Cow Boss is Out Today!

Cow Boss is Here!

• •Talk to Cassius located northwest of Lumbridge to start The Ides of Milk quest. Completing the quest will give you:
• •Access to the Cow Boss
• •Cow Bell Amulet
• •XP Lamp providing 1000 XP in any combat Skill, including Prayer.
• •Cow Boss is a true low level boss. Rewards include:
• •Beef the Pet
• •Cow Slippers
• •Mooleta
• •Bottomless Milk Bucket
• •T-bone Steak
• •Bull Bones
• •Combat Achievements of the Cow Boss are also here, listed further down the blog.
• •Hard Mode Cow Boss: This members-only version has increased stats and requires much harder mechanics to take on.

Getting Around Poll Changes Continued

• •Added an unlimited-use option for the Perfected Quetzal Whistle, giving you the ability to upgrade it to hold unlimited charges.
• •Added the following missing teleports to the Portal Nexus:
• •Trollheim (Standard)
• •Paddewwa (Ancient)
• •Lassar (Ancient)
• •Dareeyak (Ancient)
• •Ourania (Lunar)
• •Barbarian (Lunar)
• •Khazard (Lunar)
• •Ice plateau (Lunar)
• •Respawn (Arceuus)
• •Teleport to boat (Standard)
• •The Revenant Cave Teleport scroll now allows you to select any of the cave’s entrances.
• •Runes obtained from pickpocketing are now placed directly into your Rune Pouch, provided it has space and can already store that Rune type.
• •If you're carrying your Rune Pouch at the Hallowed Sepulchre, any runes looted from coffins will now be sent straight into your Pouch.
• •You can now upgrade your existing Herb Sack into the Silklined Herb Sack, which can store up to 100 of each grimy herb (up from the Herb Sack's limit of 30).
• •You can now gain access to private instances of Sarachnis by paying a fee of 25,000 GP, or 12,500 GP if you've completed Hard Tier Sarachnis Combat Achievements.

• •A charged Horn of Plenty is now prioritised higher for protection on death, reflecting the guide price of the uncharged one.
• •Updated the Fishing Skill Guide to correctly display that Vibrant Shoal requires Level 86 and Bluefin Shoal Level 87.
• •The Cooking Skill Guide has been updated to display that Marlins require Level 91 Cooking.
• •Your Personal Best Time for Shellbane Gryphon is now shown in the Collection Log.
• •The Shellbane Gryphon no longer gives rewards if a player prevents their clue scroll from being updated while they're killing it without a Slayer task.
• •Fixed an issue where players were not correctly displayed when playing table games inside the Pandemonium Pub.
• •The messaging on the lockbox directions scroll from Brittle Isle has been corrected to say "West" instead of "East".

Deadman: Annihilation

• •We'd like to give an opportunity to the players who missed out on the chaos by opening a secondary finale world for the 96+ bracket this Saturday. Any players that were previously eligible for our finale, but could not enter last weekend, will be able to access this world from February 28th at 5pm UTC and the Finale will start at6pm UTC.
• •IF YOU ARE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FINALE THIS WEEKEND DO NOT ENTER WORLD 345. Doing so will lock you out of being able to take part in this weekend's finale.
• •Deadman: Annihilation Rewards Shop is open! To access your points in the regular worlds, you'll first need to log in to the Permanent Deadman World (World 345), then you can log in to a regular world and your points will be available. You can purchase those sweet rewards from Nigel in Lumbridge Graveyard.

• •You can now toggle the Deposit Worn Items button on/off in the Deposit Box Settings Menu, found in the top-right corner of the Deposit Box interface.
• •Hunter's Spear no longer consumes ammo against Chinchompas.
• •Perdu will no longer sell you an item that you don't have space to carry.
• •You can no longer throw the Tonalztics of Ralos at the dart board in the POH Games Room.
• •Some dodgy map tiles in the Hunter area beyond Araxxor's lair have been fixed so that they won't teleport players who stand on them.
• •Resolved a graphical issue with the 25th Anniversary Warrior and Skeleton Tabards.
• •Gary no longer follows the player into the Rat Pits.
• •Z-buffer related changes:
• •The Trollheim Agility short is now highlighted properly.
• •The render order for Volatile Earth assets have been corrected.
• •The shadows of Scurrius' Falling Bricks no longer flickers or goes invisible.
• •Tombs of Amascut entrances now render correctly.
• •The Hammer and Potion storages in Tombs of Amascur now render correctly.
• •The trapdoor ladder in Edgeville is visible once again.
• •Fixed clipping issues for:
• •Furnaces in Prifddinas and the Great Conch
• •The Deadman: Armageddon teleport
• •Taverly dungeon entrance

PvP Rota The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• •539 - (US) - PvP World
• •318 - (UK) - Bounty Hunter World
• •548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
• •577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• •559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using ' Zerker ' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

First revealed at the , the Cow Boss - awaited with udder excitement - has now moooooooved into Gielinor!

To gain access to the Cow Boss, you first need to complete the quest, The Ides of Milk. Northwest of Lumbridge stands Cassius near the lake, a farmer fellow with a bucket of milk in his hand and a plan to build his own milk empire in his heart. You butter help this fellow get into the milk market in Lumbridge to unlock the boss!

This early-game quest is free-to-play, perfect for budding adventurers to tackle through their journey in Lumbridge, where they first start exploring Gielinor.

Once you've completed the quest, you'll unlock:

• •Access to the Cow Boss
• •Cow Bell Amulet (untradeable)
• •XP Lamp providing 1000 XP in any combat Skill, including Prayer.

You can get the Cow Bell Amulet and the XP Lamp by talking to who can be found inside the cow farm in Lumbridge. This is a handy teleport item landing you right into the iconic east cow pen, meaning you won't have to hoof it back to Lumbridge. Charged with Air Runes, this will give early game players a nice new teleport that will make travel a little bit nicer. It also lets you milk cows 1 tick quicker (6 instead of 7 ticks per milk). Very powerful, we know.

After finishing The Ides of Milk, you'll be able to take on the Cow Boss, created for the sole purpose of a true 'low-level' boss. This boss is designed so that it can be fought as early as your first few hours into your Gielinor journey, unlike Scurrius where new players still have some work to do before getting a proper feel for combat in Old School. Cow boss isn't too challenging, just make sure to stay light on your feet and watch your flank... your life is at steak!

Cow Boss is also a repeatable boss, and it's free-to-play just like the quest.

Now, let's take a look at the udderly delightful rewards dropped by the Cow Boss!

The most consistent drops of the boss is a new consumable in the form T-bone Steak, a great new food for low-level accounts. It heals 10 Hitpoints and Level 13 Cooking is required to cook it.

The other consistent drop is the Bull Bones, which works similarly to the Giant Bones from Obor and Bryophita, but giving 40 Prayer XP.

Both the T-bone Steak and Bull Bones are available for free-to-play.

Get the udder-hand and give yourself a nice early game boost in Melee Strength as you wield the deadly Mooleta. With stats equivalent to a Steel Defender, this will be a great early introduction to off-hands being pretty bloody good.

Mooleta is also available for free-to-play, however note that the rest of the rewards we're listing below are members-only.

The first of the uniques from the brute are the Cow Slippers, which are sure to help you stand out from the herd. Peak fashionscape! They come in four colourways, matching the cows you can find throughout Gileinor.

Are you tired of keeping all of your milk in separate places? Have you always wanted a centralised, unlimited space for all of your milk-based products? Look no further than the Bottomless Milk Bucket! This elite container gives you just that and let you upgrade everybody’s favourite grind: Butter Churning.

Finally, the boss drops a pet: Beef! Ain't no one could have beef with this cutie.

Combat Achievements have also landed for Cow Boss on its launch, since this is a pretty straight forward boss.

Down for a high-steaks fight instead? We dairyou to take on the Hard Mode Cow Boss! This members-only version has increased stats and requires much harder mechanics to take on.

Note that Desert Treasure II completion is required to find the necessary item to start the Hard Mode Cow Boss encounter, and no, it isn't an Awakener's Orb. Enjoy exploring!

We're picking up where we left off with the changes from the Getting Around Poll along with some QoL improvements. For changes we've already released from the Poll, you can check out and .

We've added an unlimited-use option for the Perfected Quetzal Whistle, giving you the ability to upgrade it to hold unlimited charges. This can be unlocked by trading in 10,000 teleport charges worth of Hunter meat to Soar Leader Pitri, providing a permanent, charge-free version of the whistle once earned.

As part of the Getting Around Poll feedback, you reminded us that the unlimited Quetzal Whistle changes were promised in a blog in September 2023, and we can only apologise for the delay. Thanks for sticking with us on this one and for holding us accountable, we appreciate your patience.

We've added the following missing teleports to the Portal Nexus:

• •Trollheim (Standard)
• •Paddewwa (Ancient)
• •Lassar (Ancient)
• •Dareeyak (Ancient)
• •Ourania (Lunar)
• •Barbarian (Lunar)
• •Khazard (Lunar)
• •Ice plateau (Lunar)
• •Respawn (Arceuus)
• •Teleport to boat (Standard)

This means you can now add all available teleports to your Teleport Nexus and Portal Room, allowing you to teleport everywhere from your POH.

These function exactly like before:

• •Adding a teleport to the Portal Nexus costs 1,000 times the normal cost.
• •All spellbook and level requirements still apply.

The Revenant Cave Teleport scroll now allows you to select any of the cave’s entrances, giving you quicker access to the area you actually want to reach. This should be particularly useful for players who prefer to play it a bit safer and start at the southern end of the caves, rather than the northern entrance.

How does this work?

By default, nothing changes. Left-clicking the teleport will continue to take you to the northern entrance. But we've added a 'Configure' option to the Scroll, which you can access by right-clicking on it.

With this, you're now able to manually choose a preferred entrance...

...and set it to send you to your last used entrance.

This configuration would also apply when teleporting via the Master Scroll Box.

Runes obtained from pickpocketing are now placed directly into your Rune Pouch, provided it has space and can already store that Rune type. If not, Runes will continue to go into your inventory as usual. No more steady trickle of runes filling up your inventory when pickpocketing certain NPCs!

Additionally, if you're carrying your Rune Pouch while whizzing around the Hallowed Sepulchre, any runes looted from coffins will now be sent straight into your Pouch.

You can now upgrade your existing Herb Sack into the Silklined Herb Sack, which can store up to 100 of each grimy herb (up from the Herb Sack's limit of 30). This should allow you to extend your PvM trips and cut down on unnecessary banking!

But how to achieve this upgrade?

To obtain the upgrade, you need a new untradeable item: Pristine Spider Silk, dropped by Sarachnis. Using the silk on a standard Herb Sack will consume the Herb Sack and permanently upgrade it into a Silklined Herb Sack.

A few extra details:

• •The Silklined Herb Sack has a distinct visual appearance, clearly setting it apart from the standard version.
• •You can own only one Herb Sack at a time, whether standard or upgraded.
• •Extra Pristine Spider Silk drops can be traded with Brother Aimeri located in the Forthos Dungeon for Grubby Keys, so duplicate drops aren’t wasted.

During the feedback gathering process, you shared concerns about increased competition for worlds and excessive world-hopping would be a major frustration. To address that, we're offering an optional instanced version of Sarachnis alongside this change. You can now gain access to private instances of Sarachnis by paying a fee of 25,000 GP. If you've completed Hard Tier Sarachnis Combat Achievements though, this amount will be reduced to 12,500 GP.

This should allow you to pursue the upgrade without excessive world-hopping, while leaving the existing non-instanced boss exactly as it is.

That's it for the Getting Around Poll changes, for now. We'll continue from where we left off in the upcoming weeks, stay tuned.

Due to limited capacity with our brackets during last weekend's Deadman: Annihilation Finale, we'd like to give an opportunity to those players who missed out on the chaos by opening a secondary finale world for the 96+ bracket this Saturday. Any players that were previously eligible for our finale, but could not enter last weekend, will be able to access this world from February 28th at 5pm UTC to prepare for the carnage, and the Finale will start at 6pm UTC.

Due to the quick turn around to run the event and not wanting to delay players further from getting their hands on the Deadman: Annihilation cosmetic rewards and World 345, there will be no additional prizes or broadcast of this second bracket finale. We will however have a secondary world prepared in case the same problem occurs!

While you will be able to access both World 345 and the Deadman Rewards shop with this week's update, please note: IF YOU ARE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FINALE THIS WEEKEND DO NOT ENTER WORLD 345. Doing so will lock you out of being able to take part in this weekend's finale.

It is important to the team that we learn from this oversight and look to implement actions to be ready for this in the future. Finally, we'd like to say thank you for your patience on this matter.

Good luck and get ready to enter Daimon's Crater this Saturday, February 28th at 6pm UTC!

Today, our permanent Deadman will reopen for the carnage to commence! Your stats and untradeables will be transferred over from all your hard work during Deadman: Annihilation, so you'll be able to jump into the action much sooner! You'll be given 12 hours of protection to go gather some gear if you like the high risk gameplay that Deadman provides.

Alongside that, Nigel's finally ready to open his store on both regular worlds and the Permanent Deadman World (345). To access your points in the regular worlds, you'll first need to log in to the Permanent Deadman World (World 345), then you can log in to a regular world and your points will be available.

Remember: IF YOU ARE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FINALE THIS WEEKEND, DO NOT ENTER WORLD 345.

Also, for two weeks, you won't be able to hand in your Deadman rewards to Death's Coffer. This allows prices to stabilise so that items reflect their true value when for the Coffer.

This year, we've got cosmetic overrides for the Toxic Staff of the Dead, the Bow of Faerdhinen, and Crystal Armour.

To get these recolours for the Bow of Faerdhinen and Crystal Armour:

• •First, use the Annihilation Weapon Scroll on Nigel.
• •Then, use one of the items you'd like to recolour on Nigel and voila, it's recoloured!

You'll see that the Toxic Staff override has a spooky face inside, and a scary hooded figure for when you mis-click your Special Attack!

These are permanent and toggleable rather than being kits that you lose on death or need to be re-applied constantly, so they're extremely easy-to-use and forgiving.

You may remember this concept art from Mod Jerv's 2024 Game Jam project - it drummed up a whole lot of excitement! And now, here it is in-game.

To redecorate your POH with the Wilderness theme:

• •Buy the Annihilation Blueprints from Nigel
• •Go to an Estate Agent and redecorate your POH by selecting the Wilderness theme within the redecorate option. Your house will now have the Wilderness theme!
• •If you'd like the orange portal, which we're sure many of you do, you'll have been given some Annihilation Exit Portal Blueprints, that can also be obtained from Nigel again once you've handed in the Annihilation Blueprints.

Due to some special POH mechanics for exit portals, to get the orange portal set up, you will need to:

• •Build a new Garden in your POH.
• •Build a basic Exit Portal in the new Garden.
• •Remove your previous portal, and then build the Annihilation Exit Portal there and you'll see that it's orange.
• •You can go ahead and remove the other Garden you built, if you wish to.

Ever wondered who put the Wilderness Lever there? Or how it even works in the first place? We don't have a single answer to any of these questions, but we do have a new Home Teleport animation to let you materialise your own lever and take yourself home!

• •A charged Horn of Plenty is now prioritised higher for protection on death, reflecting the guide price of the uncharged one.
• •Updated the Fishing Skill Guide to correctly display that Vibrant Shoal requires Level 86 and Bluefin Shoal Level 87.
• •The Cooking Skill Guide has been updated to display that Marlins require Level 91 Cooking. During refinement, Marlin was polled at Level 93 Cooking, however, it has been cookable in-game at Level 91. Given the minimal level difference, we’ve decided to keep it at a Level 91 Cooking requirement. Apologies for any confusion!
• •Although Marlin was originally polled to require Level 93, it has been cookable at Level 91. Given the minimal level difference, we’ve decided to keep the Level 91 requirement. Apologies for any confusion!
• •Your Personal Best Time for Shellbane Gryphon is now shown in the Collection Log.
• •The Shellbane Gryphon no longer gives rewards if a player prevents their clue scroll from being updated while they're killing it without a Slayer task.
• •Fixed an issue where players were not correctly displayed when playing table games inside the Pandemonium Pub.
• •The messaging on the lockbox directions scroll from Brittle Isle has been corrected to say "West" instead of "East".
• •Finally, we've removed the 2,000 cap restriction on cannonballs storable within the Cargo Hold.

Last week we shared the news that we would stop serving 32bit Android devices from mid-March. Following this, many of you rightfully asked "well how do I know?"

Well, in truth there was no clean and easy way to check - until now! On Monday, as part of our latest client update (to client version 236.2) we added a little debug descriptor to the top of the login screen for Android devices only.

You don't need to do anything to trigger it - it will just show you whether you're using 32bit or 64 bit Android. Hopefully this helps easily answer the question!

We were also asked for a little more info on why we have made this decision, and what it means for us with future client work. While running the New renderer open beta last year we found we had a lot of bugs that were exclusively affecting 32 bit Android. So as we look to the future with reopening the new renderer with Classic visuals and then further on to Full HD, it was no longer feasible for us to maintain the Android 32 bit build.

It's hard to quantify exactly how this affects our work from a time-perspective, but it essentially gives us one less build type to test and one less area that causes bugs to fix. Overall though, it opens up the opportunities available for future work. We know we're always shipping "back-end fixes for future work" in our client updates, but this really is a game changer example!

On the topic of our latest client update, in case you missed it, we did also make the following fixes:

• •Tag all now correctly tags the tile below your tagee.
• •We fixed an issue causing tile markers to duplicate on lower layers, so you should no longer be seeing double!
• •Fixed an issue where tag-all would incorrectly highlight unrelated NPCs.
• •Similarly, we've fixed an issue where certain NPC's were not highlighted by tag-all.
• •Fixed an issue where ground item overlays (text, helpers) could disappear while Sailing.

Join us for our Anniversary Livestream THIS FRIDAY!

• •When: February 27th, 16:00 UTC
• •Where: On the

We'll be joined by some of your favourite OSRS content creators for some fun and games: , , !

As tradition goes, we'll kick things off with a parade. Put on your party hats, your best celebratory fashionscape and:

• •Meet us at 16:00 UTC the Anniversary Event start point, where Gary stands in southern Varrock
• •Main Parade that will be streamed live will be on World 500, back up Parade on World 499.

Plus, Postbag from the Hedge will make a return. During the stream, selected replies submitted will be read out loud by a JMod in the characters' own words.

There will also be huge giveaways, make sure to be there!

Thanks to our new partner Madrinas, you can join the ranks of Gielinor's mightiest adventurers with this OSRS Mango & Pineapple Energy Tea Collector's Box! This vibrant blend hits harder than a Dragon Dagger spec and is sure to keep your stats boosted as you chase that next 99. Pre-order from .

Forged for battle and ready for adventure, this Youtooz figure brings a classic armour set straight from Old School RuneScape. Equipped with a Rune Scimitar, Full Helm, and the iconic Ardougne Cape flowing behind him, this warrior looks like he’s just walked away from a legendary fight with Elvarg. And honestly… if he hadn’t, at least one of those armour pieces would still be adamant.

Pure flex fashionscape is on show. This figure captures a warrior mid-stride, clad in a Dragon Med Helm, Dragon Chainbody, Dragon Platelegs, and Dragon Boots, frozen in heroic action. With an Amulet of Glory resting proudly around his neck and a Dragon Scimitar at the ready, he’s clearly no stranger to epic questlines. The Legends Cape draped across his back seals the deal with proof he’s battled, explored, and earned his place among Gielinor’s elite.

Straight from the beginning of Old School RuneScape, Tim & Crunchy return in collectible form thanks to Youtooz. Carefully balanced to sit proudly above your setup, bringing a playful watchful presence to your set up, looking ready to tag along on every grind, quest, and boss run.

After updating the deposit buttons on the Deposit Box UI to match the Bank UI for consistency, you've requested a toggle to hide the Deposit Worn Items buttons to prevent mis-clicking it. Based on your feedback, we've gone and did just that -added a setting to hide the Deposit Worn Items button in the Deposit Box interface, should you wish to. You can now toggle the Deposit Worn Items button on/off in the Deposit Box Settings Menu, found in the top-right corner of the Deposit Box interface.

Also, Hunter's Spear no longer consumes ammo against Chinchompas. Apologies for the delay on this one and thanks for holding us accountable.

Plus, some additional changes:

• •Perdu will no longer sell you an item that you don't have space to carry.
• •You can no longer throw the Tonalztics of Ralos at the dart board in the POH Games Room.
• •Some dodgy map tiles in the Hunter area beyond Araxxor's lair have been fixed so that they won't teleport players who stand on them.
• •Resolved a graphical issue with the 25th Anniversary Warrior and Skeleton Tabards.
• •Some balloons have been removed from a palace doorway in Varrock.
• •Gary no longer follows the player into the Rat Pits.
• •Z-buffer related changes:
• •The Trollheim Agility short is now highlighted properly.
• •The render order for Volatile Earth assets have been corrected.
• •The shadows of Scurrius' Falling Bricks no longer flickers or goes invisible.
• •Tombs of Amascut entrances now render correctly.
• •The Hammer and Potion storages in Tombs of Amascur now render correctly.
• •The trapdoor ladder in Edgeville is visible once again.
• •Fixed clipping issues for:
• •Furnaces in Prifddinas and the Great Conch
• •The Deadman: Armageddon teleport
• •Taverly dungeon entrance

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• •539 - (US) - PvP World
• •318 - (UK) - Bounty Hunter World
• •548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
• •577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• •559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using ' Zerker ' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on the , the , or the community-led in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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