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Requirements
Item: Bucket of Water or Ice Gloves.

Recommendations
Skill: 20 Defence, decent Agility.
Item: Armour for Low Levels, Energy Enhancing Items (Boots of Lightness, Spotted/Spottier Cape, etc).

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Help the confused Brother Kojo find the missing cogs and fix his watch tower. Search the dungeon using brawn and brains to correctly place the four cogs.

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Part 1:
The Blue CogStep 1
Fill the bucket.
Follow Cedric.
Use the Blue Cog on its Spindle. Once you have started the quest, go east until you reach Cedric the Monk. Take the bucket there and use it with the well to get a bucket of water.

Go down the ladder near Cedric and follow the path around until you reach an odd-looking wall. Push it. Then take the cog and go up the ladder (Picture). You will appear on the south side of the Monastery.

Enter the clock tower and go up the spiral staircase to the second floor. Use the Blue Cog on the Blue Spindle.

Part 2:
The Red CogStep 2
Go into dungeon.
Get Red Cog.
Use Red Cog on Red Spindle.Go down the staircase and then the ladder into the dungeon. Follow the path to a central room with a checkered floor.

Go through the south-east door and follow the path around until you reach a room filled with several Ogres. Run past them and pick up the Red Cog. Return to the checkered room, then go up the ladder just south-west of there. Use the Red Cog on the Red Spindle.

Part 3:
The Black CogStep 3
Use bucket of water on Black Cog.
Take Black Cog.
Use Black Cog on Black Spindle. Items needed: Bucket of Water.

Return to the checkered room, then go through the north-east door. Up ahead is a room full of Giant Spiders. Breeze past them until you reach the far end of the room. The cog is nested on some nasty looking flames.

Use the bucket of water on the Black Cog. It will become cool enough for you to pick up. If you have ice gloves from the Heroes Quest, you can equip those instead of using water. Return to the chamber just south of the checkered room and use the Black Cog on the Black Spindle.

Part 4:
The White CogStep 4
Get rat poison.
Pull both lever’s.
Use poison on food trough.
Open third gate.
Get White Cog and use it on the White Spindle.
Talk to Brother Kojo. Head through the last door in the checkered room, the north-west door. Pick up the rat poison a little north-west of the door. Go east on the path until you reach two levers. While looking at the wall face on, pull them to open up the rat cage. Turn the corner and pass through the first two gates. You will be in a room with dungeon rats (level-12) and a food trough.

Use the rat poison on the food trough. The rats will panic after eating the poisoned food and start running into the third gate. You can now open it. Pick up the White Cog, and take the ladder up. You will be just outside the clock tower.

Enter the clock tower and go up the staircase to the top floor. Use the White Cog on the White Spindle. Talk to Brother Kojo for your reward.

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do the Sewer Valves have anything to do with this quest?
A: No, they are part of The Hazeel Cult quest.

Q: Do I have to get the cogs in a specific order?
A: No, but getting the Blue Cog first will save some time.

Quest Map
Clock Tower Quest:
Clock Tower

Related Quests:
Hazeel Cult | Monk’s Friend | Observatory Quest | Tower of Life

Helpful Guides:
Ardougne City Guide | Yanille City Guide | Clock Tower Dungeon Map

Requirements
Item: 10 Trout, 10 Bread, Blurberry Special (May not be needed), Asgarnian Ale, Iron Bar, 100GP.

Recommendations
Skill: 20 Fishing, 37 Cooking.
Item: 500GP, Games Necklace, Energy Enhancing Items (Energy Potions, Boots of Lightness, etc).

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Trolls have come down from the north and are camped on Death Plateau, they are using this base to launch attacks on the principality of Burthorpe! The Imperial Guard is taking heavy losses, they need your help!

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Part 1:
Freeing the GuardsStep 1
Speak to Denulth.
See Eohric.
Find a way to talk to Harold.
Speak to Denulth, located south of the castle (Picture). He will inform you that his soldiers need a way up to the Death Plateau. Head upstairs in the castle and speak to Eohric. He will then tell you about Harold, one of the guards.

Find Harold upstairs in the bar and talk to him. Unfortunately, he’s not interested in speaking to you, so return to see Eohric, who will tell you that Harold likes Asgarnian Ale and Gambling.

Step 2
Give Harold his drinks.
Gamble with Harold.
Obtain the IOU.
Free the guards. Items needed: Asgarnian Ale, Blurberry Special, 100-500GP.
An Asgarnian Ale can be bought in Falador Bar for 3GP. It also spawns in the Burthorpe Bar, for free

Return to Harold and give him his ale (Picture). If he requests a Blurberry Special as well, give him one. You may need to give him multiple drinks in order to get him drunk enough to lose every time. Gamble with Harold using the dice on the screen (Picture). If you win with a high enough bet, he will not be able to afford to pay you back and will give you an IOU (Picture).

Read the combo (Picture) to find the door combination. Return to the castle and place the Coloured Balls in their correct places on the table (Combination). Once you unlock the door, go up the tower and speak to one of the archers in the tower and he will thank you for freeing them.

Part 2:
Finding another wayStep 3
Find Saba.
Find the Sherpa.
Help Tenzing. Head towards the cave just north-west of the castle to find Saba. Talk to him (Picture). He says that the old Sherpa, Tenzing, in the mountains knows the secret passage to the Death Plateau.

Exit his cave and head west. When you come to a fork, head south, NOT north – if you head north to the plateau, trolls will throw rocks at you hitting 3-6 damage each.

At the end of the trail is Tenzing’s house (Picture). Talk to him, and he will tell you that he wants 10 Trout, 10 Bread, and his Climbing boots fixed before he helps you (Picture).

Step 4
Get the climbing boots.
Give Tenzing his food.
Find the secret pass.
Return to Denulth.Items needed: 10 Trout, 10 Bread, 1 Iron bar.
The trouts can be purchased from the Warriors’ Guild for 68GP each.

Find Dunstan, the smith, located in the north-east part of Burthorpe. He will ask for a favour before he helps you – his son wants to get into the army but needs Denulth’s approval. Speak to Denulth and he will give you a certificate (Picture). Return to the smith and give it to him along with an iron bar, and he will then make your climbing boots (Picture).

Return to Tenzing and give him the trout, bread, and climbing boots. He will give you a “secret way map” (Picture). Climb over the stile in his backyard and go north. The path will begin to turn east, and you will pass by some mountain goats. When you come to a fork in the path, continue to head east (Picture). You will soon get a message that says “I see no need to go further” (Picture). To go further down the trail you need climbing boots, which you will discover in a later quest. Return to Denulth, and he will reward you for your help.

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What are the stats of the ‘Steel Claws’?
A: They give Attack bonuses of: Stab: +8; Slash: +11; Crush: -4; Magic: +0; Range: +0

Q: How do I smith my own claws?
A: For information on how to smith your own claws, please refer to our Smithing guide.

Q: I have lost my combination; what is it?
A: Take a look at this picture.

Wikipedia
RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) operated by Jagex Ltd. It has approximately fifteen million active free accounts and is a browser-based game with some degree of 3D rendering. Runescape also has over 135 million accounts created. RuneScape was created by Andrew Gower, the creator of DeviousMUD, the forerunner to RuneScape, in 1998. Rewritten and renamed, the first version of RuneScape was released to the public on 4 January 2001 in beta form. It has a free-to-play option, and a simple interface that is accessible on most web browsers.
RuneScape takes place in the fantasy-themed realm of Gielinor, which is divided into several different kingdoms, regions, and cities. Players can travel throughout Gielinor on foot, by using magical teleportation spells and devices, or mechanical means of transportation. Each region offers different types of monsters, materials, and quests to challenge players. Unlike many other MMORPGs, there is no linear path that must be followed. Players appear on the screen as customizable avatars, setting their own goals and objectives. Players can combat both monsters and other players, complete quests, or increase their experience in any of the available skills. Players interact with each other through trading, chatting, or playing combative or cooperative mini-games.

History and Development
DeviousMUD, the forerunner to RuneScape, was created in 1998 by Andrew Gower. The game, which was never publicly released, used isometric graphics. Gower completely rewrote the game in 1999, albeit with no improvements to the graphics. This version was released as a public beta version for approximately one week before it was withdrawn.

As a Cambridge University undergraduate, Gower worked on a complete rewrite of the game with the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower. The isometric view was replaced by a mixture of both three-dimensional and two-dimensional sprites. The game, renamed RuneScape, was released to the public as a beta version on 4 January 2001 and was originally operated from their parents’ house in Nottingham. In December 2001, the Gower brothers and Constant Tedder formed Jagex to take over the business aspects of running RuneScape. Jagex developed an interpreted domain-specific scripting language called RuneScript which is used by RuneScape’s server for event handling. On 27 February 2002, a monthly membership service was introduced, allowing access to additional features including new areas, quests, and items.

RuneScape’s popularity is partially attributable to being accessible from most web browsers allowing players to play the game in many locations. As RuneScape gained more users, Jagex began planning major changes. The developers completely rewrote the game engine so that the graphics were entirely three-dimensional producing a version called RuneScape 2. A beta version was released to paying members on 1 December 2003, and the finished version was launched on 17 March 2004. Upon release, RuneScape 2 was renamed RuneScape, and the older version of the game was kept online as RuneScape Classic. On 12 January 2006, Jagex banned more than 5000 Classic accounts due to cheating and RuneScape Classic was closed to new accounts and restricted to paying members who had played Classic at least once since 3 August 2005, and once every six months after that.

To support RuneScape’s’ free content, advertisements appear on an advertisement banner above the playing screen on the free-to-play servers. On 13 July 2006, Jagex signed an exclusive marketing and distribution contract with WildTangent Games, which granted WildTangent the right to handle advertising in and around RuneScape in the United States. The deal also allowed WildTangent to distribute RuneScape through the WildTangent Games Network, a distribution channel, reaching over 20 million consumer PCs. Jagex moderators have stated that in-game advertisements will not be re-introduced. Since computer users may use advertisement blockers, which may discourage such advertisers, Jagex introduced a rule that prohibits players from blocking the advertisements in the free game.

On 16 May 2006, Jagex upgraded RuneScape’s game engine, primarily as a back-end upgrade rather than a visible graphical boost. Programmers reduced RuneScape’s memory requirements, allowing the game to be expanded and improved without increasing the loading time for most players. The engine was upgraded once again on 26 June 2007 to allow the addition of future content. On July 1, 2008, Jagex released a beta of their “High Detail” mode for members, with a free-to-play version released two weeks later. Before the launch, Jagex stated that it would be officially revealed at the 2008 E3. At the same time it was announced that the cost of membership would rise on August 4, adding an additional $0.95/£0.30, raising it to a total of $5.95/£3.50 a month. Currently, existing members whose membership does not lapse for more than 2 weeks will continue to pay the previous price set in 2002.

Servers
There are more than 150 RuneScape servers located throughout the world, which are numbered and referred to as worlds by players and by Jagex. They are located in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. Servers are located in areas where they will, at the given time, provide the best connection for players in the most cost-effective manner. Servers are moved or added as the need arises.

Each of the RuneScape servers allows 2,000 players to connect simultaneously, allowing a maximum capacity of more than 300,000 players. The servers are divided into free servers for all players and member’s servers. Players can play on any eligible server. Some servers are given activity labels, allowing players performing tasks that require or desire group participation, such as mini-games, to group together. In addition to the RuneScape servers, there are two members-only servers for RuneScape Classic, both located in the United Kingdom. Each of these is limited to 1,250 players, allowing a total number of 2,500 simultaneous RuneScape Classic players. Players can no longer create new accounts for RuneScape Classic.

Other languages
On 14 February 2007, Jagex released a German open beta translation of RuneScape. Currently, there are five German language servers online: three of them are open to free players , and two are members only. These servers are presently located within Sweden and Finland. A French version of the game is also under production and they are hiring French translators on their corporate website. Jagex are also advertising a vacancy for the position of a Translation Team Leader for an intended Portuguese version of the game. In an interview Jagex CEO Geoff Iddison stated that “We do plan to go East with [RuneScape] to the Asian market and the Eastern European market too” and “RuneScape is not for Japan, but it could work well in Malaysia for example. And where’s India in all this? I think RuneScape is a game that would be adopted in the English-speaking Indian world and the local-speaking Indian world. We’re looking at all those markets individually”.
Gameplay
New players begin in a secluded area. They are led on a set path where they learn most of the non-member skills needed to succeed in RuneScape. After the tutorial, players have access to tutors located in the towns they explore. These non-playable characters, or NPCs, can replace some basic equipment items if necessary and can give players appropriate information about their respective skills.
Skills
Skills in RuneScape are the abilities that enable players to perform activities in the game. Players gain experience (EXP) in a skill when they utilize the skill, e.g. mining ore trains the mining skill, thereby increasing their level in that skill. As the skill level rises, the ability to retrieve better raw materials and produce better products increases, as does the experience awarded. The total skill level of a player partly symbolizes the player’s status in the game. The RuneScape highscore tables can be viewed by all players. Upon reaching the highest available level in a skill, members may buy a special cape, referred to as a “Cape of Accomplishment” or a “Skill Cape”, to symbolise their achievement in that skill.

Some skills, such as woodcutting and fishing, enable the player to collect raw materials that can be processed into usable items using other skills, such as fletching and cooking, respectively. The items created can be used by the player or sold to other players in game for a profit. Other skills allow players to kill certain NPCs, build their own houses, move around the map with greater ease, steal from NPCs and various stalls and chests located in-game, cook their own food, create their own potions, create runestones and weapons, grow their own plants, hunt NPC animals, and summon familiars to help in combat and training skills.

Combat
RuneScape features a real-time combat system. Combat is an important aspect of the game, allowing players to retrieve items or gold dropped by dead creatures. Combat is also necessary to complete many quests. A combat level gives an indication of how powerful a player or NPC is in combat. For players, it is determined by applying a formula to the eight combat skills. Players engage in combat by clicking on the enemy they wish to attack. A player will automatically continue fighting until they kill their opponent, die, or leave the fight by running away or teleporting. Most of the game’s weapons are medieval or fantastical in nature and feature different strengths and weaknesses. Players may also summon a familiar to assist with combat.

Combat is subdivided into three main categories: melee, magic and ranged. Melee attacks are close range with or without weapons, magic attacks focus on using runestones to cast spells, and ranged attacks use projectile weapons like arrows, darts or knives. These combat types make up the “Combat Triangle”. Melee attacks are most effective against ranged opponents, ranged attacks are most effective against magic opponents and magic attacks are most effective against melee opponents. Unlike most games in the MMORPG genre, RuneScape does not require players to choose a character class nor are players bound to a specific category of combat. They may freely change between the three styles of combat at any time by switching weapons and armour. Players can even carry the weapons and armour of the three combat categories in their inventories and switch between or combine the styles. The advantages and disadvantages of the combat triangle apply to both NPCs and player opponents.

Players die when their hitpoints are reduced to zero. Lost hitpoints can be recovered by eating or drinking certain items. Players can use potions and the “prayer” skill to boost their combat ability and defences. Players who die reappear at one of three respawn points with their hitpoints, and any other reduced skill levels, restored; however, they drop all but their three most valuable items. A special prayer allows the retention of one more item. There are situations in which all items will be lost upon death, or just one with the prayer. The items dropped form a gravestone, and they can be retrieved if the player can return to the gravestone before it dissipates. Players can purchase longer lasting gravestones and fellow players can repair or bless a gravestone to make it last longer.

Player versus player combat (sometimes called “PvP Combat”) can now only be performed in specific controlled mini games. Bounty Hunter gives players a chance to keep their opponent’s items, Duel Arena offers limited staking, and some other PvP type games offer their own rewards (Fist of Guthix, Castle Wars, etc.)

Before 2008, Player Killers (pkers) were players that went to an area known as the Wilderness, to fight other players within a certain combat level range, hoping to gain their items. In RuneScape Classic, players could opt in to PvP in most areas outside of Lumbridge. Many player killers created “pures”, which were min-max characters designed to have as low of a combat level as possible by heavily training some combat skills and not training other skills to achieve a desired advantage in the combat triangle. However, in December 2007 the Wilderness was radically changed to prevent players from transferring in-game items for real currency. New creatures called Revenants were added to maintain adverse pressure on players in the Wilderness, and PvP was restricted to specific mini games as mentioned above.

On 15 August 2008, Jagex announced that they intend to introduce special worlds where players would be able to fight each other almost anywhere, in a similar way to RuneScape Classic, as mentioned above. To prevent players from using these worlds to transfer in-game items for real currency, Jagex state that rewards for successful kills will be generated by the game. This update is scheduled to take place sometime in October 2008.

Quests
Quests are series of tasks with a story line that players can choose to complete. Quests often have prerequisites including minimum levels in certain skills, combat levels, quest points and/or the completion of other quests. A few quests require players to work together. Quests are grouped into four categories based on requirements and difficulty. Novice quests act as extended tutorials for new players. Intermediate quests challenge players on a basic level, while experienced and master quests challenge the more experienced players and open up new areas of Gielinor. Once a player completes all quests in the game, another achievement cape, commonly referred to as the “quest cape”, can be purchased from an NPC. The cape comes with a special emote peculiar to the skill. Many quests require players to kill particularly powerful monsters. A new quest is released each month.
Players receive various rewards for completing a quest. Rewards depend on the quest’s difficulty and include gold, unique items, access to new areas, increases in skill experience and/or quest points. Quests form the storyline of RuneScape, and many are part of a series of quests that become increasingly difficult. The longest and oldest (the first part of this storyline was released in 2002) of these is an incomplete seven-part series known as “Plague City”. The storyline takes players through a massive conspiracy and unlocks areas inhabited by elves. Jagex has stated that it is the closest thing RuneScape has to a central storyline.

Interaction
Many NPCs populate the realm of Gielinor. Some NPCs, such as shopkeepers and characters in quests, are unavailable for combat. However, most NPCs can be attacked and these are generally referred to as monsters, regardless of their race. Monsters range from common, low-level creatures, such as chickens and goblins to unique, and often much more powerful monsters such as the King Black Dragon, Kalphite Queen, Elvarg (in the free version), or TzTok-Jad. Each type of monster has its own strengths and weaknesses. Demons, for example, have a weak defence against magical attacks, while most dragons have extremely high defence against magic. Monsters may either be aggressive or non-aggressive. Non-aggressive monsters simply ignore players unless they are attacked. Aggressive monsters may attack all players or may only attack players with combat levels below a specified level, depending on the circumstances or location. This can make certain areas throughout Gielinor dangerous or inconvenient to players with lower combat levels.

RuneScape also features independent mini-games for its premium players. Mini-games take place in certain areas and normally involve a specific skill. Mini-games usually require players to cooperate or to compete with each other. Popular mini-games include Castle Wars, which is similar to the real-life game Capture the Flag, Pest Control, a highly combat-focused mini-game, and Fist of Guthix, a minigame where one player (the hunter) tries to stop the other player (the hunted) from collecting charges into a magical stone.

Random Events
Random events are short interludes that occur during the game, requiring some form of player input. They were introduced to deter players from using automated programs, known as macros, autoers, or bots. Some random events require players to click on a non-player character who has appeared, or to leave the area temporarily. Others require more sophisticated actions from players, who must respond to these events quickly and correctly to avoid a negative effect, such as being teleported to a random area or taking damage. Players are rewarded for responding correctly to random events. Jagex revealed on March 27, 2008, that it plans to reassess the random event system because “the threat of bots and macros has been largely removed.”

Economy
RuneScape’s economy is based around items. Raw materials collected with extracting skills, such as fishing or mining, are refined using other skills, such as cooking or smithing, respectively, or are sold as is to other players or stores. Refined products, such as armour or cooked food, are used by players in combat, quests, or other skills. Killing certain monsters for the items they drop can also be profitable. Some players engage in arbitrage, commonly referred to as merchanting, in order to turn a profit by buying and re-selling items. This became much less profitable as of January 2008, when restrictions were placed on unbalanced trades, and with the institution of the Grand Exchange: its price stabilizers and ability to match sellers and buyers across the entire spectrum of RuneScape have reduced price fluctuation .
Before the institution of the Grand Exchange, inflation and deflation caused some instability in the game economy. Inflation was caused by the large number of resources put into the game by macroing. Deflation occurred when more expensive items, such as certain weapons and armour, lost value over time because they became more prevalent and because newer items were introduced. Typically there was a huge impact on the day new items were released, with prices in the tens of millions for the first few hours, and then decreasing to a few million by the end of the day. The prices of rare items (items that were released in RuneScape Classic for holidays and can no longer be attained by any means other than buying from another player) tend to increase over time. For example, party hats were relatively cheap when they were released and are now worth hundreds of millions.

Graphics and sound
RuneScape can be run with high or low-detail graphics; high-detail mode enhances texture and design, whereas low-detail provides a cleaner look and can reduce lag on older or less powerful computers. RuneScapes graphics have gone through two major overhauls, the latter of which was released on 1 July 2008.

The second, gradual overhaul began in February 2005, starting with several towns in the free-to-play area. When the engine was updated on May 16, 2006, allowing graphics of higher quality than before, the pace accelerated. As of 2008, most of the free-to-play area has been updated, as well as some member’s only areas and a large number of NPCs.

On July 1, 2008 Jagex released a major graphical update. The most noticeable changes are a full-screen mode, the addition of textures and shadows, and an increased level of detail. During the first two weeks of July 2008, this version of the game was still a beta and only available to members. On July 14, the HD version came out of beta and became available to free players. To avoid causing difficulty for players with lower-performance computers, there is an option called “RuneScape”, which combines the previous “Low Detail” and “High Detail” modes, and a “RuneScape HD” option.The July 2008 update is advertised as “HD” and is the first time RuneScape has used hardware acceleration, as well as Java OpenGL, as part of its rendering.

RuneScape features a character-customization system. Unlike many MMORPGs, player characters are always human; however, players can choose the gender and a variety of hairstyles and colours, body types, facial features, skin colour and clothing options. Appearance is further complemented by wearing or wielding items. Standard weapons of the same class, such as swords, use the same set of animations in combat; however, a few special weapons have their own, distinctive animations.

Players can be transformed temporarily into objects, plants or animals, depending on the circumstances. These “morphs” sometimes allow players to avoid negative gameplay effects or access otherwise unreachable areas; however, they restrict certain normal activities. Players can also express emotions through the use of specialized animations called emotes, some of which are standard and others earned through gameplay or released during holiday events.

RuneScape has music, sound effects, and ambient noises throughout Gielinor. The music is designed to define the underlying cultures of the various locations accessible. Sound effects, such as the “sploosh” heard when a lobster trap is submerged in water, are heard as players train their skills. Ambient noises, such as the cry of seagulls flying over the ocean, occur in logical places. As different locations are visited by the player, new music for that area is unlocked and can be played back later. Players can loop a song, adjust the volumes of the music, sound effects, and ambient noises independently of each other.

Community
A set of official forums is provided by Jagex on the RuneScape website. On the forums, members are able to participate in game discussions, play player-made forum games, arrange to buy or sell items, post suggestions for further game improvements, vote in polls and otherwise interact with the community. Free players can read the forums, but posting is reserved for paying members. Unlike many MMORPG official forums, the RuneScape forums have very limited features. User profiles do not exist and a user cannot set an avatar, signature, or separate display name. Users cannot use text formatting, post URL address links, nor display images. A topic is automatically and permanently deleted after it surpasses the fiftieth page, so in the busier forums a topic can be deleted within a day or two unless it is constantly “bumped”.
Players can submit email questions to any non-player character in the game. Selected letters are answered in a monthly update called Postbag from the Hedge. This feature began on 26 September 2005 and has since become one of the most accessed pages of the site. Beginning 24 September 2002, players could submit questions to the RuneScape gods; however, this feature was discontinued on 9 December 2004. Players can also submit original RuneScape related artwork, some of which is displayed in a gallery on the RuneScape website. Media featured has included sculptures, comics, drawings, and paintings.

Every Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, Jagex hosts a holiday event in a specific location in the RuneScape world. Players who successfully complete the required tasks during the event receive an exclusive reward. Holiday items released after Christmas 2002 can be retrieved if lost. Earlier holiday items such as Party Hats and Santa Hats can be traded between players and sell for large amounts of gold on the player market. Many holiday events also reward the player with access to a new emote that allows the player to perform a gesture designed to show emotion or action.

Many RuneScape fansites have been established by players, none of which are supported or recognized by Jagex. Although in the early days of RuneScape the official website had a links page which listed several fansites, this is no longer the case. In order to provide players with an alternative, official site to get the information they want or need, Jagex introduced the Knowledge Base, which offers information on gameplay, the main RuneScape rules, and account security. For account security reasons Jagex discourages the discussion of fansites within the game or the official forums – and a rule specifically prohibits sharing web addresses. A major fansite has criticised Jagex for not recognising fansites’ contributions to the development of its game.

Rules and cheating
Jagex has put in place a number of rules for player conduct, such as rules against offensive language, scamming, and bug abuse. To enforce the rules, RuneScape uses three types of moderators: Jagex moderators, who are actual Jagex employees; player moderators, who are trusted ordinary players that enforce the rules within the game; and forum moderators, who are trusted players who police the game forums. On the forums, Jagex moderators are identified by gold crowns and backgrounds on their posts while forum moderators have green crowns and backgrounds; in game, Jagex moderators have gold crowns next to their names in chat while player moderators have silver crowns. In addition, any player has the ability to report rule-breaking using a “report abuse” feature; misuse of this feature can result in action being taken against the reporter.

There are also rules prohibiting the use of third-party software to play the game, known as macroing, and the sale of game items for real money, known as real-world or real-money trading. In an attempt to stop cheating, Jagex made direct interaction with the client very difficult, and established rules against the practice. In response to continued gold farming—exploiting repetitive elements of a game’s mechanics—Jagex issued a statement condemning real-world trading. In the statement, they also claimed that they were seizing billions of gold and banning thousands of accounts every week for cheating. Nevertheless, real-world trading and macroing activities still continued.

From October 2007 to December 2007, Jagex began a war on real-world trading by releasing a series of drastic updates to restrict unbalanced trades. These updates established the Grand Exchange, limited the value of items staked in duels, removed player killing from the Wilderness, made valuable player drops invisible to other players, introduced gravestones for the items of dead players, and instituted the LootShare, CoinShare, and player-assist systems. Collectively, these changes were designed to make it extremely difficult for real-world money sellers to distribute gold and items to players.

RuneScape In Other Media
The game setting has been used in the book Betrayal at Falador, written by T.S. Church and published on July 25, 2008.
Reception
RuneScape has been praised for its free play abilities. JustRPG summarized the game with “In short, the game of RuneScape is a fun, addictive game, and while the graphics may not be perfect, for a game written in Java, they aren’t bad. The skills are varied, the community is alright, and it’ll eat up your time if you aren’t careful,” giving it a score of 83%. The Yahoo! Buzz Log states that “while it may not be as easy on the eyes as some other popular online RPG games, like World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, or EverQuest, RuneScape is still a lot better way to kill time than pushing around cells in a spreadsheet. PC Gamer UK stated in December 2003 that while the “traditional RPG values of questing, slaying monsters and developing your character in a familiar medieval setting” won’t “have the big boys trembling in their +2 Boots of Subscriber Gathering,” this is offset by the game’s accessibility through a web browser, “compounded by a version of the game that allows free adventuring before players upgrade to a members’ account,” describing the game as “an unsurprising success.
In its 2008 intellectual property profile of the game, Developermag.com state that Jagex’s recent changes to curtail real world trading resulted in “a wave of user criticism, although growth is understood to have resumed since”. Its analysis posits that “RuneScape’s mass-market appeal lies in its simplicity and accessibility (both financial and technical). It has tapped into the vast market of games players unwilling or unable to spend premium prices on PCs capable of playing the latest, expensive, processor-intensive games. Its core gameplay concepts are very similar to its retail-distributed RPG and MMORPG analogues”.

Guiness World Records has recognised RuneScape as the most popular free MMORPG in the world for the second year in a row. At the 2008 Leipzig Games Convention Jagex was presented with a certificate to commemorate the achievement. .

However, aspects of RuneScape have been received negatively by RuneScape’s users. In late 2007, an update by Jagex removed two popular parts of the game — free player-vs-player combat and free trading — in an attempt to rid the game of unbalanced trades involving real money being traded for virtual goods. The updates also affected legitimate players, mostly player-vs-player oriented, who were angered about this, resulting in many of them actively complaining on the forums and in-game via “Riots” – virtual protests in which disgruntled players congregated in RuneScape’s main cities and spammed the screen with messages of objection to the changes.. Jagex issued a Customer Support News article explaining that the updates were a tough decision, admitting that the updates may not have been an ideal replacement for what was removed, requesting patience, and promising to remedy potential problems with updates in the future. After the changes subscription numbers fell by 60,000, although no figures were given as to how many were legitimate players and how many were those accounts involved in the trading of goods that Jagex intended to stop.

Additionally players have also criticized RuneScape’s purportedly weak community. These complaints focus on incidents of scamming, general spamming, and arguing amongst players.

Basically there are some very simple rules you can apply to avoid having your Runescape account hacked. Firstly and foremost don’t give your Runescape password out to anyone, ever! It’s quite a simple rule yet it is amazing just how many times people give out the Runescape password and a couple of days later are complaining they got their Runescape account hacked. Next step is don’t download Runescape hacks. Why? Because so often these Runescape hacks are just Trojans and key loggers that are not designed to hack anyone else accounts other than your own. The same goes for thinking like Runescape auto miners and auto fighters; they so often just key loggers. Next step is not to use your Runescape password anywhere other than on the official Runescape site, whilst many other sites will encrypt your password on the rare occasion there has been cases where people have collected user’s passwords via sites like forums and clans etc. Next step after keeping your Runescape password private is to make it reasonable in length, at least 8 characters comprised of both numbers and letters to make it as difficult as possible for those that do try and decrypt your password. Short passwords that are encrypted and are not made up of at least 8 characters tend to be quite easy to break with time. So the longer your Runescape password is, and other passwords for that matter, the harder it is for hackers to hack your accounts.

Well I hope you found this little guide about Runescape hacks useless and you will be able to some of the information on board to secure your Runescape password and make it as difficult as possible for people to hack your Runescape account.

One of the most common scams you will see on websites, forums and even in Runescape itself is the oldest scam in the book – the Runescape password hack. Basically the password hacker will say something like “if you give me your Runescape password I’ll deposit millions of gold and a couple of party hats into your account”. Of course all that will happen is you will give that hacker your username and password and they will take all your items out of your bank and deposit them into their own. If you are lucky you will get your account back – but that will be if your lucky. So don’t fall for the Runescape password hack / trick and just remember that you should never give out your Runescape password that is just asking for someone to hack your Runescape account.

So many Runescape players fall victim to downloading Runescape hacks that end up hacking their own Runescape accounts. There are no hacks for Runescape that allow you to change your characters stats or duplicate rare items, and if there are sites or hackers out there claiming that they can they are just trying to make you their next victim by getting you to download the “Runescape hack” which will then install a trojan on your computer and then allow them to hack your Runescape account with their key logger. The reality is that there are no free Runescape hacks or paid ones for that matter, but if there were Runescape hacks out there I can assure you they would not be freely available. The amount of money that could be made from hacking Runescape is truly astronomical and I highly doubt that anyone with the expertise to hack runescape would be quick to let such knowledge get out to the general public to the point where they couldn’t exploit such knowledge.

Runescape hacks are one of the most searched for Runescape related topics. It seems that so many Runescape players are looking for the short cut to Runescape money and feel that getting their hands on some Runescape hacks is the best way to go about making their millions. So why is this the case? I can’t help but feel that with a game like Runescape where essentially those who can invest the most time excel makes it difficult for those that do not have the time to invest into the game yet want to still enjoy the game as a high level and wealthy player. This of course would lead many to start looking for shortcuts like Runescape hacks. Unfortunately more often thank not many of these players in search of Runescape hack downloads end up being hacked themselves.

This Runescape scam is a little cruder and essentially involves someone convincing you that they have found out a way to duplicate Runescape items, and that you can do it as well. Then they will something to the effect of, “all you have to do is place the Runescape item on the floor and then wait 5 seconds and then stand on the item and then simultaneously press ALT + F4, at which point your internet window will close and you will be logged out of Runescape and considering it will take you quite awhile to load a new window and load Runescape again by which time the items you dropped will have spawned so that everyone can see them and which point the person who convinced you that you could duplicate your Runescape items has picked the items your left on ground up and run away.

These are a few of the more popular Runescape Scams out there and as I mentioned earlier in this articles more and more people are searching to find out how to scam people on Runescape and the old saying that there is a sucker born every minute is relevant in Runescape as it is in real life. So be aware of things that are too good to be true and remember that there are no such things are Runescape item duplicators so don’t fall for the Runescape scams that involved people claiming that they can duplicate your Runescape items.

This scam involves someone offering to duplicate your Runescape items for you, all you have to do is give them your Runescape items and then they will do their “magic” to them. The reality is that they will take your items and never return. Of course this scams sounds so simple it is hard to believe that anyone would fall for it, well often what many of these scammers will do is suggest to you that you give them a cheaper item, like adamite or mithril armor or weapons and then they will proceed to give you back two of the items you just gave them, and then they may even suggest you give them another cheap item which they will again give back two of, and now having built a little trust up you may give them a couple of items that are little more expensive like some rune armor which they will then keep. So whilst they have given you some adamite and mithril items you have lost out overall because they stole your rune items which were far more gold.

Requirements
Skill: 35 Runecrafting.
Quest: Rune Mysteries Quest.
Item: 15 Chaos Runes, Empty Bowl, Chaos Talisman/Tiara, Bronze Pickaxe (can be obtained through the quest).
Other: Ability to defeat a King (Level-47).

Extended Quest Requirements
Skill: 44 Slayer, High combat level (100+)

Recommendations
Item: 5-10 Varrock Teleports, as there is a lot of walking required otherwise.

Extended Quest Recommendations
Item: High healing food, strong armour with a high Summoning defence bonus, a teleport out (e.g. Ectophial, teleport tablet), Prayer potions, Super set (Super attack, Strength and Defence), and Anti Poison.

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A traveling trader has been stranded south of Varrock after his cart was attacked by local outlaws. He needs the help of a hero to recover his lost documents, but that’s not all…

The Varrock Palace Secret Guard (VPSG) are on the trail of treacherous dealings with the Monks of Zamorak. Will you be able to help the VPSG and uncover what lies below?

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Part 1:
The PapersStep 1
Talk to Rat Burgiss.
Kill 5 outlaws, take papers.
Talk to Burgiss.
Deliver letter to Surok Magis.Speak to Rat Burgiss (Picture) who will tell you that he was attacked by outlaws that took some important papers. Tell him you will get them back for him and that you want to help. He will tell you that they took five papers and went to the north-west, you will also get a folder to put the papers in. To get the papers you will have to kill five outlaws (Picture) (one for each paper).

The outlaws are level 32 with 20 hitpoints and are located near Lucien’s home from the Temple of Ikov quest. You can reach them quickly from Varrock by going to the north-west corner of city’s wall near the grand exchange, and going under the wall (Level 21 Agility required). If you don’t remember, the house is next to the river running between Varrock and Edgeville, on the otherside of the fence above the brass key cave. Once you have killed five outlaws and gathered all the papers put them into the folder.

Return to Rat Burgiss who will ask you to deliver a letter to Surok Magis (Picture) in the Varrock Library. The message has been decrypted by 22367rh, below:

Part 2:
The WandStep 2
Speak to Surok Magis.
Get to the Chaos Altar.
Infuse the wand and head back to Magis with a bowl.Surok will ask for your help in gathering materials for a spell that will turn clay into gold. He asks for an ordinary bowl and a metal wand infused with chaos magic. He will give you a metal wand and tell you how to infuse it with chaos magic (Picture). You also receive a diary from him and are told to look in the library for an old tome, titled Dagon’hai history. Between these two items you decipher that the Saradomin statue outside of north-east Varrock covers a tunnel.

Option 1: The Shortcut (42 Mining Required)
Bring the 15 chaos runes, chaos talisman, the metal wand and a bronze pickaxe with you, and go to the Saradomin statue and talk to Anna Jones. If you do not have the pickaxe, tlk to Anna and she will give you one. Excavate the tunnel by clicking on the statue, after a brief cut-scene you will see a tunnel in the base of the statue.

Enter the tunnel and you are in the shortcut to the Chaos Altar. You can speak to the three members of the Dagon’hai here although only Dakh’thoulan Aegis will answer you in a manner you comprehend. Head to the end of the tunnel and enter the portal to be teleported to the Chaos Altar (Picture). You still have to navigate the area as you normally have to although you are much closer to the altar then if you had entered in the wilderness. Head down the ladder to the north-west and you will be near the chaos altar. Use the wand with the altar to infuse the wand.

Option 2: The Abyss (access to the Abyss required)
Enter the Abyss north of Edgeville with 15 chaos runes, and the metal wand. Navigate to the chaos rift. Once in the Chaos Altar area navigate to the Chaos Altar and use the wand with it to infuse the wand.

Option 3: The Long Way (no shortcuts)
Enter the Chaos Altar area from the Wilderness. Navigate to the Chaos Altar and use the wand with it to infuse the wand (Picture).

Return to Surok with the wand and the empty bowl and he will give you a letter to take to Rat Burgiss.

Part 3:
The VPSGStep 3
Bring the new letter to Burgiss.
Speak to Zaff.
Attempt to arrest Magis.
Fight the King until almost dead, operate beacon ring. Bring the letter to Rat Burgiss and he will reveal to you what is going on. Surok is attempting to use a spell to control the King of Varrock and Rat Burgiss is actually a part of the Varrock Palace Secret Guard (VPSG). Rat Burgiss asks you to talk to another operative, Zaff, of the Varrock staff shop, to help stop Surok.

Tell Zaff that Rat Burgiss sent you and he will give you a set of instructions and a Beacon Ring to call him should Surok manage to control the King, you are to summon him when the King is almost dead.

Go to Surok and arrest him, he has already taken control of the King and the King (Level-47) attacks you (Picture). When the King is about dead a message will appear in the your chatbox saying that it would be a good time to summon Zaff. When you get this message operate the ring (right-click operate) and Zaff will appear and a cut-scene will follow.

Return to Rat Burgiss to collect your Reward.

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Surok has managed to escape from Varrock Library! Follow him through the Chaos Tunnels and capture him before he can wreak further mischief on the great city of Varrock.

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Part 1:
The Hunt for SurokStep 1
Speak to Surok.
Follow him into cave.
Head into first western chamber.
Speak to dragon’hai member.
Enter portal.Surok Magis, the darkened Zamorak mage who was captured during What Lies Below quest has managed to escape! Players can find this villain to the east of Varrock, standing next to the statue of Saradomin that you tunnelled through during the quest.

Speak to Surok and he will run into the tunnels in order to escape. Follow him into the cave, and you will see him entering a portal. Run north and head into the first western chamber.

Speak to the dragon’hai member there and then enter the portal next to him (not the portal far north, which leads to the chaos altar and requires a chaos talisman).

Part 2:
The chase is on!Step 2
Follow the steps to find Surok.After going into the portal after Surok, you will arrive in a room of the Chaos Tunnels filled with ants. You will now need to run between the many chambers of the Chaos Tunnels to pursue Surok.

You will sometimes see footprints leading it to a portal if Surok has recently passed through it. This always means that he has gone that way, but to reach Surok you will have to pass through “unmarked” portals as well.

Below is a list of rooms, whats in them, and which portal you should take from there.

Giant ant workers, take northern portal.
Giant ant workers, take north-eastern portal.
Giant crypt rat, take closest western portal.
Big wolves, take most northern portal.
Cave bugs, take far west portal.
Deadly red spiders, take most northern portal.
Moss giants, take most southern portal.
Zamorak warriors, Zamorak mages and Zamorak rangers, take most southern portal.
Fire giants, take western portal.
Zamorak warriors, take the south-western portal.
Zamorak mages and Zamorak warriors, take portal just south from the one you came out of.
Moss Giants, take the western portal.
Skeletons and Zombies, go south-east and enter the portal there.
Gargoyles and Mummies, take north-western portal.
Monks of Zamorak, enter the north-eastern portal.
Dust Devils, enter the portal just north-west from the one you came out of.
Black Demons, enter the south-western portal.
Earth Warrior and Bronze Dragons, take the north-eastern portal.
Turoths, take the north-eastern portal.
Waterfiends, take the north-eastern portal.
Bronze Dragons and Fire Elementals, take the western portal.
Nechryaels, take the western portal.
Dagannoths, this is the final room.

Step 3
Kill Bork.
Bork can be killed again and again, but for less Slayer XP. You receive the same amount of charms though.Once you have reached the final room, Surok will turn to face you (Picture). He will summon Bork (level-267) and will retreat to the edge of the cavern. Bork is capable of summoning Ork Legionnaires (level-70) and can do considerable melee damage.

Note: It is suggested to turn on the Protect from Melee and pot up before fighting him. You may need to take a Prayer restore potion first as running through the caverns and the shadow spider rooms will have drained you a bit.

Good armour should protect you fairly well against the minions he summons, as most strong armours offer a high Summoning defence bonus. Surok will cast spells on you now and again from the sidelines – his attacks will probably do the most damage to you. Once you have slain Bork you will receive some charms (7 Crimson, 5 Blue, 2 Green) and 5,000 Slayer XP. Surok will teleport and escape your grasp though.

After the mini quest you can return to the last chamber daily and slay Bork again. You will receive 250 slayer experience, but the same number of charms is always guaranteed making it quite worthwhile for able players.

Frequently Asked Questions
Question: What are the stats for the Beacon Ring?
A: The only stat bonus that the Beacon Ring gives you are a +2 to your magic attack, and +1 to your magic defence.