Hello everybody!

Your skilling experience improves with the introduction of the Toolbelt. Our annual Christmas event returns with exciting new rewards and deliveries. Plus, enjoy free member, free deaths, double drop chance and double experience rates later this month.

Toolbelt
Many items required for skilling can now be stored inside your Toolbelt. You no longer need to carry around pickaxes, hatchets, hammers, etc. The Toolbelt is locked behind a quest and can be upgraded multiple times to increase storage capacities. Here's what it looks like:

Items placed inside the Toolbelt are always available for skilling and are not lost upon death. You can upgrade your Toolbelt multiple times to increase its storage capacity. You'll be guided through the process after completing the Dwarven Invention quest. Toolbelt upgrades beyond level 4 are only available to members. You can always withdraw items from your Toolbelt when not being a member, but upgrading and inserting items requires an active membership. Similar to how additional bank slots work.

In order for the Toolbelt to properly function, various objects in the game have received additional menu actions:

• Herbs & unfinished potions: Mix action to make potions
• Logs: Fletch & light action
• Pestle and mortar: Grind action added to items that can be used with pestle and mortar
• Gems: Cut action to make bolt tips
• Hides: Craft action to create equipment
• Farming plantation: Plantation has a right-click option for removal
• Construction mode: Furniture has a right-click option for removal
• Fountains: left-click option to fill vials, buckets, etc.

I'm certain this list will be expanded in the future. Have we forgotten something that could receive an additional right or left-click option? Please tell us by commeting below or post in the idea section on Discord.


December Events
This is probably what you're most excited for! We have plenty of events planned throughout December. Moreover, the annual present delivery for Santa returns. Check the list below to see when events take place.

• Christmas Event
  Get ready for another year of present deliveries from December 1st to January 5th. That's more than a full month to get your hands on unique and rare items. With the rare item pool getting bigger again, the chance to receive any rare item has been increased from 1 in 1000 to 1 in 500. The new items you can obtain this year are the Meat tenderizer and Pet rock.
  
  
• Free Member
  All accounts receive free membership from December 6th to 13th. The best time to check out and upgrade the Toolbelt and enjoy additional bank space.
  
  
• Free PvE Deaths
  Dare to face any monster without fear of losing your items from December 13th to 20th. No charges and no items are lost in any PvE death. This does not apply to the wilderness and HCIM accounts!
  
  
• Double Drop Chance
  Experience the thrill of double loot from December 20th to 27th. Meaning every drop table roll yields two chances to acquire the rarer item, significantly boosting your odds of obtaining precious rewards. This time clue scroll rewards also have double drop chance!
  
  
• Double Experience
  Celebrate the end of the year with a grand finale from December 27th to January 3rd. You'll enjoy double experience rates (including minigame rewards) throughout this period.
  

Changelog:

• Nomad's drop table has been overhauled. More resource items have been added and adamant/rune drops have been removed. Have a look at the wiki for the new droptable: https://emps-world.net/wiki/Nomad
• The area of desert strykewyrm is no longer a safe PvP zone.
• You can now use secondary inventories when casting spells.
• An issue was fixed where too much combat time was removed from your equipment when hit from ranged npc combat.
• Completionist cape requirements have been updated. You now require 25% of the Collection log and 25 Evil tree kills. Minigame completions (Emps-Wars & Pest Control) have been reduced from 100 to 50. The 5 Jad kill requirement has been removed since Fight Caves completion is already required.
• The random daily activity task is now the same for everyone.
• You can now select more than 5 options for Spirit tree teleport locations.
• The superheat item spell now correctly checks for Smithing level to smelt bars.
• Krystilia's Black knights task has been renamed to Elite black knights to prevent confusion since there are no Black knights in the wilderness.
• All spined items now give tailor energy when deconstructing.
• An issue with the game failing to load specific map chunks was fixed. This resulted in high CPU usage or your character going under the visible map. Leaving such a client open for a longer time eventually resulted in a crash.
• Poisoning promethium items will no longer make them lose all their charges.
• Holiday events are no longer shown when inactive during the year. The quest names Jack Frost I/II and have been renamed to Snowman Secret and Parcel Prank to have a better title for the actual story. The initial Present Delivery miniquest has also received a separate quest interface. The Christmas event consists of a total of 3 quests that can be completed.
• The lighting in Pest Control and Emps-Wars has been improved.
• The void knight in Pest Control is once again targeted by monsters.

I hope you enjoy our events and the Toolbelt! December is always the busiest time of the year. I'm not sure if some of you noticed, but I've recently had a lot more time to work on emps. I've quit my job in October and start my career as freelancer next year. Emps-World will be a part of that! I've already got some exciting changes and updates planned for January / February. Stay tuned!

All the best,
Thomy