Winter Weeks (2025)
| Winter Weeks | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Release date | 1 December 2025 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rewards | None | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Winter Weeks (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
Winter Weeks are a series of events that take place over weeks from 1 December 2025 until 4 January 2026.
Events
[edit | edit source]Each week's buffs are exclusive to that week and do not carry over to subsequent weeks. Players can check out what buffs are available in the Event interface as well. Both regular and hardcore Ironmen, and Group Ironmen will not have access to the majority of the buffs available during Winter Weeks; the only buff ironmen accounts will be able to benefit from are changed death mechanics during the second week.
Week 1: Clue Scrolls
[edit | edit source]The first week lasts from the game update on 1 December 2025 to the end of 7 December 2025, during which the following are active:
- 1 free reroll for Treasure Trails rewards per day.
- Under some unknown conditions the free reroll might not be available.
- Using the free reroll after opening a reward casket causes no progress for next normal reroll to be gained.
- 10% increased chance to get sealed clue scrolls as drops and from pickpocketing.
- 50% more Treasure Trail Points when completing Treasure Trails.
Week 2: Bossing
[edit | edit source]The second week lasts from the beginning of 8 December 2025 to the end of 14 December 2025, during which the following are active:
- Soul Reaper tasks can be chosen with 100% chance.
- Double reaper points from Soul Reaper tasks.
- Elder overload cauldrons in War's Retreat.
- On members' worlds, dying causes spawning in the nearest respawn hub with items retained.
- Items are free to reclaim from Death.
Flesh-hatcher Mhekarnahz was released this week.
Week 3: Skilling
[edit | edit source]The third week lasts from the beginning of 15 December 2025 to the end of 21 December 2025, during which the following are active:
- 10% chance to receive an additional resources with gathering skills.
- Gathering skills are Archaeology, Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining, and Woodcutting.
- The additional resources from Divination are placed in backpack without any special messaging. For the other skills, the additional resources are placed in bank, or material storage container or metal bank if applicable with a message appearing.
- Excludes converting memories, gathering and sifting soil, picking berries and fruits from bushes and fruit trees, and restoring artefacts.
- Effect is rolled per resource gathered.
- 10% chance to save resources or produce double items with artisan skills.
- For Construction, a single plank can be saved at a time when constructing flatpacks.
- For Cooking, an extra portion of food can be made whenever some is cooked which is automatically sent to bank (excluding rocktail soup and sailfish soup).
- For Crafting, an extra piece of leather, soft clay, unfired clay item, or uncut gem (excluding onyx and hydrix) can be added to backpack when crafting items out of the leather, moulding or firing clay items, or cutting gems. If there is no free space in backpack, the additional item is sent to bank.
- For Firemaking, logs can be saved when adding them to an existing fire or a portable brazier.
- For Fletching, dinarrows and resonant anima can be saved when imbuing arrows, headless arrows and arrowheads when tipping arrows, and logs when fletching bows out of them. If there is no free space in backpack, the fletched item is sent to bank.
- For Herblore, an additional unfinished or finished potion can be added to bank when adding a herb to a vial of water or mixing a finished potion.
- For Runecrafting, an additional rune can be created when crafting some.
- For Smithing, the chance to smelt extra bars is increased by 10% additively.
- 50% more base experience for the completion bonus for Agility courses.
- This doesn't apply for the island-wide completion bonus for Anachronia Agility Course, but does apply for the individual section completion bonuses.
- 20% increased success chance for pickpocketing.
- This is applied by multiplying the non-buffed success rate by 1.2.
Week 4: Combat
[edit | edit source]The fourth week lasts from the beginning of 22 December 2025 to the end of 28 December 2025, during which the following are active:
- Choice between two Slayer assignments without requiring Slayer VIP tickets.
- Double Slayer points from Slayer assignments.
- The boosted number of points is shown in the task completion message.
- Tier 4 luck is always active.
- This includes the passive effects from Dark Facet of Luck if the player has it imbued.
- Charm drops give one more charm than usual.
- This also applies to cases where the charms aren't dropped on the ground such as collecting them from a reward interface.
Week 5: Activities
[edit | edit source]The fifth week lasts from the beginning of 29 December 2025 to the end of 4 January 2026, during which the following are active:
- 50% more Dominion Factor and killing bosses count as double for the purpose of reward unlocks in Dominion Tower.
- Double shattered anima from Shattered Worlds.
- The event interface claimed 50% more shattered anima, but it wasn't accurate.
- This includes at least killing monsters and opening the cracked chest.
- Double dungeoneering tokens from Dungeoneering and Elite Dungeons.
- The boosted numbers of tokens are shown in the end-of-floor interface and in the message shown when getting tokens from Elite Dungeons.
- 30% extra port resources and trade goods from player-owned ports.
- This is applied multiplicatively after all the other boosts to port resources and trade goods, and after rounding down.
- Double thaler from minigames.
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[edit | edit source]Update history
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| Valentine's Day | |
| April Fools | |
| Spring Fayre | |
| Spring Festival | |
| Easter event | |
| The Beach | |
| Thanksgiving event | |
| Halloween event | |
| Winter event | |
| Christmas event | |
| Winter Weeks | |
| Advent Calendar | |
| Membership promotions | |
| RuneFest | |
| Game Jam | |
| Anniversary celebrations | |
| Miscellaneous |
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