Lumbridge, the iconic city for all the fresh-faced arrivals and budding adventurers. Home to regular citizens of Gielinor, they chop the trees, work the fields, and tend to the animals of realm, except there has been a disturbance in the nearby cow pen and the steaks have never been higher! Distress runs through the herd and while they have always feared adventurers claiming their lives, a new threat has entered their domain bringing the beef…
This brute will become a repeatable boss once you have completed a brand-new, F2P, early game quest, with both being created for the sole purpose of a true ‘low-level’ boss. While we can all agree that Scurrius is great for teaching players about movement and switching your overhead Prayers, the stat requirements to reliably take him down can still feel a way off from when you first step foot into the mainland, so new players still have some work to do before getting a proper feel for combat in Old School. This boss however can be fought as early as your first few hours into your journey. The boss isn’t too challenging, just make sure to stay light on your feet and watch your flank… your life is at steak!
While this did come from the most recent Game Jam, since it’s a particular team favourite and essentially ready for release (thanks to the moo-gnificent work from the team involved), we thought it might be worth getting into the meat of things earlier than normal!
Should we add The Ides of Milk, a new early-game F2P quest that will give you access to a repeatable boss, as described in the blog?
And with that in mind, there is also an udderly delightable selection of rewards you can get from fighting this beast. Please note that all of the rewards being offered outside of the Cow Bell Amulet, Rump Steak and Bull Bones are members-only. We welcome feedback on what rewards you think are appropriate to be accessible in F2P, and we’d welcome exploring that further in a separate poll.
Upon quest completion you’ll receive the Cow Bell Amulet. This is a handy teleport item landing you right into the iconic east cow pen, meaning you won’t have to hoof it back to Lumbridge. Charged with Air Runes, this will give early game players a nice new teleport that will make travel a little bit nicer. It also lets you mik cows 1 tick quicker (6 instead of 7 ticks per milk). Very powerful, we know.
If The Ides of Milk is added, should a reward from the quest be the Cow Bell Amulet, an untradeable amulet that allows you to teleport to the east Lumbridge cow pen, as described in the blog?
The boss’es’ most consistent drops will be a new consumable in the form Rump Steak which is a great new food for low-level accounts and heals 10 Hitpoints (similarly to Tuna).
The other consistent drop will be Bull Bones, which will work similarly to the Giant Bones from Obor and Bryophita (with a different amount of Prayer XP). Consider it bovine blessings (yes, we can already hear your boos).
The first of the uniques from the brute will be the fancy and fashionable Cow Slippers, which are sure to help you stand out from the herd. Purely vanity, purely fashion.
If The Ides of Milk is added, should a reward from the repeatable boss be the Cow Slippers, a tradeable cosmetic, as described in the blog?
Are you tired of keeping all of your milk in separate places? Have you always wanted a centralised, unlimited space for all of your milk-based products? Did this Game Jam team spend a full day centralising milk products in Old School’s code base, having gone too far to turn back now? Look no further than the Bottomless Milk Bucket! This elite container will give you just that and let you upgrade everybody’s favourite grind: Butter Churning.
If The Ides of Milk is added, should a reward from the repeatable boss be the Bottomless Milk Bucket, an untradeable tool which lets you store milk and other milk-based products, as described in the blog?
Get the udder-hand and give yourself a nice early game boost in Melee Strength as you wield the deadly Mooleta. With stats equivalent to a Steel Defender, this will be a great early introduction to off-hands being pretty bloody good.
If The Ides of Milk is added, should a reward from the repeatable boss be Mooleta, an untradeable off-hand weapon which is similar in stats to the Steel Defender, as described in the blog?
Finally, the boss will have a pet… because even the biggest bull needs a little calf-panionship. There’s also a set of Cowmbat Achievements to challenge rare breeds of adventurers!
But we couldn’t have true level of cow-hesion without something for everyone. We’ll leave the full surprise for you to find, but the boss has a darker secret lurking for those that a brave enough to leave the paddock for more dangerous pastures. It’s your moooove.
Vote on inclduing The Ides of Milk and the rewards from the repeatable boss in this year’s Winter Summit Poll!
