Free-to-Play Game Updates
May 30, 2025
- Obor and Bryophyta no longer require Giant or Mossy Keys to be fought.
- Full boss loot for both encounters has been moved to keyed reward chests inside their respective lairs.
- Defeating Bryophyta without a Mossy Key now grants a simplified Moss Giant-style loot table with increased Mossy Key chances.
- Bryophyta Growthlings can now be instantly defeated by equipping and clicking with an axe, with adjusted respawn behavior.
September 25, 2024
- Ability to toggle Run to 'Always On'. In the settings menu, you can now set a threshold at which run mode is automatically re-enabled.
- The Quest Journal will now remain open when moving around and will also resize on larger screen sizes.
July 31, 2024
- Added XP lamps to the rewards from the Beekeeper random event.
- Created five Clan ranks above and below the Administrator for greater flexibility.
May 29, 2024
Project Rebalance: Combat Changes
Elemental Weaknesses
- For every point of Elemental Weakness an NPC has, spells of that element will gain +1% Accuracy and +1% Damage. For example, if you cast Fire Wave on an NPC who's got a 50% Fire Weakness (Moss Giant), you'll gain 50% bonus Accuracy and Damage.
Elemental Spell Scaling
- Your max hit with elemental spells (Strike, Bolt, Blast, Wave, and Surge) will now scale to the highest level spell you have unlocked. For example, at 13 Magic, Wind Strike will have a max hit of 8.
Ranged Defence Types
- Ranged Defence for NPCs is being split into three categories: Light, Standard, and Heavy. However, no F2P NPC's have been affected so far.
Prayer
- Reduced the Prayer drain rate for Thick Skin, Burst of Strength and Clarity of Thoughts, Sharp Eye and Mystic Will from 5 to 1.67 points per minute. Effectively, they should drain at a third of the speed they used to.
- Sharp Eye and Burst of Strength now boost your Ranged and Strength by 1 level respectively, if those levels are lower than 20.
- Mystic Might: Magic damage while active increased from 0 to 2%.
Other
- Attacking an NPC with auto-cast enabled no longer incurs an extra 0.6s delay. This has been requested for absolutely ages, all that's left now is to figure out what you're going to do with all the extra time you'll have!
Read more about it in the
official update post
May 24, 2024
- Increased Clue Geode rates across the board.
- Removed the delay when casting Telekinetic Grab and Bones to Peaches/Bananas. This applies across the entire game.
- Any player that completed or started the Easter 2024 event will unlock the 'Sunny Side Up' music track upon their next login.
- Christmas Crackers are now more generous and less random, allowing players to wish for a specific colour Party Hat and trinket. In addition, both you and your friend will receive prizes!
April 10, 2024
- Reduced respawn timers for most NPCs in the Wilderness to 9 seconds. Notable ones for F2P are Ankou, Chaos Dwarf, and Bandits.
February 7, 2024
- Muddy chest loot table changes where the mithril dagger, anchovy pizza, and coins were removed from the loot table. The number of looted mithril bars and runes was increased.
November 1, 2023
Forestry Tweaks & Security
- Jagex Account holders are now eligible to claim Fancier Boots from the Stronghold of Security.
- Count Check, a new random event, has been enabled. He'll pop up occasionally and offer an XP Lamp to players who are using a Jagex account.
- Forester's campfires can no longer be created without using logs.
- Chance to spawn Forestry events now correctly caps at 10 players, as opposed to practically guaranteeing a chance on every roll in mass worlds.
Read more about it in the
official update post
October 25, 2023
Forestry: Part Two
- Campfires
- Friendly Ent Event
- New collection log slot (Felling axe handle)
Shooting Star changes
- Crashed stars will now only spawn sizes 6 to 9, with updated chances of spawning for each.
- The total time of each "wave" of stars has been reduced from ~128 minutes to ~90 minutes.
- Crashed stars now consistently deplete at a rate of 7 minutes for each layer it has.
- Mining experience gained when acquiring stardust has been changed to be 32 for all star sizes.
- The skilling success rate whilst mining crashed stars is now identical for all star sizes.
- Clue geodes are once again obtainable from crashed stars.
- Random events and the dwarf multicannon can no longer occur and be placed within the vicinity of a landing site.
Read more about it in the
official update post
October 2, 2023
Receiving clue geodes from crashed stars has been disabled in an effort to help server performance.
September 20, 2023
Crashed stars no longer deplete faster when more people are mining them.
Certain holiday items now have -100 Combat bonuses, allowing them to behave as splash weaponry (unable to deal any damage).
Here are the changed items:
- Cursed Goblin Hammer
- Easter 2020 Carrot Sword
- Halloween 2016 Hunting Knife
- Christmas 2022 Nutcracker Staff
August 23, 2023
Random events with costume rewards would commonly give 500 coins to a player who already had the full outfit. They now give XP lamps instead of those coins which are identical to the Genie's lamp (this does not apply to the Beekeeper random event). The Quizmaster's Mystery Box and Prison Pete may give such a lamp instead of coins too.
July 12, 2023
- Random events no longer occur in range of forestry events.
- The magical tree root now changes locations more frequently during the Rising Roots event.
July 5, 2023
Forestry feedback changes (nerfs)
Read more about it in the
official update post
June 29, 2023
Forestry hotfixes
- Players will no longer receive the final drop of experience at the end of the Struggling Sapling event if they are not logged into the world when it starts.
- Players who are not logged into the world when the Rising Roots event starts will now receive reduced rewards.
Read more about it in the
official update post
June 28, 2023
Forestry: Way of the Forester - Part One Release
- Trees will now despawn on a timer that activates after the first cut and regenerates if players stop cutting the tree.
- Multiple players chopping the same tree will now receive an invisible Woodcutting bonus which scales with the number of players, up to a maximum of 10.
- Forestry Kits are now available from the Forestry Shop by talking to the Friendly Forester in Draynor Village for 150 gp.
- Two Forestry events occur in F2P (Rising Roots and Struggling Sapling).
- Players could temporarily obtain leaves (members item) after successful completion of the Forestry events in F2P. This was hotfixed and is no longer possible.
Read more about it in the
official update post
June 22, 2023
Crack The Clue 3 was solved, allowing for easy access to ruby rings and adding new outfit pieces.
Find out more about it from
the OSRS Wiki
March 21, 2023
The grey, teal, yellow, purple and red boots sold in Barkers' Haberdashery are no longer members-only items, for consistency with the gloves from the same Canifis shop.
Feb 16, 2023
New PVP Arena (Duel Arena) design gives an Al Kharid stat restore. If you challenge someone, then run out once placed inside the duel area, you spawn in the same spot as before but with restored stats.
Read more about it in the
official update post
Dec 6, 2022
"The random cycle delay has been removed from a variety of Mining sources."
Nov 30, 2022
Charlie the Tramp will now accept items sourced from anywhere.
Nov 16, 2022
The sandwich lady now has a 1/64 chance of giving a stale baguette in place of a baguette when offered.
May 18, 2022
The daily buy limit of 100 teleport cards from Diango's shop has been removed
Read more about it in the
official update post
May 11, 2022
- Bryophyta's Staff is now a free-to-play item
- Mossy and Giants' Keys are now stackable
- The delay after using essence on a Runecraft Altar has been removed
Read more about it in the
official update post
March 9, 2022
Removal of 3t mining with a kicking alt due to the way the PJ Timer now interrupts certain skilling activities
Read more about it in the
official update post
May 26, 2021
Clans Full Launch
May 19, 2021
Clans Soft Launch
May 5, 2021
Game Room tables have been added to pubs in game, three of them are located in Free to Play. You can find these at
- The Blue Moon Inn (Varrock)
- The Rising Sun (Falador)
- South-West of the Grand Exchange (Varrock)
The Smithing XP gained from Barronite has been increased from 10 to 30.
The maximum quantities of fish you can select for processing in Camdozaal have been corrected.
To view all the details please view the
Games Room Tables and Fishing Skill Boss Improvements
news post.
April 28, 2021
The Barronite Mace now has a Strength bonus of +40 and an anti-Golem bonus of 15%, as mentioned in the original newspost. This was increased from the previous +36 Strength Bonus and 5% anti-Golem bonus.
This now makes the Barronite Mace better than the Rune Sword in any typical scenario, and better than the Rune Scimitar against Golems.
April 21, 2021
A small number of Ice Mountain Dungeon changes/fixes have been made as well as equipment rebalances. You can find detailed information on the
Fishing Trawler Improvements and Equipment Rebalance: Part One
news post.
- Golems now drop Noted Rune Essence
- The Camdozaal Collection Log tab will now turn green when the player has completed the collection
- The Collection Log now displays totals correctly since new items within Camdozaal were added
- A small fishing net has been placed within the ruins
- Medium Helmets - Ranged Attack stats have been increased from -1 to 0
- Full Helmets - Ranged Attack stats have been reduced from -2 to -3
- Platelegs/Plateskirts - Ranged Attack stats have been reduced from -7 to -11
- Platebodies - Ranged Attack stats have been reduced from -10 to -15
- Squareshields - Ranged Attack stats have been increased from -2 to 0
- Kiteshields - Ranged Attack stats have been reduced from -2 to -3
- Warhammers - Now require Strength to wield instead of Attack
- Maces - Attack rate has been decreased from 5 to 4
April 14, 2021
A new F2P quest "Below Ice Mountain" has been released, allowing you to access the new Ice Mountain Dungeon with 3 new skilling activites, Mining/Smithing, Fishing/Cooking/Prayer, and Combat/Runecrafting. The update also introduces the Barronite mace, a weapon with a 10% damage bonus to golems in the dungeon.
You can find more information, including various changes to experience rates on the
offical update post
December 2, 2020
Full helm and boot rewards have been added to Castle Wars. Each tier of helms costs 5, 50 or 500 tickets, while each tier of boots costs 4, 40 or 400 tickets.
Due to the
Decorative boots (gold)
providing +1 strength bonus, these boots allow new for a new max hit in certain circumstances.
November 18, 2020
Skull Sceptre pieces can be converted to multiple Bone Fragments using a chisel. These can then be used to charge your imbued Sceptre. Bone Fragments are tradable with a G.E limit of 100 per four hours.
The Beekeeper outfit is now obtainable as rewards from the Beekeeper random event!
You can find more information about the Bone Fragments and the Beekeeper outfit on the
official update post
June 25, 2020
New death mechanics
Ultimate ironmen can now retrieve their items after dying in instanced areas (Obor, Bryophyta)
April 8, 2020
Moss giants in the Wilderness now apparently have a 1/100 chance to drop a Mossy Key (actual rate is 1/60)
January 29, 2020
An "Explore" emote can now be unlocked after completing 600 beginner clues
September 5, 2019
Snare is now F2P
Protect from Magic no longer halves freeze times in PvP
August 29, 2019
Last Man Standing has been updated, including rewards
July 25, 2019?
Hop limit has been removed until further notice.
Notably buffs:
- boneyard XP/h
- nature rune tele-grab
- selling/buying from stores, etc.
July 11, 2019
Splashing in Lumbridge no longer grants Magic XP.
June 27, 2019
- Additional options for Clan Wars
- Killing the player or NPC that teleblocks you now removes the teleblock effect.
June 6, 2019
Teleblock is now Free-to-play.
April 18, 2019
Beginner clues now also drop from the following monsters:
- Obor, Bryophyta: 100% drop chance
- Hill giants, moss giants, ice giants
- Muggers, dwarves, skeletons, hobgoblins
April 11, 2019
Beginner clues have been released.
February 22 2019
Ring of forging is now F2P
February 07 2019
New F2P Quest: X Marks the Spot
January 24 2019
PvP boxing mechanic change:
DMM anti-boxing mechanics moved to live game (wilderness and pvp worlds); players can now attack other players who have been splashing for a certain amount of time.
December 06 2018
- Collection Log
- Some F2P worlds taken out
- PvP safe zone changes:
When entering a safe zone in PvP Worlds while in combat with another player, you and your opponent will now be able to continue fighting for an extra 6 seconds while in the safe zone.
November 29, 2018
Spellbook filters
November 15, 2018
Edgeville furnace now F2P
- Now the F2P meta instead of Al Kharid furnace
October 30, 2018
- Global release of Old School Runescape Mobile app
- Shitton of new skill total and regular F2P worlds
October 11, 2018
Zoom distance increased
September 27, 2018
Left click Withdraw-X from bank
September 13, 2018
Left click range cooking
July 5, 2018
New F2P worlds: 118 (NA West), 119 (NA West, 500 skill total), 124 (Aus)
May 3, 2018
New Moss Giant boss: Bryophyta
- Notable drops: rune bars, rune sq shield
- No meta changes due to overwhelming ogress drops
Antipoison is now F2P
- Made at apothecary with cadava berry + limpwurt root
Apr 5, 2018
New F2P PvP world 417
- Notable F2P meta changes: less crowded training areas (ogresses, mines) and better anti-crashing
- new fastest banking method: lumbridge teleport in pvp worlds to the bank chest
- possibility of body/tiara rc using an alt to suicide and respawn at Edgeville, with same rates as solo earth tiara rc and better xp rates for ironmen (untested)
- possibility of easier 3-tick methods with an Event RPG kicking alt?
Dec 7, 2017
New monsters in Corsair Cove: Ogress warrior and Ogress shaman
- Notable drops: Nature/law/death runes, Rune med/full helm, Rune battleaxe, Shaman mask
- Completely changed F2P IM/HC/UIM EHP due to drops and gp; decent combat gp for regs
New area/quest: Corsair Cove, with resource areas (Yew, Maple, Adamantite, Coal, Swordfish, Lobster) and a bank
- Everything is obsolete for efficient skilling, but Maple trees are notably now F2P
Nov 16, 2017
Buy-50: interface improvements for shops
- Notably improves F2P IM/HC/UIM buying arrows
Oct 19, 2017
Make-All: interface improvements for smithing, cooking, and crafting
- Notably changes IM/HC/UIM EHP cooking to 3.5 tick instead of 3 tick; Reg EHP and wines are unaffected
July 20, 2017
Castle Wars released to F2P, Zamorak robes are now F2P drops from Monks of Zamorak
- Castle wars dead 3 weeks after release
- Zamorak robe (bottom) new best-in-slot F2P magic gear
June 22, 2017
Mining Guild Expansion: 4 iron rocks and ore shop added to Mining Guild
- New F2P IM/HC smithing EHP due to proximity of iron ore
May 25, 2017
World map added ingame
May 18, 2017
Imbue Skull Sceptre: sceptre will not break at 0 charges, sceptre pieces will recharge it
- Each skull sceptre piece is worth 3 charges: notably speeds up RC when combined with falador teleport for banking; not EHP but good alternative for those who AFK combats
- Must keep 2-factor Authentication on; imbued skull sceptre is lost on death
Mar 9, 2017
Energy potions released to F2P, made through Apothecary with 2 limpwurt roots and 1 chocolate dust
Mar 2, 2017
Wine of Zamorak spawn at level 35 wilderness Chaos Altar
- Notably increased deep wilderness activity
Jan 26, 2017
New F2P quest: Misthalin Mystery
- No requirements
- Notable rewards: uncut sapphire, uncut emerald, uncut ruby, 1 quest point
Nov 10, 2016
New Game Mode: Hardcore Ironman
- Account will turn into normal, grayhelm Ironman after non-safe-minigame death
Oct 6, 2016
New F2P boss: Obor, accessible with Giant key (Hill Giant droprate of 1/128 or 1/64 in wildy)
- Notable drops: Hill giant club, Rune kiteshield, Rune full helm for ironmen
Sep 22, 2016
F2P Skill total worlds: 381 (500+), 385 (750+)
Aug 4, 2016
New safe minigame: Last man standing
- Battle royale with equalized stats (and no xp gain) and randomized loot
- Notably adds a gp "bank" for UIM, with the coffer that stores unlimited gp
- Dead currently
- FOR PURES: REMEMBER TO CHECK ATTACK STYLE AFTERWARDS (rip Orbrun IV)
