Maggot King Tweaks The drop rates for the Maggot King and Venators are revealed. Check out its dedicated section in the blog for details.

•Reduced Maggot King death fees for any deaths that occur before your next five Maggot King kills are completed. This applies to all players, regardless of current kill count.
•Inventory overflow drops at the Maggot King and Araxxor will now remain on the ground for 3 hours before despawning.
•Fixed an issue where Maggot King loot could occasionally appear far above its intended location when your inventory was full.
•Fixed an issue where Brimstone Keys looted from the Maggot King could drop in inaccessible areas of the boss's lair. They now drop within the player arena, where they can be picked up normally.
•Fixed an issue where Ur-Maggots could occasionally survive Venator Bow bounce attacks.
•Added a Maggot King option to the Rune Pouch loadouts.
•Raised the High Alchemy value of tarnished items from their previous 500 GP value. Tarnished weapons now alch for slightly less than their Rune weapon equivalents, while tarnished jewellery now alchs for the same value as their Diamond equivalents.
•Made polishing Tarnished items instantaneous but limited to 1 per game tick.

Venator Tweaks

•Superior Venators will now correctly drop a Venator Heart when defeated with the Sunspear's Special Attack.
•Venator teeth are now tradeable.
•Improved Grapevine storage and harvesting. Grapevines now stack - you can combine a substantial number of Grapevines on a single vine. You can also harvest them directly into your bank.
•Fixed an issue where Blisterwood stakes were gaining far more accuracy than intended against Venators.

Quest Tweaks

•Added a custom map to Sangvesti to help players navigate the area and track locked doors.
•Fixed an issue where the inscriptions on correctly filled basins during the Castle Drakan chapel puzzle could display the wrong description.

Vampyrium & Skilling Tweaks

•Added a new low-intensity Bloodwood tree, offering a more AFK Woodcutting experience with longer uninterrupted chopping sessions in exchange for reduced Woodcutting XP and Bloodwood sap.
•Reduced Crystal shard consumption when using the Crystal axe at Bloodwood trees to 10%, significantly reducing operating costs.
•Fixed an issue where claiming a full bucket of Bloodwood sap with a full inventory could cause the bucket and its contents to be lost.
•Sap buckets placed by Bloodwood trees now remain between logins.
•The Horn of Plenty's double-loot effect now works correctly when hunting Stymphikes.
•Some grammar has been corrected in the text for making a Necklace of Rupture.

Weapon Tweaks

•You can now use Seeking Headless Arrows on existing arrows to convert them directly into Seeker Arrows.
•Reduced the Sunspear's protected value on death to 100,000 coins.

We've continued reviewing feedback and data around the Maggot King's drop table following last week's changes. Our goal with the Maggot King is for its unique rewards to remain the main draw, rather than pushing too much of the boss's value into regular drops. This is closer to the approach taken with bosses like those from DT2, where regular loot provides value between uniques, but the chase items make up most of the longer-term profit. Since last week's changes, we feel the regular loot is in a healthier place than it was at launch, but we know some drops still don't feel as good to receive as they should. While kistens and Ruptures are still settling in price, we want to take a cautious approach before making any major changes to the base loot table. That said, we agree there are still some areas in need of a little polish. In this week's update, Venator teeth and fangs will become tradeable; We've raised the High alchemy value of tarnished items from their previous 500 GP value - tarnished weapons now alch for slightly less than their Rune weapon equivalents, while tarnished jewellery will now alch for the same value as their Diamond equivalents; and polishing Tarnished items will now be instant, limited to one item per game tick. These changes should make some of the more common rewards feel smoother to transform into GP and provide more consistent value between unique drops, but we'll continue monitoring both player feedback and drop table data after these changes and make further adjustments if needed. We've also made changes to the following:

•Reduced Maggot King death fees for any deaths that occur before your next five Maggot King kills are completed. This applies to all players, regardless of current kill count.
•Inventory overflow drops at the Maggot King and Araxxor will now remain on the ground for 3 hours before despawning.
•Fixed an issue where Maggot King loot could occasionally appear far above its intended location when your inventory was full.
•Fixed an issue where Brimstone Keys looted from the Maggot King could drop in inaccessible areas of the boss's lair. They now drop within the player arena, where they can be picked up normally.
•Fixed an issue where Ur-Maggots could occasionally survive Venator Bow bounce attacks.
•Added a Maggot King option to the Rune Pouch loadouts.
•Raised the High Alchemy value of tarnished items from their previous 500 GP value. Tarnished weapons now alch for slightly less than their Rune weapon equivalents, while tarnished jewellery now alchs for the same value as their Diamond equivalents.
•Made polishing Tarnished items instantaneous but limited to 1 per game tick.

Welcome back to our monthly snapshot of Player Support and Anti-Cheating activity - your behind-the-scenes look at all the hard work going into keeping Gielinor fair and fun for everyone. Each month, we share key stats from our Player Support and Anti-Cheating teams so you can see exactly what’s been happening behind the curtain. From how quickly we’re responding to your queries, to the number of bots and rule breakers taken down, here’s the latest data for June 2026:

•Average Response Time — 21 hours — -
•Support Queries Resolved — 76,104 — 477K
•Live Chat Queries Resolved — 5,721 — 29,938
•Report Action Messages — 111K — 980K
•Macro Bans (OSRS) — Total - 270,701 F2P - 247,563 P2P* - 23,138 — Total - 7.1M F2P - 6.8M P2P* - 366K
•Wealth Removed (OSRS) — 3.37 Trillion — 20.8 Trillion
•RWT Bans (OSRS) — Total -16,789 F2P - 4,599 P2P* - 12,190 — 101,618
•Chat Spam Mutes — 4,535 — 22,705

*P2P refers to an account with access to members’ worlds and features, either through a Bond or direct payment. **“Year to Date” refers to the period from January 1st, 2026 through to the end of the month covered by the stats - in this case, the end of April 2026. You can check these out in the Player Support Statistics and Anti-Cheat Statistics pages. Our teams remain as dedicated as ever to tackling cheaters, scammers, and spammers to ensure a fair playing field for all. As a result of these ongoing efforts, we're seeing an overall decline in rule-breaking activity. We're also seeing that the average account age and average account level of bots are decreasing, indicating that longer-standing and higher-level bots are being detected and removed from the game. Thanks for all the reports and support you send our way - it really does make a difference! Additionally, we’ve had a few reports of some players being phished out of their accounts. As always, bad actors are always cooking up new tricks. We've heard of a new few ones including fake P-Mod application forms asking for login details and illegitimate Jagex Launcher downloads hosted on other websites. This is a quick reminder to stay safe out there and think twice before entering sensitive details or downloading anything advertised as relative to RuneScape. There are no P-Mod Application forms, and anything you download for RuneScape must be a subdomain of Jagex.com or RuneScape.com to be considered safe. Always download anything directly through our website or Launcher – nowhere else. Some rules we always recommend:

•Don't click suspicious links or download unknown files.
•Jagex will never ask for your password or verification codes via email or messages. Never give away credentials that could be used to access your account.
•Use your browser's phishing filters.

You can find out more about phishing on our Support Centre.

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