Server

"World" redirects here. For the fictional world in which Old School RuneScape is set, see Gielinor. For the other worlds and planes of existence, see Realms.

A list of Old School RuneScape servers in the Main Menu.

A server, world or W is a computer, or part of a computer, which hosts RuneScape. Servers are maintained by Jagex and are distributed across the real world. Each world allows 2000 players to be connected at once.

Types of worlds

Type		Description
	Free-to-play	The only worlds available to free players. Certain worlds may be earmarked for specific activities.
	Members	General-purpose worlds for members. Certain worlds may be earmarked for specific activities.
	Leagues	Temporary worlds for the Leagues game mode.
/	Unrestricted	Also known as beta or tournament worlds. Useful for beta testing or trying high-level content.
	Deadman	Worlds for Deadman Mode, a PvP oriented game mode.
	PvP	Player-versus-player combat is enabled outside the Wilderness in these worlds.
	Quest Speedrunning	Worlds for the Quest Speedrunning game mode.

Other

Type		Description
/	Skill Total	Limited to players with the indicated skill total.
/	High Risk	Players will lose all items on death in these worlds.
/	PvP Arena	Worlds restricted to Emir's Arena activities.
	LMS Competitive	Competitive Last Man Standing is limited to these worlds. On rotation.
	Bounty Hunter	Bounty Hunter is limited to these worlds. On rotation.

List of worlds

This is the list of worlds and their respective activities. There are currently 163 normal members worlds and 61 free-to-play worlds.

World	Location	(m)	Activity
301	United States (east)	0	Trade - Free
302	United Kingdom	1	Trade - Members
303	Germany	1
304	Germany	1	Trouble Brewing
305	United States (east)	1	Falador Party Room
306	United States (west)	1	Barbarian Assault
307	United States (west)	1	Wintertodt
308	United Kingdom	0	Wilderness PK - Free
309	United Kingdom	1	Wintertodt
310	United Kingdom	1	Barbarian Assault
311	Germany	1	Wintertodt
312	Germany	1	Group Skilling
313	United States (west)	1	Group Skilling
314	United States (east)	1	Brimhaven Agility Arena
315	United States (west)	1	Fishing Trawler
316	United Kingdom	0	Wilderness PK - Free
317	United Kingdom	1
319	United States (west)	1	Bounty Hunter World
320	United States (west)	1	Soul Wars
321	United States (east)	1	Sulliuscep cutting
322	United States (east)	1	Clan Wars - Free-for-all
323	United States (west)	1	Volcanic Mine
324	United States (west)	1	Group Iron
325	United Kingdom	1	Group Iron
326	United Kingdom	0	LMS Casual
327	Germany	1	Ourania Altar
328	Germany	1	Group Iron
329	United States (east)	1	Tombs of Amascut
330	United States (east)	1	House Party, Gilded Altar
331	United States (west)	1	Tombs of Amascut
332	United States (west)	1	Nex FFA
333	United Kingdom	1	Tombs of Amascut
334	United Kingdom	1	Castle Wars 1
335	Germany	0	Group Iron
336	Germany	1	ToA FFA
337	United States (east)	1	Nightmare of Ashihama
338	United States (west)	1	ToA FFA
339	United States (west)	1
340	United States (west)	1
341	United Kingdom	1	Tempoross
342	United Kingdom	1	Role-playing
343	Germany	1
344	Germany	1	Pest Control
345	United States (east)		Deadman
346	United States (east)	1	Agility Training
347	United States (west)	1
348	United States (west)	1
349	United Kingdom	1	2000 skill total
350	United Kingdom	1	Soul Wars
351	Germany	1
352	Germany	1	Blast Furnace
353	United States (east)	1	1250 skill total
354	United States (east)	1	Castle Wars 2
355	United States (west)	1	Blast Furnace
356	United States (west)	1	Blast Furnace
357	United States (west)	1	Blast Furnace
358	United Kingdom	1	Blast Furnace
359	Germany	1
360	Germany	1
361	United States (east)	1	2000 skill total
362	United States (east)	1	TzHaar Fight Pit
363	United Kingdom	1	2200 skill total
364	United Kingdom	1	1250 skill total
365	United Kingdom	1	High Risk World
366	United Kingdom	1	1500 skill total
367	Germany	1
368	Germany	1
369	United States (east)	1	Wilderness PK - Members
370	United States (east)	1	Fishing Trawler
371	United Kingdom	0	Group Iron
372	United Kingdom	0	750 skill total
373	United Kingdom	1	1750 skill total
374	United States (west)	1	Theatre of Blood
375	Germany	1	Zalcano
376	Germany	1	Theatre of Blood
377	United States (east)	1	Mort'ton temple, Rat Pits
378	United States (west)	1	Zalcano
379	United Kingdom	0	PvP Arena (Legacy Duels)
380	United Kingdom	0
381	United Kingdom	0	500 skill total
382	United Kingdom	0
383	Germany	0	Castle Wars - Free
384	Germany	0
385	United States (east)	1	Brimhaven Agility
386	United States (east)	1	Blast Furnace
387	Australia	1	Blast Furnace
388	Australia	1	Forestry
389	Australia	1	Wintertodt
390	Australia	1
391	Australia	1	1750 skill total
392	Australia		PvP World
393	United States (east)	0	750 skill total
394	United States (east)	0	Clan Wars - Free
395	Germany	1	Blast Furnace
396	Germany	1	2000 skill total
397	Germany	0
398	Germany	0	Forestry
399	Germany	0
413	Germany	0	500 skill total
414	Germany	0	750 skill total
415	United States (east)	1	2200 skill total
416	United States (east)	1	1500 skill total
417	United States (east)	0	Group Iron
418	United States (west)	0
419	United States (west)	0	500 skill total
420	United States (west)	1	1500 skill total
421	United States (west)	1
422	United States (west)	1	Tempoross
423	United States (west)	1	Fresh Start
424	Australia	1	Blast Furnace
425	Australia	1	Guardians of the Rift
426	Australia	1	House Party, Gilded Altar
427	Australia	0	500 skill total
428	United States (west)	1	2000 skill total
429	United States (west)	1	1250 skill total
430	United States (west)	0
431	United States (west)	0
432	United States (west)	0	750 skill total
433	United States (west)	0
434	United States (west)	0	Forestry
435	United States (west)	0
436	United States (west)	0
437	United States (west)	0
441	United States (west)	1	Guardians of the Rift
443	United States (west)	1
444	United States (west)	1	Forestry
445	United States (west)	1	Guardians of the Rift
446	United States (west)	1	Role-playing
447	Germany	1	1250 skill total
448	Germany	1	1500 skill total
449	Germany	1	1750 skill total
450	Germany	1	2200 skill total
451	Germany	0
452	Germany	0
453	Germany	0
454	Germany	0
455	Germany	0
456	Germany	0
459	Germany	1	Guardians of the Rift
463	Germany	1	Tempoross
464	Germany	1	Guardians of the Rift
465	Germany	1	House Party, Gilded Altar
466	Germany	1	Blast Furnace
467	United States (east)	1	1750 skill total
468	United States (east)	0	500 skill total
469	United States (east)	0	LMS Casual
474	United States (east)	1	High Risk World
475	United States (east)	0
476	United States (east)	0
477	United States (east)	1	Clan Recruitment
478	United States (east)	1	Guardians of the Rift
479	United States (east)	1	PvP Arena (Legacy Duels)
480	United States (east)	1	Ourania Altar
481	United States (east)	1	Nex FFA
482	United States (east)	1
483	United States (east)	0
484	United States (east)	1
485	United States (east)	1
486	United States (east)	1
487	United States (east)	1	Forestry
488	United States (east)	1
489	United States (east)	1
490	United States (east)	1	Guardians of the Rift
491	United States (east)	1	Burthorpe Games Room
492	United States (east)	1	Guardians of the Rift
493	United States (east)	1	Pyramid Plunder
494	United States (east)	1	Blast Furnace
495	United States (east)	1	Blast Furnace
496	United States (east)	1	Blast Furnace
497	United Kingdom	0	Clan Recruitment
498	United Kingdom	0
499	United Kingdom	0
500	United Kingdom	0
501	United Kingdom	0
502	United Kingdom		Speedrunning World
505	United Kingdom	1	Nex FFA
506	United Kingdom	1
507	United Kingdom	1	Guardians of the Rift
508	United Kingdom	1	Brimhaven Agility
509	United Kingdom	1
510	United Kingdom	1	Forestry
511	United Kingdom	1
512	United Kingdom	1	House Party, Gilded Altar
513	United Kingdom	1	Zeah Runecrafting
514	United Kingdom	1	Nightmare of Ashihama
515	United Kingdom	1	Blast Furnace
516	United Kingdom	1	Blast Furnace
517	United Kingdom	1
518	United Kingdom	1
519	United Kingdom	1
520	United Kingdom	1
521	United Kingdom	1
522	United Kingdom	1	Guardians of the Rift
523	United Kingdom	1	Nex FFA
524	United Kingdom	1
525	United Kingdom	1
526	Australia	1	2200 skill total
527	Australia	1	2000 skill total
528	Australia	1	1500 skill total
529	Australia	1	1250 skill total
530	Australia	0	750 skill total
531	Australia	1	Tombs of Amascut
532	Australia	1	Group PvM
533	Australia	1	High Risk World
534	Australia	1	Guardians of the Rift
535	Australia	1	Soul Wars
537	Australia	0
540	United States (west)		Speedrunning World
544	United States (west)	0
545	United States (west)	0
546	United States (west)	0
547	United States (west)	0
549	Germany		Speedrunning World
552	Germany	0
553	Germany	0
554	Germany	0
555	Germany	0
558	United Kingdom	1	PvP Arena (UK)
560	United Kingdom		PvP World
561	United Kingdom		PvP World - Free
565	United Kingdom	0	Fresh Start
567	United Kingdom	1
568	Australia		Speedrunning World
569	Australia	1
570	Australia	1	PvP Arena (AUS)
571	Australia	0
573	United States (east)	1	Bounty Hunter World
575	United States (east)	0
576	United States (east)		Speedrunning World
578	United States (east)	1	PvP Arena (US)
579	United States (east)		PvP World - High Risk
580	United States (east)	1	LMS Competitive
596	Australia	1
597	Australia	1

Isolation of worlds

For the most part, events that occur in one world will not affect any other RuneScape world. For example, buying an item in a shop will only decrease the inventory for the shop in that world. Shop inventory, character respawns, item respawns, and resource regeneration (e.g. ores, trees) are all managed individually for each server. Additionally, players (along with chat messages) contained in one world will not be visible to players in another world.

One exception to this rule is the timing of certain events. For example, when tackling organized crime, each world will consistently spawn and despawn the gang meetings at the same times and locations as the other worlds on that server.

World hopping

Main article: World switching

Because each world has its own shop inventory, players will often change worlds rapidly to buy from one store many different times. Also, players often switch worlds to find more favourable conditions (e.g. more populated) for minigames, player killing, or trading. This is known as world hopping.

Interaction between worlds

The only possible ways of interaction between RuneScape worlds is private chat using the Friends List or through Clan Chat.

Persistence of character state

When a user logs off of a world, all settings particular to that character are saved to the player's account profile in a global database. Therefore, when logging into a different world, the character's skills, inventory, etc. will be restored to the same state, regardless of which server the character last logged onto.

Themed servers/worlds

In August 2007, Jagex added a new column to the world select screen highlighting those worlds with associated activities, especially those team-based events like Trouble Brewing, to make it easier to find people with similar ideas.

In the update of July 5 2018, Jagex removed the themes of several worlds where the theme was unused or no longer necessary. This was only a text change in the world selection screen, with no impact on the actual worlds.

Skill total worlds

Skill total worlds are worlds that are locked to accounts that do not meet the required Total level to enter. Free-to-play skill total worlds calculate total levels from free-to-play skills alone and do not acknowledge members skills, meaning players require a cumulative total of 500 or 750 in free-to-play skills (total level of 508 or 758 respectively if all member's skills are 1) to enter those worlds.

Player killing

Main article: PvP world

• 308 — Wilderness PK - Free
• 316 — Wilderness PK - Free
• 365 — High Risk World
• 369 — Wilderness PK - Members
• 392 — PvP World

On these worlds, players may attack each other almost everywhere and are prevented from teleporting for a few seconds after using a special attack in PvP combat on PvP or Bounty Hunter worlds. This is done to prevent players from using their special attack on a player and immediately teleporting away without consequence. Players are also prevented from teleporting while their special attack bar is activated on these worlds.

Normally some PvP worlds are affected by the PvP world rotation, changing when they are available in one week intervals. This is to reduce the number of worlds to make each more active, while changing locations to provide fairer lag to players across the world.

Note: The rotation displayed may not update immediately following game updates. Click here to clear the cache and force an update.

Rotation A

This rotation is currently inactive.

• 318 – Bounty Hunter world
• 390 – LMS Competitive
  • This world is online at all times, but it can only be used to play LMS competitive during rotation A
• 539 — PvP World
• 548 — PvP World - High Risk
• 559 — LMS Competitive
• 569 — Bounty Hunter World
  • This world is online at all times, but it can only be used to play Bounty Hunter during rotation A
• 577 — PvP World - Free

Rotation B

This rotation is currently active and will change to A in 6 days.

• 319 — Bounty Hunter World
• 560 — PvP World
• 561 — PvP World - Free
• 579 — PvP World - High Risk
• 580 — LMS Competitive

High-risk worlds

High Risk worlds (worlds 365, 474, 533, PvP worlds 548 and 579) are worlds where players will lose all items on death due to having a special skull status over the head () at all times. The Protect Item prayer does not work on these worlds. Going into these worlds can be a risk, but good way to make money if you have a high Combat level with good armour and weapons and are proficient in player-versus-player combat. It is strongly recommended that you only take items that you are willing to lose! Also, note that World 365, 474, and 533 are "safe" worlds unless you go into the Wilderness as they are not PvP worlds.

Upon killing any opponent, you will always get the items they were wearing and carrying, unless the item is (or was) untradeable, in which case will usually turn into a stack of gold coins according to its value.

Warning

The warning received when selecting a High Risk world from the login screen.

Confirmation when selecting a High Risk world using the in-game World Switcher.

A warning is shown on attempting to login to a high-risk server from the login screen. If using the World Switcher instead, a confirmation will appear. Upon logging into a PvP world, a chat message will appear saying This is a PvP World. Players may attack you once you leave this safe area.

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:10 January 2024| |0}} {{#explode:10 January 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 January 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The PvP world rotation has been turned back on.
[[{{#explode:12 December 2023| |0}} {{#explode:12 December 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:12 December 2023| |2}}]] (update)	Worlds in both rotas are available until 10 January 2024.
[[{{#explode:13 December 2022| |0}} {{#explode:13 December 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:13 December 2022| |2}}]] (update)	Worlds in both rotas are available until 11 January 2023.
[[{{#explode:6 June 2022| |0}} {{#explode:6 June 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 June 2022| |2}}]] (update)	The PvP world rotation has been turned back on.
[[{{#explode:11 April 2022| |0}} {{#explode:11 April 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 April 2022| |2}}]]	Hotfix The PvP world rotation was turned off for world deployment system maintenance. All PvP worlds are available simultaneously.
[[{{#explode:16 December 2021| |0}} {{#explode:16 December 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 December 2021| |2}}]] (update)	Worlds in both rotas are available until 5 January 2022.
[[{{#explode:22 September 2021| |0}} {{#explode:22 September 2021| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:22 September 2021| |2}}]] (update)	On high-risk PvP worlds, death no longer removes the Special Skull icon.
[[{{#explode:20 August 2015| |0}} {{#explode:20 August 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:20 August 2015| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Added four skill total worlds that require a minimum of 1250+, 1500+, 1750+, or 2000+ total level in order to access.
[[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |0}} {{#explode:5 March 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 March 2015| |2}}]] (update)	Due to an influx of free-to-play players, 3 members worlds (301, 326 and 335) have been converted to F2P.
[[{{#explode:17 July 2014| |0}} {{#explode:17 July 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:17 July 2014| |2}}]] (update)	Resources and monsters now spawn at a standardised rate throughout all worlds regardless of how many people are currently online instead of based on how many people were online on that world, where more players meant a faster respawn.

Trivia

Icons used for the logged-out world switcher. Notably, there are a number of icons, predominantly free-to-play icons, which exist but are unused.

• Despite not being used in the world switcher, icons for free-to-play Deadman worlds, no save game worlds, Leagues worlds, Quest Speedrunning worlds, and beta worlds are present in the game's cache. These icons were revealed on 17 May 2023 and added on 24 May 2023 following an update to the world switcher interface.