The photo booth is a curious thing indeed, blurring the boundaries between the realm of RuneScape and another plane of existence known as RSOF – the RuneScape Official Forums. The wizard Iconis has been experimenting for many years to find a way to take photographic representations of RuneScape’s adventurers, so that they may show the world what they look like when sending correspondence and the like. Despite all of his research, his breakthrough came about when he crossed paths with an imp, who revealed, quite conveniently, that imps have a spell to do just this very thing! They don’t half love taking things. So, the pair of them have teamed up to open photo booths in Falador and within the walls of Daemonheim.

Points of interest near the Falador photo booth

The photo booth

The Falador photo booth is located near the Makeover Mage’s house (denoted on the map by the eye-shaped icon), just through the gate to the members’ area. Iconis set up here for ease of access to a bank, a hairdresser’s and the Makeover Mage – he fully expects his customers to want to show off their best gear and favourite look, so Falador was the obvious choice. First-timers might want to have a quick chat with Iconis to better understand the wizardry behind this contraption, but having your picture taken is very straightforward.

Either right-click on Iconis and choose ‘Take-picture’ or click on the booth itself to enter. Once inside, you’ll see the below interface, which can be used just like the ‘Show Equipment Stats’ interface to try out different looks before taking a snap. Once you’re happy with your look, click on the ‘Take picture’ button and you’re done in just two shakes of a lamb’s tail.

The photo-taking interface

The photos themselves may take a little while to develop. These things take time, you know – it’s not magic! Well, okay, it is magic, but Iconis is but one man, so if the photo booth is busy, give him some time to process your images. Again, due to how popular this new contraption is, you will only be able to use the photo booth once every two hours, so make sure you’re happy with how you look before hitting the ‘Take picture’ button.

The Daemonheim photo booth acts in an indentical fashion, although you will have to build the photo booth first. In the starting room of your dungeon, right-click on the group gatestone portal and select ‘Replace’; you will then be able to construct a photo booth using no materials at all, and no Construction level requirement.

Head shot

Body shot

The Photo Booth will take two images of your character – a head shot and a full body shot. The head shot will display next to any posts you make on the forums. Iconis and his imp chum do all the work here, so it should happen automatically, but you may need to wait a short time while they clear their backlog of orders.

You can also use the following HTML (where ‘playername‘ is the name of your character) to directly link to these images on your own website, or any other site you wish to: Runescape Money.

At the bottom of the control panel, on the far right-hand side, are three buttons. The first one is the game options button, the second is the emote button and the last one is the music player button.

Main game options interface

The games option button gives you access to options that influence the way the game behaves.

The first of the options controls the display options. If you are having problems seeing what is going on in the game windows, or want to increase or decrease the details visible to you, you can open this interface to adjust your settings. Click here to find out more about display options.

The second button controls the music and sound effects. You can either turn these off or set different levels for the various forms of sound that you can hear in RuneScape.

The buttons below these will be highlighted red if they are turned on.

With the profanity filter turned on, any potentially offensive words that other players use will not be shown in your chat window (they will be replaced by ****s). Note that you should only report other players if they are actually being offensive to you or someone else, not just because there are ****s in their chat – context is everything. It is, however, considered worse if another player is purposefully misspelling words in order to circumvent the profanity filter, and such players should be reported for breaching the relevant rule from the ‘Respect’ category.

With the profanity filter turned off, you will see exactly what other players type in their chat, warts and all. Note that, as you have made a concious choice to turn off your profanity filter, you should not report other players simply for using the odd bit of bad language. You can and should still report other players who are being discriminatory, bullying, threatening, lewd, salacious, soliciting, etc, regardless of whether or not they are using bad language! It may be worth familiarising yourself with our rules on innapropriate language and behaviour, but, basically, so long as you are responsible and respectful to other players, you have nothing to worry about.

We will still censor any URLs that we have not deemed as safe, regardless of whether or not your profanity filter is on or off. Also note that any chat containing your own password will not be displayed to other players at all. There is never any reason for you to be typing your account password in the chat window.

The Chat Effects option allows you to turn chat effects on and off. Chat effects are ways of making your chat text appear coloured or animated. This is popular with players who want to attract a little extra attention to what they are saying.

The default colour for chat text is yellow, but there are other colours available to use with your chat text. These colours are red, green, white, cyan and purple.

The table below shows all the available effects that can be used to alter how the text is displayed.

These commands are used in the following format – <colour>:<effect>:<text>

For example, to make the line of text, “Selling cut ruby!”, display in red, we would use – red:Selling cut ruby!.
To have the text scroll and be displayed in cyan, we would use – cyan:scroll:Selling cut ruby!

The Chat Setup button is to turn split private chat on or off. If you have split private chat set to ‘Off’, then all private messages you receive will happen in the main game text window. If you turn split private chat ‘On‘, all private messages you receive will appear on top of the chat window. This makes it easier to spot when there is a lot of public chat going on. You are also able to choose what colour your private chat (and Clan Chat) will display in.

The Accept Aid option allows you to specify if you would like to be able to receive some help from friends in the form of teleportation. This can be useful at various times, especially in times of danger. If you turn Accept aid ‘On‘, then other players will be able to use their teleportation spells on you. If someone tries to teleport you, an interface will pop up, you will then need to accept this aid before you can be teleported.

If it is set to ‘Off’, then you will not receive this interface and therefore will not be able to be teleported by others.

The Mouse Buttons option allows you to toggle between using two mouse buttons or just using one to control the game. In ‘single button’ mode, menus will always appear when you click on objects with more than one option or if you click several objects at once. Some people find this easier, and it’s also handy if your mouse only has one button!

The House button will open your house options, which you can only use if you have purchased a house from the Real Estate Agent. For further information about houses, please see the Construction section of the Game Guide.

The emotes options button allows you to control your character’s behaviour.

This interface contains the Emote Animation buttons. These are a number of pre-defined actions your character can perform. Use these if you want to add a little movement to your chat!

Emotes that are available to the player are rendered in full colour, while those that are currently locked are displayed as shadows of figures. Players can unlock these emotes by completing quests, special holiday events and random events. You might like to start opening new emotes by exploring the Stronghold of Security.

Music interface

The music options button allows you to access the music interface. A list of all the music tracks available in RuneScape is displayed in this interface.

Music tracks that the player can access are displayed in green. For example, in the image, the track “Adventure” is available for the player to listen to. Music tracks that are unavailable are displayed in red.

You can click in the list of music tracks to select a song to play. Green tracks are songs that have been unlocked and can be played by left-clicking on them. Red tracks have not been unlocked yet, and can be unlocked by completing the related quests or finding the relevant area. To find out how to unlock a music track, right-click it and select ‘Unlock hint’. You can also search through all tracks by clicking on the button with the magnifying glass icon, then typing in a word from the track you are searching for. As you type, your search results will update in the music interface.

Songs that are appropriate to your location will start when you enter a certain area.

Those adventurers who especially enjoy exploring may find that they manage to unlock 500 music tracks. When they reach this, they will also unlock a new emote – ‘Air guitar’.

Music playlist

Scattered throughout RuneScape are many shops where you can buy and sell items. Most shops will specialise in a certain type of item, for instance, a sword shop will only buy and sell swords. In addition to these specialist shops, there are several “general stores”, which will buy and sell almost anything; however, items in general stores normally cost slightly more, and such stores will pay less for items that you sell to them. If you take the trouble to find the right shop, you can often get a better deal.

To view a shop’s inventory, you must talk to the shopkeeper in the store and choose the conversation option to indicate that you wish to buy or sell.

Alternatively, players using a multiple button mouse can right-click and choose the ‘Trade’ option to go straight to the shop screen. Single button mouse users should click on the shopkeeper and select the ‘Trade’ option. A screen like the one shown below will appear.

Shop inventory and right-click options

The key to the top-right of the shop interface explains what information is being shown about each item in stock. The number above each item says how many of that item are available, while the number below says how much it will cost. The icon next to the price denotes what currency is needed. Typically, this will be RuneScape’s standard currency of gold coins, but there are a few shops dotted around that will require other currencies.

You will see in the example shop shown above that there are two types of stock: ‘Free sample items’ and ‘Main stock’. Only a handful of shops in RuneScape will offer free sample items; most shops will just have a main stock.

Item information box

For multiple button mouse users, right-clicking on the item will open a menu with the following options: ‘Info’, ‘Examine’, and various ‘Buy’ options. Left-clicking will always select the ‘Info’ option. (Note: single button mouse users will always get a menu.)

Selecting the ‘Info’ option will bring up the ‘Item information’ box in your side interface, providing further information about the item. If the item is either a weapon or armour, it will also display the item’s combat bonuses, where it is wielded and if you lack the required skill levels to use it. The ‘Examine’ option will just display a description of an item in the chat window. Choose one of the various ‘Buy’ options when you have decided what to purchase, and in what quantity.

To sell your items to a shop, click on the item in your inventory and the shop will tell you how much it is prepared to pay (if anything). The price a shop sells an item for and the price it will buy that same item for will not be the same. Shops buy items at a lower price than they sell them for – the shopkeeper needs to make some profit! If you wish to sell an item from your inventory, simply right-click on the item you wish to sell, then choose the amount you wish to sell from the list. (Note: again, single button mouse users will always get a menu.)

If the shop is a general store, you will see a ‘pots’ icon in the top corner. Unlike specialist stores, which will only buy stock that interests them, you can sell a much larger range of items to a general store.

The prices for items you sell to the shop are dynamic, they are not static. Prices are determined by the store’s stock levels and their guide price. For example, if you sell ten items to the store, you could get 5gp for the first three, 4gp for the next five and 3gp for the final two. For your next sale of the same item, the store could reduce the price it will pay to 2gp per item. So, if you sell another ten of the same item to the store, you will get less money than before.

The prices that shops sell items for are frequently adjusted to match the flow of price changes at the Grand Exchange. This is to prevent people being able to buy items from shops and sell them for profit at the Grand Exchange, or vice versa.

When buying items, if you choose to buy, say, ten of an item, but there are only five available, the store will only charge for and sell five of that item to you. You will always pay the guide price for these items.

LootShare is an entirely optional way for you and your friends to share monster drops in multiway combat areas. The sharing of items is fair, and is designed to ensure that everyone receives an equivalent value of rewards over a period of time. Alternatively, you can activate CoinShare to receive high-value drops as cash, which is automatically split equally between all LootSharers.

Note: Lootshare cannot be activated while dungeoneering.

 The owner of a Friends Chat channel (see Controls – Friends and Clan Chat for how to set one up) can activate LootShare on the bottom-left of their Friends Chat Setup menu. The owner can then decide who LootShare is available to, by selecting a rank. Everyone of this rank or above can activate LootShare and receive drops in multiway combat areas.

Note: Any monster drops are allocated to the friend group or player who has done the most damage to the creature. For this reason, LootShare can only be activated on certain worlds. This is so that solo adventurers do not have friends gathering the majority of rewards.

To join a group of LootSharing friends, you must be of a suitable rank, be on a LootShare world and be on the correct Friends Chat channel. Once you have satisfied these conditions, you can click on the grey bag of loot in the sidebar of your Friends Chat interface. After a short period of time (during which your loot icon will have an hourglass over it), you will be able to LootShare with your friends!

When a monster dies, you will be informed if you have received the drop, so you can go and collect it. See right for an example of how this message will be displayed.

If you are unlucky enough to receive a small, or less valuable, share of the monster’s drops this time round, then you will be much more likely to receive a better share in the future. This way, everyone sharing loot should receive an equal share, given enough time! Note that the distribution of drops is based on the guide price of items (as determined by players trading on the Grand Exchange) rather than the shop price.

LootShare will not allow untradeable items to drop, as these are either quest items or items that should be earned by an individual player and not a group.

Note: You must be within 16 squares of a kill to receive any rewards from it.

How does the LootShare system ensure ‘fairness’?

When an item is dropped, its value is calculated using the Grand Exchange. Each player is given a ‘virtual’ share of that value in LootShare points. The system then chooses a player to receive the drop. The system looks at the points for all players in the group and whoever has the most LootShare points stands the greatest chance of getting the drop.

The person who gets the drop then ‘pays’ for the drop in those same points, thus reducing the chance that player will get the next drop. So, if someone else in your group gets a valuable drop, your LootShare points and chances for the next drop increase a lot. If they get a less valuable drop, your points increase by less.

These points are stored from game session to session, but they will tend towards zero by a percentage every day.

Does the ring of wealth work with LootShare?

No, the ring of wealth does not improve your chances of getting a good drop while you are LootSharing. The ring only works when you are fighting by yourself.

If you’d prefer to have item drops converted to coins and distributed equally across your friends, you can use CoinShare. To activate CoinShare, the Friends Chat channel owner will need to open their Friends Chat setup interface and click on the CoinShare icon (shown to the right).

When CoinShare is running, LootSharing will remain the same for low-value items; items will be allocated to members of the Friends Chat channel according to how ‘lucky’ they have been with previous LootSharing monster drops. For high-value items, however, there will be a definite difference: the item will be converted into cash and shared equally amongst all of those who are eligible to receive a share. The coins will be dropped on the floor like any other drop.

The total number of coins is based on the item’s guide price on the Grand Exchange. The item will also be added to the Grand Exchange at the guide price. Any items sold on the Grand Exchange from CoinSharing will have no effect on that item’s market value. A cap may also be applied to the cash you receive from your share, to limit any market manipulation that may be attempted by using CoinShare.

How does CoinShare affect the Grand Exchange?

Items sent to the Grand Exchange by the CoinShare system are sold at the guide price, but will never affect the market value of that item – the Grand Exchange will ignore them when calculating the item’s guide price. In addition, any items that players put on the Grand Exchange at the same price or lower will sell before any item put in by CoinShare.

CoinShare items will always sell at the guide price, and their price will adjust to match this value whenever the Grand Exchange recalculates the item’s price.

What are the ‘high-value’ items that I will get coins for?

The Friends Chat interface can be accessed by clicking on the ‘three green men’ icon at the bottom of your sidebar interface. This lets you chat with your friends in a private channel: ideal for those expeditions to the Wilderness, fighting in Castle Wars or just keeping in touch as you work on your skills in various locations around RuneScape.

Friends Chat setup screen

When you click on the Friends Chat settings button (a cog icon) you will be presented with an interface like the one shown to the right.

The people you see in the centre of the interface are those people on your friends list, so if you have a friend that you’d like to be able to assign a rank, you will need to add them to your friends list. You can set your Friends Chat channel to allow anyone to join – allowing players that aren’t on your friends list to join – but you will not be able to assign them a rank, and they may be kicked if the channel is full and a ranked friend joins.

	Chat name This button enables you to give your chat channel a name. This will identify chat on this channel when it appears in your chatbox. Your chat channel will not work until you assign it a name.
	Who can enter chat? You can set this to allow only ranked friends to join your chat channel, or leave it open to anyone. If you adjust this to increase the rank required while people below that rank are in your chat channel, they will be kicked off when the change takes affect.
	Who can talk on chat? You can set this to allow some people to talk while others can only observe. This could be useful if you have a message that you want everyone to see without other chat pushing it up the chatbox too quickly.
	Who can kick from chat? By adjusting this, you can give other friends the ability to ‘kick’ people out of the chat. There is more on ‘kicking’ below.
	Who can share loot? When you are in a multicombat area you can set this to let only a specific rank share loot while LootShare is on (see Controls – LootShare).

The first thing to do when setting up your channel is to name it. This is the name that will appear next to any chat made inside the channel, which will help you identify that something is being said in that discussion, as opposed to public chat or private messages from your friends. No one will be able to use the channel until it has a name. Be aware that characters with accents (ö, ä, etc.) will not be displayed. Any word normally blocked by the chat filter will also be blocked for use as a channel name and using offensive words to name your chat channel will lead to action being taken against your account.

Please note that any changes you make to your Friends Chat settings will take up to a minute to go into effect.

The other fields on the left show their default settings. If you wish to change those settings, simply right-click to bring up the other options, which you can see to the left. As you can see, these are the rank restrictions you can apply to each category. These ranks should be varied enough for you to customise your chat channel exactly the way you want it. Note that a Jagex Moderator can always join a chat, will always be able to chat on it, and can kick any player off the chat. In your favour, though, you can assign them any rank you want! To assign ranks to your friends, right-click on their rank in the main section of the interface. This will bring up the options you see to the right. The owner of the Friends Chat channel can adjust these ranks as they see fit. It’s probably a good idea to allow a couple of other people to kick players from the chat, just in case you’re a bit busy slaying some mighty beast or are offline.

Completed friends chat setup

Once you have set up your Friends Chat channel, your interface should look something like the one to the right.

In this example, you can see that the player ‘Friends’ cannot enter the chat channel, and that ‘These’ and ‘Friends’ will be unable to share loot with the rest of the group.

If a chat channel is full, lower-ranked players can be dropped from the chat when a higher rank joins. This means that the owner will always be able to join, and that players who are not on the channel owner’s friends list will be removed first, followed by unranked friends and so on. Up to 100 players can be in a Friends Chat channel at any one time.

As noted earlier, you must click ‘Join / Leave a Friends Chat channel’ and type in the name of the channel owner to access a Friends Chat channel. Be aware that you must do this even if you are the channel owner. Also be aware that you can join a chat channel even if the owner is offline. This is another good reason to have a few people that can kick from chat if you are offline.

To use a Friends Chat channel, all you need to do is type before anything you write. If you are connected to a channel this will automatically be sent to everyone else in the chat.

To leave the chat again, simply click the ‘Join / Leave a Friends Chat channel’ button and choose the Friends Chat you want to leave.

If someone is abusing the chat channel and going against the Rules of RuneScape, they can still be reported as normal.

If you find that someone is abusing a chat channel, and you have the privilege, you can ‘kick’ them from the chat. To do this, right-click on the player’s name and select ‘Kick’. This will drop them from the channel and prevent them from joining again for one hour. You can only kick a player with a lower rank than yourself – the owner ranks above everyone in this regard.

Note that if everyone leaves the Friends Chat channel, then all ‘kicks’ will be lifted and those players will be able to join again.

If you’d like to keep someone from joining your chat channel, you can place them on your ignore list. This will prevent them from ever joining your Friends Chat. If you wish to allow them to enter again, simply remove them from your ignore list.

Clicking the ‘three yellow men’ icon on the sidebar interface brings up the clan interface. From here, you can view your clan settings and other useful information. For an in-depth guide to the clan system and how to set one up, click here.

Clan chat interface

When you log into the game, you will automatically be logged into your clan chat. You can view who is currently logged into the game, and what worlds they are playing on, by viewing the list of names accessible from your clan chat tab.

To view the chat settings for your clan, you can click on the ‘Clan Settings’ icon, in the top-left of your clan chat interface. By ensuring your have clicked on your ‘Clan Settings’ tab of the interface pop up, you will see the following:

Please note that any changes you make to your clan settings will take up to a minute to go into effect.

If you wish to change settings on this screen, you must first be an owner, deputy owner or administrator. You can right-click to bring up other options on this menu. There are rank restrictions you can apply to each category, as with the Friends Chat interface. These ranks should be varied enough for you to customise your clan chat channel exactly the way you want it.

Note that a Jagex Moderator can always join a chat, will always be able to chat on it, and can kick any player off the chat. In your favour, though, you can assign them any rank you want!

If a clan chat channel is full, lower-ranked players can be dropped from the chat when a higher rank joins. This means that the owner will always be able to join, and that players who are not on the channel owner’s friends list will be removed first, followed by unranked friends and so on. Up to 100 players can be in a clan chat channel at any one time.

To use a clan chat channel, all you need to do is type before anything you write. This will automatically be sent to everyone else in the chat.

If someone is abusing the chat channel and going against the Rules of RuneScape, they can still be reported as normal.

It’s possible to temporarily join another clan’s chat, so that you can organise events and wars between clans. To join another clan’s chat, click on the green dot on the bottom-right of the clan interface. This displays the members of the clan that you are currently chatting to.

Click the icon in the top-left of the ‘visited clan chat’ interface and you will be encouraged to type the clan’s name. Once you have correctly typed the required clan’s name, you will be ready to chat to their clan members. All you need to do is type before anything you write. This will automatically be sent to everyone else in the chat.

If you find that someone is abusing a chat channel, and you have the privilege, you can ‘kick’ them from the chat. To do this, right-click on the player’s name and select ‘Kick’. This will drop them from the channel and prevent them from joining again for one hour. You can only kick a player with a lower rank than yourself – the owner ranks above everyone in this regard.

Note that if everyone leaves the Clan Chat channel, then all ‘kicks’ will be lifted and those players will be able to join again.

If you’d like to keep someone from joining your chat channel, you can place them on your ignore list. This will prevent them from ever joining your Clan Chat. If you wish to allow them to enter again, simply remove them from your ignore list.

The Assist System is a game feature that lets you use someone else’s skill levels temporarily to make items. In exchange, the person assisting you will earn the experience for standing around while you work. The advantage of this is that you will get to do things for yourself without items ever leaving your inventory.

Note that you cannot make any untradeable, quest or activity items using the Assist System (and Tasks will not be marked complete), and there are still lots of things you’ll need to get your skill levels up in order to make. You also cannot use resource gathering skills (like Woodcutting or Mining), so if you need assistance you’ll still need some raw materials. You can only gain access to things that you could get by trading anyway, so there’s always a reason to work on your skills!

Important Note: The Assist System is designed primarily as a safer alternative to obtaining assistance via the trading system. If you had a willing friend, then all the things you can do with the Assist System were already previously possible (at the same speed) by trading items with your friend. The main difference is now that you can do those same things without the risk of an unbalanced trade. For example, a level 3 player with a high-level friend could always obtain cooked sharks, high level jewellery etc… The Assist System doesn’t make that any more possible than before! (Or any faster, as the person assisting can’t do anything else while helping you.) If you can find someone willing to give up the time to help you cook sharks, they would already have been willing to just cook you the fish previously, so the Assist System is no replacement for putting in the work and levelling-up yourself.

 Previously, if you had a Smithing level of 42 and you wanted a steel platebody (requiring a Smithing level of 48) you could ask a friend with a high enough Smithing level to make it for you, giving them the steel bars and waiting for them to smith it and give you the armour. With the Assist System, on the other hand, you can simply ask your friend to assist you and do the job yourself.

To request assistance from another player, right-click on them to bring up the options (as shown to the left). Selecting the ‘Req Assist’ option will send them a request for assistance.

Assistance interface

If you are assisting someone, it allows you to relax and chat to friends while earning experience! Should you receive a request for assistance and wish to help out, simply click on the request in your chat window to begin. This will open a window showing your assist options, which you can see to the right.

The skills shown are those that you can choose to assist in. You’ll notice that there are no options to assist with combat skills: this is for your own protection – while you are assisting you cannot move. Because you cannot move, you will not be able to work on any skills yourself – this is to stop players from getting twice as much experience as normal.

To begin assisting, select the skill or skills you wish to help the other player with by clicking on its name or icon. This will highlight them in the interface as shown below:

Selecting skills in the assist interface

You will now assist the other player in those skills for as long as the skill is highlighted. They will be able to do anything in those skills that you can do provided they have the necessary tools and resources (e.g. willow logs and a knife for Fletching willow longbows). If you assist a player in a skill that they do not need help with (because they already have a high enough level), you will not receive experience for it.

Because you can control which of your skills you can assist someone with, you do not need to worry about getting experience in any skills you don’t want to gain experience in.

To stop assisting someone, simply click the ‘x’ in the top-right corner of the Assist System interface. If the person you are assisting wanders too far away (20 squares), you will automatically stop assisting them.

	If you are being assisted, a convenient icon will display in the bottom-right corner of your game window.
	To control who can ask for assistance, you can right-click on the Assist button. You can then set it to ‘On’, ‘Friends’ or ‘Off’.

You should be aware that there are a few exceptions and restrictions in the Assist System.

• You can earn a maximum of 30,000 experience in any 24-hour period by assisting people. When you reach this limit, the text in your interface will turn red and anyone you are assisting will be told that they are no longer receiving assistance.
• You cannot use the Assist System to gain access to skill-restricted areas like guilds.
• You cannot assist someone with a quest, a Task or an activity.
• Non-members cannot be assisted with members’ skills.

Please note: The Assist System cannot be used with Constitution, Attack, Strength, Ranged, Prayer, Defence, Slayer, Summoning (because these are combat skills), Agility, Firemaking, Thieving, Dungeoneering or resource-gathering skills (Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Hunter). This is because the system is designed to help players work with resources they already have, not to help them gather those resources or fight.

The following is a list of the restrictions regarding what you can or cannot do with each skill when you are being assisted.

Chatting in RuneScape is a major part of the game and you’ll find that there are many ways to keep in touch with your friends, organise trades or interact with other players. You can chat to those around you simply by typing into the chat box or by using the Quick Chat feature.

The chat box at the bottom of the game window shows you any messages you send or receive. If you find yourself being sent a lot of messages, you might find it useful to adjust what types of message you want to receive.

The chat window

The nine buttons along the bottom of the RuneScape screen control how you interact with the chat system.

The first eight buttons are chat controls that can be left-clicked, and will cause the chat box to only display the selected information/chat. These buttons can also be right-clicked, giving you a set of options to restrict whether or not you will receive those types of messages at all.

The red Report Abuse button, when clicked, displays the Report Abuse window, allowing you to report players who are in breach of the Rules of RuneScape.

The All chat button is selected by default. If you select any other chat button it will visibly change to show that you are watching that type of chat. When watching a specific type of chat, if you receive a message of a different type, its button will flash blue to attract your attention and then remain blue to show there are unread messages there. For instance, if you are viewing Clan Chat and you receive a private message, the Private filter button will flash blue to alert you to the message.

If you have turned a particular chat filter off (using its right-click options) it will no longer flash blue, as all chat of that type is hidden.

	All: Selecting the All filter will display all types of chat together in one place with your filter settings applied (e.g. if you have Public, Clan and Trade turned on, you will see all of these, but if you have Private turned off, you will not see that).
	Game: Selecting the Game filter will show only information from the game itself and not any chat sent to you by other players, regardless of your other filter settings. You can right-click this and select Filter to remove repetitive game messages (like ‘You catch a fish’) from your chat window. Selecting All will restore these messages.
	Public: Left-clicking this will display only public chat in the chat box. You will not see any clan chat, for instance. Right-clicking this controls how much chat from other players you see on your screen. You can turn it to On, Friends, Off or Hide. If you set it to On, your chat interface will display all the text everyone types when they are chatting to you or other players. When set to Friends, the chat interface will display the chat lines for you and all your friends only. When set to Hide, if a player types some text, it is displayed above their head in the game window – nothing is displayed in the chat window. Setting it to Off disables public chat.
	Private: Left-clicking this will display only private messages in the chat box. Right-clicking this sets how players can contact you with private messages. If set to On, anyone can contact you whether they are on your friends list or not. If set to Friends, only people on your friends list will be able to send you messages. Off means you will not receive any private messages. This button also controls how other players will see your online status. Anyone that can send you a message will be able to see whether you are online or offline. Note: Jagex staff moderators will always be able to send you messages regardless of your message settings. They can be recognised by the gold crown at the start of their messages.
	Friends: Left-clicking this button filter will switch you to viewing only the chat in your current Friends Chat channel, if you are in one. Right-clicking it will allow you to control whether you will see chat from any friends channel you are on. You can also use it to control whose chat you will see. The options are On, Friends and Off.
	Clan: Left-clicking this button will cause the chat window to display only messages from any Clan Chat channel you are connected to. Right-clicking it will allow you to control whether you will see chat from any clan chat channel you are on. You can also use it to control whose chat you will see. The options are On, Friends and Off.
	Trade: You can left-click on this option to make the chat box only show trade requests, challenges, etc. You can also right-click to control whether players can send you trade requests or challenge you. The options are On, Friends and Off.
	Assist: You can left-click on this option to make the chat box only show assist requests. You can also right-click to control whether players can send you assist requests. The options are On, Friends and Off.
	Report Abuse Button The Report Abuse button is your means of reporting any player in RuneScape that is being abusive towards another player or is ignoring the Rules of RuneScape. When you spot such behaviour or language, click on the Report Abuse button, select the offending player’s name from the list, click ‘Next’, then select which of the Rules of RuneScape apply before confirming. You can find out more about reporting abuse by clicking here. We will receive your abuse report and take action against the player immediately. If we find out that you are abusing the system, though, then action will be taken against you instead.

The Quick Chat feature enables you to talk quickly and clearly in a variety of situations. You can access normal Quick Chat by simply pressing the ‘Enter’ button on a new line in the chat window, or clicking the Quick Chat icon next to your name at the bottom of the chat window.

• Friends Quick Chat: To access Friends Quick Chat, right-click the Quick Chat icon and select ‘Friends Quick Chat’ or type two forward-slashes (‘/’) followed by enter.
• Clan Quick Chat: To access Clan Quick Chat, right-click the Quick Chat icon and select ‘Clan Quick Chat’ or type two forward-slashes (‘//’) followed by enter.
• Private Quick Chat: To access private Quick Chat, right-click a name in your Friends List and select ‘Quick Message’.

When you have selected Quick Chat, you will see that your chat window changes to show a selection of chat categories, which open out into a variety of options:

You can click on these headings to open subsections to help you construct sentences. The table below shows the basic options and their subsections, along with a brief explanation of what each section is used for.

Most of the options will always be the same, while the last depends on where you are or which skill you last gained experience in. If you are playing an activity, for instance, it will provide some Quick Chat options to help with that activity. The normal default is ‘Attack’.

You can select one of these categories by clicking on it, or pressing the letter it corresponds to. So, if you wanted to make a general comment, like greeting someone or saying goodbye, you would press ‘G’. To then reach the ‘Help’ menu, you can press ‘E’.

Each of these categories will open out into a few subcategories to refine what you want to say. You can continue to click on the options or press the relevant keys.

Quick Chat hot keys

To help you find the phrase that you need, we have added a search option to the Quick Chat menu. To find a phrase, open the Quick Chat menu, click ‘Search’, or press Enter, and start typing. If the words that you type appear in any of the Quick Chat phrases, you will be presented with the phrases that most closely match what you would like to say. You can then select the phrase that you need from the list.

The following areas have context-sensitive chat options when you are there:

• Barbarian Assault
• Blast Furnace
• Castle Wars
• Clan Wars
• Duel Arena
• Fishing Trawler
• Fist of Guthix
• Games Room
• Gnome Ball
• God Wars Dungeon
• The Great Orb Project / Runecrafting Guild
• Kalphite Hive
• Mole Hole
• Party Room
• Pest Control
• Player-owned houses
• Shades of Mort’ton
• Trouble Brewing
• TzHaar Fight Pit
• Waterbirth Island Dungeon

Please note: if your account has been restricted to Quick Chat until you are of a suitable age, you will not be able to view other players’ chat, unless they are using Quick Chat.

In RuneScape, having friends can come in handy. It’s no wonder: making friends from all over the world is fun and exciting. To help you manage your friends, you have been given a friends list and an ignore list on the same tab of your side interface.

Friends list interface

Click on the green figure standing in front of the red figure on your side interface. This will, by default, bring up your friends list, but your ignore list can also be accessed from this tab.

The friends list allows you to keep in contact with the friends you make in RuneScape. Note that this also tells you which world you are in, making it easier to arrange a meeting with your friends in-game.

To add a friend to your list, click on the yellow button with a ‘+’ on it in the top-left of the interface, and type in the name of the person you want to add. You can also add a friend by right-clicking their name in the chatbox and selecting the appropriate option.

After you have added a person to your friends list you will be informed whenever your friend logs in or out of RuneScape (unless their privacy settings block this – see below). Players on your list who are currently playing on the same world as you are shown in green, people who are playing but on a different world from yourself are shown in yellow, and players who are not currently playing are shown in red.

You can also send a private message to a person on your list who is playing. Just click on the player’s name and type in the message you want to send. To remove someone from the list, click on the ‘Remove Friend’ button in the top-left of the friends list, and type in the name of the person that you want to remove.

Ignore list interface

As your wealth in RuneScape increases, you will soon run out of space in your inventory to carry it all around with you. It is quite risky to have all of your items on you because, when you die, you will drop the majority of them.

To prevent such a devastating loss, your character has been provided with a bank account. You can place any item in your bank account and retrieve it at any time from any bank.

The Bank of RuneScape has branches all over the world. Branches of this bank can be found in Varrock, Falador, Edgeville, Draynor Village, and many other populated areas.

Bank right-click menu

When you arrive at a bank, simply click on the bank booth to perform the default action, Use Bank booth. By doing this, you will start a conversation with one of the bankers. Talking to a banker is very important as this allows you to set your bank account PIN.

Right-clicking on the booth will display the following options – Use Bank booth, Use-quickly Bank booth, Collect and Examine Bank booth. These options are always displayed for a player using a single button mouse.

By selecting Use Bank booth, you will start a conversation with a banker. To bypass the conversation screens and access your account immediately, select the Use-quickly Bank booth option.

To check up on any offers you have made at the Grand Exchange, select Collect. This will bring up a small window to inform you whether any trades have been completed. You can collect any cash or items you have won by clicking on the trade. You can also use the Collect right-click option to pick up any items you previously lent to other players.

Once you have decided to use the bank, your bank account will be displayed. Here you will see all of the items that you have gathered and saved.

Storage space in bank accounts are different for members and non-members. Members have hundreds of spaces in their bank, while non-members have 68 (78 if an email address has been registered on the account).

Bank account interface

If you have multiple items of the same type in the bank, a number will appear next to it to indicate how many you have. The bankers aren’t fussy and will safely store anything from runes to big piles of coal!

Some items will not stack in your bank, as the bankers find them too confusing. These items are usually used to hold other items, like the satchels from Tower of Life. Other items are simply unbankable, but these are rare on RuneScape.

To deposit or withdraw an item, simply click on it. Players with multiple button mice will withdraw or deposit a single piece of that item. Players using a single button mouse will get a menu of options.

To deposit more than one of an item at a time, players using a multiple button mouse should right-click on the item to deposit or withdraw, and select the number you wish to deposit or withdraw from the list. Alternatively, you can use the three icons in the bottom-right to deposit everything from your inventory, your equipped inventory or your Summoning familiar’s inventory. The banks are free to use, so making use of them to safely store your extra items is a very good idea!

If your account is filling up with items, you’ll find it useful to know that there is a function that allows you to search your bank account for specific items. Simply click the ‘Search’ button and type the name, or part of the name, of the item you are looking for; this will filter out all of the other items visible in your bank interface, so you can easily locate an item buried deep in your overflowing bank account. You can turn off the search feature at any time by clicking the ‘Search’ button again or clicking outside of the Search window.

A well-organised bank account

To help organise your bank account, you can arrange specific items into ‘tabs’. At the top of the interface, you will see two main tabs; the first of these is the ‘All’ tab, and is marked with the ‘infinity’ symbol (which looks like a sideways 8). This tab shows every item in your bank account.

To set up a tab, simply drag an item onto the tab marked with a ‘+’. This will create a new tab that will only show a set of items that you specify and will be marked with the item you first drag onto it. Dragging more items onto the tab will place them into that section of your bank account. Each of these sections will be marked in your main account window, or you can click on the tab to view only those items.

For instance, if you want to keep your melee combat gear in an easy-to-find location, you might like to keep all of it in a specific tab. You will still be able to find it in your main account (by clicking the ‘All’ tab), but you can choose specific items to be displayed to make accessing them much quicker.

You may also drag items from a Search into a tab or to create a new one. Up to 8 tabs can be created at any one time. For an at-a-glance view of how many spaces remain in your bank, look at the counter at the bottom of your bank screen (right of the ‘note’ toggle button).

To remove a bank tab, right-click on it and select ‘Collapse tab’. A tab will also be removed if you clear it of items.

There are two ways for you to rearrange your bank account: Swap and Insert. You can select which by clicking the ‘Swap/Insert’ button, at the bottom of the bank interface. If you have selected the ‘Swap‘ option, you can drag and drop items in your bank on top of other items, and the two items will swap positions in your bank.

If you have selected the ‘Insert‘ option, dragging an item on top of an existing item will move other items around to accommodate it.

These numbers represent your non-member and member bank space. The left-hand numbers, separated by a diagonal line, represent your non-member bank space. In this instance, the player has filled all of their non-member bank space (68 items in 68 bank spaces).

The right-hand numbers, separated by another diagonal line, represent the member bank space and how much of it you have filled. In this instance, the player has only used 45 of their available 438 member bank slots.

There are a few things worth remembering when glancing at these numbers.

• Members can freely use the full 506 bank slots (68 non-member + 438 member).
• Non-members with member items (from when they used to be a member, for example) are able to store their member items freely in their member bank space, up to a limit of 438. They are also able to store free items in their free bank space up to a limit of 68.
• Players with more than 438 member items will find that their items overflow into their non-member bank slots. Players with more than 68 non-member items will find that their items overflow into their member bank slots. You may view your overflow by hovering your cursor over the numbers at the bottom of your bank interface. For example, if someone had 70 non-member items and 30 member items then their numbers would read 68/68 – 32/438. By hovering over these numbers, the player would be able to see there an overflow of 2 non-member items into their member bank space.

Finally, everyone who has their email address registered with us, be they free-player or member, will receive an additional ten ‘free’ bank spaces, making for a maximum possible total of 78 bank spaces for free-players or 516 bank spaces for members. Registering your email address is quick and easy to do. For more information about email registration, click here; to go directly to email registration, click here.

Any items which don’t normally stack in your inventory and that are tradable (such as ore and food) can be withdrawn in the form of a note. If an item cannot be traded, you will not be able to withdraw it as a note. This allows large trades without taking up lots of inventory slots. To choose to withdraw the items as a note, you can toggle the ‘Note/Item’ button at the bottom of the interface.

Items stored in note form cannot be wielded or equipped, and cannot be used in most skills. They can be sold as notes to any shop that would buy the un-noted item, and they can also have the low and high alchemy spells cast upon them.

If you have a beast of burden familiar (from the Summoning skill), you can move its entire inventory into your bank account by clicking the ‘wolf head’ icon at the bottom-right of the bank interface.

Bank PIN settings interface

There is a need to keep our riches safe and sound, therefore the Bank of RuneScape has given each bank account the option of a PIN system.

You will have to create one for yourself, preferably the first time you access your bank account.

To get to this screen, simply talk to the banker and select ‘Check your PIN setting‘. This bank PIN setting will provide you with information on the status of your pin.

You can click on ‘Set a PIN’ to set your PIN for the first time or change it later.

If you want to change how long a PIN recovery takes, click on ‘Change your recovery delay‘.