Shooting Star

Shooting Star is part of Distractions and Diversions, which was introduced during the 2 September 2008 gaming update. It is Pay-to-play only.

Introduction
Shooting stars fall from the sky every two hours or so. They generally fall across all members worlds within fifteen minutes of each other. If players reach the core of the star within two hours, a Star sprite appears and gives rewards.

Requirements

 * A pickaxe or an inferno adze.
 * No mining level is required to get the first-miner bonus.
 * Level 10 Mining is the minimum level to mine stardust from the smallest (size 1) stars.
 * The minimum mining level required is 10 x the current star size; e.g., a size 6 star requires level 60 mining. As the star grows smaller, lower level players can mine. The largest stars are size 9, so the highest required level to mine a star is 90.

Locating

 * Use a telescope in a study room in a player-owned house to find the approximate area and time of the next landing. Better telescopes provide a more accurate time:
 * Wooden telescope - 24-minute window
 * Teak telescope - 9-minute window
 * Mahogany telescope - 2-minute window
 * Note: If the telescope is blocked by another room in the house, it will not work.


 * Shooting stars land roughly once every two hours.
 * Stars may land in a different location in each world.

Star crash sites

 * There are 9 possible regions that a star can land, and it will be near a mining location or a bank:


 *  Asgarnia

- East of Falador's eastern bank / the Mining Guild.

- In the big mine near Rimmington.

- North of the dark wizard tower, near the mine west from Falador.

- Inside the Crafting Guild at the gold rocks.


 * Crandor or Karamja

- Near the gem rocks in Shilo Village.

- At the gold rocks south of the entrance to Brimhaven Dungeon.

- North west of Brimhaven, near the northern gold mines north of the summoning obelisk. Often called the "Horseshoe mine" due to its' shape.

- The southwestern mining area on Crandor.

- The mine west of the Nature Rune Altar.


 *  Fremennik lands or Lunar Isle

- At the mine south of cave entrance to Keldagrim.

- The mining site in the fenced of area of Rellekka.

- Near the coal mine on Miscellania.

- At the ladderwell to the Rune essence mines on Lunar Island.

- Jatizso, right next to the mine entrance.

- Neitiznot, just south of the rope bridge that leads to Runite rocks.


 *  Kandarin

- At the iron ores north of the Monastery south of Ardougne.

- At the coal mine southwest of the Legends' Guild.

- The mining spot north of Yanille's bank.

- At the coal trucks mine.

- In Yanille, between bank and Magic Guild.

- Directly outside Al Kharid bank.
 *  Kharidian Desert

- At the Duel Arena south of the hospital area.

- The mine north of Al Kharid and west of the Duel arena.

- At the mine just west of the Vultures.

- Just southeast of the bank in Nardah.

- At the Quarry.

- At Uzer, the clay mining area, north of Desert hunting area and Ruins of Uzer.


 *  Misthalin

- In Lumbridge swamp, just north of the eastern mining area.

- South of the mine south of the east side of Varrock, outside the fence.

- Southern end of the mine south of the west side of Varrock.

- South of Varrock's eastern bank, between the bank and the magic shop.


 *  Morytania or Mos Le'Harmless

- On Mos Le'Harmless, northeast of the docks.

- North of Burgh De Rott bank.

- Right outside the Canifis bank.


 *  Piscatoris, Gnome Stronghold or Tirannwn

- Inside the city of Lletya, a bit south of the entrance.

- In the Gnome Stronghold, near the stairs to the bank in the middle of the stronghold.

- At the mining site just south of Piscatoris Fishing Colony.


 *  Wilderness

- Level 56 wild, north of the Mage arena entrance

- Level 53 wild, south of the Pirates mine west of the Mage arena.

- Approximately level 47 wild, at the rune rocks east of the caged demons.

- Level 43 wild, at the hobgoblins mine.

- At the wilderness volcano, by the banking NPC.

- Level 10 wild, the skeleton mine.

- Level 7 wild, north of the Zamorak wizard that teleports one to the abyss.

Exactly which spot it will fall to is random and can only be determined after it lands.

Mining

 * The first person to attempt to mine the star (even if they only have mining level 1) will be rewarded with an instant chunk of Mining experience. Their name will also be added to the Shooting Star Noticeboard in the house north of the Observatory.
 * Shooting stars come in sizes from 1 to 9. Players can find out how large the star is by examining it, and they can prospect it to check on the progress to the next level. (See below for a list of Mining level requirement for each star size.)
 * Each layer of the star is mined from 0% to 100%, at which point the outermost layer sloughs off and the star's size is reduced by one. The amount left to mine can be determined by prospecting while mining. More people mining the star will get through these layers faster, while with just two or three people it can take up to ten minutes per level. If the sprite is not released by the end of the two hours between stars, the rock vanishes without the bonus.
 * layers can only carry a maximum of 200 stardustSize9star.png at a time. Stardust can be banked, but the 200 maximum counts stardust in your bank as well. You can continue to mine to gain xp even if your stardust is maxed out.
 * layers can only carry a maximum of 200 stardustSize9star.png at a time. Stardust can be banked, but the 200 maximum counts stardust in your bank as well. You can continue to mine to gain xp even if your stardust is maxed out.

Star sizes
The following table lists the star sizes, with the Mining level required to mine it. The Mining experience is gained per stardust.

The number of stardusts per star size is indicated in the table below. The time it takes to lower a star size depends upon the number of miners mining it; the more miners, the faster the star gets to the star sprite level. For the same number of miners, a higher star size level goes down to the next level faster than a lower star size level because there are fewer stardusts at higher star size levels than at lower star size levels.


 * {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

!Star size !Mining level !XP/stardust !XP/stardust with Sacred clay pickaxe !Number of stardusts/star size !Total XP per size !Cumulative XP
 * 9
 * 90
 * 210
 * 420
 * 15
 * 3150
 * 80710
 * 8
 * 80
 * 145
 * 290
 * 25
 * 3625
 * 77560
 * 7
 * 70
 * 114
 * 228
 * 40
 * 4560
 * 73935
 * 6
 * 60
 * 71
 * 142
 * 80
 * 5680
 * 69375
 * 5
 * 50
 * 47
 * 94
 * 175
 * 8225
 * 63695
 * 4
 * 40
 * 32
 * 64
 * 250
 * 8000
 * 55470
 * 3
 * 30
 * 29
 * 58
 * 430
 * 12470
 * 47470
 * 2
 * 20
 * 25
 * 50
 * 700
 * 17500
 * 35000
 * 1
 * 10
 * 14
 * 28
 * 1250
 * 17500
 * 17500
 * }
 * 1
 * 10
 * 14
 * 28
 * 1250
 * 17500
 * 17500
 * }
 * }

Rewards

 * For the first person who attempts to mine the star, 75 experience per Mining level and being named the discoverer of the star.
 * If they reach the star core within two hours, players are rewarded according to how much dust they had with them, up to:
 * 152 Cosmic runes
 * 52 Astral runes
 * 20 noted Gold ores
 * 50,002 Coins
 * Which adds up to about .
 * The ability to randomly receive additional ore when mining for up to 15 minutes. See notes below.
 * You manage to mine an additional ore
 * The Varrock armour allows you to mine an additional ore.
 * You feel the effects of the Mining boost wear off.
 * There is a chance that you mine gems (sapphire-diamond) from various layers of the star. Wearing a charged amulet of glory increases this chance.
 * If the star vanishes before the core is reached, the stardust may be kept and used for a later star.

Scoreboard
In the Observatory professor's house is a noticeboard which lists the last five stars to be discovered, how long ago they were, and who discovered them.

Trivia

 * In the second before it lands, a player can examine the shadow, reading: The shadow of a shooting star.


 * If a shooting star happens to land on top of the player, nothing will happen, the player will just be in the star, the player will still be able to mine it. This has been fixed by Jagex so you now walk out of the star, then begin mining.