Crucible

The Crucible is minigame arena northeast of Edgeville where members with a combat level of 60 or greater can participate in solo PvP combat. It is the replacement for the Bounty Hunter mechanic that was removed with the return of free trade. Inside the arena, you will be matched up with another player with similar combat skills, and will be assigned as each others' targets. If you locate and kill your opponent, you can loot all of their equipment. Many players are currently unhappy with the Crucible due to the flawed match selection and high entrance fee.

The Crucible is not world-based; it uses an instance shard world to transport players from all of the servers to the instanced arena.

Entering
The Crucible is located in a dungeon area just northeast of Edgeville, to the west of the bridge and shortcut to the Grand Exchange.

Taking full advantage of the Crucible requires membership and 60 combat or higher. Free-to-play players and those under 60 combat can still enter the area, but can only watch the tutorials and walk around the waiting room.

Before playing the game, talk to Marv, who runs the arena. He gives access to five tutorials on The Crucible, which explain the gameplay mechanics and rewards. Going through the tutorials will give one set of trophy bones for each of them, up to four total. A "bounty fee" is charged for fighting within the Crucible, which is based on your combat level and the value of your equipment. Note that having a lower risk gives a higher bounty fee.

Fissures
Fissures are sparsely scattered throughout the main playing field in the crucible, along with two in each safe spot. (one to leave, and one to enter the fray.) They can be left-clicked to traverse to another fissure within the crucible at random. If right-clicked you get the option to travel to a chosen fissure within the crucible, or to a safe spot fissure, along with the option to travel to a random safe-spot.

Fissures cannot be over-used when in combat with your target, to stop people from being able to repeatedly use them to evade targets.

Rogue's souls
When you find a corpse, click on it to loot it. It will point to another corpse until you find a corpse with a Rogue's soul. You will weaken it then direct it to the corpse to loot it.

Rewards
These are the rewards that you can buy at the Crucible by using your Trophy bones. Trophy bones are obtained from defeating enemies.

Music

 * Bounty
 * Hunted
 * I Can See You
 * Steady
 * Supreme Champions
 * Target
 * You Will Know Me

Trivia

 * On the day of release, the whole RuneScape login server crashed, causing 120,000 people (mostly bots) playing to be unable to log in for approximately an hour.
 * An update released around an hour after the initial release of the crucible made the minigame inaccessible to anyone not already in the banking/fight areas, and gave a message explaining "Now doesn't seem like the right time to enter the crucible, try again later". This is likely due to Jagex updating the game.