RuneScape

Guides
These guides can help players who are struggling with RuneScape.


 * 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 RuneScape's 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 RuneScape's 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 latest 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 recieve 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 invovles 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 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 difficuly 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

Fan Sites
Fan sites are websites that players have made that give other players help and information about RuneScape. These sites are very similiar to this page.

WARNING: Players have been scammed out of their log on information from using some fan sites. These sites are NOT associated with Jagex, the company that makes RuneScape. Wikibooks is not responsible for third party programs from these sites.


 * Tip.it - Best RuneScape fansite
 * RuneHQ - Your unfair RuneScape Advantage
 * Runevillage - Where Runescapers Escape
 * RuneWeb
 * Sal's Realm of RuneScape
 * Zybez.net - RuneScape help
 * RuneScape Emporium - RuneScape tips and tricks

Official Sites
These sites are owned by the creators of RuneScape. These sites are safe and secure.


 * RuneScape official site
 * The official Jagex website
 * Jagex Corporate site

Classes in RuneScape
There are no solid classes in RuneScape. Character development is based on how each player develops his skills. For example, if you want to be a fighting character, you should develop your attack skills.

Skills in RuneScape
Attack : This skill determines how often your melee attacks hit. Also, the higher your attack is, the better melee weapons you can wield.

Strength : This skill determines the amount of damage your melee attacks do.

Defense : This skill determines how well you deflect your opponent's melee attacks. Also, the better your defense is, the better melee armor you can wield.

Hitpoints : This isn't really a skill; your hitpoints gradually increase based on the amount of experience you have in all of your combat skills. When your hitpoints reach 0, you are KO'd and are returned to your current spawning point.

Ranged : This skill determines the accuracy and power of your ranged attacks. With higher ranged levels, you are able to wield better ranged weapons and armor.

Magic : This skill determines the accuracy and high-hit rate of the various spells in RuneScape. The higher your magic level is, the more powerful spells you are able to cast and the better magic enchancing armor and weapons you are able to wield.

Prayer : This skill determines your devotion to RuneScape's various gods. The higher your prayer level is, the more useful protective and stat-enhancing prayers you can use and the longer you can pray.

NPCs

 * Father Urhney
 * Fred the Farmer

Towns and Cities

 * Lumbridge
 * Varrock
 * Falador

Places

 * Lumbridge Swamp

Monsters

 * Giant rat
 * Giant spider
 * Goblin
 * Imp
 * Mugger
 * Rat
 * Spider

Items

 * Bones
 * Goblin mail
 * Feather
 * Logs
 * Pot

Runes

 * Air rune
 * Body rune
 * Earth rune
 * Water rune

Farm Animals

 * Chicken
 * Cow
 * Sheep

Ingredients

 * Raw beef
 * Raw chicken
 * Raw rat meat

Eatable Food

 * Cooked Chicken
 * Cooked meat

Armor

 * Useless Armor
 * Quest Armor
 * Ranger Armor
 * Magic Armor
 * Bronze Armor
 * Iron Armor
 * Steel Armor
 * Mithril Armor
 * Adamantite Armor
 * Rune Armor
 * Granite Armor
 * Dragon Armor
 * Barrows Armor
 * Spined Armor
 * Rock-Shell Armor
 * Skeletal Armor

Trees

 * Dead tree
 * Oak
 * Tree
 * Willow
 * Yew

Useless Items

 * Burnt chicken
 * Burnt meat


 * RuneScape/Notes - admins notes