update notes for Oct-07-2024 (#268)

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+title: Recruitment Drive
+tags: news
+layout: newspost
+date: 2024-10-07 00:00:00 +0000
+authors: ryannathans
+excerpt: "A new quest appears! And a LOT more..."
+modtype: "Lead Developer"
+avatar: avatar8fa9.gif
+---
+Greetings Explorers
+
+This update brings Recruitment Drive!
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+Full list of changes in Gielinor:
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+- Corrected quest log for Creatures of Fenkenstrain<br />
+Corrected quest log for Troll Stronghold<br />
+Corrected quest log for The Dig Site<br />
+Corrected quest log for Witch's House<br />
+Corrected quest log for Scorpion Catcher<br />
+Corrected quest log for Wolf Whistle<br />
+Corrected quest log for Nature Spirit<br />
+Corrected quest log for What Lies Below<br />
+Populated NPCs in Lucien's Camp (Next to Wildy Chaos Temple hut) (Inaccessible)<br />
+Populated NPCs in Black knight catacombs (WGS) (Inaccessible)<br />
+Populated NPCs in 1st level of Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (Smoking Kills) (Accessible)
+- Typo fixes for dialogue in enter the abyss and dragon slayer
+- Fixed up wordwrap for debugging unhandled interactions
+- Major farming improvements including (but not limited to):<br />
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+Farming animation corrections<br />
+Farming message updates and additions<br />
+Gardeners will chop down fully grown trees for 200 gp<br />
+Gardeners will give farming advice<br />
+Compost bin debugging admin command ::finishbins restored (finishes any in-progress compost bins)<br />
+Compost bin debugging admin command ::resetbins added (resets the player's compost bins to their initial states)<br />
+Players can no longer pay gardeners to protect diseased or dead farming patches<br />
+Can no longer water dead patches<br />
+Weeds will now grow in farming patches as part of the offline catch-up<br />
+Trees that are not fully grown can now be dug up
+- Rewrote some Varrock plugins<br />
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+Removed duplicated handlers for many Varrock related stairs and ladders<br />
+Fixed the Champions' Guild trapdoor being unable to be closed<br />
+Changed the model ID for the logs outside of Seth Groats's house when the axe is taken<br />
+The drawers in Guidor's house will no longer disappear. There doesn't appear to be a related open object, so they just won't open<br />
+The Benny NPC yells about newspapers again<br />
+Knocking on the door in the Varrock bank will start the dialogue with the bankers<br />
+The Varrock Census object in the Varrock castle will now open the Varrock Census interface<br />
+Added sounds for opening/closing drawers, wardrobes, and cupboards and animations for wardrobes<br />
+Added the Kudos overlay in the Varrock Museum<br />
+Corrected the spawns for archeologists in the Varrock Museum dig site area<br />
+Implemented the Varrock museum map interface to open from the objects and item<br />
+The tool shelf in the museum dig site area will now give items<br />
+Looking at the displays in the in the Natural History area of the museum will open the interface for the exam and provided some notes
+- Corrected iron-ore-smelting success rate
+- Reverted some tutorial island dialogue
+- Improved bank updates, likely fix for bank UI delay
+- Fixed the Priest in Peril items not showing up in HD
+- Corrected Lighthouse Dagannoth drop table
+- Players are now rescued out of the unimplemented high-level Bounty Hunter crater
+- Corrected summoning point drain rate
+- Rewrote the swing/attack handler for authenticity:<br />
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+Fixed a lot of off-by-1 miscalculations<br />
+Fixed the void ranger bonus, which should be 20%<br />
+Fixed granite maul spec not giving xp and ignoring protection prayers<br />
+Fixed accuracy being too high<br />
+Fixed set bonuses that boost attack or defence being applied twice or to all attacks<br />
+Fixed ranged attacks not taking into account prayers that boost defence or defensive attack styles<br />
+Fixed red chinchompa having the same damage as normal chinchompas<br />
+Fixed some specs being boosted by offensive prayers<br />
+::calcmaxhit now has better formatting<br />
+::calc_accuracy renamed to ::calcaccuracy for consistency with other commands, and now also gives the actual hit chance
+- Fixed blessing of graves belonging to ironmen<br />
+Fixed POH teleport issue<br />
+Fixed charter requirements<br />
+Fixed entrana weapon check bypass<br />
+Small authenticity improvements
+- Fix bugs with familiars<br />
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+Fixed a bug where familiars would sometimes not respond to the 'Call' button<br />
+Fixed random events not spawning when standing in front of the Lumbridge furnace<br />
+Fixed incorrect restrictions on familiars and random events inside POHs
+- Fixed saving of prayer points & hitpoints, dynamic level is now tracked separately to current hit/prayer points
+- Rewrote pet back end to use a more authentic system<br />
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+Pets can now stack<br />
+Fixes a bug where a pet could get reset to 0 hunger and growth when dropped<br />
+Player save version migration messages are no longer shown<br />
+Pets now morph into adults in-place
+- Fairy ring refactor<br />
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+Reimplemented the travel log, fixes the issue where all the travel log interface text collapses in on itself<br />
+Travel log now displays the relevant code<br />
+Log sorting implemented<br />
+Fairy ring now remembers the last entered code and automatically re-enters it when opened<br />
+Fairy ring no longer skips letters<br />
+Direction clicks in quick succession now turn the wheel multiple times
+- Implemented the ogres in combat training camp
+- Fixed the unlocking of region-wide music tracks
+- Fixed cockatrice, godtrice and spirit cobra egg implementation
+- Corrected fletching arrow xp
+- Corrected many potion effects
+- Fixed typo in Straven dialogue
+- Corrected All Fired Up item requirements
+- Fixed woad leaf typo in Wyson dialogue
+- Implemented Recruitment Drive quest
+- Rune hasta requirements fix
+- Superheat ore order of precedence has been corrected
+- Improved server music config loading logging
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