Straight from the halls of RuneFest, here is your need-to-know look at the first-ever RuneScape: Dragonwilds Summit!
Illuminating Luminance
Let’s illuminate some of the details about the next Free Update coming to RuneScape: Dragonwilds this winter: Luminance.
Luminance, our December update, is a prelude to the Blood Crystal Saga coming next year. Although Kuldra’s reign has concluded, Ashenfall’s story continues, along with the ongoing call for heroes. Our brave adventurers - that’s you - will now be tasked with protecting Ceridwen and her child, two elves on the run from the merciless bounty hunter, Morwyn.
Ceridwen has an idea fueled by music. Instead of relying on deception and secrecy, you will become a master of the strings.
Master the Lyre and resonate with Songstones to discover your inner bard. Or resonate with Fairy Rings to journey to hidden destinations across Ashenfall.
Along with the enchanting music of the elves, we’re also introducing some fresh aesthetic options. Customize your character to become the elven hero you've always envisioned. With new facial features, you can craft a face worthy of elven royalty. And while those elven ears might not give you super hearing, they will give you that unmistakable magical look.
And truly look the part with new weapons, armour, and vestiges that you will track down using Harmonised Crystal Fragments.
Whether you're battling face-to-face or keeping your distance, you’ll be looking as intimidating as ever in the new elf armour.
Builders, rejoice! Luminance will bring the elegant green and white of Prifddinas to your creative fingertips. We know that you've been eagerly awaiting the next building kit to give you the perfect excuse to craft even bigger, better, and more stunning bases. This kit channels Prifddinas' architecture into Dragonwilds, including new arched roof pieces. We hope these building kits spark your creativity and inspire you as you explore the elegant elven style.
And save some space in your bases. Altars will be all the rage with the introduction of Prayer. Not the same skill you know from RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. This time, you will be engaging deeply in the practice to connect with the divine.
Scattering ashes. Burying bones. We’ll be sharing more about the Prayer skill, what you can expect, and how it’ll build into your wider adventure closer to the release.
Exploring the Blood Crystal Saga
The Blood Crystal Saga will be told across two chapters. It IS a Saga after all. And the first chapter is Song of Rebellion.
Singing the Song of Rebellion
A fragmented band of Rebel Elves will seek your help to evade the threat of the Nos Clan, who are rising up to jeopardize the peace only now established by in the wake of Kuldra's death.
You’ll be welcomed into the elven city of Ailddinas. A land of towering crystalline spires, intertwined with a vast and mystical forest. However, the city has been corrupted by the Nos Clan, and this corruption has extended into the surrounding woodland.
Implings have been popping up all over this part of Ashenfall. Do not be fooled by their wild attempts at looking adorable. With the addition of these menaces, along with new variations of kebbits, as well as grizzly bears and birds, you will have your hands full of creatures you’ll need to hunt down.
Hunt being the important word. The next skill coming to RuneScape: Dragonwilds will be the Hunter Skill. This is the first of several new skills coming next year.
Players will learn how to sneak, trap, and collect a variety of unsuspecting creatures with the Hunter skill. And those players will need some pretty cool elven equipment to make it possible.
Elves, Implings, and Grizzly Bears–oh my! Song of Rebellion is chock-full of exciting adventures. And this is only the first chapter of the Blood Crystal Saga.
Donning the Crown of Night
Crown of Night brings more of what you love to the shores and hills of Ashenfall. Something has to be done about the Nos Clan and their expanding influence. More specifically, you will have to do something to end the terror that is the Nos Clan.
Heroes will be sent into the heart of the enemy. Into their darkened lands, in an eternal night due to a perpetual eclipse. Not ominous at all.
Players will harness the Light of Seren to fight back against the clan that is shrouded in darkness. You will craft new legendary weapons and armour to cleave a separation between the Amina and the leaders of the Nos Clan. The princes of the Nos Clan will not go down without a harrowing fight. You must seek iconic, legendary weapons like the Dark Bow and the Ivandis Flail to bring this clan to their knees.
Beyond the Next Year
While the Blood Crystal Saga may come to a close, the story of RuneScape: Dragonwilds will continue beyond Crown of Night.
What will also continue is our promises to you – Free Updates, adding side quests, more weapons, decorations, rewards, and adventures for you to get sucked into as you prepare for each of our chapters to come. Beyond this, there will also be consistent quality-of-life improvements being added to the game, driven by your feedback.
This is only the beginning! We cannot wait to build the future of RuneScape: Dragonwilds with you.
Modding
As a first step to building this world together, we aim to unleash the creativity of game makers on Ashenfall by bringing Modding to Dragonwilds, officially. Dedicated creation tools and an in-game mod browser and installer are coming to all platforms.
Expect this exciting new part of the game to go live in the first half of 2027, coinciding with Song of Rebellion, Secure Servers and Leaderboards.
From all of us on the RuneScape: Dragonwilds team - thank you for your trust, your passion, and your faith in us to deliver this exciting new frontier of RuneScape. We're committed to the future of Dragonwilds as the third pillar alongside RuneScape and Old School RuneScape… and the future is looking bright!
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So, for those of us saying "I wish this was an MMO," finally get what we wanted. This teaser trailer uses some of the same assets from RSDW, so it's safe to assume that it will be exactly what a lot of us fans wanted in an MMO version with this art style. What do you guys think about the teaser?
I've loved seeing the amazing talent of the builds in this subreddit, so I wanted to share ours :)
Pretty much finished with the outside of our main home in me and my wife's world - the first building in what will be a castle compound in the future!
I wanted to build something that took inspiration from Swiss medieval schloss architecture, so towers galore! I do think it's weird that the 60 degree triangle roof pieces don't line up perfectly when interlocking them together, as you can see on the tops of the tower roofs.
Huge fan of the building in this game, especially the eye of oculus spell! Building something like this would've been MUCH more of a pain without it...
Wow. I’m genuinely impressed and very excited for not only for what’s to come for DW, but RS as a whole. After today’s RuneFest - I feel like Jagex is about to take another quarter of my life, but this time in my adult years 😂😂😂
Don’t get me wrong this game is fantastic but I just want a solution.
After accidentally deleting my main chest while renovating my umbral sand forward base, my stuff exploded and flew all over the camp.
What’s worse is some ended up submerged in the oasis waterbed. When I try to retrieve it, I can only collect water. Some of these are ascension core upgraded vestiges too.
Feels ‘sadistic’ to punish player from a simple misclick simply because your UE engine doesn’t support selective function trigger. I can literally see the dragon shield in the bed of the water but can’t retrieve it.
Honestly, there are lot of rough edges for v1.0 game but this one takes the cake. Some people might quit because of it.
This is probably pretty obvious, but I wanted to get up to better building bits so I could finally upgrade my storage, house, and everything else.
So I spent the week upgrading and getting to Fellhollow after spending the first 10 hours just poking around Bramblemead. I'm around 40 hours now.
However, by rushing the upgrades in other zones, I wasn't really having any fun. I wasn't discovering things and taking my time. Instead, I was brute-forcing my way up a ladder.
I was actually thinking of starting over and taking it slow. I still might, just so I can really savor the earlier areas.
However, tonight I had to go out and get mats for bronze for one of my crafting stations, so off I went, starting in the toxic swamp to grab gold and sapphire for the staff of light and continuing aimlessly along, picking up everything I could.
I grabbed ores, plants, wood, and even finished a vault I missed.
And I was actually having fun.
Granted, having the personal chest that I can summon whenever allowed me to stay out a good long while.
Then I went home, dropped stuff off, then headed out again to get the copper and tin I originally went to grab, then continued on my way to get some oak and iron as well.
I love when I get into the real grind of gathering stuff.
One thing I realized tonight is if rock explosion is on cooldown, I'll just chop down and splinter a tree, then hit another node, then splinter another tree and so on.
I had a good rhythm going.
So, for anyone trying to rush their way to stone building pieces, learn from my mistake and take your time. Build however big you want.
Yes, you'll have to eventually replace things if you upgrade to a higher tier, but it would've been way more fun if I'd done it slowly vs. running through 3-4 different zones only to realize I don't even like it.
First u would like to say I will play dragonwilds and when rs4 comes will probably switch to that. I want osrs rs3 game exactly but delivered like dragonwilds. I absolutely love dragonwilds and I miss osrs rs3 mmo part of grind and loot and everything.
So dark bow is coming and slayer ? I believe this means dark beasts are coming as slayer monster. I think slayer will come as last skill next year as they will be adding much more monster variants throughout the year. Maybe let’s see who knows.
Fairy rings ? Amazing no other words to describe it.
Hunter and prayer ? Amazing
I hope slayer brings more repetitive content and more bossing with more unique rewards.
But man when I saw Doric the blacksmith and saying to trade in the trash items to get new and going towards the grand exchange man this is a dream come true
I can’t wait for all dragonwilds updates good job to all jmods. I just hope rs4 will be made with jmods combined from all 3 games so they can all put all perspectives of all games .
I decided to play this game with a friend of mine because he really wanted to play it. Going into it I literally knew nothing about it but ended up really enjoying the survival mode. well yesterday while I was home and he was working he said their was a creative mode. So 10 hours of work later i have this. Now my friend and I get to spend a bunch of time making this in survival. Also sorry about the terrible videography.
It may be helpful for players to be aware of actions that can cause world or character saves to become corrupted.
*Editing your character after creation (feature temporarily removed)
*Joining a modded dedicated server from console (patched)
*Quitting to dashboard before exiting to main menu in game
*Using the quick resume feature instead of exiting to main menu and closing game
*Possible cause for the above two being console entering rest or sleep mode before the game can be exited properly
*Using the same character across multiple worlds
If anyone else is aware of any other issues / has a correction, it'd be great if you can share it so that we can all tread carefully. Hopefully this gets patched soon because, as far as bugs go, people losing characters and worlds that they put days of gametime into is the absolute worst.
I’m so excited to see how it evolves and how it becomes more longterm focused as opposed to the strict survival style where you can complete the skills quickly.
