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** Gaining favor in Kourend was often seen as an unpopular mechanic. In early 2024, the favor system was completely removed from the game.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time. The development team also poked fun at this; a cow hangs around the entrance of the Nightmare Zone, but there was no way to remove it due to the lack of a map editor. This cow can show up inside the Nightmare Zone as a "boss".
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time. The development team also poked pokes fun at this; a cow hangs around the entrance of the Nightmare Zone, but there was no way to remove it due to the lack of a map editor. This cow can show up randomly inside the Nightmare Zone as a "boss".
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** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline, and in early 2024 they removed it entirely.
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** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline, and the favor system was removed in early 2024 they removed it entirely.2024.
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** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline.
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** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline.Questline, and in early 2024 they removed it entirely.
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* IKnewIt:
** The Rewards Trader is Marmaros.
** [[spoiler:Koschei the Deathless]] revealed to be Kharshai, which was correctly theorised by a large part of the fanbase.
** Some fans even managed to correctly guess that [[spoiler:Wizard Melville Grayzag]], a comic-relief villain from the very old quest "[[spoiler:Imp Catcher]]," was [[NotSoHarmlessVillain the mysterious person responsible for the events of the Void Pest questline]], solely due to the fact that "Quiet Before the Swarm," the first installment of the Void series, has the aforementioned very old quest as a prerequisite despite otherwise having nothing to do with it.
** The Rewards Trader is Marmaros.
** [[spoiler:Koschei the Deathless]] revealed to be Kharshai, which was correctly theorised by a large part of the fanbase.
** Some fans even managed to correctly guess that [[spoiler:Wizard Melville Grayzag]], a comic-relief villain from the very old quest "[[spoiler:Imp Catcher]]," was [[NotSoHarmlessVillain the mysterious person responsible for the events of the Void Pest questline]], solely due to the fact that "Quiet Before the Swarm," the first installment of the Void series, has the aforementioned very old quest as a prerequisite despite otherwise having nothing to do with it.
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* OrphanedReference: With the removal of the Random Event [=NPCs=] (who were designed to punish people who extensively used macros to farm gold), several events that occur in quests no longer make sense to new players, such as Osman being kidnapped by Evil Bob in Recipe for Disaster and the Drunken Dwarf getting eaten by a troll in My Arm's Big Adventure.
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** The book also reveals that the Sandwich Lady was inspired by a "slightly aggressive" woman who would come to Jagex's office and try and sell sandwiches.
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** The book also reveals that the Sandwich Lady was inspired by a "slightly aggressive" woman who would come to hung around Jagex's office offices and try and sell sold sandwiches.
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** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s design being the one used in the game.
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** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s design being the one used in the game. The seller of the cape, Jack, is named after the user who designed the cape.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets at the time. The development team also poked fun at this; a cow hangs around the entrance of the Nightmare Zone, but there was no way to remove it due to the lack of a map editor. This cow can show up inside the Nightmare Zone as a "boss".
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** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. In 2004, they added much-requested horses to the game, but in turns out they were actually toy horses. The next year, they added "Dragon Plates" to the game, which were spinning plates with a picture of a dragon on it.
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** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase playerbase on April Fool's day. In 2004, they added much-requested horses to the game, but in turns out they were actually just toy horses. The next year, they added "Dragon Plates" to the game, which were spinning plates with a picture of a dragon on it.
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** Instead of Archaeology, the Necromancy skill was proposed to release in Spring of 2020 as a major update for that year; instead, Necromancy is releasing in August 2023.
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** Instead of Archaeology, the Necromancy skill was proposed to release in Spring of 2020 as a major update for that year; instead, Necromancy is releasing released in August 2023.
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** A tweet during the same event also revealed that the Makeover Mage and Elena from Plague/Elf Questline are also pansexual.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets to the game at the time.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets to the game at the time.
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** The original design of Kourend would allow the player to support one of the five houses to become the next monarch, and this was the original purpose of the favour system. However, the quests that came out over the five years after Zeah's release would ultimately railroad [[spoiler:Lord Kandur Hosidius into becoming the next king of Kourend]], making the favour system [[TheArtifact rather vestigial]]. In late 2023, Jagex discussed removing the favour system entirely and instead locking its reward space behind the Kourend Questline.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair. Similar to the case with the Summoning creatures, this was done because the developers didn't have a way to create new assets to the game at the time.
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** A head of cabbage can be a reward from a master clue scroll. The odds of getting one are the same as the ultra-rare rewards.
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** A head of cabbage can be a reward from a master clue scroll. The odds of getting one are the same as the any ultra-rare rewards.
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** A [[https://twitter.com/Jagex/status/1362378862240407554 2021 LGBT History Month tweet]] from Jagex reveals that [[AnythingThatMoves Charos is pansexual]].
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** A [[https://twitter.com/Jagex/status/1362378862240407554 2021 LGBT History Month tweet]] from Jagex reveals that [[AnythingThatMoves that Charos is pansexual]].pansexual.
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** When a bird's nest falls out of a tree, the sound of a bird chirping will usually. However, on rare occasions, this sound will be replaced by the sound of the Armadyl Crossbow's special attack, which is a horrific screeching sound. Needless to say, it might scare the bejesus out of an unsuspecting player.
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** When a bird's nest falls out of a tree, the sound of a bird chirping will usually.usually play. However, on rare occasions, this sound will be replaced by the sound of the Armadyl Crossbow's special attack, which is a horrific screeching sound. Needless to say, it this sound might scare the bejesus out of an unsuspecting player.
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** When a bird's nest falls out of a tree, the sound of a bird chirping will usually. However, on rare occasions, this sound will be replaced by the sound of the Armadyl Crossbow's special attack, which is a horrific screeching sound. Needless to say, it might scare the bejesus out of an unsuspecting player.
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** The Nightmare Zone is an exact duplicate of the King Black Dragon's lair.
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** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s being used in the game.
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** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s design being the one used in the game.
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** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. One year, they added much-requested horses to the game, but they were actually toy horses.
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** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. One year, In 2004, they added much-requested horses to the game, but in turns out they were actually toy horses.horses. The next year, they added "Dragon Plates" to the game, which were spinning plates with a picture of a dragon on it.
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** Jagex held a contest for the design of the Mythical Cape, with the winner’s being used in the game.
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** The models for several Summoning creatures that were in the 2007 backup's data were repurposed as monsters in ''Old School'', since at the time ''Old School'''s developers had no art team or a way to add new assets to the game.
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://runescape.wiki/ The RuneScape Wiki]], as well as the two ''Old School'' wikis [[https://oldschoolrunescape.fandom.com/wiki/Old_School_RuneScape_Wiki here]] and [[https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/ here]] (the latter being the one more widely used by the fandom).
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** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features and quality of life updates. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website.
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** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features and quality of life updates. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website. It's also one of the few third-party clients that's approved by Jagex.
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** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. One year, they added much-requested horses to the game, but they were actually toy horses.
** A head of cabbage can be a reward from a master clue scroll. The odds of getting one are the same as the ultra-rare rewards.
** Jagex likes to have fun with the playbase on April Fool's day. One year, they added much-requested horses to the game, but they were actually toy horses.
** A head of cabbage can be a reward from a master clue scroll. The odds of getting one are the same as the ultra-rare rewards.
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** Way back in the day, you had to carry a watch and a sextant in order to dig up a coordinate clue. Not having them in your inventory would lead to you not digging anything up, even if you were in the correct location. ''Old School'' removed the necessity to carry these items, so now you just have to dig in the correct spot.
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** Way back in the day, you had to carry a watch and a sextant in order to dig up a coordinate clue. Not having them in your inventory would lead to you not digging anything up, even if you were in the correct location. After complaints from the playerbase, ''Old School'' removed the necessity to carry these items, so now you just have to dig in the correct spot.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: ''Old School'' was introduced in response to the players who got rubbed the wrong way by the Evolution of Combat. For those who weren’t interested in playing ''Old School'', Jagex introduced a “Legacy Mode” that turned off the mechanics of the Evolution of Combat.
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** ''Old School'' was introduced in response to the players who got rubbed the wrong way by the Evolution of Combat. For those who weren’t interested in playing ''Old School'', Jagex introduced a “Legacy Mode” that turned off the mechanics of the Evolution ofCombat.Combat.
** Way back in the day, you had to carry a watch and a sextant in order to dig up a coordinate clue. Not having them in your inventory would lead to you not digging anything up, even if you were in the correct location. ''Old School'' removed the necessity to carry these items, so now you just have to dig in the correct spot.
** ''Old School'' was introduced in response to the players who got rubbed the wrong way by the Evolution of Combat. For those who weren’t interested in playing ''Old School'', Jagex introduced a “Legacy Mode” that turned off the mechanics of the Evolution of
** Way back in the day, you had to carry a watch and a sextant in order to dig up a coordinate clue. Not having them in your inventory would lead to you not digging anything up, even if you were in the correct location. ''Old School'' removed the necessity to carry these items, so now you just have to dig in the correct spot.
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* The Ruinous Powers, a new set of prayers, were originally going to be a reward for completing Desert Treasure II. However, after feedback from the community, Jagex decided not to implement them.
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* The Ruinous Powers, a new set of prayers, were originally going to be a reward for completing Desert Treasure II. However, after feedback from the community, Jagex decided not to implement them.
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** Originally, the events that Sir Owen recounts to the World Guardian following the events of Azzanadra's Quest, involving him fighting off a horde of zombie centaurs and providing a proper follow-up to "The Death of Chivalry", was going to be a proper quest; it never released, and Mod Stu, who was responsible for developing Sir Owen's story, allowed for his inclusion in Azzanadra's Quest with the caveat that the events of this Death of Chivalry follow-up be treated as canon, leaving the possibility for the quest to be developed at some point in the future, but set in the past relative to the current storyline.
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** Instead of Archaeology, the Necromancy skill was proposed to release in Spring of 2020 as a major update for that year; instead, Necromancy is releasing in August 2023.
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** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website.
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** [=RuneLite=] is a third-party client that's popular because of its many features.features and quality of life updates. After a few years, it became popular enough to warrant a link to download it on the official Old School website.
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** Great Kourend was originally going to be named “Great Goureng”. But the developers noticed that the pronunciation of "Goureng" was very similar to "Göring", the last name of a Nazi military leader and war criminal.
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** Great Kourend was originally going to be named “Great Goureng”. But the developers noticed that the pronunciation of "Goureng" was very similar to "Göring", the last name of a Nazi military leader and war criminal.criminal, so it was shiftily changed.
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** An unused sound for a horse getting hit exists in the game's code, but was never used.
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** An unused A sound for a horse getting hit exists in the game's code, but was never used.
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* PromotedFanboy: The game being as old as it is, it isn't very surprising that many [=JMods=] and developers are or were members of the playerbase. Probably the most famous example is Mod Ash, who was a moderator on the ''[=RuneScape=] Classic'' forums before becoming a Jagex employee in 2004 and the principal developer of ''Old School''. Many of the quests he developed are rife with meta humour and fandom in-jokes, and players often message him on twitter for live tech support.
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* AscendedFanNickname: The skill used to craft runes has always been called "Runecrafting" by players since it was introduced with ''[=RuneScape=] 2'', even though everything in-game just called it "Runecraft". Eventually, the skill was officially renamed "Runecrafting"... in 2008, '''after''' ''Old School'''s 2007 backup. The skill is still called "Runecraft" in ''Old School'' ten years after the servers went up, and fans are still unaware that it doesn't end in "-ing".
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** Old School celebrates its birthday every February with an in-game event.
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** Old School ''Old School'' celebrates its birthday every February with an in-game event.event.
** ''Dragon Slayer II'' was released on January 4th, 2018, the seventeenth anniversary of the game.
** ''Dragon Slayer II'' was released on January 4th, 2018, the seventeenth anniversary of the game.