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Falador
Released6 April 2001 (Update)
Also calledFarradorn,[1] Fally, City of the White Knights
MembersNo
LocationAsgarnia
League regionAsgarnia Asgarnia✓
InhabitantsHumans, Dwarves
Teleports• Falador Teleport
• Spawning
• Skills necklace
MusicFanfare, Arrival, Workshop
Map
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Advanced data
Typesettlement
Location on World Map
Ice Mountain
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Dark Wizards' Tower ← Falador → Draynor Manor
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Rimmington

Falador is the capital city of the Kingdom of Asgarnia. It is home to the iconic White Knight's Castle, and is one of the largest and most major cities, only slightly smaller than Varrock. It plays a key role in the Gielinor ore trade because it houses the Mining Guild, the Motherlode Mine, and a portion of the large Dwarven mine underground.

Entrances/exits

The guards near the north and south gates are popular targets for players hunting for clue scrolls, due to the completion of the medium Falador Diary awarding a 20% increased chance of receiving a clue scroll drop from guards in Falador.

Transportation

There are several ways to reach the city:

Banks

Falador has two banks (). There is a west bank which is located south-west of the north gate, and an east bank which is located south of Falador Park. They are great places to buy and sell items as many players tend to congregate at the two banks.

East bank

The east bank.

The Falador east bank is in a great spot for Mining. It is relatively close to the entrance to the Mining Guild and the Motherlode Mine, making it useful for players mining there. Prior to the release of the Grand Exchange, this bank used to be very crowded and used to buy a wide variety of items from armour and weapons to skilling items.

West bank

The Falador west bank is in a great spot for smelting ores. The furnace is fairly close to the bank, making it a quick place to smelt ores for free to play players.

Points of interest

White Knights' Castle

The White Knights' Castle

Falador's centre is White Knights' Castle, home of the White Knights. This distinctive castle is the starting point for several quests such as The Knight's Sword and Black Knight's Fortress. Within the castle's courtyard players will find the Falador Diary taskmaster, Sir Rebral.

Park

Falador's park

Falador has its own park north of the east bank. The park is home to Sir Tiffy Cashien and the Giant Mole (The dungeon icon.), which can be fought (a light source is needed). The park is also a key part in the Pirate's Treasure quest. The house in the east part of the garden contains a spade that slowly respawns when taken. Wyson the gardener, who can be found walking around the park, will sell one woad leaf to a player for 15 coins or 2 for 20 coins. Members can buy bagged plants here for use in the Construction skill. In the past, World 2, Falador Park was also an important trading centre.

Rising Sun Inn

Falador has one bar, the Rising Sun Inn (). Here, players can purchase Asgarnian ale, wizard's mind bombs, and dwarven stouts. Each temporarily boosts a skill, or in the latter case, two skills, at the cost of temporarily lowering other skill(s). All of the beers cost three coins, and empty glasses can be returned for two coins. This is one of the locations for the Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl miniquest.

Party Room

Previously located in Seers' Village,[2] the Party Room was relocated to Falador in response of needs for the King's Ransom quest. This also allowed F2P players to access it. It is a popular place which people play host to drop parties without the interference of telegrabbing. It contains the chest and lever for drops, a bar upstairs, and a table in the centre for the dancing "Knights of the Party Room." It is now located in the north-eastern corner of the city.

Mining Guild

Mining Guild entrance

South of the east bank is the Mining Guild. It is very close to the bank, making it a convenient guild. The guild is also attached to the Dwarven Mines. The Mining Guild requires level 60 Mining to enter (boostable).

Dwarven Mines

North-east of the east bank are some stairs that lead down to the Dwarven Mines. These stairs are fairly far away, although it is the entrance to the mine that is closest to a bank.

Motherlode Mine

The Motherlode Mine is a popular mine released on 24 April 2014, located south-east of the Dwarven Mines. Players are able to train the Mining skill here, with access to some new training methods. A bank is also located within the Motherlode Mine.

Agility course

Players with 50 Agility can use the rooftop course, by climbing the southern wall of the house directly east of the Mining Guild. The course finishes near the entrance of the Mining Guild.

Other features

  • Furnace: South of Cassie and her shield shop is a furnace (The furnace icon), one of four available to free players. It is very close to the west bank, causing many players to use it, although most players prefer the furnace in Al Kharid. On the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] of the building that houses the furnace, a bronze axe respawns on the floor and a hammer respawns on a table.
  • Trees: Falador is home to various trees, including normal trees, oak trees, and even yew trees (The rare trees icon) outside its walls.
  • Estate agent: In the small building east of the furnace, members can talk to an estate agent (The estate agent icon) for Construction. A spade also respawns in the same building.
  • Spinning wheel: East of Wayne is a building which contains a spinning wheel.
  • Shortcuts: Members have access to some Agility shortcuts (The shortcut icon).
  • Tree patch: Members have access to a farming patch north of the east bank where they can grow trees.
  • Ranges: Ranges (The range icon) are located all over Falador and are not difficult to find.
  • Water sources: Fountains (The water source icon) can be found east of the east bank, and a well can be just west of the south-east gate by the armour shop as well as a water pump near Flynn's Mace Market.

Stores

Falador General Store

The Falador General Store () is the first building to the west of the city's northern gate. The shop stocks basic tools and useful low level items. Players can also often find crafting, woodcutting, smithing, and mining items available in the shop's inventory. The ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] of the general store contains the shop keeper and the shop assistant. The 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] houses Perdu, who will return certain reward items, such as Achievement Diary equipment, to the player for a small fee. If the player continues to climb ladders to the top of the building on the 3rd floor[UK]4th floor[US], they will be met with a scenic view of Falador.

Flynn's Mace Market

Flynn owns a small building on the west side of the general store; the mace market (). Here, players can purchase bronze maces, iron maces, steel maces, mithril maces, and adamant maces. Steel maces and mithril maces are often high in stock.

Cassie's Shield Shop

The first east building a player will see when entering through the north gate is Cassie's two story shield shop (). It is the only shield shop in Gielinor, but has a very limited stock. Cassie can be found on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] offering wooden shields, bronze square shields, bronze kiteshields, iron square shields, iron kiteshields, steel square shields, steel kiteshields, and mithril square shields. On the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] of her shop is a room where a cooked chicken respawns.

Herquin's Gems

In a small building south of the west bank is Herquin and his gem store (). Players can purchase uncut sapphires, uncut emeralds, uncut rubies, uncut diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and diamonds from him. However, the gems do not restock, meaning players have to sell their gems to him, which rarely happens. Because of this, players are uncommon in Herquin's store. For rangers, in the south-west corner of Herquin's store spawns 2 bronze arrows, which are hardly collected.

Wayne's Chains

In the far southern part of the city is Wayne and his chainmail store (). Players can purchase bronze chainbodies, iron chainbodies, steel chainbodies, black chainbodies, mithril chainbodies, and adamant chainbodies. He occasionally has the higher metal chains in stock, though not always.

Hairdresser Salon

North of the west bank is the hairdresser's salon (). Changing the player's hairstyle and colour at the Falador hairdresser is free of charge. Male characters can also have the colour and style of their beards changed.

NPCs

The official ruler of Asgarnia is King Vallance, but he has recently retired from public life and no one has seen him for many years. Now, Sir Amik Varze rules in his stead.

Surroundings

  • Yew trees: There are many yew trees outside the east and south walls. The east bank is nearby, making the trees popular for woodcutters.
  • Farm: South of Falador is a farm. Here, players can kill chickens and cows. There is also a rather large cabbage patch east of the building, which can be teleported to with an explorer's ring 2 or higher.
  • Doric's anvils: North of Falador is Doric and his anvils. Players can start Doric's Quest by speaking to him.
  • Mine: West of Falador is a small mine, to the south of which are dark wizards.
  • Allotment Patch: South of Falador (north of the cabbage patch and east of the cow pasture of the aforementioned farm) is an allotment patch where players may grow allotment, flowers and herbs to train Farming.
  • Crafting Guild: The Crafting Guild is south-west of Falador. The nearest bank with no requirements is in Falador.

Quests

Free-to-play quests

Members quests

Events

Falador's main square located north of the White Knight's Castle has become a centre for riots, bug abuse, and other "player-made" events. Some of the events that have taken place there:

  • On 6 June 2006, the Falador Massacre occurred as a result of the Construction update the week before. After expelling guests during a party in a house, a member accidentally caused a glitch that allowed others to attack anybody, anytime, without retaliation. Falador was the site of many of the killings (see the article for further information). This event was commemorated on its 10th anniversary with the World 666 event.
  • On 28 March 2007, there was another riot in Falador, this time caused by the change to Rule 2 that outlawed luring. There were also threads on the forums about luring, many of which were locked by forum moderators as spam.
  • On 17 July 2007, there was yet another riot, this time on world 99, to protest the changes to Pest Control that day. The protest was still ongoing nearly 20 hours after the update.
  • On 24 July 2015, there was another riot on world 366 in Old School RuneScape, due to the fact that the first RuneScape Competitive Tournament was DDOS'ed that day.
  • On 7 September 2021, there were riots on multiple worlds, primarily 302 and 301, in response to Jagex preventing the release of the 117 HD RuneLite plugin.

Music

Inside walls

Outside walls (south)

Outside walls (north)

Changes

Date Changes
[[{{#explode:11 October 2022| |0}} {{#explode:11 October 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 October 2022| |2}}]]
(update)

The door on the estate agent's house now opens to the east.

[[{{#explode:17 January 2019| |0}} {{#explode:17 January 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:17 January 2019| |2}}]]
(update)

Pathing relating to the level 26 Agility shortcut tunnel on the southern Falador wall has been improved.

[[{{#explode:8 October 2015| |0}} {{#explode:8 October 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:8 October 2015| |2}}]]
(update)

Some bushes have been added near east Falador Bank to improve routefinding to the bankers.

[[{{#explode:23 July 2015| |0}} {{#explode:23 July 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 July 2015| |2}}]]
(update)

The 10% increase in XP at the Falador farming patch will now only apply after completing the Falador Medium Diary (rather than the easy diary), as intended.

[[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |0}} {{#explode:5 March 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |2}}]]
(update | poll)

You now receive 10% more experience from the Falador farming patch if you have completed the Falador Medium Diary.

[[{{#explode:30 January 2014| |0}} {{#explode:30 January 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:30 January 2014| |2}}]]
(update)

Routefinding at Falador west bank has been improved.

[[{{#explode:11 July 2013| |0}} {{#explode:11 July 2013| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 July 2013| |2}}]]
(update | poll)

Perdu, a travelling dwarven merchant, can now be found in Lumbridge, Falador, Catherby and Edgeville. He will return certain reward items to you if he thinks you've lost them, although his prices are higher than you'd have paid elsewhere.

Trivia

The Falador fence.
  • Though never mentioned directly in game, Guthix describes 'Farradorn' as a historical place name in issue #25 of God letters, a likely reference to Falador.[1]
  • Despite the citizens of Falador being strong Saradominists, no altars to Saradomin can be found in Falador. There is still an altar usable within the city in the 2nd basement of the Old School Museum beneath the Falador Party Room,
  • One of Falador's most recognisable features is the sterling white walls. The walls were actually normal grey stone back in RuneScape Classic and the early days of RuneScape 2.
  • Falador was already mentioned in the original, hand-drawn map of DeviousMUD, RuneScape's first test version. The city was located right next to a volcano.
  • The fence outside the north-west exterior wall has not been graphically updated since its release during RuneScape Classic.

References

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 God Letter 25: "Guthix Reiterates". RuneScape God Letters. Jagex.
  2. ^ "King's Ransom". RuneScape News. Jagex. 24 July 2007. Archived from the original.
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