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MASSIVE GAMBLING EXPANSION, Fishing Trawler minigame, and much more fixes!

Lou Owner · Aug 15, 2026

🎰 Massive Gambling Expansion:

GrinderScape's gambling content has received another massive expansion!

Players now have a huge variety of games available, ranging from competitive player-versus-player challenges to casino-style games and risk-versus-reward activities.

🎮 Games Board:

The Games Board provides a collection of head-to-head games where players can challenge one another using shared stakes.

Games Board matches support:

  • Shared item stakes.
  • Synchronized rounds.
  • Secured wagers.
  • Reconnect protection.
  • Server-authoritative outcomes.
  • Reliable match settlement.

⚔️ Runelink:

Challenge another player through one of the Games Board's competitive head-to-head games while your wager remains safely secured throughout the match.

🧩 Rune Grid:

Rune Grid provides another competitive Games Board challenge with synchronized rounds and protected stakes.

🔤 Rune Word Duel:

Rune Word Duel has received a massive content expansion.

The available word pool has increased from only 79 words to 591 RuneScape-themed words, covering:

  • Bosses.
  • Items.
  • Locations.
  • Skills.
  • Other RuneScape content.

This makes repeated words considerably less predictable and gives the game far more variety.

🚢 Gnome Fleet:

Gnome Fleet introduces a private-deployment naval duel to the Games Board, providing a completely different style of head-to-head gambling.

⚗️ Alchemist's Code:

Alchemist's Code is a simultaneous deduction race where both players attempt to solve the correct combination using exact and misplaced-reagent clues.

  • Clear 75-second countdown.
  • Cleaner reagent labels.
  • Reconnect protection.
  • Fair handling when a player leaves the arena.

🌋 TzHaar Lava Drop:

Release an ember through an eight-row basalt board using three different heat tables and watch where the ember lands.

The game features its own molten TzHaar-themed interface, animations, entrance audio, and dedicated landing sounds.

🐉 Dragonfire Hoard:

Enter the dragon's lair and attempt to steal treasure from a sleeping dragon.

After every successful theft, choose whether to escape with your growing hoard or risk another attempt for an even larger reward.

The Dragonfire Hoard interface includes custom:

  • Dragon artwork.
  • Fire effects.
  • Smoke effects.
  • Satchel artwork.
  • Announcements.

🔒 Games Board Wager Protection:

Games Board staking has been simplified to require one clear acceptance from each player, removing the unnecessary second confirmation screen.

Interrupted matches safely retain each player's exact offer until the final result has been stored.

Outstanding challenges also clear correctly when a player:

  • Leaves the gambling area.
  • Moves away.
  • Closes the invitation.
  • Begins another action.

🎰 Slot Machine:

The Slot Machine joins the expanding GrinderScape gambling floor!

Spin the reels and see whether luck is on your side.

Slot outcomes now have their own dedicated audio as part of the upgraded gambling sound system.

Spin the reels and chase the big win!


🌪️ Elemental Wheel:

Take your chances on the Elemental Wheel!

The Elemental Wheel has received a major presentation and audio upgrade, including:

  • Layered casino-style spinning audio.
  • Dedicated result sounds.
  • A unique victory flourish for winning results.
  • A dedicated cash-out reward jingle.
  • Improved entrance audio synchronized with its animation.

🎯 Gnome Shooter:

Gnome Shooter joins the growing collection of GrinderScape gambling games, giving players another completely different activity to try on the gambling floor.

With the gambling area continuing to expand, players now have far more choice in how they want to test their luck.


🎲 Five Additional Gambling Games:

Another major gambling wave introduced five additional games:

  • 💣 Mines.
  • 🔮 Rune Prophecy.
  • 🎲 Dwarven Dice Forge.
  • 🏰 Rune Tower.
  • 🎟️ Scratch & Win.

These games received custom interfaces, animations, sounds, wager protection, and reconnect recovery.

💣 Mines:

Choose excavation tiles, uncover valuable rewards, and avoid the hidden mines while increasing your potential payout.

🔮 Rune Prophecy:

Predict whether the next tablet will be higher or lower and decide when to secure your winnings.

Fate Shift result messaging has now been improved so it clearly distinguishes the tablet that was correctly predicted from the new omen that guides the player's next choice.

🎲 Dwarven Dice Forge:

Roll and reroll dice to build increasingly valuable combinations before deciding when to secure the payout.

🏰 Rune Tower:

Progress through the Rune Tower by opening safe chests while increasing your potential reward as the risk grows.

🎟️ Scratch & Win:

Use Scratch Tickets at the Gilded Fortune Table to reveal and keep rewards hidden inside a sealed Scratch & Win card.


🚢 Fishing Trawler Minigame:

Fishing Trawler is now live at Port Khazard!

Players can board Murphy's Fishing Trawler for shared five-minute voyages, with difficulty designed to remain manageable for solo players and smaller groups.

🔨 Keep The Trawler Afloat:

During each voyage, players build personal contribution by helping maintain and defend the ship.

  • Patch leaks.
  • Bail water from the lower hold.
  • Repair the fishing nets.
  • Repair damaged rails.
  • Fight enormous Kraken tentacles.

🌊 Improved Bailing:

Bailing has been corrected so water removal and contribution are counted when the bucket actually collects water from the hold, rather than when the full bucket is later emptied.

This makes contribution accurately match the moment the player actually helps remove water from the ship.

🌊 Improved Flooding:

Changes to the water level no longer interrupt sailors who are fighting the Kraken on the upper deck.

Flooding changes also no longer trigger unnecessary loading screens for players upstairs.

🕸️ Visible Net Damage:

The Fishing Trawler's large rear nets now visibly tear when damaged.

Repairing the nets with rope restores them to their intact visual state.

🐙 Kraken Defence:

Enormous Kraken tentacles can attack the upper deck and must be fought back while other sailors keep the vessel operational.

📊 Voyage Summaries:

Fishing Trawler now displays complete voyage information once all connected sailors have returned to Port Khazard.

The summary includes:

  • Contribution.
  • Activity.
  • Points.
  • Catches.
  • Rewards.

The successful-voyage announcement is displayed after the summaries.

Players who disconnect during the return journey have their result safely stored and receive the saved summary when they next log in at the Port Khazard dock.

🔌 Disconnect Protection:

Fishing Trawler return journeys now finish correctly even when the final sailor disconnects.

Each player's saved result remains available on their next login at Port Khazard.

🐾 Followers:

Fishing Trawler now gives the correct warning and refuses cats and other unsupported followers before departure.

Chaos Elemental Jr. retains its unusual permission to join the voyage.


🏜️ Sorceress's Garden:

Sorceress's Garden is now fully available!

Players who have completed Prince Ali Rescue can unlock Sorceress's Garden through Osman and the Apprentice.

Once the introduction has been completed, players can return whenever they like through the minigame teleport.

🌦️ Four Seasonal Gardens:

All four seasonal gardens are available:

  • ❄️ Winter Garden.
  • 🌸 Spring Garden.
  • 🍂 Autumn Garden.
  • ☀️ Summer Garden.

The gardens feature:

  • Shared elemental patrols.
  • Multiplayer catches.
  • Seasonal music.
  • Fruit trees.
  • Herb patches.
  • Sq'irkjuice.
  • Thieving rewards.
  • A chance to receive Rocky while picking fruit.

🍹 Sq'irkjuice Rewards:

Handing Sq'irkjuice to Osman now awards coins directly to the player's Money Pouch:

  • ❄️ Winter — 5M Coins.
  • 🌸 Spring — 12M Coins.
  • 🍂 Autumn — 26M Coins.
  • ☀️ Summer — 40M Coins.

Handing in at least five cups also awards Participation Points that scale with the size of the complete batch.

Qualifying XP and coin rewards are announced to the server.

🧙 Apprentice Access:

Both Apprentice locations now provide the same protected Garden dialogue and teleport journey after the required introduction has been completed.

🗺️ Teleport Improvements:

Sorceress's Garden remains visible inside the teleport menu.

Players who still need to complete Prince Ali Rescue or Osman's introduction are clearly told what remains before they can enter, while eligible players can teleport there directly.

👕 Guild Hunter Outfit:

Equipment hover information now correctly explains the full Guild Hunter outfit's:

  • Hunter Rumour catch-success benefits.
  • Rare-part guarantee benefits.

👕 Skilling Outfit Bonuses + They are available in store!

The Carpenter's Outfit and every colour of the Raiments of the Eye now grant their intended experience bonuses.

  • Carpenter's Outfit grants its intended Construction XP bonus.
  • Raiments of the Eye grant their intended Runecrafting XP bonuses.
  • The active total is displayed inside the Equipment Effects panel.

Equipment hover tooltips also show the correct Construction XP bonus provided by each individual Carpenter outfit piece.


📜 Prince Ali Rescue Improvements:

Prince Ali Rescue preparation dialogue has been improved.

Ned, Aggie, Phillipa, and Osman now clearly explain:

  • Which materials the player needs.
  • What the player should do next.

🏪 Store Changes:

Store promotions no longer advertise or award Premium Points.

Limited-time promotions now provide only the remaining non-points rewards.

Item Upgrade Kit is now available in the store (Allows you to upgrade any item to tier 10).

Upgrade crest is now available in the store; it guarantees your next upgrade will succeed, and it will be consumed.


🛠️ Starter Path Improvements:

The Starter Path support objective has been fixed.

Using: ::help now correctly completes the support step and opens the community support link.


🐞 Additional Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed Phantom Muspah's thorn knockback placing players inside arena icicles.
  • Fixed V's Shield so it protects against Basilisk gaze damage and stat drains in the same way as a Mirror Shield.
  • Fixed farming shop Plant Pots so they can correctly create tree seedlings.
  • Fixed Tormy and Porzi Pick-up interactions.
  • Fixed Sorceress's Garden teleport access incorrectly reporting that the content was restricted to developer validation.
  • Fixed seasonal Garden gates sometimes reporting that they could not be reached after an elemental caught the player.
  • Sq'irkjuice hand-ins now correctly wait for each Continue click.
  • Sq'irkjuice Thieving XP reward text now fits cleanly across the dialogue window.
  • Improved no-items minigame entry checks so every player is verified to have an empty inventory and equipment before entering.
  • Fishing Trawler now correctly refuses unsupported followers before departure.
  • Fishing Trawler return journeys finish safely even when the final sailor disconnects.
  • Disconnected Trawler participants receive their stored result when they next log in.
  • Fishing Trawler bailing contribution is now counted when the water is collected.
  • Fishing Trawler water changes no longer interrupt combat upstairs.
  • Fishing Trawler flooding no longer causes unnecessary loading screens upstairs.
  • Fishing Trawler rear nets now visibly show their damaged and repaired states.
  • Rune Prophecy Fate Shift messaging now separates the previous correct prediction from the next omen.
  • Ready hops now correctly display their Harvest option.
  • Seed Vault full-stack withdrawals no longer leave null or overlapping grid entries.