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Old School RuneScape
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This is an article with information that can help players play the online game, Old School RuneScape. This page currently contains quest walkthroughs that can help players complete the game's 100+ quests, skill guides that give players information about the 21 different skills in RuneScape, and informative guides that can help players play RuneScape.
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Old School RuneScape
Old School RuneScape
Guides
Abyss Guide - Members can use a different way to runecraft, a way which is much more dangerous, but can yield better results. This guide talks about this alternate method, known as The Abyss.
Anti-Hack Guide - Many players have been hacked and lost all their belongings. This guide can help prevent account hacking.
Anti-Scam Guide - Scamming is a common thing in RuneScape which involves players cheating other players. This guide can help prevent scamming.
Castle Wars Guide - This guide talks about Castle Wars, or 'CW', a mini-game available for members.
Clans Guide - This guide talks about RuneScapes many different kinds of clans.
Introduction Guide - This is a guide that talks about the basics of RuneScape.
Item Price Guide - RuneScape has over 1,000 items, and many of them are traded every day for gp, RuneScape'''s currency. This guide can give players an idea of what price they should sell their items at.
Members Guide - This guide talks about what RuneScape's members are and the benefits of being one.
Rare Items Guide - This guide talks about the items that can no longer be obtained in RuneScape.
Transportation Guide - Players don't just have to walk in RuneScape, they can also teleport, use magic carpets, and use canoes, just to name a few. This guide talks about RuneScapes many methods of transportation.
Wilderness Guide - This guide talks about the wilderness, a large piece of land where players can kill other players.
Pest Control - A guide for Jagex's minigame, Pest Control.
Skills
In RuneScape, there are things called "skills" which are tasks players can level up. For example, one of these skills is cooking. When a player wants to cook, they will have to do a task, such as getting meat to cook on a fire. When the player finishes the task, they receive get 'xp', or 'experience', towards that skill. For example, for cooking meat, players get 30 xp towards their cooking skill for successfully cooking a piece of meat. Players also have to reach a certain amount of experience to reach the next level. For example, at level 1, players need 83 xp to reach level 2.
The maximum xp that players can earn in each skill is 200,000,000. So far, only 3 players have reached this mark.
There are 21 skills that players can raise in RuneScape. However, only 15 of these skills are available for free players, which are listed below. Combat (melee) has 4 skills that players can raise.
Experience Table
Below is the link to the experience table. This table shows players how much experience they need to reach to get to the next level, as well as the experience difference from the last level they were at.
Experience Table
Free Skills
These are skills that all players can raise, both members and non-members.
Combat (Melee) - This skill involves players fighting with their fists and weapons. This one of the three combat styles.
Cooking - This skill involves players baking and cooking food, such as fish and pies. Eating these foods will heal a player's hitpoints, which is involved with combat.
Crafting - This skill involves players creating items, such as tiaras and pots.
Firemaking - This skill involves players lighting logs and lamps. Many players do not raise this skill, as no money can be gained from it.
Fishing - This skill involves players fishing at rivers and seas. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
Magic - This skill involves players fighting with magical spells. This is one of the three combat styles.
Mining - This skill involves players hitting rocks with pickaxes to obtain ores. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
Prayer - This skill involves players burying bones which are dropped when a player defeats an enemy. This is the slowest skill to raise in all of RuneScape.
Ranged - This skill involves players fighting with projectiles from a distance. It is one of the three combat styles.
Runecrafting - This skill involves players creating runes which are used for magic.
Smithing - This skill involves players creating weapons and armour which can be worn when fighting. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
Woodcutting - This skill involves players cutting trees. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
Members Skills
These are skills that only members can raise.
Agility - This skill involves players taking shortcuts to arrive at destinations quicker. This is a slow skill to raise.
Farming - This skill involves players growing their own vegetables and fruits. Many players do not like this skill as it takes a long time to grow the vegetation.
Fletching - This skill involves players creating items which can be used for ranged. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
Herblore - This skill involves players creating potions which can be used on them to help them.
Slayer - This skill involves players killing certain monsters.
Thieving - This skill involves players stealing from stalls and monsters.
Quests
In RuneScape, there are many tasks that players can do to help out NPCs. On the player's mini-map (located in the top right part of the game), these tasks are labelled with a blue star and are known as quests. Completing these quests can allow players to gain access to new items or new skills.
This section has quest walkthroughs that can help players complete RuneScape's 103 quests. There are currently 18 free quests and 85 members quests. Each quest varies in difficulty and length. For example, some quests are hard and long while other quests are short and easy. New quests are members-only and are usually added once or twice a month.
Free Quests
These are quests that all players can complete, both members and non-members.
Black Knights' Fortress
Cooks Assistant
Demon Slayer
Doric's Quest
Dragon Slayer
Ernest the Chicken
Goblin Diplomacy
Imp Catcher
The Knight's Sword
Pirate's Treasure
Prince Ali Rescue
The Restless Ghost
Romeo and Juliet
Rune Mysteries Quest
Sheep Shearer
Shield of Arrav
Vampire Slayer
Witch's Potion
Members Quests
Only members can complete these quests.
Between a Rock...
Big Chompy Bird Hunting
Biohazard
Cabin Fever
Clock Tower
Creature of Fenkenstrain
Death Plateau
Desert Treasure
Devious Minds
Digsite Quest
Druidic Ritual
Dwarf Cannon
Eadgar's Ruse
Elemental Workshop
Enakhra's Lament
A Fairy Tale Pt. 1
Family Crest
The Feud
Fight Arena
Fishing Contest
Forgettable Tale...
The Fremennik Trials
Garden of Tranquillity
Gertrude's Cat
Ghosts Ahoy
The Giant Dwarf
The Golem
The Grand Tree
The Hand in the Sand
Haunted Mine
Hazeel Cult
Heroes Quest
Holy Grail
Horror from the Deep
Icthlarin's Little Helper
In Aid of the Myreque
In Search of the Myreque
Jungle Potion
Legends Quest
Lost City
The Lost Tribe
Making History
Merlin's Crystal
Monkey Madness
Monk's Friend
Mountain Daughter
Mourning's End Part 1
Mourning's End Part 2
Murder Mystery
Nature Spirit
Observatory Quest
One Small Favour
Plague City
Priest in Peril
Rag and Bone Man
Rat Catchers
Recipe for Disaster
Recruitment Drive
Regicide
Roving Elves
Rum Deal
Scorpion Catcher
Sea Slug Quest
Shades of Mort'ton
Shadow of the Storm
Sheep Herder
Shilo Village
A Soul's Bane
Spirits of the Elid
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio
A Tail of Two Cats
Tears of Guthix
Temple of Ikov
Throne of Miscellania
The Tourist Trap
Tree Gnome Village
Tribal Totem
Troll Romance
Troll Stronghold
Underground Pass
Wanted!
Watch Tower
Waterfall Quest
Witch's House
Zogre Flesh Eaters
External Resources
Official Sites
These sites are owned by the creators of RuneScape.
RuneScape official site
The official Jagex website
Fan Sites
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