Crucible

The Crucible is a minigame arena northeast of Edgeville where members with a combat level of 60 or greater can participate in solo player-versus-player combat. It is the replacement for the Bounty Hunter mechanic that was removed with the return of free trade and the original wilderness. The Crucible is not world-based; it uses an instance shard world to transport players from all of the servers to the instanced arena.

Entering
The Crucible is located in a dungeon area just northeast of Edgeville, to the west of the bridge and shortcut to the Grand Exchange.

Taking full advantage of the Crucible requires membership and a combat level of 60 or higher. Free-to-play players and those under 60 combat can still enter the area, but can only watch the tutorials and walk around the waiting room.

A risk fee is charged for fighting within the Crucible. There are two components to the fee. One part which is based on your combat level and the value of your equipment (the more expensive your equipment, the lower the amount). This is paid to the victor should you lose a fight, so they get something in return even if you are not risking anything. If you risk enough with your equipment, this part of the fee will be zero. The other component is a flat fee, which is paid to your opponent if you leave the fight. You can retrieve the fee by talking to one of the bankers.

Tutorial
Before playing the game, talk to Marv, who runs the arena. He gives access to four tutorials on The Crucible, which explain the gameplay mechanics and rewards. Going through the tutorials will give one set of trophy bones for each of them, up to four total.

Combat
Inside the arena, you will be matched up with another player with similar combat skills, and will be assigned as each others' targets. If you successfully locate and kill your opponent, you can loot all of their equipment.

Fissures
Fissures are sparsely scattered throughout the main playing field in the crucible, along with two in each safe spot. There is one to leave, and one to enter the fray. They can be left-clicked to traverse to another fissure within the crucible at random. If right-clicked you get the option to travel to a chosen fissure within the Crucible, or to a safe spot fissure, along with the option to travel to a random safe-spot. Using a fissure will make you temporarily immune to your opponent's attacks. Some of the rewards from the Crucible give an energy boost when using fissures.

Fissures cannot be overused when in combat with your target, to stop people from being able to repeatedly use them to evade targets.

Rogue's souls
Corpses are scattered across the Crucible's arena, and these corpses sometimes contain a Rogue's soul. You must attack the soul and bring it down to low health and then direct it to its corpse. Upon looting a rogue's soul, you may obtain a pair of unique rogue's gloves that may only be used within the Crucible.

Ranks
You will gain rank points by attacking the "Supreme Champion." Each time you hit him or her, you will receive one rank point. In the beginning, every few rank points brings your rank up. There are currently no players on the High Scores for The Crucible activity. The reason to this is unknown.

Supreme Champion
Every half-hour, your target is removed, the Crucible arena becomes a safe area (no items are lost), and one of the players with the highest rank becomes the Supreme Champion.

After they are announced, the Supreme Champion is given access to a set of mighty weapons; Decimation for ranged, Annihilation for melee, and Obliteration for Magic. These weapons not only have great bonuses, but they also have devastating special attacks, and special functions that make it easier to slaughter the masses. For the first two minutes, the Supreme Champion is invincible and can kill with impunity. Once the champion's invincibility is gone, they can be killed for their special weapons. Players who pick the weapons up can also use them, but they run the risk of being attacked as well.

After a few minutes, the Crucible returns to normal. The special weapons are removed, the arena becomes dangerous again, and new targets are given.

Rewards
These are the rewards that you can buy at the Crucible by using your Trophy bones. Trophy bones are obtained from defeating enemies.

Music

 * Bounty
 * Hunted
 * I Can See You
 * Steady
 * Supreme Champions
 * Target
 * You Will Know Me

Trivia

 * An update released around an hour after the initial release of the crucible made the minigame inaccessible to anyone not already in the banking/fight areas, and gave a message explaining "Now doesn't seem like the right time to enter the crucible, try again later".
 * This same update also cut the Crucible fee to a tenth of the original price.