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title: Giftmas Event Update
tags: news
layout: newspost
date: 2022-12-18 00:00:00 +0000
authors: ryannathans
excerpt: "It's the season for giving, happy giftmas 2009scape!"
modtype: "Lead Developer"
avatar: avatar8fa9.gif
---
<p>Merry Giftmas everyone! For the next month or so, extending well into January, you'll be able to obtain up to 20 giftmas presents per day.</p>
<ul>
  <li>Presents are awarded randomly, with a 1/15th probability of receiving a present every time you earn at least 25 XP</li>
  <li>A maximum of 5 presents are obtainable daily from combat related experience</li>
  <li>A maximum of 15 presents are obtainable daily from skilling related experience</li>
  <li>Giftmas presents can only be opened during the event</li>
  <li>Possible giftmas presents include (but are not limited to) toys, crafting materials, gems, seeds, coins and maybe an abyssal whip or santa hat if you're really lucky!</li>
</ul>
<p>And as usual, new changes in Gielinor:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Reworked Paladin drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked tormented demon drop table</li>
  <li>Halved the chance of zombie's nothing drop from 8/128 to 4/128<br />
  Added a Bronze axe drop to zombie drop table with a 1/32 (4/128) chance</li>
  <li>Fixed packet decoder issue where bytes were read out of sequence</li>
  <li>Implemented Christmas event giftmas<br />
  Fixed a minor bug with the incoming packet processor</li>
  <li>Replaced some discord references with forums</li>
  <li>Sharks can now be caught with barb-tail harpoon<br />
  Fixed incorrect animation when fishing with a barb-tail harpoon</li>
  <li>Added decoding for player preferences (unused)</li>
  <li>Added void knight mace animations</li>
  <li>Added an Allotment Seed drop table<br />
  Reworked Farmer drop table</li>
  <li>Fixed a bunch of minor exceptions</li>
  <li>Magic butterfly net is now one handed<br />
  Magic butterfly net level requirement adjusted to 17 hunter</li>
  <li>Removed duplicate message for quest completion for Sheep Shearer<br />
  Removed duplicate message for quest completion for The Restless Ghost</li>
  <li>Fixed wielding level requirement for dragon axe, no longer requires a woodcutting level to wield</li>
  <li>Fixed flipped level requirements on Guthix bracers</li>
  <li>Improved facial expressions in bank dialogue</li>
  <li>Corrected flipped level requirement data for butterfly net and butterfly jar</li>
  <li>Removed charms from rock slug drop table<br />
  Fixed rock slugs dropping wrong type of mystic gloves</li>
  <li>Fixed goblins dropping unusable coins</li>
  <li>Implemented Doubling Money scammer bots at GE<br />
  Converted some classes to Kotlin<br />
  Fixed a trading bug when you removed an item, the modified slot would flash on the wrong side</li>
  <li>Refactored the processing of incoming packets to do so synchronously on the start of the tick cycle (rather than being processed as soon as the packet is received)<br />
  Decoupled decoding of packets from processing of packets, so that both 530 and 578 packets can be decoded into the same data structures and processed the same way<br />
  De-spaghettied many things, e.g. farming and the poster in stronghold of player safety</li>
  <li>Reverted last commit and fixed the root cause of package info issue</li>
  <li>Fixed build warning by always generating package info for exec mojo</li>
  <li>Removed additional inauthentic/inappropriate bot usernames</li>
  <li>Reworked Kurask drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Rogue drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Thug drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Pirate drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Mugger drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Dark Wizard drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Gnome Guard drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Shadow Warrior drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Otherworldly Being drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Ice Warrior drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Earth Warrior drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Chaos Dwarf drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Dwarf drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Ice Giant drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Fire Giant drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Goblin drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Skeleton drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Lesser Demon drop table<br />
  Reworked Greater Demon drop table<br />
  Reworked Black Demon drop table</li>
  <li>Now validating JSON files in Gitlab pipeline</li>
  <li>Reworked Zombie drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Abyssal Demon drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Jogre drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Bloodveld drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Ork drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Gorak drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Jungle Spider drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Giant Spider drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Chicken drop table<br />
  Reworked Knight of Ardougne drop table<br />
  Reworked Hellhound drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Hero drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Man drop table<br />
  Reworked Woman drop table<br />
  Reworked Drunken Man drop table<br />
  Reworked Jeff drop table<br />
  Reworked Rusty drop table<br />
  Reworked Narf drop table<br />
  Reworked Cuffs drop table</li>
  <li>Reworked Wizard drop table</li>
  <li>Moved drop tables into dedicated folder (data/config/shared_tables)<br />
  Added Rare Seed Drop Table<br />
  Reworked Aberrant Spectre drops</li>
  <li>Corrected Sumona teleport on slayer ring<br />
  Improved authenticity of slayer ring teleport locations</li>
  <li>Added skill requirements for skillcapes and hoods</li>
  <li>Fixed Draynor bot theiving<br />
  Fixed Draynor willow bots getting stuck</li>
  <li>Dragon drop table rebalance<br />
  <br />
  Blue Dragon<br />
  Red Dragon<br />
  Black Dragon<br />
  Bronze Dragon<br />
  Iron Dragon<br />
  Steel Dragon</li>
  <li>Aviansies drop table rebalance</li>
  <li>Chaos Druids drop table rebalance</li>
  <li>Waterfiends drop table rebalance</li>
  <li>Trolls drop table rebalance<br />
  <br />
  Mountain Trolls<br />
  Thrower Trolls<br />
  Troll Generals</li>
  <li>Al-Kharid warrior drop table rebalance</li>
  <li>Barbarian drop table rebalance</li>
  <li>Fixed exception caused by using floating point numbers in secondary gem drop table</li>
</ul>