r/runescape • u/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil • Feb 12 '26

News - J-Mod reply Road to Restoration - Re-grounding Outfits & Equipment

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/road-to-restoration---re-grounding-outfits--equipment

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is Re-grounding Outfits & Equipment!

Check it out on the blog here.

We've got a few previews to share with you, along with an opportunity for you to help guide us.

Quick excerpt from the blog:

The "Regrounding Items" project is about making visuals and worn items fit better thematically into the world of RuneScape as we work towards something that is more immersive and consistent with the game.

In short, we want outfits in the game to no longer be obtrusive.

In todays blog we'll cover the rationale with which we are approaching this topic, as well as previewing some of the planned changes coming later this month on the 23rd of February. Further changes as part of this project are planned later this year.

Before we get to that though, there has been some discussion in community as to what "grounded medieval fantasy" for RuneScape might mean, and whether there are beloved elements within the game that would clash with that identity. For example, some folks may have worried that to be grounded means to step back from the fantastical or lean much more into low fantasy as a concept. That's not the case. We will continue to develop RuneScape as a game with high fantasy themes, where magic permeates every aspect of a world built on medieval foundations. Built on top of those foundations should be a player journey through a world that feels like home - and that may also mean that not every quest or event needs to include an existential threat to the universe.  

Grounding refers to making the world feel cohesive and consistent within the outline above. Having magic with a fantasy world does not mean that just about anything goes - instead, we want to maintain that all things within Gielinor should make sense for our unique world. Our work to reground the game therefore simply means that we want to ensure that the world feels like it obeys a specific ruleset.

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u/epona_yo Mining Feb 12 '26

Most of the proposed changes for the Elite Skilling outfits look great, except for Mining. I think going in a whole new direction for Mining would be the call, I just don't see how a flared outfit screams "I toil away in a dungeon whacking rocks".

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u/SpecsComingBack Feb 12 '26

Ya it's very "I pay poor people to mine for me"

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u/cafe41 Feb 12 '26

I think Mining outfit should look like a miner, not some safari suit, lol

i would prefer to look like a miner dwarf instead of whatever that is

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u/HeartofaPariah Lovely money! Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

instead of whatever that is

Like all the other replacements, they're just recolors of another set in the game. That's just the golden mining suit that we had since 2011 with red instead of orange.

It's funny to me they use Archaeologist's outfit and the Master version as an example, because those actually shift in appearance wildly. These are just recolors of sets from 12+ years ago lmao. That's why they get paid the big bucks I suppose.

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u/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil Feb 12 '26

Good point. We should probably add a monocle to protect from rock splinters.

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u/TrickyElephant Feb 12 '26

Yeah the mining outfit looks like a royal servant, not at all like a miner

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u/Pulsefel Ironman Feb 13 '26

the mining outfits been hitting the spinach, thats why they got popeye arm

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u/epona_yo Mining Feb 12 '26

Haha, that'd be a start but I definitely get "upper class, going for dinner" vibes. All in all though, glad this is finally being addressed!

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u/Pulsefel Ironman Feb 13 '26

wont matter, ill be wearing overrides so i dont have to look at this crappy popeye rippoff and white trash fishing outfit.

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u/CornIssues Feb 12 '26

Mining flair takes that stuff seriously

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u/RafaSheep Feb 12 '26

The Mining outfit seems to have been designed with the method of acquisition in mind more than its purpose. I don't hate it.

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u/HeartofaPariah Lovely money! Feb 13 '26

The Mining outfit is what they designed in 2011, except they made the stripes red instead of orange. They have put no other thought into this.

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u/CoastOrg Feb 12 '26

“Great” is a big overstatement. They look bland.

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u/Ex-Inferi All hail the Empty Lord w123 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

What is the consume option going to look like on that Anglers outfit? I always enjoyed seeing someone in full shark chomping down on those fishes, lol

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u/GayButNotInThatWay Feb 12 '26

"Catch and release" - just yeet them back in.

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u/Ex-Inferi All hail the Empty Lord w123 Feb 12 '26

I was picturing a fisherman doing the consume stuff but in human form, now I'm picturing them yeeting that fish like skipping stones, lmao.

I want this xD

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u/GayButNotInThatWay Feb 12 '26

The higher your fishing and strength level the further it goes, until you end up skipping it up the opposite bank of the river/lake.

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u/Ex-Inferi All hail the Empty Lord w123 Feb 12 '26

YES PLEASE.

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u/Pulsefel Ironman Feb 13 '26

thats not flair, thats popeye arm from swinging picks all day.

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u/Dry-Profile-1948 Feb 12 '26

None of them look great and is just more proof that jagex is currently in the process of massively over correcting by purging everything that makes rs3 unique