Rest





The Rest feature allows players to regenerate their energy more quickly. At any time, players can right-click the run button next to the minimap and select "Rest" from the menu. While resting, players sit down in a relaxed, almost yoga/meditation-like stance, and energy and Hitpoints will regenerate far quicker (for agility level 1, run energy will regenerate at 2.8 Energy per second when resting as an alternative to 0.44 energy per second when not)

You are not able to rest while you are poisoned.

This feature was released in the run energy upgrade of 9 June 2009.

Spell Out Words
Players sometimes spell inappropriate words while resting/sitting. A group of players line up in a line and spell out "illegal" words. This may prove fun to most players, but to others, it is obnoxious. Players risk being reported.

Campfires
Within the first few minutes of the introduction of rest, players had started to make campfires, at which several players crowd around a fire and have a chat; this is most notable around the Grand Exchange and Lumbridge. There is usually a designated fire lighter who lights the fires after the logs become ashes. Resting near a fire gives no additional benefits over resting anywhere else, except for the companionship and conversation with others who join you.

History
The button originally appeared in the 25 March 2009 system update along with an option to Turn run mode on/off. When selected, the message "Coming Soon..." appeared in the text box.

Jagex stated on the RuneScape Forums that the rest option would not be linked to fatigue or sleeping bags.

On the 19 March 2009, Jagex created a RuneScape account on Facebook. One of the pictures added shows a player battling Chronozon, and a message in the chat box that reads, 'You feel much better after a quick rest,' undoubtedly a reference to the rest feature. This shows the Rest button will have some kind of restoring properties.

On 1 April 2009 the "Rest" option was removed. That same day in the RuneScape Forums, Mod Ash posted "The Rest option is coming soon. I'm not sure exactly when. Until it does finally come, there's no real need to leave it sitting there doing nothing." (some players vehemently believed it was an April Fools joke, and arguments raged on, for days afterwards)

On 23 April, Jagex released a development diary stating that the "rest" feature was a mistake. The diary also states that the rest feature will centre on "buskers", musician NPCs who play their instruments.

On 9 June 2009, the rest option was released.

Musician




When listening to a Musician, energy and Hitpoints will regenerate even more quickly (for agility level 1, resting near a musician regenerates energy at 3.8 energy per second instead of 2.8 when resting normally or 0.44 when not resting at all). If the player toggles the run option on or off whilst resting, the in-game music will switch to a different track.

There is a total of 27 (15 members only )musicians found in the following locations:


 * North of Al Kharid near the gem trader.
 * In the north west corner of Sophanem (west of the sword shop) (M).
 * North of the bank in Shantay Pass.(M)
 * In Mort'ton Swamp, west and over the river from the Mage Training Arena(M).
 * East of Fenkenstrain's castle, near the well (M).
 * In the Stealing Creation lobby.
 * East of the Red Dragon Isle, in the wilderness.
 * Just off the South East corner of the forgotten cemetery in the wilderness.
 * Near the Northern entrance to the Al Kharid desert.
 * East of Varrock, off the north fork from the Eastern entrance.
 * Between Varrock and the Barbarian Village, just South of Juliet's house (as in Romeo and Juliet).
 * In Lumbridge, just north of the castle near the river.
 * In Draynor outside Ned's house.
 * North of Port Sarim, by the cross roads.
 * Just North of Falador, at the T-junction.
 * At the Southern entrance of the Monastery east of the Ice mountain.
 * At the North-West corner of the main section Karamja, next to the general store (M).
 * Just South-west of Shilo village (M).
 * Just above the Catherby fishing spots (M).
 * On the path west from Sinclair mansion south of the river (M).
 * East of the Fremnick province, north of the Golden Apple Tree (M).
 * Just south of the fishing guild (M).
 * In the Port Khazard area, between the Tower of Life and the Fight Arena (M).
 * Just West of Yanille(M).
 * Just East of Eagle Peak(M).
 * Very near Isafdar(M).
 * Near the entrance to the palace of Miscellanea (M).

Rest feature glitch
Shortly after the update, another update was released. Many players found that they could not use the Grand Exchange unless they clicked "Use Desk" or "Exchange Desk". This also led to players not being able to access their bank accounts using the Grand Exchange bankers. There were also reports of glitched bankers, bank chests, and bank booths across RuneScape. This was caused by the fact that the desk was in the way, giving players the message "I can't reach that!".

Monsters that are normally aggressive to players in one way or another were unable to retaliate against the player. This caused many people to congregate at the God Wars Dungeon, and the Corporeal Beast lair, in an hopeful attempt to get a valuable drop without being hit for damage.

During this time the Warriors' Guild Cyclops area had double the ammount of Cyclops half of which didn't retaliate. When a player recived a Rune Defender drop the player would be able to pick up two Defenders.

Also, players could not talk to most bankers (chest style banks eg. Castle Wars or Trouble Brewing seemed to be exempt from the bug) an attempt to do so would would render the message "Nothing interesting happens." This is known as the "Proximity bug".

Players were unable to cast Magic combat spells (for example fire strike), without going toe-to-toe with the target. There was also another problem where some monsters that attack using magic were unable to attack, including monsters from the TzHaar Fight Caves, Although the glitch did not last long enough for anyone to achieve a fire cape.

Furthermore, a huge array of other bugs were reported at the same time, such as glitched houses doors turned into walls (effectively losing access, unless in building mode and glitched Firemaking(once a fire was lit the player did not automatically move west one space), amongst others.

During the Cold War quest, Larry would refuse to shrink players, stating "There is not enough room for the spell to work." This was fixed shortly after.

Performing Around the World in Eggty Days emote while resting resulted in a fart-like animation, as the player stands up. This was later fixed that day, now when doing an emote while resting a player will receive the message that "Emotes aren't very restful."



When ranging a player could rest, right after shooting an arrow, and the arrow would appear to come out of his nose. This glitch has not been fixed. (You need to be attacked by a monster before shooting the arrow or you will just stand up, and it will not work)

While Resting, a player can open up the Show Equipment Stats interface and see the player still sitting. This is unknown if its a glitch or not. When a player removes or switches an item, the character stands up as normal.

Trivia

 * While in rest, players may check their equipment in the rest position.
 * Resting was released on June 9th, 2009.
 * Upon the release of resting, several glitches occurred, causing mass panic and forum stress. On June 10th, after 6 updates in the same day, most resting glitches were fixed.
 * Resting has two positions.