Zonica Gazette #007: (Launch Week Recap, Weekend Events, What’s to come and more…)

Hello, ladies and gentleman thank you so much for everyone’s support through our first official week online! This week was eventful to say the least, and hopefully we can build off of this great community so far. Ynneh has spent the majority of the week fixing up majority of the reported issues as well as […]

Zonica Gazette #006: (Launch TODAY, Latest Updates, and more…)

Hello, ladies and gentleman we are so pleased to announce we are right on schedule for launch TODAY at 6pm GMT | 1pm EST. First and foremost please make sure to send your gratitude and appreciation to Ynneh for working tirelessly these last few months especially leading into launch. Day in and day out logging […]

Zonica Gazette #005: (Small Delay, Launch Competitions, Loads of Updates, and more…)

Hello, everyone I know many of you were all anticipating the launch of Zonica tomorrow, but due to personal circumstances I can not in good faith launch the server. Long story short I work in snow removal and with my incredible luck a storm is coming in tomorrow. I know its a strange reason to […]

Zonica Gazette #004: (Launch Window, Loads of Fixes, Clan Content Progression!)

Hello, great people of Zonica! Welcome to the fourth official issue of the Zonica Gazette, time is sure flying by as we continue to progress with the game. Thanksgiving is next week, and the winter holidays are just around the corner be sure to spend time with the ones you love this time of year!! […]

Zonica Gazette #003: (Loot Goblin, Bingo, NMZ, Misc Fixes!)

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the third official issue of the Zonica Gazette. This week we will mostly cover our most recent changes & updates to the game as well as some staff updates. As we continue to push through our pre-launch task list we are getting closer and closer to announcing an official launch date, […]

Zonica Gazette #002: (Exciting Updates, News, Upcoming Features, Invite Event, and More!)

Hello, everyone! Meech here with the second installment of our Zonica Gazette! We’ve been a bit quiet this week, but that’s because we’ve been working tirelessly on key quality-of-life features to make sure our launch goes as smoothly as possible. Welcome to the second official issue of the Zonica Gazette. Let’s dive in! As usual, […]

Zonica Gazette #001 (Updates, General Information, What’s to Come, and more!)

Hello everyone, first off, we are pleased to release our official website. Things are still being polished up, but most features are functioning and will be properly synced as we get closer to launch. Welcome to Zonica’s first official Gazette issue. Gazette issues will be released weekly, most likely on Sundays, to prepare everyone for […]

Hello, ladies and gentleman thank you so much for everyone’s support through our first official week online! This week was eventful to say the least, and hopefully we can build off of this great community so far. Ynneh has spent the majority of the week fixing up majority of the reported issues as well as adding bits of QOL here and there when requested. As usual big kudos to him for working day in and day out with you guys to bring you engaging and quality additions to Zonica.

We will continue to fix bugs as quickly as we can while also bringing new additions to the game for more engaging and exciting content. This weeks gazette will focus on recapping our latest updates, weekend events and what you can except to see coming soon! I hope to have the hiscores fixed and ready by the end of the weekend so you guys can track progress more easily.

 

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Official Weekend Events

Thank you for such an amazing response to the launch of Zonica, all of your bugs and suggestions are ensuring we can provide an enjoyable server. As a way of saying thanks, we wanted to host a fun community event and give everyone a chance to earn some juicy lootations!

  • The first event will begin on January 25th, 3:00 PM EST

Event #1: Trivia @ Home!

  • We will all gather at home to participate in a Trivia event
  • Trivia subjects can be RuneScape related, Zonica related or just general subjects
  • The first person to correctly type the answer will win a $5 Bond
  • There will be a total of 7 rounds of trivia (You can win more than once!)

Event #2: Chaotic Nightmare Fuel! 

  • Nightmare Zone will reward increased points for the day!
  • First player to receive a Chaotic Maul will get $20 in Donator Bonds
  • First player to receive a Chaotic Rapier get $20 in Donator Bonds
  • First player to receive a Chaotic Longsword will get $20 in Donator Bonds
  • First player to receive a Chaotic Staff will get $20 in Donator Bonds
  • First player to receive a Chaotic Crossbow will get $20 in Donator Bonds

Best of luck on your grinds and adventures, and thank you for the amazing response to Zonica thus far :heart:

Competitions

Launch Competitions 

Various launch competitions are still available to be claimed as well as some awesome rewards for those looking to participate!

We have a few changes to announce to the team here on Zonica, as we grow we will continue to look to expand our team!

Promotions & Demotions

  • Meech has been placed on leave due to not having the time to properly fulfil the duties required of him on Zonica, we wish him the best in school and hope when he has the time he will come back to us in a more official role but for now he will be taking on a advisor role.
  • Arcane N8 will be filling in as Community Manager / Administrator going forward, make sure to use and abuse him!
  • Earll, Blex and Fazo have been promoted to Server Support to help provide players with additional resources to go to for help while playing the game. (Their ingame ranks will take hold next restart.)

 

Post launch update list up until and including today.

  • Added unskull option to mandrith
  • Added jad/torso unlock to broadcasts / discord
  • You now need to have unlocked rigour/augury to use them (prayers)
  • Fixed bug where loot specialist would cause your name not to be visable / change your walk animation.
  • Fixed bug when opening teleporter, it would show previously looked at loot from an npc or bond shop.
  • Extended cooldown for instakill darts on nex/corp from 1hr to 6hrs
  • Fixed new bugs with picking ground items.
  • Added animation/text for animated armours at warrior guild on spawn
  • Fixed teleport for ice strykworm
  • added unlocking strykewyrms/aquanties need to be able to attack them
  • Added berserker helm/archers helm to g.e
  • Fixed bug with drop multiplier not working when 25% double drops is enabled.
  • Zonica’s Zesty Zaturday event is now active! (new event for saturdays)
  • Added HP event, keep an eye out
  • Fixed bug with XP from rates
  • Fixed bug with double XP lamp
  • Fixed not losing items on death
  • Fixed selling artifacts to mandrith (also boosted the prices)
  • Fixed bug with npcs being processed on death (caused drops to not work at times)
  • Fixed bug where hill giants wouldn’t count towards slayer task.
  • Fixed bug where trading could cause button interactions to not work
  • Fixed bug where you couldn’t accept a trade by clicking in the chatbox.
  • Fixed bug where shops would charge 2x for items.
  • Fixed proper donator rank not showing in quest tab
  • Added donator icons to match the rank in quest tab
  • Black demons now count towards slayer task
  • Fixed bug where noted items couldnt be sold on G.E if the counter part (swapped for noted item) had a value.
  • Added more network security
  • Added rake/seed dibber/supercompost/watering can (8) to g.e under unlimited stock
  • Added hillgiants to tp inter
  • Wilderness key no longer removes from the floor until someone loots it.
  • Lowered godwars reqs for KC to 25 from 40.
  • Barrows now gives 25% chance of obtaining a barrows item on looting.
  • Discord BOT is back online
  • Loading presets now has a 60 second cooldown after skilling.
  • Fixed client scrolling issues
  • Offpray no longer shows in chatbox
  • When enabling kill count feature in settings it will now show your killcount with the new npc kill tracker instead of the old one.
  • Super combat potion can now be decanted at max.
  • Prayer XP has been buffed from 5x to x15
  • Added every shop item that uses blood money to the g.e for unlimited stock. However, these prices maybe be slightly higher.
  • Fix bug with facing object direction
  • Fixed bug with Killtracker sometime not showing in chat with the toggleable enabled.
  • When toggling off NPCHPbars it will no longer stay stuck on your screen
  • Added attackskill cape benefit, you can now enter warriors guild for free with 99attack while wielding the cape, if you remove it while getting tokens you will be kicked from the room.
  • Lowered warriors guild shop prices: fighter torso from 20k token to 5k and fighter hat from 15k to 3k tokens.
  • Players should no longer lose items in safe areas such as minigames ect
  • Fixed bug where achievements claiming wouldnt be added to your bank/inventory if you didn’t have enough space
  • Fixed bug with bronze claw being not stackable as the noted variant
  • Removed charms from bork ALWAYS loot table, will re-add but adjusted once I re-write his combat script to make him more challenging.
  • Fixed error with NMZ on death
  • Fixed selling artifacts to mandrith (was missing ids oops)
  • Fixed bug cause the server to lagg
  • Removed bgloves from mboxes
  • un-noted dbones from mbox are now noted
  • added more shop items to grand exchange with unlimited stock.
  • Fixed preset loading, you now must wait 60seconds after skilling to load another preset.
  • Fixed fire giant destination via teleporter
  • You can now sell noted items for high alch price at the general store.
  • Fixed ghost animation/spawns in taverly dungeon.
  • Fixed autoloot scroll effects + lowered price to 100 bond credits in the bond store. (it automatically loots blood money caskets for you.)
  • Buffed stock of supplies in general store
  • Fixed bug where players couldn’t clear target levels (added clear target to combat stats)
  • Added more tinderbox itemid support for firemaking (you can now make fires with the tinderbox you get from drops/thieving stalls its not longer locked to 1 id)
  • You can now cut deadtrees, they give 25xp and charcoal.
  • Added world announcements and discord msg for when a player reaches 99 in a stat. Pk accounts combat stats do not proc this.
  • Added missing fly fishing spots from lumbridge
  • Wolfs in strong hold security now drop their bones on death
  • Wolf bones are now interactable (bury/altar ect)
  • Reimplemented the HP Overlay which is toggleable via quest tab settings tab. If you see any bugs with it please report them.
  • Admins can no longer be assigned bounty hunter targets
  • You now need your likelihood to be half before getting assigned a target unless someone requires a priority target. (full likelihood and waiting)
  • Added more shops at home with different skilling supplies such as herblore, fishing ect
  • Added 2 Pikkupstix’s npc spawns. One is at his home where you start summoning and another in neitiznot he has a secondary store you can buy items from and also offers helmet enchanting for a small blood money fee.
  • You can now use the chisel from the thieving store to cut gems with
  • Fishing supplies from store were added to G.E unlimited stock
  • Added slayer dungeon to teleporter
  • Added “right click examine” NPC option to toggleable settings in your quest. Once enabled you can right click examine NPCs to see their drop tables. Please note revs need to be converted to a normal droptable format which I’ll do sometime this week.
  • Added killcount tracking for all NPCs. On rare loot announcements it will now say at the end “on KC: XXX” whatever your KC is currently for that mob.
  • Fixed bug where some broadcasts would not show for all players
  • Removed kalphites from the easy slayer task pool. (any suggestions for new tasks? make a thread
  • Fixed issue with KBD not being able to hit through prayers.
  • Loot Goblins HP has been increased by 50%
  • Loot goblin now awards the top 3 people who damage it – #1 gets 1x diamond key, #2 2x platinum keys, #3 3x gold keys
  • Re-charging auras price has been reduced from 10m to 1m.
  • Added (level: X) to drop viewer if the npc has a set combat level
  • right click examine lootgoblin shows rewards for top 3
  • fix mandrith typo saying regular skull when you get a high risk skull
  • re-adding missing items to g.e unlimited stock
  • added error logging
  • Bonds/scrolls can now be sold/bought on the g.e IF someone has a sell offer
  • Bonds/scrolls are now tradable
  • Buffed bloodmoney ALOT from wilderness skilling (herb, cooking, firemaking, woodcutting)
  • Wilderness NPCs now drop different lootkeys
  • Wildernsss skilling now gives different lootkeys
  • PvP gives the best chances of lootkeys.
  • Fixed bug with feather weight, it will now track progress.
  • Added msg on claiming blood money, explaining how to withdraw it.
  • Walking no longer has a tick delay like 07
  • Fixed aura of wealth crashing you everytime you examine the item
  • Fixed issues with claiming votes/store via rewards trader
  • Added more items to grand exchange with unlimited stock
  • You can now remove expert tasks.
  • Fixed lottery ticking 2x instead of just once.
  • Fixed loot goblin votes only registering as 1 for 4 sites.
  • Fixed super mbox id in lootkey tables
  • Added more item names to rare loot announcement
  • Fixed bug with checking for runes on cast
  • Fixed getting 1 bond from lootkey table (its now 5-15)
  • Wearing 1 ancient piece will now unaggro ancient minions at nex
  • Added 13 ancient items for unlimited stock to the g.e
  • Fixed shop buying noted items over your inventory remaining slots.
  • Fixed bug with kill tracking, it will now count towards ur total for the same npc but with different ids.
  • Fixed bug with some stackable items turning to notes in bank/ge
  • Fix, if you have a bonecrusher in your inventory the bone will not note if you have the perk.
  • Fixed Kalphite queen being unattackable after transforming into second phase.
  • Added icons for quick accounts / hard mode accounts for chat/fc
  • Fixed bug with joining another FC chat IF the account doesn’t exist or if the friends chat was disabled.
  • Fixed visual bugs with lottery such as text offset / text being all over, the history is now capped at 18 last winners.
  • Removed Onyx drop from red dragons, only revs will now drop an onyx.
  • Rewrote how the wilderness key works, fixed all bugs with it + now you need 1m blood money in your inventory to loot the key. You also need at least a combat level of 106 to loot the key.
  • Re-wrote banking tabs/place holders, you can now release a placeholder by click “placeholder” if it was already set this will delete the item if the amount is 0, bank tabs will no longer bug out
  • Disable expert tasks for now, need some kind of balance.
  • Fixed looting bag in bank when closing
  • Info tab refreshes upon claiming vote
  • Added dragon boots to rare drop broadcast
  • Fixed bug with bones on altar, it will work as intended.
  • Added more unlimited stock items to the g.e such as ring of recoil, super anti potion 4
  • Added examine item while on the floor.
  • Fixed barrows loot bug where sometimes you get nothing from commons.
  • Fixed issues with discord bot
  • You can no longer get casket drops in NMZ or fightcaves minigames
  • IF a drop is on the official droptable, any rare drop above 1/256 it will now broadcast
  • Well Of Good will has been fixed up and reimplemented with cheaper toggle prices.
  • Fixed all issues with farming bugging out and not saving
  • Fix cannot store wilderness key in looting bag.
  • Slayer points format upon task completion
  • Broadcast added for when killing jad.
  • On loot goblin finish votes reset back to 0.
  • HP Overlay should now remove on combat reset/teleport
  • Added ice strykewyrm dungeon to dungeon teleports
  • You can now only be assigned ice strykewyrms if you’re unlocked them from the slayer master.
  • Players can only be assigned aquanites once unlocked
  • Added ::wiki id to open any page from the wiki
  • Finished/Added double tap slayer perk, now functional and buyable
  • Finished/Added steel note slayer perk, now functional and buyable
  • Disabled buying slayer xp for points until i find a balance on point amount vs xp.

Much thanks,
The Zonica Team