Wilderness

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"Wild" redirects here. For the title, see the Wild.

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Wilderness

Release date	13 August 2001 (Update)
Capital	N/A (previously Senntisten)
Members	No
No. of banks	9
No. of altars	2
Guilds	None
Peaks	Wilderness Volcano, Wilderness North Volcano
Inhabitants	Several different races

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The Wilderness, also called the Wild or Wildy, is a large and dangerous wasteland which makes up nearly the entirety of north-eastern Gielinor, with the exception of the Daemonheim peninsula, directly north of the kingdoms of Asgarnia and Misthalin.

Upon dying in the Wilderness, whether it's from a player or monster, players will lose all but their three most valuable items. However, Skulled players will lose everything equipped or in their inventory. In both cases, up to two additional items can be saved by using the protect item prayer or curse and eating a fury shark.

While in the Wilderness, coins cannot be put in the money pouch, disassembly is disabled, and dropped items are instantly available to be picked up by anyone, instead of having the regular 60 seconds waiting period.

Development history

The former Clan Wars arena was still present, albeit unused.

The Wilderness was famous for being the only place where non-members could engage in Player-versus-Player (PvP) combat to gain all items that the defeated dropped until 10 December 2007, when the Duel Arena was opened to free players and the Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars minigames were introduced. Later when the classic Wilderness was reintroduced, Bounty Hunter was removed. All the minigames that once were located in the Wilderness are now in the Gamers' Grotto north of Falador.

As of 15 October 2008, players were allowed to attack each other here (and across the rest of RuneScape in PvP worlds) on special Bounty Hunter worlds (These worlds have been rendered obsolete as of the first of February as the classic Wilderness area has been reintroduced). They could not, however, attack each other here on non-PvP worlds. A reworked version was implemented on 14 November 2016.

In the months between July 2008 and October 2008, however, players could only attack each other via activities. The Clan Wars free-for-all portals are very similar to the Wilderness before 1 July 2008, however with the arrival of Bounty worlds the Wilderness returned to being like old player killing. Players had to be careful entering the Wilderness as they could be attacked and likely killed by revenants.

From 24 December 2010 to 14 January 2011 a referendum to bring back the old Wilderness and free trade was conducted, in which ninety one percent of votes were a yes. As of 18 January 2011, the "Attack" option was secretly added to the menu while right-clicking on a player in the Wilderness in certain areas. Clicking it yielded "You can only attack players in a player-vs-player area". The Wilderness has now been returned to its original state as of 1 February 2011. This update caused fluctuations of at that time commonly used player killing equipment and food. The same update re-introduced free trading and caused botters to gather certain commonly used supplies again, increasing their availability and reducing their value.

Following the Evolution of Combat, players who entered the Wilderness would be "auto-skulled", making them drop all items upon death unless the Protect Item prayer/curse was active. Two now removed abilities were also added with the update; Single and Multi-Way Wilderness, which essentially turned the whole Wilderness into a single or multi-combat zone at the player's discretion. This made the Wilderness extremely unpopular with players, as everyone who entered was punished even if they were not player killing.

The Wilderness Warbands were added on 25 March 2013, offering massive experience for minimal effort to bring players back into the Wilderness.

A Wilderness task set, alongside a massive overhaul, was implemented on 8 August 2016.

In-game history

Lava, ruins and the remains of warriors is all what is left of the Zarosian empire...

The area that is now the Wilderness was formerly known as Forinthry. It was a lush and green land by the time Gielinor was discovered by Guthix.

Forinthry was very rich in resources, and so a perfect place to build settlements. Zaros, a god who entered Gielinor after Guthix entered his sleeping state at the end of the First Age, fully conquered this area during the Second Age. Many settlements were built, whose most powerful were Dareeyak, Carrallangar, Annakarl, and Ghorrock. Forinthry formed a very big part of Zaros' mighty empire, which was the most powerful of Gielinor at that time, and stretched from northern Forinthry, through the north-west of Misthalin, and to the North-east of Morytania.

Once a house, now ruins.

Near the end of the second age, Zaros' Mahjarrat general Zamorak wanted to overthrow Zaros and was able to collect a group of followers. Those included (but were not limited to) the Elder Demon Thammaron, the vampyre Lord Drakan, the human warrior Viggora, and the other Mahjarrat Zemouregal and Hazeel. When Zamorak got his hands on the Staff of Armadyl, he attacked Zaros' palace and after an intense battle, a large part of Zaros' powers were transferred via the staff to Zamorak, leading to his banishment. After that Zamorak supposedly disappeared, leaving Gielinor to take part in the revolution of Infernus. 19 years later he returned to Gielinor with an army so big that he could conquer the world and declared war against all the other Gods, starting the God Wars.

Zamorak, Armadyl, Bandos, and Saradomin, immediately before scarring the land.

During the God Wars, Forinthry was under constant attacks of Zamorak and Saradomin's armies and soon started to crumble, the fortresses were dominated and many of Zaros' remaining followers sided with Zamorak to not be his victims, and soon, the remaining settlements of Forinthry were destroyed with the exception of Ghorrock, which was dominated by Zamorak, until it became so cold that it became impossible to control it.

Could this once have been a forest?

In the last years of the war Zamorak managed to reclaim the Stone of Jas from Saradomin. Saradomin forged a temporary and fragile alliance with Armadyl and Bandos to defeat Zamorak and take back the Stone of Jas. The combined powers of the three gods were able to triumph over Zamorak. With the three victors standing over him Zamorak in his desperation siphoned energy from the Stone to destroy them. The result was a massive explosion that swept across the continent turning it into the cursed wasteland today known as the Wilderness. The massive destruction caused the Anima Mundi to cry out in agony, which awoke Guthix from his long slumber, though he could not truly awaken until a ritual was made by four druids: Ria, Atrew, Thera and Rief. Once truly awoken Guthix led his army to the scarred land of Forinthry to end the war, which led him to establish the Edicts of Guthix, which banned all gods from ever directly influencing Gielinor again. Guthix went deep into the depths of Gielinor and wept, saddened by the effects the God Wars had had on the world that he had shaped and loved. The Wars ended, but the damage was done; many races like the aviansies, icyenes, ourgs, and wyrms were almost wiped out of existence, and all of Gielinor suffered from the effects of the wars, but not one kingdom suffered as heavily as Forinthry.

A small oasis near the middle of the wilderness, one of the few places that have not been scarred.

Forinthry is today known as the Wilderness and is now nothing but a cursed wasteland feared by adventurers. Today, many ruins of the once mighty cities still remain in these lands, barely recognisable as the great cities they were but rather piles of bricks and spirits of the creatures who died during the God Wars who were forced to look after the Wilderness. They started wandering the Wilderness, attacking anything alive they would encounter, these spirits became known as the revenants. Many of those who died in the Wilderness after that point, have ended up within a Spirit Plane, created by the Spirit Beast. The origins of this beast are unknown. Everyone unlucky enough to die in the Wilderness will be trapped in this realm for the rest of eternity. The Spirit Beast slowly drained the souls of victims trapped inside, causing them to suffer in immeasurable pain while it gained strength from it.

Zamorak destroying the entire Forinthry.

During the Fourth Age, there were many attempts to recolonise the Wilderness. A new city was built at Dareeyak's old location and the Bonde family managed to build a successful farm in the 1700s, however, they were massacred by a group of rogues. There are still many creatures wandering around in the Wilderness, like many species of giants and demons. Due to the Wilderness being a site of ancient battles, it is also a place where dragons reside. Some outlaws, mostly Zamorakians, have also managed to set up their bases there, like bandits, dark warriors, rogues, and pirates.

The Wilderness before 10 December 2007.

In year 169 of the Fifth Age, many adventurers, who had grown tired of the revenants' constant terror, teamed up to fight the revenants, and reclaimed the land from their tyranny. The adventurers' efforts were successful, and the revenants and a few monsters that roamed the Wilderness were forced into the Forinthry Dungeon. The revenants' desire for revenge would never extinguish, and they would attack anyone that stumbled into them.

During the Sixth Age with Guthix's assassination, a cursed wisp colony formed around the Sword of Edicts.

The Wilderness wall

Main article: Wilderness wall

The current Wilderness wall.

The ditch as it was seen on the World Map before it was replaced with a wall during an update on 15 September 2010.

The Wilderness is separated from safer areas by a wall on its southern edge, requiring players to click on it to enter the Wilderness. Formerly a ditch, it required the same action to enter the Wilderness; jumping over. This was to prevent players from wandering into the Wilderness and getting killed, or getting 'lured' or tricked into going into the Wilderness with popular luring techniques such as Tree Luring prior the Wilderness changes. After clicking the wall, players are presented with a dialogue box that asks whether they really want to enter the Wilderness. Players who click yes will jump over the wall. Above the wall, there are a 2 safe tiles in which the player cannot be attacked by other players. This has, however, reduced the level 1 Wilderness to 4 tiles.

Jagex added the ditch/wall functionality on 18 April 2007. They also added the option not to receive this warning message every time on 17 July 2007. Players can toggle this and other warning messages on and off via the Doomsayer in Lumbridge. Before the Z-buffering update, the Wilderness Wall was actually a ditch, but due to problems with graphics coding, it was changed into a wall.

Wilderness levels

The level rises as one runs north

Entering the Wilderness provides restrictions based on the Wilderness level.

Combat restrictions

Any player within a particular level range of your combat level can be attacked in the Wilderness. The range is calculated by taking your current combat level and adding or subtracting the current Wilderness level you are in.

For example, a level 90 player in level 20 Wilderness means that any player within a combat level range of 70-110 can attack the player.

In some cases, carrying specific items will remove this restriction, allowing players of any level to attack that player if they meet the requirements. These items include the demonic skull, hellfire bow, wand of treachery, warband supplies, cursed energy and memories

The various combat level colours:

• Green - Much Lower in Combat level.
• Lime 1 - A medium amount lower in Combat level.
• Lime 2 - A small amount lower in Combat level.
• Yellow - Equal in Combat level.
• Orange 1 - A small amount higher in Combat level.
• Orange 2 - A medium amount higher in Combat level.
• Red - Much Higher in Combat level.
• White - Cannot attack (i.e. outside the Combat level range or in a safe area.)

Teleport restrictions

Most teleports will not work above Wilderness level 20, but there are some exceptions. However, the Teleport Block spell will prevent using any means of teleportation for 5 minutes.

Carrying any quantity of cursed energy will teleblock the player permanently until they remove them.

Items that allow players to teleport up to level 30 Wilderness:

• Amulet of glory
• Combat bracelet
• Grand seed pod
• Pharaoh's sceptre
• Ring of life (does not work in PvP)
• Ring of wealth
• Ring of fortune
• Luck of the dwarves
• Skills necklace
• Saradominist, Zamorakian, Armadylean, and Bandosian tokens (discontinued, the only teleport item useable for free players)
• Wilderness sword 4

Methods that allow players to remotely teleport items up to level 30 Wilderness:

• Casting the Pack yak's Winter storage special move
• Using the banking ability from an Imp-in-a-box

The following teleport options entirely ignore the Wilderness level restrictions:

• Wilderness obelisks can be used to teleport to other obelisks randomly. After completing the hard Wilderness tasks, players are able to choose their destination.
• If you have completed Spirit of Summer, you can use Jennica's ring to access several areas of the Spirit Realm. Extra locations are added with completion of Summer's End. However, players cannot teleport into the Spirit Realm if teleblocked or in combat.

Player killing

Main article: Player killing

The red areas show multiway combat areas prior to The Evolution of Combat.

Reintroduced into the Wilderness on 1 February 2011, player killing can take place in the Wilderness. When a player is killed in the Wilderness, none of their lost items are protected by a gravestone. Instead, they are dropped on the ground and available to the killer, or if the player was killed by a monster, to everyone. After killing a player, the player gets a 10 second immunity from being attacked by other players. Depending on combat level, player killers can risk between nothing and hundreds of millions of coins worth of gear.

PKing also saw the return of looters, which are low level accounts with the purpose of picking up the remains of a drop after the killer finished taking the most expensive items. They are a hindrance to PKers since they almost always stand on top of the loot and plant marker plants to hamper the killer from picking it up quickly. If a player gets a kill and must teleport away or is killed right after by a PKer, all of the loot could become visible to everyone after a short amount of time, and experienced looters will often pick up the best stuff right away.

Why enter the Wilderness?

A Hunter area with black salamanders.

The lower, safer levels of the Wilderness.

Skilling

While extremely dangerous, the Wilderness offers a multitude of exclusive skilling options, as well as a 33% faster respawn rate for non-exclusive resources compared to other locations.

Players may equip a Demonic skull in order to increase slayer, farming, hunter and divination experience gained by 20%, as well as increasing the experience reward for skilling in the abyss and granting a level scaling experience modifier for the Wilderness Agility Course. On the other hand, wearing the skull further increases the risk because it disables Wilderness level restrictions, which allows wearers to be attacked by anyone, and permits the use of Vengeance, Retribution and Wrath.

While in the Wilderness, brawling gloves grant up to 300% more experience (up from the regular 50%). The deeper the player is in the Wilderness, the more bonus experience is gained with them.

Runecrafting through the Abyss

Members can use the Abyss, which provides access to all the Runecrafting altars, excluding the Astral and Ourania Runecrafting Altars, without the need of a talisman. The Zamorak mage that teleports players to the abyss is in level 5 Wilderness. Runecrafting runes from the Abyss will provide 250% experience, or 350% when wearing the Demonic skull. Upon entering the Abyss, players' prayer points are drained, and players are automatically skulled unless they wear a Forinthry bracelet, which loses a charge each time the Abyss is entered.

Many players will risk being killed to craft runes here as it is the fastest way available to train Runecrafting for profit. Normally, only runes above cosmic are crafted here as any rune below this is not considered worth the risk, or it takes less time to reach the appropriate altar by other means. It should be noted that there will not always be player killers waiting by the rift since the average runecrafter does not carry expensive items with them, so it is usually seen as a waste of time and resources to kill them.

While wielding a Wilderness sword 3 or higher, players have a chance to be instantly teleported to the center of the Abyss, saving a few more seconds for crafting runes.

Agility

Members have an Agility training course in the deep Wilderness. It is one of the fastest Agility training areas, though also the most dangerous, as almost any player can attack you in there due to its location.

When wearing the Demonic skull, Agility experience gained from the Wilderness Agility Course is given a scaling increase starting at level 50; each level past 50 increases the experience by 4%. This means that at level 75 Agility experience from the course is doubled, and at level 99 Agility experience is 296% the usual experience. Using agility boosting items such as a summer pie will earn you a bit more experience based on what level is acquired. When wielding or carrying the Wilderness sword 2 or higher, you will gain +5% XP per lap completion at the Wilderness Agility Course.

Divination

Main article: Money making guide/Harvesting cursed energy

A Cursed wisp colony can be found in the Wilderness Volcano, near the Sword of Edicts. The Cursed energy can be transmuted into any other energy type, excluding elder and ancestral energy, at a ratio of 100 Cursed Energy into 150 Energy of the player's choice. Players should note that carrying cursed energy will teleblock the player and allow anyone to attack them. Strategies to avoid being killed also involve the use of a Divine-o-matic vacuum, which can be used to produce Divine charge. The divine charges within the vacuum are not lost on death, if the vacuum itself is retained.

Farming

A flower patch can be found at the Western Ruins where flower seeds may be planted. With the Wilderness Expansion update of 8 August 2016, a herb patch can be found just north of the end point of the canoe. This herb patch can be used to grow any herb, although it is the only patch where bloodweed seeds can be planted to grow bloodweeds. Bloodweed is used for luck, camouflage, and aggression potions. The herb patch is protected from disease after completing the hard Wilderness tasks.

Hunter

Black salamanders and charming moths can be caught for Hunter experience. Black salamanders can be used as a tier 70 crossbow or as a secondary ingredient for camouflage potions, while charming moths give a complete charm when caught. Wearing the Demonic skull will not increase Hunter experience when hunting black salamanders.

Prayer training

The Chaos Altar at the Chaos Temple (Level 12 Wilderness) functions as a Gilded altar without the need to light burners. When offering bones or ashes, this provides 350% Prayer experience that would be gained by burying or scattering them.

After completing the hard Wilderness tasks, you gain the ability to un-note items with Harrison, who is near the Chaos Altar. This is useful for ironmen as it significantly reduces bank time and the need for clean marrentill.

Thieving

Players can loot chests in the Magic axe hut (Level 54 Wilderness), which requires a Lockpick to enter, at level 23 Thieving. Players must search the chests for traps, or they will be damaged upon trying to open it.

Players can loot chests, which requires a Lockpick to loot, in the Rogues' Castle (Levels 50-54 Wilderness) on the 1^st2^nd floor^[UK]. Players may also auto-pickpocket Rogues, Rogue Enforcers, and Rogue Captains at level 32, 62, and 92 Thieving respectively. Upon your first pickpocket on a floor, you get 30 seconds of uninterrupted pickpocketing, and after that, it goes to skill checks until you get caught. Once you are caught, you will not be able to pickpocket on that floor for 2 minutes. With 4 floors and 30 seconds of immunity, you should be able to rotate efficiently.

In the eastern room on the first floor of the Rogues's Castle, there are three safes which can be cracked at 90 Thieving. Each one gives 10,625 experience, 31,875 in total, and they take 20 minutes to respawn.

Combat and Slayer

See also: Forinthry Dungeon

A small field of grass full of moss giants and chaos runes.

The Wilderness offers a multitude of monsters, mostly also available in other places, but still including a few exclusive ones. Free players find the only place to fight greater demons and hellhounds. Members also can kill green or red dragons, which elsewhere only can be found as a more powerful version or in a more remote location, for their hides, bones and other potentially valuable drops. Most monsters are aggressive in the Wilderness, and will attempt to attack players even if their combat level is significantly higher than theirs.

Monsters
Abyssal demon	Ankou	Bandits	Black demons
Black dragons	Black knights	Black unicorns	Blue dragons
Chaos druids	Chaos dwarves	Chaos elemental	Dark beasts
Dark warriors	Dark wizards	Deadly red spiders	Gargoyles
Giant rats	Giant spiders	Greater demons	Green dragons
Grizzly bears	Guard bandits	Hellhounds	Hill giants
Hobgoblins	Ice giants	Ice spiders	Ice strykewyrms
Ice warriors	Kal'gerion demons	Lava strykewyrms	Lesser demons
Moss giants	Poison spiders	Rats	Red dragons
Revenants	Rogues	Skeletons	Spiders
Waterfiends	WildyWyrm	Zombies

Fighting in the Abyss

The Abyss can be used to fight its inhabitants: Abyssal guardians, walkers, and leeches. While they're not formidable opponents, they are aggressive and appear to fight in large numbers, which makes the Abyss a good place for low attention combat training and levelling augmented items. Notably, they drop abyssal charms that can be used to create various runecrafting familiars, runecrafting pouches, which can be used to hold pure essence, and various talismans.

Revenants

Main article: Revenants

Many players also seek out revenants in the Forinthry Dungeon to kill them for their valuable drops, such as Corrupt dragon armour, Ancient artefacts, and Ancient Warriors' Equipment. The dungeon can be entered in either level 17 or 31 Wilderness on the western side of the Wilderness. Revenants are able to use all three attack styles and generally utilise the one a player is weak against. Using a charge of a Forinthry bracelet renders them unaggressive for 1 hour as well as granting damage immunity for 1 minute. Jennica's ring will double the chance of receiving a special drop from Revenants, while the Revenant drop enhancer is in your inventory, it will increase the chance to receive Ancient Warriors' equipment or ancient artefacts from Revenants, and after completing the elite Wilderness tasks, revenants drop rare items more commonly.

Slayer

Players can get Slayer contracts from Erskine in Edgeville. For every kill, the player will gain 20% the Slayer experience that the monster would have given if they were on a Slayer assignment. Slayer experience can also be increased by a Wilderness slayer xp enhancer, which the experience is doubled for tasks completed in the Wilderness or by 20% for tasks completed in the Chaos Tunnels.

The Wilderness is home to many high levelled slayer monsters including Dark beasts, Abyssal demons, Ice strykewyrms, Gargoyles and Kal'gerion demons.

It also exclusively houses the Lava strykewyrm, dropping searing ashes as the highest source of prayer experience and secondary ingredient for aggression potions, and it can drop fury sharks, which provides protection to an additional item upon dying and stacks with protect item. It also may drop components for upgrading the abyssal whip, the dark bow, and the staff of light to tier 85 variants, which are the lava whip, the strykebow, and the staff of darkness, respectively.

Tormented wraith

Main article: Tormented wraith

The tormented wraith can be found in the Spirit Realm, which can be accessed from the portal at the centre of the Dark Warrior's Fortress with Jennica's ring, and is available after the completion of Summer's End. In order to fight it, players are required regular or elite black items in the head, body, and legs slots, and players need to wield black weapons in both hands, which can be either two-handed, dual-wielded, or one-hand and shield. It notably drops the holy elixir and items useful to medium levelled players.

WildyWyrm

The WildyWyrm, which is a more powerful version of the Lava strykewyrm, can rarely spawn in the Wilderness. The WildyWyrm has more valuable loot and a higher chance to drop the Wyrm spike, Wyrm heart, and Wyrm scalp. The WildyWyrm is extremely powerful and difficult to kill alone, so teams or multiple trips are usually required.

The Wilderness swords allow players to track the WildyWyrm down far easier.

Bosses and Soul Reaper

Main article: Soul Reaper

With the release of Soul Reaper, the King Black Dragon, the Chaos Elemental, and the Corporeal Beast are three of the potentially assignable bosses for reaper tasks. Players must kill increasing amounts of them in order to unlock the reaper title, parts of the vanquisher override, and the Final Boss title. Additionally, their pets are required for the Insane Final Boss title. The former two bosses are also available to be fought by free players.

The King Black Dragon can be accessed by activating one of the two artefacts. The easiest access for members and free players is to use the Edgeville artefact. As a dangerous alternative and mandatory for members and free players, they also can use the artefact by climbing down a ladder (Level 42 Wilderness) located west of the Lava Maze Dungeon. While this access requires players to go through the Wilderness, the King Black Dragon's Lair itself isn't located in the Wilderness. Using this access, players are awarded a 10% damage boost until they leave the lair.

Located in the highest levels of the Wilderness, the Chaos Elemental can be found west of the Rogue's Castle. The elemental is highly aggressive and can be fairly dangerous to low and medium levelled players.

The Corporeal Beast can be fought after completing the Summer's end quest and can safely accessed using a games necklace or the PvM Portal.

Money making

Many players engage in player killing throughout the Wilderness to obtain valuables. When they kill a player, they will get all or nearly all of the items that the player was holding. Then the player killer takes the dropped items and does whatever they may wish to do with them. This includes using the High Level Alchemy or Low Level Alchemy spells on them or selling them for money. Another form of player killing for profit is bot slaying, where players can kill Bots that attack green dragons for the bones they have collected. This can be an easy and reliable way for players to gain profit and acquire kills.

The Bandit Camp is home to two stores: Tony's Pizza Bases and Bandit Duty Free. In order to safely enter the camp, players are required to be skulled, or they will be attacked by the bandits.

Bandit Duty Free sells items common to general stores alongside more valuable items like vial of water packs, broad arrowheads, gold leaves, marble blocks, stones of binding, reinforcing plates, and algarum threads for 90% of their usual store price, as well as exclusively bloodweed seeds.

Tony's Pizza Bases sells pizza bases and offers cheese and tomato spawns. Additonally, rats can be killed nearby for meat, and anchovies can be fished, thus offering a good spot for making plain, meat, and anchovy pizzas.

Obtaining resources

A respawn point of nature runes.

There are many useful spawns in the Wilderness, and players can collect them and run back and forth from a bank, such as a cape merchant, to make money. Particularly, picking them up used to be the only option for free players to obtain planks (besides trading), which are required for the Dragon Slayer quest:

• Five can be found in the Graveyard of Shadows, level 25-30 Wilderness. This place is filled with aggressive zombies, so lower levels may want to bring some food and/or armour.
• One spawns near the eastern ruins.
• Ten spawns are scattered in the western ruins.

The Lava Maze (level 40-45) contains several item spawns such as iron full helm, gold necklace, staff of earth, steel platebody, along with coin respawn points. Bring food, as it contains Black Knights, king scorpions, hill giants, and lesser demons. At the end of the maze, players can loot the muddy chest (Level 43 Wilderness) with muddy keys for various loot to make profit. While free players are able to open the chest, they cannot obtain most of the rewards since most items are members-only, which massively diminishes potential profit.

There are also many respawns for bones in the Chaos Temple and the Boneyard, and members can collect white berries at Red Dragon Isle.

At level 47 Wilderness, there is a small hill south of the border where a cut sapphire will spawn. It is guarded by low-level spiders.

The Wilderness is location to several mining sites, including the Bandit camp mining site, the Lava Maze Dungeon mine, the Southern Wilderness mining site, the South-western Wilderness mining site, and the Lava Maze runite mining site, which is open to all players. Members can additionally access the Pirates' Hideout mining site. While the mines offer huge amounts of low levelled ores (and in case of iron and mithril, the largest concentrations ingame), they also can be obtained by safer and more convenient methods. While it offers no exclusive mining resources, the Wilderness is one of two locations for free players to obtain runite ore.

A player fishing lobsters in the Wilderness.

Around level 45 Wilderness on the east coast, there is a second free-to-play fishing spot for lobsters, tuna, and swordfish. However, it's easier and safer to fish from Karamja to avoid the risk of player killers, as well as more convenient since the implementation of Stiles. The Lava Maze is the only lava eel fishing spot besides the one in the Taverley Dungeon near the group of baby blue dragons.

Three bloodwood trees can be found throughout the Wilderness and are the only ones accessible without quest progress. They are located at next to the Chaos Temple, north-east of the Demonic Ruins, and south of the Pirates' Hideout. They require level 85 Woodcutting to chop, and level 93 Fletching is required to fletch the wood to make bakriminel bolts. The bloodwood logs can't be burned. The deeper the bloodwood trees are in the Wilderness, the more logs they'll yield. Bloodwood logs and bakriminel bolt shafts disappear if you move too far from the tree, so players should bring bakriminel bolt tips, which can only be bought from Mami Rimba, before cutting the bloodwood trees if they plan on fletching bakriminel bolts.

A cursed magic tree can be found in the Spirit Realm, which is accessed from the ruins, north-east of the flower patch, with Jennica's ring. The cursed magic tree requires level 82 Woodcutting to chop, and the cursed magic logs can't be fletched, but they can be burned with level 75 Firemaking. The cursed magic logs turn to normal magic logs after leaving the Spirit Realm. When the cursed magic tree is cut down, a normal magic tree will appear in the Wilderness. After cutting the magic tree, the cursed tree will respawn. This means that a player is able to cut magic logs constantly without the wait of the respawn.

Obtaining runes

Main article: Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop

Nature runes and law runes can be extremely hard to come by for Ironmen without the necessary Runecrafting levels. Players can buy law and nature runes from the magic shop beside the Mage arena. The level 60 Magic requirement for the mage arena does not apply for the shop. The Mage of Zamorak also sells better runes after the Abyss miniquest has been completed. Some places in the Wilderness spawn runes, which players may collect for free. Although, it can be quite dangerous if other players pass by.

Obtaining team capes

Main article: Team cape

A team cape can help you tell if someone is an ally or an enemy. If you and another player wear the same team cape, the player will show up as a blue dot on the minimap rather than white, and the left-click "Attack" option will be moved to a right-click. If two players are wearing different team capes, then the "Attack" option for each other will both be left-click, regardless if one player has a higher combat level. Some players want to collect team capes, so they go in the Wilderness just to enhance their collection. These handy capes can vary in colours and designs. You can buy these capes from cape merchants (men with big bags on their backs). Their locations are in different places but are always near one place. Team capes can also be sold for a slight profit in the Grand Exchange.

With the Wilderness Elite tasks completed, team capes will also double as one of Ava's devices.

Since the Wilderness Improvements & Task Set update, players can now access their bank at a cape merchant as long as they are not in combat.

Charging orbs

Players can use the Air Obelisk in order to charge unpowered orbs to air orbs, which can be attached to battlestaves. In order to reach the obelisk, players need to traverse the Wilderness part of Edgeville Dungeon, unless they have completed the hard Wilderness tasks, which unlocks a direct access above ground. The Earth Obelisk is located in Edgeville Dungeon, which can be used for charging earth orbs.

Minigames and D&Ds

There are a few minigames and Distractions and Diversions that may take place or only occur in the Wilderness.

Beacons

If the player has finished the All Fired Up quest, then the player may need to head into the Wilderness to light some beacons for the minigame All Fired Up. The beacons in the Wilderness are in the following locations: two beacons are north-east of the Lumber Yard, one beacon is located in the low-level Wilderness north of the Grand Exchange, one beacon is located north of the altar at level 43 Wilderness, one beacon is on the Frozen Waste Plateau.

Bounty Hunter

Main article: Bounty Hunter

Bounty Hunter can only be played on Bounty Hunter worlds, which are World 97 (Legacy Mode) and World 106 (Evolution of Combat). Players would be assigned a target to kill to earn and upgrade bounty emblems, which can be cashed in for points to buy rewards. Players are matched based on their Rating and combat level. Players can gain Rating if they kill their target, or lose Rating if they die. Rogue kills, or non-target kills, have a small chance to upgrade a Bounty emblem and would gain (or lose if the player dies) little Rating than from a bounty kill.

Demon flash mobs

Main article: Demon Flash Mob

Demon Flash Mobs, released on 28 January 2013, occasionally spawn in the Wilderness. Mobs found in the Wilderness tend to have greater rewards than mobs that spawn outside of it.

Penguin Hide and Seek

Sometimes, penguins from Penguin Hide and Seek will be in the Wilderness, so if a player would like to maximise their weekly reward, they would have to go into the Wilderness to find the penguins. However, penguin hunting Clans and Friends Chats can often lead the penguins to relatively safe spots and thus reduce the risk.

Shooting Stars

Main article: Shooting Star

Shooting stars can land in the Wilderness and often have fewer players mining it due to the dangers of the Wilderness.

Treasure Trails

Members can obtain clue scrolls from monsters. Some steps in hard and elite clue scrolls may require the player to traverse into the Wilderness to complete them. With the 1 February 2011 update, the chances of getting a step involving the Wilderness have been greatly decreased.

Be warned that you can still be attacked by other players while fighting off any of the wizards that may attack you while digging for a casket, so be prepared for anything. Most of the time, you will be incapable of teleporting, so you should be sure to bring a lot of high level food, some prayer potions, and a shield.

Wilderness Warbands

Main article: Wilderness Warbands

Wilderness Warbands, released on 25 March 2013, is a very dangerous Distraction & Diversion, which happens every seven hours. The three possible locations of the warband camps are all in the Wilderness. The locations are Dark warrior fortress also known as DWF, east of the Lava Maze also known as ELM, and Red Dragon Isle abbreviated as RDI. The minigame is very rewarding in experience, and while a money option is available, it is not recommended.

Quests and miniquests

No quest starts in the Wilderness, but some take place partially or mostly in the Wilderness. In most cases, quests that require players to enter the Wilderness will instead take them to safe, instanced versions of the relevant areas, which makes them completely safe. Exceptions are noted:

Quests

• The Curse of Arrav
• Defender of Varrock
• Devious Minds, requires players to use The Abyss, which can only be accessed by talking to the Zamorak Mage in low-level Wilderness.
• One of a Kind requires players to travel to the green dragon area of Forinthry Dungeon, which will create a safe instance that may be teleported from. While players can be attacked on their way, they don't need any equipment and thus are safe from loss.
• Spirit of Summer
• Summer's End
• The Temple at Senntisten
• What Lies Below
• While Guthix Sleeps briefly places players on the roof of the high-level chaos temple. However, it can only be accessed from Lucien's camp, and players are here very briefly, so there is very little threat.

Miniquests

• The Abyss requires players to talk to the Mage of Zamorak to enter the Abyss.
• The Curse of Zaros may require players to enter the Wilderness, depending on which ghost locations the player gets.

Wilderness task set

Main article: Wilderness tasks

Wilderness Tasks can be completed by doing tasks related to the Wilderness. Completing the task set gives a Wilderness sword and variety of useful rewards and benefits.

Pulling Strange Switches

A pair of strange switches (Levels 9-15 Wilderness), switch A and switch B, can be found in a forest in the south-eastern edge of the Wilderness, east of the Chaos Temple. Pulling these switches has no effect other than for fun and to reach a high personal record, which can also be found from a Quick Chat. One score will be added for each lever pulled, and the chain of pulls would continue to record until you leave the Wilderness by any means (logging out, teleporting, hopping over the Wilderness wall, or getting killed).

Reaching a score of ten is required to complete an easy Wilderness task.

Unlocking music

Players wanting to unlock as many song tracks as possible for the various music emotes and the completionist cape can exclusively unlock the following tracks in the Wilderness:

• Army of Darkness
• Close Quarters
• Complication
• Crystal Sword
• Dangerous
• Dark
• Deep Wildy
• Doorways
• Eruption
• Everlasting Fire
• Faithless
• Inspiration
• Darkness
• Mage Arena
• Pirates of Peril
• Regal
• The Route of All Evil
• The Route of the Problem
• Scape Sad
• Scape Wild
• Wilderness I
• Wilderness II
• Wilderness III
• Wildwood
• Witching

Reasons not to enter the Wilderness?

A hill with aggressive spiders' nests.

There is one main reason for players to refuse to enter the Wilderness: fear of death. A player can be killed very quickly in the Wilderness in many ways:

• By other players - the level of players that can attack you increases as you go deeper into the Wilderness, so a person can be killed by a player whose combat level is much higher than their own.
• By high-level monsters - some of the chief Wilderness attractions are some of the most likely places to die. Powerful monsters such as green and red dragons can be dangerous, and the Chaos Elemental makes the region from the scorpion pit to the skeletal fence to the Wilderness North Volcano very unsafe.
• By revenants - only in the Forinthry Dungeon. These undead creatures are much more dangerous than their combat level suggests. After the return of the Wilderness update, killing revenants is much more rewarding than before.

The free-to-play area

Free-to-play Wilderness.

Features

All of the areas to the right are available to free-to-play users.

Other places of interest

Place	Wilderness Level	On the Map	Other Information
Demonic Ruins	46-47	Top right-hand corner	There are some greater demons here along with Kal'gerion demons.
The Steel mine	5-8	The closest to the southern river (the beginning of the surface stretch of the River Lum)	Contains a little Coal and Iron ore
The Dark Warriors' Fortress	14-17	South of the Bandit Camp	Spawns air runes, water runes, earth runes, fire runes, mind runes, body runes, and chaos runes.
The Hobgoblin mine	36-38	The east of the Forgotten Cemetery	Contains 31 coal, 16 iron, 19 mithril, and 8 adamantite ore. Contains more rocks in total than any free-to-play mining site.
The Skeleton mine	11-13	The south of the Dark Warriors' Fortress	34 coal rocks.
The Wilderness rune mine	46	Slightly above the Lava Maze	One of the two places to mine runite ore in non-members worlds, the other being the Mining Guild resource dungeon.
Chaos Temple (Wilderness)	13	South-east of the Graveyard of Shadows, marked by	Apart from a small hut west of the Lava Maze, this is the only altar in the Wilderness. It acts as a gilded altar for members when using bones or ashes on it.
Chaos Temple (hut)	38	The in the small building just south of the Frozen Waste Plateau	This is the location of the other of two altars in the Wilderness (the other being the above location). This is a popular hot-spot for PKers to recharge their prayer.

Deep Wilderness

The "Deep Wilderness" is the most dangerous of Wilderness areas, due to the very high level allowing players to be attacked by those that are of a significantly higher combat level than them.

This area was originally accessible to members only, but following the 9 October 2017 update, it was opened to free players. Note that several notable areas (and features) of the Deep Wilderness can only be accessed by members.

Mage Arena

Main article: Mage Arena

This is where players with at least level 60 Magic can attempt Kolodion's challenge. Successful players will receive the God cape and the God staff of their chosen God, and players are able to unlock the Divine Storm spell afterwards. Players here can also use Gundai to bank.

Other places of interest

Place / Monster	Wilderness Level	On the Map	Other Information
Mage of Zamorak	5	Near the Steel mine	Allows you to access the Abyss, one of the few places where you can craft all types of runes.
The King Black Dragon	42	Near the Lava Maze	The lair itself is not considered part of the Wilderness, so you are allowed to teleport from within. The King Black Dragon can drop a draconic visage (extremely rare).
Forinthry Dungeon	25-42	Near the Wilderness Volcano	You can kill greater and lesser demons, revenants, hellhounds and green dragons here.
Wilderness Agility Course	50+	Top-left corner of the Wilderness (not the white part)	One of the best places to train Agility.
The Chaos Elemental	50+	West of the Rogues' Castle	Drops dragon two-handed sword, ancient artefacts, corrupt dragon equipment, and Ancient Warrior's Equipment.
Rogues' Castle	55	East of the Mage Arena and Deserted Keep	Contains rogues, and to free another rogue for jewellery selling.
Corporeal Beast lair	37	North of Summer Bonde's farm in the Spirit Realm.	Contains the Corporeal Beast, which can only be fought after the quest Summer's End, and drops the sigils for spirit shields This area can also be accessed safely using a games necklace.
Wilderness Volcano	18-32	East of the Rogues' Castle and north of the easternmost gate to member's Wilderness.	Many monsters such as hellhounds, lesser demons and ankou. Also the only place to get cursed energy.

Obelisks

There are six Wilderness Obelisks. Each portal will randomly teleport anyone standing on the central pad to any of the other 5 pads. They are the only teleportation method to work beyond level 30 Wilderness apart from the Ardougne teleport lever, the Mage Arena teleport lever, and the Edgeville teleport lever. To activate the portal, touch any of the pillars on the side. You must be in the 3x3 area between the pillars to be teleported. It will not teleport you if you are teleblocked, and it is useful for sending PKers away to another location. Using this may also teleport other players if they are caught in the 3x3 square when the teleport activates. Thus, if you are teleported deeper into the Wilderness, they will be able to attack you.

With the completion of the Hard Wilderness Tasks, players can set which area they would like to be teleported to rather then being randomly teleported.

The portals are found in the following locations:

An obelisk in the Wilderness

Wilderness Level	Location	On the Map
13	North of the Grand Exchange	South-east of the Wilderness Volcano
18	At the black unicorns	South of the Graveyard of Shadows
27	South of the chaos dwarves	North of the Bandit Camp
35	Near the central green dragons	South-west of the Lava maze
44	By the ice warriors	South-east of the Frozen Waste Plateau
50	Near the Chaos Elemental	South-east of the Rogues' Castle

Wilderness area of Edgeville dungeon

Although most of the Wilderness is an open area, the north part of Edgeville dungeon is considered the Wilderness too. It can be accessed by passing a members gate. The Wilderness level in the northernmost part is 5. Points of interest:

• Several chaos druids in the Wilderness section, well known for their high drop rate for herbs.
  • A resource dungeon that has chaos druids and several herb spawns, requiring 10 Dungeoneering to access. This resource dungeon is not part of the Wilderness, and is found near the thugs.
• There are six red spider's eggs respawns in this dungeon, making it easier to collect them for potions.
• Several black demons live farther inside the dungeon, closer to a bank than most others.
• The Earth Obelisk is in the dungeon near Chronozon, and the Air Obelisk can be accessed through the dungeon as well, past the Black Demons. A shortcut significantly decreases travel time, requiring completion of the Hard Wilderness tasks.
• The dungeon is one of only 2 locations to house earth warriors, the other being the Chaos Tunnels.

Updates

• 13 August 2001 - Update:Wilderness system online
• 22 February 2005 - Update:Wilderness Capes, and Changes
• 23 February 2005 - Update:Wilderness Capes Change
• 14 March 2005 - Update:Magic and Wilderness Updates
• 24 April 2006 - Update:Wilderness graphical update
• 18 April 2007 - Update:Wilderness Ditch
• 10 December 2007 - Update:Wilderness Changes, Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars!
• 1 February 2011 - Update:The Wilderness and Free Trade Return!
• 11 November 2011 - Update:More Loot = More W00t!
• 13 December 2011 - Update:The Real Wild Rework - New Wilderness Surface Environment Graphics (free and members)
• 25 March 2013 - Update:Wilderness Warbands
• 8 August 2016 - Update:Wilderness Improvements & Task Set

Gallery

Concept art of the graphic update from the November 2011 Behind the Scenes.

Concept art titled "Wilderness" on the media page.

Concept art of the graphic update from the December 2011 Behind the Scenes.

Guthix's sword found in the centre of the revamped Wilderness Volcano.

The Guthix sword when illuminated.

A small base inhabited by chaos dwarves.

A statue upon a grassy hilltop.

The banner that showed up on the home page with the return of free trade.

The update header used for the 2016 Wilderness improvements update. It shows an adventurer weaving divine energy in front of the Sword of Edicts.

A pool of lava in the deep Wilderness.

See also

• Wilderness and Free Trade Vote
• Forinthry Dungeon
• Player killing
• Death list