Doctor Robert

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 assist players on their journey, being a one-stop-shop for Q&A. We intend on taking feedback and improving Great Edgeville in coming updates to best suit the community.  

 
Tutorial: Reimagined
 
We have scrapped the old Tutorial, bringing it in line with some of the more recent content additions to Onyx. Hopefully, players will have a better understanding of the game upon completion. The skip button remains; although with Zuk narrating, only a fool would anger the obsidian God, no?  
 

 
Teleportation interface

 
Upgrade Chest interface

 
Drop Table interface

 
 

 
Disclaimer: These new commands are for Diamond+ Donators and can only be used Near a Bank! For those vassals who have given to their good King, a new ease of living is brought to you!   PRAYER SWAPPING commands, live in game:      ::pray swaps between the two prayer types, curses and standard prayers.      ::regular swaps from curses to standard prayers.      ::curses swaps from standard prayers to curses.   MAGIC SWAPPING commands, live in game:      ::spellbook swaps spellbook types in this looping order: Standard → Ancients → Lunars → (back to Standard)      ::modern swaps to the Standard spellbook, specifically.      ::lunar swaps to the Lunar spellbook, specifically.      ::ancient swaps to the Ancients spellbook, specifically.  
 


Superior Slayer Monsters
 

 
Taxonomists around Onyx rejoice! Stronger breeds of slayer monsters have come! These will be automatically unlocked for players above 70 Slayer. The encounter rate is 1/50, meaning that a task of 100 monsters would net roughly two Superior Slayer monsters. Superior Slayer Monsters have a centralized drop table (see image directly below).  
Superior Slayer Drops
 

 
This is the Superior Slayer Monster drop table.  Know that the higher the slayer requirement of the task, the stronger the weight when rolling rarer drops. Therefore, cheeky slayers are not recommended to farm Turadel for the best drops! As seen above, it is plentiful for Ironmen looking to slay and later skill.  

 
The Imbued Heart
The Imbued Heart will boost a player's Magic level by 11 — in line with an Overload dosage. This makes the Imbued Heart an excellent alternative to standard overloading in many situations.  
 

 
 
Zahur should now work flawlessly.  The world-renowned herbalist does the following things: Cleaning herbs, Make unfinished potions, and Fill Flasks/Decant.  

 
 
 

 
 
 

@Doctor RobertI agree, the majority of this thread was worked on by @Soulgazer himself as I assisted him with a few text dialogues here and there. Great job on the thread and the update overall! 

Hello Everyone,
 
Throughout the past few months, my partner and I have been monitoring the state of Onyx. Onyx, as many of you may know, has been running and thriving for nearly 2 years, longer than any other OSRS/Pre-EOC mashup server ever. However, during recent months, Onyx has seen a steady decline in its player base. At first glance, we chalked this decrease in player base up to new servers opening and larger OSRS content updates - but it's been made relatively clear to us (through speaking to you all) that there have been some underlying problems that have been dampening the overall player experience on Onyx for some time now. As many of you have told us - our game modes and economy are in need of a serious revitalization, an overhaul if you will, alongside our donation system. After serious consideration and weighing of both pros and cons, we have decided that in order to continue to provide the server we are proud to own and play, we need to make some quite major changes. This being said - we are looking at a revamp of every game mode, rates at which GP comes into the game, end game content expansion, and above all else - a fresh start.
 
Effective this Saturday, 10am EST (same as in-game time), Onyx will be relaunching under the same name, but with a fresh start. This means that all accounts will be reset, where everyone is starting from square one together, participating in a fresh economy and grind for power and wealth. In addition to a restart, all banned accounts will have their bans lifted, welcoming them back into the server for a second chance and a fresh start among their peers. We understand the frustration this may cause many of you - and we want to reiterate we have not made this decision lightly. The future of Onyx is in all of our hands - and, having tweaked a good portion of Onyx' core, we believe this is the best step in the right direction towards us seeing Onyx once again become the successful and bustling server it once was.
 
 
As for those who donated recently, we will be offering refunds in the form of donator shards once the reset occurs. We will handle refunds in the following manner:
1.     Donations within the past 30 days will receive a 100% refund.
2.     Donations within the past 31-60 days will receive a 50% refund.
3.     Donations within the past 61-90 days will receive a 25% refund.
4. Donations within the past 91-365 days will receive a 10% refund.
5.   Players who have logged in between June 1st - June 14th will keep their corresponding donator rank.
If your donation falls into this one of these periods, make sure to pm the Onyx Management team and we will get you sorted out manually.
For Monthly Top Donators: Your monthly donator pet will be restored after you pm us.
 
 
With that being said we invite you all to join us for a next chapter.
 
 
Onyx will be resetting upon the update this Saturday, June 15th.
 
Our Newest Update: 
 

Fuckin A with the size of these patch notes you may aswell rename it update #67 / 68 and 69 lmao GJ

October 30th, 2018
Hello Everyone!
Getting Started, I would like to apologize on behalf of the Onyx management team for a delay on this update. These past few weeks we have been very busy with several situations. With that however, we are proud to provide you all with a massive update to make up for the wait. This week’s update features a Halloween Event, a rework of our blood money system and shop, a buff to Galvek’s drop table, PvP and skilling fixes, a long-awaited vote shop, and so much more! Let’s dive right into the patch notes:
 
Onyx Halloween Event:
We wish you all a wonderful and safe Halloween, as a way to celebrate this holiday we will be hosting a Halloween event for the coming few weeks. Throughout this event, players hunting undead NPCs such as Zombies, Ghosts, and Skeletons will notice a rework of their drop tables. They now drop cosmetic items ranging from skeleton sets, jackolantern hats, and ghostbuster 500s as well as pumpkins and all XP lamps. Dwarf multi cannons are temporarily disabled when used on undead npcs during this event.  
Vote Shop:
Added a vote shop on Onyx, players can obtain a total of 10 votes per day, 5 per 12 hours, and on top of receiving the usual cash, xp, and drop rate boosts, they will now receive vote tokens. These tokens can be used at the vote shop to buy cosmetics, money, and some highly sought-after medium tier gear!  
GFX Updates:
Updated our client background and icon with a new look, featuring our new logos and custom backgrounds. Forums have been updated to feature our new logo, icon, and wallpapers. These will be updated periodically to keep the theme nice and fresh. We have added a ton of new banners on our forums which will make an appearance in the coming days / weeks. We have promoted a new GFX Artist, @central, shout out to him for his awesome contributions here on Onyx!  
PvP and Wilderness Updates:
Fully reworked our blood money shop, let’s just say the old one was a bit messy and not worth the grind. All item prices have been heavily reduced, and some additions have been made. Blood money is now a valuable currency that will prove to be useful to any player. Fixed item values and items lost on death. You will now protect the most valuable items you possess when you are killed in the wilderness. Ex: Protect Dragon Claws over Dharok’s Plate body. This includes Lucky items. Improve the skulling system on Onyx, you will now no longer get skulled if you have auto-retaliate on and a familiar attack, or when you are tele blocked / snared. Blood money now goes directly into the bank upon dropping for Ruby Donators. Wilderness slayer tasks now give the player Blood Money when killing NPCs they are assigned. Added ::wildslayer and Wilderness Slayer to the Wilderness teleport options to teleport directly to the slayer master. ::PK now teleports you to Edgeville instead of clan wars, however you can still use ::Funpk to get to clan wars. Renamed PK Locators to PK Tablets. Removed the PK Tablet warning that a player is coming after you. Be careful out there! Players may now only use pk tabs once every 2 minutes. Added PK logs for staff members so they are better equip in handling disputes. Galvek’s drop table has been buffed to include some useful supplies that other Wilderness bosses drop, as well as a rare chance at some end level pvp gear.  
Referral System:
Added a Referral System, unique new players who join Onyx now have an option to tell us where they came from. This will grant them rewards and you as well if you let us know!  
Store Updates:
We have decided to host a sale on our store in celebration of Halloween. Featuring discounts and several items. Added H’Ween masks to our store for a limited amount of time. Added a custom designed Halloween Twisted Bow in limited quantities.  
VIP Zone Additions:
Added uncharged orb obelisks to VIP zone for quick charging. Reworked the Hunting / Thieving Section to be more efficient.  
PvM and Skilling Updates and Fixes:
Fixed the problem that sometimes showed incorrect kills left on a boss task. Fixed Cursed Magic Tree XP to the correct rates. Nerfed Hati / Skoll DPS, as it proved to be dropping too many people too quickly. Added one more moss giant at Varrock sewers as requested. Allowed players to now use the Dwarf Cannon at Dungeons as well as God Wars. Fixed the Barrows Gloves requirement showing that you need 10 Smithing when you really need 40. Fixed Mud Battlestaff not saving water and earth runes. Fixed a bug with spell casting distance not working when not equiping a weapon. Slayer Task Streaks no longer reset when skipping a task except for when you cancel one with another Slayer Master. Reduced the Dwarf Multicannon ball delay. Made it so that you can open up the PvM timers highscores through the borders in the Theatre of Blood.  
Other Updates:
Added a message upon login to install 64 bit Java, so players will know how to optimize our game. Fixed client login failure when making a new account. Fixed the Occult altar right click options that allow you to directly change your spellbook. Increased the client zoom to match that of Standard OSRS. Increased the size of the friends list, allowing you to now have 500 players added instead of 200. Equipped light sources such as a bug lantern now count as a source of light in dark areas. Admins can now set your donation total if you have donated on several accounts or through osrs gp. Fixed the discord bot abusing @ tag bug, sorry that this feature had to be ruined because of a few trolls, but at least it is back. Added the drop rate boosts next to the xp rates for each mode when creating an account for more clarification. Fixed the issue with ::searchitem not showing noted item drops, as well as improved it, allowing it to show amounts of drops as well. Added a general store at ::shops, and allowed ironman to use it for more convenience. Added golden statues and other items obtained from the money crate so ironman may sell their loot quicker, also added a gem merchant next to the stalls at the donator zone for quicker selling of crushed gems. Fixed the bamboo door at ape atoll, so players may now access it. Added the arrow graphics to monkey archers. Added justicier and ancestral gear to the grand exchange so people may now buy and sell it through there. Added obsidian platebody to the grand exchange as it was reported to not be searchable. Fixed the price of the lucky verac's flail at the barrows shop. Fixed the item look of ghostly robes, fremennik armors, and prince tunic arms on osrs graphics. Added rune knives to the gear shop at ::shops. Renamed online shop to loyalty shop, renamed afkman dan to Loyal Dan, and replaced online tokens with Loyalty Tokens. Addressed multiple spelling typos. www.Onyxrsps.com now redirects you to our forums. Reworked our facebook page to make it look a bit more appealing, we will begin to be more active on there, so stay tuned! Added a ::events command that redirects you to the events section of our forums. We will be hosting nearly daily events, so be sure to attend for some fun and juicy rewards! The home teleport on the magic tab now opens the lodestone network. Instead of using this to teleport home, the donator zone, or accessing the teleports options, just use ::home, ::dz, and ::tp respectively. You can now eat a baguette.  

 
Onyx Staff Updates:
Tyler has been promoted to Server Support. Rawrgasm has been promoted to Server Support. Classed has been promoted to Moderator, unfortunately he's growing up. Monk Bird has been demoted on discord temporarily as he resolves some IRL issues. He has not left the staff team, rather just taking a break as priorities have arose.  
As always, we hope you enjoy this update!
See you all in-game! 

September 19th, 2018
Hello Everyone!
You asked, we answered. You all have been wanting boss slayer tasks for quite some time now, well today is it my pleasure to announce that they are finally released! Head over to Kuradel to receive your boss tasks anytime you would like! On top of that, this update also brings improved loot from boxes, as well as multiple bug fixes guaranteeing a better gameplay for all.
Slayer Updates:
1.      Added boss slayer tasks, receivable from Kuradel in the Ancient Caverns. This requires the player to have at-least 75 slayer level and be willing to defeat some of Onyx’s most difficult bosses. Don’t worry, we made sure to make it reward!
2.       The higher your rank ingame, the more boss tasks you may skip per day.
3.      Added Frost Dragons to the Slayer Task pool.
Loot Update:
1.      Increased the coins received from MBOXes.
2.      Made donator rank and vote drop rate bonuses now increase the likelihood of obtaining a rare drop from the Theatre of Blood, this should make drops easier. If this proves to be too op we will proceed to nerf this.
3.      Doubled the chance for a Nex piece from the God Box as players were complaining it was too rare.
4.      Made infinity pieces and wands announce when dropped in Mage Arena.
Bug Fixes:
1.      Fixed the amount of XP given to a player when harvesting a Calquat tree.
2.      Fixed a bug causing Frost Dragon bones to be untradable.
3.      Rune Pouch no longer is lost on death outside of the wilderness.
4.      Fixed a bug causing the Corporeal Beast eating its own core.
Other Changes:
1.      Added a board at Theatre of Blood which opens the highscores for boss timers.
2.      Removed a variety items from our store in an effort to stabilize our economy further.
 
Hope you all enjoy this small but packed update!
Next one in a week!

Onyx Monthly Top Voter Contest Thread!

Hello Everyone,
The Onyx Management team would like to dedicate this thread to offer our community rewards for their dedication to helping us escalate on the major RSPS Toplists. As you may have noticed, we now have a leaderboard at home which features the ability to check peoples vote couples for the month, along with a ton of other features. We would like to use this opportunity to award the top voters of each month with unique items as a means for us to say thank you for your combined efforts. You are part of the crowd that wants to see Onyx succeed, keep it rising, and your contributions have been noticed. Thank you all! So without further or due lets dive into this contest.
Starting this month, September, we will be hosting a monthly contest to recognize those who put the most effort into voting for us across all Toplists. This will award the top 5 voters different amount of mystery boxes depending on vote ranking, as well as possibilities for donator ranks on the house! This Month is going to be calculated from September 1st - September 30th. Note you can vote for us every 12 hours across 5 toplists by simply doing ::vote ingame or clicking on the vote tab on our forums navigation bar. Lets get into the rewards:
 
1st Place Voter: 6 Mystery Boxes, or Sapphire Donor Ticket + 3 Mystery Boxes (If you are not currently a donator.)
2nd Place Voter: 4 Mystery Boxes, or Sapphire Donor Ticket + 1 Mystery Box (If you are not currently a donator.)
3rd Place Voter: 3 Mystery Boxes, or a Sapphire Donator Ticket (If you are not currently a donator.)
4th Place Voter: 2 Mystery Boxes.
5th Place Voter: 1 Mystery Box.
 
Good Luck to Everyone!
Results will be posted at the end of September 30th.
 
 
 
 

April 23rd, 2018
Wilderness Updates:
This week’s updates focused mainly on the Wilderness and how it can be improved. You, the players of Onyx, requested that the Wilderness be more active, and we answered by adding features that will make it happen. These updates and features include:
1.      Added a PK Point system to the wilderness.
-        Players can now earn Blood Money by killing others in the wilderness. With each kill, the player will receive an amount of PK Points based on the amount of wealth risked by their opponent.
2.      Added an anti-farm system for Blood Money, limiting the amount of points received from killing people with low risk, repetitive kills, client farming, and more.
3.      Added a PK Blood Money shop at ::shops, includes PK armors and gears.
4.      Improved Revenant drop table.
-        Revenants now have their drop tables identical to that of OSRS.
-        They now drop little amounts of Blood Money.
5.      Introduced a brand-new Wilderness Minigame Boss.
-        Gal-Vek, the dragon slayer 2 boss from OSRS now randomly spawns around the Wilderness every 2-12 hours.
-        Drop table includes 5m coins, small xp lamp, superior dragon bones, and more.
-        Easy to kill boss that only requires anti-fire for one attack style, but has lots of hp.
-        Multi-Combat but beware of PKERS!
-        Great rewards but dangerous.
-        Is now a requirement for the Completionist Cape.
Economy Update:
1.      Added the Wishing Well at home.
-        The Wishing Well grants 25% bonus XP and 5% drop rate increase when filled up for a given amount of time. Players now have the option of filling the well with a total of 1m+ gp to grant a server-wide boost in xp and drop rates for a given amount of time. The more it is filled, the longer the boost is in effect.
-        Wishing Well now gets filled up each time a player donates. $1 = 3 mins of the boost.
QoL, Patches, and Other Updates:
1.      Fixed the Warhammer attack animation.
2.      Fixed the issue with the login limit, allowing players to open and use more than two clients at once.
3.      Fixed the smuggling glitch using the orb of gaze.
4.      Obsidian Charms now get banked with the Emerald+ Donator perk.
5.      Added a loot rainbow on ecumenical key drops from the wilderness GWD.
6.      Added Skillcape hoods to Max’s shop at ::shops.
7.      You can now fletch teak and mahogany logs.
8.      Antipoison now works in Dungeoneering.
9.      Added a guide book to the Onyx general store.
10.    Added a teleport option to Falador Park and Dondakan in the Keldagrim mine to the Ring of Wealth.
11.    Added magic shortbow (i). (PKP reward)
12.    Added Ring of Wealth (i)  (3% Drop rate boost, PKP reward)
13.    Added Tome of Fire (no charges are required) to the PKP shop at ::Shops.
14.    Lowered the price of a Twisted Bow on our store to $300 instead of $400.
15.    Improved Keywords for our website.
16.    Added annihilation, decimation & obliteration to Mystery Boxes as a rare rewards. (Tier 87 weapons).
17.    You no longer need to vote as a non-donor to do bork!
18.    Added PK shop at ::shops.
19.    Blood coins now drop during PvP.
20.    Added Saradomin’s Blessed Sword, the full version is tradable.
21.    Ring of Wealth (i) and Magic Shortbow (i) are now tradeable.
22.    Added Ring of Wealth (i) & Tome of Fire to mystery boxes.
23.    Lowered the price of potions from the Onyx Guide Shop.
24.    Added Monkfish and addition Dark Crab fishing spawns to the wilderness resource area.
25.    The Comp Cape now has the same magic bonuses as the imbued god capes.
26.    Squeal of fortune has been improved to have more useful rewards.
 
Hope you all enjoy this update, many more to come every week.
- The Onyx Staff Team
 

Alex is going to take a look back into fixing the bank space bug, hopefully we'll see a mention of it next update!

Cool piece of content added, i really hope to see the bank glitch get fixed eventually because content like this requieres more space  
Keep it up. 

i think u guys forget the update to my account
 
other than that good stuff my man

Oh, you absolute hero. I didn't know that is the reason you made the post - you legend. I wonder how, since you joined last week, you've managed to gain the trust of Onyx. I've got a few ideas but I'll leave it to you to figure that one out.
 
Also, if I was to judge a book by its cover, in your case, I'd judge you as a cunt. Perhaps sometimes judging a book by its cover can be veracious.

Bruv you fucking joined last week and you want the responsibilities of staff? Who the fuck are you to nip in and try to have command on how update threads should be posted. You have already posted one staff hunting thread about how people found Onyx (grats on getting it stickied), now ya want another one. Stop patronising people, you snide bastard.

But I paid $5 for a fire cape coz idk how to do em l o l sad ok:P

If you're gonna spam at least put something worthwhile lmao. Give some feedback on the updates at the very least
 
Especially like the Kiln update, does this mean when you donate for a fire cape it will tick it off in the comp reqs as fire caves completed?

#1 dev this guy could legit work for jagex

Update #12
 
Added content:
NEW HOME, Home switched to Yanille (+Glory on wall and lever to edge)
Starter Shop has been added to home, in this shop you can now buy your basic gear, weapons, runes, amulets etc
Squeel Of Fortune (SoF) rewards have been reworked
Prayer Aura's now also increase xp for bones used on altars
Pest Control xp has been boosted to x10
The Ranging guild now also sells Bolts
Wisdom Aura has been added as a starter item (also obtainable at Starter shop)
Ranging Guild now accessible
Extreme potions (as well as Overloads) are now tradeable
More potions added to Onyx's Black Market Goods
Jacquelyn Manslaughter now sells Slayer items
Boss stats have been reworked (nerfed) QBD is now doable (Green drags, Giant mole, etc)
Leon's Shop has been added (including the Hunter's Crossbow)
Mizgog Wizard at Wizard's Tower now sells amulet of accuracy
Magic Guild now also sells Air/Water/Earth/Fire - Battlestaves/Mystic staves
Rune pickaxe/axe added to Donator zone shop
SHIFT + Clicking to drop item
 
Added / Reworked commands:
::funpk and ::pk teleports you to Clan Wars portals to Pk
::train now has an option to teleport to Yak's
::home is now an instant teleport for everyone
 
Bugs/glitches fixed:
(not a glitch) Mithril seeds are re-enabled to work at home
Several npc definitions have been added/reworked
Summoning Renew points at obelisk now has been fixed
Silver ore at Al Kharid mine has been fixed
Evil Chicken damage for random events has been adjusted
You can now pickup Wheat
Added missing Red Spider's egg in Karamja Vulcan
Fixed Gem rocks at dz
Couple No-clip glitches have been fixed

Update #10
 
Added content:
Client performance improved
Added Wine of Zamorak spawns at Chaos Temple
You can now transform your Sacred Clay Shield to Range and Magic type
Improved Autoretaliate
You can now buy and replace cannon at Donator zone
Spinning wheel added to Donator Zone
Gem Rocks are added to Donator Zone
Improved Gargoyle loot (including noted bars)
Added Rogue's Den place (accessible via Thieving house in Taverly, open trapdoor)
Added Martin Thwait's Lost and Found shop to Rogue's Den
Donators no longer need to add tools to their Toolbelts
 
Added commands:
::yellcolor to change the color of your Yell command
::cooking/::cook command added to teleport you to a basic place to train cooking
 
Bugs/glitches fixed:
Cyclops are now aggro (in Warrior's Guild)
Destroyable items like Slayer Helmet or Dungeoneering reward items such as Chaotics now drop at gravestone instead of being converted to coins (not a glitch, it was intended to be like that) 
Cannons now stay 5mins longer per donator rank, a message will also warn you when it is going to disappear (more visible now)
Dragonkin lamp now works
Dagannoth drops at Waterbirth are now fixed
 
Notes:
Repairing chaotics does work, you just need to use the item on the NPC
Message in chatbox when receiving defender not added because we will be adding lootbeams soon