RuneScape:User help/Archive 7

Editing Map Images
I want to help update new location/updated location maps. I noticed that they often have a blue box marker of the "thing/topic" on the map that's being discussed. Is there a template or image of that square, or do I just make my own purple transparent square? (Such as the one below)


 * I believe all of these types of maps are made using User:Cook Me Plox/NPC Map Creator. 12:49, September 20, 2016 (UTC)

Data collection
Is there anyway I can/allowed to get data from this site? XML? I'm just after disassembly data for different items. too many to search and copy. I want items and their chance data which I was going to collect in a excel spreadsheet and sort accordingly. cheers toy smurf


 * I'm sure someone more experienced on the subject will come along shortly to answer your question in a more thorough way, but in the meantime I can point you to the RuneScape API, and the MediaWiki API documentations. There might be enough there to get you started — Heaven Sent (talk) 04:17, October 5, 2016 (UTC)


 * All the raw data for item chances are on Module:Disassembly material calculator/data as a lua table - it should be obvious what means what, but watch out for comments (line starts with ). This data is by category. Finding the category/level for an item is kinda awkward to do in bulk automatically, but I whipped up User:Gaz Lloyd/dpl9 for you.
 * This is a table of all the disassemblable items with the four key values: category, level, special, specialchance. These are: the item's (specific) category, the item's disassembly level, the item's special materials (if any), and whether the item always gives (one of the) special materials - yes/true for 100%, no/false for not 100%. Special has the format  or  . Both quantity and chance are optional. See the documentation of Template:Disassembly for more info on this.
 * You'll also need Module:Disassemble/data to map those names into categories used by the chance data - its a bit more complex than the other module, but you can probably work it out. Let me know if you want help.
 * Of course, you'll also need to have read Disassemble and Junk, but I assume you've already done that. 11:26, October 7, 2016 (UTC)

Issue with (atleast) the Protective Component Calculator
I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place to report this. I tried to edit it but I didn't see how it was possible.

If you go to the http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculator:Disassembly_by_material/Protective page, you might notice the "cost per mat" column is incorrect. What it should do is take the average chance for Protective components, and give you the effective cost per Protective Component in the "cost per mat" column (this is how it works for example, in the Powerful Component Calculator). However, it instead gives you the effective cost per the 8 materials that that item gives. For example, Ganodermic Boots are listed at 3k per material, when they're themselves 24k. This is a result of dividing the price of the boots by the materials (8). It should instead display 145k, which is how much you can expect to pay before you get 1 Protective Component. A proper version of this calculator that works correctly can be found here: http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Calculator:Disassembly_by_material/Protective?oldid=16483071.
 * This was a known issue and is already fixed - you likely have a cached version of the javascript. Does it persist if you clear your cache (ctrl-f5)? (You may also want to login to an account - logged-out users have a slower cache for everything.) 22:20, February 16, 2017 (UTC)
 * (Cant figure out how to reply with an indent) Clearing my cache did indeed fix it, thank you.

Title template
Hey guys, I just starded here in the community and I think it's awesome. I just wanted to know if anyone can help me with this little issue, i want to put some of my ideas of work on titles pages and stuff like that, I want to know if anyone can tell me how to put that title "thing" like something with the grey back to contrast with the white colour of the page. Thanks. Abysaw (talk) 02:34, February 27, 2017 (UTC)
 * To format a title such as you'd want to use the Template:TitleAnchor: . Documentation on how to format each of those variables can be found in the documentation sections of the template's page via the link I gave above. — Heaven Sent (talk) 02:57, February 27, 2017 (UTC)