"Task" redirects here. For the process of killing monsters assigned by a Slayer master, see Slayer assignment.
Achievements (also known as Tasks and previously known as Achievement Diaries) are challenges that players may complete in order to earn rewards. The Achievements system consists of Achievements grouped under skills, areas, PvM, and completionist categories. As of 22 September 2017, there are 1,662 achievements.
To access the Achievements system, players should click on the Hero icon in their interface. In Legacy-mode you'll need to click the Settings-icon to access this. Doing so will bring up the Hero interface. By opening the Achievements tab, a player can view an overview of the Achievements (including the Path System), list of all Achievements and a tracker for Achievements.
The skills Achievements list milestones in each of the skills. The last Achievement in all skills is reaching level 99, except for Dungeoneering, Slayer, and Invention that continue until level 120. Additionally, the Divination tutorial achievements can be found in this category.
The Exploration Achievements are based around various areas of the game, asking players to complete a variety of tasks around these zones. Almost all of the sub-categories in this category offer special rewards for completing a meta-achievement: a special wearable item, experience lamps, and various bonuses in the specific area. Additionally, most Achievements in this category are split into one of five difficulty types: Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard, or Elite.
Only Lumbridge has a beginner level and no elite level, since it was the original starting area. These are the latest iteration of the original "Achievement Diaries".
There are currently 49 meta-achievements in the Exploration category.
It is highly recommended to allow the dragon to cough up some ten worms each time a phase is completed; saving all of them for one intermission results in high and rapid damage from the artefacts.
The boss kill achievements are a series of 6 achievements for each boss, awarding a 5 runescore achievement incrementing up at 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100. In addition, the "Who's the Boss?" achievements record the total number of boss kills.
Win a Pest Control game after repairing all barricades to full.
25
The easiest way to get this achievement is using the novice lander. It is possible even with the minimum of five people, by having one person stationed at each portal, destroying the first three as soon as possible and repairing all broken barricades and gates in its vicinity, and the last person to defend the knight and the main gate. The fourth portal should then only be destroyed once everything has been repaired, but beware of spawning splatters and ravagers.
Loot 20 urns in a single run of Pyramid Plunder without disturbing a snake.
20
The lootings have to be consecutive. The best strategy is to first search all urns in room 1, charm the snakes with a snake charm, loot urns, and repeat the process in room 2.
One has to start right beyond the entrance gate and pick a fruit from the tree without stopping. Running is imperative, and it is done most easily in the winter garden.
This includes the first pillar, which gives no ticket. It is wise to immediately move towards the centre of the arena after tagging a distant pillar to avoid missing the next.
Without use of teleportation or a limited amount of transportation's, make your way from Tyras Camp to Castle Drakan.
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Speak to Linford at the camp, and run or walk to Sentinel Plaguemanst. Agility shortcuts can be used, but the Temple Trekking ones cannot, nor is passage through the Meiyerditch Laboratories allowed. See here for a more extensive route.
Feats are a hidden category of achievements under the Miscellaneous category awarded for completing a Boss collection log for a given boss. A title is awarded for each completed log.
New Varrock
The New Varrock category is a category containing all of the New Varrock Tasks from the Dimension of Disaster quest.
Wushanko: The Arc
The Wushanko: The Arc category is a list of achievements containing most of the tasks from the Arc area of the game.
The first achievement set (Karamja) was released on 8 May2007. It was originally named an Achievement Diary and had three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The interface resembled that of the quest list and was actually a sub-menu of the Quest Tab. As with quests, each diary turned green once completed. Achievement diaries were later split into a separate interface tab, merged into the Noticeboard tab, and eventually put in the Hero interface in the New Interface System.
A total of six more Achievement Diaries were later released. The Ardougne Tasks, released on 20 October2009, was the first set to have a fourth difficulty level, Elite. Elite Tasks were added to most other areas on 7 September2010.
On 24 November2010, the system of Achievement Diaries was changed into the Task system. The interface was redesigned, extra rewards were added, and more tasks (not considered to be part of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks set) were released for the Lumbridge area, meant as an introduction to the Tasks system for new players. Since then, more tasks have been periodically added to this generic set. Many of these "Miscellaneous" tasks are very simple to complete (e.g. Use the "Run" feature) and as such have a Beginner difficulty level.
On 18 April2017 the interface was reworked to include the skills, PvM, and completionist Achievements too instead of just area Achievements.
On 29 August2017 the interface was further reworked, adding a new system called RuneScore to track your achievement progress, adding new categories and achievements, and fixing numerous complaints with the previous overhaul.
If you have completed all the tasks for a higher group (Hard tasks, for example) without completing the ones that precede it, then you are not able to claim your reward until you've done so.
As of 4 December 2017, there are 1,779 achievements. In September 2017 there were 1,654 achievements, May 2017 - 1,203, January 2016 - 657, September 2014 - 603, May 2012 - 533, February 2012 - 426, and November 2010 - 417.