Book of knowledge

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This article is about the random event reward. For the reward from Elemental Workshop III, see Book of knowledge (Elemental Workshop III).

Book of knowledge was removed after an update. The contents of this page no longer exist in RuneScape, and this article is kept for historical purposes.

Book of knowledge
Release	17 July 2007 (Update)
Removal	24 October 2012 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Bankable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	N/A
Destroy	If you drop this book it will be destroyed. You cannot replace it.
Actions
Backpack	Read, Destroy
Values
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always lost
Weight	1 kg
Examine
Educate yourself.
Advanced data
Item ID	11640
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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A Book of knowledge was a possible reward from the random event gift. It gave you experience equivalent to your level in a skill times 15. Compared with a normal random event lamp, which only gave the experience equal to the level times 10, the book of knowledge provided 50% more experience.

If you tried to bank it, you would receive the message "A magical force prevents you from banking this item!".

Before the random event gift released, if a player still had a Book of knowledge in their inventory, it was very unlikely but not impossible for a player to receive the Surprise Exam! random. However, the player would only retain one Book of knowledge.

Before the aforementioned update, if no inventory space was available, the book was left on floor. But once it was picked up it was impossible to put it down again. However the "Book on floor" phenomenon has been discontinued, as the random event gift would provide space for the book.

The Book of knowledge was presented as the tome of experience, since a player had proved themselves capable of solving the multiple questions presented by the dragon Mr. Mordaut.

Update history

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• update 17 July 2007 (Update):
  • Added to game.