Dungeoneering

Dungeoneering is the most recent skill released in RuneScape on 12 April 2010. It features a castle with 35 underground floors, called Daemonheim. There, players explore and use other existing skills to clear each level, which involves finding keys and solving puzzles. Unlike other skills, players can venture the castle in groups of a maximum of 5 people and earn a small amount of experience by in other skills through various different ways. Similar to other skills upon release, you can NOT use experience lamps, penguin points, or Tears of Guthix to level up Dungeoneering until 2 weeks have passed since the skill's release.

Dungeoneering is open to both free-to-play and pay-to-play players. Dungeoneering is heavily dependent on other skills trained outside of the Dungeoneering skill/area. Items and skilling materials for your Runescape skills are all different, the game is group-oriented rather than individual, and carry-over of existing Runescape items is minimal. Another difference with Dungeoneering is that it's possible to go beyond level 99 and head up to level 120, with over 100 million experience. The level 120 is called "True Skill Mastery," as opposed to level 99 Skill Mastery.



Travel


Players can make their way to Daemonheim by one of three methods:
 * Take a ferry from the dock behind Al Kharid bank.
 * Venture through the deep Wilderness to the eastern part.
 * Teleport using the Ring of kinship given by the tutor.

If using the ferry, players should walk from where the ferry lands up to the central part of the castle.

At Daemonheim
There is a Dungeoneering tutor and a Fremennik Banker standing at the entrance to the castle. Players new to the skill or having lost the Ring of kinship should speak to the tutor to gain one. To gain access they will also need to bank ALL worn items and all items carried except Orb of oculus. All armour, weapons, runes, ammunition and other supplies will be provided inside the castle.

After the player has received the ring and banked all their items, they may proceed into the castle courtyard.

In the courtyard, there are three energy barriers that players can go through any one of them:
 * Left barrier
 * 'Free-for-all' barrier
 * Right barrier

The left and right barriers are provided for players who would like to venture alone. For the central 'Free-for-all' barrier, players are automatically paired up to form a party. If there are no other suitable adventurers waiting, the player will be allowed to enter the dungeon by themselves. They should guarantee that their companion list is empty before going in, or else, they are rejected.

Complexity and Level
Before starting the adventure, players need to adjust the complexity and the level they like, apart from the companion list.

Complexity is a 6-tier scale that determines the number of other skills involved. Note that lower tiers would include a penalty in the experience gained at the end, as shown in the screenshot to the right. The skills involved in each complexity level are shown below:

The level, from 1 to 35, to be adjusted determines the combat level of the monsters that players would encounter. Players can only select the level based on half of their Dungeoneering level (rounded down), provided that they have also cleared all levels previous to the one they select. If players are in a group, the level other members cleared would also be shown on separate columns.

Starting out
Note:
 * Nothing in the worn slots and inventory is allowed, except the Ring of Kinship and Orb of oculus.
 * Familiars are not allowed either. If your familiar was carrying anything when last summoned, it will have to be re-summoned and those items banked, otherwise you will not be allowed to enter.

After going into the entrance, players will be first transported to a room with armours, weapons and food according to the difficulty they have adjusted. The team is linked by a Ring of Kinship which brings up an extra interface pane in the bottom right hand window, allowing sharing of experience, monitoring of team status and allowing to see other players' inventory, the players stats and the players worn items.

When typing in public chat while in a dungeon, your messages will be seen by everyone in your party regardless of how close or far away they are.

On death, characters respawn in the smugglers starting room, and their death count will be increased by one.

Dropped items do not vanish as they do in normal RuneScape. This includes monster drops as well as inventory management drops, and drops on death (which are visible to others and can be picked up).

The main purpose of the game is to progress through the various levels of the dungeon with your teammates and eventually killing the boss monster at the end of each level. To do so, players have to progress through a series of rooms while using both free and member skills to equip yourself and your teammates with items that will help you to complete the level. So, teamwork and division of labour may help in achieving better results and efficiency.

To rooms of the dungeon are connected by doors. It is impossible to see into the next room until the door is opened. Throughout the dungeon, there are various items that allow the player to equip themselves with food, weapons, summoning familiars, tools, and other items needed to beat the boss monster at the end of the level.

However, all raw materials found in the game are different than those found in regular RuneScape. For example, all of the herb types found in the game are different than the dungeoneering herbs, all of the types of ore are different than the types of ore in dungeoneering, and all of the types of armour and weapons are different than types of armour and weapons in dungeoneering. This agrees with the idea that dungeoneering is an alternative form of RuneScape.

Easy tips:

First of all, everyone should learn some new meanings. For example F4 c6 means: (party former) inviting people to Floor 4 Complexity 6.

So if you are forming a party and want the party to go to the Floor 20 and Complexity 6, say: F20 c6.

But if you want to be invited to Floor 18 and Complexity 6, say: In f18 c6. So In means that you want to be invited.

So this should help you to form a party or to be invited to a party you want.

Ending One Raid and Starting A New One
A raid is finished when the boss is defeated.

A new raid is started by beating the boss, which leaves the room empty for you to click on the ladder to the level below. It may also leave you with a reward item in your inventory: you will be told if this is the case in your chatbox. These items are often more powerful than others you might find dropped in the dungeon, and, if you can use them, they may be worth binding.

You will advance to the next level if your Dungeoneering level is high enough, but if isn't, you'll stay on the same level.

Binding Items
Since no items can be brought into the next level, binding items before entering the next level keeps items in use.

When an item is bound, it appears in the player's starting inventory and a (b) comes after the item's name.

Players may only bind 1 item when their Dungeoneering level is 1, 2 items at level 50, 3 items at level 100 and finally a maximum of 4 items at level 120.

Attempting to bind more items then your level allows will do nothing, and you will be told you must destroy your currently bound item first.

Skills involved

 * Prayer — exorcising dark spirits from certain doors so that you may pass through them, as well as its normal use in combat.
 * Runecrafting — craft runes to be used in spells. Also used in puzzles to activate crystals, and to imbue rune energy into doors so that you can open them.
 * Agility — bypass spike traps in the dungeon.
 * Herblore — create potions from ingredients bought/found in the dungeons, also used to open doors.
 * Thieving — used to open some chests which contain items.
 * Crafting — make ranged and mage armour from raw materials. Also used to fix pulleys in broken doors so that you can open them.
 * Fletching — used to make bows, arrow shafts and staves.
 * Hunter — allow the player to set traps made with the fletching skill.
 * Mining — harvest ore from rocks, used in some events to mine stone from rubble.
 * Smithing — turn ore into melee armour, melee weapons and arrowtips, or create tools for harvesting raw material.
 * Fishing — collect raw food from fishing spots located around the dungeon. Also used for certain puzzles
 * Cooking — used to cook raw fish on a fire or range to prepare food that can be used to heal.
 * Firemaking — set fire to branches, allow you to cook food on them. Also used to burn log piles blocking doors so you can open them.
 * Woodcutting — cut wood from various trees and growths around the dungeon. Also used to chop away logs blocking doors so you can open them.
 * Farming — allows players to grow food and potion ingredients in farm patches
 * Summoning — infuse and summon familiar pouches, allowing them to fight for you through the dungeon.
 * Magic — allows players to dispel the locks on certain doors that cannot be unlocked with the coloured shapes found throughout the dungeons, as well as its normal use in combat.

Food Provided
Most food available in the dungeon is marine in nature. The other kinds include potatoes-based food, that is, combining ingredients, such as the following fish, with a potato.

Skill Items
Herblore

Herbs:
 * Sagewort
 * Valerian
 * Aloe
 * Wormwood leaf
 * Magebane
 * Featherfoil
 * Winter's grip
 * Lycopus
 * Buckthorn

Secondary:
 * Void dust
 * Misshapen claw
 * Red moss
 * Firebreath whiskey

Spellbook accessed
The spellbook contains three new spells (marked with a ^), member-only spells are in *. For combat spells, the damage with boosts is not included.

Journal
While Dungeoneering you can find parts of different journals, you can view these by right clicking the Ring of kinship, then selecting "Open journal".

Music

 * Adorno I
 * Adorno II
 * Adorno III
 * Adorno IV
 * Adorno V
 * Adorno VI
 * Adorno VII
 * Adorno VIII
 * Adorno IX
 * Adorno X
 * Astea Frostweb
 * Bal'lak the Pummeler
 * Bulwark Beast
 * Desolo I
 * Desolo II
 * Desolo III
 * Desolo IV
 * Desolo V
 * Desolo VI
 * Desolo VII
 * Desolo VIII
 * Desolo IX
 * Desolo X
 * Glacialis I
 * Glacialis II
 * Glacialis III
 * Glacialis IV
 * Glacialis V
 * Glacialis VI
 * Glacialis VII
 * Glacialis VIII
 * Glacialis IX
 * Glacialis X
 * Gluttonous Behemoth
 * Har'Lak the Riftsplitter
 * Icy Bones
 * Lexicus Runewright
 * Luminescent Icefiend
 * Night-gazer Khighorak
 * Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz
 * Rammernaut
 * Sagittare
 * Shadow Forger Ihlakizan
 * Stomp
 * To'Kash the Bloodchiller
 * Unholy Cursebearer

The skill

 * Dungeoneering is the first skill which is not actually unique in itself, it incorporates a lot of skills and puts in into an activity of sorts.
 * This is the first skill which you can raise over level 99.
 * This is the only skill whose skillcape can be trimmed only by raising the level to 120.
 * This is the first free-to-play skill since Runecrafting, which was added in 2004.
 * Thok is the only skill master that is not wearing a skillcape, this could possibly be because this skill has 2 capes.

Curiosities

 * When you click Rejoin Party, if you enter your own username it will say "You want to party with yourself?"
 * Dungeoneering can be helpful to power level Runecrafting, allowing you to have unlimited Rune Essence in your inventory. However the experience received for the actual crafting of runes is much less (only about 10% of normal), so this may not be a valid way to power level this skill. More research is needed.
 * As of now, the game filter does not appear to work in Daemonheim; so players still receive messages like "You cook the blue crab." It is unknown if this is a glitch or not; if so, it has yet to be fixed.
 * There are ghosts walking the grounds with currently no known purpose. It's possible that they may be Revenant Fremenniks, although this is just a guess.
 * The ghost to the far west is aggressive and will attack you if you are in its area.
 * Burnt salve eels disappear after a while if dropped.
 * Unlike other chickens, the chickens in Daemonheim cannot be attacked and when examined it says "Who are you calling chicken?".
 * When the skill was released, players found doors which needed over 99 in other skills creating speculation they were raising the other skills. This is unknown, but you can open these doors by making potions to increase your level over 99 for a short time.
 * 'View-Bob' allows other players to view the items in your beast of burden.
 * Dungeoneering has many similarities to and may have been inspired by board based Role Playing Games. Most notably the Heroquest and Warhammer Quest games which were produced by Games Workshop. These similarities include the use of "board sections", the ability to look through doors to plan your attack and the unique boss at the end of each dungeon level.
 * Free to play people can make runes that normally only members can make. For example; Nature runes, Law runes, Blood runes.
 * During the release of Dungeoneering on the Runescape Hiscores, many people have been moving ranks due to the release.
 * When Dungeoneering first came out, the P2P and F2P balance was extremely weighed, as it was a lot easier to train in F2P. This was fixed with a game update that limited F@P xp the next day. (see forum article)

Controversy
There is big ongoing argument surrounding this new skill, comparable only to the the protesting of the trade limit update. Players argue that this is not a skill, but rather a mini-game or "Activity", as is the new name for mini-games. Players are outraged by the update for several reasons, most common being-

-It plays like a mini-game, and uses a combination of other skills to "win".

-The whole concept doesn't seem to fit the game to them. People claim even the title sounds "like a six-year-old came up with it."

-It is also criticized that the Armour and items from Dungeoneering cannot be taken out of the playing area, this also being a part of the "mini-game" argument.

-Some players claim this isn't fixable, and demand it removed completely, but most wish it to be converted into a minigame with experience converted into rewards such as experience for skills demonstrated in Dungeoneering, like Soul Wars and Pest Control, or get the Armour from the game, like Stealing Creation.

Other players counter that they are just whining too much, or they they haven't even tried it, saying in general "you cant judge a book by it's cover"

On the day of release, between 100 and 150 players stood outside the Dungoeneering area, (where the Kinship Ring teleports players to) protesting the new skill. Protests included "Fail or Minigame!" and "Remove this failure". Nearly as many players could be seen arguing the protesters, saying "You're just jealous you didn't get a skill you wanted" and "You'll just get muted" Many players were indeed reporting protesters.

Unfixed

 * Upon the day of release, free players could not set the skill as an objective; it was considered members-only by the Objectives system.
 * Another glitch for the Objectives system is that if you click 'Random Objectives' and if you go through 'More objectives...' Dungeoneering won't appear there. Even if you go through over 100 pages of objectives, Dungeoneering still will not appear there. Along with that, if F2P players try to set Dungeoneering as their objective, they'll get the message only P2P players can do it.
 * There is a glitch in Daemonheim where, if a player does not progress through the dungeon fast enough, an unlocked door will re-lock itself possibly making it impossible to proceed through the dungeon.
 * There appears to be a glitch in which the entire game window goes black while in a dungeon, and nothing can be done to revert to the game. The cause is unknown, and the browser page must be reloaded in order to log in again. This can happen in more then this situation. Users have found minimizing and maximizing might help to solve your problem quicker.
 * When the skill was released, if you talked to the Fremennik captain outside the Al Kharid bank while playing as a female character, the warrior would call you "Sir". This hasn't been fixed yet.
 * On the day of the release there is a glitch if you log out in a some places you will be inside a staircase and you must walk out to get out, people have been reported and mods muted because they thought they no-clipped.
 * Until now, if a player logs out in dungeon while soloing the stage, he/she will appear above the staircase mentioed before, and unable to continue process, because they are unable to rejoin themselves into solo parties.
 * When eating a raw cave potato the player reports that they have eaten a baked cave potato even though it is not cooked.
 * Sometimes when you encounter a door that requires a skill to unlock (such as exorcising doors with prayer or burning logs that block a door) you will receive a message saying you need a level that is higher than 99 to do that. 102FIREmaking_needed.png

Fixed

 * On the day of release, there was a condition where you could raise Runecrafting perpetually. Runes cost 50, but Air runes sold for 12 each. If you had a level close to 44 or above, you would earn more than 50 coins, thus enabling you to make progressively more runes per batch. There was an update within a few hours which reduced the value of Air runes to 4 coins rather than 12 each.
 * On the day of release, there was a bug where players on Lunar Spells would find that after leaving Daemonheim their book was changed back to normal spells.
 * When the skill was first released, the Orb of oculus could not be taken into Daemonheim. The Game Guide states that the Orb can in fact be brought into the castle.
 * On the day of release, a bug which caused players who unlocked music tracks in the dungeon, and who reached 463 tracks were able to perform the Air Guitar emote when the requirement is 500.

Gallery
Dungeoneering