Maze

Maze
Released		2 August 2004 (Update)
Type		Random event
Members		No
Location		N/A
Music		Time Out
Location

The maze is a random event initiated randomly by the appearance of the Mysterious Old Man, who offers the player a chance to complete a maze. It is favourable to complete over most other random events because the rewards it gives tend to be much more valuable than those given by other events despite taking longer to complete.

The maze itself is a large square area full of "walls" made of floating cubes. The goal is to navigate through the maze to the centre and touch the rotating shrine found there; once the player does so, they will be teleported back to where they spoke to the Mysterious Old Man and will receive a reward. Run energy doesn't deplete at all in the maze.

Solutions

The maze layout is always the same but not the player's starting position. Meaning the path to the center depends on where the player spawns. The maze may also be rotated to not face north.

There are 10 possible starting locations.

Routes to finish (map faces random direction when you enter)

Rewards

Main articles: Strange shrine and Chest (Maze)

While inside the maze, the bottom right corner of the screen displays the event's "reward potential", which starts at 100% and slowly drains away as the player spends time in the maze, at a rate of 1% every 5 ticks (3 seconds). Players typically finish with 65-75% reward potential, though this can vary with starting location and it is possible to obtain up to 80-81%. Players who reach 0% reward potential will be teleported out of the maze (back to where they were before the event started) with no reward. Some rewards can be very valuable in the amounts they are offered, with the highest rewards possible around 84,840 coins (three times ~280 Death Runes).

Upon completion, the maze event will reward the player with varying amounts of three resources randomly selected from the table below, which can be the same or different resource each selection, scaled to the remaining reward potential and the player's skill total in the following manner:

${\mathit {ItemQty}}={\frac {{\mathit {TotalLevel}}\times {\mathit {RewardPotential}}\times {\frac {10}{3}}}{\mathit {ItemDivisor}}},$

where the divisor depends on the specific item rewarded in the following way:

Reaching the centre

Reward	Divisor
Coins	1
Feather	2
Iron arrow	3
Chaos rune	9
Steel arrow	12
Death rune	18
Coal	45
Mithril ore	162
Nature rune	180

For example, a player with 1772 total and 75% completion could receive 4430 coins, 491 chaos runes, or 27 mithril ore. The practical maximum rewards where completing at 75% potential and at max total level are 5,693 coins, 2,846 feathers, 1,898 iron arrows, 632 chaos runes, 474 steel arrows, 316 death runes, 126 coal, 35 mithril ores, and 32 nature runes.

Strange shrine

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	0–7,590	3 × 1/9	0–7,590	0–7,590
	Feather	0–3,795	3 × 1/9	0–7,590	0–3,795
	Iron arrow	0–2,530	3 × 1/9	0–10,120	0–2,530
	Chaos rune	0–843	3 × 1/9	0–39,621	0–45,522
	Steel arrow	0–632	3 × 1/9	0–11,376	0–4,424
	Death rune	0–421	3 × 1/9	0–42,521	0–45,468
	Coal	0–168 (noted)	3 × 1/9	0–40,320	0–4,536
	Nature rune	0–42	3 × 1/9	0–3,780	0–4,536
	Mithril ore	0–46 (noted)	3 × 1/9	0–3,864	0–4,462

Chests

Furthermore, there are several rewards chests along the way which may give low-tier resources like elemental runes, bronze arrows and bolts, iron arrows, attack, strength, and defence potions. Opening such a chest does not itself cost any reward potential, however the amount of time it takes to take the slight detour is generally not worth the cheap rewards.

Players with a full inventory who have space in their bank for the rewarded item, will have the rewarded items be sent directly to their bank. Ultimate Ironman players with a full inventory will have the items drop to the floor instead.

Drop rates estimated based on 9,000 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Air rune	15	1/10	60	30
	Water rune	10	1/10	40	20
	Earth rune	10	1/10	40	20
	Fire rune	10	1/10	40	20
	Bronze arrow	20	1/10	40	20
	Bronze bolts	10	1/10	20	10
	Iron arrow	15	1/10	60	15
	Attack potion(2)(m)	1	1/10	1	5
	Strength potion(2)	1	1/10	70	7
	Defence potion(2)(m)	1	1/10	245	54

Changes

Date	Changes
8 November 2018 (update)	The walls no longer have an option to open them and players are teleported out if they run out of time.
8 October 2015 (update)	When entering the Maze random event area from the Smokey Well Dungeon, it will no longer remove the Maze's head-up display when the smoke overlay is removed.
22 May 2014 (update)	Run energy no longer drains while you're in the random event Maze.
26 July 2013 (update)	The Maze random event's warnings have been restored to some of its doors to prevent people from going down huge cul-de-sacs.
22 February 2013 (update)	This content was included when the Old School RuneScape servers officially launched.