Rest


 * This article is about the feature, for the potion see Guthix 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). (Hitpoints will regenerate twice per minute, alternating between 20 and 40 seconds between each hitpoint gained, as opposed to the normal 1 hitpoint per minute). Two glitches came along with this update, one is where if a player rested while wearing a santa costume top, their legs would become half invisible. The other is if you rested anywhere, then rapidly clicked on any quest journal, and once the quest journal started flashing clicked on any emote, you would lose connection.

You are not able to rest while you are poisoned, diseased, while being attacked or while in form of a monkey, or a penguin. Additionally, the resting ability does not give you immunity to the attacks of other players or NPCs.

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

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.

Resting Parties
The day after the rest option was released, "resting parties" popped up all around Runescape. They were most common around Varrock and the Grand Exchange, where players would advertise for others to join them in a resting party. Large groups of players would sit in the same area and talk, often while simultaneously making Youtube videos. After resting was a few days old and the novelty had worn off, these resting parties became much more scarce, and about a month after rest's release, they have all but disappeared.

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

Members Only Musicians

 * In the north west corner of Sophanem (west of the sword shop).
 * North of the bank in Shantay Pass.
 * In Mort'ton Swamp, west and over the river from the Mage Training Arena.
 * East of Fenkenstrain's castle, near the well.
 * At the North-West corner of the main section Karamja, next to the general store.
 * Just South-west of Shilo village.
 * Just above the Catherby fishing spots.
 * On the path west from Sinclair mansion south of the river.
 * East of the Fremennik province, north of the Golden Apple Tree.
 * Just south of the fishing guild.
 * In the Port Khazard area, between the Tower of Life and the Fight Arena.
 * Just West of Yanille.
 * Just East of Eagle Peak.
 * Very near Isafdar.
 * Near the entrance to the palace of Miscellania.

Free-to-Play Musicians

 * North of Al Kharid near the gem trader.
 * East of the Red Dragon Isle, in the Wilderness.
 * Just off the South East corner of the Forgotten Cemetery in the Wilderness.
 * In the Stealing Creation lobby.
 * 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.

Rest feature glitch
The rest update, while extremely popular, had many unexpected side effects and caused crippling glitches to the game for the first day after its release, causing angry reactions by players who found that the glitches interfered with their gameplay. The following is a list of some of these glitches:


 * 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. This, to many players' disappointment, was fixed in less than half an hour after the update was released. Still, players who took advantage of this bug to gain valuable items get to keep them and cannot be punished by Jagex as they did not have to do anything against the rules to profit from it, aside from bug exploitation, which is against the rules.


 * During this time the Warriors' Guild Cyclops area had double the amount 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 result in 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 will make the player stand up and have the animation perform, thus receiving the message: "Emotes aren't very restful"




 * If you are wearing a white apron and you listen to a musician and look at your back, you can see the apron through your body.
 * Ever since the release of runetek 5, females were able to use all rest positions.

Trivia

 * While in rest, players may check their equipment in the rest position, but Jagex quickly said that it was not a glitch and it simply was for players to check their stats and get run up.
 * Upon the release of resting, several glitches occurred, causing mass panic and forum stress. One example was in the skill Firemaking. The Player did not move west of the fire after lighting one, but simply stood on their fire, causing a huge delay in levelling the skill. On June 10th, after 6 updates in the same day, most resting glitches were fixed.
 * Resting has three positions. Originally, both male and female characters had the crossed-leg seated positions. Jagex later changed the seated position of the female characters so that their legs were straight in front of them, rather than crossed underneath.
 * There is a glitch where a player wearing a trimmed Cape of Accomplishment will sit and upon speaking their words will be higher than other players. As well as if a player were to unequip all items.
 * You can't rest as a penguin or any kind of non-human form, except when wielding gorilla greegree.
 * After the rest update, the prices of energy potions, super energy potions, as well as other items that restore run energy crashed in price. This is because players can use rest to recover energy instead of wasting money on those items. However, these items still have one advantage. They can be used to recover run energy while the player is in combat, such as running away from revenants or Pkers.
 * If you rest with a cape on, it looks like the cape is holding your entire body in mid-air. The bottom of the cape may also appear to be slightly translucent, allowing you to see the ground through your cape.
 * One can operate the Demonic sigil in rest and not stand until they finish with the ritual.
 * It used to be possible to rest while banking by resting in front of a bank window, and then right-clicking and selecting bank or quick-bank. The person wouldn't stop resting until they close their bank account. This was removed when the Runetek5 Engine was introduced.
 * It was also possible to rest and then use the cabbage port of the explorer's ring 3 to gain run energy at rest speed during the teleport. This has been removed with banking while resting when the Runetek5 Engine was introduced.
 * If you try to do an emote while resting a message will come up saying "Emotes are not very restfull.".
 * A player can perform the enhanced Excalibur special while resting - they will temporarily stand to perform the emote, then go back to resting afterward.
 * If you sit within one or two squares of Ali the Snake Charmer in southern Pollnivneach, you will restore run energy as if you are listening to a Musician. The run icon near the minimap will also display the image of listening to a Musician.
 * There was a hidden update to rest on October 7 2009 that allowed players to change worn items while sitting down.(before players would stand upon doing so)(this will not work when equipping a skillcape) This have been changed back now. You can unequip items but when equipping them again you will stand up.
 * If you're resting and click the run option, nothing happens, and the rest option turns grey.
 * It takes 35 seconds for energy to recharge from 0 to 100 while resting.