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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Runescape: Getting started

To create a new account, go to Runescape.
  1. Enter a name for your character. If the name is already taken, you will be advised of this and you will need to try again until you find an available name.
  2. Complete the form and accept the terms and conditions.
  3. You are now ready to enter the game and create your character.
  4. Decide if you want your character to be male or female and then give your character a look.
  5. The look that you create for your character now is just a default look. You will be able to clothe your character in various items that you will obtain in the game.
  6. If you decide later that you do not like the default look of your character, you can change this in the game.

  7. You will now find yourself on Tutorial Island where you will learn a little about the game.



  8. You will see a flashing yellow arrow point to a Runescape guide, talk to this non playing character (npc). You will find many npc’s in the game.
  9. Follow the instructions given to you by the various Runescape guides. They will explain all skills available to free players and they may give you items to perform certain tasks.
  10. Once you are done on Tutorial Island, you can speak to the Magic Instructor who will give you a teleport spell to the mainland found in your spell book. This spell you will keep and is called the Lumbridge Home teleport. It is a free spell which does not require any runes and is available to use 30 min after you last used it.

  11. Lumbridge Village – this has changed for the better for new players.

  12. Once you have teleported off Tutorial Island, you will find yourself in Lumbridge.
  13. You are now in the “real” Runescape world.
  14. You can speak to the various tutors (you will see an icon – question mark – on the mini map near them). To earn money, you can do little jobs for them. Alternatively, you can kill monsters (for your level) for gold coins.
  15. I’d suggest that you’d start cutting normal logs and burning them to increase both your woodcutting and firemaking levels. Get them to about lvl 5 – 10.
  16. Before attempting to attack any npc’s you should get yourself some food and armour to prevent you from dying from their attacks.
  17. There is a bank on top of Lumbridge Castle. Bank all your items, except those that you will need, e.g. hatchet for cutting logs and tinderbox for burning the logs.
  18. Go out and explore, but for now try and stay close to Lumbridge. If you get lost, ask other players for help or the globe icon (world map). This will open into a big map and show you exactly where you are.
I wish that they had all these tutors in the game (not just on Tutorial Island) and the world map when I first started playing Runescape a few years ago.

Good luck and have fun.


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