Cow Boss and Skill Guide & Level-Up Changes

4 March 2026QoLView on wiki

This official news post is sourced from the Old School RuneScape website. It is copyrighted by Jagex. Added on 4 March 2026.

Initial tweaks to the Cow Boss are here! Plus, we've got the "Skill Guide and Level-Up Rework" from Game Jam VII and more.

•You can now store all four colour variants of the Cow Slippers as well as the Brutus Slippers in the Magic Wardrobe of your Player-Owned House.
•Adjusted Bottomless Milk Bucket's high alch value from 27,000 to 9,000 GP to better align with its rarity.
•Removed Demonic Brutus's immunity to Thralls from the Arceuus Spellbook.
•Adjusted Brutus’s soft anti-safespot mechanics so that he now uses his stomp special attack if he’s safespotted while the player is only one tile away.
•Random events will no longer spawn during Demonic Brutus fights.
•Added a "Yes and don't ask again" option when releasing Brutus from its pen.
•Corrected several typos in Gillie Groats’ dialogue and in the examine text for the second milk sample during the The Ides of Milk quest.

Skill Guide and Level-Up Rework

•We've improved the level-up messages system so that you won't miss what you unlocked when you're interrupted (e.g. you misclicked or you're attacked) and you can view at your convenience.
•When you advance a level in a skill, the game will now invite you to open the skill guide via a chatbox message.
•Upon opening the Skill Guide, you'll find a list of all the features you've unlocked for achieving a particular Skill level (for example Level 62 Agility).
•The stats side-panel stone and the Skill icons will glow, indicating that you've got some level-up unlocks to view.
•Additionally, the game is now able to check your stats and other completions, making it possible to highlight whether or not you satisfy the requirements for an entry in the Skill Guides.

•We've temporarily turned off Worlds 629 to 638 so we can upgrade them ahead of Leagues VI launch.
•You’ll no longer run into issues moving between rooms in your Player-Owned House if it’s decorated with the Wilderness theme from the Deadman: Annihilation rewards.
•Resolved an issue where some players were unable to use Prayers in the Permanent Deadman World after transferring their account.
•Anniversary decorations have been packed away across Gielinor as the “25 Years, 25 Mementos” event came to a close. Thank you for an incredible quarter century and for sharing the same passion for the game that continues to inspire us every day!
•The "Newspaper Enthusiast" Combat Achievement no longer mistakes spellcasting for crush melee.

The PvP rota has moved to Period B:

•560 - (UK) - PvP World
•319 - (US) - Bounty Hunter World
•579 - (US) - High-Risk PvP World
•561 - (UK) - Free-to-Play PvP World
•580 - (US) - LMS Competitive

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

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

The PvP Arena is using ' 1 Def Pure ' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

Picture this: you’ve just levelled up and received the pop-up letting you know you’ve advanced a Skill level. But before you can click “Continue,” you’re interrupted - maybe you misclick, or maybe you’re attacked - and the pop-up disappears. Just like that, you’ve missed the list of newly unlocked features. Sure, you can open the Skill Guide and scroll through each section to find the information manually, but it would be much nicer not to lose that moment in the first place. This change is especially helpful for newer players, who stand to benefit the most from seeing exactly what they’ve just unlocked.

Now, when you advance a level in a skill, the game will invite you to open the skill guide via a chatbox message, so you can see what you've unlocked. Better yet, you can do that at your convenience!

Upon opening the Skill Guide, you'll find a list of all the features requiring a particular Skill level, regardless of which section they're in. The new version of level-up messages works in the legacy skin of the skill guide menu too, for those who've kept the old parchment style. Below is an example for what you can see for achieving Level 62, in both the new and old parchment style:

' 'Click on each thumbnail to see the image.' ' Cow Boss and Skill Guide & Level-Up Changes (6).png Cow Boss and Skill Guide & Level-Up Changes (7).png

Moreover, the stats side-panel stone and the Skill icons will glow, indicating that you've got some level-up unlocks to view.

We know that, particularly when you're on a new account, you often rack up the level-ups in quick succession and so all those chat messages might become a bit too much. So the clickable messages will have a 'Clear all' option that clears them all. This wipes your pending level-up notifications in all the skills - no more glowing icons or side-panel stone - and when the skill guide is next opened, it will just show its regular contents as usual.

If the glowing icons and flashing stones are still a bit much for you, that's fine - there's a toggle for that. The "Level-up guide list" option lets you control whether the game will invite you to check the in-game Skill Guides after you've leveled up.

In other words, if you have the "Level-up pop-up notifications" toggle enabled, you'll still get a pop-up notification saying "Congratulations, you've just advanced to X level!". However, the features you've unlocked will be listed in the chatbox, directing you to the Skill Guide for more info. We're still keeping the details with the Skillcape pop-up though, highlighting where exactly you should visit to obtain your cape. After all, achieving Level 99 in any skill is a huge milestone in a 'Scaper's journey and deserves to be acknowledged! Again, note that the Skillcape pop-up appears only if you've got "Level-up pop-up notifications" enabled in the Settings menu. If you’d rather not see any pop-ups at all, simply toggle off “Level-up pop-up notifications” to avoid interruptions altogether.