It's finally time to talk about Old School's fourth raid: The Fractured Archive!

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While we're intentionally keeping things brief for now, we can say that The Fractured Archive will see you venturing into a veritable treasure trove that's full to the brim with powerful artifacts and ancient knowledge, assembled by Guthix himself over the course of millennia. Unfortunately for you - much like a line of fires snaking along Varrock - word spreads fast in Gielinor, meaning you're far from being the first to set foot in the archive.

As you journey throughout these ancient halls, you'll encounter agents of other gods, curious creatures, Guthixian guardians and more - it's up to you (and up to seven friends) to stop the contents of the archive from falling into the wrong hands. Simple!

Our dedicated gives you more details, plus some hot-off-the-press concept art, so make sure to give it a read, here. However, we wanted to give you some top level details for those of you spacebaring through the reveals!

•We're taking a Theatre of Blood-styled approach this time around, meaning you'll face a bunch of demibosses, encounter no puzzle rooms, and have an epic showdown with a final boss: it's just you, your friends and the fight of your lives.
•Players will be able to solo the raid, though our current plan (subject to change) is for the raid to scale between 2 and 8 players, meaning solo clears will be possible, but difficult.
•There will be a practice mode which allows players to jump into any boss in the raid and practice killing it on the regular difficulty. However, this mode will not be available on release, and will instead launch in the weeks following the raid's release. This will help keep things competitive in the early days and add more excitement to every deep run until the raid has been 'figured out'.
•On release, a full team wipe will reset the raid. In the weeks following the release, we'll move to a TOA-style wipe system where you have infinite tries but reduced rewards and dwindling resources.
•Accessing the Fractured Archive will require completion of While Guthix Sleeps. We know that this would prohibit some builds from accessing the encounter, but we'll talk more about accommodating all players in a future blog, so we'd advise you not to worry!

That's all you're getting for the time being, so make sure to keep an eye out throughout 2026 for more blogs, polls and sneak peeks at Raids IV: The Fractured Archive, releasing late 2026!

This is your reminder that Deadman: Annihilation kicks off on Friday, January 30th!

To get yourself up to speed, you can check out our detailed overview blog here, for information on the Finale format and specific changes to Sigils, check out ! If you don't have time to check out a separate blog, here's a handy details of the most important bits:

•Earn Deadman Points through just about any activity you can think of: PvM, Skilling, completing Quests, completing Achievement Diaries/Combat Achievements, completing Clue scrolls, you name it! Then trade those points for exclusive (tradeable) cosmetics in the main game including the Wilderness POH Kit, a new Home teleport animation, and recolours for the Toxic Staff of the Dead, Bow of Faerdhinen and Crystal Armour!
•Bank keys are no more! This time around, you'll only risk what you've got on you, but there's no use hiding expensive gear in your inventory because your risked wealth will be symbolised by coloured skulls above your character, similar to Bounty Hunter.
•While killing NPCs, you might stumble across a Deadman's Chest as a rare drop. This chest takes 60 seconds (30 seconds in multi-combat) to open, so you'll need to stand your ground to claim your treasure, but stand to be handsomely rewarded with powerful items - including tweaked versions of the Dogsword and the Thunder Khopesh.
•Sigils are no longer RNG drops to be bought and sold on the Grand Exchange. Instead, use the Deadman's Skull to pull up a shop UI where you can spend your hard-earned Deadman points to buy whichever Sigils you'd like.
•Non-combat Sigils no longer require attuning, meaning you can unlock them with points and enjoy their benefits forever, regardless of your setup. This means you're free to rock your chosen Combat Sigils at all times and shouldn't ever be massively disadvantaged for a fight.
•The Ruinous Powers are back! Take the forbidden knowledge of the Fallen Empire for a test drive as you put this all-out offense Prayer book to use against other players in fast-paced PvP combat.
•Combat bracket worlds are making a return with revamped level ranges to keep worlds active while letting you play any build you'd like and always find a fair fight!
•Breaches are sticking around, with new bosses, adjustments to existing bosses, readjusted loot rarity and more. Find consistent action at set times while you try to earn powerful items, rack up Deadman points, or perhaps just pick off the lucky players getting all of the cool breach drops...
•Experience full-on carnage in a revamped multi-combat Finale, which sees competitors split into two factions for a time before the remaining players are left to fight amongst themselves in a free for all - can your alliances be trusted?

For a thorough rundown of all of the most important changes, and

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Remember: January 30th! Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!

Back in October, we said ttyl to our New Renderer Beta to work on feedback and to help protect the launch of Sailing and the holiday period. We know many of you are hyped for HD, and so while we don't have anything big to drop as part of the Summit livestream, we wanted to keep you informed on where we're up to.

Simply put, we're still cooking. The New Renderer still has some issues for us to straighten out before we're ready to get it back in your hands. This work is current and ongoing, and while we can't give you a date yet, we want you to know it's a priority for us.

To reiterate what we've shared before, at the top of our to-address list are:

•Client stability: especially on mobile devices.
•Performance: while some devices have enjoyed huge performance gains in the beta, others were not where we'd want them to be.
•Character rendering: characters are still losing detail on many hard-won items, including kit like Skill Capes.

Our intention has always been that the New Renderer Beta won't return until we're confident it feels complete and we have squashed the bugs you helped identify.

Our current focus is releasing the New Renderer and retiring the legacy renderer option. This will let us untangle a lot of spaghetti code and puts us in a good place we can properly get back to HD. We're so excited to introduce you to Gielinor in HD, and we still have some wow moments we're keeping under wraps for now. Once we have fully switched to the New Renderer, we'll be able to bring you more HD-related updates.

On that note, we've made the decision to put a pause on our API project. We've been prioritising other major technical work ahead of the API, that have a more immediate impact on the overall player experience, such as finishing things like HD and further mobile improvements.

Throughout the project we saw so many enthusiastic community members eager and ready to get their hands on our API to begin developing. While our project is on pause, RuneScape's API project is just revving up. If you'd like to find out more about the project and how to get involved, head over to the plugins channel in the official RuneScape server.

Winter Summit 2026 - Overview