Runescape is generally acknowledged to be the granddaddy of the modern MMORPG genre of video games. It was released back in 2001 in a very primitive form. Fast forward almost two decades later, and the game holds the record for most number of onlin♑e members at more than 250 million+ subscribers.

In essence, Runescape is the story of characters who are placed in a medieval🦄 fantasy setting. You begin your journey in the hometown of Lumbridge. From there you can move on to other parts of the open environment as you gather more skills, complete more quests, looting and rising through the power ranks to become the highest-class player.

The reಞason for Rಌunescape's longevity can be attributed to many things. Instead of following the usual MO of RPGs where the player is sent on quests to gather seemingly random objects, the focus is on following an actual in-game plot and using your brains to solve puzzles and make complex decisions to continue further into the game.

The game is available for free and also on a monthly fee basis. Naturally, this means that players who areꦇ willing to fork over the dough have access to areas and abilities that the common non-paying subscriber does not. Both types of gameplay have amassed a vast global following, and many many pages of internet forums have bꦍeen devoted to fans uncovering and sharing the most obscure bits and pieces of lore relating to the game.

Here are 25 crazy things that only the most hardcore fans know about Runescape:

24 🍒 Tradeable Items🍌 Broke The Game

In the original version of Runescape, every item that you possessed was something that you could trade for another item. This was a very valuable means of gaining points and increasing your class level and ♏experience.

The only problem was, soon the players started trading everything. This became a problem since players wou⛄ld trad🔯e in items that were needed for finishing specific quests, thus essentially rendering the entire plot meaningless and breaking the narrative. To combat this, certain items were made untradeable. These were the items that were essential for moving the story arcs forward.

23 Beds Used To Have A Purpose ဣ

Botting was a huge problem in Runescape (and still is). That's when a player uses a third-party program c♋alled a 'bot' to play the game for them for hours, doing things like fishing and woodcutting to gather large amounts of gold over the efforts of actual players.

In order to combat this, the makers crafted 🦋something called the 'Fatigue system' that required you to sleep for some time after doing manual labor in order to get more XP points. If you kept working even though you were not getting any points, that meant you were a bot and could be banned from the game.

22 Bot-Catching Random Events ꦆ🐓

The fatigue system turned out to be a failure since it targeted real🌠 players in addition to bots and also affected the way honest players earned in-game points. That led to the makers of the game coming up💎 with random events to catch bots instead.

In this strategy, random events within the game were tweaked slightly.

These new events could be completed easily by normal players but defeated the programming𝓀 of a bot with a specific set of in-built directions. Players have often asked the creators to remove these events, but they're ♐adamant that they help detect bots.

21 Personal Analy👍ze🐭d Forced Teleport

This was a glitch that players used to jump into another player's cutscene. The game had this mechanism 🌠for teleporting a player to a specific coordinate if the player happened to be standing in a certain region.

Players used to be able to stall the teleport while their own scenes loaded for tꦦhe place they were supposed to teleport to. At the same time, if another player was experiencing a cutscene, the game would teleport you into that player's cutscene. This allowed playꦕers to enter areas of the game where they were not supposed to go and gather items that they should not have had access to.

20 The Sword Too Powerful To Wield 🏅

The Rune 2h sword is one of the most powerful weapons in the game because of how strong it is. In fact, in the early days of the game, the sword was not even allowed to be a part🌼 of the story.

It was considered too powerful and using it would break the game!

The sword required a 50 attack to wield, and did not degrade over time, unlike the more powerful, and only free-to-use sword, the Gravite 2h sword. Also, it used to look like a normal weapon, meaning players were often caught unprepared by anoth♏er player wielding the sword.

19 🍬 Lord Of The Rings Reference ꧒

Since Runescape borrows so much from earlier works of fantasy literature, the makers naturally wanted to also pay tribute to their favorite works in the genre. And you can't mention 'fantasy quest' without someone bringing up The Lord of the Rings at some point.

In the game, you get an artifact known as the Ring of Kinship. If you hold the ring over a flame outside the dungeon, or if you try to destroy it at the Wilderness North Volcano, a message appears just as it did on the One Ring from Lord Of The Rings.

18 ꦆNorse Code Is Morse Code

The song called Norse Code is a little ditty that can be played only by the members of Fremmenik Isles and the respective quest. Th⭕e interesting thing about the song is it alsoꦫ functions as a morse code message if you consider the short notes and the long notes as the two signals of morse language.

Naturally, fans listened to the song endlessly until someone finally fig🗹ured out that it was a secret code. A few frantic hours of looking ꦡup morse signals and decoding the song later, the message was found to be... 'Runescape'.

17 ൩ Easy Gold For A Newbie

Acquiring gold depends on your ability to work hard completing the various tasks that are scattered across Runescape. Oneꦅ easy way to get a lot of gold even at low levels is by usin🍸g the grand exchange.

For this, you need to have at least 600,000 gold units available in your account.

Go to Lumbridge and find a particular fishing shop. You can find it to the left of the doomsayer, where the shop owner sells feathers which cost 1,000 g𝕴old apiece. Take the feathers to the Grand Exchange and trade them in for 170,000,000 gold pieces.

16 💛 Specialization Means More🅺 Money

Runescape is made to mimic the real world as much as possib🐈le, even if it is set thousands of years in the ♋past in another dimension, and you know, magic is also a thing there. But the concept of work/reward works pretty much the same way in the game as it does in the real world.

So experienced players know that working smarter equals more reward. For example, if you work more on your mining and crafting skills, you will eventually reach a level where you can create⛄ items. You can sell these items and make greatܫer profits quickly.

15 Free W🃏ea🤪ponry

You have to work for everything you get in Runescape, even weapons to go on quests with. Just like in the real world. You can also of⛦ten find a way to get that stuff for free if you know where to look, also just like in the real world.

For instance, in the beginning, you are a penniless noob with access to nothing that could be used as a weapon. But if you go to the shop in Lumbridge, you will find three people standing outside all clothed in blue. Speak to one of them to be handed a swor🥂d andജ shield for free.