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| Release date | 12 February 2018 (Update) |
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| Subject of testing | Mining and Smithing rework |
The Mining and Smithing beta is a beta that started on 12 February 2018 at 15:00 UTC and lasts for 2 weeks. The beta offered the chance for all players to try out some of the core features for the upcoming Mining and Smithing rework. Players could join this beta through a connection from the RuneScape Website, which opened the players client allowing them to join worlds 200, 201, 202 and 203.
Decorated Doric can be found in the Smithing building, players can hand in decorated items at him.
A Poll Booth can be found next to the shops to give feedback on the beta.
Shops
Upon first entering one of the beta worlds, the player is placed in front of 12 shop shops and one large red lamp with the same model as an experience lamp. These shops provide the player with much of the content as if they were in a sandbox world. The shops are as follows:
- Bar shop: Provides unlimited bars of the reworked content either noted or un-noted: bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant, rune, drakolith, necronium, bane and elder rune bars.
- Ore shop: Provides unlimited ores of the reworked content either noted or un-noted: tin, copper, iron, coal, steel, mithril, adamant, rune, drakolith, necronite, phasmatite, bane, dark animica, light animica, living rock, and elder rune bars.
- Boots shop: Provides unlimited pairs of boots of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- 2h sword shop: Provides unlimited 2h Swords of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Gloves shop: Provides unlimited gloves of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Longsword shop: Provides unlimited Longswords of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Off-hand longsword shop: Provides unlimited Off-Hand Longswords of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Helm shop: Provides unlimited Helms of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Pickaxe shop: Provides unlimited Pickaxes of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Platebody shop: Provides unlimited Platebody of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Platelegs shop: Provides unlimited Platelegs of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Shield shop: Provides unlimited Shields of all the metals, including their upgraded forms, e.g. +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and decorated where applicable.
- Level changer: This red experience lamp allows the players to open an interface which allows them to change their levels in Mining, Smithing, Agility and Strength between 1 and 99.
Available ores to mine
Once a player enters the world there are many ores which are available to mine. Those being the ones already inside the game (copper, tin, iron, coal, mithril, adamant and runite ore) and the new, introduced ores, luminite, drakolith, necrite, phasmatite, bane, dark animica, light animica, living rock, and elder runite ore.
Currently all the new available ores do not have any textures as Bars, ores, or ore rocks. These are instead replaced by cubes of different colours.
Ore bag
The ore bag is a new feature similar to the coal or gem bags. This item is supposed to replace the coal bag once released. The ore bag holds ores inside of it, each ore has a different amount of space it takes up in the bag.
| Ore | Percent of space taken up inside ore bag per ore |
Full bag of ore |
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| Tin ore | 0.55% | 182 ore |
| Copper ore | 0.55% | 182 ore |
| Iron ore | 0.6% | 167 ore |
| Coal | 0.65% | 154 ore |
| Mithril ore | 0.7% | 143 ore |
| Adamant ore | 0.75% | 134 ore |
| Runite ore | 0.8% | 125 ore |
| Luminite ore | 0.75% | 134 ore |
| Drakolith ore | 0.85% | 118 ore |
| Necrite ore | 0.9% | 112 ore |
| Phasmatite ore | 0.9% | 112 ore |
| Bane ore | 0.95% | 106 ore |
| Dark animica ore | 0.95% | 106 ore |
| Light animica ore | 0.95% | 106 ore |
| Living rock ore | 1% | 100 ore |
| Elder runite ore | 1% | 100 ore |
Smithing
The smithing rework includes many new features. The Furnace now contains a Hopper object which allows the player to place seemingly unlimited amounts of ore inside, allowing them to be smelted in rapid succession.
Smithing any type of Ingot into armour, weapons and tools however is now approached differently. You choose which item you wish to smith at a Forge and you are then given an In progress smithing object. This is then heated at the forge. This fills up a bar above the players head, which represents the Heat that the item has. The player then proceeds to smith the item on the anvil, which furthers the progress of the item, while also subtracting heat from the item slowly. The higher the heat an In progress smithing object has, the faster the smithing progresses. Heat does not dissipate as time passes however. It only dissipates when the item is being forged at an anvil.
This then continues until the item is completely forged.
Trivia
- The building model for blacksmith workshop is a modified version of the workshop found in Lumbridge.
- The mining rock ores include all ores conventionally used in game apart from gold.
- The armour smithed from luminite to elder runite ore have a retro style to them.
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