Clock Tower Quest, Dragonfire Shield, Enchanted Bolts & More DevBlog #47

Dablakbandit

20/08/2026

Welcome back to another exciting MineScape update! We're thrilled to bring you a packed release featuring the classic Clock Tower quest, the long-awaited Dragonfire Shield, a complete set of enchanted crossbow bolts, and a massive collection of combat fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Let's dive right into it!

Clock Tower Quest

The Clock Tower just south of Ardougne has been telling the wrong time for as long as anyone can remember, and poor Brother Kojo has finally given up trying to fix it alone. The Clock Tower quest is now live!

Speak with Brother Kojo at the Clock Tower to begin your search for the four coloured cogs that once powered the great clock. You'll need to explore the dungeon beneath the tower to recover each cog and return it to its rightful spindle. With no combat or skill requirements, this quest is a perfect adventure for players of any level.

Quest Rewards:

• 1 Quest Point
• 500 Coins

Dragonfire Shield

Let's be honest - the Dragonfire Shield has been sitting in the game looking pretty and doing nothing for far too long. That changes today.

Smith the legendary shield by taking your rare Draconic visage and an Anti-dragon shield to an anvil with 90 Smithing, and you'll have one of the best shields in the game!

Charge It Up

Slay dragons and the shield drinks in their fiery breath. The more charges it holds, the stronger it becomes - a fully charged shield is a genuinely fearsome tanky bit of kit, while an empty one is mostly a very expensive paperweight. Right-click the shield in your inventory to activate its special effect, firing a blast of dragonfire at whatever you're about to fight.

Enchanted Crossbow Bolts

The full family of enchanted crossbow bolts has arrived - opal, jade, pearl, topaz, sapphire, emerald, ruby, diamond, dragonstone and onyx, all the way up to dragon bolts. Each effect announces itself with its own unique sound and message at the moment of impact, so you'll know exactly when your ruby bolt just chunked a target's health.

Bolt effects:

• Ruby bolts (e) - Blood Forfeit: 6% chance in PvM (11% in PvP) to deal damage equal to 20% of the target's current Hitpoints (capped at 100), while costing you 10% of your current Hitpoints.
• Jade bolts (e) - Earth's Fury: 6% chance to try to knock players down for 4.8 seconds. In PvP, targets can evade based on Agility, and Protect from Magic can block the effect.
• Dragonstone bolts (e) - Dragon's Breath: 6% chance on a successful hit to add extra dragonfire damage equal to 20% of your visible Ranged level. Won't trigger on dragonfire-immune targets.
• Onyx bolts (e) - Life Leech: 11% chance in PvM (10% in PvP) on a successful hit to deal 20% extra damage and heal you for 25% of damage dealt.
• Topaz bolts (e) - Down to Earth: 4% chance in PvP to drain 1 Magic level from the target.
• Pearl bolts (e) - Sea Curse: 6% chance to add bonus damage based on your visible Ranged level - 1/20 normally or 1/15 against fiery targets.
• Sapphire bolts (e) - Clear Mind: chance to drain the target's Prayer and restore some to you. This procs often in PvM and much less often in PvP.

Player-Owned House

Your chapel has been gathering dust as a decoration. Time to put it to work.

Altars now take bones, and they're generous about it - with experience increasing based on the type of altar, up to two and a half times what burying them would give once gilded altars are finally available. Light the incense burners on either side with a tinderbox and a clean marrentill and each one adds another 50% on top.

Burners need 30 Firemaking to light, stay lit for two minutes, and carry a nice little flame while they burn. Get your bones ready before you light them - the clock doesn't wait.

Banking

The bank search has learned what your items are, not just what they're called.

Alongside a name you can now type a tag - :bow, :ranged, :body, :stackable - and mix the two freely. rune :body turns up your rune chestpieces, :ranged :body every ranged chestpiece you own, and :bow finds the lot no matter what each one happens to be called. Tags narrow as you add them, so pile them on until you've found the thing.

Tags cover the weapon type, the slot it goes in, the skills it asks for, and a few useful properties. A skill tag means the item needs that level - so :ranged is your dragonhide and your bows, not every weapon that happens to have a defensive stance.

The colon is doing the work here, and plain words are matched as one run of text rather than one at a time, so it's worth seeing both halves of that:

• rune :body - your rune chestpieces, chainbody and platebody both, trims included
• :body - every chestpiece you own, whatever it happens to be made of
• rune - everything with rune in the name, your runes along with your armour
• rune plate - platebody, platelegs and plateskirt, because those two words sit next to each other in the name
• body - the Body rune, and not one chestpiece. Without the colon it is just a name
• rune body - nothing at all, because no item is actually called "rune body". This is the one that catches people out: you want rune :body

The same tags work wherever you search for an item, so the Grand Exchange buy screen and /items understand them too - handy when you know the sort of thing you want but not what it's called. /items also lists an item's tags right on it, so you can see what a thing counts as before you go hunting for more of the same.

Two new bank actions have joined the list as well:

• Collect Exchange empties your Grand Exchange slots straight into the bank - the coins from your sales and the items from your buys - with no trip to a clerk. Anything that won't fit stays safely in its slot
• Bank Actions opens every action in one list, so the two buttons at the bottom of your bank stop being the ceiling. Click one, or press 1-9

As ever, shift right-click a bank action button to change which action sits there.

Skill Guides

The skill guides have received a major overhaul this update:

• Magic now has a skill guide of its own, and the Ranged guide has been expanded to include all of its armour
• The Dragonfire Shield recipe has been added to the Smithing guide
• The Fishing guide now shows the correct requirements for barehanded and barbarian fishing, including the training you'll need from Otto Godblessed before you can start
• Opening a skill guide no longer interrupts your current action, so you can check a recipe without stopping what you're doing

Level Ups, Music & Sound

Levelling up should feel like something, so:

• Combat levels now announce themselves properly, jingle and all, playing politely after your skill jingle rather than over the top of it
• Chain a few levels together off one big experience drop, and the level-up dialogues now queue up instead of trampling each other
• Antifire potions tick down audibly and fade out when they expire, so you get a moment's warning before the dragon in front of you becomes a much bigger problem
• Running out of prayer now sounds as disappointing as it feels
• Music follows you through teleports instead of stubbornly staying behind

Monster Attributes

Every monster now carries its proper attributes straight from the wiki - demon, dragon, undead, spectral, fiery and friends - instead of the server guessing from names. That guesswork had real consequences, and fixing it comes with some genuinely new toys:

• Silverlight and Darklight finally live up to their reputation, striking 60% harder against demons. That covers everything demonic - including a few you might not expect, like bloodvelds, hellhounds and waterfiends
• Crumble Undead now works! Level 39 Magic, hits up to 15, and only bites what's already dead - skeletons, zombies, ghosts and shades. Cast it at anything living and it'll tell you off
• Enchanted bolt effects and the dragonfire shield now judge their targets by what they truly are, not what they're called

Quality of Life

Quality of life updates & fixes that deserve a callout in this update:

• Punching now happens at fist speed, not at the speed of the bow you're holding but not using
• A hit that lands never rolls a zero any more
• Dharok's set effect now applies at the right moment, which makes it hit rather harder than it has been
• Drops go to whoever did the most damage, not whoever happened to get the last hit in - no more sniping
• The Wilderness keeps your secrets. Your world is now hidden from your friends list and from chat while you're out there, so nobody can hop over and hunt you down
• Eniola at the Ourania altar will happily take his bank fee straight out of your rune pouch
• Double XP voting no longer locks you out in the hour before a Double XP weekend. Your hour fills the gap, then the weekend takes over
• Charged jewellery - dodgy necklaces, rings of recoil, rings of forging - can now be broken with shift right-click to reset the charges
• Water pours freely between buckets, vials, bowls and jugs, and cups can be filled and emptied
• Bonemeal has had a once-over: untradeable, emptyable, and properly described
• Alchemy and shop prices now come from the same place, so the two can never quietly disagree again

Icons & Chat

You may have noticed our skill and item icons being a bit too available - they lived alongside real characters, which meant they could be pasted anywhere, and left anyone chatting in Chinese staring at a wall of tiny swords.

That's been sorted. Icons now live somewhere sensible, and you can drop them into chat by typing codes like :attack: or :strength: instead. Pop open /icons and click one to grab its code.

Mod API

The MineScape Mod API has received a batch of new events this update, giving client-side mods much more of the game to work with:

• Farming - your plots are sent on login with what's planted and time to next growth, and a planted event fires whenever a plot is seeded
• Combat - mob attack and defence events, including the attack style used and the damage taken
• Item use - an event whenever the player consumes an item or potion
• Actions - track when the player, or other players around them, starts, cancels or finishes a skilling action, and how long a started action should take

As always, the complete documentation and examples can be found at https://github.com/AshleyThew/minescape-mod-api.

To see the new additions in action, check out Zylr's MineScape Addons - a great showcase of what the API makes possible, and a perfect starting point for anyone looking to build a mod of their own.

Join the Team!

Feel free to apply to join our MineScape staff team. We are always looking for more adventurers to bolster our ranks. We are looking for talented Builders to shape the landscape of Gielinor into our Minecraft server, dedicated Helpers to watch over and help out new and existing players, and skilled Modelers who can create awesome 3D models of mobs and items. Interested in any of these? Join our Staff discord! https://discord.gg/rWNUEKM

Want to help out in other ways? Inquire about how to get started with Dialogues or the Skin Designer tool! As well, bugs or incorrect things are bound to pop up, so help us squash them by reporting them on our main discord. We are always in need of aid with these tasks, so any assistance is welcome!

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Credits

Special thanks to all contributors who helped make this update possible! <3

• NPC Models - Regorty
• Bug Reports & Suggestions - Community
• Testing Changes - Members, Regorty, Ruby Kitsune, SecretCowLVL
• Blog Pictures - Zygeno

Bug Fixes & Improvements

With so many bug fixes, these could be an update on their own! Players are credited with fixes/suggestions, with a reward of up to 50 platinum tokens <3

• Add a Magic skill guide, and armour to the Ranged guide - MasterRiku5
• Add the combat level up jingle - MasterRiku5
• Add the clock ticking and fade out sounds for antifire potions running out - MasterRiku5
• Add number key selection to the max cape and other list menus - dudeseph
• Add the option to empty jugs, vials and bowls of water - MasterRiku5
• Add Double XP voting in the hour before a Double XP weekend - Effigyluza
• Add Heron pet rolls to all eligible fish
• Add oyster pearls
• Add watermelon slicing
• Add the current music track to the scoreboard
• Add monster attributes from the wiki, editable per mob and shown in /mobs
• Add the Silverlight and Darklight damage bonus against demons - llvkey
• Add the Crumble Undead spell, undead targets only
• Add searching by item tag, like :bow or :ranged, in the bank, the Grand Exchange and /items
• Add an item's tags to its entry in /items
• Add a bank action to collect your Grand Exchange slots into the bank
• Add a bank action that opens every bank action in one list
• Add a Defence cape perk toggle via right-click
• Add a 'break' option to enchanted jewellery to reset its charges - MasterRiku5
• Add examine text to every bonemeal - MasterRiku5
• Add fuller stack icons to arrows and bolts
• Add proper projectiles for amethyst arrows and amethyst broad bolts - MasterRiku5
• Add Draynor Manor cabbages as edible
• Add bone drops to the quest mobs that were missing them - MasterRiku5
• Add a knife to the Edgeville general store's stock - MasterRiku5
• Add snelm crafting from snail shells, and their missing stats and protection - MasterRiku5
• Add the missing ogre spawn south of Yanille - MasterRiku5
• Add the missing chicken spawns to the Entrana chicken coop, and light it - MasterRiku5
• Make bags of salt stackable
• Make all bonemeal untradeable and unnotable - MasterRiku5
• Fix fishing pet chances
• Fix clue scroll rolls for bass, cave eel, dark crab, rainbow fish and leaping fish
• Fix picking up a second clue scroll saying 'beginner' - MasterRiku5
• Fix fish cooking and barbarian fishing bonus experience
• Fix mobs staying aggressive after a logout or world hop
• Fix Stronghold of Security wolves being aggressive - MasterRiku5
• Fix Black knights not being aggressive - MasterRiku5
• Fix Bandits using the wrong attack style, and rework their drop tables - MasterRiku5
• Fix level 42 Hobgoblin attack speed and drop table, and give them their spear - MasterRiku5
• Fix goblin attack speeds, attack styles and respawn timers - MasterRiku5
• Fix the level 11 goblin's max hit, and the Stronghold of Security goblins' drop table - MasterRiku5
• Fix giant rats attacking with slash instead of stab
• Fix poison spider attack speed - MasterRiku5
• Fix salamander flare attack speed
• Fix magic axe attack speed - MasterRiku5
• Fix level 25 and 45 skeletons using the wrong attack style - MasterRiku5
• Fix Ogre chieftain attack style, respawn timer and slayer category - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Abyss mobs' attack styles and respawn timers - MasterRiku5
• Fix Abyssal guardian hitpoints - MasterRiku5
• Fix Abyssal leech, guardian and walker crush defences - MasterRiku5
• Fix Abyssal guardian and walker essence pouch drop rates - Effigyluza
• Fix the Abyssal guardian not using its ranged attack - MasterRiku5
• Fix gnome and gnome troop respawn timers - MasterRiku5
• Fix gnomes and gnome troops attacking with melee instead of their bows - MasterRiku5
• Fix terrorbird and mounted terrorbird gnome attack styles, and count them as birds for Slayer - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Dramen tree spirit not counting as a ghost for Slayer - MasterRiku5
• Fix the level 24 ghosts by the Grave of Scorpius not counting as ghosts for Slayer - MasterRiku5
• Fix Minotaur, Chaos dwarf and Big wolf respawn times - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Ardougne Zoo jogre respawn timer - MasterRiku5
• Fix respawn times for several dragons - MasterRiku5
• Fix level 2 spiders to be giant spiders - MasterRiku5
• Fix Mort Myre snails biting instead of spitting acid at range - MasterRiku5
• Fix Mammoth seed drops - Regorty
• Fix the rare seed drop table coming back empty on some rolls, costing Nechryael and others a seed
• Fix Warriors' Guild ranged and magic attack styles - king_k_koala
• Fix Dark warrior slayer experience and spawns - MasterRiku5
• Fix kills made entirely with a ring of recoil still dropping loot and progressing quests - MasterRiku5
• Fix Dharok's set effect damage calculation - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Dragonfire shield's ranged defence, and add it to the Smithing guide - MasterRiku5
• Fix Onyx dragon bolt ranged strength - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Iron axe price in the shops that stock it - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Yellow feather price at the Fancy Clothes Store - MasterRiku5
• Fix Silver sickle giving a prayer bonus - MasterRiku5
• Fix amethyst crystal lives and expert mining gloves not saving
• Fix tiara Runecrafting experience at each altar
• Fix POH altars not paying bonus experience for bones - MasterRiku5
• Fix the dining room bell pull not calling your servant - MasterRiku5
• Fix Ava's attractor and Ava's accumulator names
• Fix armours that stopped Ava's devices working - MasterRiku5
• Fix aprons equipping to the wrong slot - MasterRiku5
• Fix herb tar needing a pestle and mortar, and its name - MasterRiku5
• Fix Zamorak brew not returning the vial or restoring prayer - MasterRiku5
• Fix bonemeal having an alchemy value - MasterRiku5
• Fix the decanter's 3 dose button showing a '2 dose' tooltip - MasterRiku5
• Fix Bryophyta's staff and essence names - MasterRiku5
• Fix combat force closing cape teleport menus - MasterRiku5
• Fix max cape teleports - dudeseph
• Fix buying runes with a full inventory dropping the item - mewoo
• Fix lectern and teleport tablet requirements
• Fix the Watchtower requirement message
• Fix the chat filter catching innocent words
• Fix gravestones occasionally failing to appear
• Fix split stacks losing the remainder on death
• Fix a rare error when killing an unnamed NPC
• Fix Khazard Warlord losing his cape when he turns hostile - MasterRiku5
• Fix Sir Vyvin getting stuck in the stairs - MasterRiku5
• Fix the big torch in Ardougne Zoo acting as a cooking range - MasterRiku5
• Fix the Brimhaven dungeon stepping stones and pipe requiring Agility on the way back - MasterRiku5
• Fix netherrack blocks appearing where they shouldn't - meness6
• Fix mobs jumping up onto one block high fences - MasterRiku5
• Fix taking no damage without a light source in the Giant Mole's lair - MasterRiku5
• Fix pathing on uneven ground
• Fix the Demon butler's skin in Ardougne - MasterRiku5
• Fix Tracker gnome 2 using Elkoy's skin - MasterRiku5
• Fix the textures in the Skavid phase of Witch's House - MasterRiku5
• Fix Gamfred's name - MasterRiku5
• Fix the rat's tail name
• Fix rat's tails dropping outside of Witch's Potion
• Fix the typo in the house options at the POH portal - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typo in 'The Desert' painting in the Quest Hall - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typos in the Chef's hat and Red spiders' eggs names - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typo in the Black Knights' Fortress quest name - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typos in the Mos le'Harmless and Mort'ton teleport scroll names - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typos and missing lore on Ecto-tokens and the Crone-made amulet - MasterRiku5
• Fix the typo in the Fairy dialogue - MasterRiku5
• Fix the errors in Brother Brace's dialogue - spectre2409
• Fix the tutorial quest book saying 'the Brother Brace' - MasterRiku5
• Fix the grammar in the Witch's House gate shock message - MasterRiku5
• Fix the character badge display on the scoreboard
• Fix only the first icon on each scoreboard line drawing correctly
• Fix ghouls counting as undead, which the wiki lists as an explicit exception
• Fix Chinese text rendering as icons in chat
• Fix carrying two Clock Tower cogs at once

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