
3/18/2025
BoomPS Updates - Farming Changes, Bolt Pouch, Arceuus Spellbook, Slayer System changes & more!
New Additions
- PvP Farming: Adjusted checks for improved balance.
- Amulet of Chemistry: Now functional, granting a chance to create a 4-dose potion instead of a 3-dose one.
- Potion Making: Added filtered in-game messages (e.g., "You mix the snape grass into your potion.").
- Announcements: Introduced new global messages to enhance player awareness of BoomPS features.
Farming Updates
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Bottomless Compost Bucket: Now fully functional, holding up to 10,000 charges of one compost type.
- Each compost added provides 2 charges.
- Emptying the bucket will result in losing all stored compost.
- Supports adding both noted and unnoted compost.
- Ultracompost: Now functional, reducing crop disease chance by 90%.
- Fertile Soil Spell: If at least 2 volcanic ash are in your inventory, the patch will be treated with ultracompost.
- Crop Disease Rework: Adjusted rates to improve compost effectiveness while keeping overall balance.
Bolt Pouch
- Now fully functional, storing up to 10,000 bolts per slot (4 slots available).
- Extra ammo slot allows seamless bolt switching from the equipment tab.
Godwars Dungeon
- Boss Respawn Timers: Reduced to 30 seconds for all bosses.
Arceuus Spellbook
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All spells are now available—see highlights below:
- Degrime: Cleans all grimy herbs, granting half the usual XP.
- Shadow Veil: Grants a 15% chance to avoid pickpocket stun (up to 36.25% with a Dodgy Necklace).
- Vile Vigour: Converts prayer points into run energy.
- Resurrect Crops: 50% chance to revive a dead patch (scaling to 75% at 99 Magic).
- Mark of Darkness: Doubles grasp spell bind chance, adds 25% damage & 20% accuracy to Demonbane spells.
- Demonic Offering: Offers up to 3 ashes, tripling prayer XP.
- Sinister Offering: Offers up to 3 bones, tripling prayer XP.
- Ward of Arceuus: Reduces demonic creature damage by 10%, prevents corruption, and reduces grasp spell binds.
- Death Charge: Restores 15% special attack energy after a kill within one minute.
- Dark Lure: Forces a monster to approach and prevents retreat for 6 seconds.
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Grasp Spells (Bind targets for 2 ticks, halved if under Ward of Arceuus):
- Ghostly Grasp: Max hit 12, 10-20% bind chance.
- Skeletal Grasp: Max hit 17, 25-50% bind chance.
- Undead Grasp: Max hit 24, 50-100% bind chance.
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Demonbane Spells (25% damage bonus on demons, scaling with Mark of Darkness):
- Inferior Demonbane: Max hit 16, +20-40% accuracy.
- Superior Demonbane: Max hit 23, +20-40% accuracy.
- Dark Demonbane: Max hit 30, +20-40% accuracy.
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Corruption Spells (Drain opponent’s prayer over time):
- Lesser Corruption: 50% chance to drain 1-3 prayer points every 10 ticks (5 ticks with Mark of Darkness).
- Greater Corruption: 50% chance to drain 2-6 prayer points every 10 ticks (5 ticks with Mark of Darkness).
Slayer System Update
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New Slayer Task Teleports via the BoomPS Teleport System.
- Locations are based on popular OSRS spots.
- Players can provide feedback on potential changes or additional locations.
- Available under "Misc" & "Training" categories or by searching "Slayer Task."
Bug Fixes
- Discord notifications for GE transactions now trigger only when an item is fully bought or sold.
- Fixed an issue allowing cape perks to be used without required stats.
Server-Side Improvements
- Optimized player data saving for reduced server strain.
- Item saving system improved, reducing lag during mass saves (e.g., system updates).
Web Enhancements
- Vote Page Adjustments: Added validation checks to prevent special characters, double spaces, and email misuse as usernames.
- Store Page Updates: Implemented the same security measures as the vote page.
