RUNESCAPE CHEATS

RUNESCAPE CHEATS TIPS

Note that latest Runescape Cheats tips are placed at the top here, for a while, before being placed at the end of these numbered articles in the correct numerical place.

1. Increase your weapon bearing levels to a sufficient level to be able to “equip” with mithril or adamant strength weapons. Do this by killing Goblins around the Lumbridge store, where you can sell the items that you pick up from them when they are dead.

2. Increase your axe rating (Woodcraft level) to allow you to chop down Oak (Lumbridge shop gives you 2 gold pieces each) then later Willow (Lumbridge shop pays 4 GP (gold pieces) each) then finally reach level 60 to be allowed to chop down YEW (64 GP for the first log in the shop, then 59, 54, reducing each extra log that is in the shop). That allows you to make money fast enough to afford the expensive Mithril and Adamant weapons and armour, etc.

3. When you can get a BLACK SWORD for example (and my ADAMANT MACE has similar properties) then you can select the SLASH as weapon style (SPIKE with the mace), and this spreads the points you earn when fighting amongst the three ATTACK, STRENGTH and DEFENCE XP simultaneously. Saves balancing out the three types individually and it IS better to be equally balanced between all three for maximum effect.

4. When you have some MITHRIL body armour and helmet, sword and shield, then try the mine in VARROCK where there is an entrance hole you can go down, amongst the mining rocks at the surface. This is the Stronghold of Security, and there you can get a lot of money killing monsters, and just scavenging coins and items (like shields, daggers, helmets) that others leave when killing monsters there. You can either sell them in the shop east of Varrock, or if in trouble, and nearly dying, use the HOME SPELL in the spell book to get back to outside Lumbridge Castle (near enough). Here you can go to the bank and save your goods taken from the Stronghold of Security or go to the shop a little north of it and sell the stuff there.

5. Watch out for special characters that appear at random, ignore some at your peril. Like the wood spirit that attacks you near the pond to the west of Lumbridge Castle. If you are not strong enough to kill it, then run like mad! The same applies to the Rock Golem in the mining areas, it took me ages to kill with the help of extra strength prayer points, and a flask of strength potion, and eating food while fighting it, and that is for a level 40 something that I was at then (now I am level 53 so easier to fight back).

(This next bit added 24/2/7).
6. Use the MAP that the programmers supply, in the links at the top of the game. It allows you to see where the places are that might be mentioned here or in the game, if you cannot find them easily yourself. There is a FIND box on the top left of the map (an example link to the map for ENGLISH users is RUNESCAPE MAP). There is also a KEY button on the bottom left area by the left of the 37%, 50%, 75%, 100% zoom control keys. This expands up to a LEGEND of all the symbols on the map, and if you want to find where MINING SITES are, then when the icon on the KEY legend is clicked, the sites flash on the MAP. Very useful indeed. One strange thing is the MINING SHOP icon does not seem to exist at all on the map anywhere. Perhaps it is hidden underground in the Dwarven Mines, or the underground cavern in the Volcano at BRIMHAVEN. Maybe one day soon I can get time to get back and check. (I did, it is, confirmed March 2007, in the northern section of the mine, symbol of a shiny pickaxe. There is also a SHOP nearby, the dwarf shopkeeper often wanders, seek him out in adjoining chambers of you cannot wait for him to arrive).

7. Talking of the cavern near the VOLCANO at BRIMHAVEN (it is marked like all other underground features, with an exclamation mark in red !). Here I found some GOLD ORE, the first that I had seen, and when I tried to mine it, was told I needed to be LEVEL 40 to do so. Hence I went to the mining sites near LUMBRIDGE and spent about a week mining equal numbers of COPPER and TIN ore from the one near the FISHING TUTOR, south of LUMBRIDGE. As the rucksack filled up, I went to the FURNACE near the LUMBRIDGE GENERAL STORE, and smelted BRONZE. At first I then went to the shop and sold the bars, but after a while I took them to the SMITHING place at VARROCK and made ARMOUR and WEAPONS from the bronze bars, and sold that at the VARROCK GENERAL STORE instead, which got a lot more money, and also increased the SMITHING level as well. The ICON for finding a SMITHING place is the ANVIL. I suggest you start by mining copper and tin and make BRONZE BARS in the FURNACE place at LUMBRIDGE, then STORE in the BANK, and continue for a while doing this, then go to VARROCK and increase the SMITHING level using the bars that you can take from the BANK at VARROCK near the SMITH (ANVIL icon) places there. That way you can avoid the irritating situation where you can mine GOLD (level 40) but cannot make it into Bars or make them into anything as the rest of the levels are too low.

(Added 31/3/7)
8. Having spent a month playing, it became noticeably apparent that half or more of the game is definitely hidden or reduced, and that was the more interesting part, even more interesting than how the FREE game plays. I have no problems with the way the owners of the game have restricted the best bits to paying customers, the amount of different features you get for free is superb as it is.

After enjoying myself along with the kids, playing together on Runescape as free members, we decided we needed to pay the £3 a month (roughly) and upgrade to MEMBERSHIP. I used PAYPAL and selected a year's membership, which cost £35.03 (do not ask why the odd pence, something to do with the payment processors colllection fees embedded in the price). That is less than £3 a month in fact. Just. Well worth it I feel, if you are a member you can see members (on the member's servers) with their pet cats, and can buy a house (unfortunately hidden in a time/space portal so it does not intrude on the rest of the game space, but that is no matter), and you can get to the mine in the desert that has 5 all-gold ore bearing rocks, a MAGE training area, use canoes .

9. Talking of canoes, you can use one to get to the WILDERNESS level 29 part of the WILDERNESS by a secret underground river, emerging in a small pond, when the canoe sinks, and you are at the mercy of monsters and other players if you are not strong enough, and cannot even use the basic standard LUMBRIDGE TELEPORT unless you can run to a safe place that is 20 or lower, when you will be allowed to use it then. Be warned and prepared.

10. Talking of upgrading, you have to log in as the person you are upgrading in the Payment Processor screens, and promise that your are paying for you, or a close member of the family. In other words, you are not allowed to upgrade non-family members. I guess this is to stop the selling or manipulation of accounts by people trying to make money from buying and selling accounts. Which, as pointed out elsewhere, is against the rules and will cause the account involved to be deleted.

11. You can buy a house in the RIMMINGTON portal, as a beginner at CONSTRUCTION (level 1) you cannot buy a house anywhere else. It costs 1000 GP (Gold pieces) but I have already spent over 30,000 GP (to any Europeans, we in the UK use comma delimiters, it is not 30 point 000 gold pieces). Gold pieces are the currency of Runescape, not real legal tender, the only cost is in the time you spend (or time you waste as the females of the house will point out, as they nag at you over how long it takes you to do anything around the house).

You seem to need to find some nice person who invites you to enter their house, and use their construction practise room which you can get added on to the 1000 GP basic 1 room house. Not everyone will have one, so you will have to hang around the portal and ask I guess.
Alternatively, you can do what I was forced to do and get a lot of planks, nails, bolts of cloth, and make the chairs, bookcases, curtains, rugs that have ghostly place-holders in the BUILDING mode, and add more rooms and build the ghost furniture in them as well. Once you get to level 4, it gets possible to improve the chairs. In fact, if you find a flat packed OAK chair or armchair in a shop, and buy it, as I did, and gave one each to my children, you seem to be ale to construct that at the chair placeholders without being a higher level. As they did, lucky blighters.Wish I had known that, as if I replace the rough built chairs I have now, they have to be destroyed, no material is returned by the scripts in the game, so that money is wasted, consider it as a cost of training up in CONSTRUCTION levels in Runescape.

The fire places need SOFT CLAY to build them, unfortunately the only clay I had that met that description was one peice that I bought in a store on spec, fireplaces need 3, just my luck. Hence I was stumped, and raised my construction level by building wooden furniture (chairs, bookcases, a table). Later, on checking with Google search (use mine here if you also wnt to do that), I confirmed that in fact you can mine the CLAY in the mine site just by the RIMMINGTON portal, and get a bucket of water , filling one bought from the store for 2 coins, and filled from the nearby well. Combine the clay and water, and get a soft clay pat. At the end of this process, if you do not want any more for the present, FILL THE BUCKET WITH WATER, then sell it back to the GENERAL STORE for the 2 coins that you paid for it! If you just sell the empty bucket, you get zero coins!

If you are at a high enough SMELTING level, you can forge STEEL BARS into steel nails. Alternatively you can buy them from the sawmill operator. Iron nails cost 5 coins, and Steel nails cost only 3 coins. Unusual pricing structure, IRON things are normaly cheaper that STEEL. I would advise getting as many nails as possible, the rejeciton rate when hammering nails at a lower construction level is horrendous, most are bent on hammering, and do not complete the item in question.

(added 2/5/7, or for our American visitors, 5/2/7, unambiguously stated as second of MAY 2007)
12. Just finished raising my FLETCHING LEVEL to 46 (enabling me to make MITHRIL ARROWS, WILLOW LONGBOWS[level 40], STEEL BOLTS, STEEL DARTS[level 37 in fact] and STEEL/TEAK CROSSBOWS. The advantage of being a higher level is this, these items can be made cheaply, and sold dearly, so increasing your GP (GOLD PIECES) for use buying other things in the game, especially hard-to-make or rare items that consequently cost a huge amount.

This brings me to the reason for this mention, how to raise your level in FLETCHING, and by analogy, other skills involving items that can be bought from the GENERAL STORES, or other sales outlets.

It relies on the property that many items have, obeying a law of economics called SUPPLY & DEMAND combined with the effect of MARGINAL UTILITY. If there are many copies of an item in the shop, it reaches a minimum price limit, in the case here, WILLOW costs 12 coins, OAK costs 6, and normal logs are "cheap as chips".

To avoid the convoluted way this example is developing while trying to write in universally valid way, let the FLETCHING example from here on, and use the general priciple, adapted to suit the different circumstances of SMITHING, CRAFTING, etc, as needed for your own interests.

I started off by choping down normal trees, carved the logs (you need to have a knife in your rucksack as well as the logs) and sold them to the GENERAL STORE. Then when reaching LEVEL 20, switched to OAK logs. Fortunately these are normally in great supply in any store in Runescape, and so much so, that they cost only 12 coins no matter how many are bought, until only about 25 are left, when they start to increase to over 16 coins each in cost from the shop. This is important to the method, as the idea is to sell back to the GENERAL STORE (a refinement would be to store them and sell to a specialist ARCHERY STORE). They only pay 16 coins for each UNSTRUNG WILLOW LONGBOW, if there are already many in the store. Hence in normal circumstances, you get 4 coins profit, and 42 XP (experience points) in FLETCHING for each log converted from WILLOW logs to unstrung willow LONGBOWS. If you can only make SHORT BOWS, you get paid less, and only get 33 XP each conversion action.

Continue ad infinitum, or until you get low on logs in the shop, and they get expensive. If so, then MOVE TO ANOTHER SHOP. I went to VARROCK and found a mother load of 1005 OAK logs, took me 3 hours to chew through these and others in FALADOR and LUMBRIDGE. Raised my points by about 25 levels (from memory). Of course, I should get a life, so bear that in mind, do not waste your spare time on this activity if you find it a chore, or open up another window and read your emails while doing this, or watch TV or listen to your favourite music.


To summarise, you are using the fact that many players cut TREES to increase their WOODCUTTER XP, and sell the resulting logs to a shop. Thus, if you do not want to spend the time cutting your own, you can make use of their efforts instead, AND make a profit. This would make a nice example for an economics lesson in school, showing a practical example of the effect of SUPPLY & DEMAND, just a thought all you teachers out there.

Now to try the method on CRAFTING, unfortunately the sheeps wool at level 1 needs the SPINNING WHEEL present, not a rucksack as a processing centre, so I will have to use something that can be processed in the RUCKSACK, for example UNCUT OPAL chiseled to cut OPAL at level 1. Then when high enough, use some of the many UNCUT EMERALDS and DIAMONDS that were uncovered while raising my MINING LEVEL to over 50.

(added 12/June/2007)
13. Never buy any Runescape items from anyone advertising on my sites, this is the banned "Real World Trading" clause 12 that has resulted in thousands of members losing their account, with no money back. Take heed of the warnings on the Runescape site.

14. If you want to mine gold, silver, mithril, etc, then obviously you need to pick a place or time of day that results in nobody else being there competing for the resource. What it took me a while to realise is, you are not confined to the servers in your own country, and although the speed might be a little slower perhaps, due to the longer connection path that may result, in reality I have not noticed any problems. Thus, if in the UK and the worlds are full up nearly, and you find you are being beaten to the ore by higher level miners (which seems to be part of the programming on purpose), then remember that the Americans are about 8 hours behind the UK, and try one of the USA servers.

There is a convenient button on the left lower area on the login screen that says "Switch Worlds". Use it and you see a screen with all the servers used to run Runescape in different countries all with their own flag icon and colour coded into members and free servers. You can sort the list in order of country (distance from you), members or free, number of players online on that server, etc. Interestingly, if you switch from one server to another of the same class (free to free or member to member servers) then if done quickly enough, there is a warning that you have only just left another server, and your profile will be transferred in 20 (counting down) seconds. Avoid switching from free server to member's server and back again, every time you do you have to load up a different set of scripts, and it takes ages on my machine (an old IBM laptop). Hence, switch to the same class of server as you are already on, until all the members (or free) servers have been visited, and then switch from member to free (or the other way round), so that you do not have to wait minutes for the update server to be searched and downloaded from every time.

15. Did you know that Dwarven stout can be drunk and it results in an increase for a short while, of 1 level in your mining ability? I tested this out on my level 69 mining, and it did allow me to try to mine for ADAMANT ore. In fact, it takes so long usually to get the ore that the effect of the beer wears off most times, so I drank 2 glasses. Contrary to what we might hope would happen, if both glasses of Dwarven stout are drunk immediately one after the other, you have wasted one, as it does not add 2 to the level. If you want a 2 level inrease, you have to drink Drarven Stout (m) where the (m) stands for mature. I did this and it allowed me to mine the Adamant ore before the effect wore off.

16. Similarly, drinking the Goblin beer that you can pick up sometimes when goblin is killed, increases your health, but at the expense of a few points off your Attack level. Still, if nearly dying from combat, it is a way of keeping alive, like eating food, but with the side effects of a hangover as well!!! Remember that health and attack points are renewed with the passage of time, automatically, so this is only a temporary lowering of your attack level.

There is even a Wizards Mind Bomb beer that increases you magical powers for a while.

17. If you are a member with a HOUSE and high enough CONSTRUCTION level to get a fourth TOOL CHEST in the WORKSHOP room, then take note of the TIARA MOLD in it. This is worth 40 coins in any GENERAL STORE but, if you are in RIMMINGTON, sell them in the CRAFT SHOP next to the general store, and you get 65 coins instead! Since your tool chest has a neverending supply (yes it is a cornucopia, look that word up!), a rucksack full of 28 gets about 1890 coins if you sell one at a time and allow that one to be removed in about 5 seconds later. The base line for these TIARA molds in the Runescape craft shop is 10, if you sell one tiara mold then the number sets back to ten from eleven fast enough for it to only take about 2 minutes to sell the whole rucksack full one at a time for maximum 65 coins each. If you sell all 28 in one go, they average out at 45 coins each, roughly, or about 1150 coins total (I sold a rucksack full in one transaction as a test and got about that, from memory).

As you will find out, many items are removed one at time at a regular pace by the software controlling the stock levels in shops, normally this seems to be timed at 30 seconds, so you are lucky with this item. Not sure if the designers of this program intended it to be a useful way to get about 2000 coins in about 5 minutes work, but I guess they know about this quirk.

If you are out of money, and need to buy a kitchen for 5000 coins, and cannot face going all the way back to Falador to mine some gold or silver, etc, then smith it, then sell it, then 3 rucksack fulls of TIARA mold will give more than enough and only take about 20 minutes.

18. If you remove a PARLOUR room connecting rooms further on, do not use a BEDROOM as a replacement, unless you had the parlour room connecting 2 rooms at 90 degrees instead of a straight line. I wasted 20,000 coins trying to do so, before realising that a parlour room allows straight through and right-angle connections, a bedroom only has 2 connecting doors not 3, and will not allow the doors to be opposite each other. Perhaps some Runescape developer might want to rethink that one???

19. There are 4 planks for free at the BARBARIAN ASSAULT area, on the north side, and they are self regenerating every 30 seconds approx, meaning that when you take them, they are replaced by others a bit later. This saves you 100 coins each plank, and is a cheap way to raise your CONSTRUCTION level making items from them essentially for free. There are also 2 planks at the northern end on the island of ENTRANA that are self regenerating.

20. If doing the Lost City Quest, you may find the impossibility of carrying a weapon, and hence an axe,onto the ship taking you to ENTRANA, a major stumbling block when trying to chop some wood from the DRAMEN TREE to make the DRAMEN staff needed to reveal the underground Fairy Kingdom of ZANARIS. If so, I can save you the time looking for an axe on ENTRANA, there is not one, except carried by the zombies and skeletons in the CAVE that is a one way ticket to the Wilderness, no return. Kill the zombies/skeletons that you meet at the begining until one of the blighters drops an axe. By this time you may have hardly any health left so eat any food you may have (wisely) brought with you.

Oh, by the way, do not waste time killing the 2 Lesser Demons that are in the cave, just put on RUN and rush past them to the cavern on the right where you will find the magic tree that is protected by a level 101 tree spirit. I used firebolts to kill the tree spirit, in fact I ran out and had to finish it off with my RUNE PICKAXE (as good as most swords), just before it finished me off. That was because I had wasted most of my runes casting firebolts to kill the lesser demons (who paradoxically are large!!!) only to find the so-and-so's come back after a few seconds. Only when you kill the tree spirit will you be able to cut branches from the tree. Finally, although the monk warns that you can only exit via the Wilderness, not back up the ladder (or was it a rope?) in fact, once you succeed, USE THE HOME TELEPORT back to Lumbridge, much safer, and easier to do!

21. This week Runescape has had "The Grand Exchange implemented. It is located north west of Varrock, near the bank. The purpose is the long awaited ability to sell your stuff to anyone that wants it on any server. You instruct the Exchange clerks to carry out a buy or sell on your behalf, deposit the money or goods and then get about the business of doing some of the interesting Quests, or fighting something in the Wilderness, whatever takes your fancy.

The slightly unfortunate side effect of this implementation is that uncut rubies now cost 2000 GP (gold peices) whereas before they only cost 400 GP in the shop. That means that you cannot make any profit from buying them and cutting them with a chisel, and then smelting them with a gold bar to make a ruby bracelet which the shop still only pays you 930 coins for.

The management seem to have realised that it was too easy to buy and sell your way up the experience levels, and at the same time make a profit. Now it costs a lot of your coins to buy your way to a higher experience level. Not necessarily a bad thing, it rewards those that actually do some mining, or digging for coal, etc.

All is not lost though, you can still just about make a profit while raising your smithing level, by buying IRON ORE and smelting it, and then selling the resulting bars for more than the cost of the ore.

Even if you take into account the fact that half of the iron ore is destroyed as too dirty, you still just about make a profit. At the time of writing the Iron Ore costs about 80 Gold Peices (GP) and the Iron Bars sell in the Exchange for about 180 GP. Making about 20 GP each bar, and raising your smithing level by about 23 each Ore to Bar conversion.

22. At present the easiest items to make money from are the aforementioned iron bars (179 approx) and coal ore (about 159 coins each). If you use the iron bars to make armour, they actually lose you money, as it takes 5 bars to make a platebody for example, yet you only get 224 coins in the shop, and although the price in the Exchange is a lot higher, NOBODY SEEMS TO EVER WANT TO PAY THAT, and so you never sell it at all in the Exchange.

Fortunately Runescape say the process will adjust to fit the average price that most people are willing to pay gradually reducing items that are priced too high, or raising the price of popular items that people are willing to pay for.

The bad news is, even after 1 week, many of the bits I try to buy or sell are still "silly prices". It all seems to be taking too long for my liking.
(added 26/2/8, the pricing structure has been improved following a lot of feedback from players, it has improved a lot, try joining and see for yourself.)



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