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 and more. 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 23 skills in RuneScape. Members have access to them all, while non-members can only raise 15 of them.
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 while wearing a Cape of Achievement of that skill, with no great significant bonus; it is just for the feeling of having a skill boosted over the level 99 mark.
Non-member skills
| File:Attackimg.PNG | Attack | Allows players to wield stronger melee weapons and fight more accurately in melee. |
| File:Strengthimg.PNG | Strength | Allows players to deal more melee damage and equip certain weapons. It also gives access to several agility shortcuts. |
| File:Defenceimg.PNG | Defence | Allows players to wear stronger armour and decrease chance of being hit (a common misconception is that high defence reduces damage dealt). |
| File:Rangedimg.PNG | Ranged | Allows players to fight with missiles and projectiles from a distance. |
| File:Prayerimg.PNG | Prayer | Allows players to pray to for assistance, such as ability boosts. |
| File:Magicimg.PNG | Magic | Allows players to cast spells. |
| File:Runecraftingimg.PNG | Runecrafting | Allows players to make runes for magic. |
| File:Hitpointsimg.PNG | Hitpoints | The player's health. |
| File:Craftingimg.PNG | Crafting | Allows players to create items, from pottery to ranged armour. |
| File:Miningimg.PNG | Mining | Allows players to obtain ores from rocks. |
| File:Smithingimg.PNG | Smithing | Allows players to smelt ores into bars and smith bars into armour and weapons. |
| File:Fishingimg.PNG | Fishing | Allows players to catch fish. |
| File:Cookingimg.PNG | Cooking | Allows players to cook food. The food can then be eaten to heal players' hitpoints. |
| File:Firemakingimg.PNG | Firemaking | Allows players to make fires. |
| File:Woodcuttingimg.PNG | Woodcutting | Allows players to cut down trees to obtain logs. |
Member skills
| File:Agilityimg.PNG | Agility | Allows players to use shortcuts and can help a player's energy recharge faster. |
| File:Herbloreimg.PNG | Herblore | Allows players to make potions. |
| File:Thievingimg.PNG | Thieving | Allows players to steal from market stalls and NPCs. |
| File:Fletchingimg.PNG | Fletching | Allows players to create projectiles (arrows,bolts) and bows which can be used for ranged. |
| File:Slayerimg.PNG | Slayer | Allows players to kill certain monsters that can't normally be defeated. |
| File:Farmingimg.PNG | Farming | Allows players to grow crops. |
| File:Constructionimg.PNG | Construction | Allows players to make houses. |
| File:Hunterimg.PNG | Hunter | Allows players to track, net, deadfall, snare, and trap animals. |
Skill Types
There are four types of skills in Runescape. These are shown below.
Extraction skills:
Processing skills:
Combat skills:
Independent skills:
Experience Increase
Between every skill, the amount of experience needed increases by 10% for every level. This is shown in the way that it is 83 xp to level 2, but 91 more to level 3. (10% of 83 is roughly 8, therefore the next level would be 91 experience.) It is more significant in that level 60 is 273,742 exp, and level 70 is 737,627 xp.
The below equiation directly gives the number of experience per level:
