Quests

Quests are groups of interrelated tasks that can be completed for rewards such as items, skills, experience, or quest points. They are labelled with a blue star or compass rose icon on your Minimap. Quests can be played only once, not like minigames which can be repeated.

The Quest Journal on the interface has the complete list of quests and are coloured coded:
 * Red - not started
 * Yellow - started
 * Green - completed

As of 13 February 2008, there are a total of 134 quests with 18 free and 116 members-only quests (not including the sub-quests of Recipe for Disaster and the wish-list of the Odd Old Man from the Rag and Bone Man quest), offering a total of 254 quest points (this includes one additional quest point which is gained by completing the wish-list of the Odd Old Man from the Rag and Bone Man quest). Free players can only get up to 39 quest points.

Players who have the maximum number of quest points are able to wear the Quest Points Cape of Achievement. However, whenever a new quest is available, the cape and hood will automatically unequip off a player until the player completes the new quest.

The 100th quest Recipe for Disaster is actually 10 quests in 1 with 8 subquests ranging from easy to very hard.

The 50th quest Legends Quest was released on August 20, 2003 under RuneScape Classic.

The 100th members' quest Cold War was released on January 29, 2007.

The last free quest Rune Mysteries was released on December 1, 2003, the launch date of the RuneScape 2 beta.

Quest release dates are listed in the List of recent quests.

On-going reward(s) quests

 * Tears of Guthix (You can receive xp in your lowest skill every week)
 * Hand in the Sand (You can receive buckets of sand every day)
 * Throne of Miscellania (Can gather resources from your workers everyday)
 * Royal Trouble (More workers and improved efficiency of workers from Throne)
 * Back to my Roots (1500 Farming, 15 hours after planting and 2500 slayer 3 hours after checking health)

Skill levels
The quests requiring the highest skill level are:
 * Agility - Grim Tales
 * Attack - Holy Grail
 * Construction - Catapult Construction
 * Cooking - Recipe for Disaster (Freeing King Awowogei)
 * Crafting - Lunar Diplomacy
 * Defence - King's Ransom
 * Farming - Back to my Roots
 * Firemaking - As a First Resort...
 * Fishing - Swan Song
 * Fletching - Devious Minds
 * Herblore - A Fairy Tale Part II
 * Hitpoint - (None)
 * Hunter - As a First Resort...
 * Magic - Swan Song
 * Mining - Lunar Diplomacy
 * Prayer - Great Brain Robbery
 * Ranged - Mourning's Ends Part I
 * Runecrafting - Devious Minds
 * Slayer - Back to my Roots
 * Smithing - Devious Minds
 * Strength - The Path of Glouphrie
 * Summoning - (none)
 * Thieving - Dealing with Scabaras
 * Woodcutting - Back to my Roots
 * Combat - Dream Mentor
 * Quest Points - Recipe for Disaster - Final Battle

Quest classifications
means the quest is classified as 'novice'.

means the quest is classified as 'intermediate'.

means the quest is classified as 'experienced'.

means the quest is classified as 'master'.

The quests are also rated on a difficulty scale of 5.

Quest series
Many of the quests in RuneScape follow storylines, that coincide with, or are continued in other quests. Some of these are:

These series will probably be extended in the future, and the storylines will be developed much further.
 * Gnome quests (The Grand Tree, Monkey Madness, The Eyes of Glouphrie, The Path of Glouphrie, and Tree Gnome Village.)
 * The Plague Series (Plague City, Biohazard, Underground Pass, Regicide, Roving Elves, Mourning's Ends Part I, Mourning's Ends Part II, Catapult Construction.)
 * Elemental Workshop Series (Elemental Workshop I, and Elemental Workshop II.)
 * Dorgeshunn Series (Lost Tribe, Death to the Dorgeshuun, Another Slice of H.A.M., and Land of the Goblins.)
 * Temple Knights Series (Black Knights' Fortress, Recruitment Drive, Wanted!, Sea Slug, and Slug Menace.)
 * Trolls Series (Death Plateau, Eadgar's Ruse, My Arm's Big Adventure, Troll Romance, and Troll Stronghold.)
 * Fairy Tales Series (A Fairy Tale Part I and A Fairy Tale Part II.)
 * Rise of the Red Axe Series (The Giant Dwarf and Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf)
 * Myreque Series (In Search of the Myreque, In Aid of the Myreque, and Darkness of Hallowvale.)
 * Sophanem and Menaphos Series (Icthlarin's Little Helper, Contact! and Dealing with Scabaras.)
 * Miscellania and Etceteria Series (Throne of Miscellania and Royal Trouble.)
 * Devious Minds also had a real big cliff hanger