08/22/23 | Beta Patch Notes - Morytania
Hey there, everyone! As we’d hinted to (or rather, made like abundantly obvious), this particular patch was one that we’d wanted to divert a little bit of our tender love over into the direction of the most infamous swamp of the lands, Morytania. Adding a ton of different tasks, achievements, and perks for those achievements, we’ve introduced what we hope will act as a huge driving force for people to pull their rubber boots on and trudge themselves over and into the murk.
Besides that, we’ve also gone through and patched a ton of bugs reported both from the Bounty Board (which has been a ton of fun, and thanks to everyone who’s been contributing to it), and through other miscellaneous reports!
As a minor reminder, as of the posting of this patch notes update, we’re still accepting and actively seeking to bolster the Beta Tester ranks. For those interested, please join our Community Discord and apply through the appropriate channels. It is a requirement to be an approved beta tester before participating in the bounty system.
Thanks!
Neox Staff
Morytania
So, we know what you’re thinking… or at least, we know what you might possibly be thinking and we for sure know what we’re thinking: those Morytania achievement rewards sure seem strong; and the truth is? You’re right, they are! One of the considerations we’d had when deciding what to give as rewards for completing the achievements stemmed primarily from community feedback. There’s a very tough equilibrium to consider in that we want to make achievement rewards as enticing as possible to encourage members who might be interested beyond the motive of account completion to do them, but also don’t want them to be so overtly imbalanced that not completing them is outright detrimental to the Neox experience.
Regarding community feedback, we’d wanted to introduce achievements that had a little bit more direct impact in the experience of the game and gauge the reception and overall effect over the next short while. We’re really quite exciting to see what happens in that regard, but for now? Hopefully the strength of these achievements should improve upon the experience of some otherwise fairly unenjoyable grind.
Barrows unique drops increased by a total of up to 50% through new achievement rewards!
Alongside introducing the whole variety of perks unlocked through the different achievement tiers, we’ve also introduced a ton of different tasks to challenge players in completing different activities throughout the swamps. As with the pre-existing tasks, completion of these will reward coins that can be collected from the Taskmaster, along with points that will contribute towards achievement progress!
An outline of all the new achievement rewards for Morytania can be found within the Patch Summary at the bottom of the page.
Slayer Tower
Found within Morytania, the Slayer Tower is home to a large variety of monsters and will very, very likely be a place you find yourself in whilst being tasked with slayer monsters to track down and take out! Along with the large introduction of Morytania tasks, we’ve also implemented a ton of new titles and unlocks for this tower that will drastically improve the experience of those bold enough to enter!
An outline of all the new achievement rewards for the Slayer Tower can be found within the Patch Summary at the bottom of the page.
Patch Summary
Below will outline all changes found within this patch. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to share feedback within our Official Discord! Once again, and as usual, we’d like to thank all of the beta testers for making this possible. Without the time you’ve invested into our project and the incredible feedback, we wouldn’t be nearly as far along as we currently are, so thank you for everything you’ve done for us so far. Anywho, without further ado, the patch summary:
Features
- Added a new set of tasks and achievements for the Morytania region; features 101 new tasks, 8 new achievements, 4 new titles, a new pet, and many other rewards, including a Barrows drop rate boost and the ability to create instances of the Slayer Tower basement.
- New achievement: Morytania Tourist
- Complete easy tasks in the Morytania area.
- Rewards:
- Morytania legs 1
- Ectophial: allows quick access to farming patches in Morytania
- 5% increased Slayer experience in the Slayer Tower
- Receive 1 additional ecto-token when worshipping the Ectofuntus
- New achievement: Morytania Citizen
- Complete medium tasks in the Morytania area.
- Rewards:
- Morytania legs 2
- Bonecrusher: an item that automatically buries bones for their full experience value.
- 7% increased Slayer experience in the Slayer Tower
- Receive 2 additional ecto-tokens when worshipping the Ectofuntus
- Mort myre fungus picked in Morytania is doubled.
- New achievement: Morytania Noble
- Complete hard tasks in the Morytania area.
- Rewards:
- Morytania legs 3
- Experience received from burying bones with the Bonecrusher is increased by 50%
- 25% increased chance to receive unique drops from Barrows
- 50% increased runes received from Barrows
- 10% increased Slayer experience in the Slayer Tower
- Receive 3 additional ecto-tokens when worshipping the Ectofuntus
- Access to the stepping sttone shortcut in Mos Le’Harmless
- New achievement: Morytania Ruler
- Complete elite tasks in the Morytania area.
- Rewards:
- Morytania legs 4
- Experienced received from burying bones with the Bonecrusher is increased by another 50%, to a total of 200%
- Another 25% increased chance to receive unique drops from Barrows, to a total of 50%
- 15% increased Slayer experience received in the Slayer Tower
- Receive 5 additional ecto-tokens when worshipping the Ectofuntus
- New achievement: Morytania Legend
- Complete ALL tasks in the Morytania area.
- Unlocks the “of the Swamp” title.
- New achievement: Keeper of the Tower
- Complete Slayer Tower tasks.
- Rewards:
- 25% chance to duplicate drops when on a Slayer assignment in the Slayer Tower.
- Unlocks access to free, private instances of the Slayer Tower basement.
- Unlocks Abby, a new Abyssal demon pet. It’s kinda cute, in a way.
- Unlocks the “Keeper of the Tower” title.
- New achievement: Graverobber
- Complete ALL Barrows tasks.
- Unlocks the “Graverobber” title.
- New achievement: Guardian Slayer
- Complete ALL Grotesque Guardians tasks.
- Unlocks the “Guardian’s Twilight” title.
- Added a “latest update” message when logging in. This message can be interacted with to open the blog post for our latest update. Maybe that’s how you got here?
- Added a new secret title.
Improvements
- A Tool Leprechaun and a farmer can now be found at the Hosidius farming patch.
- The Vote and Store buttons in the Useful Links section of the Server Information tab now open the relevant in-game interfaces rather than redirecting you to a web page.
- Reduced Sarachnis’s respawn delay by 50%.
- Reduced the duration of Sarachnis’s web snare attack.
- It is now possible to create bottled dragonbreath with a vial and 10 dragonfruit. Powering the bottled dragonbreath at Mount Karuulm will then allow you use it to charge dragonfire shields and wards.
- Made many fixes and improvements to the new social system backend.
Fixed
- Sarachnis is no longer immune to damage while fleeing from its target.
- Sarachnis will now return to attacking 1 game tick after it finishes fleeing from its target.
- Fixed several issues with Undead druids in the Forthos dungeon.
- Spiders in the Forthos dungeon now properly have a drop table.
- Pearl variants of fishing rods obtained from Aerial fishing now all correctly function as fishing rods.
- Fixed the Zaryte crossbow increasing bolt effect strength much more than intended.
- Fixed ruby bolt special effect not doing damage correctly.
- Using Karamjan rum on silk now creates a cleaning cloth.
- Fixed Hollow trees in Morytania not leaving behind the correct stumps when chopped down.
- Fixed a typo in Kolodion’s dialogue.
- Fixed reward text for the “Fremennik Ruler” achievement being cut off by the interface.
Removed
- Pest control is no longer accessible.
