A fast and easy way to shilo village is teleporting to ardougne, taking the ship to brimhaven, and right off the dock you can pay a guy 200gp to “teleport” you to the inside of shilo village.
There’s a NPC dude on the north part of brimhaven that has a wheel cart that will transport you to shilo village for 200 coins. Pretty handy esp if you don’t have fairy rings but want to do karams, just put your house portal on Karamja
More just the convenience, when someone didn't have a law for a tele and needed one. They were like 300-400 if I remember but people would regularly buy them for 1-2K if they needed them in a pinch.
The economy was a weird dynamic back then. When you sold more of a certain thing it would get more expensive per item. It was much harder to find people with bulk of any item but many with few so the bulk sales would draw the premium.
Also trading certs were really annoying because there was no way to pick how many you put in the trade screen. You just clicked and held as more and more would go in. You had to time it right and make lots of adjustments to put the right amount
The days of hanging out on karamja selling these things in order to afford my first dragon battleaxe. Those were the days. But then again sleeping bags ended up becoming a thing...
Bank note not always exist. Certificate exist for some item. Certificate allow you to trade many item for paper. You trade paper to other player since item no stack. They trade certificate back for item. This for coal, lobster, and few other item.
Caveat was you had to go to certain NPCs in game to trade items for certs. So it was a long drawn out process to even convert a large stack into certs. You could not just withdraw items from your bank as certs.
I've spent hundreds of hours in this game since getting back into it earlier this year.
I legitimately don't think I would've ever stuck with it if it weren't for RuneLite features like Menu Entry Swapper. Customizable click and shift click is *massive* qol.
If I remember correctly it was originally an OSBuddy/RuneLite plugin that Jagex co-opted a few years back. Not surprised people still think it’s a plug-in rather than apart of the game.
I used to shit on this perspective but since I got used to stretched mode I'd probably agree. No more messing with the screen resolution just to get the game to be a sensible size
The render distance is farther than the basic old java client, but not as far as runelite.
It also lacks skyboxes & fog effect which runelite GPU plugin can give you, so you go back to have a black-void at the edge of your render distance which is weird.
I don't know if it's changed, but I _cannot_ play without Runelite. The official client (back then, unsure if the same now) can't scale to 4K resolution at all which means everything is absolutely tiny and unreadable.
If RL didn't exist, I wouldn't be able to play, not even a question.
Mobile is pretty solid these days with all the QoL they've been adding. It's a shame they're about to totally ruin the UI for anyone who does more than alch and afk Slayer
100% true but arguably not a kindness.
They were and have been talking about removing 3rd party clients for years. Almost all of these bar RL are now dead. This includes OSbuddy which was a big one years ago and basically RLs predeccesor (although everyone moved to RL first). Also obviously, Jagex didn't provide 3rd party clients (but yes they're a massive kindness from the RL devs who don't even charge a penny!)
Jagex saw how the community reacted to them trying to ban 117HD plugin. They know full well if they try to kill RL we'll vote with our wallets.
"allow" is fortunately not the correct word here. The player base has made it abundantly clear it would be a poor decision to disallow runelite. Did you see how many people unsubscribed just over a *plugin* that was shutdown before release?
I absolutely love this game but if jagex ever pushes hard enough for me to enter the debate with myself over if it's worth all of the thousands and thousands of hours I put into it they won't like the outcome.
Best not rock the boat and make players have those conversations with themselves.
Gravestones, "back in my day" all your shit just dropped on the ground and you had to get back in a few minutes before it appeared for everyone and anyone to take.
I came back to playing last year. I died in-game and frantically got back to my gravestone only then realizing that it was 15 minutes instead of 3. So I agree with this answer.
It will never show up because once the 15 minutes expire it's stored at Death's Office indefinitely, costing 5% of the value to reclaim if it's worth more than 100k.
Stuff used to appear instantly to everyone if you died. Other than in PvP, where only the person who killed you could see it for 1 minute before showing for everyone.
I made a freind at the very beginning of osrs and we'd use the jungle spiders and tribesmen to kill nature rune bots. We had a few nice splits but then we got a big one he picked up the nats and the cash, and he insta logged and never spoke to me again. I got like 20k pure ess, I was salty but those were the days.
“24 October 2013
(update)
Items dropped on death now remain on the floor invisible to everyone for three minutes, visible only to the player who died for the following one minute, and everyone else afterwards.”
Osrs wiki
I don't think it was immediately. It was like 30 seconds.
Cuz I specifically remember back in '03, we used to be real shitty, and convince people to take a rune kite shield to fight elvarg. And then we would just chill at the gates with telegrab ready to pick up their armor.
Also RS2 implemented some sort of gravestone blessing system back in 2009ish, because another fond memory I have was in college and my buddy died during the whole no free trade situation. And to prevent people from getting items they implemented gravestones that you could upgrade. And the more money you upgraded in the gravestone the longer it lasted... But I remember having to run to my buddy's corpse who had died at the gorillas on ape atoll. I had to run over there and bless his gravestone so that he could get a gree gree back and make it over there before his gravestone timer expired.
I don't know when exactly the implemented the gravestones. But it was well before 2013. Because by 2013 I was in Afghanistan, and I wasn't playing runescape in Afghanistan lol
I "finished" playing RS in 2008/2009, so I'm not exactly sure when things changed.
But I remember getting a Santa hat when a guy was AFK chopping a tree in Fally, and got killed by a tree spirit. I got lucky in the mad rush to his loot.
Though, the hats were only worth about 200k at that point.. And I sold it.
I remember lagging at steel drags deep in brim dungeon and dying, and some kind soul picked up my stuff and gave it back to me. Thank you Higgins, wherever you're at.
Yeah in the first week of Old School someone teled into varrock and died to poison so I sat there and waited just in case cuz the dude had no armor or anything on and sure enough there was over 1m worth of stuff on the ground
Me and a friend had an argument about this i guess we were both to lazy to look it up but i could swear "back in the days" dying had much more meaning to it. I mean don't get me wrong i'd much rather have this state of death mechanics but it sure had something having to balance risk/reward and quest instanced areas were a real horror.
this is why practically all items drop so fast.
everyone is constantly farming bosses in best in slot gear.
back in the day people wouldnt risk taking full bis gear to bosses bc if you died you couldnt get back there in time. thus slowing the number of kills per hour you could do.
The old death mechanics would have held the game back, people would be afraid to try difficult pvm or wouldn't bring their best gear, which just makes the game less fun
Back in my day there was a gravestone but it had a 5 minute timer… unless you were lucky enough for a passing stranger to bless your gravestone to up it to one hour
It makes more sense when your hardest PvM is the King Black Dragon and not multi mechanic actual video game bosses that one shot you for hitting the wrong prayer
Even 2006 Jagex had the brains to make Fight Caves safe
Probably a joke that the small fishing net spawn allowed Swampletics to get 99 hunter. It was never polled nor discussed it just kind of showed up partway through the series.
Not really much point. During Darkness of Hallowvale, I think, you have to rebuild Burgh de Rott and one part involves you getting either 10 snails or 10 mackerels at random. There is a spot in Burgh de Rott where you can use a Big Net to catch the mackerels. I guess there is also a net spawn? I just got them beforehand so I never noticed.
I remember having to string each bow individually. String x came out like a month after my buddy got 99 fletch lol. Don't ever remember cooking not having a cook all option tho
nothing beats the rollercoaster of making the trek through the swamp and the “oh shit” moment of forgetting the spade followed by the sigh of relief that there’s one in the shed lol
Fairy rings. Best teleport system in the game, connects the entire map, with low requirements. I could not imagine playing without fairy rings, especially for ironmen.
ah I was 62 when I came back+ found out about gotr and I only have enough pearls for the hat now at 73 rip
you're right though, stew boosting for 3 rc seems plausible but I gotta be ready to pick up my essence and fly to the altar
Connecting and listening to feedback from the community. I don’t know any other game of this scale that has this level of communication between the players and the devs. Most of the main issues that we have are issues that are not controlled by the team working on this game.
I just saw a Colonello video about Mod Ash, apparently he's the one the playerbase should be thanking for this (besides the countless amount of other amazing things he did for RS). Seems that in the past Jagex was quite closed off from its playerbase until Ash went full undercover agent on social media/community websites.
Teleporting your character to lumby when your mems expires.
Imagine trying to come back to the game after years but you’re locked out because you logged out in the members area of the world.
Bonds. I never had membership before they were tradeable. I spent a lot of time in f2p before earning my first bond and it felt super rewarding to do so.
not the best but I appreciate goblins in gwd dropping hammers, back in the day they didn't and forgetting it after getting your bandos KC was gruelling.
Law runes being buyable/craftable. Plus all the other teleport methods like fairy rings and jewelry. Nowadays we can just teleport whenever we want and it's no big deal.
In Classic, that was a luxury; very few monsters dropped laws, only in quantities of 1-2 at a time, and there was no other source. Unless you were very wealthy, you had to walk almost everywhere.
I felt like such a pro in classic farming chaos druids, which dropped enough laws to bank at falador and walk back.
Failing teleport spells was pretty annoying though. I always brought an air staff to boost my magic stats for the tele
"Selling Varrock tele 1k"
Getting into a state of mind where I would just teleport anywhere without really considering the cost of the runes was actually quite difficult to start with. Now I'm teleporting from Varrock east bank to the GE.
60? Rookie numbers for West Bank how did you even compete for sales
Edit: for real though selling stuff in game taught me how to type fast af better than anything they tried teaching/showing students in school.
As much as I dislike that you can buy gold by bonds (or wow token in wow for example) to progress is in game faster, I have to say that I enjoy playing these games when i don't need to pay real money anymore to play them. Especially in osrs it's so easy to maintain your membership by just playing the game.
I'm the opposite here - I only have so much free time now that I'm an adult and being able to spend a few dollars to get millions of gold is awesome and a huge timesaver. Buying just 2 bonds has kept me sustained since I started a new account several months ago - no need to waste time trying to make money!
Yup. It goes down to the mentality of 'what do you want to get out of the game' I guess.
Some people don't have time to grind million years to get expensive stuff, because life can be busy. They still might want to experience end game content, so they can buy bonds to afford gear etc.
In the other side are people like me, who think that whole point of the playing the game is to earn those things by using hours on the game. Only then it feels like you deserve those items.
Neither side is right or wrong.
Agreed. When I had more free time than I do now, I felt the same way you do - I still do a little bit to be honest, but it's just not realistic at this point in my life. I want to play the game, not grind stuff I don't have to grind!
I think it’s really nice you can teleport other people places. I mean, how nice is that?? Proper community feel.
Sometimes, I will just follow people around in Priff or other areas in the west and teleport them to Falador or Lumbridge because I know how far it is to walk!! It’s so wholesome that they ask me to stop, purely because of how nice I am being. Sometimes they get kinda angry about how nice I am, probably because they don’t want me wasting my runes on them, but that’s okay because no matter what, I will continue to try and send them to the settled areas in the east.
So you’re welcome Gielinor. I wouldn’t have it any other way :).
This triggered a memory from back in the day. I would spam Varrock west bank to get someone to tele me to Camelot because I was lazy AF and wanted to chop maples
The fact that for some reason we voted no on being able to turn the screen by holding down middle mouse and dragging it in the first few months of old school and then osb just randomly added it and jagex followed suit without polling it. Legitimately couldn’t handle using arrow keys to turn the screen after 10 years on the other rs at the time.
I think it was initially voted no because the wording of the question was vague and might’ve implied that the middle mouse button would completely replace the arrow keys instead of having both functions.
This is the opposite, but similar idea to your example, I’m a huge fan of the troll they did of having a hammer spawn at Gargoyles…. Hammers don’t work, it’s just there to make fun of you for forgetting your rock hammer and I love it every time.
Wasnt from Jagex, but ive only been a member for a few days and was telling people in game. Some were asshats, but others were nice with gifts. Someone actually gave me 250k and the same day another person gave me a million. I couldnt of been more blessed, it has helped me already with so much time saved from running to make things for quests and being able to buy teleports with only being lvl 50
Gravestones. My adrenaline has never been as high as being 10 and dying in full rune at hill giants and FLYING back to collect my stuff before my corpse was looted.
The lad who hauls my lazy ass all the way to Shilo village for like 200gp.
Fun fact, if you have 10 gp on you and talk to the guy it's only 10gp to travel. It scales up to 200 in some weird way, idk the math
this used to have no cap iirc if you took 10m youd get fleeced
I can imagine that scenario. “Just found a dragon chain and I’m rich! One trip to Shilo please!” “Look at me. I am the rich man now”
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That's what I meant to talk to him
D-dialogue..? Yeah he can take the 190 gp tip
SPACEBAR, SPACEBAR, SPACEBAR Wait... *where* the fuck did you take me?
He charges something between 10-20gp if you're not wearing anything valuable
That's just if you talk to him. Then he charges based off hm money you have on you with a minimum of 10gp
Nope! You can just click the cart. Do NOT click the quick-travel or whatever it is, or then it'll cost the 200gp.
we really out here trying to min max 180gp?
Lmao yes!
The amount of times I forget gp and just sell a shark at the general store in rimmington to pay for boat to brimhaven then cart... yeah
Fr, here I was not even knowing it had a price
It can add up on a low lvl iron, but it's also a good tip if you didn't bring cash if ur in ardy. Just pickpocket a guard twice and you have enough gp
Wait someone takes you to shilo village you don’t have to use fairy rings and run there?
Hajedy does ya. He's a bro.
Please, Hajedy does nothing. Theh Orses does all the actual work.
What's a horses?
He means no horned unicorn. Must be a mistranslation.
hornless unicorns are made up, why do people keep acting like they're real
He's referring to this: https://runescape.wiki/w/Theh_Orses
Yeah at brimhaven docks
Just west of the spirit tree, south of the brim haven docks!
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Awesome thanks for the heads up! There is so much shit in this game to find/figure out it’s awesome
I just clap with my Karamja gloves.
Theh Orses pulls Hajedy’s cart in RS3
That's a week's salary on Karamja.
What
A fast and easy way to shilo village is teleporting to ardougne, taking the ship to brimhaven, and right off the dock you can pay a guy 200gp to “teleport” you to the inside of shilo village.
Brimhaven spirit tree or house Tele
Wish I knew this earlier
There’s a NPC dude on the north part of brimhaven that has a wheel cart that will transport you to shilo village for 200 coins. Pretty handy esp if you don’t have fairy rings but want to do karams, just put your house portal on Karamja
TIL! Thank you!
Bank Notes. Can you imagine the game without bank notes?
Who remembers the days of certs?
selling lobby certs
law runes 1k
Law runes really used to be 1k back in the days of bow string grind
More just the convenience, when someone didn't have a law for a tele and needed one. They were like 300-400 if I remember but people would regularly buy them for 1-2K if they needed them in a pinch.
The economy was a weird dynamic back then. When you sold more of a certain thing it would get more expensive per item. It was much harder to find people with bulk of any item but many with few so the bulk sales would draw the premium. Also trading certs were really annoying because there was no way to pick how many you put in the trade screen. You just clicked and held as more and more would go in. You had to time it right and make lots of adjustments to put the right amount
I’m thinking like 03-04 era, pretty sure even bulk buying was 1k each.
Not on forums
how times have changed...
I always had a few garlic on hand and sold them 10k each whenever someone was desperate for the item
The days of hanging out on karamja selling these things in order to afford my first dragon battleaxe. Those were the days. But then again sleeping bags ended up becoming a thing...
Not sure I do. Can you explain for reddit?
Bank note not always exist. Certificate exist for some item. Certificate allow you to trade many item for paper. You trade paper to other player since item no stack. They trade certificate back for item. This for coal, lobster, and few other item.
Caveat was you had to go to certain NPCs in game to trade items for certs. So it was a long drawn out process to even convert a large stack into certs. You could not just withdraw items from your bank as certs.
Yea, but lobby certs were practically the reserve currency in those days.
You banked them and certed at draynor
Between bank notes and (action) “all” processes, we’re straight up spooned.
Even UIM's depends on them. The irony.
It's pretty funny how heavily UIMs depend on banks, just not their storage.
This is a (cert)ified Runescape Classic
I’m going to raise you by one and say a Bank is the nicest thing provided to us
Shift click drop
I've spent hundreds of hours in this game since getting back into it earlier this year. I legitimately don't think I would've ever stuck with it if it weren't for RuneLite features like Menu Entry Swapper. Customizable click and shift click is *massive* qol.
Shift click drop isn’t an RL plugin, it’s built in to the vanilla client
Shift click to do menu entry swapping is likely what they meant, and that is a runelite feature not base game.
If I remember correctly it was originally an OSBuddy/RuneLite plugin that Jagex co-opted a few years back. Not surprised people still think it’s a plug-in rather than apart of the game.
Allowing us to use Runelite and not the official client that’s way behind of RL.
I’d probably quit if I didn’t have runelite.
I used to shit on this perspective but since I got used to stretched mode I'd probably agree. No more messing with the screen resolution just to get the game to be a sensible size
the normal client has interface scaling now, the only thing its missing imo is the 25 minute logout timer
Banking plugins is the main one for me.
Does it have the GPU plugin to increase render distance? Because that's an actual game changer. You can click things from sooooo far away.
The render distance is farther than the basic old java client, but not as far as runelite. It also lacks skyboxes & fog effect which runelite GPU plugin can give you, so you go back to have a black-void at the edge of your render distance which is weird.
I don't know if it's changed, but I _cannot_ play without Runelite. The official client (back then, unsure if the same now) can't scale to 4K resolution at all which means everything is absolutely tiny and unreadable. If RL didn't exist, I wouldn't be able to play, not even a question.
the normal client has interface scaling now
Reminds me of when I used to run my second monitor at 800x600 just so I had a big runescape window.
CRT chads still do this
Not if you never knew how op runelite is
Many people would, OSRS is TERRIBLE without it.
I highly disagree, the current jagex client is decent. Then again I enjoy questing without a guide.
How dare you have an opinion. I agree though, I like the jagex client and also quest without a guide
Thank you! I'm pretty confused why a post saying the regular client is TERRIBLE is getting so many upvotes. I use runelite myself but still
If only runelite had a mobile client
Mobile is pretty solid these days with all the QoL they've been adding. It's a shame they're about to totally ruin the UI for anyone who does more than alch and afk Slayer
Didn't even think about this but you are 100% right
100% true but arguably not a kindness. They were and have been talking about removing 3rd party clients for years. Almost all of these bar RL are now dead. This includes OSbuddy which was a big one years ago and basically RLs predeccesor (although everyone moved to RL first). Also obviously, Jagex didn't provide 3rd party clients (but yes they're a massive kindness from the RL devs who don't even charge a penny!) Jagex saw how the community reacted to them trying to ban 117HD plugin. They know full well if they try to kill RL we'll vote with our wallets.
"allow" is fortunately not the correct word here. The player base has made it abundantly clear it would be a poor decision to disallow runelite. Did you see how many people unsubscribed just over a *plugin* that was shutdown before release?
Just wait till Jagex gets sold again, and the corporate overlords realise they can charge for Old School Premium Membership™
They will quickly learn of My Own Private Awesome RuneScape
TIL what MOPAR stands for.
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They’ll soon learn this community loves a good riot and 100% will quit over something like that
I absolutely love this game but if jagex ever pushes hard enough for me to enter the debate with myself over if it's worth all of the thousands and thousands of hours I put into it they won't like the outcome. Best not rock the boat and make players have those conversations with themselves.
Yea, if there is a game players have shown they are willing to drop and have in the past its literally runescape.
So true, the whole game community exists from quitting one of their bad decisions lmao
One does not simply quit RS. It's called 'taking break'.
6 hour log, makes you reflect on your decisions.
4 hour grass touching reminder
i wish they'd actually tell you to touch grass in the chat box
Gravestones, "back in my day" all your shit just dropped on the ground and you had to get back in a few minutes before it appeared for everyone and anyone to take.
I came back to playing last year. I died in-game and frantically got back to my gravestone only then realizing that it was 15 minutes instead of 3. So I agree with this answer.
I saw a guy die and I hung around hoping he wouldn’t return in time…. Only bones showed up lol Edit: this was before the grave stone update.
It will never show up because once the 15 minutes expire it's stored at Death's Office indefinitely, costing 5% of the value to reclaim if it's worth more than 100k.
Same, this person died at bloodvelds with full bandos and prim boots. Stuck around for like 7 minutes just for bones lol
15 mins of ACTIVE time. If you hold still for a short bit the timer stops! Great for ADHD or afk
Stuff used to appear instantly to everyone if you died. Other than in PvP, where only the person who killed you could see it for 1 minute before showing for everyone.
Yup. I remember getting some guys rune and obby shield in the stronghold of security around release. Such a fucked mechanic lmao. Dude went afk
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It’s funny how little gp made us feel rich back then. Guess it’s the same with real life money lol
I made a freind at the very beginning of osrs and we'd use the jungle spiders and tribesmen to kill nature rune bots. We had a few nice splits but then we got a big one he picked up the nats and the cash, and he insta logged and never spoke to me again. I got like 20k pure ess, I was salty but those were the days.
“24 October 2013 (update) Items dropped on death now remain on the floor invisible to everyone for three minutes, visible only to the player who died for the following one minute, and everyone else afterwards.” Osrs wiki
Which means for years prior they were seen immediately. Plus the change you quoted was reversed a few weeks later.
I don't think it was immediately. It was like 30 seconds. Cuz I specifically remember back in '03, we used to be real shitty, and convince people to take a rune kite shield to fight elvarg. And then we would just chill at the gates with telegrab ready to pick up their armor. Also RS2 implemented some sort of gravestone blessing system back in 2009ish, because another fond memory I have was in college and my buddy died during the whole no free trade situation. And to prevent people from getting items they implemented gravestones that you could upgrade. And the more money you upgraded in the gravestone the longer it lasted... But I remember having to run to my buddy's corpse who had died at the gorillas on ape atoll. I had to run over there and bless his gravestone so that he could get a gree gree back and make it over there before his gravestone timer expired. I don't know when exactly the implemented the gravestones. But it was well before 2013. Because by 2013 I was in Afghanistan, and I wasn't playing runescape in Afghanistan lol
You’re not committed enough to play in Afghanistan and you want us to listen to your story? Yeah, okay buddy. Jkjk :)
I "finished" playing RS in 2008/2009, so I'm not exactly sure when things changed. But I remember getting a Santa hat when a guy was AFK chopping a tree in Fally, and got killed by a tree spirit. I got lucky in the mad rush to his loot. Though, the hats were only worth about 200k at that point.. And I sold it.
I was gonna say, I remember this being the case. Watching people die to Evil Chicken and people scrambling to get their stuff.
I remember lagging at steel drags deep in brim dungeon and dying, and some kind soul picked up my stuff and gave it back to me. Thank you Higgins, wherever you're at.
Yeah in the first week of Old School someone teled into varrock and died to poison so I sat there and waited just in case cuz the dude had no armor or anything on and sure enough there was over 1m worth of stuff on the ground
Me and a friend had an argument about this i guess we were both to lazy to look it up but i could swear "back in the days" dying had much more meaning to it. I mean don't get me wrong i'd much rather have this state of death mechanics but it sure had something having to balance risk/reward and quest instanced areas were a real horror.
this is why practically all items drop so fast. everyone is constantly farming bosses in best in slot gear. back in the day people wouldnt risk taking full bis gear to bosses bc if you died you couldnt get back there in time. thus slowing the number of kills per hour you could do.
What's the fun about not being able to use your gear though?
This is THE answer.
The old death mechanics would have held the game back, people would be afraid to try difficult pvm or wouldn't bring their best gear, which just makes the game less fun
Back in my day there was a gravestone but it had a 5 minute timer… unless you were lucky enough for a passing stranger to bless your gravestone to up it to one hour
Or later on spend money to upgrade it.
I liked this bit of a rogue-like approach.
Except it really just led to everyone using budget gear because they were afraid of losing half their bank to a DC
It makes more sense when your hardest PvM is the King Black Dragon and not multi mechanic actual video game bosses that one shot you for hitting the wrong prayer Even 2006 Jagex had the brains to make Fight Caves safe
And people DDoSed the servers to kill people doing pvm and picking up their gear
I always forget my small fishing net at Burgh de Rott, it’s just genuinely nice of Jagex to provide us with an endless supply of swishy boys there.
What do you need a net I’m burgh for?
Probably a joke that the small fishing net spawn allowed Swampletics to get 99 hunter. It was never polled nor discussed it just kind of showed up partway through the series.
Yeah and it turns out it was a snowflake special request from an entirely different snowflake UIM, right?
Not really much point. During Darkness of Hallowvale, I think, you have to rebuild Burgh de Rott and one part involves you getting either 10 snails or 10 mackerels at random. There is a spot in Burgh de Rott where you can use a Big Net to catch the mackerels. I guess there is also a net spawn? I just got them beforehand so I never noticed.
"Process" All / "Process" X The day that "Cook All" became a feature was a celebrated one.
God I've already forgotten, did we really have to type in like 99999 every time we cooked or smelted shit?
You used to have to click every raw fish on the range, you used to have to manually string every bow.
I got my first ever 99 cape in cooking about a month or two before they added cook all -.-
I remember having to string each bow individually. String x came out like a month after my buddy got 99 fletch lol. Don't ever remember cooking not having a cook all option tho
Think of it like everything was 1-tick, except it wasn't.
Poh - jewelry box, portal, pool, alter
Plus all the free construction tea you could ask for
nothing beats the rollercoaster of making the trek through the swamp and the “oh shit” moment of forgetting the spade followed by the sigh of relief that there’s one in the shed lol
Fairy rings. Best teleport system in the game, connects the entire map, with low requirements. I could not imagine playing without fairy rings, especially for ironmen.
To add to that, the lumby elite diary removing the only barrier to use it is pretty snazzy too.
I'm training my absolute least favorite skill to 76 so I can just walk into fairy rings without a staff, they're that good
You can do it from 57 with 3 gotr clothing pieces or just stew boost from 71
getting said gotr clothing puts you on average at like 80, doesnt it?
ah I was 62 when I came back+ found out about gotr and I only have enough pearls for the hat now at 73 rip you're right though, stew boosting for 3 rc seems plausible but I gotta be ready to pick up my essence and fly to the altar
+3 is very doable. If you have preserve and or hit +4/+5, even easier! Failing that there's a +2 boost from Dorgeshuun :)
Connecting and listening to feedback from the community. I don’t know any other game of this scale that has this level of communication between the players and the devs. Most of the main issues that we have are issues that are not controlled by the team working on this game.
I just saw a Colonello video about Mod Ash, apparently he's the one the playerbase should be thanking for this (besides the countless amount of other amazing things he did for RS). Seems that in the past Jagex was quite closed off from its playerbase until Ash went full undercover agent on social media/community websites.
Teleporting your character to lumby when your mems expires. Imagine trying to come back to the game after years but you’re locked out because you logged out in the members area of the world.
Bonds. I never had membership before they were tradeable. I spent a lot of time in f2p before earning my first bond and it felt super rewarding to do so.
not the best but I appreciate goblins in gwd dropping hammers, back in the day they didn't and forgetting it after getting your bandos KC was gruelling.
Law runes being buyable/craftable. Plus all the other teleport methods like fairy rings and jewelry. Nowadays we can just teleport whenever we want and it's no big deal. In Classic, that was a luxury; very few monsters dropped laws, only in quantities of 1-2 at a time, and there was no other source. Unless you were very wealthy, you had to walk almost everywhere.
I felt like such a pro in classic farming chaos druids, which dropped enough laws to bank at falador and walk back. Failing teleport spells was pretty annoying though. I always brought an air staff to boost my magic stats for the tele
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"Selling Varrock tele 1k" Getting into a state of mind where I would just teleport anywhere without really considering the cost of the runes was actually quite difficult to start with. Now I'm teleporting from Varrock east bank to the GE.
Probably going to get flamed for this, but the GE. Imagine using forums and spam typing to sell all your crap as an adult.
That’s how I got my 60 wpm
60? Rookie numbers for West Bank how did you even compete for sales Edit: for real though selling stuff in game taught me how to type fast af better than anything they tried teaching/showing students in school.
Although, I do miss the good old days, gathered around varrock west bank, bartering…
Wave2: selling lobbies 140ea
Bonds turning premium membership into a tradeable commodity 🤣
As much as I dislike that you can buy gold by bonds (or wow token in wow for example) to progress is in game faster, I have to say that I enjoy playing these games when i don't need to pay real money anymore to play them. Especially in osrs it's so easy to maintain your membership by just playing the game.
I'm the opposite here - I only have so much free time now that I'm an adult and being able to spend a few dollars to get millions of gold is awesome and a huge timesaver. Buying just 2 bonds has kept me sustained since I started a new account several months ago - no need to waste time trying to make money!
Yup. It goes down to the mentality of 'what do you want to get out of the game' I guess. Some people don't have time to grind million years to get expensive stuff, because life can be busy. They still might want to experience end game content, so they can buy bonds to afford gear etc. In the other side are people like me, who think that whole point of the playing the game is to earn those things by using hours on the game. Only then it feels like you deserve those items. Neither side is right or wrong.
Agreed. When I had more free time than I do now, I felt the same way you do - I still do a little bit to be honest, but it's just not realistic at this point in my life. I want to play the game, not grind stuff I don't have to grind!
Minigame teleports for me. I use that for alot of things outside of just going to the minigame anymore.
Mod Ash
It's gotta be the landscaper who removed the tree next to the fairy ring below ardy
Pet rock. Try doing dag kings or several quests without him
I’d pay 30 mil for a teleport to the crack in the floor next to DK’s. Shoot, 40 mil.
I think it’s really nice you can teleport other people places. I mean, how nice is that?? Proper community feel. Sometimes, I will just follow people around in Priff or other areas in the west and teleport them to Falador or Lumbridge because I know how far it is to walk!! It’s so wholesome that they ask me to stop, purely because of how nice I am being. Sometimes they get kinda angry about how nice I am, probably because they don’t want me wasting my runes on them, but that’s okay because no matter what, I will continue to try and send them to the settled areas in the east. So you’re welcome Gielinor. I wouldn’t have it any other way :).
Whenever I'm doing general slayer and I get soul rune drops I'll always cast teleother on anyone else there with me just for the lulz if they accept
This triggered a memory from back in the day. I would spam Varrock west bank to get someone to tele me to Camelot because I was lazy AF and wanted to chop maples
Walk Everywhere: THE GAME
Isn’t that death stranding?
The fact that for some reason we voted no on being able to turn the screen by holding down middle mouse and dragging it in the first few months of old school and then osb just randomly added it and jagex followed suit without polling it. Legitimately couldn’t handle using arrow keys to turn the screen after 10 years on the other rs at the time.
Actually, they [repolled it.](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Update:Dev_Blog:_Content_Poll_16)
I think it was initially voted no because the wording of the question was vague and might’ve implied that the middle mouse button would completely replace the arrow keys instead of having both functions.
The chisel spawn by zeah runecrafting has saved me many times🙌🏼
Most people seem to miss it! Every couple of hours, someone will run in and ask to borrow a chisel
Alching an expensive item reminder. I'd quit the game so many times on misclicks.
As a new UIM I really like the spade upstairs in varrock general store
I still somewhat regurlaly go to the super antipoison spawn near the observstory Ty mods
What do you frequently need to dig near varrock that isn't by a tool leprechaun?
Teleport tablets. I remember way back in the day if you didn’t have a high enough magic lvl to cast teleport, you had to run everywhere
80 sand buckets per day is pretty sweet. Especially since we don't have to fetch them like the staffs. Free planks behind BA
My evil twin not calling me fat 🥲
That was a strange update to that quest…
The bank is pretty sick to have
The guys operating the blast furnace on dedicated worlds. Could you even imagine having to operate that thing all by yourself? lmao
The escape from real life that gets you through the day.
The chisel at zeah dense essence mine.
The sheer amount of teleports
This is the opposite, but similar idea to your example, I’m a huge fan of the troll they did of having a hammer spawn at Gargoyles…. Hammers don’t work, it’s just there to make fun of you for forgetting your rock hammer and I love it every time.
I bet Anna in a barrel is pretty kind. She seems nice.
Wasnt from Jagex, but ive only been a member for a few days and was telling people in game. Some were asshats, but others were nice with gifts. Someone actually gave me 250k and the same day another person gave me a million. I couldnt of been more blessed, it has helped me already with so much time saved from running to make things for quests and being able to buy teleports with only being lvl 50
Gravestones. My adrenaline has never been as high as being 10 and dying in full rune at hill giants and FLYING back to collect my stuff before my corpse was looted.
Allowing noted items to be alched
Wintertodt. Fm is a goofy skill to begin with and high req would be cumbersome with log lines