RuneScape/Characters and Leveling

Creating a Character

After you create a Runescape account and log in, you will have access to the character customization screen. This allows your to choose your gender, skin tone, hair color and style, and clothing. Guys have the option to have facial hair. The clothing you choose during this process will usually not be seen, because when you equip an item (armour, robes, etc.), it will be covered by said equipped item.

After you choose how your character looks, you can pick a screenname. This name can only be changed every 28 days if you are a member. If you don't plan on becoming a member, take extra care to pick a name you will actually be happy with.

In-game Customization

If you don't like your clothes after a while or just get bored with them, you can pick out new ones free of charge at the clothing shop in Varrock square. Here you can find an even wider variety of styles for tops, bottoms, shoes, and sleeves than before, and a whole spectrum of colors.

As for hair, you can restyle it at the barber shop in Falador, just north of the bank, also for free.

If for some reason you feel inclined to change your gender or skin tone, the makeover mage north of the crafting guild will help you out for 2000 gp.

Leveling up Skills

Skills in RuneScape involve:

• Skills of Gathering
• Skills of Creation
• Skills of Modification
• Skills of Combat

Examples of Gathering skills:

• Mining, which allows you to mine ores to smelt and make into bars which can be used for Smithing.
• Fishing, which allows you to catch fish with various tools, and then cook them with the Cooking skill.

Examples of Creation skills:

• Runecrafting, which allows you to make runestones. This is a popular skill, as it allows the player a way to make a lot of money selling runes to other players.
• Smithing, which allows you to make armour and weapons. One of the more popular skills, as it can make a lot of money for cash-strapped players, provided they have pickaxes and smithing hammers.

Examples of Modification skills:

• Cooking, which allows you to cook food, which regenerates health.
• Crafting, which allows you to create clothing using needles and thread.

Examples of Combat skills:

• Attack, which affects how often you hit, how many 0s you hit, and what weapons you can wield.
• Defense, which affects your efficiency at protecting yourself and which types of armour you can wear.

These skills can be leveled up easily in the lower levels, but as your efficiency gets higher, more experience in the skill is required to advance to the next level.

Skills are leveled up by doing the activity from which they take their name. Smithing, for example, can be leveled up by smelting bars of iron and working on them at an Anvil.

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.

Level	Exp needed to reach level	Exp difference from last level
1	0	0
2	83	83
3	174	91
4	276	102
5	388	112
6	512	124
7	650	138
8	801	151
9	969	168
10	1,154	185
11	1,358	204
12	1,584	226
13	1,833	249
14	2,107	274
15	2,411	304
16	2,746	335
17	3,115	369
18	3,523	408
19	3,973	450
20	4,470	497
21	5,018	548
22	5,624	606
23	6,291	667
24	7,028	737
25	7,842	814
26	8,740	898
27	9,730	990
28	10,824	1,094
29	12,031	1,207
30	13,363	1,332
31	14,833	1,470
32	16,456	1,623
33	18,247	1,791
34	20,224	1,977
35	22,406	2,182
36	24,815	2,409
37	27,473	2,658
38	30,408	2,935
39	33,648	3,240
40	37,224	3,576
41	41,171	3,947
42	45,529	4,358
43	50,339	4,810
44	55,649	5,310
45	61,512	5,863
46	67,983	6,471
47	75,127	7,144
48	83,014	7,887
49	91,721	8,707
50	101,333	9,612
51	111,945	10,612
52	123,660	11,715
53	136,594	12,934
54	150,872	14,278
55	166,636	15,764
56	184,040	17,404
57	203,254	19,214
58	224,466	21,212
59	247,886	23,420
60	273,742	25,856

Level	Exp needed to reach level	Exp difference from last level
61	302,288	28,546
62	333,804	31,516
63	368,599	34,795
64	407,015	38,416
65	449,428	42,413
66	496,254	46,826
67	547,953	51,699
68	605,032	57,079
69	668,051	63,019
70	737,627	69,576
71	814,445	76,818
72	899,257	84,812
73	992,895	93,638
74	1,096,278	103,383
75	1,210,421	114,143
76	1,336,443	126,022
77	1,475,581	139,138
78	1,629,200	153,619
79	1,798,808	169,608
80	1,986,068	187,260
81	2,192,818	206,750
82	2,421,087	228,269
83	2,673,114	252,027
84	2,951,373	278,259
85	3,258,594	307,221
86	3,597,792	339,198
87	3,972,294	374,502
88	4,385,776	413,482
89	4,842,295	456,519
90	5,346,332	504,037
91	5,902,831	556,499
92	6,517,253	614,422
93	7,195,629	678,376
94	7,944,614	748,985
95	8,771,558	826,944
96	9,684,577	913,019
97	10,692,629	1,008,052
98	11,805,606	1,112,977
99	13,034,431	1,228,825
100	14,391,160	1,356,729
101	15,889,108	1,497,948
102	17,542,976	1,653,868
103	19,368,991	1,826,015
104	21,385,072	2,016,081
105	23,611,005	2,225,933
106	26,068,631	2,457,626
107	28,782,068	2,713,437
108	31,777,942	2,995,874
109	35,085,653	3,307,711
110	38,737,660	3,652,007
111	42,769,799	4,032,139
112	47,221,639	4,451,840
113	52,136,868	4,915,229
114	57,563,717	5,426,849
115	63,555,442	5,991,725
116	70,170,839	6,615,397
117	77,474,827	7,303,988
118	85,539,081	8,064,254
119	94,442,736	8,903,655
120	104,273,166	9,830,430

• The only skill at the moment that can go all the way to level 120 is Dungeoneering level 120 is considered true skill mastery,every other skill stops at 99.