Master RuneScape's skills like Fishing, Mining, and Crafting. Learn about the dangerous Wilderness, PKing, and essential tips for new players. Your adventure starts here!
Hey there! Welcome to RuneScape. This guide is packed with hints and tips to get you started, covering everything from essential skills to navigating the treacherous Wilderness. Think of it as your friendly nudge in the right direction, helping you avoid common pitfalls and get the most out of your adventure.
Things you should know:
- The Wilderness is a high-risk, high-reward area where you can fight other players. Be super careful if you decide to venture in!
- Attacking another player in the Wilderness will give you a skull. If you die while skulled, you lose everything in your inventory. If you're not skulled, you'll only lose three of your most valuable items.
- Some items might seem worthless in general stores but can fetch a high price when trading with other players. Keep an eye out for items like party hats, which can go for 50-100k!
- There's a difference between a 'n00b' (annoying, begging, scamming) and a 'newbie' (just starting out). Be a good sport and help out newbies when you can.
- Watch out for scammers! They might tell you to drop items and press Alt+F4, claim to be game creators, or ask for your password. Always be suspicious of trust tests or deals that seem too good to be true.
- Please, don't beg for items. Making money and leveling up your skills is a core part of the fun in RuneScape.
- Your maximum hit increases every 4 levels, and this applies to other combat stats too.
- To take screenshots, press the 'Print Screen' key, paste it into Paint, edit as you like, and save it as a JPEG. You can then upload it to sites like Angelfire.
- 'Certs' or certificates allow you to trade items in batches of 5. Common items like coal, lobsters, and steel bars can be certed. In free-to-play, you can find cert traders in Draynor Village for ores, fish, and bars. More traders are available for members.
- If you're fighting demons, make sure you have a Silverlight sword – it significantly weakens them.
Skills:
- Fishing: Start with shrimps near Draynor Village or Port Sarim. Move on to anchovies (level 15), then trouts (fly fishing at Barbarian Village is great). Once you hit level 30, you can fish tunas on Karamja (remember to bring cash for trips and cook them!). At level 40, lobsters become available – cook them for good experience or sell them raw for about 100gp each (1k per cert). Swordfish are also an option at the same spot but can be annoying to catch. For 'Power Fishing', just keep catching trouts at Barbarian Village with a fly fishing rod and feathers, dropping them as you go.
- Mining: Grab a free pickaxe at Barbarian Village. Start with tin and copper, smelting them into bronze bars and selling them in Varrock. At level 15 mining, head for iron ore (found in Dwarven Mines, Varrock, etc.). Smelting iron has a 50% success rate unless you use magic. At level 30, coal mining is where it's at! The site southwest of Varrock is popular, but the one northwest of Edgeville (level 8-10 Wilderness) has more rocks but is guarded by skeletons. If you go to the Wilderness, take only 3 valuable items, don't get skulled, and use the Monastery to heal and Edgeville bank to store your coal. Coal certs usually sell for 1k each. Mithril and Adamantite are harder to sell, so most players stick to coal. At level 60, the Mining Guild (near Falador bank) offers a safer, less crowded spot with more rocks. Rune mining is available at level 85. For 'Power Mining', just continuously mine copper or tin, or switch to iron around level 60, dropping the ores.
- Crafting: A good early method involves mining clay in west Varrock, wetting it in the cooking guild (north), and crafting items in Barbarian Village, dropping them on the way back. Repeat until you can access the Crafting Guild (level 40). Alternatively, collect cow hides near Lumbridge, tan them into leather in Al Kharid (1gp per hide), and use a needle and thread (bought from the Al Kharid crafting store) to craft leather armour, gloves, or boots. You can also mine silver ore (requires level 20 mining) at the Scorpion Pit, smelt it into bars (requires level 20 smithing), buy a Holy Symbol of Saradomin mould (5gp in Al Kharid crafting store), and craft holy symbols.
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