OSRS Christmas Occasion Information

Previous Faculty RuneScape has fairly a practice of bringing new and heart-warming seasonal occasions yearly. Three important seasonal occasions stand out: the Easter occasion, the Halloween occasion, and, in fact, the Christmas occasion. Finishing this 12 months’s occasion will make the earlier years’ rewards accessible, simply in case you weren’t enjoying RuneScape years in the past. The rewards are typically cosmetics. Way back, Christmas rewards can be extraordinarily priceless; they primarily consisted of Celebration Hats or Christmas Crackers, which may comprise extra celebration hats!

Despite the fact that they’ve now misplaced their GP worth, the celebration hats stay an iconic merchandise for Previous Faculty’s Christmas occasions, and you’ll obtain them upon finishing this 12 months’s occasion. It is possible for you to to take pleasure in your complete occasion between December thirteenth and January eleventh, and this could offer you loads of time to interact within the new minigames and assist a gnome get entry to a particular pub.

Why is the Christmas Occasion Particular This Time Round?

There are a number of the reason why this 12 months’s occasion is so particular. First, after the completion of the occasion, it is possible for you to to reaccess the minigames and have an all-year-round reminiscence of Christmas with you. Second, this 12 months’s occasion was designed by Mod Halo, who has lately joined the sport’s design workforce and was assigned this 12 months’s Christmas occasion as their first challenge. This implies you’ll be able to anticipate a number of enthusiasm to leak by way of the occasion! On prime of this, for those who’re a newbie, you’ll profit lots from doing the Christmas occasion as you’ll obtain each untradeable and tradeable rewards, so that you’ll be capable to earn a good coin from this enjoyable and festive occasion!

A Walkthrough of the Occasion

Earlier than you begin, guarantee you’ve got sufficient stock area and usually are not sporting something within the cape slot. To start out the occasion, teleport to the Barbarian Village. The closest teleport is the one discovered on the free-to-play merchandise, the Cranium Sceptre, which you’ll be able to acquire by combining its 4 components which can be dropped by the monsters contained in the Stronghold of Safety. You’ll see the seasonal occasion icon on the minimap simply west of the Barbarian Village. Head there and converse to Guss, who will let you know that he needs to enter a tavern by way of the portal only a bit to the north, however he may solely accomplish that by profitable some festive video games—of which he’s horrible at.

After you converse with Guss, transfer to the north and converse to Santa. He’ll ask you what you need, and right here, Mod Halo introduced a number of humor as you’ll initially inform Santa you need a Twisted Bow, some of the priceless objects within the sport and one of the best in slot ranged weapon. After that, you’ll get again to the Christmas occasion and ask Santa for occasions for you and Guss, and he’ll assign completely different occasions for you and Guss to maintain issues truthful.

Converse to Guss once more and inform him in regards to the timers. He’ll confess that he has been attempting to do that for 21 years, which is a reference to the 2001 launch date of RuneScape. Guss may also let you know that he’ll cheat to get into the finals, the place he’d face you.

Afterward, return to Santa, who will provide you with a multiple-choice riddle. You possibly can select any of the solutions to progress, however the pun in Santa’s riddle is one other alternative for extra humor: “What do you get whenever you meet a vampyre within the winter?” – “Frostbites.” After that, Santa will ask you if you wish to enter the festive video games, and also you’ll want to select possibility 1 – sure. In case you are nonetheless sporting a cape, take away it, or in any other case, you won’t be able to enter. You’ll nonetheless be capable to enter with the cape within the stock.

Upon getting into the Festive video games, you’ll unlock seven seasonal music tracks:

• Winter Funfair
• Land of Snow
• Diango’s Little Helpers
• Sea Shanty Xmas
• Scrubfoot’s Descent
• Jungle Bells
• Jungle Island Xmas

Enjoying With Coal

Discuss to Santa’s scribe to begin the primary minigame; he’ll let you know the foundations of the primary sport. To play it, you’ll want to select up coal from the bottom and hand it over to some NPCs you’re competing in opposition to. The NPCs may also offer you coal, so to win the sport, you will have to maintain amassing coal after which click on the NPCs to offer them your coal.

Additionally, you will be given a private greatest timer within the chat on completion, just like the way you’d get on defeating a boss. If the NPCs handle to offer you 100 coal, you’ll lose the spherical, and also you’ll want to begin over the minigame. After the minigame, converse to the scribe once more and reply “snowman” to his riddle to progress.

Gingerbread, Gingerbread, Gingerbread Rock

After you full the primary minigame, the one route in which you’ll be able to go is within the northeast constructing. Right here converse with the NPC to begin the minigame, and he’ll first clarify the sport’s guidelines.

You must do not forget that there are 4 forms of gingerbread you’ll be able to choose up from the bottom, they usually all give factors besides the pink one (shattered gingerbread), which will provide you with minus 10 factors.

You have to solely to select up a number of gingerbreads at a time; in any other case, you danger for an NPC to return and steal it and take note of the opposite NPC referred to as merryxmas2000, who will generally shout, “I’ve bought all of the dangerous ones only for you.” This one will attempt to reset your factors except you kick him by clicking or tapping on him.

After you acquire your 250 factors, you win the spherical, which is confirmed along with your time within the chat field. Converse once more to the gnome inspector for the ultimate riddle to progress and reply “candle” to his query, “I’m tall when I’m younger, and I’m quick when I’m outdated.”

A Snow-filled Fiasco

Exit the constructing by way of the north exit to go in the direction of the final minigame. Right here you’ll profit probably the most from having loads of stock area as you will have to seize as many snowballs and use them in opposition to NPCs to eradicate them from the competitors.

When an NPC throws a snowball at you, you’ll be able to dodge it by shifting away. The white snowballs deal 10 harm, and the randomly spawned yellow snowballs deal 50 harm, which suggests it’s best to choose them up each time they spawn. Remove all the opposite NPCs besides Guss to win the minigame.

After eliminating all of the NPCs, a cutscene will begin the place you’re in opposition to Gus for the ultimate spherical. Whether or not you select to dodge and win the competition or let him win, you’ll each acquire entry to the pub, the place you’ll want to talk to him once more so as to end the occasion.

The occasion’s completion will provide you with many Xmas beauty rewards, together with two celebration hat units and two Christmas crackers. You possibly can retailer the non-tradeables in your toy field, which you’ll find inside your player-owned home.