the guild).
You can choose easy, medium or hard contracts. You'll only be given contracts that can be completed at your current Farming level.
You can cancel contracts as long as you haven't started them. The only exception is easy contracts, which cannot be cancelled.
The contract is completed when you harvest and/or check the health of your crop.
Seed packs:
After completing a contract, you'll be rewarded with a seed pack. You can 'take' from the seed pack up to 10 times before it disappears, and essentially taking from the seed pack gives you one roll on the seed table:
Hespori is a patch that can be grown in the dungeon beneath the guild by those who have a Hespori seed and 65+ Farming. The Hespori plant eventually is able to gain consciousness once it matures, and is able to attack the player. To obtain the loot from the Hespori, you must defeat the patch.
Obtaining seeds:
They can be randomly obtained from harvesting, clearing, or checking the health of crops anywhere in Gielinor, or by completing farming contracts (seed packs).
Loot:
12,600 XP in Farming
Although the Hespori can drop many different seeds, the notable drops are:
Anima seeds (Attas, Iasor, Kronos)
These seeds are exclusive to the Hespori, and you will always receive at least 1 of the seeds per kill.
The Hespori attacks with 2 styles, Magic and Range.
Throughout different points in the battle, the flowers in the room will open up, and at this point the Hespori can no longer be damaged. You must damage these flowers (10 hit points) to close them up, and once all 4 are closed you can continue the battle.
Performance improvements:
Some of you may have already noticed (after being up for ~7 days before this update) that there wasn't any noticeable lag as there usually is after extended uptime. We've isolated the cause of most of this lag and made a hidden change last update to hopefully fix it and confirm that it was the cause of the lag, which we're now certain of.
Though this is a big step for us in terms of lag, there are still some issues after ~6 days of uptime that occasionally arise which we are working on fixing.
Combat/wilderness changes:
Tele-block now resets on logout (as it is on OSRS).
Ranged weapon distance has been slightly increased as it the distance calculation seems to be 1 step too short (certain mechanics, such as the 'Woox walk' at Vorkath were no longer possible since last update).
Obelisk location saving:
Donators (regular+) can now choose a specific obelisk to teleport to!
Right-clicking the obelisk to choose "Set-desination" will allow you to choose any one of the 6 Obelisk locations around the wilderness.
Right-clicking the obelisk to choose "Teleport to destination" will take you to your specified destination, though if you use the regular "Activate obelisk" option you will still teleport to a random location as usual.
Protection Prayer delay:
We've made some changes to the way Protection prayers work in Ranged/Magic combat, as they would previously not 'activate' quickly enough and you might still get hit for full damage when toggling one of these prayers. They should now be applied as soon as the prayer icon is above your head, protecting you from any incoming damage. This does not apply to Melee, as it was not suffering from the same bug.
NPC changes:
NPCs that are envenomed or poisoned will now be cured if they are no longer in combat with you. This fixes the bug which allowed players to quickly envenom many NPCs with a blowpipe and wait for them all to die.
Greater Nechryaels in the Catacombs of Kourend will now 'stack' on each other as intended.
Some Fire giants in the Catacombs were not attackable and have been fixed.
Miscellaneous:
A bug which allowed you to get double the experience for using an Agility obstacle has been fixed.
Infernal pickaxe, harpoon and axe will all now go to the lost items shop if lost on death, and can be bought back for 500k GP each.
Fixed a bug which allowed you to quickly smith items.
Fixed a bug which allowed you to quickly craft items.
Fixed a bug which allowed you to continue fishing while running to the bank.
Pharoah's sceptre now has a 'float up' animation when equipped.
Fixed a bug which caused the outlines of buildings and objects on the mini-map to be completely missing.
Cannon fixes:
Using your cannonballs on your cannon while in combat will now work properly.
Setting up your cannon while running will now stop your movement.
Slayer fixes:
Slayer costs to cancel fixed:
Super donator+: 3 points if Konar tasks, otherwise free
Regular donator+: 12 points if Konar tasks, otherwise 8
Normal: 15 points if Konar tasks, otherwise 12
Superior encounters will now appear for Konar's tasks.
When slaying Kurask's in the Fremennik Slayer dungeon task-only area, they would not count towards your task if assigned by Konar (must be slain in this dungeon). This issue was caused by the task-only room not being recognized as part of the dungeon, and has now been fixed.
Reverting a Slayer staff (e) will no longer refund your Slayer enchantment, as it allowed you to have unlimited charges.
Equipment fixes:
The requirements for the Dragonfire Ward have been fixed. (70 ranged, 75 defence)
The requirements for Vesta, Zuriel's, Morrigan's and Statius' armour sets have been added (78 defence).
Group Ironman changes:
GIM group name can no longer include foreign/special characters to avoid bugs with inviting players.
Uncut emeralds / cut emeralds have been added to the Group Ironman shared bank on the stock supply tab (5th tab).
Fletching changes:
Fletching darts now requires the proper Fletching level:
Bronze: 10
Iron: 22
Steel: 37
Mithril: 52
Adamant: 67
Rune: 81
Dragon: 95
Smithing update:
Clicking on an anvil to smith is now possible, rather than having to use your bar on the anvil.
If you have multiple bars in your inventory, the first bar that shows up (closest to the top of your inventory) will be prioritized.
Venom/poison update:
The venom/poison immunity system has received a major overhaul, with the following changes:
Venom and poison immunity will now persist through logouts, meaning when you log back in you will still be immune for however long the potion is supposed to last.
Drinking a potion before the timer is up will now reset the timer, rather than doing nothing (as it did previously).
Dragon defender visual update:
This defender has been updated to appear more red than pink.
Last Man Standing QOL:
During staff hosted events, it is very common for the LMS lobby to fill up beyond the 24 player maximum. This maximum is restricted by the number of chests in the arena, as allowing more players means less loot to share.
We've updated the maximum to be 40 players, in which case we'd spawn some extra chests depending on how many more players over the previous limit of 24 are in the game.
We hope you enjoy this update! As always, please be sure to report bugs as soon as they are found :)
Regards,
Omicron
Spoiler
Hey guys,
Today's update contains numerous QOL updates and bug fixes, as well as a few cool content updates! We've got some other noteworthy content that's being worked on for the next update, such as updated chatbox skilling interfaces ("Make" interface used for smithing, fletching etc), Trading Post buy options, and other content from the most recent content poll that passed. Stay tuned for more updates in the near future, and in the meantime, we hope you enjoy the updates below!
Forum updates:
Numeric values (post-count, likes count, etc) on forum profiles, user post bits (in topics and messaging app) and other places have been updated to be properly formatted.
Eg. Likes: 4001 becomes Likes: 4,001
Maximum # of questions in a poll has been increased from 10 to 20.
Added pages:
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy
Refund Policy
Store changes:
A "Recent purchases" feature which shows you recently purchased items by other players, to give you an idea of what people are spending their tokens on.
We've made some small improvements to the loading speed and smoothness of the store on the website. Additionally, a few cosmetic changes have been made (spacing and text sizes).
Lastly, we've moved the "Cart" a bit higher on the page, above the Collection box, making it more easily visible.
Game updates:
Chambers of Xeric // Raids 1 drop table changes:
Overall, the chance of obtaining a rare drop in the Chambers of Xeric has been slightly increased across the board.
The individual rates of the items on the rare drop table have NOT changed whatsoever, only the chance of hitting the rare drop table has been increased.
You'll still have a much higher chance of obtaining loot if you work harder than previous teams, and if you've got more points than your team average.
Konar's drop table update:
The Dusk Mystic set is rarely seen in-game (and usually not a complete set), so we've decided to heavily increase the drop rate of the pieces for this set.
All of the pieces of the dusk set are now 4x more common than before.
Foreign characters fixed:
This took awhile to figure out, and we hope that the part player base which uses these characters (Finland, Denmark, Norway, etc) appreciate the fix! You can now type in foreign characters such as:
Å,å,Ä,ä,Æ,æ,Ø,ø,Ö,ö and many more!
Destroy item bug fixed:
If you tried to destroy an item, then switched it to another slot before clicking 'Yes' to destroy it, it would delete the other item you swapped it with.
This has been fixed, and if the item is not in the same slot, it will still be destroyed from wherever it is in your inventory.
Inferno update:
When in the Inferno and on a TzKal-Zuk Slayer task, your Slayer helmet (or mask) effects will apply to all monsters within the Inferno.
Tournament streaming system:
Administrators can now properly stream tournaments, with a system similar to the one used by the OSRS team in Deadman tournaments!
This system allows the streamer (usually @Lowkey) to use their keyboard (WASD) to move the camera, and displays an interface which shows the hitpoints, prayer points, combat level, username, special attack energy and inventories of two players in combat.
Duel arena fix:
Sometimes if you are poisoned in a duel and you have killed your opponent (they are doing the death animation), you would get hit by their poison and die, leading to the duel being a tie.
This has been fixed, and poison/venom should no longer deal any damage to you in the duel arena if your opponent is dead/dying.
Vorkath update:
You are now always guaranteed Vorkath's head on your 50th kill, even if you've received it before.
Considering this update is late and some of you may be above 50 kills without a Vorkath's head drop, you'll also receive a Vorkath's head if you are 50+ kills and have never received one as a drop.
Prayer fixes:
Following the previous update, which changed how protection prayers are applied, we found that they were being applied too late, giving your victim way too much time to protect themselves from the attack. They are now calculated exactly 1 tick after the attack animation for Magic/Ranged attacks, meaning you have a very short time (0.6s) to turn on the correct prayer and defend against the attack.
Group Ironman changes:
Group Ironman Orb QOL:
The GIM orb can now also be found in the Donator zone (Shilo village, ;;dz), rather than only at home.
Considering this orb is also a sort of bank for GIM, it makes sense to have it in the Donator zone as well.
This orb is located within the bank building.
Bank changes:
The maximum stack size for items in the shared bank has been updated from:
10,000 -> 100,000 for general items
1,000,000 -> 10,000,000 for coins
XP drop fix:
Related to the fix above, XP drops will no longer show that you gained XP (dealt damage) when the hit ends up being 0 damage (or lower than the XP drop implies).
Skill guide menus:
We've fully updated the skill guides to match OSRS 1:1. This means that they'll be updated with all of the latest information, such as, for example, the Attack menu showing the Abyssal tentacle, Ghrazi rapier, Scythe, etc. This applies to every single skill, as they were extremely outdated.
This was half-updated since our downtime last week, but many pages were opening the wrong skill menu. It should work perfectly now.
;;farm command:
You can now type ;;farm/::farm or ;;fg/::fg to be teleported to the Farming guild without going to the teleport wizard.
Quest tab changes:
The number in brackets next to the vote count will now show the # of times you've voted this month.
Previously, it was broken and would show your kill streak instead.
Miscellaneous:
Multi-spell effects (eg. Ice barrage) will no longer work on pets (my bad!).
You will no longer be given some tree contracts (fruit tree and regular tree) at the farming guild if you don't have the required level to use the respective patch (65 for regular trees, 85 for fruit trees).
A bug with the Shooting star has been patched (if 2 players have already found the star, and then 2 more arrive at the same time, it would bug out as there should only be a max of 3 players that can receive the reward).
The Kourend Catacombs teleport has been updated so that it places you in the middle of the dungeon, rather than on the west side.
Collection log fix:
The previous update broke the collection logs, with many pages not showing the right items and most showing the wrong kill counts. This has been fully fixed and tested.
Discord bot fix:
The discord #game_news channel has been disabled as of last week, which some of you may have noticed. This was due to a bug related to Discord which has now been fixed, meaning that the channel is now once again operational.
There was also a bug which caused some news announcements to not be sent to the news channel which has been fixed, meaning that all announcements should show up in Discord.
Bad word censor:
We've added a new censor to prevent malicious users from advertising other servers or websites, and to make our staff team's job easier in dealing with these users. The system which prevents these words (for example, the name of another server) checks all possible combinations (eg. If the server name was Alora, A10RA would be blocked as well).
Mute timer fixed:
When muted, you would often see "You are muted for another -85032 hours." rather than the correct time for your mute. You will now see an accurate counter for how long you have left on your mute (hours or minutes).
Max hit dummy:
A max hit dummy has been added in the thieving room north of the Edgeville bank!
This dummy will let you check exactly what your max hit is with your current equipment and attack style, as well as the max hit if you are using your special attack.
Clan chat update:
Previously sorted alphabetically, the order of the Clan chat player name lists will now be sorted a little differently.
Firstly, the list will be sorted by rank, with the highest ranked members at the top.
There have been quite a few changes to the staff team recently, you can see them below here:
3/3 Promotions: Sheep has resign.... swapped his Administrator rank to his GIM account Annakarl. hsoJ has swapped his Administrator rank to his GIM account God. Draisaitl has returned to the Staff Team as a Global Moderator. Smiv has returned to the Staff Team as a Server Moderator. Morgen has been promoted to Server Support.
Resignations: Dante has resigned from Administrator. More information can be found here: https://www.alora.io...my-resignation/
Sassafras has resigned from Forum Moderator. DB Aspect has resigned from Server Moderator. Doofy has resigned from Server Moderator.
Demotions: EIM Django has been demoted due to lack of activity.
3/17 Promotions: Code 002 has been promoted to Administrator. Loinen22 aka Kaamea has been promoted to Global Moderator and has switched his rank to his GIM account. Kharyrll has been promoted to Forum Moderator. Doofy has returned to the team as Server Moderator. Jisoo has been promoted to Server Moderator. EIM Zarox has been promoted to Server Support.
Resignations: hsoJ has temp resigned as Administrator. He WILL be returning soon.
3/27 Promotions: hsoJ has returned to the Staff Team as an Administrator. Salter has returned to the Staff Team as an Administrator. Kharyrll has been promoted to Global Moderator.
Iron Champie has been promoted to Forum Moderator. Fine China
has been promoted to Server Support. Vape Tricks has been promoted to Server Support.
Demotions: Collerkar76 returned to the Staff Team as a Server Moderator but was later demoted.
Deadcat22: I’ve always been interested of RS, so when I started alora I googled "best rsps with hcim mode" or something that, that’s why my name was Hc Adex []
Code 002: Did you ever obtain the Zammy godwars pet? what is your kc for Kril?
Code 002: What is your favorite thing to do on Alora?
EIM 1gp: Since I currently am going for comp cape on my eim, I have been pking a lot and I current love to nh on Alora.
Code 002: If given the chance to go anywhere in the world for a month for free where would you go? What would you do?
EIM 1gp: Hmmm spoiled me with choices here, to be honest I would love to be alone with maybe a friend and a boombox with 90s music to chill on a lonely island and live like a caveman for a month.
Code 002: If you were given a super power of your choice what would you choose and why?
EIM 1gp: Definitely super speed, I mean who hasn’t watched the flash and said “I wish I had that super power just for a day.”
Code 002: How do you put up with Vuqe and Hellish on a day to day basis?
EIM 1gp: Sometimes a shot of bleach does wonders and keeps all the suffering away. With those two around you have no other options unfortunately.
Code 002: Besides playing Alora, what else do you enjoy doing?
EIM 1gp: To be honest I am a very basic person. Whenever I don’t spend my time on alora I'm either in the gym, spending my time with friends or family or going to the hookah bar. Sometimes I put a picture of Vuqe on a punching bag and stab it with a red colored harpoon, but I guess that's an Alora activity...
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This is awesome I love all spot light showings of those drops and pets! 600 xp for a herbi is pretty impressive and that 1.5k kc for dwh looks so nice :)
Great job Newspaper team, keep up the awesome work and looking forward to next months!
PLEASE I BEG YOU remove the "WHATS HAPPENING" moments man i fucking wanna neck not joking ...
also @Deadcat22 there is no failure unless you gave up ... :c and my father always told me "You don't deserve it unless you get it" so if you didn't get it at 17339 kc and some one got it at 21 then he deserves it and you don't that's why he got it :PPPP
and @EIM 1gp as much as am sad that you wanted to be alone
I don't like the "listenting to 90s music" idk if its me only but i hate old songs..
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I love all spot light showings of those drops and pets! 600 xp for a herbi is pretty impressive and that 1.5k kc for dwh looks so nice :)
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