Server

RSCRS

A server, world or W is a computer which hosts RuneScape. Servers are maintained by Jagex and are distributed across the real world. Each world allows 2000 players to be connected at once.

List of worlds

This is the list of worlds and their respective activities.

World	Location	Members	Activity
301	United States (east)		Trade - Free
302	United Kingdom		Trade - Members
303	Germany
304	Germany		Trouble Brewing
305	United States (east)		Falador Party Room
306	United States (west)		Barbarian Assault
307	United States (west)
308	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK - Free
309	United Kingdom		Wintertodt
310	United Kingdom
311	Germany
312	Germany
313	United States (west)
314	United States (east)
315	United States (west)
316	United Kingdom		Wilderness PK -Free
317	United Kingdom		LMS Competitive
318	United Kingdom
319	United States (west)		Bounty World
320	United States (west)
321	United States (east)
322	United States (east)
323	United States (west)		Volcanic Mine
324	United States (west)
325	United Kingdom		PVP World
326	United Kingdom		LMS Casual
327	Germany		Ourania Altar
328	Germany
329	United States (east)
330	United States (east)		House Party, Gilded Altar
331	United States (west)
332	United States (west)
333	United Kingdom
334	United Kingdom		Castle Wars 1
335	Germany
336	Germany
337	United States (east)		PVP World - High Risk
338	United States (west)
339	United States (west)
340	United States (west)
341	United Kingdom
342	United Kingdom		Role-playing
343	Germany
344	Germany		Pest Control
345	United States (east)		Deadman
346	United States (east)		Agility training
347	United States (west)
348	United States (west)
349	United Kingdom		2000 skill total
350	United Kingdom
351	Germany
352	Germany		Blast Furnace
353	United States (east)		1250 skill total
354	United States (east)		Castle Wars 2
355	United States (west)		Blast Furnace
356	United States (west)
357	United States (west)
358	United Kingdom		Blast Furnace
359	Germany
360	Germany
361	United States (east)		2000 skill total
362	United States (east)
365	United Kingdom		High Risk World
366	United Kingdom		1500 skill total
367	Germany
368	Germany
369	United States (east)		Wilderness PK - Members
370	United States (east)		Fishing Trawler
371	United Kingdom		PvP World - Free
373	United Kingdom		1750 skill total
374	United States (west)		Theatre of Blood
375	Germany
376	Germany		Theatre of Blood
377	United States (east)		Mort'ton temple, Rat Pits
378	United States (west)
381	United Kingdom		500 skill total
382	United Kingdom
383	Germany		Castle Wars - Free
384	Germany
385	United States (east)		750 skill total
386	United States (east)		Blast Furnace
387	Australia		Blast Furnace
388	Australia
389	Australia
390	Australia
391	Australia		1750 skill total
392	Australia		PVP World
393	United States (east)
394	United States (east)
395	Germany
396	Germany		2000 skill total
404	United States (east)		Deadman Seasonal
406	Germany		Deadman Seasonal
410	United States (west)		Deadman Seasonal
412	Australia		Deadman Seasonal
415	United States (east)		2200 skill total
416	United States (east)		1500 skill total
417	United States (west)		PvP World - Free
418	United States (west)
419	United States (west)		500 skill total
420	United States (west)		1500 skill total
421	United States (west)
422	United States (west)
424	Australia

Isolation of worlds

For the most part, events that occur in one world will not affect any other RuneScape world. For example, buying an item in a shop will only decrease the inventory for the shop in that world. Shop inventory, character respawns, item respawns, and resource regeneration (e.g. ores, trees) are all managed individually for each server. Additionally, players (along with chat messages) contained in one world will not be visible to players in another world.

World hopping

Because each world has its own shop inventory, players will often change worlds rapidly to buy from one store many different times. Also, players often switch worlds to find more favourable conditions (e.g. more populated) for minigames, player killing or trading. This technique is known as world hopping.

Interaction between worlds

The only possible ways of interaction between RuneScape worlds is private chat using the Friends List or through Clan Chat.

Persistence of character state

When a user logs off of a world, all settings particular to that character are saved to the player's account profile in a global database. Therefore, when logging into a different world, the character's skills, inventory, etc. will be restored to the same state, regardless of which server the character last logged onto.

Themed servers/worlds

In August 2007, Jagex added a new column to the world select screen highlighting those worlds with associated activities, especially those team-based events like Trouble Brewing, to make it easier to find people with similar ideas.

In the update of July 5 2018, Jagex removed the themes of several worlds where the theme was unused or no longer necessary. This was only a text change in the world selection screen, with no impact on the actual worlds.

Skills

• 327 - Ourania Altar

Minigames

• 304 - Trouble Brewing
• 306 - Barbarian Assault
• 317 - LMS Competitive
• 323 - Volcanic Mine
• 334 - Castle Wars 1
• 344 - Pest Control
• 352 - Blast Furnace
• 354 - Castle Wars 2
• 358 - Blast Furnace
• 370 - Fishing Trawler
• 377 - Mort'ton temple, Rat Pits
• 383 - Castle Wars - Free
• 386 - Blast Furnace
• 387 - Blast Furnace

Player killing

PvP worlds are affected by the PvP world rota, changing which worlds are considered PvP worlds in two week intervals.

• 308 - Wilderness PK - Free
• 316 - Wilderness PK - Free
• 318 - Bounty World
• 324 - PVP World
• 343 - PVP World - High Risk
• 365 - High Risk World
• 369 - Wilderness PK - members
• 392 - PVP World - Free
• 417 - PVP World - Free

Trading

• 301 - Trade - Free
• 302 - Trade - Members

Skill total worlds

• 353 - 1250 skill total
• 366 - 1500 skill total
• 416 - 1500 skill total
• 420 - 1500 skill total
• 373 - 1750 skill total
• 391 - 1750 skill total
• 349 - 2000 skill total
• 361 - 2000 skill total
• 396 - 2000 skill total
• 415 - 2200 skill total

Free-to-play total worlds

• 381 - 500 skill total
• 419 - 500 skill total
• 385 - 750 skill total

Note that the total level is calculated from the free-to-play skills, and does not included member skills, which means that players need a total of 508 and 758 respectively to enter the worlds if the player has never trained member skills.

Deadman worlds

• 345 - Deadman
• 404 - Deadman Seasonal
• 406 - Deadman Seasonal
• 410 - Deadman Seasonal
• 412 - Deadman Seasonal

Miscellaneous

• 305 - Falador Party Room
• 309 - Wintertodt
• 330 - House Party, Gilded Altar
• 342 - Role-playing
• 374 - Theatre of Blood
• 376 - Theatre of Blood

High-risk worlds

High Risk worlds (currently World 65 and PVP World 43) are worlds where the Protect Item prayer is disabled. Whilst on these servers, Protect Item is inactive, and if you die while skulled, you will lose ALL your items. Otherwise, if not skulled, you will get to keep three items per the Items Kept on Death system. Going into these worlds can be a risky, but good way to make money if you have a high Combat level with good armour and weapons and are proficient in player-versus-player combat. It is strongly recommended that you only take items that you are willing to lose! With the Protect Item prayer being disabled, caution is to be taken into great consideration throughout. Also, note that World 65 is a "safe" world unless you go into the Wilderness as it is not a PvP world.

Upon killing a skulled opponent, you will always get the items they were wearing and carrying, unless the item is (or was) untradeable, in which case will usually turn into a stack of gold coins according to its value. There are currently two high-risk worlds—these are worlds 43, which is a dangerous PVP world, and 65 (non-PvP) for Pay-to-Play (members).

Warning

The warning received when selecting a High Risk world from the log-in screen.

Confirmation when selecting a High Risk world using the in-game World Switcher.

A warning is shown on attempting to log-in to a high-risk server from the log-in screen. If using the World Switcher instead, a confirmation will appear. Upon logging into a PvP world, a second notification in the form of a message in red will appear in your chatbox informing you that players may attack you.

The warning message as it appears in the chat box in a PvP world.

Player worlds

Certain worlds have become specialised by the player-base for particular tasks. These guidelines are useful for tasks that require a lot of people (e.g. minigames), as they define a meeting place for people hoping to work together with others.

See also

• Player killing