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.
	LMS Competitive	Competitive Last Man Standing is limited to these worlds. On rotation.

List of worlds

This is the list of worlds and their respective activities. There are currently 155 normal members worlds and 76 free-to-play worlds.

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

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.

Rotation A

This rotation is currently active for the next 4 days.

• 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
• 577 — PvP World - Free

Rotation B

This rotation is currently inactive.

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

High-risk worlds

High Risk worlds (currently worlds 365, 474, 533, and PvP world 548) are worlds where players will lose all items on death due to having a special skull status over the head () at all times. Going into these worlds can be a risky, 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
6 June 2022 (update)	The PvP world rotation has been turned back on.
11 April 2022	Hotfix The PvP world rotation was turned off for world deployment system maintenance. All PvP worlds are available simultaneously.
22 September 2021 (update)	On high-risk PvP worlds, death no longer removes the Special Skull icon.
20 August 2015 (update | poll)	Added four skill total worlds that require a minimum of 1250+, 1500+, 1750+, or 2000+ total level in order to access.
5 March 2015 (update)	Due to an influx of free-to-play players, 3 members worlds (301, 326 and 335) have been converted to F2P.
17 July 2014 (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.