Achievements
Achievements (previously known as Tasks and Achievement Diaries) are standalone challenges which players may complete in order to earn rewards. The achievements system consists of achievements grouped under the categories listed below. Each category may contain subcategories and those subcategories may contain subsubcategories. There are 8 categories, 142 subcategories, and 38 subsubcategories.
There is a total of 3,203 achievements in RuneScape, of which 14 are hidden achievements that have their details hidden until achieved and of which 919 are hidden achievements that have their details hidden until the previous achievement in the chain is achieved.
To access the achievements system, players can click on the Hero _icon.png){kind=icon}
icon in their interface. In Legacy mode, players need to click the Settings icon to access this. Doing so will bring up the Hero interface. By opening the achievements tab, a player can view an overview of the achievements (including the Path System), list of all achievements, and a tracker for achievements. On the third tab in the lower left corner, players can view the Milestone achievements.
In addition to any rewards received from completing an achievement, the player is awarded between 5 and 75 RuneScore. There are 677 achievements which award 0 RuneScore. All achievements combined give a maximum RuneScore of 30,795.
Achievements categories[edit | edit source]
Skills[edit | edit source]
The Skills category list milestones in each of the skills. Most skills also have their own subcategories for achievements related to that skill. The Skilling Pets subcategory list achievements for obtaining each of the skilling pets and the titles for obtaining those.
Exploration[edit | edit source]
The Exploration category contains achievements which are based around various areas of the game, asking players to complete a variety of achievements around these zones.
Area Tasks[edit | edit source]
The Area Tasks category, previously known as "Achievement Diaries", contains achievements which are based around various areas of the game, asking players to complete a variety of achievements around these areas. All of the subcategories in this category offer special rewards for completing the meta-achievement regarding the area. These rewards are a special wearable items, experience lamps, and various bonuses in the specific area. Additionally, most achievements in this category are split into one of five difficulty types: Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard, or Elite. Only Lumbridge has a beginner level and no elite level, since it was the original starting area.
Combat[edit | edit source]
The Combat category contains achievements which are based around various kinds of combat, varying from fighting bosses solo, in groups, reaching specific kill count, collecting the boss pets, or general achievements related to combat. These achievements are all grouped per boss or collection of bosses.
Lore[edit | edit source]
The Lore category contains achievements which are based around lore related achievements including quests, miniquests, post-quest activities, etc.
Activities[edit | edit source]
The Activities category contains achievements which are related to the minigames, distractions & diversions, and other miscellaneous achievements.
Completionist[edit | edit source]
The Completionist category lists achievements for the max cape, Quest Cape, master quest cape, completionist cape, trimmed completionist cape, master max cape, master completionist cape and the trimmed master completionist cape.
This is the only category that has no subcategories.
Feats[edit | edit source]
The Feats category lists various feats including boss collection logs, slayer collection logs, treasure trail collection logs, player-owned farm animals with the ravensworn trait, etc.
Grace[edit | edit source]
The Grace category lists achievements which are technically required for the master quest cape, completionist cape, and/or trimmed completionist cape, but do not count as a requirement until its grace period ends, after which the requirement actually takes effect.
History[edit | edit source]
- The first achievement set (Karamja) was released on 8 May 2007. It was originally named an Achievement Diary and had three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The interface resembled that of the quest list and was actually a sub-menu of the Quest Tab. As with quests, each diary turned green once completed. Achievement diaries were later split into a separate interface tab, merged into the Noticeboard tab, and eventually put in the Hero interface in the New Interface System.
- A total of six more Achievement Diaries were later released. The Ardougne Tasks, released on 20 October 2009, was the first set to have a fourth difficulty level, Elite. Elite Tasks were added to most other areas on 7 September 2010.
- On 24 November 2010, the system of Achievement Diaries was changed into the Task system. The interface was redesigned, extra rewards were added, and more tasks (not considered to be part of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks set) were released for the Lumbridge area, meant as an introduction to the Tasks system for new players. Since then, more tasks have been periodically added to this generic set. Many of these "Miscellaneous" tasks are very simple to complete (e.g. Use the "Run" feature) and as such have a Beginner difficulty level.
- On 19 September 2012 the Task System was renamed Achievements.
- On 18 April 2017 the interface was reworked to include the skills, combat, and completionist achievements too instead of just exploration achievements.
- On 29 August 2017 the interface was further reworked, adding a new system called RuneScore to track the player's achievement progress, adding new categories and achievements, and fixing numerous complaints with the previous overhaul.
- On 2 November 2020 the Achievement System was reworked again mainly to optimise the code under the hood. However, it also included a lot of swapping around of achievements between categories, adding a lot of new categories, subcategories, and subsubcategories. The master quest cape, completionist cape, and trimmed completionist cape no longer had their own subcategories, but players could still monitor their progress by clicking on the respective achievement to see a list of required achievements which were previously listed in a subcategory. Each achievement now belongs to one category, subcategory, or subsubcategory. Completed achievements as well as entire completed subcategories and subsubcategories are (optionally) hidden when completed.
Update history[edit | edit source]
- patch 24 January 2022 (Update):
- The font colours for achievement states (locked, available, completed and grace) have been updated to be more distinct from each other for easier reading.
- patch 6 September 2021 (Update):
- Achievements that require the boss to be killed in a certain way will no longer be awarded to players who joined in the middle of an encounter.
- Achievements for the Giant Mole, King Black Dragon and Chaos Elemental no longer display membership as a requirement - including in the Bossing Path - as they can be completed in free-to-play.
- Corrected an issue where some achievements that require specific skill levels were not marked as complete when logging in.
- ninja 23 August 2021 (Update):
- The following area task achievements can now be completed on F2P worlds:
- patch 19 July 2021 (Update):
- The 'Last Selected Achievement' feature will now account for in-focus Meta Achievements, and will keep them expanded.
- patch 28 June 2021 (Update):
- The Achievement interface will now remember what you were looking at when you close and reopen it.
- This will not occur when logging out before reopening.
- Suppressed one of the two achievement popups that occurred when activating the Taverley and Lumbridge lodestones.
- The Achievement interface will now remember what you were looking at when you close and reopen it.
- patch 7 June 2021 (Update):
- On the Achievement interface, if the prerequisites for an achievement are not met but the achievement is complete (for example, by boosting stat prerequisites), the achievement will display as complete instead of locked.
- patch 1 June 2021 (Update):
- Meta achievements will now be visible when you have two or fewer achievements left to complete
- Meta achievements with names that span multiple lines will no longer overlap other meta achievement names
- patch 10 May 2021 (Update):
- Clicking 'Meta Achievements' will now direct you to the correct tab whether you have the 'Show Completed' option disabled or not.
- patch 8 February 2021 (Update):
- The quest system is no longer dependent on the old Achievement system. If you are currently tracking a quest or a removed path, invalid IDs will be cleared from the Activity Tracker the next time you log in.
- Quest Achievements and paths consisting of quests have been temporarily removed from Achievement Paths. They will be restored when the path system can be rewritten to work with the new Achievement system.
- patch 9 November 2020 (Update):
- Unchecking the 'Show Complete' checkbox on the Achievement interface will now remove completed steps in Achievement dropdowns, making it much easier to see what you have left to complete - super useful for those completing cape Achievements.
- A 'Boss Pets' subcategory has been readded to the Achievement system and can be found again in the 'Combat' category.
- Various achievements had their required skills fixed (e.g. RuneCrafting instead of Crafting).
- Various achievements had their quest requirement correctly adjusted to an earlier quest in the line.
- Fixed an issue which caused the incorrect Achievement to be displayed under the Tracking tab when it was favourited.
- update 2 November 2020 (Update):
- The Achievement system was reworked again. This caused a bug where boosts cannot be used to complete achievements anymore. Jagex is aware of the bug.[1]
- hotfix 28 September 2020 (Update):
- Players should now be able to pin activities such as Achievements and skill targets to the Activity Tracker.
- hotfix 7 September 2020 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where new players could not complete or unlock area task Achievements.
- update 30 March 2020 (Update):
- Mousing over Achievements will now show your progress towards any Meta Achievements they are included in.
- Added tooltips to the Meta Achievements listed under an Achievement to show what's required. For example, the tooltip for the 'Who's The Boss? VI' Achievement, listed as a requirement for the 'Final Boss' Achievement, states 'Kill a total number of bosses. (X/5,000)'.
- patch 18 November 2019 (Update):
- The x/y tracker for an achievement path in the activity tracker heading now displays the selected achievement in the path, not the completed achievements in the path.
- To keep the systems in sync, selecting a locked or completed achievement in the path window now also selects this achievement in the activity tracker.
- Content icons in the activity tracker now display a padlock over locked achievements and a tick over completed achievements, in a similar fashion to the achievement path window.
- patch 11 November 2019 (Update):
- Disabling guidance system hints (Gameplay -> General -> Optional Interfaces in Settings) now prevents automatically selecting the next available achievement in a path if no path is selected and the activity tracker is empty.
- patch 16 September 2019 (Update):
- Fixed an issue with text colours in the achievements window being hard to differentiate.
- patch 21 January 2019 (Update):
- Recently-completed quest achievements no longer give an error, as they have nowhere to link to.
- patch 19 November 2018 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where some achievements weren't counting towards total achievement completion.
- Adjusted the grammar on some achievement titles and descriptions.
- patch 18 June 2018 (Update):
- A new miniquest section has been added under the Miscellaneous section in your Achievements.
- Clan achievements have been moved from Exploration to the Miscellaneous section.
- Achievement numbers will now correctly add up.
- patch 8 May 2018 (Update):
- Fixed an issue that stopped you from receiving an achievement diary reward if the previous reward was stored in your keepsake.
- patch 9 April 2018 (Update):
- Fixed an issue with the achievement tracker having an empty slot which could not be used.
- ninja 3 April 2018 (Update):
- Cosmetic overrides of task items have been added to the wardrobe. Keepsaked items have also been removed and a key refunded.
- patch 12 February 2018 (Update):
- Meta-achievements - such as 'Falador Set Tasks - Easy' or 'Completionist Cape' - once again pop up upon completion.
- patch 15 January 2018 (Update):
- The 'You have completed the Task!' message no longer appears after completing specific pieces of content, such as Fate of the Gods.
- patch 15 January 2018 (Update):
- The Divination tutorial achievements are now in a Skills subcategory.
- Details for the desert, Tirannwn and Wilderness area achievements are now phrased consistently with other area achievements.
- Details for the Final Boss achievement are now phrased consistently with the Insane Final boss achievement.
- ninja 4 December 2017 (Update):
- A milestone for the Arc has been added to the third tab of the achievement interface.
- ninja 9 October 2017 (Update):
- Achievements for the Chaos Elemental, Giant Mole and King Black Dragon no longer display a member requirement.
- hotfix 31 August 2017 (Update):
- Corrected an issue that was disconnecting players when clicking on certain achievements.
- hotfix 30 August 2017 (Update):
- Tweaked some script when initially loading the achievements interface to prevent disconnects under certain circumstances.
- patch 12 June 2017 (Update):
- Raids' feats window has been removed as the feats now appear on Achievement tab under PvM.
- Achievement - Barbarian Scavenger (Trimmed Comp) will now correctly complete only upon finding the last entry.
- The achievement Work on your Artisan (Trimmed Completionist Cape) was incorrectly completing if you had any one of the rewards unlocked (rather than all of them). This has only been an issue since the launch of the achievements system, so anyone who had legitimately fully completed the Artisans' Workshop will remain able to wear their trimmed comp cape. However, if you've falsely been able to wear the cape because of this issue, you'll have to go back and complete all the rewards as originally intended.
- Certain NPCs and Locs will no longer disappear after completion of Our Man in the North.
- patch 22 May 2017 (Update):
- Explorer Jack now once again hands out rewards for completing area achievements.
- The achievement tracker will now shuffle achievements upwards if there is an empty space.
- hotfix 15 May 2017 (Update):
- A disconnect when logging in with a certain combination of achievements completed has been fixed.
- patch 2 May 2017 (Update):
- The Bar Crawl (miniquest) requirement on some achievements should now be ticked off correctly.
- patch 10 April 2017 (Update):
- The autopinning tasks feature has been disabled for new account holders who have played RuneScape before.
- patch 9 May 2016 (Update):
- An error in the amount of listed total tasks complete within progress for Lumbridge/Draynor has been resolved.
- ninja 15 December 2014 (Update):
- There is no longer a scroll bar on the achievements tab when choosing a task set.
- patch 1 November 2014 (Update):
- Players will no longer receive a task complete popup if they also had a task info window appear when completing a task.
- patch 26 August 2014 (Update):
- Pinning tasks will no longer display a different task than the one selected.
- patch 9 July 2013 (Update):
- A task complete popup now appears when completing the Rune Mysteries and Rune Memories quests.
- patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
- The task system has been updated to remove references to the old Rune Mysteries quest.
- patch 5 February 2013 (Update):
- Some tweaks to the task side panels have been made for numbering and formatting.
- patch 28 February 2012 (Update):
- The red strikethrough on requirements on the Task System is now placed correctly on the text.
- patch 12 October 2011 (Update):
- Bob the axe seller will now talk about the Task System during the Lost Tribe quest.
- A reminder message from the Task System was unclear.
- patch 16 May 2011 (Update):
- The Skeletal Horror Task now appears in the Task List when not completed, instead of after being completed for the week.
- patch 9 February 2011 (Update):
- Some additional user information has been added to progressing and completing Tasks.
- patch 7 December 2010 (Update):
- The Tasks interface now correctly recognises the locality north of Edgeville.
- patch 1 December 2010 (Update):
- The Task System now correctly recognises that you cannot enter the Mage Training Arena at Magic level 6.
- The Task System is no longer shown as an unstarted quest in the Adventurer's Log.
- The Task System's music track is now sorted into the correct place in the music list.
- patch 19 July 2010 (Update):
- Adjusted the checks for killing a duck in Falador Park for the respective Achievement Diary.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Seven areas that do not have a current achievement subcategory were displayed as locations in the former tasks tab when visiting the areas before the tasks tab got removed with the Achievement System rework on 18 April 2017. These areas were the Gnome Lands, Feldip Hills, Keldagrim, Dorgesh-Kaan, Piscatoris, Islands (Entrana, Ape Atoll, Crash Island, Void Knights' Outpost, Braindeath Island, Mos Le'Harmless, Harmony Island, Rock Island Prison and Iceberg), and the Outer Planes (Zanaris).
- The amount of achievements grew with the updates listed below (not all updates are listed):
- 19 April 2021: 2,977
- 7 December 2020: 2,951
- 9 November 2020: 2,930
- 2 November 2020: 2,929
- 18 June 2018: 1,832
- 4 December 2017: 1,779
- September 2017: 1,654
- May 2017: 1,203
- January 2016: 657
- September 2014: 603
- May 2012: 533
- February 2012: 426
- November 2010: 417
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