The main part of this update is our Halloween event, which runs until 16 November. There are also some changes and fixes from your feedback, so thanks to everyone who reported things on the feedback board.

Halloween event

The haunted village of Hollowmere is open for Halloween, and the event runs until 16 November. To get there, speak to Hester at home beside the teleportation nexus. Alderman Ash waits by the great cauldron in the middle of the village and will explain everything you can do.

Gathering sweets

Everything in Hollowmere runs on Hallowe'en sweets. There are six skilling stations around the village: Herblore at Morna's cauldron, Farming in Patches' pumpkin patch, Crafting at the carving bench, Construction in Silas' coffin workshop, Firemaking at Wick's spirit bonfire and Thieving from the trick-or-treat stall. Each station supplies its own materials and gives a sweet for every action, plus experience at a tenth of your normal rate. Now and then a station needs a hand. Click it within about 15 seconds for 5 extra sweets and bonus experience.

If you'd rather fight, the cemetery's zombies, skeletons and Death spawns give 3 sweets a kill, with a chance of a shark or a prayer potion. Everyone who does at least 10 damage gets the sweets, so nobody can take your kills. The cemetery gate also has a Private option if you want all 36 monsters to yourself.

Summoning the Grim Reaper

Every sweet you put in the great cauldron gives you a Hollowmere token. Once the village has added 4,500 sweets between them, the Grim Reaper rises in the clearing to the north, and everyone online gets a message. His health scales with the number of players online. You'll need to dodge his scythe, Grasp of the Grave and Soul Harvest, and kill the restless souls he raises at two thirds and one third of his health. Deaths in Hollowmere are safe, so you keep your items.

Do at least 100 damage and you'll get 150 tokens and your own loot under his body: 150k to 250k coins and a tome of experience every kill, plus a supply drop such as noted sharks, anglerfish, Saradomin brews, super restores, dragon bones, ranarr or enchanted ruby and dragonstone bolts. Each kill also rolls for:

• Reaper's scythe (1/40) and Grimlet, the Grim Reaper pet (1/100)

• Mystery box (1/25), cosmetic mystery box (1/50) and pet mystery box (1/200)

• Each spooky outfit piece (1/80) and a $5 rank bond (1/250)

• Red, blue and green h'ween masks (1/1,000 each) and the black h'ween mask (1/2,500), announced to the whole server

Rewards

You can spend your tokens with Alderman Ash, or through the cauldron's Shop option, on the Grim reaper and Pale reaper outfits, the pumpkin, skeleton and Hollowmere lanterns, and Grimlet for 30,000 tokens. From 9 November, Ash also sells the Reaper's scythe for 15,000 tokens to anyone the Grim Reaper hasn't given one. You can buy each reward once per account, and the Zombie Hand emote unlocks for free the first time you put sweets in the cauldron.

Hollowmere has its own collection log page under Other, with your Grim Reaper kill count. The rewards are untradeable, and Ash or Diango will replace anything you lose. Any tokens you don't spend carry over to next Halloween.

Soulreaper axe

• The Soulreaper axe now works like in OSRS. Every attack with it, hit or miss, gives a soul stack, up to five, and a Strength prestige extra strike gives its own stack too.

• Each stack raises your Strength level by 6% on top of prayers while you wield the axe.

• Stacks cost no hitpoints and stay through weapon swaps and teleports. One fades for every 30 seconds you go without attacking with the axe.

• Behead, its special attack, costs no special energy but needs at least one stack. It uses up all your stacks for 12% more accuracy and 6% more damage per stack, and never hits below 6% of your max hit per stack.

• The axe now has +125 Strength (was +121) and its own stand, walk, run and attack animations.

Duke Sucellus

• Duke Sucellus no longer needs the arder-musca poison. Attack the sleeping Duke to wake him and start the fight, with no mushrooms, salt or fermentation vats. Awakened fights still use up an Awakener's orb each time you wake him, and the poison still works if you have some.

Drop announcements

• Every boss unique now gets a drop announcement, including drops that used to go by without one like the Desert Treasure II vestiges, Siren's staff, Leviathan's lure, chromium ingots, the Royal Titans uniques and the dragon 2h sword. Common drops and regular loot still aren't announced.

• The Well of Goodwill's Double Unique Drops boost now doubles these uniques too.

Bug fixes

• The Character Summary's Collections Logged count now shows your real total as soon as you log in, instead of 0 until you unlocked a new slot.

• Bans now stop a player logging back in, including from the same IP or device.