Guilds

Guilds are special institutions often containing resources or stores selling armour or weapons which cannot be bought in any other store. Entry to different guilds requires either a certain amount of quest points, a certain skill level, or completion of a specific quest. Note that guilds with a skill requirement may be accessed if the skill is temporarily boosted to meet the requirement. In some cases, if a guild does not exist, players will attempt to create their own.

Free-to-play guilds
Listed below are the guilds which may be accessed in the free-to-play version of RuneScape.

Pay-to-play guilds
Listed below are the guilds which can only be accessed in the members' version of RuneScape.

Informal Guilds
While these guilds don't necessarily exist in the sense that they are "officially" a part of the game, there are some areas and locations that tend to have a large number of players training certain skills, due to the close proximity of banks, resources, and tools necessary to train in that skill.

These activities often happen on specific "worlds" or game servers in an attempt to concentrate activity of the players, which often also brings in secondary activities such as trading and suppliers for these training areas.

Note that many other unofficial player made guilds can be found by searching the official RuneScape Forums.

Non-existent Guilds

 * Agility guild
 * Construction guild
 * Dungeoneering guild (however dungeoneering can only be used in one place, Daemonheim, therefore the encampment outside Daemonheim castle may be a guild)
 * Farming guild
 * Firemaking guild
 * Fletching guild(however, some people consider the bank in Yanille to be a "Fletching Guild", it is suggested also in an old poll)
 * Herblore guild (however, some people consider Catherby to be a "Herblore guild", it is suggested also in an old poll )
 * Hunter guild
 * Slayer guild (however, some people consider the Slayer Tower and ancient caverns to be a "Slayer guild". It was also mentioned by Jagex that Kuradal's dungeon was originally going to be a Slayer guild.)
 * Smithing guild (often considered to be the Blast Furnace)
 * Summoning guild
 * Woodcutting guild (often considered to be the Sawmill or Seers Village)

Trivia

 * Before the release of the Thieves’ Guild on 28 April 2010 the Rogue's Den was assumed to be the Thieving guild by most players.