Dragonwilds 1.0.2 Adds Earth Magic, 200 Killer Penguins and a Crying Fish Quest, With Elves and Prayer Coming in December

Dragonwilds 1.0.2, called "Eye on Ashenfall", is Jagex's November update for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, announced on 10 November. It adds Earth Magic, the fourth element, a hunt for more than 200 Killer Gentoo Penguins with their own reward shop, a new fishing quest called A Reel Downer, a treasure trail in Umbral Sands, new letter delivery routes and a long list of bug fixes. Jagex also confirmed what's next: Elves, the Lyre and the Prayer skill in the Luminance update this December.

Dragonwilds 1.0.2 at a glance

What is Earth Magic in Dragonwilds?

Earth joins Air, Fire and Water as the fourth element. At level 14 Magic you can equip Earth Runes on staves and wands. Earth attacks deal blunt damage that staggers enemies and interrupts their attacks, and the element specialises in area damage:

• The last hit of the staff combo also strikes the area around your target.
• The staff's special attack creates an earthquake with aftershocks; charge it for a bigger area, then reposition while it does its work.
• Armour of the Earth: Earth hits build up to three stacks of a defensive buff, used up on the next hit you take to reduce its damage. Keep landing hits to keep the stacks coming.
• At 60 Attack you can enchant melee weapons with Earth too, so melee hits build Armour of the Earth.

How does penguin hunting work in Dragonwilds?

Jagex says more than 200 Killer Gentoo Penguins ("KGP") are hiding across Ashenfall. They spawn in batches of no more than three per region and reset every 7 in-game days, so you'll keep spotting more as you play. Find one, interact with it, and when it flees it leaves a Penguin Coin.

Spend the coins at a new shop in Bramblemead: a full Penguin Armour set, a KGP hat, a Penguin Cape and base decorations, including tapestries by RuneScape art community member Prezleek. The shop also sells an amulet that improves your chance of Pristine Fish and a ring that reduces the stamina needed to reel fish in, Jagex's first steps towards improving fishing. More rewards are planned.

What's the new quest in Dragonwilds 1.0.2?

A Reel Downer starts at the Manafem Clan's camp in Umbral Sands, where a fisherman's catch won't stop crying and the clan can't stand the taste of miserable fish. Cheer them up ("happy fish taste better") and you unlock the Fishing Rod Rack recipe and trophy recipes for the sad fish, so you can mount a pristine catch on your wall.

What else is new?

• X Marks the Spot: four brothers stole a carpet and treasure from an ancient vault, then turned on each other. Find their journals around the Umbral Sands desert, piece together the clues and dig at the right spot to unlock plans for two new rugs.
• Letter deliveries: once you've finished Letters from the Dead in Fellhollow, Postie Pete has new routes in Dowdun Reach and Umbral Sands. Build a regional post box at your base; Dowdun Reach pays Infernal Fragments for Postie Pete's Evil Emporium, and Umbral Sands pays Garou Chits.
• A Public Test Realm: Jagex is starting a PTR with a selected group of PC players, with feedback spaces on Discord and Reddit.

What bugs does Dragonwilds 1.0.2 fix?

Highlights from the patch notes:

• Player-built structures on dedicated servers no longer lose collision.
• Clients in a hosted world no longer grow two trees from each seed.
• Ascending Masterwork Armour now increases its stats correctly.
• A new on-screen counter shows enemies and waves during Base Raids.
• Fixes for crossplay when your PC clock has been changed, the item wheel breaking after spell wheel hotkeys, and a character being deleted when a new one took a renamed character's old name.
• Getting 99 Agility now triggers the achievement on consoles.

Known issues include auto-save stuttering since 1.0.1 and, in some cases, only one client being able to join an Xbox-hosted world. Jagex is adding telemetry in 1.0.2 to investigate both.

What's coming in the Dragonwilds Luminance update?

In December, Elves arrive with the Luminance update: a new outpost area emerging from the fog, the Lyre (used with songstones to progress), a continent-wide hunt for a Bounty Hunter that pays Harmonised Crystal Fragments for Elven gear, a Prifddinas-inspired building kit and craftable Elven armour and weapons. The Prayer skill also joins: call on Saradomin to smite foes, Guthix to keep your group fighting, or Zamorak to trade health for damage. It begins the Blood Crystal Saga questline, alongside quality-of-life changes and visual improvements for Nintendo Switch 2.

Watch Dragonwilds

There's no trailer for 1.0.2. Jagex's official trailers play on the Dragonwilds Steam page.

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