Quests

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z100/chuey123/untitled8.jpg.|frame|right|A player's Quest Diary. This player has completed all the quests in the game. He now can receive the Quest Point Cape from the Wise Old Man.

Quests are groups of interrelated tasks that can be completed for rewards such as items, skills, experience, and quest points. They are labelled with a blue star or compass rose icon on your Minimap. Quests can be played only once, not like minigames which can be repeated.

The Quest List on the interface has the complete list of quests and are colour coded:
 * Red - not started
 * Yellow - started
 * Green - completed

As of 6 January 2009, there are a total of 149 quests (not counting the introductory quest Learning the Ropes) with 18 free and 131 members-only quests (not including the sub-quests of Recipe for Disaster, the Odd Old Man's wishlist from the Rag and Bone Man quest, or the new tutorial), offering a total of 277 quest points (this includes one additional quest point from completing the Odd Old Man's wishlist). Free players can only get up to 42 quest points.The last quest added to Free Players was Rune Mysteries with the release of RuneScape 2 (Not including Swept Away and Myths of the White Lands, which were released for the Halloween and Christmas Event periods of 2008 for F2P for a limited time, respectively.).

Players who have the maximum number of quest points are able to wear the quest point cape, a Cape of Accomplishment. However, whenever a new quest is available, the cape and hood will automatically be unequipped from a player until the player completes the new quest. If a player's inventory is full the Quest point cape and/or Quest point hood will be sent to your bank. If your bank happens to be full the Wise Old Man will hold onto it and will return it free of charge.

The 100th quest Recipe for Disaster is actually 10 quests in 1 with 8 subquests ranging from easy to very hard. The 50th quest Legends Quest was released on 20 August 2003, which was prior to the RuneScape 2 release, while the 100th members' quest Cold War was released on 29 January 2007.

Quest release dates are listed in the list of recent quests.

A list of recommended members' quests can be found here.

Quest series
Many quests occur as part of a quest series which shares a common plot line. Usually, progress is made in the series in a linear fashion, with each quest requiring the previous one in a sequence. There are some exceptions to this, however. The majority of quest series are rooted in a specific area, and their completion is often needed to access that area or specific features within it. For example, West Ardougne as a whole is inaccessible unless at least some progress is made in the Plague quest series.

A complete list of quest series can be found here.

Ongoing quest rewards

 * Hand in the Sand's reward includes 84 daily buckets of sand delivered to the player's bank account, provided they talk to Bert each day.
 * Tears of Guthix unlocks a minigame which rewards the player with weekly experience towards his or her lowest skill.
 * Throne of Miscellania allows the player to manage and collect a portion of Miscellania's resources through the kingdom management minigame.
 * Completion of Royal Trouble boosts the efficiency of the player's subjects and allows the collection of a greater variety of resources, including those found on Etceteria.
 * Back to my Roots gives access to the jade vine, which allows the player to repeatedly collect 1,500 Farming experience and 2,500 Slayer experience, about once every 15 hours.
 * All Fired Up gives access to the All Fired Up minigame.
 * Cold War gives extra penguin points for some penguins in the Penguin Hide and Seek minigame.
 * What Lies Below gives access to the Hunt for Surok mini-quest, which can be done daily for charms and Slayer experience.
 * In Pyre Need gives access to a daily Distractions & Diversions challenge, called Phoenix Lair, which you can do to gain 5 Phoenix Quills, 1,000 Crafting experience, 7,500 Firemaking experience, 3,000 Fletching experience and 500 Slayer experience (5,000 Slayer experience for first time).

Skill levels
The quests requiring the highest skill level are:
 * Agility - Rocking Out
 * Attack - TokTz-Ket-Dill, Darkness of Hallowvale
 * Construction - TokTz-Ket-Dill
 * Cooking - Recipe for Disaster (Freeing King Awowogei)
 * Crafting - Rocking Out
 * Defence - King's Ransom, While Guthix Sleeps
 * Farming - While Guthix Sleeps
 * Firemaking - In Pyre Need
 * Fishing - Swan Song
 * Fletching - In Pyre Need
 * Herblore - While Guthix Sleeps
 * Hitpoint - None
 * Hunter - While Guthix Sleeps
 * Magic - While Guthix Sleeps
 * Mining - Lunar Diplomacy
 * Music - None
 * Prayer - Summer's End
 * Ranged - Mourning's Ends Part I
 * Runecrafting - Devious Minds
 * Slayer - Back to my Roots
 * Smithing - Rocking Out
 * Strength - The Path of Glouphrie, Dealing with Scabaras
 * Summoning - Summer's End, While Guthix Sleeps
 * Thieving - Rocking Out
 * Woodcutting - Back to my Roots
 * Combat level - Dream Mentor, Smoking Kills
 * Quest Points - While Guthix Sleeps

Quest list
For the quest list, see List of quests.