Clan




 * For a list of RuneScape Clans, see our sister site, the RuneScape Clans Wiki



A clan, sometimes known as a player guild, is a united group of players who choose to participate in player killing, training skills, playing Activities, and other activities with one another. Clans often have allies and enemies. Some clans are roughly constructed, participating only in a single task, such as pking or a single activity. Other clans are much more organised, sometimes using an outside website. While many clan websites are totally harmless, players should still exercise extreme caution.

To start a clan, travel to The Clan Camp south of Falador. You must have at least five people.

Pre-Clan Camp
Jagex did not support clans outside of the game, so in order to keep clans in-game and prevent players from going to third party sites, they added the clan chat feature on 6 August 2007. When in a clan chat any message you send will be visible to every player who is also in the chat. Before this, clan leaders wishing to convey a message to all their members would have to private message each one of them individually. Additionally, clan members will appear as purple dots on the mini-map, making it easier to locate members. The clan chat would later be renamed "Friends Chat" in anticipation of the Clan Camp

Clan Camp
On 12 April 2011 Jagex implemented a game update that added various features to the game to support clans.

These features include:
 * Officially Recognized Clans
 * Unique Clan Names
 * Customizable Clan Cloaks
 * Clan Vexillums (Similar to heraldic banners)
 * Clan Ranks/Titles
 * Official Ranked Clan Wars Support
 * An area south of Falador where players can form clans and retrieve clan specific items
 * A mutliple user Friends Chat to replace old Clan Chat
 * A multiple user Clan Chat that is specifically for Clan Use

Clan Options
Main article: Clan Settings

A Clan's Options can be found from the Clan Chat menu as an Administrator, Deputy Owner or Owner.

The options available include:


 * Set Minimum Talk RankClanSettings.png
 * Set Minimum Kick Rank
 * Set Minimum Join Rank
 * Set Clan to In-Game Time and/or an Optional Clan Time
 * Set Clan Time time zone
 * Set Clan Home World
 * Advertise Clan Recruitment
 * Add Official Clan RuneScape forum Thread ID
 * Change Motto (80 Characters Max)Motifeditor.png
 * Change Motif (Changes Clan Vexillum and Cloak images/colors)
 * Keywords

Clan Ranks
Recruit

Corporal

Sergeant

Lieutenant

Captain

General

Admin

Deputy owner

Owner

Rated clan wars leader

Wars
A war is when two large clans fight one another. Before the Wilderness and Bounty Hunter update, this happened in multi-combat sections of the Wilderness. After the updates, however, this type of activity was limited mostly to Clan Wars until the release of PvP worlds allowed them to once more take place in the Wilderness. While sometimes the war will resolve an issue held between the participants, they are most often either for fun or simply to vent frustrations.

PvP war
These wars are often held deep in the wilderness by greater demons. The most popular version of this war is called a PKRI (player killing run in) where when you die you are allowed to return to the fight again. These wars tend to last quite a while and members lose lots of money. Matched options wars and full out wars still do exist, but are very rare to come by in the modern days of warring. Also, many players like to do this by the agility training area in the wilderness.

Union war
Union wars (or Ally Wars) are often fought in huge (sometimes 1000s of players) in either Clan Wars or in a PvP World. They can be organised weeks in advanced between two or more unions which will have many clans in them. These wars can last hours because of the amount of people and are often very publicized within the RuneScape community. Winning a Union war could mean many things including 'ownership' of a particular RuneScape city (Player-Owned city, POC) or just to say that one union is better then another.

Skill war
These wars do not involve player killing at all, but are instead a race. Clans compete against one another to determine who can gain the most experience or resources in a set amount of time.

Metal wars
Metal wars are wars where all participants wear a single type of armour. This is typically Iron or Steel, since these metals are very cheap and can easily be replaced if lost. Sometimes these wars allow the use of better weapons than the agreed upon armour, although sometimes they also dictate that participants must use the same type of weapon as armour.

Clan Wars
The most popular method of war is to fight in the Clan Wars activity. This is popular because no other players are able to interfere, and it can be set to a safe mode, meaning when a player dies, they lose nothing. There is also an option of item loss upon death, although these wars are not very frequent and will typically be a type of Metal War.

Uniform
It is common to see clans all wearing the same clothing or armour. Some clans only wear a certain colour of cape or hat, but others have everyone wearing the same thing. However, this has recently fallen out of practice due to a minimap update in which members of a clan chat are now marked with a purple dot, thus making it easy to discern friend from foe when fighting even without uniforms.

This type of thing can be very popular with POC's as the uniform will be their identity to what job they had.

Clan Support
For the first years of RuneScape, Jagex did not offer official in-game support for any clan related activities. Players could group together on the forums or on fansites, but there was no official way to control clan affairs in the wilderness or any other area of the game. The first clan update was the introduction of team capes. This prevented players from accidentally attacking a clan mate and made it easier to identify them inside and outside the wilderness. In addition to this, the in-game minimap was updated to let members of a clan chat see their fellow members as purple dots on the minimap, easy to tell apart from the opposing clan's members, which still appeared as white dots.

Clan Chat
If a player wants to create a channel to speak to their clan, they can create a clan chat. This is useful to talk to the people who are in a clan, without letting anybody else know what clan members are saying. Clan chat is essential to LootShare and Clan Wars.