| CONTENTS (click for your desired section) |
| Introduction |
| Tutorial |
| Traveling in RuneScape |
| Skills and Quests |
| Reporting Abuse |
| Music |
| Another Angle |
As you probably already know, RuneScape is an online mass multiplayer role-playing game created by Jagex Ltd. You can do almost anything in RuneScape: trade items, complete quests, raise skills, talk to people, and listen to music! This guide will get you started with the game, and load you with tips and information. Also, if you are new to RuneScape, please bookmark this site, as we have many useful guides and reports about the game, as well as a great forum, where many RuneScape players buy and sell items, give you help, or just talk about anything.
To start RuneScape, you first click the “Create a free account” button, which looks like this:
Select a username (maximum twelve characters), read and agree to the terms of service, and create a password (between five and twenty characters). Make sure you keep this password safe, and do not make it anything obvious. Including numbers is a good idea. After these simple steps, your account is ready to be played!
Click here for a guide on Tutorial Island
RuneScape is a fairly large game, with many places to go and to see. This section will explain the nonmembers’ areas of RuneScape. If you are a member, chances are you don’t need to be reading this guide. There are about three primary cities in RuneScape, and some secondary ones as well. The three main primary ones are Al Kharid, Falador, and Varrock, from smallest to largest. Go to our Location Guide section for more detailed information on these and many more places.
Varrock is the main nonmembers’ city, with merchants and PKers (player-killers) there all the time. There are two banks, at each end of the city, and a wide variety of shops as well. Varrock is close to the wilderness (the large, dangerous area to the north where players can kill each other), so be prepared to be challenged while wandering the northern streets. You can not die while in Varrock, though, the wilderness area is more north!
Then there’s Falador, if you go west of Varrock, past Barbarian Village, and a bit south. Sometimes abbreviated as “Fally,” Falador is a good city, with two banks and a few shops. This is where many miners come to bank their ores mined at the Dwarven mines (located a little bit north of Falador). You will also find the legendary White Knight’s Castle here, a good training place once you become more experienced and higher-leveled. The Varrock-Falador commute is one of the longest you will make, and I found that I made it quite often.
Al Kharid, the desert city, is the farthest settlement in eastern nonmembers’ land. Here you will find a bank, a range, a castle, a few shops; all the necessities of a successful city. You can also train low-leveled fishing here at the fishing spots of shrimp and anchovies.
Another secondary city, Lumbridge, is where you go when you are killed anywhere in RuneScape. It is also where you first started the game. Here you will find a general store, Bob’s Axes, and, of course, the Lumbridge Castle itself. This city is fairly close to Al Kharid, so you may find yourself making this commute a lot as well.
Draynor Village, a secondary little town, is good for woodcutting; as there are four yew trees east of this town, and a bank at the southern end. You can also find Diango, an interesting toys salesman, at the market area of the town. Draynor Manor, a creepy old mansion, is north of this quiet village, waiting for an adventurer to complete a quest inside…
Edgeville, a northern edge town, houses many PKers coming in for a food break. There is also an entrance to a great training dungeon here, along with a couple yew trees. There is a general store here, and that is about it, a small town, ‘tis. If you visit edgeville in world 18 or in world 2 you will notice that it is hugely popular for trading items such as potions and sharks or anything pker related, as this the the closest point for the player killers to access a bank! This samll village is also one of the teleports on the dragon amulet.
Port Sarim is another small, dockside town. Here you can travel to Karamja to fight lesser demons or fish lobsters and swordfish off of its docks. Port Sarim itself features a ring shop, and a fishing supplies store. Located a little west of Draynor, come here for your jewelry or fishing needs.
Barbarian Village, one of the smallest places in RuneScape, is focused on crafting. Being a good training place for low-levels as well, it marks the midpoint between Falador and Varrock.
Rimmington, the last town we will discuss, also has a crafting shop and four yew trees. Having no bank and being far away from one, this town is not very practical for basic visitation.
Methods of Transportation:
1) Walk- requires no energy, however considerably slower than other transportation
2) Run- uses up energy, you learned how to do this in the tutorial, the speed of the energy it uses up depends on the weight you are carrying
3) Teleport- instant, obviously, however this requires runes and advanced magic level. You can only do this between Varrock, Falador, and Lumbridge.
Skills:
This section will give you a basic overview of each one of the nonmembers’ skills.
Attack- One of the four melee combat skills, raising this skill determines how often you hit your opponent. Getting this skill to certain levels also allows you to wield different types of weapons.
Defense- One of the four melee combat skills, raising this skill determines how often your opponent hits you; the higher it is, the less you get hit. This skill determines what types of armor you can wear.
Strength- One of the four melee combat skills, raising this skill determines how hard you hit; the higher it is, the more damage you do.
Ranging- The art of archery, for nonmembers. Raising this allows you to wield different bows, wear different ranging armor, and increase the strength and accuracy of your arrows. This is a combat stat.
Prayer- Raising this religious little skill allows you to use different prayers to increase your odds of winning in a combat situation. This is raised by burying bones. This is also a combat stat.
Magic- This skill requires runes, which are the “batteries” of magic. You can cast different, more accurate, and stronger spells when raising this skill. This is another combat stat.
Runecrafting- The name says it all; you can make the runes which power your spells. This requires rune essence, available after you complete the Rune Mysteries Quest.
Hitpoints- This skill is raised with every combat skill that you train, your hitpoint determines how much damage you can take, i.e if you have 10hp you will die after receiving 10 hits against you.
Crafting- A fairly hard skill unless you are a member, this allows you to make different crafts, such as leather armor, pots, bowls, and jewelry. Also, you can cut different gems when raising it.
Mining- A profitable skill, requires just a pickaxe to do. You can enter the Mining Guild with level 60 mining. You can save these ores and smelt them, or sell them.
Smithing- Goes hand in hand with mining, you smelt the ores you obtain, and then you can smith the bars you smelted into weapons, armor, and other useful things such as nails. Also a profitable skill, can be expensive if you buy bars instead of mining them.
Fishing- You can fish different fish when raising this skill, and use different fishing tools. The highest fish to obtain in nonmembers in a swordfish, available, as well as lobsters, only on the docks of Karamja.
Cooking- This skill is related to fishing; players usually cook the fish that they fish. This can be useful during training or PKing, fish are always a good source of food. You can cook other foods, as well, though, such as bread, stew, and even pizza.
Firemaking- You make fires with this skill, pretty self-explanatory. You can cook on these fires that you make, or light them for quests. All you need is a tinderbox and logs for this simple skill.
Woodcutting- Another profitable skill, you use a woodcutting axe with a tree to cut the tree down and get logs. The higher this skill rises, the more and more valuable trees you can cut!
RuneScape Members Only Skills: (You must be a paying member of the game to unlock these skills)
Slayer- Money can be made at high levels when the high slayer monsters drop expensive items such as abyssal whips, this is a members only skill and ties in very well with the combat skills as you need to fight monsters to raise the level.
Construction- Another members only skill, you can make a house of your own in a variety of different styles and locations depending on your level. This skill also allows you to make a number of useful and not so useful items / rooms to put in your house!
Farming- With this skill you can plant herbs, trees, fruit, hops and much much more! it is very useful if you like to be self sufficient in runescape.
Hunter- This skill allows you to hunt and capture a variety of animals using different methods like pitfall traps, bird snaring and even using a falcon! You can use the furs an parts of the different creatures to make lots of interesting items. When playing RuneScape, there is a large variety of music you can listen to. Different music is obtained and able to be played at any time when you visit a certain location. So when you go to Location X, you get Location X music in your “jukebox,” or music collection. You can let music play automatically, or select your own music, and even loop a song to play it over and over again. You can also adjust the volume of music in the player controls menu (the wrench). You can view a list of Music and the locations to activate them in our Music of RuneScape guide. Starting off in Runescape being level 1 at practically everything isn’t easy, but once you get your feet off the ground its much easier. Obviously the best place to start would be getting your ‘Basic Combat’ stats up. These 3 skills are attack, strength and defense. There are others such as ranged, magic, prayer and hit points but they are not necessary to do as soon as you start. As I said basic combat is the place to start. Well where are you going to train? There are 2 options which we recommend. The first one is fighting goblins. They are just across the bridge from where you start. The coins they drop may be petty, but it is necessary to start collecting now. The other place I mentioned is fighting against cows. There will be some higher level players here trying to collect ‘cow hides’ but just ignore them and concentrate on fighting cows. It might also be handy to collect the meat they drop after they die so you can cook and eat it to replenish your health. The cows are just north of the goblins. I suggest, as you have only just started, to get your Attack, Strength and Defense up to around 5 each. By now your combat level should grown a few levels as well (around 7). So now your attack, strength and defense are 5, so what next? A good place to get some money to start off is to do the chefs assistant quest (for details on how to complete this quest, go to the quest help section). As you can’t do much in Lumbridge, I suggest that you take a trip to Varrock. Follow the map shown below to get there. Varrock is usually known as the center point of Runescape as it is between Lumbridge and Falador (2 other towns). There are heaps of quests that you can start here as well as many shops. It also plays host to an entrance to the Wilderness. A warning, enter the wilderness at your own risk. In the wilderness other people can attack you and take your items! Just west of Varrock is a small village known as Barbarian Village. Here is an excellent place to train. You will need something to replenish your health as barbarian’s level ranges from 7-8. Inside the pub there is beer which will heel you 1 hit point but it will alter your attack levels. If you have some cooked meat leftover from the cows you should use that. If you follow the path west again you’ll find a place called Falador, but you’ll have to discover that yourself! Reporting Abuse
Runescape is not always perfect. There are many players within the game that simply just do not follow the rules. These kind of people are horrible and many times ruin the game for the rest of us. You can help out, though, but using the Report Abuse Button. You can learn how to use that with all of the specifics in the Reporting Abuse Guide.