Melee
Iron scimitar, full helm, platebody, platelegs and kiteshield. Start wearing your melee gear.
Old School RuneScape private server
Explore Gielinor. Earn physical Cores and Sigils. Shape your favourite equipment with tomes, sockets and upgrades.
See the fight
Watch real test-world combat and help improve the first hour. We are recruiting ten genuine testers, not selling early access.
Your first adventure
No rare drop needed for your first build. Earn a personal Core once per character, then turn it into a useful perk.
Open Journey in the quest tab. Pick Combat or Gathering, then use the home Teleport Master to get started.
Finish 10 monster kills or 25 successful mining, woodcutting or fishing actions. Claim your Apprentice Core in Journey.
Make an Apprentice Tome at the Forge. Read it to learn the perk, then manage your active perks in Equipped Tomes.
Choose combat or gathering in Journey. Finish 10 monster kills or 25 mining, woodcutting or fishing actions, then claim your personal Apprentice Core.
At the Obsidian Forge, one Apprentice Core makes your first Combat or Gathering Tome. Read the physical tome to learn its perk.
The Equipped Tomes tab shows your active effects. Swap learned perks for your next activity; the Upgrade Altar develops your existing equipment.
Make the next build yours
Plan a compatible loadout, work on your weekly board or prepare for an expedition. Your account and Gielinor progress stay permanent.
Weekly Challenges and Find a Group are in Journey > Next Steps. Weekly material rewards are capped; missed days do not reset your character.
Ready from your first login
Keep the familiar RuneScape progression. Obsidian adds choices around your gear, not a replacement for it.
Iron scimitar, full helm, platebody, platelegs and kiteshield. Start wearing your melee gear.
Shortbow, leather cowl, body and chaps, plus 500 bronze arrows.
Air staff, wizard clothing, 500 mind runes, 1,500 air runes and 1,000 of each fire, water and earth rune.
Also included: food, a bronze axe and pickaxe, and 125,000 GP for Standard or 10,000 GP for Ironman variants. New characters only.
| Mode | Combat | Skilling | After 99 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hard | 5x | 5x | 5x |
| Regular | 60x | 15x | 10x |
| Easy | 100x | 30x | 15x |
Before perk and temporary bonuses. Choose Standard, Ironman, Hardcore Ironman or Ultimate Ironman independently of your XP mode.
What is happening
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