Challenge gem

Challenge gem
Release	8 June 2015 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	No
Destroy	You will not be refunded if you destroy this item.
Actions
Backpack	Deploy, Destroy
Values
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always kept
Weight	0 kg
Examine
Deploy this to start a skilling or combat competition.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	237,877 coins (info)
Buy limit	10
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Advanced data
Item ID	34957
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Challenge gems are items that can be bought from Solomon's General Store or War in packs of 1, 3 and 6 for 10, 25 and 45 RuneCoins respectively. They can be purchased by talking to War and asking "Can you sell me some Challenge Gems?" They could also be bought in the Fun Item Shop and found whilst training or killing Clawdia at the Summer Beach Party.

They allow players to start their own challenges. Winning 10, 25 and 100 challenges gives the titles: [Name] the Victor, [Name] the MVP and [Name] the Real MVP while losing 10, 25, and 100 challenges gives: [Name] the Loser, [Name] the Struggle and [Name] the Real Struggle. Taking part in 10 challenges gives [Name] the Contender title. Participating in a challenge gives a challenge shard to keep track of the score.

If buying the gems solely for titles, it would take 200 gems to obtain them all, at a cost of 47,575,400 coins.

Mechanics

No more than one challenge gem may be placed within 10 squares of another gem or a bank. Challenge gems may not be placed in some areas, such as the Fight Kiln. A player can start a challenge gem at any time by choosing the deploy option to place a combat challenge gem or skiller challenge gem. A 4-pin entry code may also be specified to restrict the players who are allowed to enter the challenge.

Up to 50 players can enter a challenge gem competition. While the competition is ongoing, players rank 1st, 2nd, and 3rd have their rank visible above their head. The score is calculated by experience obtained multiplied by 10. This does not take account bonus experience.

After the competition ends, if the same player wishes to start a new challenge, they must wait for the previous challenge gem to despawn.

Players who have the f2p trade limit are not able to participate in a challenge gem competition even if the competition has no entrance fee (or prize).

Skilling competiton

For the skilling competition, you're allowed to choose the amount of time for the competition (between 5 and 30 minutes in intervals of 5), the skill (must be a skill as there is no option for overall XP), and the entrance fee (between 0 coins (just for fun) and 1,000,000 coins)) and the delay time (between 1 and 5 minutes) until the competition automatically starts.

Players who enter the competition earn points based on the base XP they gain (so bonus XP does not give any advantage).

Combat competition

For the combat competition, one may select the amount of time for the competition (between 5 and 30 minutes in intervals of 5), the enemy combat level range (0 to 10,000), the player combat level (3 to 138), the entrance fee (between 0 coins (just for fun) and 1,000,000 coins) and the delay time (between 1 and 5 minutes) until the competition automatically starts. Additionally, the combat may also be limited to PVP only and/or wilderness areas only.

Damage mechanics

The following damage counts towards a challenge gem:

• Godbooks
• Crackling, aftershock
• Normal damage from abilities + bleeds + autos
• Poison
• Reflected damage (DTB, recoil, deflect prayer, armour spikes etc.)
• Blight damage from Eldritch crossbow

The following damage does not count towards a challenge gem:

• Familiar damage (ripper passive counts, but not its attacks)
• Sign / portent of death
• Dreadnips
• Vengeance
• Wrath + retribution
• Portents of degradation

Criticism

Upon release, the challenge gem received considerable amount of complaints due to the fact that "The MVP" and "The Real MVP" were a golden colour - like those won by finishing first in the seasonal hiscores. Due to this, on 15 June 2015 the colours of the titles were changed to mustard yellow. In a hidden update on 14 July 2015, their original colour was restored. The colour was changed again, to a pale green colour during the 20 July 2015 update.

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Clawdia	250	1	Rare

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

† Denotes discontinued stores that stocked Challenge gem. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Fun Item Shop †	Lumbridge Crater	45	RuneCoins	∞
Fun Item Shop †	Lumbridge Crater	7.5	RuneCoins	∞

Gallery

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  A deployed skiller challenge gem for a skilling competition

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  A deployed combat challenge gem for a combat competition

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  Select which type of competition

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  Select what skill to compete on and stake

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  Enter a competition

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  Unlucky...

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  Congratulations!

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  Rank 2

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  Rank 3

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 26 April 2021 (Update):
  • Challenge gems can now be purchased with RuneCoins from War in War's Retreat

• patch 30 November 2020 (Update):
  • Ironmen may now participate in challenge gem competitions.

• patch 27 April 2020 (Update):
  • Damage dealt under the effect of the Eldritch Crossbow's special attack via Soul Split is now tracked by combat challenge gems.

• patch 31 May 2016 (Update):
  • You can no longer place challenge gems close to each other by placing them at the same time.

• patch 14 September 2015 (Update):
  • Players can no longer place challenge gems next to a bank.

• patch 29 June 2015 (Update):
  • Only direct damage now counts towards combat challenges set up via a challenge gem.

• patch 15 June 2015 (Update):
  • Due to player feedback, we have slightly changed the colour of the winner's challenge gem titles.
  • Players can no longer place challenge gems so close to another challenge gem.
  • Finishing a challenge gem competition will no longer state 'nobody scored any points'.
  • A typo on the information panel for challenge gems has been fixed.

• update 8 June 2015 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• This item does not appear in any Quick Chat phrases for buying them, even though they appear in the Grand Exchange.