Update 1.0.2 Adds Earth Magic, Penguin Hunting and a New Umbral Sands Quest
What Changed
RuneScape: Dragonwilds' November update is here. Jagex's "Eye on Ashenfall | 1.0.2" post, published November 10, adds a whole new magic element, a new way to spend your downtime hunting penguins, and fresh content for Umbral Sands.
If you play a caster, Earth Magic is the headline: it brings stagger, area damage and a defensive buff that also works for melee builds. Explorers get a new quest, a treasure trail and repeatable delivery routes. Track your progress with our RuneScape: Dragonwilds hub.
Update 1.0.2 Patch Notes
Earth Magic
Earth joins Air, Fire and Water as the fourth magic element.
At Magic level 14, you can equip Earth Runes on Staves and Wands.
Earth attacks deal Blunt damage, which staggers enemies and interrupts their attacks.
Earth focuses on area damage: the final hit of the Staff combo also strikes the area around your target.
The Staff Special Attack creates an earthquake with several aftershocks. Charging it widens the area, and you can leave it working while you reposition.
Armour of the Earth
Hitting with Earth Magic builds a defensive buff of up to 3 stacks.
Each stack is used up on the next hit you take, reducing the damage.
At 60 Attack, you can enchant melee weapons with it, so melee hits build the buff too.
Penguin hunting
Killer Gentoo Penguins (KGP) are now hiding across Ashenfall. Jagex says more than 200 have appeared.
They spawn in batches of no more than three per region and reset every 7 in-game days.
Catch one and you collect a token worth a Penguin Coin.
Spend coins at a new shop in Bramblemead. Stock includes the Full Penguin Armour Set, the KGP Hat, the Penguin Cape and base decorations, including tapestries. More rewards are promised later.
Fishing
A new amulet improves your chance of catching Pristine Fish.
A new ring reduces the stamina cost of reeling in fish.
Jagex calls these the first steps in improving fishing based on player feedback.
New quest and treasure trail
A Reel Downer (Umbral Sands): start at the Manafem Clan's camp and help cheer up a fisherman's miserable catch. It unlocks the Fishing Rod Rack recipe and trophy recipes for wall-mounting a pristine catch.
X Marks the Spot (Umbral Sands): follow the scattered journal entries of four brothers who stole a carpet and treasure from an ancient vault. Finding the dig spot unlocks plans for two new rugs.
Official art from the Eye on Ashenfall 1.0.2 post
Letter deliveries
After finishing Letters from the Dead in Fellhollow, Postie Pete offers new routes in Dowdun Reach and Umbral Sands.
Buy a regional post box plan with that region's currency and build it at your base. Each box gives letters for its own region.
Dowdun Reach deliveries reward Infernal Fragments, spent at Postie Pete's Evil Emporium. Umbral Sands deliveries reward Garou Chits, spent with that region's merchants.
Public Test Realm
Jagex is taking first steps toward a PTR, starting with a select group of PC players on Steam.
Because of console submission lead times, the Steam PTR build is the one that ships to consoles on release day, so some PTR issues will be fixed in a later patch.
Testers will need to back up saves and switch between the PTR and Live branches. Dates and instructions will come later.
Notable bug fixes
The update lists around 30 fixes. Highlights:
Reaching 99 Agility now triggers its achievement on consoles.
Ascending Masterwork Armour now correctly increases its stats.
Renaming a character to a previous name no longer deletes the original character.
Player structures on Dedicated Servers no longer lose collision.
Clients in a hosted world no longer grow two trees from one seed.
Door animations now look smooth for clients, not just the host.
Filling chest stacks no longer pulls items from the Quick Access Bar.
Durability loss fixed for the Gilded Gyrhawk, Glory, Strength, Magic and Salve Amulets.
The Quick Select wheel can now switch weapons during long animations.
You can no longer equip a shield alongside a broken one-handed weapon.
Base Raids now show the number of enemies or waves.
Fixed the Trunk Totem XP multiplier when totems are placed close together.
Known issues
Armour of the Earth hit reactions don't play their own sound effects yet.
Getting the same letter delivery location twice in a row requires leaving and returning to the area.
The camera sometimes pulls into the player model in Dowdun Reach.
Jagex has added telemetry to investigate stuttering during auto-saves since 1.0.1, and cases where only one client can join an Xbox-hosted world.
What's Next
The Luminance update is due in December. Jagex says it brings Elves to Ashenfall, a new outpost area, the Lyre for activating songstones, a Bounty Hunter hunt that rewards Harmonised Crystal Fragments for new Elven gear, a Prifddinas-inspired building kit, and Prayer as a new skill with Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak offering different tradeoffs. It also starts the Blood Crystal Saga questline, plus quality-of-life changes and visual improvements for Nintendo Switch 2.
Official header art from the Eye on Ashenfall 1.0.2 post
