Changes: Free-to-play

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See also: Members

Free-to-play world map — Free-to-play areas and activities highlighted on the world map. Pay-to-play areas and activities in red. Full resolution image.

Free-to-play, also known as F2P, is the free version of Old School RuneScape where no payment to Jagex is required to play. Players who play the free version of RuneScape are known as "Free players", "F2Pers", or "Non-members". This is in contrast to members, who pay a fee for access to a much larger map and a multitude of skills, items, quests, and activities that are unavailable to free-to-play users. Free-to-play users can gain access to membership through in-game purchases of membership bonds.

Free-to-play in Old School Runescape was released permanently on the 19th of February 2015. Before this, a two-week F2P trial was available for new accounts. Anyone with a valid RuneScape account can access free-to-play servers.

Free-to-play content

Free-to-play in short

While free-to-play accounts have many limitations that members do not, free to play still yields a decent gaming experience for players.

Skills

Free-to-play accounts have access to 15 skills, with a maximum total level of 1493. Members-only skills do not count towards free-to-play skill level-based requirements.

The skills are:

Melee skills: Attack, Strength and Defence (and Hitpoints)
- Basic weapons and armour made of bronze, iron, steel, black, mithril, adamant and rune, but some specifics like metal gloves, halberds and metal boots are not included.
- Additional items include hill giant club and shaman mask.
Ranged
- Ranging gear includes leather armour, studded leather armour and green dragonhide.
- Normal, oak, willow and maple bows are available with ammunition up to adamant arrows.
- Crossbows and phoenix crossbows can be used with normal bronze bolts.
Magic with limited access to standard spells
- Strike, bolt and elemental blast spells plus Crumble Undead
- Confuse, Weaken, Curse and Bind spells
- Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 enchantments (limited to amulets for free-to-play)
- Home, Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador Teleports
- Telekinetic Grab
- Bones to Bananas, Low Level Alchemy, High Level Alchemy and Superheat Item
- Magic armour is limited to blue and black wizard robes and Zamorak monk robes, and staves are limited to the four elemental staves, Magic staff, basic staff, and Skull sceptre.
Prayers are available up to level 45 Mystic Might.
- Monastery or Prayer Guild becomes available at level 31.
- Prayer items include: Holy symbol, Monk's robes, Priest gown and Shade robes
Runecrafting elemental, mind and body runes
- Pouches and the Abyss are not available to F2P, but tiaras are.
Mining and Smithing
- Access to metals from bronze to rune
Crafting
- Pottery: pots, pie dishes and bowls
- Soft leather items (except for Coif) and hardleather body
- Silver: holy symbols and tiaras
- Gold, sapphire, emerald, ruby and diamond rings, necklaces and amulets
Fishing and Cooking
- Available fish are: shrimp, anchovies, sardine, herring, trout, salmon, pike, tuna, lobster and swordfish
- Cooked meat and cooked chicken
- Redberry, meat and apple pie
- Plain pizza, meat pizza and anchovy pizza
- Cake and chocolate cake
- Wine
Woodcutting and Firemaking
- Trees, oaks, willows, maples and yew trees

Monsters

Main article: Bestiary/F2P

There are relatively few monsters in free-to-play, partly due to there being only seven dungeons in the free-to-play map. The dungeons are:

Asgarnia Ice Dungeon (except the Skeletal Wyvern area)
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon
Dwarven mine
Edgeville Dungeon (except the section that is in the Wilderness)
Stronghold of Security
Varrock Sewer
Corsair Cove Dungeon

Some monsters have restricted drop tables in F2P, and not all areas contain all of the monsters found in P2P servers.

The highest level free-to-play monsters are Evil Chicken and shades. There are 2 bosses with broadcast loot and kill counters, the first being Obor, who can be killed in Edgeville Dungeon after having retrieved the key to his lair. The second being Bryophyta, who can be found in her lair in the Varrock Sewers after the player had obtained a mossy key from a moss giant. Other notable higher level monsters include ankous, lesser demons, greater demons, ogress shamans, ogress warriors, and the quest boss, Elvarg.

Quests

Main article: Free-to-play Quests

There are 20 free-to-play quests with a total of 42 available quest points. With 32 quest points, Champions' Guild becomes available, and players may start what is arguably the most challenging free-to-play quest, Dragon Slayer.

Minigames

Free players have access to the Duel Arena and Clan Wars, and the more recently added Last Man Standing and Castle Wars.

Other

Armour Limitation

Although there are a great quantity of items unavailable to free players, they can still use most metal melee armours and weapons, wizard robes and hats, leather, hard, Studded leather armour, and green dragonhide armour.

Limited Bank Size

Free players are limited to 400 bank spaces in which to store items, with up to 416 after PIN and authenticator setup.

Membership Bonds

Old school bonds can be purchased with real-world cash or with in-game coins, and can be redeemed in-game for membership playtime. It is possible to make enough money in-game to play membership content without having to pay any real-world money.

Free-to-play servers

Main article: Server

There are 17 free-to-play servers located in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The free-to-play player-versus-player world is switched between world 371 (UK) and 417 (US) every 2 weeks. Ten of the servers are themed, three of which have total level restriction.

List of Worlds
World	Location	Members	Activity
301	United States		Trade - Free
308	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK - free style
316	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK - free style
326	United Kingdom		LMS Casual
335	Germany
371	United Kingdom		PvP World - Free (Period B)
381	United Kingdom		500 skill total
382	United Kingdom
383	Germany
384	Germany
385	United States		750 skill total
393	United States		Clan Wars - Free
394	United States
417	United States		PvP World - Free (Period A)
418	United States
419	United States		500 skill total
424	Australia

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-[[File:F2P banner.png|center|700px|link=http://www.oldschool.runescape.com]]
 [[File:Free-to-play icon.png|left]]
-[[File:Free-to-play world map.png|thumb|349x349px|Free-to-play section of the [[world map]].]]
+[[File:Free-to-play world map.png|thumb|450px|Free-to-play areas and activities highlighted on the [[world map]]. Pay-to-play areas and activities in red. [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/2007scape/images/e/e3/Free-to-play_world_map.png/revision/20171226185358 Full resolution image].]]
-'''Free-to-play''', also known as '''F2P''', is the free version of ''[[RuneScape]]'' where no payment to [[Jagex]] is required to play. Players who play the free version of ''RuneScape'' are known as "Free players", "F2Ps", or "Non-members". This is in contrast to [[P2P|members]], who pay a fee for access to a much larger map and a multitude of [[skill]]s, [[items]], [[quest]]s, and activities, which are not available to free-to-play users. It is worth noting that free-to-play users can gain access to membership through in-game purchases of [[membership bond]]s.
+'''Free-to-play''', also known as '''F2P''', is the free version of ''[[Old School RuneScape]]'' where no payment to [[Jagex]] is required to play. Players who play the free version of ''RuneScape'' are known as "Free players", "F2Pers", or "Non-members". This is in contrast to [[members]], who pay a fee for access to a much larger map and a multitude of [[skill]]s, [[items]], [[quest]]s, and activities that are unavailable to free-to-play users. Free-to-play users can gain access to membership through in-game purchases of [[membership bond]]s.
-Anyone with a valid RuneScape account can access free-to-play servers.
+Free-to-play in ''Old School Runescape'' was released permanently on the 19th of February 2015. Before this, a two-week F2P trial was available for new accounts. Anyone with a valid ''RuneScape'' account can access free-to-play servers.
-Free-to-play was released permanently on the 19th of February 2015, due to people voting yes in the poll for the introduction of free-to-play along with membership bonds. Before this a 2-week F2P trial existed for new accounts.
 ==Free-to-play content==
+<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">'''Free-to-play in short [[File:Quest point icon.png]]'''</p>
+While free-to-play accounts have many limitations that [[members]] do not, free to play still yields a decent gaming experience for players.
-<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">'''Free-to-Play in short [[File:Quest.png]]'''</p>
-While there are many limitations, to the game that are members only, Free to play still yields a decent gaming experience for players. However, it is important to remember Free To Play is only a small portion of the full game.
 ===Skills===
-Free-to-play has access to 15 skills and maximum [[total level]] for them is 1485.
+Free-to-play accounts have access to 15 [[skills]], with a maximum [[total level]] of 1493. Members-only skills do not count towards free-to-play skill level-based requirements.
 The skills are:
-*[[Melee]] skills: [[File:Attack-icon.png]] [[attack]], [[File:Strength-icon.png]] [[strength]] and [[File:Defence-icon.png]] [[defence]] (and [[File:Hitpoints-icon.png]] [[Hitpoints]])
+*[[Melee]] skills: [[File:Attack icon.png]] [[Attack]], [[File:Strength icon.png]] [[Strength]] and [[File:Defence icon.png]] [[Defence]] (and [[File:Hitpoints icon.png]] [[Hitpoints]])
-**Basic [[weapon]]s and [[armour]] made of [[bronze]], [[iron]], [[steel]], [[black]], [[mithril]], [[adamant]] and [[rune]], but some specifics like [[metal gloves]], [[halberd]]s and [[metal boots]] are not included
+**Basic [[weapon]]s and [[armour]] made of [[bronze equipment|bronze]], [[iron equipment|iron]], [[steel equipment|steel]], [[black equipment|black]], [[mithril equipment|mithril]], [[adamant equipment|adamant]] and [[rune equipment|rune]], but some specifics like [[metal gloves]], [[halberd]]s and [[metal boots]] are not included.
+**Additional items include [[hill giant club]] and [[shaman mask]].
-*[[File:Ranged-icon.png]] [[Ranged]]
+*[[File:Ranged icon.png]] [[Ranged]]
-**Ranging gear includes [[leather]] armour, [[studded leather armour]] and [[Green dragonhide armour|green dragonhide]]
+**Ranging gear includes [[leather]] armour, [[studded leather armour]] and [[Green dragonhide armour|green dragonhide]].
-**Normal, oak, willow and maple [[bow]]s are available with ammunition up to [[adamant arrow]]s
-**[[Crossbow]]s and [[Phoenix crossbow]]s can be used with normal [[bronze bolts]]
+**Normal, [[oak]], [[willow]] and [[maple]] [[bow]]s are available with ammunition up to [[adamant arrow]]s.
+**[[Crossbow]]s and [[phoenix crossbow]]s can be used with normal [[bronze bolts]].
-*[[File:Magic-icon.png]] [[Magic]] with limited access to [[standard spells]]
+*[[File:Magic icon.png]] [[Magic]] with limited access to [[standard spells]]
 **[[Strike spells|Strike]], [[Bolt spells|bolt]] and elemental [[blast spells]] plus [[Crumble Undead]]
 **[[Confuse]], [[Weaken]], [[Curse]] and [[Bind]] spells
 **[[Lvl-1 Enchant|Level 1]], [[Lvl-2 Enchant|2]], [[Lvl-3 Enchant|3]], and [[Lvl-4 Enchant|4]] [[Enchantment spells|enchantments]] (limited to amulets for free-to-play)
-**[[Home Teleport|Home]], [[Varrock Teleport|Varrock]], [[Lumbridge Teleport|Lumbridge]] and [[Falador Teleport]]s and [[Telekinetic Grab]]
+**[[Home Teleport|Home]], [[Varrock Teleport|Varrock]], [[Lumbridge Teleport|Lumbridge]] and [[Falador Teleport]]s
+**[[Telekinetic Grab]]
 **[[Bones to Bananas]], [[Low Level Alchemy]], [[High Level Alchemy]] and [[Superheat Item]]
-**[[Magic armour]] is limited to blue and black [[wizard robes]] and [[staves]] to four elemental staves, [[Magic staff]], [[Staff|regular staff]] and [[Skull sceptre]]
+**[[Magic armour]] is limited to blue and black [[wizard robes]] and [[Zamorak monk robes]], and [[staves]] are limited to the four [[elemental staves]], [[Magic staff]], basic [[staff]], and [[Skull sceptre]].
-*[[File:Prayer-icon.png]] [[Prayer]]s are available up to level 45 [[Mystic Might]]
+*[[File:Prayer icon.png]] [[Prayer]]s are available up to level 45 [[Mystic Might]].
-**[[Monastery]] or prayer guild becomes available at level 31
+**[[Edgeville Monastery|Monastery]] or Prayer Guild becomes available at level 31.
 **Prayer items include: [[Holy symbol]], [[Monk's robes]], [[Priest gown]] and [[Shade robes]]
-*[[File:Runecrafting-icon.png]] [[Runecrafting]] [[Elemental#Elemental runes|elemental]], [[Mind rune|mind]] and [[Body rune|body]] runes
+*[[File:Runecrafting icon.png]] [[Runecrafting]] [[Elemental#Elemental runes|elemental]], [[Mind rune|mind]] and [[body runes]]
-**[[Pouches]] or [[Abyss]] '''are not''' available to F2P, but [[tiara]]s are.
+**[[Pouches]] and the [[Abyss]] '''are not''' available to F2P, but [[tiara]]s are.
-*[[File:Mining-icon.png]] [[Mining]] and [[File:Smithing-icon.png]] [[Smithing]]
+*[[File:Mining icon.png]] [[Mining]] and [[File:Smithing icon.png]] [[Smithing]]
-**access to [[metal]]s from [[bronze]] to [[rune]]
+**Access to [[metal]]s from [[bronze equipment|bronze]] to [[rune equipment|rune]]
-*[[File:Crafting-icon.png]] [[Crafting]]
+*[[File:Crafting icon.png]] [[Crafting]]
 **[[Crafting#Pottery|Pottery]]: [[pot]]s, [[pie dish]]es and [[bowl]]s
-**[[soft leather]] and [[hardleather body]]
+**[[Soft leather]] items (except for [[Coif]]) and [[hardleather body]]
 **[[Silver]]: [[holy symbol]]s and [[tiara]]s
 **[[Gold]], [[sapphire]], [[emerald]], [[ruby]] and [[diamond]] [[ring]]s, [[necklace]]s and [[amulet]]s
-*[[File:Fishing-icon.png]] [[Fishing]] and [[File:Cooking-icon.png]] [[Cooking]]
+*[[File:Fishing icon.png]] [[Fishing]] and [[File:Cooking icon.png]] [[Cooking]]
 **Available [[fish]] are: [[shrimp]], [[anchovies]], [[sardine]], [[herring]], [[trout]], [[salmon]], [[pike]], [[tuna]], [[lobster]] and [[swordfish]]
 **[[Cooked meat]] and [[cooked chicken]]
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 **[[Cake]] and [[chocolate cake]]
 **[[Wine]]
-*[[File:Woodcutting-icon.png]] [[Woodcutting]] and [[File:Firemaking-icon.png]] [[Firemaking]]
+*[[File:Woodcutting icon.png]] [[Woodcutting]] and [[File:Firemaking icon.png]] [[Firemaking]]
-**[[Tree]]s, [[oak]]s, [[willow]]s and [[yew tree]]s
+**[[Tree]]s, [[Oak tree|oaks]], [[Willow tree|willows]], [[Maple tree|maples]] and [[yew tree]]s
-**Interestingly, [[maple log]]s can be bought and lit by free players but there are no [[maple tree]]s in free areas
 ===Monsters===
 {{main|Bestiary/F2P}}
-There are relatively few [[monster]]s in free-to-play, partly due to there being only six dungeons in the free-to-play map. The dungeons are:
+There are relatively few [[monster]]s in free-to-play, partly due to there being only seven [[dungeons]] in the free-to-play map. The dungeons are:
-*[[Asgarnia Ice Dungeon]] ([[Skeletal Wyvern]] area not included)
+*[[Asgarnia Ice Dungeon]] (except the [[Skeletal Wyvern]] area)
 *[[Crandor and Karamja Dungeon]]
-*[[Dwarven mine]] ([[Motherlode Mine]] not included)
+*[[Dwarven mine]]
-*[[Edgeville Dungeon]] (Wilderness part not included)
+*[[Edgeville Dungeon]] (except the section that is in the [[Wilderness]])
 *[[Stronghold of Security]]
 *[[Varrock Sewer]]
+*[[Corsair Cove Dungeon]]
-Some monsters have restricted drop tables in F2P and it should be noted that all areas, such as the [[Wilderness]], do not contain all of the monsters found in members servers.
+Some monsters have restricted drop tables in F2P, and not all areas contain all of the monsters found in [[P2P]] servers.
-The highest level free-to-play monsters are [[Evil Chicken]] and [[Shade (monster)|Shades]]. The only boss with broadcast loot and kill counter is [[Obor]] and he can be killed in Edgeville dungeon after having retrieved [[Giant key|the key]] to his lair. Other notable higher level monsters include [[Ankou]]s, [[Lesser demon]]s, [[Greater demon]]s and quest boss [[Elvarg]].
+The highest level free-to-play monsters are [[Evil Chicken]] and [[Shade (monster)|shades]]. There are 2 [[boss|bosses]] with broadcast loot and kill counters, the first being [[Obor]], who can be killed in Edgeville Dungeon after having retrieved [[Giant key|the key]] to his lair. The second being [[Bryophyta]], who can be found in her lair in the Varrock Sewers after the player had obtained a [[mossy key]] from a [[moss giant]]. Other notable higher level monsters include [[ankou]]s, [[lesser demon]]s, [[greater demon]]s, [[Ogress Shaman|ogress shamans]], [[Ogress Warrior|ogress warriors]], and the quest boss, [[Elvarg]].
 ===Quests===
 {{Main|Free-to-play Quests}}
-There are 19 free-to-play [[quest]]s with a total of 40 available [[quest points]]. With 32 quest points [[Champions' Guild]] becomes available and players may start arguably the most challenging free-to-play quest: [[Dragon Slayer]].
+There are 20 free-to-play [[quest]]s with a total of 42 available [[quest points]]. With 32 quest points, [[Champions' Guild]] becomes available, and players may start what is arguably the most challenging free-to-play quest, [[Dragon Slayer]].
 ===Minigames===
+Free players have access to the [[Duel Arena]] and [[Clan Wars]], and the more recently added [[Last Man Standing]] and [[Castle Wars]].
-Free players have access to [[Duel Arena]] and 7 of the 11 [[Clan Wars]] maps. With the recent addition of [[Last Man Standing]], free players can access LMS. Additionally, in July 20th, 2017, Castle Wars was made available for free players as well.
 ===Other===
 '''Armour Limitation'''
+Although there are a great quantity of items unavailable to free players, they can still use most metal [[melee armour]]s and [[weapons]], [[wizard robes]] and hats, [[Leather armour|leather]], [[Hardleather body|hard]], [[Studded leather armour]], and [[Green d'hide armour|green dragonhide armour]].
-Players will find that there are many items they cannot equip unless they are members, should one browse their combat stat guides. (Players can find these guides in-game, by clicking on their Attack, Strength, or Defence levels.)
-Although there are a great quantity of items unavailable, Non-members are still privileged with the use of many metal armours and weapons (aside from claws and the like) as well as [[Wizard robes|Wizard Robes]] and hats, [[Leather armour|Leather]] / [[Hardleather body|Hard]] / [[Studded leather armour]], and [[Green d'hide armour|green dragonhide armour]].
 '''Limited Bank Size [[File:Bank icon.png]]'''
+Free players are limited to 400 [[bank]] spaces in which to store items, with up to 416 after PIN and authenticator setup.
-Non-members in Runescape will discover an increase in [[bank]] size when they attain the membership status; which used to be an immense relief for players.
-Oldschool developers have since given both Members and Non-members a vast amount of extra banking space as a result of the player community calling for the change.
 '''Membership Bonds [[File:Old school bond.png]]'''
-[[Old School bond]]s can be purchased with real world cash, or purchased in-game. These can be redeemed in-game for a period of Membership playtime. In other-words, one could make gold and play membership content for free!
+[[Old school bond]]s can be purchased with real-world cash or with in-game [[coins]], and can be redeemed in-game for membership playtime. It is possible to make enough money in-game to play membership content without having to pay any real-world money.
 ==Free-to-play servers==
 {{Main|Server}}
+There are 17 free-to-play servers located in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The free-to-play player-versus-player world is switched between world 371 (UK) and 417 (US) every 2 weeks. Ten of the servers are themed, three of which have total level restriction.
-There are 12 free-to-play servers located in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Seven of the servers are themed.
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 {{WorldLine|326|United Kingdom|mems=no|LMS Casual}}
 {{WorldLine|335|Germany|mems=no|}}
+{{WorldLine|371|United Kingdom|mems=pvpf2p|PvP World - Free (Period B)}}
 {{WorldLine|381|United Kingdom|mems=no|500 skill total}}
 {{WorldLine|382|United Kingdom|mems=no|}}
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 {{WorldLine|393|United States|mems=no|Clan Wars - Free}}
 {{WorldLine|394|United States|mems=no|}}
+{{WorldLine|417|United States|mems=pvpf2p|PvP World - Free (Period A)}}
+{{WorldLine|418|United States|mems=no|}}
+{{WorldLine|419|United States|mems=no|500 skill total}}
+{{WorldLine|424|Australia|mems=no|}}
 |}
 ==See also==
 *[[F2P Ironman Guide]]
+*[[F2P transportation]]
 [[Category:Community]]