Tutorial Island
| Tutorial Island | ||||
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| Released | 24 September 2002 (Update) | |||
| Members | No | |||
| Location | Misthalin | |||
| League region |  Misthalin✓ | |||
| Inhabitants | Humans | |||
| Teleports | Magic Instructor | |||
| Music | Newbie Melody, Scape Cave | |||
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| Advanced data | ||||
| Type | island | |||
| Location on World Map | ||||
| Wizards' Tower | ||||
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| Karamja | ← | Tutorial Island | → | Kharidian Desert |
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| The Node | ||||
Tutorial Island is the starting place for every new Old School RuneScape player character. It's located in the Kingdom of Misthalin, and is connected to The Node just to the south. The island guides players through general aspects of gameplay, and serves as a place to learn the ropes for players that are new to the game.
If players get stuck during the tutorial, the required next action will be hinted at from the controls guide in the top left corner of the game client screen after a short amount of time has passed. The controls guide will also inform them to follow the instructions in the chat box.
Building one: the starting house
Character customisation
Upon logging in to the game for the first time after account creation, players will find themselves in the starting house, found at the centre of Tutorial Island. The Character Creator interface will be open, which allows setting their character's appearance, such as gender, skin colour, and clothing styles. The majority of these customisation options can later be altered through Makeover after leaving Tutorial Island, but only members can change the colour of the shoes and the design of the hands (whether the character wears bracelets or not) after confirming.
Gielinor Guide
Inside the starting house is the Gielinor Guide, the first non-player character (NPC) that players will encounter and talk to. He welcomes new arrivals to the world of Gielinor and teaches how to talk to its inhabitants. He'll also ask players their experience level. Players who select "brand new" or "played in the past" will then have access to the task system Adventure Paths once they arrive on the mainland. Finally, the guide will talk about the settings menu (options).
To continue the tutorial, the player needs to go outside, through the door, and follow the path to meet their first instructor. Left-click somewhere on the ground to move there. The arrow keys can be used to rotate the camera and change the view.
Survival Expert
Brynna, the Survival Expert, gives players the basics for the survival skills: Fishing, Woodcutting, Firemaking and Cooking. She'll give players an item: a small fishing net, which ends up in the backpack inventory. The small fishing net must be used with a fishing spot in the nearby pond, by clicking on such a spot, to catch some raw shrimps. Note that instructions given to your character can be seen in the top left corner.
Catching some shrimps will gain you Fishing experience, which can be seen in the skills menu or interface. There, the player can find all skills, their current levels and the amount of experience. A skill can be clicked on to open up the relevant skillguide. After gaining experience from Fishing, talking to Brynna will result in her giving the player a bronze axe and a tinderbox. The axe must be used to cut a tree to collect some logs.
Click on the tinderbox to highlight (select) it, then clicking on the logs to use the tinderbox on them, will start the animation of lighting a fire. Players must cook the raw shrimps on the fire. Once cooked, the shrimps (and food in general) can be eaten to replenish lost health.
Note: almost all skills that can be trained on Tutorial Island can be trained to level 3, but this is the highest level available here. Much faster training methods exist off the island, and higher levels than 3 can only be obtained after finishing the tutorial. Everything gathered on Tutorial Island will be lost once the player leaves the island. For this reason, it's recommended to complete the tutorial in a way that best explains the game, and focus on increasing skills after leaving the tutorial.
Building two: the kitchen
Master Chef
Upon entering the second building, Lev, the Master Chef, shows players the finer points of Cooking by sharing how to make bread. He hands the player the required ingredients: a pot of flour and a bucket of water. The flour and water must be mixed to make bread dough, which is done by using one of the two items on the other. The dough can then be baked into bread at the cooking range by using the dough on the range.
After making the bread, players learn how to use the music player. If the player has no more ingredients, they can be replenished by talking to Lev, but only if you didn't complete the music tutorial. Note that if you didn't complete the music tutorial, you can't burn your bread.
When you complete this tutorial you can move on to the Quest Guide. When moving to the next building, you gain the option to use emotes and how to run.
Note: along the way, players may notice some oak trees. These trees cannot be chopped down, because they require level 15 Woodcutting. The highest Woodcutting level players can reach on Tutorial Island is level 3.
Building three: the quest house
Quest Guide
The Quest Guide tells the player all about quests. He covers using the quest journal and the colours that the quests on that list can have:
- Red means the quest has not yet been started
- Yellow means started but not finished (in progress)
- Green means finished
When clicking on a quest, information about that quest will be displayed. If it is red, it will indicate where to find or start it and what the requirements are. If it is yellow, it will remind you what to do next.
The starting point of a quest can be easily recognized by the quest icon 
that can be found on the minimap (and on the world map). Such a symbol can be seen in the house the player is in right now. (Note that there are various icons to show different points of interest, which will help players find their way.)
Finally, the Quest Guide will tell you what quests can be about and what rewards they might offer once completed.
It is now time to go down the ladder and enter some caves, where players will forge and use weaponry.
Mining instructor
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When players have mined a copper ore and a tin ore, they can use the furnace to smelt the ores, combining them into a bronze bar. Dezzick will then give the player a hammer, with which the player can smith the bar into a bronze dagger on one of the nearby anvils.
Unlike with other skills, progressing both Mining and Smithing to level 3 here is worthwhile, as almost nowhere else in the world one can find ores, a furnace and an anvil this close to each other.
Combat instructor
The Combat Instructor, Vannaka, teaches the basics of the Melee and Ranged types of combat. Pures should pay attention to the "controlling combat experience" section below.
Melee
Players will now learn about the worn inventory, where wielded and equipped items will end up and equipment stats can be shown. After the dagger is equipped, they will be given a bronze sword and a wooden shield and will be told about the combat interface, where the attack style that will be used in combat can be selected. Different attack styles give different types of experience, and monsters are weak to specific attack styles.
The player will now have to kill one of the nearby rats. To do so, they must wield the bronze sword, the bronze dagger, or neither of those (fight unarmed). The attack style they select will determine what skill they will be training: Attack, Strength or Defence. Hitpoints cannot be trained on Tutorial Island, unless the player has reached level 3 strength.
As soon as you attack an opponent—in this case one of the giant rats—a health bar will appear above that opponent's head, and one above your own head will also appear as soon as the opponent strikes back. Note that a fatal hit cannot be received at this time: your health will likely drop to 1 but will never reach zero. As such, eating food to replenish health is not required. This is not the case outside of the tutorial.
After killing one rat, you may continue with the tutorial.
Ranged
Next up, Vannaka will talk about Ranged combat. At this point, the rat pit cannot be re-entered. He will give the player a shortbow and 50 bronze arrows, and once again the goal is to kill one single rat. Doing so will force the player to move on. When both the Melee and Ranged combat tasks are completed, the player may talk to the instructor to learn more about combat stats, melee combat, ranged combat and the Wilderness.
Controlling combat experience
In the melee fight, when armed with the sword or dagger, the accurate style trains Attack, aggressive trains Strength, and defensive trains Defence. (Some other weapons, obtainable only after leaving Tutorial Island, may offer the controlled style, which allows training all three skills at once (four when including Hitpoints).) When unarmed, Punch trains Attack, Kick trains Strength, and Block trains Defence.
If you kill a rat during the melee or ranged stage, the Combat Instructor will not allow you to attack another one, forcing you to continue the tutorial. Therefore, if you want to train more while on the island, it is suggested to deal 2 damage to a rat, run to the other side of the pit to exit combat (which enables you to attack another rat) and then repeat. When you have done this a couple of times, the chance increases you will accidentally attack a rat you have harmed before, killing it instantly; it will therefore become necessary to switch worlds regularly. If another player finishes off a rat that you have already done 2 damage to, that will count as your kill.
Building four: the Tutorial Island bank
The next building, the Tutorial Island bank, introduces players to the Bank of Gielinor. Players will visit a bank and use a bank booth to access their bank account, where they can store their possessions. Players must then look at the poll booth found in the bank; like banks, these are found in many towns across the world, and they allow the community to vote on the release of future game-changing updates.
Unlike most bank tellers, the bankers on Tutorial Island cannot be interacted with.
Account guide
The Account Guide instructs players about their account (i.e. their character). He will explain the Account Management menu and the various options within it: membership, worlds, swapping worlds with the world switcher in the logout menu, the store, bonds, the inbox, the name changer and various useful links at the bottom of the menu.
The Account Guide will also mention account safety and security, which are strengthened with bank PINs and authenticators. For that topic, he redirects to the Customer Support webpage.
Building five: the chapel
Prayer instructor
In the Tutorial Island chapel, the monk Brother Brace instructs players in the Prayer skill, the Prayer list, the use of Prayers, Prayer points and recharging those, and gaining Prayer experience by burying bones. Note: as explained in the combat section on this page, at this stage of the tutorial it is no longer possible to train Prayer until you travel to the mainland unless you have gathered some bones during your time in the rat pen.
Being the community officer, Brother Brace also instructs players in using the friends list and ignore list (befriending and ignoring other players respectively), adding and removing people from those lists, and the online and offline status of friends (represented by the colours green, yellow and red).
Upstairs in the chapel, the player can find an organ on which several tunes can be played.
Ironman Mode
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When following the road to the next and last building on the island, players will come across Paul, who will introduce them to Ironman Mode.
- Standard Iron Men or Iron Women will have restrictions imposed on them: they cannot trade, take items belonging to other players, nor accept their help. In other words, they are entirely self-sufficient and do everything for themselves.
- Hardcore Ironmen or Ironwomen not only face the standard restrictions, but also have only one life. In the event of a death that is not safe, the Hardcore status will be downgraded to a standard and the stats will be frozen on the Hardcore Iron Man hiscores.
- Ultimate Ironmen or Ironwomen, in addition to the standard restrictions, cannot use the bank. When they die, all carried items will be dropped directly to the ground and will remain there for an hour after death, after which the items will despawn.
As long as the player is on Tutorial Island they can switch freely between the three modes and being a normal player. Once they leave the island, they can speak to Adam the Ironman tutor in Lumbridge to switch further. However, Adam will let the player switch restrictions only downwards: from higher to lower, the order is: Ultimate/Hardcore -> Standard -> non-Ironmen.
Note that once a mode is chosen, players have one week to change their mind; once the week is over, players may not undo the changes. Players can also choose to become a Group Ironman, which allows groups of up to four people to play with a shared bank but with the restrictions above. Players who select this option can continue to The Node south of the final building.
Building six: the Magic building
Magic instructor
The Magic Instructor, Terrova, instructs players in the Magic skill, the spellbook interface and its filter menu, and the casting of spells. He will hand the player five air runes and five mind runes, which must be used to cast the offensive spell Wind Strike on one of the nearby chickens.
If players drop the runes and talk to the instructor again, more runes may be collected. Players can only cast Wind Strike on the chickens once before they are instructed to move on, and additional collected runes will vanish when leaving Tutorial Island. However, players can return to the rats to train Magic up to level 3 to bypass this restriction. This will require at most 32 of each rune, since you receive Magic experience even if you miss.
Leaving the island & arriving on the mainland
Those that are ready to leave can speak with the Magic Instructor once more. Moving on to the mainland will unlock access to the rest of the world of Gielinor, the ability to speak in chat, and the ability to further train skills. Players will arrive in Lumbridge, located north-east of Tutorial Island, with standard provisions. The following items are the only ones the player will own when arriving; any extra or other items collected on the island (whether held in the inventory or stored in the bank) will have disappeared.
- Carried in the inventory: bronze axe, bronze pickaxe, tinderbox, small fishing net, one couple of shrimps, bronze dagger, bronze sword, wooden shield, shortbow, 25 bronze arrows, 25 air runes, 15 mind runes, bucket, pot, one loaf of bread, 6 water runes, 4 earth runes and 2 body runes.
- Stored in their bank account: 25 coins.
Before teleporting you to the mainland, Terrova will ask you if you were planning to become an Iron Man. If so, he will direct you back to the Iron Man tutor standing outside Terrova's house. If not, he will point out that in the town he will teleport the player to, Lumbridge, there are many tutors who are willing to teach about the many skills the player could learn
Players that did not unlock the task system Adventure Paths whilst talking to the Gielinor Guide at the start of the tutorial are now standing within or in front of the walled area of Lumbridge Castle. Those that did unlock that task system (and have not chosen to play Ironman Mode) will find themselves just outside the nearby pub, near Adventurer Jon. He will immediately call the player and tell them about Adventure Paths.
Permanent Tutorial Island character
Some players decide to make a separate account for sole purpose of staying on Tutorial Island (or creating a Tutorial Island pure). The things to do on the island are very limited.
Tutorial Island stayers can get level 3 in Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Prayer, Magic, Mining, Smithing, Fishing, Cooking, Firemaking and Woodcutting, and can collect several items to their banks. However, Tutorial Island stayers cannot trade, vote via poll booth, obtain the Ironman/Ultimate Ironman armour, smith anything except bronze daggers, or train their skills higher than level 3.
Note that while players on Tutorial Island are not able to trade with other players directly or through dropping items, they are able to place items on a table to be collected by other players. Items placed on tables will last ten minutes before despawning.
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| [[{{#explode:25 October 2018| |0}} {{#explode:25 October 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:25 October 2018| |2}}]] (update) |
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| [[{{#explode:18 October 2018| |0}} {{#explode:18 October 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:18 October 2018| |2}}]] (update) |
The first character met is now called Gielinor Guide instead of RuneScape Guide. Financial Advisor was replaced with Account Guide. |
| [[{{#explode:28 April 2016| |0}} {{#explode:28 April 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 April 2016| |2}}]] (update) |
Run energy is now restored at the end of the tutorial. |
| [[{{#explode:21 August 2014| |0}} {{#explode:21 August 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 August 2014| |2}}]] (update) |
Tutorial Island has been updated to provide information about in-game polls. |
| [[{{#explode:3 April 2014| |0}} {{#explode:3 April 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:3 April 2014| |2}}]] (update) |
Character customization on Tutorial island now correctly applies new hairstyles and outfits. |
| [[{{#explode:22 February 2013| |0}} {{#explode:22 February 2013| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:22 February 2013| |2}}]] (update) |
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Trivia
| Total level: 56 | ||
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 3
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- The maximum total level achievable on Tutorial Island is 56.
- The maximum experience achievable on Tutorial Island is 3334 experience points, although to get that much you must get lucky in Magic training.
- The highest experience one can get in a skill (except Hitpoints) is 210 for Cooking.
- The best melee weapon is a bronze sword. The best (and only) Ranged weapon is a shortbow with bronze arrows as ammunition. The best (and only) shield is a wooden shield.
- Although there is no magic weapon, the bronze dagger gives +1 Magic attack bonus, and is the best Magic weapon available on the island.
- Even though there is a poll booth on the Tutorial Island the characters can't vote because it requires higher level than the maximum level obtainable on the isle.
- On certain occasions, an NPC called Skippy can be found in the starting building where the Gielinor Guide resides. Skippy allows players to skip the entirety of the tutorial. He cannot be found there permanently, in order to decrease the amount of bots entering the game.
- Vannaka, the Combat Instructor, can also be found on the mainland as a Slayer Master.
- If you speak with the Magic Instructor to get runes with a full inventory, it will erroneously tell you that Terrova gave you air and mind runes, despite no runes being added.
Music
The following music is unlocked while completing the tutorial.
| Name | Unlock details | Music track |
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| Newbie Melody | Unlocked at Tutorial Island | File:Newbie Melody.ogg |
| Scape Cave | Unlocked in the cave below Tutorial Island. | File:Scape Cave.ogg |
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