How To Play RuneScape: Basics

There are many things to know about RuneScape. Skills get you money, combat helps you live. Skills are very important in the money making process when combat can also help you.

1. Fishing will get you food for combat and some extra cash to get some cool things. When fishing, I would recommend that you raise your cooking. You do burn things sometimes, but when you successfully cook something, it adds experience. Experience will add up and eventually level up. The higher any of your levels, the faster or better you will do in those specific skills. For example, if you got your fishing level up to 10, fishing shrimp would be much faster than if you had a fishing level of 1. That is how the level system works.
2. Another money making skill is wood cutting. You can't do much with the wood except burn it or sell it. I prefer selling it because you can make a lot of money compared to burning it, which doesn't really do anything. If you master woodcutting and you get up to 60, you can cut yew trees which can sell for 300-350 coins each.
3. Mining can make money, but so many people do it that it may not be as fun. If you mine slow, lots of people with very good picks will get the ore faster than you. The better the pick you have, the faster you get ore. When you are able to mine iron ore, you can sell the ore for 100 coins each.
4. Now for combat, you can kill monsters and zombies and so many other things in RuneScape. They will drop objects and money, and most of them drop bones. When you bury bones, your prayer level goes up and you then have higher prayer points. Prayer points can help a lot when you're in combat. Some raise your levels by 5%, 10% and even 15%. The higher the percentage goes, the more prayer points required.

   When you kill monsters, your strength, attack, hit points, and defence will go up. Whenever you switch your attack style, you switch which skill you are training out of the 4 different combat levels. You can increase your magic level, which requires expensive runes and you can also train range, which requires a bow and arrows.

   The higher your attack, the more often you will hit someone. It is the same thing as accuracy. The higher your attack level, the higher your accuracy. You are also able to wield better weapons when your level is raised.

   The higher your defence, the better armor you can wear and the better protection you have against people attacking you.

   The higher your strength, the higher you can hit.

   The higher hit points you have, the more life you have. For example, if you had 10 hit points (which is what you start out with), and someone hits a 5 on you, you will have 5 hit points remaining. When your hit points reach 0, you are dead.

5. When you finish quests, you have more items you can use and more places you can go. Some quests offer money and some you are able to get in guilds.

When you do the tutorial, you may learn more on how to do things such as fish and woodcut. As soon as you stick with a skill, you will make more money the higher your level.