Upcoming updates


 * For updates of which there have been hints, see Update hints.

Please note that these updates have not occurred yet. For updates that have occurred, please click here.

The following is a list of upcoming updates, derived from official Jagex content:

New Skills
Mod Mark confirmed in a recent interview with RuneShark (recorded 27/04/2012, published 12/06/2012) that Jagex does have plans to release another skill into RuneScape, with him hinting at a late 2013 release. He confirmed it would not be sailing, whilst listing several suggestions that had come up, including unarmed combat, necromancy and others. In the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark confirmed that two new skills would be released. One would be a gathering skill like mining and woodcutting and one would be a production skill such as crafting. What form these skills will take is yet to be announced.

God Content
During the LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark confirmed that in 2013 a lot of content will center around how the gods interact with the game world. This could take the form of temporary events where for example players of Zamorak can battle with those of Saradomin. It was also suggested that Zaros and his followers will play a big role in the content next year as well. Mod Mark is also very interested in allowing players to both cosmetically and practically show their alignment to a particular god.

New and Final Slayer master
On 3 October 2011, a player asked in Mod Mark's friends chat if they could have Glacors/Tormented demons as Slayer task, and Mod Mark responded, maybe one day. Then he said: "I'd like to think theres room for a final slayer master."

Dungeoneering
Mod Emilee hinted a Daemonheim 'finale' in the Game Updates FAQ for the Warped Floors.

Mod Mark confirmed in a recent interview with RuneShark (recorded 27/04/2012, published 12/06/2012) that Jagex does have plans to 'do something' with solo xp in Dungeoneering later on this year. It was revealed in the Behind the Scenes that there will be an update to solo Dungeoneering experience in November 2012.

Construction
In a development blog, Mod Mark commented that Jagex was planning to release many more rooms and the Menagerie was only the start. What the new rooms could be is unknown.

During the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark announced that two big updates would come to the Construction Skill during 2013. Some possible ideas that were suggested were player owned streets, were players can live alongside their friends in an instanced world.

One more quest in the Dwarf storyline
The final quest of the dwarf storyline will be a grandmaster quest.

More Elemental Workshop Quests
In the Game Update FAQ for Elemental Workshop IV, Mods Dylan and Mark have confirmed more quests being planned.

Mourning's Ends Part III
The ninth quest in the Elf series, the currently unsubtitled Mourning's Ends Part III, is to be released in 2012 or 2013, according to RuneFest 2011. There is little known about it, other than the fact that access to Prifddinas will be granted as a reward, and it will be released alongside the Elf Task Diary. During the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark announced that it was very unlikely that the next elf quest and Prifiddnas would be released during 2012/2013 due to it being such a large undertaking. He suggested a release in 2014 was more likely.

Grandmaster Quest
In the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark suggested that there would be a stunning, huge and epic quest released in early 2013 that his team is very proud of. What quest or storyline this may follow is yet to be announced.

Ariane Quests
During the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark announced that two quests would be released during November 2012, that would feature Ariane. These two quests would be released alongside each other, very much like the recent Ozan double bill quests. These quests will expand on Ariane's history and the beginning of her own storyline as part of the signature heroes.

Tasks set and more Equipment slots

 * One of these new slots is the aura slots, it is unconfirmed if that is the only slot mentioned.

Dwarves' graphical update


Since both the Gnomes and the Trolls received their graphical rework, it is likely that the Dwarf race is next, however Jagex Hinted at a graphical rework for the Elves.

Also the new Dwarf model has been implemented in Taverley and Oo'glog.

Gnomeball, Trouble Brewing and Games Room updates
Note: The KB, or the Knowledge Base, no longer exists after an update.

Multi-Core Support
On a thread made by a player concerning Frames Per Second (FPS) and Multi-Core support on the day of release of Z-Buffering, Mod Chris E confirmed it is implemented but disabled.



Daemonheim tasks
After a leak in game that showed Daemonheim in the task set, Mod Mark confirmed that Daemonheim tasks are in the works.

Player-owned ports
In the RuneScape 2012 Highlights video, Mod Mark revealed that there will be player-owned ports added to the game at some point in the future. Players will have to build the port and a few houses to attract captains. After that, they'll have to give the captains various assignments. The captains will have to be paid with money. As a reward, the captain will find so-called 'recipes', methods with which players will be able to make several high levelled items.

Mod Mark confirmed that high level smithing will be expanded with player-owned ports.

During the fourth LIVE Q&A session on the 30th of September 2012 (Coming 2013) Mod Mark confirmed that players will be able to fully customise their player owned ports, ships and NPC's as part of this update. He later confirmed that elements of this update would allow players to interact with the yet unreleased Eastern Lands.

Kalphite King
The Kalphite King was originally introduced as an April Fool's Day joke along with the Queen Black Dragon. It was later confirmed at RuneFest 2011 that it will be released.

Adamant Dragons
Word of Wind asks:

Few weeks ago I heard from players that there are going to be Adamant dragons. I would like to know, are you really planning those or is it just simply joke?

mod_mark:

We are planning to add some adamant dragons in the future, but the screenshot that people "thought" were addy dragons weren't. Honest!

Cinematic trailer
In the Cinematic trailer there are a few updated monsters and a possible new area

Falador graphical update
Mod Pascal, a french member of the Runescape graphics team, confirmed in a interview with Francoscape that they were actually working on a graphical update of Falador. This was also confirmed by Mod Mark in the 4th Live Q+A session.

Tutorial Island
During the fourth LIVE Q&A session Mod Mark announced that Tutorial Island will be removed or moved some time in the future to make way for an updated wizards tower area.

HTML5 Support
Mod MMG confirmed in a news postthat HTML5 support is coming to the game.

Item recovery
Mod Katieann mentioned a system for recovering items after an account has been hacked

RuneScape 3
During the first live RuneScape Q&A, CEO Mark Gerhard announced that Jagex are making plans for developing RuneScape 3. Micro transactions such as Solomon's Store and Squeal of Fortune are helping to build a 'war chest' to fund such a large project. RuneScape 3 was then announced during the Fourth LIVE Q&A session as the project name for several huge updates over the next couple of years. These updates would feature advanced graphics, audio, lighting and textures, customisable interface and would run on HTML5. He also suggested that such a project might run on future generation technologies such as mobile phones and tablets.

Mobile Runescape
As part of Jagex's plans for the future of runescape it was announced during the fourth LIVE Q&A session that the team are not only looking to bring Runescape to Tablet computers but to produce a mobile application or game that would allow players to interact with the game world and community while on the move. Little else is known about this project at the time.