Skills

Attack↑

• Attack to wield: bronze 1, iron 10, steel 20, black 30, mithril 40, adamant 50, rune 60, dragon 70, and 80 for the Dharok Scythe and Dark sword. Your overlevels count toward it; potion boosts don't.
• Dragon weapons need no quest, only the level.
• Two-handed swords are called broadswords here and are one-handed: you can hold a shield with one.
• Axes and pickaxes need Attack to wield (iron 10 up to rune 60), but they work from your inventory without it.
• Chronozon and random-event monsters give only 2.5% of normal combat XP, and Count Draynor 10%.
• The Champions' Guild lets you in with 32 quest points, with Dragon Slayer done, or for 1,000 Player's Souls each visit.

Attack level by tier

Your Attack overlevels are added to your level for this check.

Daggers (speed 4 ticks)

Every dagger also has +1 Magic attack and +1 Magic defence.

Swords (speed 4 ticks)

Scimitars (speed 4 ticks)

Longswords (speed 5 ticks)

Maces (speed 5 ticks)

Warhammers (speed 6 ticks)

No shop stocks warhammers and no monster in the open area drops one.

Battleaxes (speed 6 ticks)

Broadswords (the old two-handed swords; speed 7 ticks, one-handed here)

Each also has -4 Magic attack and -1 Ranged defence.

Spears (speed 6 ticks)

There is no black spear. Spears cannot be smithed and no open shop sells them. Dragon spear also gives +5 to every defence.

Woodcutting axes and pickaxes as weapons (speed 5 ticks)

Custom and special melee weapons

Melee special attacks

The Dark sword, Dragon longsword and Dharok Scythe specials always give Strength XP, whatever style you are on. Magic shortbow, Flame shortbow and Bone Crossbow specials are under Ranged.

Attack boosts and drains

Can't be done here

• Dragon battleaxe and Dragon mace: only sold inside the Heroes' Guild, and the Heroes' Quest needs Brimhaven, which is locked.
• Black warhammer: no shop, recipe or drop.
• Adamant spear: only dropped by monsters in locked areas.
• Excalibur: Merlin's Crystal needs Camelot, which is locked.
• Machete: only sold in the Karamja jungle stores, which are locked.
• Plain Battlestaff and the Air, Water and Earth battlestaves: the Varrock staff shop does not stock battlestaves here, the Magic Guild is locked and crafting them is refused.
• Mystic staves: made by Thormac in Seers' Village, which is locked.
• Glowing dagger and the Legends' Quest Black dagger: Legends' Quest is in a locked area.

Overlevel kit: mithril scimitar (u), with no Attack requirement.

Strength↑

• Nothing in the game needs a Strength level to wield.
• The big No Escape boosts are the Dharok Scythe (+125), Dark sword (+92), Black amulet (+25) and Vannaka's Brassard (+15).

Strength bonus gear that is not a weapon

Highest Strength bonus weapons

Every melee weapon's Strength bonus is in the Attack tables.

Strength boosts and drains

Limpwurt root: Giant (level 85) drops 3 at 11/128; hobgoblins about 21/128. Red spiders' eggs spawn in Edgeville Dungeon and the Karamja volcano dungeon.

Can't be done here

• Dragon battleaxe (+85) and Dragon mace (+55): Heroes' Guild only, and the Heroes' Quest needs locked Brimhaven.
• Ice gloves: the Ice Queen's lair under White Wolf Mountain cannot be reached.
• Khazard helmet as a normal item: the Fight Arena is locked; only the (u) kit version exists.
• Carnillean armour (+8) and Khazard armour (+4): their quests are in locked areas.
• Beads of the dead (+1): Shilo Village is locked.

Overlevel kit: Khazard helmet (u).

Defence↑

• Defence to wear: bronze 1, iron 10, steel 20, black 30, mithril 40, adamant 50, rune 60, dragon 70. Shields follow the same levels, and your overlevels count.
• Rune platebodies and green dragonhide bodies need no quest to wear. Oziach still only sells them after Dragon Slayer.
• Dragonhide needs Ranged and Defence: 40 for green, 50 blue, 60 red, 70 black. Studded leather needs 30 in both, and a hardleather body Defence 10.
• Ice armour needs Defence 50 and Magic 50. It has adamant defences with no Magic or Ranged penalty.
• The anti-dragon shield is called the Dragonfire shield in game and has no requirement.

Defence level by tier

Helmets

Med helms also give -3 Magic attack and -1 Ranged attack; full helms -6 and -2.

Body armour

Chainbodies give -15 Magic attack; platebodies -30 Magic attack and -10 Ranged attack.

Leg armour

Platelegs and plateskirts give -21 Magic attack and -7 Ranged attack.

Shields

Sq shields give -6 Magic attack and -2 Ranged attack; kiteshields -8 and -2.

Custom and special armour

A rare reward is rolled at 1 in 117 per item on easy clues (2 to 4 items), 1 in 95 on medium (3 to 5) and 1 in 69 on hard (4 to 6).

Leather and dragonhide that need Defence

All four colours share the names Dragonhide body, Dragonhide chaps and Dragon vambraces in game. Leather body, chaps, cowl, vambraces, gloves and boots and the Coif need Ranged only.

Defence boosts and drains

White berries spawn on the red dragon isle in the Wilderness.

Can't be done here

• Khazard armour and the normal Khazard helmet: the Fight Arena is locked.
• Carnillean armour: its quest is in locked Ardougne.
• Cape of legends: the Legends' Guild is locked.
• Leather cowl, leather chaps and leather vambraces from a shop: only the locked Ranging Guild sells them.

Overlevel kit: black full helm, platebody, platelegs and kiteshield (u), with no Defence requirement.

Hitpoints↑

• Every life starts at 5 Hitpoints, plus your Hitpoints overlevels.
• You get 1.33 Hitpoints XP for every point of damage you deal, on any style.
• Baked food heals less than in 2004 (bread 4, pies 3 to 5 a half, pizzas 5 to 10 a half, stew 9). Anchovies and bananas heal 3.

How Hitpoints changes

Fish

Meat, bread, pies, pizzas and cooked dishes

Fruit, vegetables and snacks

Drinks that heal

Can't be done here

• Gnome food and gnome cocktails: the Gnome Stronghold is locked.
• Ugthanki kebab and ugthanki meat: the desert past Shantay Pass is locked.
• Cooked oomlie wrap: the south Karamja jungle is locked.
• Cooked chompy: the Feldip Hills are locked.
• Lemons, oranges, limes, equa leaves, king worms and toad's legs: only sold or found in the Gnome Stronghold.

Overlevel kit: 25 tuna (u).

Ranged↑

• Ranged to wield: oak bows 10, willow 30, maple 40, yew 50, magic 60, Bone Crossbow 45, Rune Crossbow 71, Flame shortbow 80. Your overlevels count.
• Every bow fires arrows only up to its own tier, and crossbows do the same with bolts. The table below has the limits.
• The Bone Crossbow, Rune Crossbow, Flame shortbow, Rogue Magnet and Potion of Damage come from the Soul Shop. Dragons drop the crossbows too: green, blue and red dragons and Elvarg a Bone Crossbow with 500 bolts, black dragons and the King Black Dragon a Rune Crossbow with 200.
• Darts can't be wielded and throwing axes can't be obtained. Javelins only come from drops, and knives from Smithing.
• Dragonhide needs the same Defence level as its Ranged level.

Bows

Speed is ticks between shots; Rapid style is 1 tick faster. Bows give no ranged strength of their own except the Flame shortbow.

Crossbows

Arrows

Hickton also lists steel, mithril, adamant and rune arrows with 0 stock: they only appear if a player sells some.

Bolts

Which ammo each weapon fires

The game compares a hidden tier on the ammo with the same tier on the weapon. Poisoned ammo counts the same as its plain version.

Thrown weapons

Knives and javelins also come as (p): use weapon poison on them (5 per vial), same stats. Thrown weapons are their own ammo and need no bow.

Ranged armour

All dragonhide pieces of one kind share the same in-game name; the colour is added here. The Champions' Guild needs 32 quest points or Dragon Slayer.

Other gear with Ranged bonuses

Combat styles

Base XP before the server's XP multiplier.

Ranged special attacks

Can't be done here

• Darts (all metals, plain and poisoned): no Wield option on this world, never dropped, cannot be fletched.
• Throwing axes (bronze to rune): only sold in the Ranging Guild, which is locked.
• Black knives: only dropped by Shadow warriors under the Legends' Guild, locked.
• Steel javelins: only dropped by jogres and tribesmen in south Karamja, locked.
• Maple longbow: no maple logs to fletch it from and no shop, drop or reward gives one.
• Ogre bow and ogre arrows: Rantz and the Big Chompy Bird Hunting area are locked.
• Opal bolts and Barbed bolts: opals come from the Digsite and gem rocks, Barb bolttips from the Ranging Guild, all locked.
• Ice arrows (Temple of Ikov) and Holy water (Legends' Quest): locked.
• Fire arrows (lit or unlit, any metal): nothing in the game makes them.
• Phoenix crossbow as a weapon: it has no Wield option.
• Ranging Guild shops (javelins, throwing axes, arrow shafts, leather vambraces and chaps, Barb bolttips) and the other archery sellers in Ardougne, the Gnome Stronghold, the Combat Training Camp and Shilo: all locked.

Overlevel kit: yew shortbow (u), with no Ranged requirement. It fires up to rune arrows.

Prayer↑

• Every bone you bury also gives 1 Player's Soul.
• Bones give about half the XP you remember: bones 2.3, big bones 7.5, babydragon bones 15, dragon bones 36.
• Demon ashes (lesser and greater demons, hellhounds) can be buried for 15 XP. Plain ashes can't.
• The prayer book stops at Protect from Melee (43), and Protect Item does nothing.
• Protection prayers block a monster's attacks completely, but only 40% of a player's damage. Guards and White Knights ignore them.
• Prayers unlock on the level you've trained this life. Overlevels don't unlock them early, but altars recharge you to your level plus overlevels.
• The Monastery's upper floor needs Prayer 55 (31 in 2004).
• There's an extra altar inside Taverley Dungeon, by the entrance ladder.

Prayers

Only one prayer of each group (Defence, Strength, Attack, protection) can be on at a time. Each +1 prayer bonus on your gear makes every prayer last about 3.3% longer. Drain is applied in 3-second steps.

Bones

Monster levels are the levels shown on this server. XP is the base value before the server's XP rate.

Altars you can reach

All altars recharge prayer points to your level plus overlevels. No altar gives Prayer XP for bones.

What protection prayers block

Restoring prayer points

Prayer bonus gear

Can't be done here

• Smite, Retribution, Redemption, Piety and all later prayers: they are not in this version of the game.
• Protect Item: it switches on but protects nothing.
• Altars in Ardougne, Seers' Village, Yanille, the Duel Arena and the Gnome areas: locked parts of the map.
• Armadyl pendant, Pendant of Lucien and Staff of Armadyl: Temple of Ikov is in the locked west.
• Beads of the dead: Shilo Village is locked.
• Black robe (+5 top, +4 bottom): no shop, drop or spawn was found for it.

Magic↑

• Only the Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador teleports work, at 10 times the runes plus 250 Player's Souls, once per hour of play. See Teleports.
• Bind, Snare and Entangle also hit, for up to 8, 16 and 24.
• Against players, Protect from Magic cuts a spell's max hit by 40% and halves the hold spells.
• Enchant Lvl-5 makes an amulet of glory with 4 charges straight away. It can't be recharged.
• The god spells need no practice casts: once Kolodion is beaten they work everywhere.
• Soul runes can't be obtained, so Vulnerability, Enfeeble and Stun can't be cast.
• Battlestaves can't be bought or made. Fire battlestaves drop from fire giants and come from medium clues.
• The Staff of Iban is sold in the Soul Shop and never runs out of charges.

Strike, Bolt, Blast and Wave spells

These 16 are the spells any staff can autocast. There are 5 ticks between casts.

Hold spells (upgraded here)

Protect from Magic halves the hold on a player. They can't be autocast.

Curse spells

A curse is refused if that stat is already below its normal level.

Special combat spells

Teleport spells

10-second stand-still countdown, once per hour of play (shared with glory and ring of dueling, reset by death), not above level 20 Wilderness.

Enchant spells

An amulet must be strung before it can be enchanted. Glory rub: Edgeville, Karamja, Draynor Village or Al Kharid; ring of dueling rub: outside the Duel Arena gate north of Al Kharid. Each rub uses 1 charge and 250 Player's Souls under the teleport rules.

Utility spells

Alchemy is refused on coins and on overlevel kit (u) items. Unpowered orbs are blown from molten glass at Crafting 46.

Staffs

A god staff can't be worn with another god's cape.

Magic robes, jewellery and other magic-bonus gear

You can hold only one god cape at a time; it vanishes if dropped and is destroyed on death.

Runes and where they come from

Numbers in brackets are the stack size of the biggest drop from that monster.

Rune and magic shops by town

The Magic Guild shop in Yanille (the only soul rune seller) is in the locked west.

Mage Arena, step by step

You can't teleport out of the cave or the chamber, and the arena is far above level 20 Wilderness.

Can't be done here

• Camelot, Ardougne and Watchtower teleports: the destinations are locked, the spell is refused.
• Vulnerability, Enfeeble and Stun: they need soul runes, and the only soul rune shop is the locked Magic Guild in Yanille.
• Mystic air, water, earth and fire staffs: only sold or made in locked Yanille and Seers.
• Plain Battlestaff, and crafting air, water, earth or fire battlestaves from orbs: Zaff doesn't stock the staff and the crafting step is refused.
• Ice gloves: the Ice Queen's lair can't be reached.
• Recharging an amulet of glory: the fountain is outside the playable area. Enchant a new dragonstone amulet instead.
• Buying runes or magic gear at the Magic Guild (Yanille): locked.
• Crafting nature, law, death, blood or soul runes (see Runecraft).

Overlevel kit: Zamorak robe top and bottom and a black wizard hat (u).

Runecraft↑

• Rune essence stacks. Any amount fits in one inventory slot, and an altar binds the whole stack in one go. That makes Runecraft much faster than in 2004, and safer: one trip does the work of dozens, so you spend far less time walking through PvP ground.
• Runecraft opens with Rune Mysteries, and the quest stays done when you die.
• Eight altars can be reached: air, mind, water, earth, fire, body, cosmic (in Zanaris) and chaos (level 9 Wilderness).
• Nature, law, death, blood and soul runes can't be crafted.
• Cosmic talismans come from big-net fishing caskets. Chaos talismans only drop from kills made underground.

Altars

Use the talisman on the ruins to enter; use the portal inside to leave. Rub (Locate) a talisman to be pointed towards its ruins.

Levels for multiple runes per essence

Runes per essence = your Runecraft level divided by the rune's step (rounded down) plus 1. XP is per essence, not per rune. Law and death have no multiple.

Where talismans come from

Rune essence

Can't be done here

• Nature runes: the altar's ruins are in the locked south of Karamja.
• Law runes and death runes: there is no working altar and no talisman source.
• Blood and soul runes: no altar and no talisman source.
• Essence teleports from Yanille, Ardougne and the Gnome Stronghold: locked areas.

Overlevel kit: air, water, earth, fire and mind talismans.

Mining↑

• Every successful swing gives 2 ores for one lot of XP. Keep 2 slots free. Rune essence stays at 1 per swing, but it stacks, so the essence mine never fills your pack.
• The best pickaxe you have the Mining level for is used straight from your pack. Wielding one needs Attack.
• About 1 swing in 565 at an ore rock finds a pair of uncut gems (1 in 190 wearing a charged amulet of glory).
• Runite respawns in about 12 minutes on a quiet world, half the 2004 time. There are only 3 runite rocks, all in the deep Wilderness.
• No gem rocks can be reached.
• Pickaxes can't be smithed. Nurmof in the Dwarven Mine is the only shop for iron to rune pickaxes.
• The Lumbridge Swamp mine is coal, mithril and adamantite here.

Rocks

Respawn shortens as more players are online. A swing that triggers the gem roll does not also roll for ore.

Mines you can reach

Pickaxes

Pickaxes cannot be smithed. Numbers in brackets are shop stock.

Gems found while mining

A gem roll happens on 1 in 256 swings at any ore rock; 1 in 86 with a charged amulet of glory; 1 in 64 on iron rocks with the glory. Rune essence has no gem roll.

Can't be done here

• Gem rocks (Mining 40): all 7 are in Shilo Village, which is locked, so uncut opal, jade and red topaz cannot be mined
• Heroes' Guild basement mine (2 runite, 2 adamantite, 2 mithril, 11 coal): the guild door needs Heroes' Quest, which cannot be finished because it goes through Brimhaven
• Mines in locked areas: Desert Mining Camp, Brimhaven gold mines, the Karamja jungle mine, Fight Arena and Port Khazard mines, the Ardougne / Legends' Guild mine, the Coal Trucks, Yanille, the Grand Tree mine, the 'perfect' gold mine (Family Crest)
• Smithing a pickaxe: no pickaxe can be made
• Black pickaxe: does not exist

Overlevel kit: mithril pickaxe (u). It still needs Mining 21 before it works.

Smithing↑

• Bars need far less coal: steel, mithril and adamantite take 1 coal, runite takes 2. The game's own messages still quote the old numbers.
• A furnace smelts one bar per use. The anvil menu offers Make, Make 5 and Make 28.
• Dart tips and cannonballs can't be made, and pickaxes can't be smithed.
• Both halves of the dragon square shield drop from Elvarg. Joining them needs Smithing 60.
• Goldsmith gauntlets drop from Chronozon (1 in 192).
• In-game names: two-handed swords are broadswords and arrowheads are arrowtips.

Bars (smelting at a furnace or with Superheat Item)

Superheat Item (Magic 43, 4 fire runes + 1 nature rune, 53 Magic XP) smelts one bar anywhere for the same Smithing XP and ore cost.

Bronze (12.5 XP per bar)

21 recipes. XP = bars used x 12.5.

Iron (25 XP per bar)

20 recipes. XP = bars used x 25.

Steel (37.5 XP per bar)

22 recipes. XP = bars used x 37.5. Cannonballs (Smithing 35, 1 steel bar) are refused on this server.

Mithril (50 XP per bar)

20 recipes. XP = bars used x 50.

Adamant (62.5 XP per bar)

20 recipes. XP = bars used x 62.5.

Rune (75 XP per bar)

20 recipes. XP = bars used x 75.

Other Smithing actions

Furnaces you can reach

Furnaces in Ardougne, Shilo Village, the Underground Pass and the Legends' Quest caves are in locked areas. The Tutorial Island furnace is tutorial-only.

Anvils you can reach

There is no anvil in Falador, Lumbridge, Al Kharid or Edgeville. Anvils in Seers' Village, Ardougne, Yanille, Port Khazard, the Fishing Guild area and south Karamja are locked. The four Tutorial Island anvils are tutorial-only.

Tools and helpers

Ores and bars from monsters (reachable monsters only)

No monster drops runite ore or silver bars. Drops only from locked-area monsters (watchmen, tribesmen, shadow warriors) are left out.

Can't be done here

• Dart tips (bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant, rune): need the Tourist Trap quest, which is in the locked desert past Shantay Pass.
• Cannonballs: the furnace refuses them, and the ammo mould is only sold by Nulodion after Dwarf Cannon, which starts in the locked west.
• 'Perfect' gold bar: its ore only comes from the Family Crest mine in the locked west.
• Golden bowl (Legends' Quest): locked area.
• Blurite bar: does not exist; blurite ore can't be smelted.
• Pickaxes: no smithing recipe exists; they have to be bought.
• Silver or gold on an anvil: refused; they are furnace-only (Crafting jewellery).
• Furnaces at Ardougne, Shilo Village, the Underground Pass and the Legends' Quest caves, and anvils at Seers' Village, Ardougne, Yanille, Port Khazard, Hemenster, West Ardougne and Tai Bwo Wannai: all in locked areas.
• Buying the right shield half at the Legends' Guild shop or bronze bars at Jiminua's Jungle Store: both shops are in locked areas.

Overlevel kit: hammer, 50 copper ore (u) and 50 tin ore (u). It's practice metal: it smelts and hammers for full XP but makes nothing.

Fishing↑

• Every catch with a small net, rod, fly rod, lobster pot or harpoon gives 2 fish for one bait and one lot of XP. You need 2 free slots.
• Big-net catches aren't doubled.
• From Fishing 76 the ordinary cage and harpoon spots at Catherby and Musa Point give sharks: Harpoon there catches swordfish and sharks.
• Big-net fishing is only at Catherby.
• Lava eels can't be fished, and the Fishing Guild is locked.

Catches (small net, rods, lobster pot, harpoon)

XP is base XP before the server multiplier. Each catch is 2 fish. Where a spot gives two fish types, the higher-level one is tried first and the lower one only if that fails.

Big net catches (Net option on a Net / Harpoon spot, Fishing 16, Catherby)

Every row is rolled on every cast, so one cast can give several items. Big-net catches are 1 item each, not doubled. Cod is only rolled from 23 and bass from 46.

Casket contents (from big-net fishing)

Reachable fishing spots

Spots move between a few fixed tiles at each place every few minutes.

Tools and bait

Both fishing shops also buy raw fish; other raw fish only appear there when players sell them.

Can't be done here

• Lava eels (Fishing 53, oily fishing rod): both spots (Taverley Dungeon and the Wilderness Lava Maze) refuse you.
• Fishing Guild (Fishing 68) and its shop: in the locked west.
• Manta rays and sea turtles: only from the Fishing Trawler at Port Khazard, which is locked.
• Giant carp: only from the Hemenster fishing contest, which is locked.
• Other river spots (Seers' Village, Ardougne, Baxtorian Falls, Gnome Stronghold, Observatory, Shilo Village) and the Fishing Platform: locked areas.
• Big net anywhere except Catherby: the only other big-net spots are in the Fishing Guild.

Overlevel kit: fly fishing rod, 100 feathers (u, bait only), lobster pot and harpoon.

Cooking↑

• The Cooks' Guild needs Cooking 60 (32 in 2004) and a chef's hat. The Head chef inside opens your bank.
• A range only burns less than a fire for cod, swordfish and shark.
• Sharks never stop burning without Cooking gauntlets, which drop from Chronozon (1 in 192).
• Several baked foods heal less than in 2004. The tables show the heals.
• Curry, ugthanki kebabs, oomlie wraps and gnome food can't be made.

Fish and meat

XP is base XP before the server multiplier. Burn chance at the level you unlock a food is 40-54% for everything in this table.

Bread, pies, stew, pizza, cake and wine

Mixing dough needs no level and gives no XP: pot of flour + bucket, jug or bowl of water, then choose Bread dough, Pastry dough, Pizza base or Pitta dough. Burnt pies and stews can be emptied to get the dish or bowl back.

Other things you cook or mix

Ranges and fires

Reachable ranges include Lumbridge Castle, Al Kharid (next to the bank), Catherby (next to the bank), Edgeville, Varrock, Falador, Port Sarim, Rimmington, Entrana, the Wilderness Bandit Camp and the Rogues' Castle.

Ingredients and tools