Play old RuneScape free

Permanent F2P is here and just in time for the second birthday of Old School RuneScape!

Permanent Free-to-Play

Permanent F2P is now here for Old School. Anyone and everyone can log on and play the F2P area of the game until their heart's content. Both new and existing accounts have access to F2P Old School so whether you are a new or old player you can hop on and play for free!

We're making some small changes to the F2P portion of the game to accompany the release of permanent F2P.

Yew trees, lobsters and wilderness fishing spots

Some time ago we removed the ability for F2P players to chop yew trees or fish lobsters. As we are introducing some additional limitations to F2P players, which will be detailed slightly further down in the news post, we have now made it possible for F2P players to chop yew trees and fish lobsters.

In addition to this, the dark crab fishing spots found in the wilderness will now act as tuna/lobster/swordfish fishing spots when logged into a F2P world.

Additional NPCs in and around Lumbridge

In order to help deal with the expected influx of players, we have increased the number of low level monsters that spawn in and around Lumbridge. We have also added some additional areas to kill chickens, cows, goblins and frogs. We hope that this will make it simpler for new players to find places to get training and to do so without overcrowding.

Skippy has returned

Skippy, the NPC that allows you to skip Tutorial Island, has now returned. This is to help deal with the large number of players that may end up on Tutorial Island and reduce any overcrowding.

Skippy will be removed from Tutorial Island at some point in the near future once Tutorial Island is slightly less active.

F2P account limits

For the first 24 hours of in-game time on a newly made F2P account players cannot trade items off their account. They can still receive items but they cannot trade their items away.

In addition to trading being restricted we have also restricted other ways of transferring items to prevent players circumventing the limits.

• If you drop an item manually, the item is visible only to you. It does not ever become visible to other players.
• If you die to a PKer, they will receive loot, however any stacks of items that you held when you died will be reduced to 1. For example, if you die with 1, 000 coins the PKer that killed you will only receive 1.
• You cannot add items to a Trade offer or Duel offer. When the trade screen opens a message on the screen will tell you how long it will be until you can offer items.

We will be carefully monitoring the impact and effectiveness of these limitations over the release of F2P and will relax them if we find that we can keep on top of the bots, after the initial launch rush.

If your account ever becomes a member after this update, these restrictions will stop applying to you, and will not come back if you unsubscribe in future.