Server

A Server or World is a computer which hosts RuneScape. Servers are maintained by Jagex and are distributed across the real world. Each world allows 2000 players to be connected at once. There are currently 144 worlds (two are German-speaking), but more are routinely added.



Isolation of worlds
A player may be logged in to at most one server at any given time.

For the most part, events that occur in one world will not affect any other RuneScape world. For example, buying an item in a shop will only decrease the inventory for the shop in that world. Shop inventory, character and item respawns, and ore regeneration are all managed individually for each server. Additionally, players (along with chat messages) contained in one world will not be visible to players in another world.

World hopping
Because each world has its own shop inventory, players will often change worlds rapidly to buy from one store many different times. Also players often switch worlds to find more favorable conditions (e.g. more populated) for minigames, player killing or trading. This technique is known as world hopping.

Interaction between worlds
The only interaction that occurs between worlds is private chat. This can occur either through the friend list or Clan Chat.

Persistence of character state
When a user logs off of a world, all settings particular to that character are saved to the player's account profile in a global database. Therefore, when logging into a different world, the character's skills, inventory, etc. will be restored to the same state, regardless of which server the character last logged onto.

Australia

 * Sydney (Australia)

Worlds 122 and 123, previously located in Singapore, were removed after three months in use. The popularity of these servers was not high enough to warrant keeping the servers, as the cost of running these servers was nearly 30 times the average cost of running a RuneScape server.

England

 * London

Finland

 * Helsinki - German beta servers are located here

Netherlands

 * Amsterdam
 * Megen

Sweden

 * Stockholm

Canada

 * Toronto
 * Vancouver

United States

 * Atlanta
 * Chicago
 * Dallas
 * Detroit
 * Miami
 * New York City
 * San Diego
 * San Francisco
 * San Jose
 * Seattle

It is recommended that players connect to the server closest to them, as they will experience more reliable connections and less lag. However, this is not mandatory.

Themed worlds
On August 13th, 2007, a new column on the far right of the world select screen was added by Jagex. This column highlights worlds associated with certain activites and servers Jagex have designated as the worlds that should be used for certain activites (due to certain servers not being able to cope with high levels of activity). This makes it easier to find people who wish to do the same thing, like Trouble Brewing or Castle Wars. These worlds are recommended by Jagex as the best place to perform these activities, however they are only recommendations. Players still may use any world they want to perform these activities.

The current themes are:

Trade
Worlds where players gather in the large cities (such as, Falador, Varrock or Seers Village) to trade items.

Rune Running
Worlds where players can run runes for money or craft runes to raise their runecrafting skill.

Player Killing
Worlds where players kill others in the wilderness, the duel arena or even castle wars.

House Parties
Worlds where players host house parties.

Role-Playing
These are worlds where players act as if they are in a real fantasy setting, rather than playing a game.

Group Questing
This is a world where players gather and do quests together.

Party Room
On a party room world there will be many people in the Falador party room.

World Themes
The list of worlds may change at any time, this is the current world list as of 15th August 2007.


 * 1 - Free - Trade
 * 2 - Members - Trade
 * 3 - Free - Trade
 * 4 - Free - Trade
 * 5 - Free - Trade
 * 6 - Members - Barbarian Assault
 * 12 - Members - Duel Arena Non-Staking
 * 16 - Free - Air Running
 * 17 - Free - Player Killing
 * 18 - Members - Player Killing
 * 24 - Members - Castle Wars
 * 26 - Members - Trade
 * 27 - Members - Trade
 * 31 - Members - House Parties
 * 36 - Members - Nature Rune Running
 * 42 - Members - Role-playing
 * 45 - Members - Games Room
 * 53 - Members - Pest Control
 * 58 - Members - Blast Furnace
 * 66 - Members - Law Rune Running
 * 68 - Free - Player Killing
 * 69 - Members - Player Killing
 * 71 - Members - Barbarian Assault
 * 79 - Members - Fight Pits
 * 82 - Members - Castle Wars
 * 83 - Members - Duel Arena Staking
 * 99 - Members - Law Rune Running
 * 100 - Members - Group questing
 * 102 - Free - Party Room
 * 103 - Members - Party Room
 * 104 - Members - Trouble Brewing
 * 105 - Free - Trade
 * 115 Members - Pest Control
 * 116 - Members - Fishing Trawler
 * 131 - Members - Mort'ton
 * 138 - Members - Rat Pits
 * 144 - Members - Pest Control

Player Worlds
Certain worlds have become specialised by the player-base for particular tasks. These guidelines are useful for tasks that require a lot of people (e.g. minigames), as they define a meeting place for people hoping to work together with others.

This list was last updated on the 8th August 2007. Some worlds may now be defunct.

Trading

 * 1 - Varrock - Various items
 * 2 - Falador and Seers Village - Various items
 * 3 - Varrock - Various items
 * 4 - Varrock - Various items
 * 5 - Varrock - Various items
 * 6 - Falador and Seers Village - Various items
 * 18 - Edgeville - Player killing supplies

Player-killing

 * 4 - Varrock and Edgeville
 * 18 - Edgeville
 * 100 - Edgeville and Wilderness

Skills

 * 16 - Falador Air Altar - Air rune crafting/running
 * 22 - Shilo village - Fly fishing guild
 * 36 - Karamja Nature Altar - Double nature rune crafting/running
 * 46 - Ape Atoll Agility Course - Agility training
 * 66 - Entrana Law Altar - Law rune crafting/running (Crafters provide ess)
 * 69 - Al Kharid - Crafting guild
 * 88 - Piscatoris Fishing Colony - Monkfish fishing
 * 91 - Al Kharid - Tanning guild
 * 91 - Catherby Farming Spot - Farming guild
 * 99 - Entrana Law Altar - Law rune crafting/running (Runners provide ess)
 * 99 - Essence Mines - Pure ess running
 * 99 - Rogue's Den - Cooking training
 * 114 - Ape Atoll Agility Course - Agility guild
 * 132 - Yanille - Fletching and alching guild

Minigames

 * 2 - Mort'ton - Temple repair
 * 6 - Rimmington - House parties
 * 6 - Barbarian Assault
 * 9 - Barbarian Assault
 * 9 - Buthorpe - Games room
 * 9 - Castle Wars
 * 18 - Al Kharid - Duel arena
 * 22 - Al Kharid - Duel arena
 * 42 - Al Kharid - Sorceress's Garden


 * 71 - Castle Wars
 * 77 - Blast Furnace
 * 78 - Pest Control - Lower levels
 * 104 - Trouble Brewing
 * 116 - Fishing Trawler
 * 120 - Pyramid Plunder
 * 121 - Pyramid Plunder - When doors change too fast
 * 131 - Mort'ton - Temple repair
 * 144 - Pest Control - Higher levels

Language

 * 30 - Hungarian speaking players
 * 32 - Lithuanian speaking players
 * 115 - French speaking players (until the Themed Worlds)
 * 139 - German world
 * 140 - German world