25th Anniversary Event: 25 Years, 25 Mementos!

21 February 2026QoLView on wiki

This official news post is sourced from the Old School RuneScape website. It is copyrighted by Jagex. Added on 21 February 2026.

25 years of RuneScape meets 13 years of Old School... This calls for a celebration!

25th Anniversary Event: 25 Years, 25 Mementos

•This year marks 25 years of RuneScape and 13 years of Old School, bringing the perfect opportunity for a brand-new anniversary event!
•Start the event by talking to the Apprentice Wizard Gary Grayzag in southern Varrock, and help him open a portal to the Realm of Memories, a place where you can see and fight versions of creatures from the history of RuneScape. Think you've been there before? Well, there are more memories now - including the retro Kalphite Queen in her 2004-style glory!
•New rewards, inspired by Tim & Crunchy and by the event itself, await those who complete the event:
•25th Anniversary Helmet
•25th Anniversary Skeleton Tabard
•25th Anniversary Warrior Tabard
•25th Anniversary 5x5 Hat
•Plus, mark your calendars for our upcoming Anniversary Livestream on February 27th 16:00 UTC, where we'll be joined by MMORPG, Zecookies and Megan!

Deadman: Annihilation Tweaks

•To complete the “Have Prissy Scilla protect your Magic tree” task in the Western Province Diary, you can now pay Prissy Scilla to protect the tree.
•Summoned thralls via the spellbook will now last twice as long if you have the Sigil of the Augmented Thrall unlocked.
•Deadman Chests for Artio/Callisto, Calvarion/Vetion, Spindel/Venenatis now spawn outside of their cave entrance, allowing you to attempt to loot the chests without constantly being attacked by the bosses.
•The Trinket of Avarice will now also loot bones from NPCs automatically.
•Your noted items will now stack as intended even if your Looting Bag is full when you have the Trinket of Avarice active.
•The risk calculation when attempting to enter a raids area is now based on high alch value, instead of grand exchange value. Accordingly, the required value has also been lowered to 500,000 GP from 800,000.
•Since parts of the Ruins of Unkah breach occur in a safe zone, the location has been removed.
•Breach NPCs will no longer spawn on water.
•The Deadman skull countdown timer for the 2am breach now shows the remaining time left correctly.

•The current restrictions for UIMs on the Cargo hold have been removed. UIMs will be able to use the Cargo Hold like regular Ironmen - no more limited capacity!
•We’d love your feedback! Should the colours of Steel and Iron cannonballs be swapped to better match their appearance elsewhere in-game, and should the same change also apply to Steel and Iron nails? Share your thoughts in the comments on the dedicated update post across our social media platforms.

•We've made some feedback changes to the music system improvements from last week:
•Your mobile and desktop clients will now remember their volume settings separately. Meaning if you're an audio-enjoyer when gaming at home but don't want the entire bus to hear you blasting tunes on your way to work, your mobile client will remember its own muted settings.
•We've made it even easier to tell at a glance which track you're vibing along to with a handy recolour - and yes you can pick the colour from the settings!
•The "now playing" text above the music list can be clicked to read the unlock hint and to add/remove the track from a playlist.
•Fixed an issue with right-clicking Eluned in Prifddinas to recharge crystals, they will now charge correctly.
•Resolved a host of Z-buffering issues:
•Clipping issues have been fixed for the following:
•The Nightmare's flower visual effects
•The Kalphite Queen's tunnel entrance
•Upstairs in the Grimstone Dungeon
•The cave where the Hueycoatl sits
•The vines near the Gryphon nests
•Pier floors of Port Sarim, Port Phasmatys, Lunar Isle, Rellekka and Piscarillius
•Rocnar and Tok-Xil from the dungeon below in POH
•The Large Orrery in POH
•The Blue Moon Inn fireplace
•The walls of the Civitas and Fancy Stone house styles through another floor
•Fixed some rendering and flickering issues for:
•The shadows of the pillars in Tombs of Amascut
•The shadows of Leagues Trophies in the POH
•The Earthen Shield and the ranged larvae at The Doom of Mokhaiotl
•Some visual effects inside the Scar maze during Desert Treasure II
•The Elemental Guards from the Sorceress's Garden
•The wall kit of the Fancy Stone house style
•The exam room door in the Surprise Exam random event
•The Kourend Sigil banners
•Various assets in The Path of Glouphrie environment
•Some staircases in Hosidius as well as Varrock Museum stairs
•The cape icons of the Skillcape Masters are now visible for Crafting, Woodcutting, Herblore, Fishing and Firemaking.
•Hovering over the 10 quantity button in the bank/GIM storage no longer claims that the default quantity would be 5 if you clicked that button.

We've had a few players reach out about the Deadman Finale with questions about the cape they'll be given, since its functionality impacts their preparations. To keep things quick, the capes you'll be made to wear in the Finale are bog-standard Team capes, meaning they won't possess strong combat bonuses like the Mage Arena II capes, nor will they have the ammo-collection effect of Ava's devices. Stock up on those bolts ahead of the Finale!

If you have the Sigil of Nature, you might’ve run into an issue where you couldn’t complete the “Have Prissy Scilla protect your Magic tree” task in the Western Province Diary. This is because the sigil automatically plants and grows seeds in farming patches, but that’s been sorted. You can now just right-click Prissy Scilla, pay her to protect the tree, and the achievement will be completed.

In addition, we've got the following fixes:

•Summoned thralls via the spellbook will now last twice as long if you have the Sigil of the Augmented Thrall unlocked.
•Deadman Chests for Artio/Callisto, Calvarion/Vetion, Spindel/Venenatis now spawn outside of their cave entrance, allowing you to attempt to loot the chests without constantly being attacked by the bosses.
•The Trinket of Avarice will now also loot bones from NPCs automatically.
•Your noted items will now stack as intended even if your Looting Bag is full when you have the Trinket of Avarice active.
•The risk calculation when attempting to enter a raids area is now based on high alch value, instead of grand exchange value. Accordingly, the required value has also been lowered to 500,000 GP from 800,000.
•Since parts of the Ruins of Unkah breach occur in a safe zone, the location has been removed.
•Breach NPCs will no longer spawn on water.
•The Deadman skull countdown timer for the 2am breach now shows the remaining time left correctly.

We know that you'd have liked to see some of these changes sooner, and we can only apologise for the delay. There's been a lot going on behind-the-scenes that requires careful testing and consideration, so we haven't been able to fit as many player-facing changes in as we'd have wanted to. For now, make the most of these changes ahead of the Finale on February 21st, and note that these improvements will carry forward into future Deadman events as well.

The Deadman: Annihilation rewards will be available to purchase from Nigel in Lumbridge Graveyard on the 25th of February. Note that you'll need to switch to Permanent Deadman worlds first, then to the regular worlds where your points will transfer over.

•We've made some feedback changes to the music system improvements from last week:
•Your mobile and desktop clients will now remember their volume settings separately. Meaning if you're an audio-enjoyer when gaming at home but don't want the entire bus to hear you blasting tunes on your way to work, your mobile client will remember its own muted settings.
•We've made it even easier to tell at a glance which track you're vibing along to with a handy recolour - and yes you can pick the colour from the settings!
•The "now playing" text above the music list can be clicked to read the unlock hint and to add/remove the track from a playlist.
•Fixed an issue with right-clicking Eluned in Prifddinas to recharge crystals, they will now charge correctly.
•Resolved a host of Z-buffering issues:
•Clipping issues have been fixed for the following:
•The Nightmare's flower visual effects
•The Kalphite Queen's tunnel entrance
•Upstairs in the Grimstone Dungeon
•The cave where the Hueycoatl sits
•The vines near the Gryphon nests
•Pier floors of Port Sarim, Port Phasmatys, Lunar Isle, Rellekka and Piscarillius
•Rocnar and Tok-Xil from the dungeon below in POH
•The Large Orrery in POH
•The Blue Moon Inn fireplace
•The walls of the Civitas and Fancy Stone house styles through another floor
•Fixed some rendering and flickering issues for:
•The shadows of the pillars in Tombs of Amascut
•The shadows of Leagues Trophies in the POH
•The Earthen Shield and the ranged larvae at The Doom of Mokhaiotl
•Some visual effects inside the Scar maze during Desert Treasure II
•The Elemental Guards from the Sorceress's Garden
•The wall kit of the Fancy Stone house style
•The exam room door in the Surprise Exam random event
•The Kourend Sigil banners
•Various assets in The Path of Glouphrie environment
•Some staircases in Hosidius as well as Varrock Museum stairs
•The cape icons of the Skillcape Masters are now visible for Crafting, Woodcutting, Herblore, Fishing and Firemaking.
•Hovering over the 10 quantity button in the bank/GIM storage no longer claims that the default quantity would be 5 if you clicked that button.