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| 1s | when your character steps into the world |
|---|---|
| 3s | of gilenore you're faced with 21 years |
| 6s | of content to explore and engage in from |
| 9s | the mightiest boss to old vampires |
| 12s | runescape's content is a visual reminder |
| 14s | of how far we've come every piece of |
| 17s | content you see has been through the |
| 18s | process of development hyped up released |
| 21s | and then |
| 22s | for some of it left alone in the dark |
| 25s | we've truly come for looking back from |
| 28s | what the game is today to what it was |
| 29s | like in early january 2001 is |
| 32s | almost abstract the changes have been |
| 35s | massive since the doors opened for the |
| 37s | first time the idea of banks didn't come |
| 40s | into play before in may 2001. in the |
| 42s | start everyone ran around with all of |
| 45s | their items and their inventories this |
| 47s | made the world extremely dangerous not |
| 49s | only was it risky to kill monsters in |
| 51s | fear of losing everything but also other |
| 54s | players posed a great danger pvp was |
| 57s | enabled anywhere from the second you |
| 59s | stepped outside the lumbridge borders |
| 61s | and anyone within 5 combat levels of you |
| 63s | could have a go at you but for a new |
| 65s | level 3 straight out of lumbridge a |
| 67s | level 8 with iron armor is quite |
| 69s | powerful you just had to hope one of |
| 72s | them wouldn't find you before you |
| 73s | managed to sneak into the woods not |
| 75s | everyone was so lucky some players like |
| 78s | robin hood 2 rose to fame in the early |
| 80s | days for killing pretty much everyone |
| 82s | only days after runescape opened he held |
| 85s | the record of most skills in a day being |
| 87s | 78 assassinations but not to worry some |
| 91s | players were kind pickers tracking down |
| 93s | players who attempted to kill low-level |
| 95s | players to make sure those new |
| 97s | adventurers had a fighting chance the |
| 99s | new adventurers who did get away could |
| 101s | explore the vast world stretching all |
| 103s | the way from the misty lumbridge swamp |
| 105s | to edgeville |
| 107s | yeah hiding from pkrs wasn't very easy |
| 110s | back then skills like magic and prayer |
| 112s | were split in two good magic and evil |
| 115s | magic as well as pray good and pray evil |
| 118s | herb lore was called herb law although |
| 120s | no one could train the skill tailoring |
| 122s | was also on the skill list also |
| 124s | untrainable likely as a predecessor to |
| 127s | crafting although this one was removed |
| 129s | shortly after the game was released |
| 131s | the first ever player to sign up to |
| 133s | runescape rap served as a volunteer |
| 136s | moderator of sorts an early predecessor |
| 138s | of today's player moderator but the rap |
| 140s | could also teleport players around much |
| 142s | alike to what jmod accounts could |
| 144s | leaving rule breakers to rot in the |
| 146s | black void rabb was a beta tester for |
| 149s | runescape prior to its release meaning |
| 151s | he had the direct contact with andrew |
| 153s | gower and had several chats with andrew |
| 155s | as the game was being developed what's |
| 157s | interesting is that andrew did on |
| 159s | occasion send rap files related to the |
| 161s | game something that in later years has |
| 164s | been shared with players attempting to |
| 165s | conserve the history of the game either |
| 167s | on the wiki in books or through video |
| 170s | one such file is stated from december |
| 172s | 2000 showing what's likely some early |
| 174s | design of what was meant to be the |
| 176s | runescape skills sealing was a skill |
| 179s | looking quite identical to what crafting |
| 181s | is today using needle and thread on |
| 183s | leather to create various clothing and |
| 185s | tools herblore or herb law as it was |
| 187s | called was meant to work directly with |
| 189s | the herbs rather than potions you could |
| 191s | use herbs in similar ways you can use |
| 193s | potions today but some additional uses |
| 196s | are explained in the old design such as |
| 198s | enhancing food poisoning food and |
| 200s | purifying water smithing was pretty much |
| 203s | the same but you remained the smith gold |
| 205s | bars into gold coins wood cutting was |
| 207s | the same as it's always spin but |
| 209s | fletching was integrated into the skill |
| 211s | allowing you to use woodcutting to cut |
| 213s | logs into wooden tools and weapons |
| 215s | creating arrows and other tools using |
| 217s | metals together with wooden products was |
| 219s | put into a whole different skill called |
| 221s | crafting clearly this version of |
| 223s | crafting was combined with the tool |
| 225s | cutting from woodcutting to become |
| 226s | fletching and the name crafting replaced |
| 228s | suing prior to the game's release yeah |
| 231s | runescape was a different game back then |
| 234s | 21 years of change has made runescape |
| 236s | nearly unrecognizable to what it was in |
| 239s | 2001. in many ways for the better but it |
| 242s | does make you wonder where will the game |
| 244s | be in another 20 years |