Minigames

The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:MinigamesThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:Minigames

"Activity" redirects here. For the bar that tracks a player's participation in some activities, see Activity bar.

Not to be confused with Distractions and Diversions.

Current rotation

Soul WarsNow!

Fishing Trawler27 Sep

The Great Orb Project30 Sep

Flash Powder Factory3 Oct

Stealing Creation6 Oct

Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza9 Oct

Heist12 Oct

Trouble Brewing15 Oct

Castle Wars18 Oct

Pest Control21 Oct

Soul Wars24 Oct

Fist of Guthix27 Oct

Barbarian Assault30 Oct

Conquest2 Nov

Fishing Trawler5 Nov

The Great Orb Project8 Nov

Flash Powder Factory11 Nov

Castle Wars14 Nov

Stealing Creation17 Nov

Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza20 Nov

Heist23 Nov

Soul Wars26 Nov

Barbarian Assault29 Nov

Conquest2 Dec

Fist of Guthix5 Dec

Castle Wars8 Dec

Pest Control11 Dec

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Minigames (formerly known as Activities) are small games in which a player (or players) set out to complete a certain objective. These games sometimes allow players to gain experience and items. They are identified with a red star icon on the map. Minigames can be repeated, unlike quests or miniquests which can only be completed once.

All minigames require membership, apart from the five available to free-to-play players: Clan Wars, Fist of Guthix, The Great Orb Project, Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza, and the Burthorpe Games Room.

Most minigames allow players to earn thaler, a special currency that can be spent on various minigame-related rewards. Thaler can be earned at an increased amount while playing the current spotlighted minigame.

Safe/dangerous

Most minigames are classified as either Safe or Dangerous depending on whether items are or are not kept on death. Some minigames may be classified as Unsafe, meaning death is not likely, but items will still be lost as in Dangerous minigames.

Safe

There are two types of safe minigame: safe combat, and no combat. Minigames with safe combat will see players fight monsters or other players, and should they die they will respawn in a designated area in the minigame with all their items. Minigames with no combat have no monsters or player-versus-player areas, so players cannot be killed. On the wiki, safe minigames will show a Safe banner at the top of the page, like this:

This is a safe activity. If you die, you will not lose any of your items.

Unsafe

Unsafe minigames either do not cause death directly, or only cause very minimal amounts of damage meaning that death is highly unlikely. Death, however, may still occur during an unsafe minigame due to means outside of the minigame itself, such as engaging in combat which is not part of the minigame or by being already poisoned. If death occurs while playing an unsafe minigame, items will be lost upon death, the same as dying in a dangerous minigame. On the wiki, unsafe minigames will show this banner at the top of the page:

Death during this activity is not safe. While this activity is not inherently dangerous, should you die by other means you will still lose your items and will need to reclaim them from Death or your gravestone.

Dangerous

Items will be lost upon death, and depending on the minigame, you may or may not get a gravestone. On the wiki, dangerous minigames will show a banner at the top of the page like the one below:

This is a dangerous activity. If you die, you will lose your items and will need to reclaim them from Death or your gravestone.

Combat

These minigames involve the use of combat skills to fight players or monsters. Note: stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Description
	Barbarian Assault	Safe	A team of five, fight 10 waves of penance creatures and the Penance queen, or the Penance King on hard mode.
	Barrows	Dangerous	Fight the six - eight Barrows Brothers to earn Barrows equipment.
	Burgh de Rott Ramble (reverse route of Temple Trekking)	Dangerous	A game where you guide potential Myreque recruits from Paterdomus to Burgh de Rott. Note: If players die during this minigame, their gravestone will be placed outside of Paterdomus.
	Castle Wars	Safe	A competitive game of Capture the Flag in which two teams try to bring the opponent's flag back to their base.
	Clan Wars	Depends on setting	Gather a clan and battle against one another. One of the five free play minigames. Note: If a player dies in a 'Dangerous' scenario during this minigame, they will drop all of their items, as if they were skulled (unless Protect Item is active, in which case they keep the most valuable item). Players do not get a gravestone if they die in a 'Dangerous' scenario, and all dropped items are lost to the killer.
	Conquest	Safe, although items can be lost if the player chooses to stake.	Outflank and outmaneuver your opponent on a Void Knight battlefield.
N/A	Deathmatch	Safe	Fight your opponents to death with the help of power ups and super power ups.
	Dominion Tower	Safe	Fight previously defeated foes and advance upward through the tower to gain Dominion Factor.
N/A	Fight Cauldron	Safe	Players fight alone against many waves of TokHaar monsters. Each monster killed will drop Obsidian shards which can be made into Obsidian bars and Obsidian armour.
N/A	Fight Kiln	Safe	Players fight alone against an army of TokHaar monsters. If they can defeat Har-Aken, they can choose a reward of either the TokHaar-Kal cape or an uncut onyx.
	Fist of Guthix	Safe	A tactical one-on-one game with two rounds, in which one player collects charges with a magical stone while the other is trying to hunt them down. In the second round, the players switch sides. One of the five free-to-play minigames.
	Mage Arena	Dangerous	Battle Kolodion for the right to learn God spells. Kolodion cannot be refought after defeating his fourth form, but the arena itself can still be used afterwards.
	Pest Control	Safe	A team combat minigame which involves protecting a vulnerable Void Knight, while fending off against waves of incoming monsters and taking down four portals.
	Soul Wars	Safe	PvP team-based Slayer minigame where teams compete to kill the opponents avatar, with self-chosen rewards gained upon victory.
N/A	Shattered Worlds	Safe	Travel through worlds in a race against the clock while defeating enemies that increase in difficulty from world to world.
	Temple Trekking (reverse route of Burgh de Rott Ramble)	Dangerous	A game where players have to guide refugees from Burgh de Rott to Paterdomus for rewards. Note: If players die during this minigame, their gravestone will be placed by the refugees in Burgh de Rott.
	TzHaar Fight Cave	Safe	Players fight alone against an army of TzHaar monsters. If they can defeat TzTok-Jad, they gain the sought-after fire cape. Tokkul are also awarded.
	TzHaar Fight Pit	Safe	Players fight in a safe pit of combat in a free-for-all environment, last man standing gains a tokkul reward.

Skilling

These minigames focus on certain skills to achieve a goal. Note: stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Skill(s)	Description
	All Fired Up	Dangerous	Firemaking	Players must light beacons spread along the Wilderness edge. Each beacon has a specific Firemaking requirement, up to level 92. Completion of the quest All Fired Up is required.
	Blast Furnace	Unsafe	Smithing, Strength, Agility, Crafting	Players work together to keep the furnace running. The furnace halves the amount of coal needed to produce a bar when smelting.
	Brimhaven Agility Arena	Dangerous	Agility	A medium-level Agility course for players. Pillars dispense tickets which can be traded in for rewards.
	Fishing Trawler	Safe	Fishing	Players work together to keep a trawler afloat while keeping nets fixed in order to catch as many fish as possible.
	Flash Powder Factory	Safe	Agility, Thieving	A minigame that uses Agility, Thieving and Herblore, requiring players to collect the reagents for making flash powder and take them to the powder making machines, while traversing obstacles and pickpocketing other players (or being pickpocketed themselves). Reward points from the game can be swapped for experience or parts of the factory outfit.
	Gnome Ball	Unsafe	Agility, Ranged	A minigame where players try to pass and charge with a small ball towards a hoop to score a goal, while the defending gnomes attempt to tackle them.
	Gnome Restaurant	Unsafe	Cooking	Players deliver food to customers gnomes within a time limit, gaining unique food rewards.
	Great Orb Project	Safe	Runecrafting	Two teams compete to collect orbs while preventing the other team from collecting theirs. Winners of each round gain Runecrafting rewards. One of the five free-to-play minigames.
	Impetuous Impulses	Safe	Hunter	A minigame where implings are hunted and trapped in magical jars. Rewards vary from a chisel to pieces of dragon arrows to Royal clothing.
	Mage Training Arena	Safe	Magic	A minigame composed of four separate "sub-minigames". The rewards are pizazz points, exchangeable for abilities such as the Bones to Peaches spell, or items such as runes or infinity robes.
	Pyramid Plunder	Dangerous	Thieving	Advance through 8 rooms, avoiding traps, and defending yourself from the pyramid's inhabitants in an attempt to loot treasure.
	Ranging minigame	Safe	Ranging	A way to train Ranged which can be profitable. Players may exchange tickets earned as rewards for items, such as rune arrows.
N/A	Shifting Tombs	Unsafe	Dungeoneering, Agility, Thieving, Construction, Crafting, Runecrafting, Prayer, Divination	Gain experience in skills of your choosing by opening sarcophagi, looting treasure chests and cleansing corruption.
	Sorceress's Garden	Safe	Thieving, Farming	Players attempt to sneak around watchful elementals guarding their gardens to pick Sq'irk fruits or herbs.
	Trouble Brewing	Safe	Multiple skills	Two teams compete as each try to brew the most bottles of 'rum'. Experience in a variety of skills can be earned for performing the many tasks needed in the process of 'rum' production.
	Vinesweeper	Safe	Farming	A minesweeper-like game where players are rewarded with farming experience or seeds.

Combat and skilling

These minigames feature both combat and the use of skills. All minigames in this section are members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Skill(s)	Description
	Shades of Mort'ton	Dangerous	Crafting, Firemaking, and combat.	Build up a temple and defend it from attacking shades, and venture into the shady catacombs beneath Mort'ton, reaping the monetary gains.
	Stealing Creation	Safe	All skills except Farming, Slayer, Firemaking, Dungeoneering, Divination, Invention and Archaeology.	A team-based minigame where teams compete for the most points. Players make and use armour and weaponry to engage in combat, or gain further points through item creation and refinement.
	Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup	Dangerous	Woodcutting and combat	Players help clean up the village of Tai Bwo Wannai, while encountering monsters, earning the village currency of trading sticks as reward.

Miscellaneous

Other minigames that can be played and do not fit into the above categories. Note: stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Description
	Burthorpe Games Room	Safe	A room where players can compete in various board games. One of the five free-to-play minigames.
	Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza	Safe	A maze where players have to survive as long as possible, running between two safe zones. Any player who fails is turned into a gorilla. One of the five free-to-play minigames.
N/A	Heist	Safe	A team of robbers try to secure loot undetected while another team of guards attempt to uncover and arrest the robbers before time runs out.
N/A	Player-owned port	Safe	Players manage the day-to-day affairs of their own fleet of ships, to explore the Wushanko Isles for exotic items and rewards. To participate in this minigame, at least level 90 is required in any of Construction, Cooking, Hunter, Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, Thieving, Dungeoneering, Divination or Agility.
	Rogue Trader	Unsafe	Players barter with Ali Morrisane. The rewards include cheap runes, clothes, and blackjacks.

See also

• Distractions and Diversions
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Minigames
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Combat minigames

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 12 June 2023 (Update):
  • Wilderness Flash Events won't close other minigame interfaces when their timers run out.

• patch 7 September 2020 (Update):
  • The Minigames tab will now appear when teleporting directly to Player Owned Ports via the Captain's Log in the Circus.

• patch 27 January 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug that let the Soul Wars shop steal Zeal if you didn't have the requirements for one of its pets.

• patch 13 January 2020 (Update):
  • Premier Club Vault is no longer showing locked in the minigames tab for premier club 2019 members.
  • Updated some information on the Premier Club Vault minigames interface.

• patch 9 December 2019 (Update):
  • Improvements have been made to the Clan Citadel resource minigames interface, including increased sizing of the panels and text to better fit the space on mobile.

• patch 23 September 2019 (Update):
  • Minigame tracking will now correctly update for the Premier Club Vault.

• patch 16 May 2016 (Update):
  • The Minigames Tracker interface will now correctly register if a player has a clue scroll in their bank.

• patch 11 January 2016 (Update):
  • Hybrid PvP minigame armour once again automatically updates to the stated version when starting PvP minigames.

• patch 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • Dying at the same time as a minigame ends will no longer count as an unsafe death.

• patch 22 April 2014 (Update):
  • Using the Minigames interface to teleport to the god statue south of Yanille now takes the player to the Yanille lodestone, as opposed to the Ardougne one.
  • Some minor grammatical errors on the descriptions of the Minigames interface have been fixed.

• coldfix 7 April 2014 (Update):
  • Players will no longer receive scroll ports missions if they already own all scrolls in a Player-Owned Port.
  • The Perks interface in Heist now has horizontal and vertical scroll bars when shrunk.

• coldfix 21 January 2014 (Update):
  • The Minigames Tracker has been added to include list skills recently added for starting Player-Owned Ports.

• patch 13 August 2013 (Update):
  • The minigame HUD now remains in place after resizing the game window.

• patch 20 October 2009 (Update):
  • Players should no longer disappear when picking flowers in Trouble Brewing.
  • Players could stand in some Mobilising Armies tables.
  • Debug message displayed in Stealing Creation.

Trivia

• Minigames were renamed activities in March 2010. However, Jagex slowly began to call them minigames again throughout 2011 and as such they are called minigames again.
• An update in January 2012 caused the death mechanic of the overworld to spill over into minigames, and as a result many players lost millions of gold pieces in equipment when they died in "safe" minigames, respawned at their default points outside the minigames, and were unable to reenter the minigame to retrieve their equipment from their gravestones. As Jagex did not agree to a rollback, this is the single most damaging glitch in minigames in all of RuneScape's history.