Rest





The Rest feature allows players to regenerate their energy more quickly. At any time, players can right-click the run button next to the minimap and select "Rest" from the menu. While resting, players sit down in a relaxed a yoga/meditation stance, and energy and Hitpoints will regenerate twice as quickly.

You are not allowed to rest while you are poisoned.

This feature was released in the run energy upgrade of 9 June 2009.

Camp Fires
Within the first few minutes of the introduction of rest, players had started to make camp fires, at which several players crowd around a fire and have a chat; this is most notable around the Grand Exchange and Lumbridge. There is usually a designated fire lighter who lights the fires as they burn down.

History
The button originally appeared in the 25 March 2009 system update along with an option to Turn run mode on/off. When selected, the message "Coming Soon..." appeared in the text box.

Jagex stated on the RuneScape Forums that the rest option would not be linked to fatigue or sleeping bags.

On the 19 March 2009, Jagex created a RuneScape account on Facebook. One of the pictures added shows a player battling Chronozon, and a message in the chat box that reads, 'You feel much better after a quick rest,' undoubtedly a reference to the rest feature. This shows the Rest button will have some kind of restoring properties.

On 1 April 2009 the "Rest" option was removed. That same day in the RuneScape Forums, Mod Ash posted "The Rest option is coming soon. I'm not sure exactly when. Until it does finally come, there's no real need to leave it sitting there doing nothing." (some players vehemently believed it was an April Fools joke, and arguements raged on, for days afterwards)

On 23 April, Jagex released a development diary stating that the "rest" feature was a mistake. The diary also states that the rest feature will center on "buskers", musician NPCs who play their instruments.

On 9 June 2009, the rest option was released.

Musician




When listening to a Musician, energy and Hitpoints will regenerate three times as quickly. If the player toggles the run option on or off whilst resting, the in-game music will switch to a different track.

9 June glitch
Shortly after the update, another update was released. Many players found that they could not use the Grand Exchange unless they clicked "Use Desk" or "Exchange Desk". This also led to players not being able to access their bank accounts using the Grand Exchange bankers. There were also reports of glitched bankers, bank chests, and bank booths across RuneScape. This was caused by the fact that the desk was in the way, giving players the message "I can't reach that!".

Monsters that are normally aggressive to players in one way or another were unable to retaliate against the player. This caused many people to congregate at the God Wars Dungeon, and the Corporeal Beast lair, in an hopeful attempt to get a valuable drop without being hit for damage.

Also, players could not talk to most bankers (chest style banks eg. Castle Wars or Trouble Brewing seemed to be exempt from the bug; an attempt to do so would would render the message "Nothing interesting happens." This is known as the "Proximity bug".

Players were unable to cast Magic combat spells (for example fire strike), without going toe-to-toe with the target. There was also another problem where some monsters that attack using magic were unable to attack, including monsters from the TzHaar Fight Caves. Some people used this to get fire capes.

Furthermore, a huge array of other bugs were reported at the same time, such as glitched houses doors turned into walls (effectively losing access, unless in building mode and glitched Firemaking(once a fire was lit the player did not automatically move west one space), amongst others.

During the Cold War quest, Larry would refuse to shrink players, stating "There is not enough room for the spell to work." This was fixed shortly after.

Performing Around the World in Eggty Days emote while resting resulted in a fart-like animation, as the player stands up. This was later fixed that day, now when doing an emote while resting a player will receive the message that "Emotes aren't very restful."



When ranging a player could rest, right after shooting an arrow, and the arrow would appear to come out of his nose. This glitch has not been fixed. (You need to be attacked by a monster before shooting the arrow or you will just stand up, and it will not work)