Player-owned port

Player-owned ports is a high-leveled members minigame that will be released in December 2012, as announced in the December 2012 Behind the Scenes (BTS) post. Borrowing elements from Miscellania and player-owned houses, the minigames will involve players building their own ports in order to manage a fleet of ships, staffed by recruited crewmembers. These ships will explore the Eastern Lands on the player's behalf and return with exotic items and supplies that are otherwise unavailable.

Access to player-owned ports will require level 90+ in at least one of the following skills: Fishing; Slayer; Runecrafting; Herblore; Prayer; or Thieving. The more of these requirements a player meets, the more content will be available.

Among the range of rewards available from player-owned ports will be level 85 melee, Ranged, and Magic armour; these items will be created by players with 90+ Smithing, Crafting, and Runecrafting, respectively. A post on the RuneScape forums by Mod Edam indicates that players will be able to create two versions of this armour: Tradeable versions with slightly lower stats that crumble to dust when fully degraded, and untradeable versions with slightly higher stats that can be repaired either with coins or port resources. Other available rewards will be a new, epic, 90+ Cooking food, and "new scrimshaw items that can be carried in a brand new 'pocket' slot, offering a range of skilling and combat benefits (90+ Fletching to make)". According to the BTS post, other rewards have not yet been disclosed.

Mod Mark confirmed that high level Smithing will be expanded with player-owned ports.