Updates

The Chambers of Xeric (CoX) has arrived on Onyx. CoX will be action packed, PvM-oriented, and optimized for player experience. This update will introduce game mechanics previously unseen on Onyx. This update will take Onyx in new directions with PvM, competition, and metagame. Furthermore, a CoX Strategy Guide (linked in the Guide Directory) has been released as a companion to the update: Chambers of Xeric consists of a linear, complete raid with all rooms. CoX has an unchanging order of rooms, listed in the image below. There are two types of rooms in CoX: “Bosses” and “Puzzles”. Management has bala…

March 23, 2021 Good day everyone and happy holidays. We are excited to release this years Easter event along with some interesting tweaks to existing items! This event will run starting March 23 through April 13. While attacking mobs out in the wild, you have a chance to come across an Easter Egg during your adventures. The Easter Bunny will drop Easter eggs around home that may be collected and traded in for rewards. These rewards include several cosmetic Easter items as well as chocolate bars. Please help the bunny feed his egg addiction! Every 6 hours, 50 regular Easter eggs will be …

February 21, 2021 Hello everyone I hope you have all been well. Onyx is excited to announce that our Last Man Standing tournaments are finally complete and ready to be battle-tested! LMS is a PvP Battle-Royale Tournament in which players will face off in a series of 1v1 battles to determine who the last man standing will be. Once the notification to begin LMS is announced, players will be able to join via the portal at ::home A minimum of 4 is required to start, with the maximum allowed being 23. Once the first three players are in the waiting area a timer of five minutes will countdown …

We hope you are all doing well! Over the course of the past month and a half we have been working on system sided client and server work. Along with developing a vast amount of content that we hope to release following this Christmas Event! Today we bring you our annual Christmas Event in celebration of the Holiday, along with BXP weekends! Featuring a completely new Evil Santa boss, dropping new unique items, mini drop parties, BXP and more! This update offers activities to do while we await next updates release. Check out the patch notes down below! Evil Santa has risen in the Icy Realm with a…

Hello everyone, our team hopes that you have all been well during these strange times. Halloween has ended and we would like to launch a small update with bugfixes and QoL in mind. This update is short and sweet — as a far, far greater project is taking shape. Management is aware that our adventurers thirst for battle. It is coming. Know that the next update is unprecedented on Onyx RSPS. New content, new mechanics, new bragging rights — need we say more? — are under construction. Our work will combine everything that we have learned into one colossal release. We thank you for your patience during crunch. …

A New Era on Onyx Friends, Iron-friends, Countrymen, lend me your ears: Zio, King of Kings, hath commissioned his monks to renovate Onyx's capital city and trading center, Edgeville. A devout believer in the divine Simplex beyond, Zio hath zealously built a great metropolis in his image. Henceforth, denizens of other server-states shall gaze upon Great Edgeville with envy. The King Six New Zones The Edgeville you know is gone. It has been replaced with collection of Zones/Houses. These are: Slayer, Thieving, Altar, Skilling, Shops, and the Information Kiosk ('Info Zone'). The Kiosk is meant to a…

Callus the Frostbourne Simplex, the vengeful God that He is, has enjoyed Callus' daily eradication of the local populace. He does pity the would-be mages of Onyx, rushing to Callus for fortune and glory — only to freeze solid. In a rare gesture of kindness, He has made his champion more suitable for the common man. Callus' drops will be more rewarding in quality and frequency. Callus' minions will summon less frequently, as seen in the left snip-it. Callus' lair will extinguish light sources less frequently, as seen in the right snip-it. MVP des…

June 3, 2020 Hello everyone, I hope all has been well. I am pleased to announce the final release of this update which will mostly be featuring the Zalcano Skilling Boss. 😈Zalcano😈 In our efforts to continue the expansion of content offered in Prifddinas, we have added Zalcano which is a boss that takes damage based on certain skills you have. Zalcano will also be classified as a PvM Death and NOT a safe death so for Hardcore Ironman players out there please tread with caution. 👿Zalcano's Attacks👿 Below is a detailed explanation of Zalcano's attacks. For more information p…

May 18, 2020 Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce a few more QoL additions that will be featured below within this update that will focus primarily with PvM and PvP. This update will be no where in size compared to the previous one but I assure you that the following specified below were not the only things being done on the development side, we have plans in place to release a CONTENT PACKED update for our next patch already in the works! More information may or may not be leaked in media in the upcoming days, stay posted on our discord for potential spoilors! 📑Collection Logs📑 We now have fully functioning collection …

May 3, 2020 Hello everyone, I hope you all have been well. I am excited to announce not only an update which mostly consists of quality of life/bug features but would like to formally welcome @Simplex to the development team. As many of you already know, Onyx has been on a steady climb with growing our playerbase and with higher numbers we decided to tackle some ambitious projects in the near future and have Simplex held on the development side along with Dragonkk. *note: Please note that Dragonkk will continue to be our primary developer and any suggestions or bugs that you find should continue to go to Dragonkk, Zio, and myself so that we may pr…

April 13, 2020 🥚Happy Easter!🥚 Hello everyone and Happy Easter! The Onyx staff team is proud to present our Easter Event! This will be ongoing from April 13 until April 27. During this time, players may collect eggs dropped by either pvm or skilling and trade them in to the Easter Bunny as a currency. Additionally we will be bringing in a limited time Easter Mystery Basket, which is now available for the duration of the event in the Donator Store. These will give you a variety of juicy loot you can enjoy! Each basket contains three different rewards, you will always receive a Millionaries Box worth of cash, a roll …

March 26, 2020 Hello everyone, I hope you all have been well during these tough times as we are glad to launch this highly anticipated update in hopes it will bring you a bit more joy during these tough times currently ongoing in the world. This update will be primarily focused on introducing content into the game, while also touching up a few things within current content that is available as well as fixing a few bugs. 🌜The Nightmare of Ashihama!🌛 I am glad to announce the completion of The Nightmare boss fight! Like many of the bosses on Onyx, we take pride in trying to keep a close 1:1 ratio with the live game when coding…

January 29, 2020 Greetings everyone, I hope all has been well as we're now ready to launch a much anticipated update with multiple quality of life updates that you guys have been suggesting, so we delivered! This Update will be focused primarily on QoL, but stay tuned as we wrap up Janurary and begin to start some content updates coming out in the near future! 💰Bank Placeholders💰 Players will now be able to more efficiently organize their banks as we have integrated a placeholder system that remembers where you last placed an item. This will allow any items taken out of the bank to display a value of 0 while holding that item there…

January 9, 2020 Hello everyone! We would like to begin the second week of the new year with the introduction of Nex Sets, a new Staff/Onyx+ Donator zone, A new task system with awesome rewards and more! ⚔️Ultimate Nex Armor Set:⚔️ The Onyx Staff Team is proud to announce the completion of the Nex Armor Set! This will function in a similar fashion as the Ultimate GWD armor sets, allowing players a chance at upgrading regular nex items using the upgrade box for a 25% chance of success, or using an Upgrade Gem from the Donator Store for a 100% chance of success. Torva Pernix Virtus 🎮Nex-Related Updates…

December 16th, 2019 Hello Everyone! We hope you are all doing well and are getting ready for the holidays! Today’s update comes earlier than the holiday but brings Onyx its anticipated Christmas event filled with new items, a new boss, and more! Let get into the patch notes: Evil Snowman Boss: It’s that time of the year again. The time of gifts, gatherings, decorations, and most of all, Santa. On his way to deliver gifts to Onyx, Santa was abducted by an Evil Snowman that has since, spread an ice age on Onyx. Christmas is his holiday, and this year has taken all the gifts for himself. Defeat him for some juicy rewards! 1. Adde…

November 25th, 2019 Hello Everyone, today we bring you a wonderful quality of life update as well as a few additions to the shops, a rework of our Onyx Boss looting system, ToB raid reward buffs, the removal of the Halloween event, and migration back to our home in Edgeville. Without further ado, here's the updates!: Return of Edgeville: 1. The previous home, Camelot Castle, was a bit difficult for players to navigate through so we decided to bring Edgeville back as well as all teleports: ::Home, ::Shops, ::Fishing, ::Slayer, and ::Thieving have been relocated to Edgeville. Back to the place we all call home! Barr…

November 6th, 2019 Hello Everyone! We hope you are all doing well and have had a very nice Halloween. Today’s update comes later than intended but brings Onyx its anticipated Halloween event filled with new items, a new boss, and more! Let get into the patch notes: Grim Reaper Boss: It’s that time of the year again. The time of costumes, trick or treating, and most of all, the time of death for the Grim Reaper. Halloween is his holiday, and this year he is back with another challenge. 1. Added the Halloween Event Boss, the Grim Reaper. - This boss functions like our world boss. Every 2-4…

October 26th, 2019 Hello Everyone, we would like to start off by apologizing for the delay in our updates. We found ourselves busier than usual for the time, but can assure you we are back and ready. Today we bring you a new home, in the form of a remade Camelot Castle, the new Jormungand’s Prison & the Island of Stone along with the new Neitiznot faceguard. There’s lots more to check in this update, so let’s get to the updates! New Home: We have decided to move apart from Edgeville for our home here on Onyx. As a result, I have redone the iconic Camelot Castle to feel more welcoming. This home has an array of f…

Onyx II Update #6: Farming Guild, City of Prifddinas (Stage 1), Brimstone Chest, Quality of Life Updates, and More! August 14th, 2019 Hello Everyone, we hope you are all doing well! Today we bring you an update that focuses on expanding available Zeah content, as well as begin to introduce Prifddinas, the Elf City. We have implemented a few features available in the city, so you can visit it today and get a feel for it! Lastly we have made some quality of life improvements to give you a smoother and easier feel for Onyx. City of Prifddinas: 1. Added the whole OSRS Prifddinas map, along with a teleport to directly get there. 2. All P…

Onyx II Update #5: Horde Minigame Improvements, Weapon Adjustments, QoL, Bug Fixes and More! August 1st, 2019 Hello Everyone, hope you are all doing well. Today we bring you a small update that is sure to improve quality of life on various aspects of the server. We have made our horde minigame easier overall by adding more healing item spawns, along with potions and stat bonuses throughout the arena. We have adjusted a few end game items to balance them out, while making them worth their grinds or high costs. Lastly, we focused on improving small aspects of the game with quality of life updates and bug fixes. Lets get into the patch notes. …

July 25th, 2019 Hey guys It is my pleasure to present to you today's update patch notes. It features a brand new mini game, a new client, and a bunch of QoL / bug fixes. Hope you enjoy ! Horde minigame & New Elite completionist cape Coming with today's update, we bring you our unique one of a kind Horde Minigame, which is by no means an easy challenge. You'll have to face waves of bosses each of them being harder than the previous one. Should you be successful in completing the 40 challenging waves, you will receive a new best in slot accumulator with a +5 ranged strength bonus / +12 ranged accuracy (100% chance) and get a ch…