Game tick/Ticks per action

This article is a subpage of Game tick. This page contains detailed tick information for most skilling and combat training methods in-game.

Combat skills

Magic

• Combat spells cast with wands or orbs: 4 per cast
• Combat spells cast with Staves: 6 per cast
• Bake Pie: 3 per cast
• Camelot teleport: 4 per cast
• Enchant Crossbow Bolt: 1 or 2 per cast; The game allows for this spell to be cast every tick, but doing so is improbable.
• Enchantment spells: 3 per cast
• High Level Alchemy: 5 per cast
• Humidify: 3 per cast
• Plank Make: 3 per cast
• String Jewellery: 3 per cast
• Superheat Item: 2 per cast
• Vengeance: 50 per cast

Melee

The attack speed of each weapon is represented by categories:

• Fastest: 4 per hit (Claws, daggers, defenders, maces, scimitars, whips)
• Fast: 5 per hit (Hastae, hatchets, longswords, rapiers, swords)
• Average: 6 per hit (Battleaxes, halberds, most mauls, pickaxes, warhammers, spears, two-handed swords)
• Slow: 7 per hit (Granite maul)

Prayer

Prayer activation and deactivation is applied on the next game tick. The drain rate of each prayer is measured by a number of ticks. For a detailed breakdown, see Prayer#Prayers. For a calculator, see Calculator:Prayer/Drain rate.

• Burying bones: 1 per bone
• Scattering ashes: 1 per ash; though you can bury a bone and scatter an ash in the same tick
• Cremating bones: 4 per bone; this can be reduced to 3 per item by restarting the animation
• Ectofuntus: 1 per Bonemeal; 1 per Bucket of slime
• Using bones on a Gilded altar: 3 per bone

Ranged

The attack speed of each weapon is represented by categories:

• Fastest: 4 per hit (Crossbows, darts, hexhunter bow, throwing knives, seercull)
• Fast: 5 per hit (Most shortbows, Zaryte bow, Crystal bow, Chinchompas)
• Average: 6 per hit (Javelins, most shieldbows, salamanders, thrown axes, two-handed crossbows)
• Slowest: 12 per hit (Dark bow)

Artisan skills

Construction

• Building larders, oak doors, or mahogany tables in Building mode: 5 per item
• Demon Butlers and mind-controlled monkey butlers spend 10 ticks banking.
• The Butler servant spends 20 ticks banking.

Cooking

• Cooking raw fish: 4 per item; this can be reduced to 3 per item if the cooking interface is opening directly after a previous cooking attempt finishes.
• Making wines: 1 per item

Crafting

• Attaching enchanted orbs to battlestaves: 2 per item
• Crafting Dragonhide armours: 3 per item
• Crafting jewellery: 3 per item
• Cutting gems: 1 per item
• Glass blowing: 3 ticks per item
• Making Soft clay: 2 per item
• Using a Potter's wheel: 2 per item
• Using a Pottery oven: 5 per item
• Making tiaras: 3 per item

Fletching

• Cutting gems into bolt tips: 4 per item
• Fletching arrows: 2 per item (set of 15 arrows)
• Fletching bolts: 1 per set of 10
• Fletching unstrung bows: 3 per bow
• Stringing a bow: 2 per bow

Firemaking

• Adding logs to a bonfire: 6 per item; this can be reduced to 5 per item by restarting the animation
• Lighting a fire: 4 per item
• Lighting a fire via a Pyrelord: 5 per item

Herblore

• Adding a herb into a vial: 2 per item
• Adding a secondary ingredient to a potion: 2 per item; this can be reduced to 1 per item if creating only one potion
• Adding ash to a tarromin potion (unf): 1 per item
• Cleaning grimy herbs: 1 per item

Runecrafting

• Siphoning a node or creature in the Runespan: 2 per siphon
• Using unstable essence at an altar: 1 per sets of ten essence
• Making tiaras at an altar: 1 per tiara

Smithing

• Forging at an anvil: 4 per item smithed
• Making cannonballs: 10 per steel bar
• Smelting ores at a furnace: 4 per item
• Smithing Protean bars: 8 per bar
• Smithing Burial armour: 15 per action

Gathering skills

Divination

• Transmutations: 3 per item

Farming

• Allotment seeds grow one stage every 1,000 global ticks.
  • Snape grass, Sunchoke, and Fly trap seeds grow one stage every 4,000 global ticks.
• Bush seeds grow one stage every 2,000 global ticks.
  • Barberry and Wishing well bush seeds grow one stage every 4,000 global ticks.
• Cactus seeds grow one stage every 8,000 global ticks.
• Flower seeds grow one stage every 500 global ticks.
  • White lily seeds grow one stage every 2,000 global ticks.
• Fruit tree seeds grow one stage every 16,000 global ticks.
• Herb seeds grow one stage every 1,000 global ticks.
• Hop seeds grow one stage every 1,000 global ticks.
  • Reed and Grapevine seeds grow one stage every 2,000 global ticks.
• Mushroom seeds grow one stage every 1,000 global ticks.
• Tree seeds grow one stage every 4,000 global ticks.
• Saplings grow every 500 global ticks.
• Weeds grow every 500 global ticks.

Fishing

• Chance to catch a fish from any fishing spot: 5 per attempt
  • With a sacred clay harpoon: 8 per attempt

Hunter

• Box trapping red chinchompas: 8 per box trap (if sufficient box traps are ready to be checked)

Mining

• Bronze pickaxes have 7 attempts to mine an ore every 8 ticks.
• Iron pickaxes have 6 attempts to mine an ore every 7 ticks.
• Steel pickaxes have 5 attempts to mine an ore every 6 ticks.
• Mithril pickaxes have 4 attempts to mine an ore every 5 ticks.
• Adamant pickaxes have 5 attempts to mine an ore every 6 ticks.
• Rune pickaxes have 4 attempts to mine an ore every 5 ticks.

Woodcutting

• Players have a chance to obtain a log from any type of tree every 4 ticks.

Support skills

Agility

• Quickest possible lap of Ape Atoll Agility Course: 65 ticks
• Quickest possible lap of Extended Barbarian Agility Course: 61 ticks
• Quickest possible lap of Extended Gnome Agility Course: 61–64 (Depends randomly on which path the player is forced to take)

Dungeoneering

• After completing a dungeoneering floor, the "winterface" is displayed, and a timer begins to count down from 30. These are thirty 2 tick periods; 60 ticks.

Thieving

• The Pyramid Plunder activity runs 500 ticks.
• Blackjack an NPC stuns them for 6 ticks if successful.

Elite skills

Invention

• Disassemble: 2 per item
• Creating Divine charge: 4 per item

Miscellaneous

• Running covers 2 game squares per tick, while walking covers 1 game square per tick.
• The amount of time a player can spend collecting tears in the Tears of Guthix D&D is a number of game ticks equal to the player's quest points.
• Boosted or reduced stats move towards normal at a rate of 1 level per 100 ticks.
• Player chat messages stay above their heads for 5 ticks. If a second message is sent while a previous message is being displayed, the new message will replace the first message, lasting 5 ticks itself unless another message is sent.
• The 40 minutes of Familiarisation's triple charms reward is believed to actually last 40.5–41.5 minutes, suggesting it is programmed as 4000 ticks rather than 40 actual minutes.
• When playing Fist of Guthix, the person being hunted collects charges every 5 ticks when holding the stone.

Trivia

• When announcing a drop party at the Falador Party Room, Bankers would count down large drops in ticks. This was removed on 1 February 2011.