Skills

Skills are a player's attributes that can be advanced throughout the game. Some skills allow players to cook, chop down trees, make fires, use magic, make runes etc. Some skills are "interlaced", meaning that they can be used together. For example, logs obtained from woodcutting can be used for firemaking, and fires from firemaking can be used for cooking.

There are 22 skills in RuneScape. Members have access to them all, while non-members can only raise 15 of them.

A new skill Hunter is expected at the end of November 2006.

Players can advance a skill to level 99. See hiscores for the relative rankings of the different skills.

A player could bring a level of a skill to 100 when wearing a Cape of Achievement of that skill, with no great signifigant bonus, it is just for the feeling of having a skill boosted over the level 99 mark.

Skill Types
There are four types of skills in Runescape. These are shown below

Extraction skills:
 * Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting, Farming

Processing skills:
 * Cooking, Smithing, Fletching, Crafting, Runecrafting, Firemaking

Combat skills:
 * Attack, Strength, Defence, Magic, Ranged, Prayer, Hitpoints

Independent skills:
 * Construction, Slayer, Agility, Thieving, Herblore, Hunting