Discontinued rare items

Discontinued items and holiday drops are items that cannot be obtained through the game and, therefore, their numbers are not increasing. However, some of these items may still be obtained through trading with other players. Because the number of these items does not increase, players often refer to these items as rares.

Rare items are items that are discontinued. These items are now very few in number and are very expensive. They were taken out of the game for unsaid reasons made by Jagex.

Holiday drops are items that were dropped on certain holidays, such as Christmas or Easter. These items are also few in number and are very expensive. Holiday drops that are wieldable are often worn by players to either show their wealth, for fashion or to show how long they've played.

Before December 22, 2003
When RuneScape Classic was still known as RuneScape, Jagex decided that they would drop items randomly across RuneScape on certain holidays.

On Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, Jagex would drop a certain item. For example, in December 2001 during Christmas, Jagex dropped 'Christmas Crackers'. These christmas crackers could only be obtained during a certain day during December. When a player walked around RuneScape, they may have seen a christmas cracker pop up out of nowhere on the ground nearby. This was how the items were dropped.

Originally dropped for fun, Jagex kept this going on for a few more years. Every Christmas, Halloween, and Easter, an item would be dropped. Unfortunately, players began to notice that these items could not be obtained any more unless they were bought from other players. Seeing this, players began to buy the holiday items low, and then sell them at an incredibly high price. This started the rise in the prices for holiday items. Players were also angry that they missed the drops. Players would complain to Jagex demanding that they redo the drop. Jagex decided to make the next few drops nontradable. However, this only enraged players even more.

Jagex, realizing what was happening, decided to stop holiday drops, as players were becoming too greedy. On December 22, 2003, Jagex put an announcement on RuneScape's main page, saying that they were ceasing holiday drops. From then on, items were not dropped on holidays.

After December 22, 2003
A year passed and no holiday drop was made. However, on December 21, 2004, Jagex changed that. Santa was placed in the game and gave a holiday item to players who talked to him. After this, holiday items were no longer tradable. Instead of the items being dropped, Jagex introduced tasks players had to complete to obtain the holiday item.

Dying with an Item
Even though some items, such as the Blue Partyhat, can fetch up to 500 million gp on the street, they are near to worthless in store price. Discontinued items are rarely worth over 2 coins in a general store. This means that a player who dies while holding 3 near-worthless items (say, pieces of iron armour) and a partyhat will lose the partyhat despite its much higher value due to its lower store price (unless they use item protect). This often also happen with the (tradable and not-discondinued) Abyssal Whip and other common but high-priced items.

Easter Items
Items that required a mini-quest are in italics. Items that are nontradable are in bold.


 * 2001 - nothing
 * 2002 - Easter egg
 * 2003 - Bunny Ears
 * 2004 - nothing
 * 2005 - Rubber Chicken
 * 2006 - Easter Ring
 * 2007 - Chicken Set

Halloween Items
Items that required a mini-quest are in italics. Items that are nontradable are in bold.


 * 2001 - Pumpkin
 * 2002 - Halloween mask
 * 2003 - Scythe
 * 2004 - nothing
 * 2005 - Zombie head
 * 2006 - Spooky set and Jack lantern mask

Christmas Items
Items that required a mini-quest are in italics. Items that are nontradable are in bold.


 * 2001 - Christmas cracker and Party hats, which are obtained from Christmas Cracker
 * 2002 - Santa hat
 * 2003 - nothing
 * 2004 - Yo-yo
 * 2005 - Hats and scarves, and Marionette
 * 2006 - Reindeer hat, Wintumber tree (members only)

Discontinued Items
Previously in RuneScape there was an area known as the 'Black Hole', where rule breakers were held. Normal players could visit this area by purchasing this disk, and spinning it to return from the Black Hole.
 * Disk of Returning

Due to a change in the Cooking skill in the past, Wine was changed so it has 1 swig, not 2, only people with half jugs at the time of the change had these.
 * 1/2 Full Jug of Wine


 * Amulet of Accuracy (RSC)

On RuneScape Classic but not the main game, the Amulet of Accuracy can be considered a discontinued item. The Amulet of Accuracy is a tradable reward from the Imp Catcher quest, and it can only be obtained once. Since no new accounts can be created on RuneScape Classic, no further amulets can be introduced, thus essentially making it a discontinued item. In RuneScape 2, each new player can obtain this item upon completion of the Imp Catcher quest, providing a supply of this tradable item.

Extinct items
On the Holiday drop of Christmas 2006, players could pick up snowballs. However, they disappeared after leaving the Island of Karamja. But, after doing the mini quest for the Holiday drop, players could pick them up again. Afterwards, they melted some time between January 25 and February 17 2007. They were not tradable some say that if they were, and could have been kept.
 * Snowball


 * Ghost buster 500

In the 2006 Halloween mini game located in Draynor Village, players used a Ghost Buster 500 to defeat various ghosts that had taken up residence in Diango's workshop. Ammunition for the Ghost Buster was avilable in different colors that matched the types of ghosts. After, defeating a certain amount of ghosts you could report back to Diango for your reward. This mini game only lasted for two weeks. It didn't have any requirements to do. The rewards can be found in the Halloween items. This item and all ammunition is not existant since the event ended.

Replacing items
Ask the woman in the Varrock clothing store that is southwest of the main fountain for your bunny ears or scythe back and she will happily oblige.

Diango is found in Draynor Marketplace. He will return your holiday items if you lose them, including the scythe and bunny ears.