
Game Update20 Feb 2026
Game Update - Sanctum Vault, Scurrius & More
Patch Notes
At a Glance
- Patch Notes
- Sanctum Vault
- **Skeleton Champion**
- Now activates melee protection prayer when reaching 60% health, it is deactivated when the champion becomes enraged.
- The thunder now deals slightly more damage and applies burn effect.
Full Changelog
Patch Notes
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Sanctum Vault
- Skeleton Champion
- Now activates melee protection prayer when reaching 60% health, it is deactivated when the champion becomes enraged.
- The thunder now deals slightly more damage and applies burn effect.
- No longer randomly spawns zombies. Instead, it'll now spawn a bunch of them when becoming enraged. The champion will gain damage-immunity based on the percent of zombies that are alive.
- Ancient Guardian
- Energy vortexes can no longer spawn too close to the player, and they're only visible to the player they're chasing.
- Energy vortexes now deals less damage and no longer applies a burning effect. However, they will now respawn after reaching the player.
- Ranis Drakan
- Removed skeleton ground decorations from the boss room.
- Improved flying phase clickbox.
- Basic attacks now use the same style on all players and Ranis will change color to indicate which style he's using.
- Lowered Vyrewatches health (50 -> 35)
- The Vyrewatches can no longer spawn too far away from players.
- Lightning will now only spawn underneath players during the enraged/flight phase.
- Ranis can now start taking damage again as soon as the last minion starts dying (don't have to wait for its animation to finish).
- Other changes
- Updated Doomsayer spawn locations inside the vault. Now also spawns in the same place the boss died.
- Bosses now spawn after 2 additional ticks, but a lot closer to the center of the room.
- Buffed boss casket drop rate from the vault.
- You can now receive duplicate Purified gems to exchange for sanctum points.
- The emperor ring now supports attaching DT2-rings in stages, each one empowering it further.
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Additions / Content
- Scurrius - The Rat King has taken residence in the Varrock Sewers!
- Item Upgrade Perks
- Saradomin Godsword: The Healing Blade special attack doubles the minimum healing and prayer restoration.
- Dinh's Bulwark: The Shield Bash special attack hits all affected monsters twice.
- Sarachnis Cudgel: Grants +10% damage & accuracy against spiders.
- Eldritch Nightmare Staff: The Invocate special attack is guaranteed to be accurate against monsters.
- Volatile Nightmare Staff: The Immolate special attack is guaranteed to be accurate against monsters.
- Barrelchest Anchor: The Sunder special attack now drains Defence only and an extra 5% of the target's level.
- Trident of the swamp/Toxic staff of the dead: Your attacks always inflict venom on the target.
- Twinbound Game Mode
- Bonus drop rate earned from completing tiles now contributes to Raid drop rate bonuses.
- Other Additions
- Completing a Tombs of Amascut boss room will now automatically turn off prayers.
- Candy Machine
- You can now exchange one type of candy for another at a 10:1 ratio.
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Balancing & Adjustments
- Sanctum Item Exchange
- Voidwaker components: Increased fragments from 10 to 20.
- Malediction/Odium ward: Increased fragments from 0 to 5.
- Ring of Gods/Treasonous ring/Tyrannical ring: Increased fragments from 0 to 5.
- Boss Caskets
- Drop rates are now static per boss - bonuses no longer affect casket rate.
- Removed the +20% bonus drop rate on the upgraded variants.
- Kraken Whisperer (Slayer Unlock)
- The Kraken will no longer automatically become aggressive when it arises.
- Other Adjustments
- Dragon Hunter Lance (Tier-5)
- Increased the bonus per stack from 2.5% to 5%
- The stack bonus now also applies to damage (in addition to accuracy).
- Doominion pet will now be able to roll the Hellbound perk instead of Demonic.
- Increased base experience from golden nugget exchange from 50 to 150.
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Fixes
- Sanguine Torva armour will longer degrade into its regular-broken variant on death to another player.
- Love Cat will now correctly announce when obtained from the Valentine’s Mystery Box.
- Twinbound grid tile "Obtain a rare drop from Raids" will no longer complete if a unique was received from a Mass Raid Event.
- 'Chat Commands' RuneLite plugin will now work as intended.
- Added PetEyatlalli to Moons of Peril collection log.
- Corrected Twisted hollybow, Dragon hunter wand & Eye of ayak (uncharged) upgraded variant stat bonuses.
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