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 untradable. 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 for some time.

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.

Tradable Holiday Items
The items listed below are all tradable holiday items.

When a player dies, they keep their three most valuable items. However, the items kept are based on the prices they can be sold for at general stores. For example, a player will lose a blue party hat to a rune platebody if they die as general stores buy blue party hats for 1 Coin while rune platebodies can be sold for around 20,000 coins to a general store.

When these items were dropped, players were able to grab as many as they could. For example, a player may have found a pile of pumpkins near Falador and taken them all. This is how players got more than one tradable holiday item.


 * Pumpkin
 * Christmas cracker
 * Party hat
 * Easter egg
 * Halloween mask
 * Santa hat

Untradable Holiday Items
The items listed below are all untradable holiday items. These may all be stored in a costume room.


 * Bunny ears
 * Scythe
 * Yo-yo
 * Rubber chicken
 * Zombie head
 * Hats and scarves
 * Marionette
 * Easter ring
 * Skeleton Costume
 * Snowball
 * Jack Lantern Mask
 * Reindeer hat
 * Wintumber tree

Other discontinued Items
These items can no longer be obtained in the game other than purchasing them from other players.


 * Disk of returning
 * Half full wine jug

It has been confirmed by Jagex that there is no such thing as a half jug of bad wine.

Amulet of Accuracy
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, you can obtain this item as many times as you want, upon completion of the Imp Catcher quest.