Community Showcase - August 2024 (2024)

Hello, and welcome to the August Community Showcase! From artwork inspired by our latest quest to epic achievements, this month’s showcase is absolutely packed with summer fun. Let’s get into it!

Before we get into it, however, here's your reminder that next week on Wednesday, August 28th Araxxor will be released! And to hear about our plans for the rest of the year and early 2025 you should join us for 2024's Summer Summit on Saturday, September 7th at 8pm BST on the official OldSchoolRS Twitch channel.

Finally, if you'd like to see your own achievements highlighted in the next Community Showcase, you can submit them in the form linked below:

To kick things off, let’s check out the achievements you all celebrated last month!

oO00OooO00Oo has saved the best (so far...) for last, by achieving their Quest Point Cape just before the launch of While Guthix Sleeps! We hope you had a great time getting those final few points.

Dummstic beat the odds by obtaining the much-coveted Stale Baguette as their first ever collection log slot. Now that’s good luck!

Ol Faedir is reportedly terrified of the Wilderness, but that didn’t stop them racking up an incredible 1,000 Scorpia kills in the hopes of finishing their Diary Tasks. But that’s not all – their bravery was rewarded with a cuddly Scorpia pet! Take good care of her!

Gwem has proved their chivalry by taking an Ironman account from level 3 to Max Cape without any alts, dancers, shop stockers, tanks, or any other multi-account shenanigans! See how it’s done on YouTube.

Lastly, Naketani has chosen to celebrate getting 99 Cooking with a tattoo of the first item any player cooks. Oh, this brings back memories!

Ahh, it’s good to be back! I’ve been wandering all over the place – if I had feet, I bet they’d be worn out! Silver linings, eh?

Let’s take a look at the letters we’ve received while I’ve been away... Oh, there’s one for me!

From Little Witch

Hello there!

Please, call me Postie! Mr Pete is all my brothers’ names.

Ah, you’re talking about the great interdimensional postal crisis of 164. You see, delivering mail around Gielinor is easy enough, but carrying letters back and forth from you lot to all your friends over here is a lot more complicated! We used to have a dedicated Postal Wizard to handle all the fiddly portal stuff, but now, as you’ve correctly surmised, it’s a bit more ad hoc.

Still, we manage well enough!

And don’t get me started on Canifis! I’m still trying to find out where the rest of my bones got to...

From Betafrost

CURSE YE, BETAFROST!

The source of my impressive, and very powerful title is known only to me (and a select few other oasis dwellers). Needless to say, I achieved it by being the deadliest, most ruthless, most dreaded frog in all of Varlamore. No mean feat, I tell you – so back off, lest I be forced to raise my slimy hands against you once more! Next time, I assure you, The Lord of Dread shall prevail!

Best,

Cuthbert, LORD OF DREAD

From Altihnkaii

Dear Altihnkaii

A demon? In Falador? This is grave news indeed, and yet I do wonder whether your friend Norman might have been ‘telling porkies’, as we say in the adventuring business. Now Falador’s a rather cosmopolitan city, and I think there’s a good chance that the ‘demon’ your friend saw might have been some mage or other up to a few hijinks. You should see the silliness that goes on over at the Wizards Tower! Students turning their heads into pumpkins, enchanted doors marching through the streets of Draynor... it’s all rather much.

Next time Norman sees this ‘demon’, he ought to empty a big bucket of water on its head! That’ll teach ‘em.

Yours,

The Wise Old Man

From maimegidola

Greetings, my lord.

Regrettably, I am not free on Thursday night. Please accept my humble apologies, but bingo waits for no man.

Yours,

‘Thaz’

From Long Noot

Hello, Long Noot!

That’s a fantastic question! To tell the truth, I’m a bit stupid. Every time that horrible cat shows up, I just can’t resist giving him a pat on the head. He’s just got such a sweet round face! And such lovely little ears! And he’s SO fluffy! Oh, I could go on and on – but I must go, I need to look for this key...

-P.

From ItsLily

Me! ME!

Ouch! There’s some very aggressive tail wagging going on over here, so I’m afraid I’ll have to say goodbye for now. See you next time! Oof!

This month, we asked:

“What’s your favourite OSRS plugin?”

There were loads of responses, and here are some of our favourites!

“The best plugin on the Official OSRS client is the Tile Indicator plugin. Please consider tile markers and adding Bank Tab Tags or Bank Loadouts from the Game Jam project. That would be huge.”

-PIRATE KING

“Creator's Kit! for allowing me to take fashionscaping to new heights.”

-Enkoro

“Best plug-in is Quest Helper, but Door Kicker is second best.”

-Prez93

“My favorite plugin as of late has been "Boss Kicker". Watching my GIM mate kicking in The Whisperer's head to start the encounter has brought me much joy in these dry times.”

-Read if Cute

“Definitely Tile Markers or Tile Indicators. Tile Markers have so much utility that it's crazy. Something I especially like using them for is labeling them to write notes to myself at Gargoyles or Vorkath.”

-ParuParu

Wajcocarpets has been busy crafting these stylish Skill Cape Carpets!

Chonsley has chosen to immortalise their friend’s untimely death to Jad and his minions. A fitting tribute to a brave Jal’Yt!

With their super-speedy (yet surprisingly stylish!) Spirit Angler Cosplay, Bunebape has proved themselves a true memer.

It seems that While Guthix Sleeps has inspired a number of you to paint Gielinor’s greatest McGuffin. Check out these Stones of Jas from Enkoro

and Brosoul!

Rosey RS brings Dragon Slayer I to life with an animated telling of this epic journey. From gathering supplies and solving riddles to facing Elvarg herself, we were completely charmed by this artistic rendition. This is a must-watch to all, especially any lovers of lore.

One year ago, SaintShiba abandoned his maxed Inferno account to start over from scratch. His new goal is to complete absolutely everything in Old School RuneScape, including the Grandmaster combat achievements, the collection log, filling every container in the POH, and more. This video chronicles everything he’s achieved so far and comes recommended by SaintShiba’s clanmates, who wanted us to know that as well as being a truly dedicated player, he’s also a pillar of the Old School community and an all-round lovely person. That’s what we like to see!

Inquisitor: Lost Pages, from Lyfe, tells the story of a 30 Defence only Iron Man on an epic journey to get hold of the most powerful end-game items he can wield. With 22 episodes so far, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into – so get watching!

GravityBind has been poring over lorebooks, quests and more to get to the bottom of Old School RuneScape’s biggest lore mysteries – and they’ve helpfully gathered them all into one fascinating playlist! A must watch for lore hounds everywhere.

We’re finishing off with a pair of exciting ‘one chunk’ challenges. In these challenges, the player must complete all the activities available within one small chunk of the world map.

Our first one-chunker is the Lunitar, a true Fremennik warrior who’s decided to explore Rellekka. You might think you know this quiet corner of the map, but with 400 hours of playtime, you’re sure to spot something you’ve never seen before! For example, did you know that something very interesting happens when you change the colour of your boots? Lunitar does!

Finally, let’s follow the intrepid Stanky RS, who’s decided to one-chunk one of the newest areas in the game: Ralos’ Rise! Honestly, this one is worth watching for the theme song alone – but if you haven’t yet explored Varlamore, you’ll also spot loads of fun new things to do there!

If this has inspired you to try your own challenge, you can find plenty of resources on the OneChunkMan Discord server – including this tool from Source Chunk, which lets you pick a chunk of your own to explore!

If you already frequent our official Old School Discord server, you'll know that our fantastic volunteer moderation team have already been hosting a range of fun events for our members, most of these delivered through the in-game friend chat: 07Discord.

Recently, we've expanded our focus on events and server activities, and as part of this we've added some new channels including:

• Events-news: the best place to go for any and all updates on activities you can take part in.
• Events-faq-info: everything you need to know about how events work, how to take part, and how to suggest and maybe even host your own!
• Events-general: for a good old natter about server activities.
• Event Suggestions: send your event ideas to our Mod team. If there's an event you want to see or take part in, let us hear about it - don't worry, you won't have to host it if you don't want to!

There's also a brand new opt-in role that will ping you whenever there's event news. You can apply it to yourself by reacting to the Baron Hype emote in the Events-faq-info channel.

Not all activities will be in-game - keep an eye out for some fun server activities, too. We may have heard rumblings of some spooky Halloween challenges on the horizon!

To celebrate this expansion, our Chat Mods hosted a mass Tempoross event, and even a couple of J-Mods showed up to cheer them on!

Click on each image to enlarge them.

Our Chat Mods also ran an Olympic-themed art contest over on the server, and we wanted to give a little shout out to the winners right here!

First place goes to @iglw! If you can’t view the image above, click here!

Second place goes to @Zike! If you can’t view the image above, click here!

Third place goes to @Sw! If you can’t view the image above, click here!

Of course, we also want to thank everyone who entered and shared their creations! Rumour has it there'll be more creative contests to take part in in the future, too!

Join the official Discord server to get stuck in!

Finally, we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has joined and become part of our Discord community. The official server surpassed 150k members in the last month - an incredible milestone! We're grateful to each and every one of you who use our server to make friends to play Old School with, for recruiting for and joining clans, to leave us feedback for updates and upcoming releases, and to all the lurkers who enjoy getting all the notifications and game news. Plus, our entire moderation team there, making our space safe and inclusive, and helping to keep it developing, all voluntarily.

Thank you all for being such a passionate community.

If you'd like to see your own achievements highlighted in the next Community Showcase, you can submit them in the form linked below.

That’s all from us this month, but we’ll see you again next time for the August edition of the Gielinor Gazette, packed with behind-the-scenes info from the Old School Team. Until then – happy ‘Scaping and keep creating!

You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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