Custom Content
Everything that differs from standard 2004 RuneScape on Oldrune — features, items, skill changes, and quality-of-life improvements.
Contents
1. Quality of Life 2. Skill Changes 3. New Features 4. New Items 5. New Bosses 6. Economy 7. Settings 8. Vote System 9. Game Modes 10. Server Rates- Buy / Sell X — enter a custom quantity when buying or selling from any shop.
- Deposit Inventory button added to all banks — deposits your entire inventory in one click.
- Bank Placeholders — ghost slots keep your bank layout when you withdraw items. Toggle in Settings → Placeholders. Disable the setting to clear empty ghosts.
- Lumbridge Castle Banker — a banker is available on the upper floor of Lumbridge Castle.
- Shift + Drop — hold Shift and left-click an item to instantly drop it.
- Keyboard dialogue — press Spacebar to continue NPC dialogue, number keys (1, 2, 3…) to select options.
- Shift + PM reply — press Shift to instantly reply to your last private message.
- Compass click — clicking the compass resets the camera to face north.
- Scroll wheel zoom — mouse scroll wheel controls camera zoom.
- XP Drops — experience gains appear in the top-right corner of the screen.
- Ground item highlights — items worth 1,000,000 GP or more appear in green text on the ground.
- Inventory highlights — items worth 10,000,000 GP or more show in green text in your inventory.
- Combat style saves — your selected attack style (Slash, Block, Aggressive, etc.) persists through logout.
- Run mode saves — run toggled on/off persists through logout.
- AFK logout timer — 3 minutes of no real input before logging out.
- Word filter removed — no censorship on public or private chat.
- Quantity options added when cutting bows: 1 / 5 / 10 / All.
- Fires automatically continue burning logs from your inventory — no repeated clicking required.
- Cooking automatically continues through your full inventory instead of stopping after each item.
- Aubury's Note Service — Aubury in Varrock will note your rune essence for 100 GP per inventory.
- Furnaces automatically continue smelting bars from your inventory. Works for all bar types (Bronze through Rune). Stops if an iron bar fails.
- Run energy recovery increased at all Agility levels (at 99: +32 per tick vs +24 previously).
- Run energy drain reduced — at 0 kg carry weight: ~45 drain per tick (was ~67).
- At 64 kg carry weight: ~90 drain per tick (was ~134).
- A full run energy bar at 0 weight lasts approximately 2.2 minutes (was 1.5 minutes).
- Falador shortcut — behind Falador Bank, requires 5 Agility. Works both directions.
- Taverley Dungeon pipe — shortcut directly to the Blue Dragons area, requires 50 Agility.
- Ardougne gem stall rebalanced — drop rates adjusted to reduce GP generation at high Thieving levels.
| Gem | Chance |
|---|---|
| Uncut Sapphire | 39.1% |
| Uncut Emerald | 35.2% |
| Uncut Ruby | 19.5% |
| Uncut Diamond | 6.3% |
- Chaos Altar (Wilderness, Level 38) — bones offered here grant 3× Prayer XP. High risk, high reward.
A golden crown icon sits next to your Friends List. Click it to open the Oldrune Control Panel, which tracks your progress and contains all custom settings.
Tracker Tabs
- Kill Counts (KC) for bosses and common monsters
- Rare drops
- Clue scroll rewards
- Pet drops
Settings Tab
- HD Mode toggle
- Hide Roofs toggle
- Ground Item Tags
- Bank Placeholders
Complete challenge tiers to earn XP lamps, GP, teleport items, and exclusive gear. Access diaries via the Control Panel. Full details: /diaries
- Three tiers: Easy, Medium, Hard
- Completing Tier I rewards the Old Bow — currently the BiS ranged weapon
- All bulk rewards are given as noted items
- Completed tasks display as white text on a green background
Earn Slayer XP and points by completing tasks assigned by Slayer Masters. Full details: /slayer
Masters
- Vannaka — Varrock, no requirements
- Chaeldar — Zanaris, requires Lost City + 50 Slayer
Rewards Shop
- Old armour set (better than Rune)
- Old scimitar
- Burning amulet (5) — 100 pts
Slayer XP and points are 2× the standard rate.
Found in Varrock West Bank. Lets players buy and sell items through a simple player marketplace.
- Up to 20 active listings visible at once
- Maximum 5 active listings per player
- Listings expire after 24 hours — expired items return via the Collect tab
- You cannot buy your own listings
- Every ~15 minutes, a random active listing worth 10k+ GP is broadcast server-wide
Exclusive to the Slayer rewards shop. Visually aged dark metal, stats slightly better than Rune equivalents.
| Item | Cost | Req | Bonus vs Rune |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old full helm | 200 pts | 40 Def | +3 all def |
| Old platebody | 400 pts | 40 Def + Dragon Slayer | +3 all def |
| Old platelegs | 300 pts | 40 Def | +3 all def |
| Old plateskirt | 300 pts | 40 Def | +3 all def |
| Old kiteshield | 250 pts | 40 Def | +3 all def |
| Old scimitar | 300 pts | 40 Atk | +3 slash / +3 str |
Earned by completing Tier I Diaries. Currently the best-in-slot ranged weapon — higher Ranged Attack bonus than the Magic Shortbow. Not tradeable, not dropped, not sold in any shop.
Available from Harold's Vote Shop in Edgeville for 25 vote points each. Three cosmetic colour variants — identical stats, different appearance.
Featherfoot Boots
White / pearl
Icefoot Boots
Ice blue
Sunfoot Boots
Gold / yellow
Available from Harold's Vote Shop for 5 vote points. A ring with charges that can be used for teleportation.
- Greater Demon Pet — 1/10,000
- Green Dragon Pet — 1/10,000
- King Black Dragon Pet — 1/5,000
- Kalphite Queen Pet — 1/5,000
Obtained by opening Slayer Chests with a Slayer Key. Keys drop at 1/500 from on-task kills. Bat pet drops at 1/500 from the chest. Overall rarity: approximately 1 in 250,000 Slayer task kills. Tradeable.
All 7 partyhat colours broadcast server-wide on first obtain. Currently obtainable sources:
- Black Partyhat — drops from the Dagannoth Overlord (1/2000)
- Red Partyhat — rare reward from Vote Mystery Boxes (1/750)
- Other colours — coming soon
Located north of the Bandit Camp in approximately Level 28 Wilderness. Soloable but deep in the wilderness — watch for player killers.
Stats
- Combat Level 500
- Hitpoints 500
- Attack 220
- Strength 220
- Defence 150
- Attack Speed 5 ticks
Loot Table
- 1–3 Runite Ore 60%
- 4–8 Adamantite Ore 20%
- 50–100 Death Runes 10%
- Medium Clue Scroll 6%
- 5–10 Runite Ore 0.95%
- Black Partyhat 1/2000
Found in Varrock Square. A gambling NPC with results broadcast server-wide.
- Bet between 10,000 and 1,000,000 coins
- Roll 55–100 to WIN — receive 190% of your bet back (90% profit)
- Roll 1–54 to lose your bet
- 46% win chance — approximately 2.6% house edge
See New Features → Exchange Clerk above.
All settings are found in the Control Panel (gold crown icon next to your Friends List) → Settings tab.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| HD Mode | Enables colour enhancement, bilinear scaling, and saturation boost. Toggle anytime. |
| Hide Roofs | Removes building roofs for better visibility in towns and cities. |
| Ground Item Tags | Displays item names above ground items. |
| Bank Placeholders | Keeps ghost slots in your bank when items are withdrawn. Disable to clear empty ghosts. |
Vote for Oldrune on any of the 4 toplists at oldrune.com/vote. Each vote earns 2 Vote Points, so you can earn up to 8 points per voting cycle.
Spend points at Harold near Edgeville Bank.
| Item | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Old Ring | 5 pts | Teleportation ring with charges |
| Vote Mystery Box | 10 pts | Random reward on open |
| Featherfoot Boots | 25 pts | White — 20% run drain reduction, non-tradeable |
| Icefoot Boots | 25 pts | Blue — 20% run drain reduction, non-tradeable |
| Sunfoot Boots | 25 pts | Gold — 20% run drain reduction, non-tradeable |
Common 70%
- 500 Rune Essence
- 250 Oak Logs
- 100 Coal
- 100 Lobsters
- 50 Steel Bars
- 250 Chaos Runes
- 250 Mithril Arrows
- 50,000 Coins
Uncommon 25%
- 20 Random Gems
- 5 Easy Clue Scrolls
- Medium XP Lamp (10,000 XP)
- 250 Nature Runes
- 200 Big Bones
- 3 Old Rings
- 250,000 Coins
When leaving Tutorial Island you choose your game mode. This cannot be changed later.
Normal
Standard Oldrune experience. Full trading and all features available.
Ironman ⚔️
Self-sufficient play. Cannot trade with other players or use the Exchange Clerk. Shown on hiscores with Ironman icon.
Hardcore Ironman 💀
Same restrictions as Ironman. One life — dying permanently downgrades the account to regular Ironman status.
Ironman and HCIM accounts appear on the hiscores with their respective icons. Hiscores update every 15 minutes.
| Feature | Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| XP Rate | 2× | Applies to all skills |
| Slayer XP | 2× | On top of the base 2× server rate |
| Slayer Points | 2× | Per completed task |
| Boss Pets (KBD, KQ) | 1/5,000 | From respective boss |
| Boss Pets (Greater Demon, Green Dragon) | 1/10,000 | From respective boss |
| Slayer Key | 1/500 | On-task kills only |