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Old School Runescape Runelite Plugins

2025-08-31T06:11:26Z

I’ve been enjoying my time back in Old School Runescape. Such a classic for me. The landscape has changed a lot since 2006 though. There’s clients and plugins galore now, no more being limited to a web browser with 1 minute logout timer!

I started a bit in Runescape Clients and Settings and in the last several days I’ve discovered a few more things that I like.

Logout #

There’s not a lot of AFK opportunities in OSRS but there are more than there used to be. The primary one is splashing to gain magic xp. It’s slow but AFK for as long as you can be. On mobile the logout setting can be changed to 25 minutes so it’s easy to leave the game running on my phone for the sake of leveling up a bit.

But I prefer to play on desktop because it’s so much more beautiful with the HD 117 GPU plugin noted in Runescape Clients and Settings. And thankfully that 25 minute logout timer can be set in this client too!

Left Click Drop #

When power leveling in things like fishing or woodcutting it’s tempting to pair it with leveling in cooking and firemaking but the walking time between fishing, trees, fire etc. does really add up over days and weeks of playing. There are many tactics, but if money is no object (ie. you’re not trying to bank a ton of gold right now) then you can focus on fishing or chopping trees and simply dropping inventory as it fills up. This required right-click, select drop, click for every item in your inventory which is so tedious.

Luckily there’s a plugin for this!

As you can see you just type the name of the items you want the default left-click to drop and I have willow logs etc. in here from a few leveling sessions recently

Example #

By default take this example of wear Zammorak monk bottom

I would never actually want to default drop this item, but let’s say I did!

Now the default left-click is drop - super easy

Screenshot #

I JUST found this one! There’s a screenshot plugin to give you more standardized screenshots of in-game activity…

And then an example of that plugin’s screenshot:

Others #

Some noteable others are:

HD 117 GPU plugin (as noted in Runescape Clients and Settings)
skills progress shows useful information about the skill you’re leveling as an overlay
Quest Helper is huge for me because some of the runescape quests are legitimately challening, and I’m really here for dad mode… so the quest helper is a lifesaver

Runescape Clients and Settings

2025-08-15T11:12:57Z

Note to future me

Hey when you have to reinstall this, you NEED to use a Jagex launcher to launch runeline on Linux. TLDR: bolt from the discover store

I’m not a seasoned PC gamer, so launchers and game installers have been a tad confusing to me over the years. Runescape has some clients now, and runelite is apparently the primary third-party one. There are also plugins available!

Working On Linux #

To start I downloaded a third-party jagex launcher, bolt, from the discover store… I use it to launch runelite. In runelite there’s a plugin menu, I installed the gpu one and almost instantly the game came alive in a whole new way!

Jagex Launcher

I linked my runescape account to a jagex account and you ahve to use the jagex launcher to launch runelite but the jagex launcher only works on windows - there’s a github to make it work on linux but I went with third-party jagex launcher bolt instead

GPU #

The GPU one is great, makes the game look incredible

Default #

GPU #

Stats #

There’s a few that give nice timers for resources and stats for skill building

Actions for each skill is the last thing you did that earned XP. So in my screenshot I was mining iron and I have 10 actions left before leveling up - 1 action is mining 1 iron ore in this case

End #

I’m digging not just playing runescape again, but enjoying the ecosystem of tools around it. At the end of the day I’m realizing games are sets of data, and things like textures and effects can be loaded on top of that and rendered however you want (that the game/plugins support). So I’m very excited to dive back into a childhood favorite and relive the quests but now in GPU-rendered ray-traced goodness

It's not ray-traced but it sounded cool

Starting Old School Runescape Over Again

2025-08-14T19:25:55Z

Intro #

I got an itch to play a new game recently and after squabbling with my PS4 and my PC I decided to go old school literally with Old School Runescape… I played this game so much as a kid and it’s so well preserved in 2025. I tried to bang out a ton today and decided to look through a few guides to try to level up effeciently.

Quests #

There’s a handful of quests and several are pretty attainable early on that give enough XP to blitz through the early levels of many skills…

Today I made it through doric’s quest which bumped be through to level 20+ mining. Another player gave me a black pick-axe which made mining some iron pretty easy. From there I wanted to level up smithing a bit - and the guides say that “The Knight’s Sword” is a good quest for it, though it’s recommended to be combat level 20 before doing it… I decided to not worry about that, I’ve picked red-berries for a pie and am going to bring a haul of steaks and my black pick while I try to get the bluerite ore and run away from the ice giants that I know will destroy me at my whopping combat level 6… but for first day back I’m feeling great.

After that my smithing levels should be in the teens… Not sure what we’ll do after that

I did do the Cook’s Assistant while gathering things for the Knight’s Sword, easy peasy and gets me access to the oven in Lumbridge Castle.

Plans #

I’m using Affine to map out my questing - the mind map is great for tracking why I’m 6 mini-side-quests removed from the original thing I was after.

Update 01 #

After about 2 weeks I’ve done most of othe free-to-play stuff, with just another 2 quests to go. The game is so faitful to what I remember.

I was thinking about how I would tackle a new account, and I am starting to understand the simple appeal of having alternate accounts - a “pure mage” for example…. If money were no object then having a pure ranger and mage account would be pretty fun, and with a powerful main I think it’s possible to make plenty of in-game gold and just trade between accounts. To my knowledge, this doesn’t break any of the Jagex rules.

Putting the idea of a “pure” anything aside, I was thinking about how I would more efficiently have played to the point in the game I’m at right now… For gaining any combat xp the goal is the rune scimitar, which requires level 40 attack to wield. The stronger you are (ie. higher strength) the more xp you can gain per second. This means upping attack to level 40 with the best scimitar you can at every level until rune at 40, and then swapping to the strength-gaining combat style and theoretically training strength to level 99, and then train defense and attack from x and 40 respectively to 99 is the quickest way to do it.

The issue with this is that due to the level-scaling of the game, it’s totally impractical to do this and would suck all the fun out of the game. I think I handled my melee combat leveling pretty well by keeping the 3 stats, attack, strength, defense more or less in step with each other up to 40, and from then on began focusing primarily on strength.

I’ve also spent plenty of time on ranged and magic but these are expensive to train quickly (and quickly isn’t even THAT fast) due to resource consumption (arrows / runes). Now, I have plenty of resources in game, so training these has been fine, but in a more vanilla situation they could mostly be forgotten about until you’ve leveled up in crafting or mining and smithing for the sake of making some money.

On that note, combat can be paused from the onset and one can jump right to the mines with tin + copper -> iron or else tan cowhides and craft leather… either way, upgrading these skills opens the door for money-making routines and if you have a good source of income in the game, then buying runes and arrows for training is quite simple at the grand exchange

There are a few guides on the “optimal” way to play through the game depending on what you want to optimize. Personally, upon thinking about it through writing I can see how there’s not a “one right way” to play the game “most efficiently”.

If I were to start another account, not as one of these fancy schmancy “pure” ones, I think I would train my melee stats to 40 via cows, chickens, and giant frogs (then doubling up on prayer via big bones). The reason for this is that there’s places to mine and fish where the enemies are in level ranges 20-30 and it’s convenient to avoid hostility (ie. being attacked on site) (south-east varrock mine for example isn’t NEXT to the dark wizards, but they are close and if you are sub combat level 21 or something, they are hostile towards you).

The other skills I hadn’t thought about from the perspective of a guide are firemaking, fishing, cooking, and woodcutting. Typically they’re pretty easy to train together, but it’s also really easy to focus on cooking by itself east of Barbarian Village where folks are trainign fishing by just dropping raw fish. Coincidentally, that’s one of the fastest ways to level up fishing as well…

I’ve played the game these last 2 weeks I see that with enough money in the game you are better off staying laser-focused on one skill at a time and then buying the resoures needed for the other skills. For example, you can train combat and prayer with giant frogs pretty effeciently since they drop big bones. But it’s faster to just focus on killing the frogs for melee xp, and then buying big bones to do focused bone-burying sessions at a bank, is going to be a better use of time, but at the cost of buying the bones instead of harvesting yourself. If you resign youself to this pattern of play, the game pace moves a little quicker, the grind isn’t so exhausting, and the enjoyment is a big lighter (in a good way)