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Anvil · for players6 min read

The side panel, tab by tab

The Anvil button in RuneLite’s sidebar opens a panel with four tabs and a gear: Clan, Feed, You, Lookup and ⚙. Most of what it shows comes from the site, so it stays current without a plugin update. A few things below are marked as coming in the next plugin update.

Four tabs and a gear for syncing and settingsEvent chat in the Feed tabGZ, Sad, Sit on Feed rows
Step 2

Clan

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Your events and your clan. In a creator’s space the tab says Space.

The clan dropdownshown when you play in more than one clan or space. All clans (the default) shows everything you are playing, live event first. Picking one clan narrows the panel to it and files your submissions there.
Up nexta gold card at the top that points at the one thing worth doing now, such as joining an event, answering a survey or taking your starting shot.
Eventsevery live and upcoming board, Skill or Boss of the Week and clan event, with where you stand. Then Your other boards, Also live and Your clan.
A boardopen one for its standings (the top three and your own lines, with View all for the rest), teams, missions, recent activity, the nearest tiles and View all tiles. Its Feed and Chat buttons open that board in the Feed tab.
Rank movesa green ▲ or coral ▼ with a number next to a name shows how far it has moved since the day began.
A clan eventI’m going, Sign me up or Answer the survey, depending on the event.
Step 3

Feed

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Your clan’s and boards’ big moments, live: drops, pets, achievements, quests, deaths and finished tiles.

Whose feedthe dropdown at the top lists Clan · each clan you are a member of and Event · each live board you are on. It opens on your board if you have one, otherwise your clan.
FiltersAll, Tiles (boards only), Drops, Pets, Achievements, Deaths, Milestones (slayer, clues, kill counts and the like, once players switch them on), and My team on a board where you are on a team. A clan feed also has a game-mode activity button for Leagues and other modes.
New rowsarrive on their own. If you have scrolled away, a ↑ N new pill takes you back to them.
Not the same as the in-game chat feed

The Feed tab works whatever your plugin settings say. Show feed in game chat (step 8) is the separate setting that also prints it in your chatbox.

Step 4

Reactions

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Each row in the Feed has its reaction under it:

GZon drops, pets and achievements. The count shows next to it, such as GZ 3.
Sad and Siton deaths, instead of GZ. Sit is the game’s way of telling someone who died to sit down.
Who can reacton a clan feed, clanmates. On a board, the players on it and the host’s staff; when a board hides its standings, players can react only to their own team’s rows.
Who reactedhover a reaction to see names, such as “GZ · Mossy and 3 others”. Click it again to take yours back.
In the next plugin update

Reactions become pill buttons, tinted when one is yours, and other people’s reactions update live for everyone watching, including on your other open clients. Today the count changes when you react or when the Feed reloads. Gold GZ, the Supporter reaction, is given on the website’s feeds; the Feed tab has GZ, Sad and Sit.

Step 5

Event chat

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A board with chat turned on has a Feed / Chat switch at the top of the Feed tab, for the players on that board and the host’s staff. The board page in the Clan tab has a Chat button too.

Everyone or your teamPick a channel with the chips at the top: All teams for the whole board, My team for your team only, and Announcements, where only the host and mods can post. Each chip shows a count of lines you haven’t read. Lines from the host and mods are marked HOST or MOD.
Sendingtype in the box and press Enter. Lines are up to 200 characters, and only the host and mods can post links.
How oftenthe wait between your lines follows your Supporter tier: 5 seconds without one, 3 for Supporters, 1 for Champions, none for Patrons. The line under the box says what yours is. Staff never wait.
Slow modewhen a board’s chat gets very busy, everyone waits at least 10 seconds for a minute, Patrons included. Nobody can send more than 10 lines in 10 seconds.
Moderationthe host and mods can right-click a line to Delete message or Mute someone, and pause the chat with Pause chat. A pause stops everyone but staff from posting, except in Announcements. Mute in the panel is a ban that lasts until it is lifted on the moderation page. There you can also give a timeout of 5 minutes, 1 hour or 24 hours (or any time from 1 minute to 30 days), which closes every channel for that person, and filter the chat by channel.

A run of lines from one person shares one name and time, until there is a 5-minute gap. Chat is kept for 7 days after the event ends.

Step 6

You and Lookup

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Two tabs for player cards: yours, and anyone else’s.

Youyour own card for the character you are logged in on: banner and avatar, Display case, and the Stats, Bosses and Log tabs (the collection log down to each page’s items, plus clues, times and combat achievements). Below it, any Head-to-head challenge waiting for you (Accept or Decline) and your Goals, with + Add goal.
Lookupswitch between Players and Clans, type a name and press Enter. Recent lists your last few. Right-click anyone in game and pick Anvil to land here.
Compareon someone else’s card, Compare with me lines the two of you up skill by skill, boss by boss and page by page. A clan’s card has Compare with my clan.
Step 7

The gear tab

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Syncing and settings, rather than things to look at:

Sync profilesends your collection log and best times to Anvil.
Sync clan rosterclan admins only: sends the in-game clan member list to the site. If the plugin cannot read your clan, it says Join your clan channel to sync the roster instead.
Banner soundsAdd clip for the sound a banner plays, Copy folder path to manage them, and Add mission clip for missions.
Become a Supporterin the next plugin update, a ★ link at the bottom opens the Supporter page, or reads Your Supporter perks if you already are one.
Step 8

Settings that change what you see

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In RuneLite’s configuration for Anvil, under Chat messages. All are on to start with.

Show feed in game chatalso prints the feed in your chatbox as it happens: big drops, pets and achievements from boards whose host turned it on and clans you guest in, your teammates’ tile progress, and other teams’ finished tiles.
Supporter names in chatSupporters’ colours (and a Patron’s star) in public, clan, friends and private chat, and on your friends list and channel member lists. The list of names is downloaded from Anvil; nothing about who you see is sent.
Animated nameslets a Patron’s gradient slide in the panel, the Feed and event chat. Off keeps it still. In the next plugin update it also covers boosted clan names and animated banners in the panel.
Supporter names in menusSupporters’ colours on their name when you right-click them, never on PvP worlds or in the Wilderness.
Over other plugins’ colourson, a Supporter’s colours replace a name colour another plugin set, such as Player Indicators. Off leaves those names alone.

Installing the plugin and signing in is in RuneLite plugin setup. Supporter colours, the star and the chat perks are explained in Anvil Supporter: tiers and perks.

Stuck, or something looks wrong? Ask in the Anvil support Discord