Andrew Gower

Once you are a milestone 1 Bonewright, Scobu the Vague in the Cave of the Future will entrust you with a special skull. This skull can be bound to the Detective investigations bounty board, turning it into a Bonety Board. When presented with an investigation bounty, the Bonety Board has a chance to reveal one clue from that bounty. In each subsequent milestone you can etch a goat horn and bind it to the Bonety Board to increase the chance of revealing a clue. You can only attempt to divine each bounty once. If a clue is revealed, the XP and knowledge for that clue will be awarded when you complete the bounty, not when the clue is revealed. You can find more information on clue divination in the Bonewright profession interface.

Most people don't know this, but someone has been squirreling away little caches of foraging items around the outskirts of Hopeport for ages. Today they have finally decided to start sharing the locations of these buried supplies via Forager bounties. Dig into our latest update by grabbing your map and a shovel, and going in search of these buried supplies. Forager bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 2 Forager. You can collect Forager bounties from the Forager bounty boards, which are located throughout Hopeport. All these Forager bounty boards carry the same bounties.

Seasoned Botanists can now craft Bonewright talismans at the Greenhouse in Hopeforest. Each Bonewright talisman is crafted from a particular variety of globeplant, with one variety used at each milestone of Botanist, starting at milestone 1. Each of the 9 talismans doubles the chance of crafting an uncommon or rare weapon in a specific category. For Bonewright, these categories are: - Goat Horn Ranged Weapons - Bone Spike Melee Weapons - Rams Horn Ranged Weapons - Femur Shard Melee Weapons - Shark Jaw Shields - Goat Horn Melee Weapons - Bone Spike Ranged Weapons - Rams Horn Melee Weapons - Femur Shard Ranged Weapons You can find more information on Bonewright talismans in the Botanist profession interface.

Strange ailments have started afflicting the residents of Hopeport, with lots of people turning up in the Critical Care Ward. Maeve has identified the correct remedy for each of her patients, but she needs a competent Alchemist to create them.

@katcorot congrats!

@AndrewCGower Got my first full cape! Next is Fishing to appease V..

Stonemason talismans can now be found floating in the sea around Hopeport.

Rom Harrington, the highly renowned merchant, has a challenge for you. Prove you can barter a peanut into a diamond, without spending a single copper, and he will grant you the honor of trading with him. Rags to Riches is a 4 ⭐️ Crenopolis quest. You can start the quest by talking to Rom Harrington in the Merchants' Guild. The lead developer for Rags to Riches was Naomi.

Just spent 30 minutes trying to find some digital files I had mislaid, searched all my computers, couldn’t find them anywhere! Finally gave up and emailed the original author of the files to ask them to resend. Decided this time I would store the files in a good SAFE PLACE where I wouldn’t lose them. Went to that place and… Found the files were already there! 😡

The first of the three weapon crafting luck updates has landed. This week we have added Blacksmith talismans, which are crafted from flint using the Stonemason profession. Each of the 9 talismans doubles the chance of crafting an uncommon or rare weapon in a specific category. For Blacksmith, these categories are: - Iron Ranged Weapons - Cabranese Melee Weapons - Adathril Ranged Weapons - Flantium Melee Weapons - Duraben Shields - Iron Melee Weapons - Cabranese Ranged Weapons - Adathril Melee Weapons - Flantium Ranged Weapons You can craft one Blacksmith talisman in each milestone of Stonemason, starting at milestone 1. Once crafted, you must place the talisman on the appropriate forge to get the benefit. You can find more information in the Stonemason design book and in the Stonemason profession interface.

Babble has a lot to say about miner bounties, unless you remember to ask him for the short version. In his defense, there is a lot to say, but perhaps not quite as much as he would like. Miner bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 1 Miner, and then talking to Babble in Goblin Well. You can collect miner bounties from the miner bounty boards, which are located throughout the Mine of Mantuban. All these miner bounty boards carry the same bounties. There are three kinds of miner bounties: Mine only - Mine ore to order. Break stone as stated. As simple as a bounty can get. Blaze mining - Weaken a rich ore seam or stone by setting a fire next to it, and then rapidly cooling the ore seam or stone at the right moment using a bucket of water. - Once weakened, the rich ore seam or stone can be mined, giving extra items as a reward. Rubblebug hunt - Rubblebugs like to hide in their favorite ore or stone. To catch one, first you must mine the correct ore or stone until the rubblebug pops out. Then you chase it down and hit it with your pickaxe.

I am very sorry the chat keeps breaking. Its back online now. It worked fine for over a year and then we had 4 failures in rapid succession. 1) The hosting company switched off the box to upgrade their aircon, we couldnt just migrate to a different box because they ALL seemed to be unavailable at once. 2) Hardware failure, the gpu just died. 3) Didnt want a repeat of 1&2 so decided to migrate to a new hosting company. Unfortunately we failed to update a config file with the new address, which meant a few days later when we rebooted a DIFFERENT box it failed. This one was our error. 4) When we moved to new host we also moved to the latest version of linux distro. Unfortunately it turns out the latest version has an auto update feature which ran in the middle of the night and HALF updated the box leaving it broken. That ‘feature’ is now disabled. So as you can see 4 completely different failure reasons, incredibly frustrating and I can only apologise.

Blacksmiths can now forge upgrades for the standard potion station. The first upgrade you install will add an action boost button to the standard potion station. Just like profession equipment, activating this action boost will give you double rewards (i.e. double XP, double knowledge and 2 potions). Subsequent upgrades will reduce the cooldown of the action boost. Apothecary upgrades are forged from iron at the goblin forge. There is one upgrade available in each milestone of Blacksmith, starting at milestone 1. You can find more information in the Blacksmith recipe book and in the Blacksmith profession interface.

Grrrayam the kobold would like your help finding his pet metaliths. He last saw them hurtling into the deepest part of the Mine of Mantuban during an ill-advised game of minecart racing. All you need to do is track them down (pun intended). If only things were ever that simple... To start Fractured Reality, you will first need to complete the Mantuban's Legacy quest, and then speak with Grrrayam in the Truck Cave. The lead developers for the Fractured Reality quest were Paul and Ian.

Alchemists can now brew tree enchantment potions at the potent potion station. These potions allow you to enchant trees of your choice in Hopeforest. There are 10 different potions, each corresponding to a different species of tree. Only a single tree of each species can be enchanted at a time. You can change which tree is enchanted by making another potion and using it on a different tree. Once a tree has been enchanted, it will stay enchanted until you choose to enchant a different tree. The reagents for tree enchantment potions are rare drops from various Hopeport and Hopeforest combat foes. You can find all the information on the new potions, including what their reagents are and which species of tree they enchant, in the Alchemist profession interface.

Bonewright bounties have landed with a resounding thump. Or is that just the Bonetron 8000? The goblins in the Mine of Mantuban are in a quandary. They cannot agree which weapon will be most appropriate for their newest creation. Is one-handed or two-handed better? Should the Bonetron 8000 be equipped with a ranged or melee weapon? Muddle is of the firm opinion that it only needs a shield, as everyone knows that defense is the best form of offense. Clearly the only way to decide who is right is through exhaustive testing, and so the goblins are offering bounties for you to bring them the Guardian weapon they think is the best for the Bonetron 8000. Bonewright bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 2 Bonewright. You can pick up Bonewright bounties from the bounty board in the Leech Pools.

Pickaxe resonators can now be found growing on the brambles in Hopeforest. To be able to chop out a resonator, you will need the appropriate woodcutter level for the bramble it is attached to. Resonators are attached to your pickaxe, and each resonator corresponds to one kind of ore or rock. There is no resonator for deathstone, as deathstone is not mined with a pickaxe. Mining with a resonator gives you a 5% chance of finding a geode. There are four kinds of geode, one for each of the Mine of Mantuban professions - Blacksmith, Bonewright, Miner and Stonemason. Breaking open a geode will give XP in the corresponding profession. It is random which geode you will find, and there is also a small chance of finding a sparkly geode which gives more XP when broken open.