01-Feb-2011 - The Wilderness and Free Trade Return!

Mike · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 4:43 am

RuneScape.com wrote:

01-Feb-2011 - The Wilderness and Free Trade Return!

As of today, players will be able to trade freely and engage in the dangerous, thrill-seeking activity of Wildy PKing! Saving precarious worlds, slaying ancient dragons and delving in chaotic dungeons is one thing, but dare you test your skills against your fellow adventurers? It’s where true legends are born...

Wilderness

WARNING: The Wilderness is a dangerous place where fortunes are won and lost. There are no gravestones and you will lose all items dropped on the floor.

A well organised group of PKers is, without doubt, the most dangerous combat you will ever face in RuneScape, with a range of tactics (and combinations thereof) that would put any boss monster to shame. Do not underestimate the power of the PKer. Only ever travel with equipment you are prepared to lose, no matter how skilled you are.

However...

As great as the risk is, the potential to gain fantastic gear and untold wealth is undeniable. Take no prisoners and fight to the death! Only the wicked and wise will survive.

We have written a few guides to explain to you what the Wilderness is and how it works – a getting started guide, a Wilderness guide and an area guide. We highly recommend that you spend the time reading these before heading north and risking anything. Pay particular attention to information about being 'skulled', as this dramatically affects the items you keep on death. Several items also behave differently when lost on death, so only risk items that you are prepared to lose. Previous tactics of dropping items before death or running back to collect untradable objects will no longer work!

For those seeking even greater risk, try our High-risk Wilderness worlds, where the Protect Item prayer and curse cannot be used.

Several activities (Clan Wars, Fist of Guthix and Stealing Creation) have now been removed from the Wilderness and into the Gamers’ Grotto north of Falador. Please consult the world map or the Game Guide for more details.

The wilderness also features:

The new, revenant-filled Forinthry Dungeon!
Improved drops from the Chaos Elemental.
Faster respawn time on the Wilderness runite rocks.

Staking

Members will now be able to stake items freely, up to any value! Free-players will be able to stake up to 40k in a duel.

Free Trade and the Grand Exchange

All players will now be able to trade freely, able to give gifts, and decide what prices to pay for items in both player trades and via the Grand Exchange. Every tradable item will have an associated 'guide price', which is calculated from the previous day’s trading on the Grand Exchange, with a maximum movement of 5% (up or down). The guide price is just that – a guide. Feel free to offer or demand whatever prices you like.

If you would like to know more about trading, look at our starter guide, or the pages on trading and the Grand Exchange.

Gravestones

Gravestones will still appear if you die outside of the Wilderness.
Most gravestones have had their timers doubled.
The recently released royal dwarf gravestone now lasts for 15 minutes.
All acts of blessing and repairing gravestones have had the cost reduced to 0 Prayer points.

Party Room and Drop Parties

Players can now place unlimited wealth into the party chest and can have drop parties. If you’re worried about your party being gate-crashed, bankers no longer shout about Party Room drops! The POH treasure chest has also had an increase to how much gold they can award.

Quests Set in the Wilderness

If you're doing Spirit of Summer or Summer's End, look for Summer outside of the Wilderness (just outside of Varrock’s north gate).

If you're doing Defender of Varrock or Curse of Arrav, speak to Captain Rovin or Hartwin upstairs in Varrock Palace to be escorted safely through the Wilderness.

Any parts of these quests that are set in the Wilderness will be in safe areas, so you do not need to worry about PKers while playing these quests.

Mod Mark
RuneScape Lead Designer

In other news...

The armour repair stand in a player-owned house now correctly reduces the cost of fixing the torva, pernix and virtus armour dropped by Nex.

The Summoning status globe next to the minimap now has a new 'Interact' option.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 4:43 am

Uncle Dano · **12 99's on 12/12/12!**

Fantastic update! An epic re-transformation of Gielinor to say the least. I so look forward to being able to give valuable items and large amounts of gp to my friends.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 7:49 am

GE is already broken. I've got herbs and magic tree seeds up there for 5% less than there normal price and no buyers. What a joke.

Thanks everyone who voted you've brought back standing on world 2 for an hour spamming a message over and over hoping someone spots you.

Ranging God · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 12:25 pm

I love this update, my friend just gave me 5mill

addiv · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 2:28 pm

Overall I think this will turn out to be a good update. Not sure how it'll wash out with prices and bots but I'm glad I can share resources with friends again and maybe have a drop party for my next cape.

The one thing that I already hate about this update: PHR33 ST00FZ PL0X !!!!! (get a job slacker)

Ben · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 4:57 pm

Nobody wants to buy or sell anything anywhere near the price guidelines. I saw people arguing over whether whips are worth 3 or 6 coins, and I'm currently trying to sell a bucket for 1 000 000.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 4:57 pm

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

CreepyPirate wrote:

GE is already broken. I've got herbs and magic tree seeds up there for 5% less than there normal price and no buyers. What a joke.

Thanks everyone who voted you've brought back standing on world 2 for an hour spamming a message over and over hoping someone spots you.

Agree. I still believe this is (and will be) a bad decision. 1/5

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** February 1st, 2011, 5:00 pm

The GE does not work. At all. I am :evil:

, Jagex.

Ice · Runite: 9/30/2010

I've hated this "update" from the start. 1/5

Jamie · **Posted:** February 3rd, 2011, 11:54 pm

Massive economy crash alert. 2/5. Wilderness was fine as it is ):

Taylor Swift · **Posted:** February 6th, 2011, 9:03 pm

Yay, all my items have halved in value, and the one item I was hoping to buy starts going up the day I get enough money to buy it?

On a more serious note, the amount of scammers is quite sickening. I hate seeing people get conned out of all their stuff, although in a way its their own fault for being so greedy that they click "accept" before thinking.

TheProdigalSon · **Posted:** February 10th, 2011, 8:29 am

Great update but sadly i think RuneScape wont last more than another five years. Eventually i think the bots and scams will become too much of a problem and they'll end up ruining the game.