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Thursday, Sep 24

Localisation's Answers - Developer's Blog

Ronitopp asks: I read somewhere that you are going to release RuneScape: Finnish. Is this true? Camilo101480 asks: 1. When will be rs translated to spanish? 2. While we wait for rs spanish, when are you going to create spanish forums? 3. What Jagex Mods can speak spanish?

Wednesday, Sep 23

Woodcutting Rebalance

We've removed the doors to Edgeville's furnace to make it easier to use, but moved the furnace two squares further from the bank to maintain the balance. You will still need to have completed the necessary Varrock Achievement Diary tasks in order to use the furnace.

Thursday, Jun 4

How to Get Varrock Armour in RS?

Getting the Varrock Armor in RuneScape is somewhat time consuming, especially if you want to get the Varrock 3 set. Yes, like some other RuneScape armor sets, there are three different levels of Varrock Armor. The steps outlined below list how to get the first level of Varrock Armor. Complet...

Thursday, May 14

Limited Edition Chosen Commander Hoodies

For those unfamiliar with Bandos, he is the god of goblins, orks, ogres, and other brutal creatures (many of which are mercifully extinct). He identifies himself as a god of war, and the goblins refer to him as the ‘Big High War God’. The origins of his symbol aren't known, but it has been used t...

Sunday, May 10

Offence System Update

As part of our focus on the RuneScape community, we’ve transformed our offence system; we’ve also made some changes to the Rules of RuneScape. Most importantly, many offences will now expire after 12 months. The Rules of RuneScape Final Note

Runescape Ranged

The ranged combat style in RuneScape is what allows players to attack monsters and other enemies from a distance using various projectiles. This allows players to attack and then dodge behind an object to avoid damage. Players can also fire over barricades. Those who prefer this combat sty...

Tuesday, Apr 28

Summoning Upgrade And Hairstyles

Last but not least, we would like to point you towards a new link in the quest journals. The QuestHelp system is now accessible directly from your quest journal, and you don’t even need to log into the website to access either a hint or a spoiler for a quest.

Tuesday, Apr 21

Tale Of The Muspah

It’s been great to work on a quest that involves one of RuneScape’s most mysterious races, and develop a plotline that’s been around since the early days of RuneScape. This is the first part of a new quest series, and paves the way for following quests.

Wednesday, Apr 8

Easter 2009

This event revisits the past, so if you’ve played previous Easter events you’ll recognise the incubator from 2008 and the Easter Bird from 2006. Find out what makes the Easter Bunny tick, and you could also earn yourself a new fun weapon. So what are you waiting for? Go seek out the Easter Bunn...

Saturday, Apr 4

Jagex Wins Business Of The Year For Cambridge

Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard and founder Andrew Gower (3rd from left), with Paul Cullen, from sponsor Price Bailey, and Kate Adie at the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards 2009. Jagex's RuneScape and FunOrb - a games portal - remain hugely popular and a new MMORPG is expected this year.

Wednesday, Apr 1

Glorious Memories

is my first quest and it has been a real joy to write and develop. I know a lot of you are big fans of the Fremennik peoples (so am I), and I hope that you have as much fun as I did uncovering the history of these fascinating characters. Mod Hew RuneScape Content Developer

Rant Forum Returns!

Today we have reinstated the rants section of the forums. This is the perfect place to get something off your chest, tell us if there’s something you don’t like, or perhaps just have a general rant. It was a stupid idea to take it away in the first place; I’m really sorry that we removed an opport...

Thursday, Mar 26

Development Diaries

Today we're releasing the first of a new line of Development Diaries. We'll be using these diaries to inform you of future content, give you an insight into the development process here at Jagex, and let you get to know the RuneScape developers a bit better.

Wednesday, Mar 25

Pre-purchase Advice And More:

When it comes to great weapons and armour there is plenty of choice in RuneScape. In fact there are so many different items it’s sometimes hard to keep track of them all. This is why we are introducing the pre-purchase advice tool. Before you buy anything – from a shop, at the Grand Exchange, or f...

Tuesday, Mar 17

The Chosen Commander

Mod John A RuneScape Content Developer If you’re logged in to RuneScape and navigate away from the game screen, you will now have to click on a confirmation box to confirm that you want to navigate away from the page. This is to make sure that you don’t accidentally lose your game window.

Thursday, Mar 5

Runescape Q&a – Further Answers

Many of you will have read Mark Gerhard's newspost last month in which he invited you to ask us questions about the company and our games. The response was fantastic, and thousands of you sent in your questions. Today we are posting the latest installment of RuneScape questions, which have b...

Tuesday, Mar 3

Deposit-all Feature And More

This week’s continuation of our Upgrade Year brings a significant reduction in the number of clicks when interacting with the RuneScape bank, and more information about the wealth you are carrying – a feature that will also help you determine whether you are risking enough wealth on PvP...

Friday, Feb 27

Temporary Closure Of The Bounty Hunter Craters

The level-matching system wasn’t working at all well, with players often ending up in unfair battles they were unlikely to win.With the launch of PvP worlds, Bounty Hunter suddenly became less populated, which meant the bounty mechanic stopped working properly. We still love the idea of...

Wednesday, Feb 25

Evil Tree

Players who have completed the Animal Magnetism quest and have Ava's Attractor or Accumulator can show it to Nomad to have him enchant their Soul Wars team capes for them. Once enchanted, your cape will return ammunition in much the same way that the Attractor or Accumulator would. Once you...

Random Event Update And More

We have just completed a comprehensive rework of the random events system that will bring changes for members and non-members alike. We've retired some of the older random events from active service, overhauled others, and rewritten the rewards for almost every surviving event. We've a...

Monday, Feb 16

Wilderness And Real World Trading Q & A

NOTE: Just for clarification, I (the poster of this thread on RSC) am not Andrew Gower. The questions (and answers) below were posted by Andrew Gower on Runescape.com Following on from Mark Gerhard’s responses to some of your questions, Andrew has written his answers to questions about th...

Minor Delay To Scheduled Updates

When you look at this month’s Behind the Scenes, you will notice that there are quite a few updates you are still waiting for, including an update to the quest list, a rework of the random event system and a price checker. Sadly, you will not be able to enjoy these updates until next week.

Sunday, Feb 15

Opinion: Your Runescape Questions Answered

16th February 2009 - Your RuneScape Questions Answered Next Mod MMG Jagex CEO Valvar Exart - Are you leading all of your Jagex or Just RuneScape? I’m responsible for leading Jagex as a whole with the support of a great team, including Andrew.

Tuesday, Feb 10

Soul Wars

A mystical portal has opened in Edgeville, leading to the lands beyond Tirannwn’s western shore. Any players who venture through will find themselves at the site of Soul Wars - a new, members-only minigame involving fierce combat, territory control and your Slayer skills!

Sunday, Feb 8

The Future Of Runescape

We are also committed to working with our fans in the RuneScape community to make the game a more enjoyable place to be. We will be running community events, tournaments and JMod participation in-game to provide more support to you and make RuneScape an even better place to be.

Monday, Feb 2

Behind The Scenes February

We're also making a major change to the rate at which random events appear, basing it on your skill total and your record of successfully passing random events. So, if you correctly solve every event you encounter, you'll experience fewer events in the future. On a related topic, the game wi...

Tuesday, Jan 27

Magic Interface Features

We’ve also made a small change to PvP worlds, so now the Teleport Block spell will be available to all players, not just members (although its level and rune requirements will stay the same). Mod Fetzki RuneScape Content Team Leader

Tuesday, Jan 20

Seers' Village Achievement Diary

Explore the area and discover all the things you hadn’t noticed before. From Catherby to the Ranging Guild, and as far north as the coal trucks and Sinclair Mansion, this diary should keep you busy, and remind you why this is one of the most popular areas in the members’ world.

Friday, Jan 16

Funorb - Armies Of Gielinor

The FunOrb development team has been hard at work and has recently released a new game. This game takes you to a world that is familiar to all of us: RuneScape! Fight for the god of your choice in our new, multiplayer, turn-based strategy game, and wage war with the Armies of Gielinor. Experien...

Tuesday, Jan 13

Logout Timer Increase

Firstly, the logout timer has been increased from ninety seconds to five minutes. This means that you will not be automatically logged out before this amount of time has passed – particularly useful when you want to check the forums or the Game Guide while training combat or chopping down t...

Tuesday, Jan 6

In Pyre Need

Mod Liono RuneScape Developer Speak to the priest of Guthix outside the cave south-west of the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. In other news... Finally, the Christmas holiday event has now been removed, but you can still enjoy the Myths of the White Lands quest.

Friday, Jan 2

Behind The Scenes - January

Another of the changes prepared for January is a great suggestion from our forums – the ability to re-order your spell list. Now, don’t worry, this is totally optional (and the default will still be the 'level order' setting you're currently used to), but you’ll be able to set up the list wit...

Behind The Scenes 2009

So, the first post of the New Year and you’ll be wondering what the next 12 months in RuneScape will bring. The past year saw the introduction of PvP Worlds, RuneScape High Detail, Summoning, our first Grandmaster quest, combat minigames, and Distractions and Diversions. What can we do to t...

Friday, Dec 19

Sms Payment Options

RuneScape members will get regular content updates and gain access to a world that’s three times larger than the free world and packed full of members-only quests, minigames and skills. Members also gain fullscreen mode, advert-free gaming and the ability to post on the forums. More info...

Tuesday, Dec 16

Stealing Creation Reward Changes

Players can no longer gain combat experience inside the Stealing Creation minigame. Instead, the sacred clay combat equipment rewards give bonus experience when they are used. This means that combat experience rewards are given in the same way as reward experience for non-combat skill...

Christmas Event And Quest

The festive season is upon us, and to celebrate we’re presenting you with the result of your Guaranteed Content Christmas poll, in the form of this years’ Christmas event. We’ve also got an appropriately wintery quest for you in Myths of the White Lands. We hope you have lots of fun, and enjoy...

This article also contains excerpts from RuneScape Realm, MPOGD.com

Saturday, Dec 13

Christmas Cards

This year we have four festive Christmas card designs for you to send to your favourite people. Two of these designs were chosen by you in our recent Guaranteed Content Poll, so we hope that you enjoy seeing your ideas made into Christmas cards. The two most popular designs from the poll were '...

Friday, Dec 5

Christmas Packages In The Jagex Store

With Christmas just around the corner, we now have RuneScape-themed gift packages available in the Jagex Store, with the option to include a 12-month subscription card. The Christmas gift packs come with a variety of RuneScape goodies, and some even include a brand new, limited edition...

Monday, Dec 1

Behind The Scenes – December

Finally this month, we will be opening the gates to festive cheer and wintry celebrations with this year’s Christmas update. Much like this year’s Hallowe’en, we’ve decided to release a quest at the same time as our Christmas event, which means that the free game will have access to that qu...

Thursday, Nov 27

Poll - Christmas Card Results

Two weeks ago, we released a Guaranteed Content Poll on the RuneScape Christmas cards. In it, you were able to vote for the cards that you liked the most. The options were gathered from the Forums, so thank you to those who contributed. Falador in winter, covered in a blanket of snow and decorat...

Wednesday, Nov 26

While Guthix Sleeps

Mod Tytn Lead Developer – RuneScape Defender of Varrock Dream Mentor Hand in the Sand King’s Ransom Legends’ Quest Mourning’s Ends Part II (The Temple of Light) Path of Glouphrie Recipe for Disaster Summer’s End Swan Song Tears of Guthix Zogre Flesh Eaters

Thanksgiving 2008 Event

Attackable turkeys are roaming around near the major cities of RuneScape on both members’ and free worlds. Kill one and you’ll get some tasty turkey meat, but you may also be lucky enough to unlock a new Thanksgiving emote. Mod Nancy RuneScape Developer

Tuesday, Nov 25

Stealing Creation Rewards System To Change

Both the tools and the combat equipment will give experience at a greater rate than at present. In fact, while you are using a sacred clay tool or piece of combat equipment, the experience you gain will be doubled! (The volatile tool will still give a little more on top of this.) On the other han...

Monday, Nov 24

Buy Runescape Membership As A Gift

If you're thinking of buying membership either for yourself or as a present, we currently have 2 RuneScape-specific game time cards that you can purchase. If you're looking for some other RuneScape-themed gifts, keep an eye on the Jagex Store, which will have some new items available in t...

Friday, Nov 21

Q&as, Charity Auctions And A Runescape 2009 Calendar!

In other book-related news, we are currently auctioning ten signed novels (one per week) for charity. Each copy is numbered and signed by author TS Church, RuneScape creator Andrew Gower, cover-artist Giuseppe Grassi, Lead Game Designer Mark Ogilvie, and Jagex CEO Geoff Iddison.

Tuesday, Nov 11

Stealing Creation

Mod John A RuneScape Content Developer The Hallowe’en Trick or Treat event has been removed. The Swept Away quest will remain in-game as a piece of members' content. To start the quest, you’ll need to speak to Maggie, who has moved her caravan to a spot just west of the Legends' Guild.

Monday, Nov 3

Behind The Scenes - November

We've written a lot about combat-orientated multiplayer content in RuneScape recently. This mostly focused on the way that it had been relegated to the sidelines, until the introduction of PvP worlds invited it back into the heart of the game. There's one aspect, however, that we haven't...

Tuesday, Oct 28

Hallowe'en Event And Quest

28 October 2008 - Hallowe'en Event and Quest Mod Ingrid RuneScape Content Developer In other news... Bounty Hunter Combat levels have been updated to reflect recent Combat level changes. The crater entrance requirements are now: 3-55, 50-100 and 95+ (all without Summoning).

This article also contains excerpts from RuneScape Realm

Wednesday, Oct 15

Pvp Worlds

PvP worlds have arrived! Are you ready to pit your combat skills against other players in the halls of the White Knights’ Castle? Are you prepared to fight to the death in the fields of Lumbridge? Well, now is your chance. Mod Benny RuneScape Content Developer

This article also contains excerpts from RuneScape Realm, billybobrsnail (WordPress), zybez.net

Wednesday, Oct 1

Runescape Interview With Ign

Adam Tuckwell: The game was initially developed in 2001 by Andrew Gower, who was the coder, and brother Paul, who designed the content. They created it while studying at Cambridge University, and it grew virally from there. Once it was clear that RuneScape was popular, they joined forces w...

Behind The Scenes - October

Now, onto the money side of things. Many of you will be aware of the RWT (real-world trading of RuneScape gold for money) reasons we changed the old Wilderness. We certainly can’t just bring that threat back to RuneScape, so we have devised a system that rewards players based on a variety of fa...