Achievements

Achievements (also known as Tasks and previously known as Achievement Diaries) are challenges that players may complete in order to earn rewards. The Achievements system consists of Achievements grouped under skills, areas, PvM, and completionist categories. As of 4 Sep 2017 there were 1,654 achievements.

The Achievements system
To access the Achievements system, players should click on the Hero icon in their interface. In Legacy-mode you'll need to click the Settings-icon to access this. Doing so will bring up the Hero interface. By opening the Achievements tab, a player can view an overview of the Achievements (including the Path System), list of all Achievements and a tracker for Achievements.

Skills Achievements
The skills Achievements lists milestones in each of the skills. The last Achievement in all skills is reaching level 99, except for Dungeoneering, Slayer, and Invention that continue until level 120. Additionally, the Divination tutorial achievements can be found in this category.

Exploration Achievements
Exploration Achievements are tied to a specific area or mechanic and are meant to test the player's knowledge about that area. There are currently fifteen categories that have Tasks to complete.

The areas view shows set task Achievements for each of the locations and difficulties. When the player hovers their pointer over a set tasks Achievement, the reward for completing the set will be shown.

The Achievements for some areas are split into five categories, based on their difficulty: beginner, easy, medium, hard, and elite. The easiest Achievements usually do not require any skill levels to complete, but most higher Achievements tasks require the player to have high skill levels and difficult quests completed, as well as in-depth knowledge of a particular area within RuneScape, such as the TzHaar Fight Caves. With the exception of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks, the Achievements are for members only, as many Achievements involve members' skills or quests. A small number of the Varrock and Falador Tasks can be done as a non-member, but the task set will not be 'completed' unless the player is a member. With the release of the Wilderness Tasks, there are 690 area Achievements in total. Once a player has completed all area Achievements, he/she may be required to lobby for the Achievements to be registered as completed. The Clans, Lodestones, and Menaphos categories are not split by difficulty.

Almost all of this category of Achievements has a "meta" achievement that offers rewards for completing all of the achievements of a difficulty tier in a category. These rewards include an antique lamp, a unique wearable item for that area that has special abilities, and unlock extra benefits from resources in that area. Completion of each subsequent grade of Achievements upgrades the wearable item, unlocks better benefits, and provides more lamps. Some other miscellaneous tasks generally give small cash rewards that can be collected from Explorer Jack. Following the update on 6 December 2011, cash rewards were added directly into the money pouch, though other rewards still needed to be claimed from Explorer Jack.

When an area Achievement is completed, players will be informed in the chat interface, and that particular Achievements will be struck out in the journal. A popup at the top of the screen will also inform the player that the Achievements is completed. These popups may be disabled from the Achievements list.

If 350 area Achievements are completed, the player will unlock the music track The Task at Hand. If all Exploration Achievements are completed, including those that are not part of an area set, the player will unlock the Taskmaster emote.

There currently is no Achievements Tutor, although many NPCs, such as Sir Vant in the former tutorial, have mentioned one.

List of area Achievements
There are fifteen Achievements areas at the moment:

Combat Achievements
The Combat Achievements are grouped into six subcategories, with one meta achievement.

Boss Kills
The boss kill achievements are a series of 6 achievements for each boss, awarding a 5 runescore achievement incrementing up at 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100.

Raids
The raids Achievements consist of the following:

Feats
Feats are a hidden category of achievements under the Miscellaneous category awarded for completing a Boss collection log for a given boss. A title is awarded for each completed log.

Completionist Achievements
The completionist Achievements lists the achievements for the completionist cape, Completionist cape (t), and the Master quest cape.

History
The first achievement set (Karamja) was released on 8 May 2007. It was originally named an Achievement Diary and had three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The interface resembled that of the quest list and was actually a sub-menu of the Quest Tab. As with quests, each diary turned green once completed. Achievement diaries were later split into a separate interface tab, merged into the Noticeboard tab, and eventually put in the Hero interface in RuneScape 3.

A total of six more Achievement Diaries were later released. The Ardougne Tasks, released on 20 October 2009, was the first set to have a fourth difficulty level, Elite. Elite Tasks were added to most other areas on 7 September 2010.

On 24 November 2010, the system of Achievement Diaries was changed into the Task system. The interface was redesigned, extra rewards were added, and more tasks (not considered to be part of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks set) were released for the Lumbridge area, meant as an introduction to the Tasks system for new players. Since then, more tasks have been periodically added to this generic set. Many of these "Miscellaneous" tasks are very simple to complete (e.g. Use the "Run" feature) and as such have a Beginner difficulty level.

On 19 September 2012 the Task System was renamed Achievements.

On 18 April 2017 the interface was reworked to include the skills, PvM, and completionist Achievements too instead of just area Achievements.

On 4 September 2017 the interface was further reworked, adding a new system called RuneScore to track your achievement progress, adding new categories and achievements, and fixing numerous complaints with the previous overhaul.

Trivia

 * Seven areas that do not have a current task list are still displayed as locations in the tasks tab when visiting the areas. These areas are the Gnome Lands, Feldip Hills, Keldagrim, Dorgesh-Kaan, Piscatoris, Islands (Entrana, Ape Atoll, Crash Island, Void Knights' Outpost, Braindeath Island, Mos Le'Harmless, Harmony Island, Rock Island Prison and Iceberg), and the Outer Planes (Zanaris).
 * If you have completed all the tasks for a higher group (Hard tasks, for example) without completing the ones that precede it, then you are not able to claim your reward until you've done so.
 * As of 4 Sep 2017 there were 1,654 achievements. In May 2017 it was 1203, Jan. 2016 - 657, Sept. 2014 - 603, May 2012 - 533, Feb. 2012 - 426, and Nov. 2010 - 417.

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