50 Fun Facts About Old School RuneScape

Which skill beat Shamanism and Taming in a vote to become Old School RuneScape's first new skill?

Sailing then had to pass a poll of its own and scraped through with 71.9% of the vote, close to the 70% minimum. It arrived in November 2025.

Surviving 63 waves of the TzHaar Fight Cave and beating TzTok-Jad earns Old School RuneScape players which reward?

Fire cape winners must be alive when the game registers TzTok-Jad's death, so a player who dies at the same moment as the boss leaves with nothing.

Which tiny Old School RuneScape character became an internet meme in 2013 for a silly-looking face and bizarre quotes?

Gnome child jokes spread across imageboards in 2013, and Jagex embraced them: a variant of the character starred in the game's 20th Anniversary event.

Which animal do Old School RuneScape players catch in box traps and then throw as an exploding Ranged weapon?

Chinchompa explosions were inspired by the lemming, an animal once believed to burst from anger. Each blast hits several targets, which makes them a fast way to train.

Which Old School RuneScape weapon, wielded at 70 Attack, is made from the spine of a demon?

Abyssal whip drops come from abyssal demons, and its special attack, Energy Drain, transfers a tenth of a rival player's run energy to the wielder.

Which Old School RuneScape minigame has teams of Saradomin and Zamorak steal the standard from each other's base?

Castle Wars punishes turncoat outfits: walk into Saradomin's portal in Zamorak's colours and the player is turned into a rabbit, while Zamorak turns offenders into imps.

Which lawless region in the north-east of Old School RuneScape's map lets players attack and loot one another?

The Wilderness rises from level 1 at its border ditch to level 56 in the far north, and each level widens the range of combat levels allowed to attack a player.

Which Old School RuneScape account mode, added in 2014, bars its players from trading with anyone else?

Ironman players are also shut out of the Grand Exchange, so every item must be gathered, made or won by the account itself.

New Old School RuneScape players leave Tutorial Island for which town, also the default respawn point after death?

Lumbridge is only the default: players can later move their respawn point elsewhere, and the town's tutors keep teaching newcomers the basics.

Which Old School RuneScape spell, unlocked at 55 Magic, turns an item into coins worth 60% of its value?

High Level Alchemy is used so widely that players call it alching, and the game shows a warning before it is cast on anything worth 1,000 coins or more.

The Grand Exchange, Old School RuneScape's marketplace for player trading, stands just north-west of which city?

Varrock was a trading hub even before the Grand Exchange was built: players used to gather at the city's west and east banks to buy and sell.

The Wise Old Man, infamous for robbing the local bank, lives in which Old School RuneScape settlement?

Draynor Village knows him by his title, but his real name is Dionysius, and he offers to clear junk quest items out of players' banks.

Which jungle island do free Old School RuneScape players reach by a 30-coin boat ride from Port Sarim?

Karamja lets players earn the fare straight back: the plantation owner Luthas pays 30 coins for every crate of bananas they fill.

Which Old School RuneScape skill sends players to masters such as Turael and Duradel for lists of monsters to kill?

Slayer tasks that prove too hard can be swapped by visiting Turael, the lowest-ranked master, though doing so resets the streak that earns reward points.

Which Old School RuneScape food, caught from level 40 Fishing and cooked at level 40, restores 12 Hitpoints?

Lobster is easy to burn at first, but the failures stop for good once the cook reaches level 74 Cooking.

Which Old School RuneScape items, graded from beginner to master, send players on Treasure Trails for a reward casket?

Clue scrolls are never lost when a player dies, and only the beginner grade can be found and solved on free-to-play worlds.

Old School RuneScape takes place in which fictional world, said to have been discovered and named by the god Guthix?

Gielinor keeps a calendar of 365 days split into 10 months, a hint that the planet moves much as Earth does.

Which Old School RuneScape adventure, open to brand-new accounts, can lift Attack and Strength from level 1 to 30?

Waterfall Quest can be finished at combat level 3, and its 13,750 experience in each of the two skills leaves a fresh character at combat level 22.

Which Old School RuneScape quest, ending in a fight with the Jungle Demon, unlocks the dragon scimitar?

Monkey Madness I sends players to Ape Atoll, one of the most dangerous areas in the game, to track down a missing military squad.

Which rare Old School RuneScape weapon from the Chambers of Xeric hits harder the higher its target's Magic level?

Twisted bow owners can load it with any type of arrow, and the bonus it draws from a target's Magic is capped higher inside the raid than outside it.

Which Old School RuneScape kingdom, added in 2016, is split between five houses that each rule one city?

Great Kourend formed a council to rule when King Kharedst IV died with his daughter Rose too young for the throne, and the council later declared her unfit and made itself permanent.

Which Old School RuneScape kingdom, opened in 2024, has Civitas illa Fortis as its capital and a Sun Queen as ruler?

Varlamore worships a sun god, Ralos, and a moon god, Ranul, instead of Saradomin, and newcomers fly in on a quetzal, a giant bird used as a mount.

Which Old School RuneScape area, at first reachable only by barge, lies north-east of Morytania?

Fossil Island opens only after the Bone Voyage quest, and its forest is where players track down herbiboars and plant hardwood trees.

Which Old School RuneScape quest, announced at RuneFest 2018, finally unlocked the elven city of Prifddinas?

Song of the Elves is the eighth and final quest of the Elf series, closing a civil-war storyline in which the city had been reverted to a crystal seed.

Which Old School RuneScape raid lets players set their own difficulty by switching on modifiers called invocations?

Tombs of Amascut is misnamed: the pyramid is really the tomb of Pharaoh Osmumten, and players help him drive the goddess Amascut away from it.

Which Old School RuneScape solo challenge beneath Mor Ul Rek ends on its 69th wave against TzKal-Zuk?

The Inferno offers no second chances: a player who is defeated must start again from the first wave, and nobody can restock supplies along the way.

Which Old School RuneScape League of 2020 started players in Misthalin and had them unlock regions by completing tasks?

Trailblazer players could unlock only three more areas, so every account had to decide which parts of the world to give up for the whole league.

Which boss, fought as a head and a pair of claws, guards the end of Old School RuneScape's Chambers of Xeric?

The Great Olm is named after the olm, a real salamander that lives in underground lakes, and Xeric's followers know the creature as the Guardian in the Deep.

Which boss area north of Trollheim returned to Old School RuneScape in 2013 after 89% of voters backed it?

God Wars Dungeon monsters attack anyone not wearing an item devoted to their god, so visitors dress for Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin and Zamorak all at once.

Old School RuneScape's mobile version won EE Mobile Game of the Year in 2019 at which ceremony?

BAFTA Games Awards judges had no say in this prize: it was new that year and decided by a vote of the British public.

Which PC storefront added Old School RuneScape in February 2021, eight years after the game first launched?

Steam came well after phones: the game had already reached Android and iOS in October 2018, passing a million installs in under two weeks.

Which weight-reducing Old School RuneScape outfit costs 260 tokens earned by running laps of Agility courses?

Graceful clothing also restores run energy 30% faster when the full set is worn, and its seller, Grace, trades from a den beneath a Burthorpe pub.

Which solo-only Old School RuneScape boss, cast into a swamp as a failed creation, is reached by a sacrificial boat?

Zulrah got its name from a player poll held before release, and its venom is so strong that ordinary poison protection only weakens it.

In Old School RuneScape, which Barrows brother's armour set raises his maximum hit as he loses Hitpoints?

Dharok's set effect, Wretched Strength, adds 1% to the maximum hit for every Hitpoint missing, so the set is at its deadliest one blow from death.

Rocky, a raccoon named after a Beatles song, is the skilling pet for which Old School RuneScape skill?

Thieving levels improve the odds of winning the pet, and raiding market stalls in Rellekka or Prifddinas is among the fastest ways to get him.

Which melee prayer in Old School RuneScape needs level 70 Prayer and the Knight Waves Training Grounds to unlock?

Piety lifts Defence by 25%, Strength by 23% and Attack by 20% while it is switched on, and it demands level 70 Defence as well.

Which Old School RuneScape boss, known as the Rat King, calls on giant rats for help during the fight?

Scurrius drops meat that cannot be cooked on the spot: the lair is too damp for players to get a blaze going.

Which Old School RuneScape boss, the only known living ourg, leads the forces of the god Bandos?

General Graardor waits behind a door that takes 70 Strength and a hammer to open, and visitors must first kill 40 of his god's followers or carry a key.

Which Old School RuneScape boss is the only monster to drop the arcane, elysian and spectral sigils?

Corporeal Beast owes its name to the original RuneScape, where it was the physical counterpart of a Spirit Beast defeated in the Spirit Realm; Old School never explains it.

Which item, carved from a branch on Entrana during the Lost City quest, lets Old School RuneScape players enter Zanaris?

Dramen staff carving takes level 31 Crafting, and the same trick, a smuggled branch and a knife, beats Koschei the Deathless in The Fremennik Trials.

Which solo Old School RuneScape minigame has players gear up in a random dungeon to fight the Crystalline Hunllef?

The Gauntlet began, in the story, as a training ground where the Amlodd Clan tested its fighters, and its boss is modelled on a wolf-like predator from the elven homeworld.

Which humorous Old School RuneScape quest starts with Yanni Salika in Shilo Village and a hunt for red mahogany logs?

One Small Favour never stays small: almost everyone the player turns to for help wants an errand run first, so one request grows into a long chain of them.

The Blast Furnace, an Old School RuneScape minigame for smelting bars in bulk, is found in which underground city?

Keldagrim opens once a player starts the quest The Giant Dwarf, and regulars can ride back there by mine cart from the Grand Exchange.

Which Old School RuneScape quest unlocks fights with Vardorvis, Duke Sucellus, the Leviathan and the Whisperer?

Desert Treasure II was billed as the hardest and longest quest in the game when it came out, and its four bosses are known together as the Forgotten Four.

Which Old School RuneScape gem is made by fusing shards dropped by demonic gorillas with a cut onyx?

Zenyte does not form naturally: the gem seems to be a by-product of Glough's mutagen, corrupted when the energy of a charged onyx was reversed.

Which proposed Old School RuneScape skill, unveiled at RuneFest 2018, failed its player poll and was never added?

Warding would have let players make magical robes and armour from fabrics, and it was developed in public for most of a year before the vote sank it.

Which Jagex chief executive announced the 2013 poll on reviving a 2007 backup of RuneScape as a separate game?

Mark Gerhard's poll drew 449,351 votes, short of the 500,000 needed for its top reward tier, yet Jagex granted several of that tier's perks anyway.

Which vampyre capital of Morytania do Old School RuneScape players enter through the quest Sins of the Father?

Darkmeyer demands a disguise: most of its features open only to players who have finished the quest and are wearing a set of vyre noble clothing.

Which Old School RuneScape boss must be grown from a seed in a Farming Guild cave before it can be fought?

Hespori takes 22 to 32 hours to grow, and trying to harvest the seed with a spade is what wakes the plant up.

Which Old School RuneScape boss, driven out of Ashihama, lurks in the Sisterhood Sanctuary beneath the town of Slepe?

The Nightmare arrived as the town was struck by the Sleeper Plague, and its release in 2020 was teased by sleepwalkers drifting towards the sanctuary.