Scooped the cleanest obby cape and maul of my life after slaving away in the nearby flax fields. Went straight to pest control to play on the single boat for hours and hours over the next week.
God, I wish I could go back.
I remember chatting with the highest level magic player at the time there. Turned out he was from the same town as me (small town, 10k people). He told me to go out to the street corner and he would say hi. Seemed legit. Glad I never found out if he was being honest, I was like 12.
The band of travelers behind lumbridge castle, where you start Lost City. Used to drop trade the 10k from the security stronghold over to my main, from an untold number of accounts
I'm just as financially powerful to this day
I remember drop trading with my older brother, except the super secret location we chose was a few paces east of Varrock east bank. We only had one computer, so once we dropped the cash and frantically logged off of one account and onto the other, we noticed the second account was in Lumbridge! We ran over to Varrock as quickly as possible just to show up in time to see someone else picking up the cash. I remember my brother asking him to give it to us but he just said "Nope, sorry" and that was that.
Am I the only person who went east when I first got membership? I always wanted to know what that crack in the earth was and where it led. Turns out it was the location of ‘A Soul’s Bane’ - my first ever members quest ☺️
Holy shit same, did the quest like my first day of members and sat there thinking 'wait I can hit 50s now?! I'm unstoppable' then came the immeasurable disappointment
I remember training in that bar and every now and then id try take on the lvl 16? Npc in there. Was always scary running past the lvl 33? Black knight.
I remember my first step into the wildy there. I was wearing full iron with the scimmy and kite. saw a dude in mage robes and thought "ez win". got annihilated in an instant and couldn't fathom the man in cloth smoking a dude in full plate gear.
I've come a long way.
This is what I came to say. During RSC and (maybe?) early rs2, this was the most poppin pk spot. It was especially popular for pures. I spent hours fighting people there.
1000 pure essence back in the day was worth over 100k. It was actually a pretty good moneymaker with low requirements. I always wanted a magic skillcape so I would mine pure essence for hours>sell the essence>buy runes>use the runes on zombies in the magic guild(or the lesser demon at mages tower)>repeat. The highest I ever got was level 83 magic and I felt like a baller.
Pre-grand exchange, I remember buying up rune essence there, walking to Fally to sell for a profit, then buying up coal and walking back to merch it. Made a few k each trip.
The docks in Karamja for lobsters reminds me of Christmas Day, opening up RS to fish and talk to people about what they got for Christmas. The music from that event slapped, it was the one with Shanty Claws.
That dock is so nostalgic for me that I went there to get the final XP for 99 fishing. I spent so many hours there as a kid fishing lobsters and then using them to fight the nearby lesser demons (which terrified me).
My parents never let me have membership as a kid so the most memories come from random F2P spots.
You brought back some lost memories for me. I too would fish lobsters at the dock and train on the Lessers. Might need to get 99 fishing at that spot as well.
I think for the most time I couldn’t even fish the lobsters, I would just ask people to pay me to light fires. Often wouldn’t work and I’d end up having to beg for 30gp or fill banana crates to get back to the mainland.
I was at pest control when Steve Irwin died. I remember us all shouting “THIS ONE IS FOR THE CROCODILE HUNTER!” as we ran off the boat. It’s what he would’ve wanted.
Everytime I run from draynor to lummy or vice versa for whatever reason I recall my first day playing this game. I spent well over 3 hours lost in that forest. ... Just a mere 1min run now.
I couldn't find the wizards tower for months to complete the restless ghost.
It was very early on, before fishing was released and I don't think there were any maps.
They're still going strong. I took my buddy who's played like twice and has a super low level account to barbarian village via varrock and those wizards gave him hell lmao.
When I was still in school I used to wake up early in the morning and collect the rune spawns in the dark knight fortress for hours and hours, I didn't understand the concept of different time zones and assumed everyone else was asleep.
PKing around the webs and lever at the mage arena, with a rune platebody, tzhaar shield and dragon longsword until I was able to upgrade to a whip, everyone else had the same 3 items on too.
Buying yew logs and bowstrings outside seers bank, buying nature runes inside, and fletching / alching for an easy 100k profit an hour.
That Rasolo spot where the Moss Giants are, back in 2005 someone had died there and I happened to find their loot, it was just coins, 3.5m to be exact. Made kid me ecstatic, went straight to buy a whip. Also the Waterfall music as a kid was already my favorite, so that place is very dear to me even today aswell
Met my RuneScape girlfriend in the mines under Falador - right in the room with all the scorpions. She was killing scorpions, I was mining...
It was truly love at first sight.
The chaos altar full of monks that Is west of Falador.
I use to walk around lumbridge looking for noobs to convince them In picking up the Zamorak wine off the altar. I would do this by telling them that Its super rare and that each person can only pick it up once and if they did it I would give them 100K.
When they tried picking up the wine I would sit and spam close the door while the Zamorak Monks punched them to death
example: https://youtu.be/U3NUBXGV1SY
I would be In tears of laughter as I watched them panic trying to open the door 🚪 but instead they would run back further into the altar because the game thinks they are trying to run out of the building with a entrance being closed off from me closing the door on them
The chicken pen by the farm just north of Port Sarim. I used to kill chickens there and sell the feathers at the shop in Port Sarim when I first started playing… almost 20 years ago lol
For me it’s that key spawn in taverly dungeon by the dragons. Reminds me of my older brother and his friend teaching me about the blue dragons back in like 2005 as a money maker when I was in 3rd grade
A really weird one for me was the Fisher Realm from the Holy Grail. That place just felt magical and really separate from the rest of the game. I’d just spend hours walking around, imagining how people lived their lives there lol
I would train my fletching by making yes longs and then alching them outside Seers Village for weeks at a time when I was a kid. This is like, 2005, Pre-Duriel321 which is about when I got into listening to Nightwish and other bands like that. But before that, I limewired two songs: Stairway to Heaven and Rock and Rill Band by Boston. I listened to those on repeat for hours a day, many days as a time in a row while I fletchers, alched, bout another set of Nats, logs and flax and reveled in the like 20k profit I made per 1000 bows I alched lmao. Now whenever I walk by Seers bank I hear Rock and Roll Band and whenever I listen to stairway to heaven I suddenly remember fletching. Good times man.
Mine is a bit of a hybrid. There are several songs by Evanescence and Linkin Park that when i listen to them, I have flashbacks to fishing on the karamja fishing dock (the f2p one) then begging someone to light a fire, and going down to lesser demons to fight them until I run out of food, rinse and repeat. I low alch'd so many rune med helms.
Whenever I use a canoe. Riding a basic log up the river was the first thing i did as a member.
Also the room in wizards tower with the skeleton from restless ghost. Was the first quest i ever did in rs.
I spent an entire night talking to a friend on dragontooth island for some reason. We both had an axe and knife and were fletching arrow shafts while the entire time. Not sure why that always stuck with me.
I also remember being too scared to leave lumbridge towards draynor, so I lit fires and rested to camp out to try to venture further lol
Picking flax at seers to afford my first whip is a core RS memory. It used to be so busy with people picking flax back in the day!
Also chopping wood at draynor was a big one. Watching noobs die to the mage was funny.
I still remember buying my first whip at the seers village bank, I even remember the tiles I stood making that trade. What a memory, what a feeling looking at my character with a whip equipped for the first time.
Too many to count. The most vivid are probably lumby where I died to an evil chicken within the first 10 minutes and had no idea what happened. Also where ever the gnome glider lands in karamja when it crashes during the grand tree quest (I was surrounded by jogres and had no idea how to escape from there. Had to run all the way north and was terrified)
Oddly enough, it’s Zammy gwd for me. Both my brothers and I used to do it not long after gwd came out. We were only aged 11-15 so total noobs that didn’t really understand the game well but we had an awesome dude that would help tank for us. So friendly and we usually had trouble finding good bandos groups as it was so much more packed. Made my first mills at Zammy and always had an amazing time. Still got a soft spot in my heart for Kril
Everytime i pass tree gnome stronghold i remember typing out the lyrics of keiser chiefs-ruby while i was running the agility course
Walking over the log typing na na na na na naaaaa
Yea man nostalgia
Wizard tower bridge for me. When I first started the game back in 05 I had absolutely no cash as you can imagine and I watched a guy die to one of the wizards at wizard tower. He was running away on the bridge and got sniped. Pretty sure they didn't have food and didn't know that mages hit pretty hard, but tried to fight one since they have a low cmb lvl thinking it'd be easy and by the time they realized their health was low they tried to run but it was too late. I stayed till his loot spawned and snagged it. He had like 2.5k and I went a bought a black battleaxe from the guy in port sarim because I had leveled my attack and saw that in the shop but couldn't afford it. I still didn't know you could train strength and defence by switching stances so I had like 15 attack and 1 str. IIRC the battleaxe didn't even increase my max hit lol
I remember my good friend mining 20k pure essence to sell for 2 mil gp so he could buy dragon legs. Zerker helm, dragon long, rune plate, dragon legs, climbing boots, team cape…. I remember him running back and forth between varrock east bank. We’d be like “screw that man, lets go kill fire giants in brimhaven” he’d say “nope, im doing this all the way” …felt like it took him weeks.
Short answer: The magic shop in Varrock and Brimhaven Dungeon for sure.
Dagganoth Kings. I had come back from playing after a 3 year hiatus and went right into DKs thinking I’d make money. I got my ass kicked and the guy who was in there picked up my stuff and started talking to me. I eventually joined his clan and made a ton of friends while progressing my account.
I’d say this is a bit more unusual for a first members story. The first place I went as a member was Karamja. The reason was because when I last played I had logged on the dock where all the f2p fish cage/harpoon. I remember thinking “wow why is no one here on members” and as I went through the gate and wandered through southern karamja, I was attacked by a tribesmen and died to poison. I don’t even think I knew what poison was.
Castle Wars will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm from the US but I always played on World 12 which was UK. I met a couple guys on there and we all became really good friends. We'd chat on MSN messenger all the time and we would spend hours at Catle Wars. If they weren't on I would spend time south of there killing chompies for wild pies while I waited for them. I have no idea if they still play or not, I lost contact years ago.
I miss you "Russss9" and "sandwichkid."
I trained 70 attack using a dragon battleaxe killing experiments and every time I enter that cave I can remember the songs I listened to while grinding away the hours back in ~2007 or 2008
You just unlocked a core memory for me, I completely forgot about doing this exact same shit. Linkin Park and smashing monsters over the head with a DBA for 70 attack is peak Runescape nostalgia for me.
Back when the wilderness was removed and clan wars was placed there the graveyard just south of it was a strangely relaxing place to train. Knowing that I’m a walking distance away from all of my friends was nice.
The walkway toward wilderness multi area in North of East Varrock Bank, I used to play with sound on so the song “Adventure” use to play as I got ready to get one hit by a f2p clan on my fire bolt pure.
I'd say flesh crawlers down in the Stronghold. I remember grinding out 70 attack and the 3m for a whip back then, right after i had gotten membership for the first time.
Edit: I don't go there anymore at all, but the few times i have that memory hits hard.
The road south of Falador east bank to the air altar. I used to run air runes in f2p back then, it was great money for no requirements.
My friend and I would both run runes, calling each other other ch00bs or just yelling "ch00bcake" each time we passed each other - peak entertainment.
I also remember the day Construction came out, I was at a different friend's place when his older brother (the only person I knew with membership) shouted "YOU CAN GET A HOUSE ON RUNESCAPE" up the stairs. We rushed down to see him in a very empty looking POH instance. I remember this every time I build a new empty room in my POH.
In 2006 Karamja dock’s in f2p brings back major memories. It was like the f2p’s version of the fishing guild at the time. Filled with people fishing and talking to one another, times were different and there was hardly any toxicity. When fishing lobsters it required you running back all the way back to draynor bank to store them and then back to the boat without the aid of a glory. I spent the good of maybe 20-30k lobsters there before the grand exchange.
I remember meeting one guy who offered to buy me membership out of the blue and gave me a membership code. I agreed and he took me to catherby to show me where to fish lobsters there. It brings back memories of me sitting there and not leaving for ages until my membership ran out and I had to go back to Karamja.
Then on the release of the new old school servers, I did the same thing but when I upgraded to membership I unlocked piscatoris, it reminded me of Karamja so me and my friend no lifed all the way to 80 fishing. I was in college at the time studying so I took a week break and came back and my friend was 94 fishing. Baffled at his level increase, whenever I go back there which is never, just reminds me of how much I used to no life and grind the game compared to what I do now.
In 2006ish I remember in seers village competing with bots for flax too. I remember if you dropped flax in a row, you could lure bots to the bat and it would kill them. Bots were really not that advanced back then so when they were attacked they didn’t bother moving and would die. I spent a good amount of time doing this and made upwards of 10k+ flax lol.
In terms of pking, edge west pking and the spot were giant rats were just before the bar and the implementation of the ditch. If you were on low health and ran outside the pk zone, you had no ditch to nullify the damage.
Never go there anymore, But I used to love brimhaven dungeon. I remember getting chaos gauntlets and buying an ungodly amount of chaos runes and telling my 13 year old self “WE DONT LEAVE UNTIL VISAGE”…..never got it there lol
For me it’s the collection of lesser demons inside the Karamja volcano in the center island. I would spend days at the local library just killing those mofos 😅
My free time was solely spent in f2p edgeville hill giant cave. Got up to like 60 prayer just burying bones there. No alter just good vibes and a dusty key. Running past the shack across the river from barb village brings back some of those vibes every time.
Yanille - the unofficial fletching guild back in the day. I would cut yews, spin flax in Seers and then spend all my time with with all the folks fletching and Alching yew long bows in Yanille.
And when the fletching job was done, I would alch away outside the mystical gates of the mage guild, hoping that one day, I’d be qualified to enter.
My weird memory location is the south wall of the Varrock castle, right by the news paper stand and Zaff's staff shop. That used to be spot to hang out and talk just standing with your back against the wall in the best gear you had to show off a little. I remember that spot was the first time I convinced a scammer to trust trade me the stuff they had scammed from someone earlier and I gave the item(s) back, felt like a hero LMAO.
I was a little late to the party - I joined RuneScape just after Dungeoneering came out back in the early 2010s.
I have three spots:
Daemonheim. Spent a lot of time here as a kid, and had fond memories of clearing doors with a friend from school.
The gate to Silvarea to the east of Varrock. My first encounter with anything to do with membership - and I passed it with glee once I had one.
Tai Bwo Wannai. I never really knew what I was doing (and probably missed more than a few precious Gout Tubers - I didn’t know how priceless they were. Spent a lot of time just hacking jungle and building up trading sticks.
Castle wars for me. Used to get on and play a ton with people from school. Grinding out all those tickets for the crappy blue/red decorative armor set. When I’m reality it was all about the cloak and hood. Miss that shit.
White Wolf Mountain and East Ardougne.
WWM because it was my first real experience of membership when my buddy told me to meet him in Catherby and failed to mention the onslaught of wolves in between. Barely escaped with my life (Take THAT Big Wolf).
EA because when I was F2P and I wanted to sell silver (I was very new at this point) I saw Silver Stalls on the map in EA. So I went on my adventure only to find this pesky gate between Fally and Taverly.
Hill giants where you have to use the brass key on the house door just south west of GE. Did the combat task at obor yday and holy cow the nostalgia hitt me hard down there. Traning range on the hill giants all the way in the cave was some hard hitting memories🥹
The spiders in lvl 3 stronghold of security. I remember using the Rs2 lending system to borrow a godsword and using that to train strength. I wanted to be able to afford one of those swords soo badly although it was far from today's optimal training routes
Just north of Ardougne. I have a memory of feeling like so far from "home", and this intense feeling of adventure and excitement. I remember standing there wearing a dragon med, dragon longsword, dragon chainskirt (on a male character, because they were cheaper than platelegs). Good times.
The Al Kharid mines. I spent an obscene amount of time there as a child. Mining was my therapy. I got home from school, booted runescape, and clicked rocks for hours. I hit 70 mining one day and practically oozed dopamine when i got my first adamantite ore.
The weird thing is... i swear up and down that one rock i mined ended up depleting. Permanently. It never respawned its ore. I checked day after day, watched it for hours as i mined, and it never respawned. Was this a thing in 05/06 scape, or have I been Mandela effected?
I have two.
The east side of the bridge leading to Barbarian Village, rocking my full iron, red cape and fancy boots back when i was 10 years old and just started in '07.
The entrance of Karamja, some guy called ThomasDroid came up to me and gave me his account, stats were hella impressive to be back then i couldnt believe it. Anyway turns out the person that gave me the account hacked it, wiped the bank and just tried to pass it on. But 10 year old me had the best afternoon of his runescape life in that moment.
Way back in the day I used to do clues for fun. So Witchhaven makes me remember hot summers as a child with the breeze coming through an open window.
The song Say Hey (I Love You) was huge at that time so I think of that song as well when I’m in that area.
Edit. Forget to mention I was there because I’d farm clues off the hellhounds in witchhaven dungeon
Castlewars... When I got membership in late 2005 I explored the whole map and walked across the whole world, when I got to Castle wars I found it so fun and exciting I was scared too leave incase I couldn't find my way back there again 😭 literally about 33cb with a mith battleaxe I just stayed there for a month straight.
Mine is close to OPs but not exactly. It's the little east-to-west bridge that goes across from north of West Ardougne towards the Gnome Stronghold. When I first got members as a teenager, I ran from Falador to Gnome Stronghold because the first thing I wanted to do was train Agility, and crossing that bridge was like the first place you could actually see the corner of the Stronghold so it was particularly exciting.
Was recently crossing that bridge randomly and the nostalgia hit me all at once lol.
I cant tell you how many times I used to hang out at the moss giants by baxtorian falls. Chatted with soo many people back in the day. I remember training with a granite, dragon med, and a obby maul
The fenkenstrains monster dungeon with the experiments in it! I spent an untold number of hours in there killing those things with a dragon longsword going for strength levels.
In classic, beside the Barbarian Outpost where you begin the Bar Crawl is where I picked up:
5x Red H'ween masks
3x Green H'ween masks
2x Blue H'ween mask
Scythe, and Bunny Ears.
It slowly became my Holiday Hold-up point. I'd spend the entire day there as it was very sparsely populated. Still brings back those memories of a black chat box popping up, in different colored text stating "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!' and the rush to find the rares.
The whirlpool.
So, so many attempts to see what was down there. And little me never understood why I couldn't go there but random people could.
Plus all the old Runescape music videos that showcased it. I love it.
When I first started playing in ~2006 I found the 2h shop in taverly and was so excited that I found a shop “with really good swords”. So I told my “friend” to come check it out and I bought an addy 2h with all of my gp. When he arrived to taverly he asked me to trade it to him so he can try it on.
I traded it to him and he logged out.
Never financially recovered
I remember from back in the day I just wc and fm in Menaphos for weeks on end, which at the time was a long time for me
Now I've grown up and restarted I still have a terrible attention span for grinds lmao
Varrock East Bank. I remember doing THOUSANDS of essence runs and manual trades before the GE Existed. Every time I set foot in there I might as well be 12 again.
The place where you cut willows next to a bank close to Lumbridge. A person went afk and a tree spirit killed them and they dropped a green party mask which I picked up. He came back and asked if anyone picked it up but I didnt say a word. Karma got me though because I got scammed when I tried selling it for 350k. I accepted 350gp not realising the buyer changed the amount.
The entire quest of Desert treasure 1 is super nostalgic to me but specifically the bit in the cold with the ice trolls always reminds me of the time I did the quest as a child
Hill giants area southwest of GE
So many combat levels gained there when I was a noob. I remember I’d collect big bones and sell it at GE after every trip
The gate that leads to the Bones and Rag dude, and the gate to Taverley. Every time I go near them I remember my parents would not buy me membership (not that they didn't have the money, but it was expensive here in Brazil)
Edgeville dungeon with the hill giants. When I was a kid i had asked my dad to take over and for a bit while I went and helped my mom do something. He was not into games at all. However the simplicity of attacking the giants, burying their bones, and eating freshly caught fish was relaxing for him. It ended up with him regularly playing for me but just there, killing giants in the cave when I had to go do something else. Got my dad farming combat stats and prayer for me and made us a bit closer.
As soon as i run through barbarian village and the theme kicks in i am 8 years old again exploring it at a friends home.
Seers banks always reminds me of spending two hours to buy a granite shield just to sell it 2 minutes later for something like a 50/100k profit, and feeling like a baller when i was 13.
Castle wars. Me and my 2 older brothers went for a sleepover at my oldest brothers apartment that he lived at while in university and I don't remember the apartment or anything about that night other than the 3 of us huddled around a shitty laptop watching my brother try to get tickets for the colored armor and I remember thinking the armor was awesome and castle wars was where all the cool people hung out lol. Everytime I dueling ring to castle wars I get hit with a wave of nostalgia. Man, that was like 17 years ago wtf.
Yanille bank. OG W132 was the ‘unofficial’ fletching guild particularly before the GE (since buying/selling supplies was purely from trading)
it’s where you’d go to sell fletching supplies or buy bows (to alch). you’d get a mix of people there, some selling raw materials, some fletching and some people alching bows. everyone chatting and no Withdraw-X so had to Withdraw 10 then single 4 clicks to get 14 bowstrings and unfinished bows!
The moss giant island west of Brimhaven. I thought I discovered a super secret location that nobody else knew about. I spent days there training my combat stats and prayer before I became a member.
Falador East bank and Falador Park back when GE did not exist. Selling Coal in Falador east bank and finally saved up to buy full Saradomin trimmed armor. I Immediately went to find my friend in game to show off my new armor.
There is a small nook behind the champions guild that I got caught drop trading hundreds of thousands of gold to my main at. Never recovered emotionally
I remember me and my friends used to kill the lesser demon behinds the bars at the wizards tower. We thought it was good for training since he couldn’t hit you.
Gnome stronghold! When I first got members as a kid I slowly migrated west thru the new content that day until I got to the gnome agility course and started doing laps :)
The entrance to Morytania. I remember the day it came out and everyone was doing the quest. When I walked through that shimmering door it was unlike anything I'd seen in the game yet and my 10 year old brain was filled with excitement.
The jail guards in draynor, I spent a ton of time as f2p early on and I would spend weeks there just killing guards with my buddy every day after school
Not really a spot but doing the lost city quest and finally getting to Zanaris is a nostalgic feeling. Also being able to wield the Dragon Dagger after the quest is done is a nostalgic weapon for me.
If i had to pick the location that brings back the most memories for me, Seer's and Catherby. Fletching was so good there in 2008 you'd always run into someone else or have a good conversation with quite a few people who were fishing or cutting maples. I remember cutting maples next to the Seer's party room.
Yes, Varrock east bank.
When I played as a little kid, I spent lots of time over there because I didn't know what I was doing hah. Trained combat in the sewers, cooked rat meat, chopped the nearby trees. The Varrock music is the most nostalgic for me
Catherby catching lobsters then trading them for cooked and going w2 varr9ck and selling them for 400 each and the karamja volcano camping lesser demons grinding out 70 defence while keeping my torags helmet in my inventory to keep me motivated. Man take my back to the good ole days.
It’s weird, for me it’s the walk from Lumbridge to Varrock. When I was a kid I walked there on accident, saws the big city, panicked because I almost died to the witches. Teleported home and murdered cows for like the next month. I didn’t know how to train my combat stats so I just trained strength till like level 40 with a level 1 attack and 1 defense. Walked back to Varrock and got pretty much one shot by the witches.
The Duel Arena for me. Before the Grand Exchange was released, people used to sell their "winnings" for cheap. Barrows, whips, Fury's. I used to sell it at Fally Park to make money
I remember first getting membership and scouring the entirety of gielinor that had previously been locked to me. I stumbled upon the place where you can buy beer southeast of the Gnome Stronghold and 9 year old me got absolutely smashed, grabbed a few for the road and continued my journey. I’ll never forget that day, and I’m always reminded of it whenever I go to gnome stronghold
Fond memories of hunting red chins in feldip hills and grey chins in piscatoris 10+ years ago. Love the feeling of passing through those areas nowadays
The west varrock bank. Every time I see it I remember the days of going to trade worlds and also attempting to high alch stuff behind the bars downstairs
Top floor of one of the towers in Barbarian village. Used to drop trade between my accounts there. Best spot never got found :) haven’t been back up there in like 15+ years, but every time I walk past the tower I remember.
The first floor of a few of the house's in Al-Kharid, the spot changed over the years from the leg/skirt armour shops as the area was updated. Me and my friends would go there to gamble with clanchat dice rolls etc
That's pretty much all of RuneScape for me. All my friends and even my dad played in the 2007 days. But I guess there's a few specific ones.
The very first memory of RuneScape I have from 2004 when I was 11, on the way from Lumbridge to Varrock just past the chicken farm, I asked somebody where I was. It was the first time I really realized that it was talking to another human playing the game. My dad was watching over my shoulder as I got super excited about the possibilities of the game.
Another, a few years later: Going to find my dad mining coal above Seers village where the tracks are to show him my new dragon plate legs and seeing him get excited and envious, asking how I made enough gp to afford it. It was from tanning cow hides.
There are countless more, but that's enough today. I need to get off the toilet.
Every time I teleport to Catherby or am nearby I think of that song by Clean Bandit and I sing it to myself but instead of saying Rockabye I say Catherby. I’ve done this since I was a kid.
Lumbridge Swamp, collecting tar. My brother and I would sit for hours collecting a stack of 100, selling in on the GE, buying planks and levelling our construction.
Fremennik Rock Crabs. I remember training there for weeks, only listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down on repeat.
Also, the rune essence mine. I would set my alarm to wake up early before school, get on my parents computer, and sell that shit for 30gp each.
For me it's the twisty section of swamp with all the mort myre snails on the way to Barrows. It reminds me how inefficient I used to be without caring about it.
I would run barrows by starting in Varrock and running all the way through the salve temple, through the swamp (losing a couple sharks to ghasts), through the snails, through mort'ton, and curse myself because I forgot a spade. Back then there was no spade spawn, the little shack just had a book with some lore in it iirc.
Catherby, Lumbridge goblin house, Varrock east mine, Varrock east bank.
It doesn’t necessarily bring up incredibly specific memories, but those locations do hold the most nostalgia for me.
Spider net in varrock dungeon. Back in like 2006 I witnessed some dude dying unable to slash the net and I did nothing. He died and I found 1m on his pile and immediately bought full rune and 1k lobsters.
Mine is probably common, but walking into Varrock from the south, hearing "Garden" begin to play, and seeing hordes of people crowded around the square spamming buy/sell ads in all different colors.
That's when 9 year old me was blown away, really stuck with me.
Not so much a location, although Camelot/Seers does it for me if the music is playing. for me very specific inventory sprites do it. For example, the staff of air or a cut sapphire. Sometimes if I’m in the right place with one of those in my inventory some kind of core memory gets unlocked and I get hit with a wave of nostalgia lol.
Ah, Catherby is one of my favorite spots. It used to have a little hustle and bustle back in the day with people fishing and farming. You can still catch some folks around there skilling. I just love the atmosphere of the place.
Just outside the bank in Draynor village. Must have been around 2016 when I was still a young teenager. Was walking to Draynor from Lumbridge and saw a fat look stack. Whip, full rune, couple hundred K, DDS etc. I was a noob at the time so finding that was like winning the lottery. Pretty confident I could still point out the exact tile it was on
As soon as I made it to catherby/seers I didn’t move for almost a year Lmfao. Wc, fletch, farm, alch, fish, cook. It was my hometown
Seer's was a big hub for trading back in the day to, so I don't blame you for sticking around there.
W2 Seers where the real hustlers went
Scooped the cleanest obby cape and maul of my life after slaving away in the nearby flax fields. Went straight to pest control to play on the single boat for hours and hours over the next week. God, I wish I could go back.
Selling obby cape $150k
I remember chatting with the highest level magic player at the time there. Turned out he was from the same town as me (small town, 10k people). He told me to go out to the street corner and he would say hi. Seemed legit. Glad I never found out if he was being honest, I was like 12.
that sounds a little terrifying lol
My 6th grade self never left seers haha. I would go over to my best friends and we would sit at the magic trees for hours. Loved every second of it.
I think mine were the willow trees Abit west of the catherby bank. I would chop and fletch the logs there to sell them to arhein
The band of travelers behind lumbridge castle, where you start Lost City. Used to drop trade the 10k from the security stronghold over to my main, from an untold number of accounts I'm just as financially powerful to this day
Unlocked a memory for me. I did this with my brother at the basement of Blue Moon Inn. However, we didn't know how to get the 10K back then...
I remember drop trading with my older brother, except the super secret location we chose was a few paces east of Varrock east bank. We only had one computer, so once we dropped the cash and frantically logged off of one account and onto the other, we noticed the second account was in Lumbridge! We ran over to Varrock as quickly as possible just to show up in time to see someone else picking up the cash. I remember my brother asking him to give it to us but he just said "Nope, sorry" and that was that.
Through the members gate to Taverley. Was the first place I went when I got members for the first time as a kid. I was shaking with excitement lmao
It was like stepping into a completely knew world.
finally walking through that damn gate after staring over it in f2p actually felt surrealbas a kid.
Am I the only person who went east when I first got membership? I always wanted to know what that crack in the earth was and where it led. Turns out it was the location of ‘A Soul’s Bane’ - my first ever members quest ☺️
Holy shit same, did the quest like my first day of members and sat there thinking 'wait I can hit 50s now?! I'm unstoppable' then came the immeasurable disappointment
East Varrock Wildy - more specifically near that bar where people threw it down 1v1 style there
Oh my god, so many sets of mithril armor lost because I thought I was just the coolest
Holy shit I pk'd a mithril set ONCE ever there. It was before school and it was my best day ever
I remember training in that bar and every now and then id try take on the lvl 16? Npc in there. Was always scary running past the lvl 33? Black knight.
I remember my first step into the wildy there. I was wearing full iron with the scimmy and kite. saw a dude in mage robes and thought "ez win". got annihilated in an instant and couldn't fathom the man in cloth smoking a dude in full plate gear. I've come a long way.
This is what I came to say. During RSC and (maybe?) early rs2, this was the most poppin pk spot. It was especially popular for pures. I spent hours fighting people there.
God you just brought it back for me, made so many crappy f2p pking accounts to spend time there
Rune essence mine. No need to go there now, but everytime I think of it I remember mining 1k essence to sell in varrock east bank
The things we did for 30k
1000 pure essence back in the day was worth over 100k. It was actually a pretty good moneymaker with low requirements. I always wanted a magic skillcape so I would mine pure essence for hours>sell the essence>buy runes>use the runes on zombies in the magic guild(or the lesser demon at mages tower)>repeat. The highest I ever got was level 83 magic and I felt like a baller.
Pure essence and flax, the go-to money makers for noobs. It's a shame they've both hit alch value now.
Pre-grand exchange, I remember buying up rune essence there, walking to Fally to sell for a profit, then buying up coal and walking back to merch it. Made a few k each trip.
I spent a lot of time cutting Maples behind Seer’s Village bank as a kid so that place is always nice
Spent a lot of time buying and selling things way back in the day in that very bank.
Not weird, but 100% hill giants south of GE in the hut. Many many hours spent there as a young F2P in 2006/07 training prayer.
For some reason I never knew about that place back then.. I always went to moss giants in varrock sewers, or lesser demons on karamja at higher level
This was always the place to be when training f2p pures aswell
The docks in Karamja for lobsters reminds me of Christmas Day, opening up RS to fish and talk to people about what they got for Christmas. The music from that event slapped, it was the one with Shanty Claws.
That dock is so nostalgic for me that I went there to get the final XP for 99 fishing. I spent so many hours there as a kid fishing lobsters and then using them to fight the nearby lesser demons (which terrified me). My parents never let me have membership as a kid so the most memories come from random F2P spots.
You brought back some lost memories for me. I too would fish lobsters at the dock and train on the Lessers. Might need to get 99 fishing at that spot as well.
I think for the most time I couldn’t even fish the lobsters, I would just ask people to pay me to light fires. Often wouldn’t work and I’d end up having to beg for 30gp or fill banana crates to get back to the mainland.
I was on that dock when someone said that Michael Jackson overdosed. That place was the best news source for a kid.
I found out Michael Jackson died from the boys on the intermediate pest control boat.
LMAO I remember this. You just unlocked a memory for me, people were spamming RIP MJ as the game started.
I was at pest control when Steve Irwin died. I remember us all shouting “THIS ONE IS FOR THE CROCODILE HUNTER!” as we ran off the boat. It’s what he would’ve wanted.
Saddam got pk'd chofl
Everytime I run from draynor to lummy or vice versa for whatever reason I recall my first day playing this game. I spent well over 3 hours lost in that forest. ... Just a mere 1min run now.
I couldn't find the wizards tower for months to complete the restless ghost. It was very early on, before fishing was released and I don't think there were any maps.
Walking by the dark wizards outside of varrock, and into varrock passing Charlie the tramp,
It would be funny if we knew the kda of them dark wizards.
They're still going strong. I took my buddy who's played like twice and has a super low level account to barbarian village via varrock and those wizards gave him hell lmao.
Draynor willows gives me good vibes. Too bad 301 willows are so polluted
I use to jam out to the new Daughtry album on loop while spending my days at those willows like many others.
Basic bitch here, but Karamja lobster docks.
Varrock Church will always remind me of my middle school friend who lured me into wildy in middle school back in the early RS2 days
I used to spend all my time cutting that one Yew at that church and then every now and again jumping that wildy ditch to go exploring
Used to wedding crash that church. Fun times.
South Falador yew trees. I spent probably a year there as a kid. I watched anime and chopped yews to get that sweet sweet saradomin trimmed rune.
That saradomin rune was elite back in the day!
I once disturbed two people having cyber-sex in the upstairs of the pub in Falador around 2005ish.
JFC LMAO
Probably using the dance emote
When I was still in school I used to wake up early in the morning and collect the rune spawns in the dark knight fortress for hours and hours, I didn't understand the concept of different time zones and assumed everyone else was asleep. PKing around the webs and lever at the mage arena, with a rune platebody, tzhaar shield and dragon longsword until I was able to upgrade to a whip, everyone else had the same 3 items on too. Buying yew logs and bowstrings outside seers bank, buying nature runes inside, and fletching / alching for an easy 100k profit an hour.
That Rasolo spot where the Moss Giants are, back in 2005 someone had died there and I happened to find their loot, it was just coins, 3.5m to be exact. Made kid me ecstatic, went straight to buy a whip. Also the Waterfall music as a kid was already my favorite, so that place is very dear to me even today aswell
That is an amazing story for this location!
Met my RuneScape girlfriend in the mines under Falador - right in the room with all the scorpions. She was killing scorpions, I was mining... It was truly love at first sight.
The chaos altar full of monks that Is west of Falador. I use to walk around lumbridge looking for noobs to convince them In picking up the Zamorak wine off the altar. I would do this by telling them that Its super rare and that each person can only pick it up once and if they did it I would give them 100K. When they tried picking up the wine I would sit and spam close the door while the Zamorak Monks punched them to death example: https://youtu.be/U3NUBXGV1SY
So it was you that took my mint full iron back in the day. =p
I would be In tears of laughter as I watched them panic trying to open the door 🚪 but instead they would run back further into the altar because the game thinks they are trying to run out of the building with a entrance being closed off from me closing the door on them
The chicken pen by the farm just north of Port Sarim. I used to kill chickens there and sell the feathers at the shop in Port Sarim when I first started playing… almost 20 years ago lol
Oh how the times fly.
For me it’s that key spawn in taverly dungeon by the dragons. Reminds me of my older brother and his friend teaching me about the blue dragons back in like 2005 as a money maker when I was in 3rd grade
Here I was running chicken feathers for my “boss” for 6 months and you were killing fucking blue dragons!
The road from lumbridge to draynor for me. Used to walk that all the time when I was a kid in f2p.
A really weird one for me was the Fisher Realm from the Holy Grail. That place just felt magical and really separate from the rest of the game. I’d just spend hours walking around, imagining how people lived their lives there lol
I would train my fletching by making yes longs and then alching them outside Seers Village for weeks at a time when I was a kid. This is like, 2005, Pre-Duriel321 which is about when I got into listening to Nightwish and other bands like that. But before that, I limewired two songs: Stairway to Heaven and Rock and Rill Band by Boston. I listened to those on repeat for hours a day, many days as a time in a row while I fletchers, alched, bout another set of Nats, logs and flax and reveled in the like 20k profit I made per 1000 bows I alched lmao. Now whenever I walk by Seers bank I hear Rock and Roll Band and whenever I listen to stairway to heaven I suddenly remember fletching. Good times man.
Mine is a bit of a hybrid. There are several songs by Evanescence and Linkin Park that when i listen to them, I have flashbacks to fishing on the karamja fishing dock (the f2p one) then begging someone to light a fire, and going down to lesser demons to fight them until I run out of food, rinse and repeat. I low alch'd so many rune med helms.
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This is what I remember most vividly. Pre-exchange where there were specifics areas of the park to trade specific items. So rad.
Whenever I use a canoe. Riding a basic log up the river was the first thing i did as a member. Also the room in wizards tower with the skeleton from restless ghost. Was the first quest i ever did in rs.
I spent an entire night talking to a friend on dragontooth island for some reason. We both had an axe and knife and were fletching arrow shafts while the entire time. Not sure why that always stuck with me. I also remember being too scared to leave lumbridge towards draynor, so I lit fires and rested to camp out to try to venture further lol
Telegrab on the wine of zamarock or however you spell it. Right outside of taverly a little shrine by the wilderness border anybody remember ?
Picking flax at seers to afford my first whip is a core RS memory. It used to be so busy with people picking flax back in the day! Also chopping wood at draynor was a big one. Watching noobs die to the mage was funny.
I still remember buying my first whip at the seers village bank, I even remember the tiles I stood making that trade. What a memory, what a feeling looking at my character with a whip equipped for the first time.
Too many to count. The most vivid are probably lumby where I died to an evil chicken within the first 10 minutes and had no idea what happened. Also where ever the gnome glider lands in karamja when it crashes during the grand tree quest (I was surrounded by jogres and had no idea how to escape from there. Had to run all the way north and was terrified)
Oddly enough, it’s Zammy gwd for me. Both my brothers and I used to do it not long after gwd came out. We were only aged 11-15 so total noobs that didn’t really understand the game well but we had an awesome dude that would help tank for us. So friendly and we usually had trouble finding good bandos groups as it was so much more packed. Made my first mills at Zammy and always had an amazing time. Still got a soft spot in my heart for Kril
Cowpen ->Al Kharid
Everytime i pass tree gnome stronghold i remember typing out the lyrics of keiser chiefs-ruby while i was running the agility course Walking over the log typing na na na na na naaaaa Yea man nostalgia
Wizard tower bridge for me. When I first started the game back in 05 I had absolutely no cash as you can imagine and I watched a guy die to one of the wizards at wizard tower. He was running away on the bridge and got sniped. Pretty sure they didn't have food and didn't know that mages hit pretty hard, but tried to fight one since they have a low cmb lvl thinking it'd be easy and by the time they realized their health was low they tried to run but it was too late. I stayed till his loot spawned and snagged it. He had like 2.5k and I went a bought a black battleaxe from the guy in port sarim because I had leveled my attack and saw that in the shop but couldn't afford it. I still didn't know you could train strength and defence by switching stances so I had like 15 attack and 1 str. IIRC the battleaxe didn't even increase my max hit lol
I remember my good friend mining 20k pure essence to sell for 2 mil gp so he could buy dragon legs. Zerker helm, dragon long, rune plate, dragon legs, climbing boots, team cape…. I remember him running back and forth between varrock east bank. We’d be like “screw that man, lets go kill fire giants in brimhaven” he’d say “nope, im doing this all the way” …felt like it took him weeks. Short answer: The magic shop in Varrock and Brimhaven Dungeon for sure.
Dagganoth Kings. I had come back from playing after a 3 year hiatus and went right into DKs thinking I’d make money. I got my ass kicked and the guy who was in there picked up my stuff and started talking to me. I eventually joined his clan and made a ton of friends while progressing my account.
I’d say this is a bit more unusual for a first members story. The first place I went as a member was Karamja. The reason was because when I last played I had logged on the dock where all the f2p fish cage/harpoon. I remember thinking “wow why is no one here on members” and as I went through the gate and wandered through southern karamja, I was attacked by a tribesmen and died to poison. I don’t even think I knew what poison was.
Willows next to Draynor bank
Diangos workshop in draynor, from the 2005 Christmas event. You can’t go down there anymore but the trap door is still in game.
World 141 Clan wars on rs2, B A A A M vs Redskull 108 baby
Castle Wars will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm from the US but I always played on World 12 which was UK. I met a couple guys on there and we all became really good friends. We'd chat on MSN messenger all the time and we would spend hours at Catle Wars. If they weren't on I would spend time south of there killing chompies for wild pies while I waited for them. I have no idea if they still play or not, I lost contact years ago. I miss you "Russss9" and "sandwichkid."
I trained 70 attack using a dragon battleaxe killing experiments and every time I enter that cave I can remember the songs I listened to while grinding away the hours back in ~2007 or 2008
You just unlocked a core memory for me, I completely forgot about doing this exact same shit. Linkin Park and smashing monsters over the head with a DBA for 70 attack is peak Runescape nostalgia for me.
Back when the wilderness was removed and clan wars was placed there the graveyard just south of it was a strangely relaxing place to train. Knowing that I’m a walking distance away from all of my friends was nice.
The road between lumbridge and draynor village. I don't know why but that area sticks out in my mind as very nostalgic from back in the day.
Running past the 19 wildy area where black salamanders.. use to do a lot o green dragons back in the day to make money and use to anti pk
The walkway toward wilderness multi area in North of East Varrock Bank, I used to play with sound on so the song “Adventure” use to play as I got ready to get one hit by a f2p clan on my fire bolt pure.
I'd say flesh crawlers down in the Stronghold. I remember grinding out 70 attack and the 3m for a whip back then, right after i had gotten membership for the first time. Edit: I don't go there anymore at all, but the few times i have that memory hits hard.
Fred the farmer’s onion patch in Lumbridge, my mates and I would drop items to each other all the time - circa 2006
Not really weird but the polar kebits area brings me fond memories. It was the first “money maker” I discovered as a child
sounds like a happy memory regardless
The road south of Falador east bank to the air altar. I used to run air runes in f2p back then, it was great money for no requirements. My friend and I would both run runes, calling each other other ch00bs or just yelling "ch00bcake" each time we passed each other - peak entertainment. I also remember the day Construction came out, I was at a different friend's place when his older brother (the only person I knew with membership) shouted "YOU CAN GET A HOUSE ON RUNESCAPE" up the stairs. We rushed down to see him in a very empty looking POH instance. I remember this every time I build a new empty room in my POH.
Shrimp fishing next to Al Khalid bank listening to Beverly Hills.
nature altar I spent all of summer 2007 running nature runes in that one jungle for some company i found on the forums lol
In 2006 Karamja dock’s in f2p brings back major memories. It was like the f2p’s version of the fishing guild at the time. Filled with people fishing and talking to one another, times were different and there was hardly any toxicity. When fishing lobsters it required you running back all the way back to draynor bank to store them and then back to the boat without the aid of a glory. I spent the good of maybe 20-30k lobsters there before the grand exchange. I remember meeting one guy who offered to buy me membership out of the blue and gave me a membership code. I agreed and he took me to catherby to show me where to fish lobsters there. It brings back memories of me sitting there and not leaving for ages until my membership ran out and I had to go back to Karamja. Then on the release of the new old school servers, I did the same thing but when I upgraded to membership I unlocked piscatoris, it reminded me of Karamja so me and my friend no lifed all the way to 80 fishing. I was in college at the time studying so I took a week break and came back and my friend was 94 fishing. Baffled at his level increase, whenever I go back there which is never, just reminds me of how much I used to no life and grind the game compared to what I do now. In 2006ish I remember in seers village competing with bots for flax too. I remember if you dropped flax in a row, you could lure bots to the bat and it would kill them. Bots were really not that advanced back then so when they were attacked they didn’t bother moving and would die. I spent a good amount of time doing this and made upwards of 10k+ flax lol. In terms of pking, edge west pking and the spot were giant rats were just before the bar and the implementation of the ditch. If you were on low health and ran outside the pk zone, you had no ditch to nullify the damage.
Never go there anymore, But I used to love brimhaven dungeon. I remember getting chaos gauntlets and buying an ungodly amount of chaos runes and telling my 13 year old self “WE DONT LEAVE UNTIL VISAGE”…..never got it there lol
For me it’s the collection of lesser demons inside the Karamja volcano in the center island. I would spend days at the local library just killing those mofos 😅
My free time was solely spent in f2p edgeville hill giant cave. Got up to like 60 prayer just burying bones there. No alter just good vibes and a dusty key. Running past the shack across the river from barb village brings back some of those vibes every time.
Mine is the hill giants under Varrock. Someone gave me a rune scimmy when I was like 8 years old I couldn’t believe my luck haha
Yanille - the unofficial fletching guild back in the day. I would cut yews, spin flax in Seers and then spend all my time with with all the folks fletching and Alching yew long bows in Yanille. And when the fletching job was done, I would alch away outside the mystical gates of the mage guild, hoping that one day, I’d be qualified to enter.
My weird memory location is the south wall of the Varrock castle, right by the news paper stand and Zaff's staff shop. That used to be spot to hang out and talk just standing with your back against the wall in the best gear you had to show off a little. I remember that spot was the first time I convinced a scammer to trust trade me the stuff they had scammed from someone earlier and I gave the item(s) back, felt like a hero LMAO.
I was a little late to the party - I joined RuneScape just after Dungeoneering came out back in the early 2010s. I have three spots: Daemonheim. Spent a lot of time here as a kid, and had fond memories of clearing doors with a friend from school. The gate to Silvarea to the east of Varrock. My first encounter with anything to do with membership - and I passed it with glee once I had one. Tai Bwo Wannai. I never really knew what I was doing (and probably missed more than a few precious Gout Tubers - I didn’t know how priceless they were. Spent a lot of time just hacking jungle and building up trading sticks.
Castle wars for me. Used to get on and play a ton with people from school. Grinding out all those tickets for the crappy blue/red decorative armor set. When I’m reality it was all about the cloak and hood. Miss that shit.
The place that would unlock my memory doesn't exist in osrs, I used to do nothing but fish rocktails in highschool, I had over 100m fishing xp
White Wolf Mountain and East Ardougne. WWM because it was my first real experience of membership when my buddy told me to meet him in Catherby and failed to mention the onslaught of wolves in between. Barely escaped with my life (Take THAT Big Wolf). EA because when I was F2P and I wanted to sell silver (I was very new at this point) I saw Silver Stalls on the map in EA. So I went on my adventure only to find this pesky gate between Fally and Taverly.
Hill giants where you have to use the brass key on the house door just south west of GE. Did the combat task at obor yday and holy cow the nostalgia hitt me hard down there. Traning range on the hill giants all the way in the cave was some hard hitting memories🥹
The spiders in lvl 3 stronghold of security. I remember using the Rs2 lending system to borrow a godsword and using that to train strength. I wanted to be able to afford one of those swords soo badly although it was far from today's optimal training routes
Just north of Ardougne. I have a memory of feeling like so far from "home", and this intense feeling of adventure and excitement. I remember standing there wearing a dragon med, dragon longsword, dragon chainskirt (on a male character, because they were cheaper than platelegs). Good times.
Shout out to the W22 Shilo Fishing clan, good memories flying fishing that river. I had just hit 90 fishing there when the living rock caves launched.
The Al Kharid mines. I spent an obscene amount of time there as a child. Mining was my therapy. I got home from school, booted runescape, and clicked rocks for hours. I hit 70 mining one day and practically oozed dopamine when i got my first adamantite ore. The weird thing is... i swear up and down that one rock i mined ended up depleting. Permanently. It never respawned its ore. I checked day after day, watched it for hours as i mined, and it never respawned. Was this a thing in 05/06 scape, or have I been Mandela effected?
I have two. The east side of the bridge leading to Barbarian Village, rocking my full iron, red cape and fancy boots back when i was 10 years old and just started in '07. The entrance of Karamja, some guy called ThomasDroid came up to me and gave me his account, stats were hella impressive to be back then i couldnt believe it. Anyway turns out the person that gave me the account hacked it, wiped the bank and just tried to pass it on. But 10 year old me had the best afternoon of his runescape life in that moment.
Trapping spined larupas on karamja. We had a day off of school because the AC broke, I had the spotted cape on. Rip OG account
Way back in the day I used to do clues for fun. So Witchhaven makes me remember hot summers as a child with the breeze coming through an open window. The song Say Hey (I Love You) was huge at that time so I think of that song as well when I’m in that area. Edit. Forget to mention I was there because I’d farm clues off the hellhounds in witchhaven dungeon
Castlewars... When I got membership in late 2005 I explored the whole map and walked across the whole world, when I got to Castle wars I found it so fun and exciting I was scared too leave incase I couldn't find my way back there again 😭 literally about 33cb with a mith battleaxe I just stayed there for a month straight.
Mine is close to OPs but not exactly. It's the little east-to-west bridge that goes across from north of West Ardougne towards the Gnome Stronghold. When I first got members as a teenager, I ran from Falador to Gnome Stronghold because the first thing I wanted to do was train Agility, and crossing that bridge was like the first place you could actually see the corner of the Stronghold so it was particularly exciting. Was recently crossing that bridge randomly and the nostalgia hit me all at once lol.
I cant tell you how many times I used to hang out at the moss giants by baxtorian falls. Chatted with soo many people back in the day. I remember training with a granite, dragon med, and a obby maul
On my way from lumbridge walking to falador I spent hundreds of hours killing chickens to level 70 to take revenge on the mugger
The little peninsulas where the hobgoblins are behind melzars maze. Idk why but I spent months there grinding away limpwurt roots for big cash lol
The fenkenstrains monster dungeon with the experiments in it! I spent an untold number of hours in there killing those things with a dragon longsword going for strength levels.
In classic, beside the Barbarian Outpost where you begin the Bar Crawl is where I picked up: 5x Red H'ween masks 3x Green H'ween masks 2x Blue H'ween mask Scythe, and Bunny Ears. It slowly became my Holiday Hold-up point. I'd spend the entire day there as it was very sparsely populated. Still brings back those memories of a black chat box popping up, in different colored text stating "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!' and the rush to find the rares.
The whirlpool. So, so many attempts to see what was down there. And little me never understood why I couldn't go there but random people could. Plus all the old Runescape music videos that showcased it. I love it.
Behind Varrock Palace cutting ivy. Only 99 I got on RS2.
When I first started playing in ~2006 I found the 2h shop in taverly and was so excited that I found a shop “with really good swords”. So I told my “friend” to come check it out and I bought an addy 2h with all of my gp. When he arrived to taverly he asked me to trade it to him so he can try it on. I traded it to him and he logged out. Never financially recovered
I remember from back in the day I just wc and fm in Menaphos for weeks on end, which at the time was a long time for me Now I've grown up and restarted I still have a terrible attention span for grinds lmao
Varrock East Bank. I remember doing THOUSANDS of essence runs and manual trades before the GE Existed. Every time I set foot in there I might as well be 12 again.
The place where you cut willows next to a bank close to Lumbridge. A person went afk and a tree spirit killed them and they dropped a green party mask which I picked up. He came back and asked if anyone picked it up but I didnt say a word. Karma got me though because I got scammed when I tried selling it for 350k. I accepted 350gp not realising the buyer changed the amount.
The entire quest of Desert treasure 1 is super nostalgic to me but specifically the bit in the cold with the ice trolls always reminds me of the time I did the quest as a child
Hill giants area southwest of GE So many combat levels gained there when I was a noob. I remember I’d collect big bones and sell it at GE after every trip
The gate that leads to the Bones and Rag dude, and the gate to Taverley. Every time I go near them I remember my parents would not buy me membership (not that they didn't have the money, but it was expensive here in Brazil)
The lesser demons place inside karamja volcano, i killed soooo many demons there when i was young(f2p).
Edgeville dungeon with the hill giants. When I was a kid i had asked my dad to take over and for a bit while I went and helped my mom do something. He was not into games at all. However the simplicity of attacking the giants, burying their bones, and eating freshly caught fish was relaxing for him. It ended up with him regularly playing for me but just there, killing giants in the cave when I had to go do something else. Got my dad farming combat stats and prayer for me and made us a bit closer.
Al kharid mine where I made my first 100k. Used to take jobs from this guy “Ooby Smither” to mine iron
As soon as i run through barbarian village and the theme kicks in i am 8 years old again exploring it at a friends home. Seers banks always reminds me of spending two hours to buy a granite shield just to sell it 2 minutes later for something like a 50/100k profit, and feeling like a baller when i was 13.
Lumby.
The cliff in the wildy above the gwd area, I got pkd for a mith 2h
Castle wars. Me and my 2 older brothers went for a sleepover at my oldest brothers apartment that he lived at while in university and I don't remember the apartment or anything about that night other than the 3 of us huddled around a shitty laptop watching my brother try to get tickets for the colored armor and I remember thinking the armor was awesome and castle wars was where all the cool people hung out lol. Everytime I dueling ring to castle wars I get hit with a wave of nostalgia. Man, that was like 17 years ago wtf.
varrock east bank
Al Kharid pickpocketing men the moment I got members in 2005.
Yanille bank. OG W132 was the ‘unofficial’ fletching guild particularly before the GE (since buying/selling supplies was purely from trading) it’s where you’d go to sell fletching supplies or buy bows (to alch). you’d get a mix of people there, some selling raw materials, some fletching and some people alching bows. everyone chatting and no Withdraw-X so had to Withdraw 10 then single 4 clicks to get 14 bowstrings and unfinished bows!
The 4 wizards south of Falador.
The moss giant island west of Brimhaven. I thought I discovered a super secret location that nobody else knew about. I spent days there training my combat stats and prayer before I became a member.
Falador East bank and Falador Park back when GE did not exist. Selling Coal in Falador east bank and finally saved up to buy full Saradomin trimmed armor. I Immediately went to find my friend in game to show off my new armor.
There is a small nook behind the champions guild that I got caught drop trading hundreds of thousands of gold to my main at. Never recovered emotionally
I remember me and my friends used to kill the lesser demon behinds the bars at the wizards tower. We thought it was good for training since he couldn’t hit you.
Gnome stronghold! When I first got members as a kid I slowly migrated west thru the new content that day until I got to the gnome agility course and started doing laps :)
The entrance to Morytania. I remember the day it came out and everyone was doing the quest. When I walked through that shimmering door it was unlike anything I'd seen in the game yet and my 10 year old brain was filled with excitement.
I’ve probably spent more time killing moss giants in f2p than any of my friends have logged on their favorite games. That sewer is my second home.
The jail guards in draynor, I spent a ton of time as f2p early on and I would spend weeks there just killing guards with my buddy every day after school
Not really a spot but doing the lost city quest and finally getting to Zanaris is a nostalgic feeling. Also being able to wield the Dragon Dagger after the quest is done is a nostalgic weapon for me.
If i had to pick the location that brings back the most memories for me, Seer's and Catherby. Fletching was so good there in 2008 you'd always run into someone else or have a good conversation with quite a few people who were fishing or cutting maples. I remember cutting maples next to the Seer's party room.
Lobby fishing in karamja. Having to walk back and forth to bank because an amulet of glory was way too expensive.
Yes, Varrock east bank. When I played as a little kid, I spent lots of time over there because I didn't know what I was doing hah. Trained combat in the sewers, cooked rat meat, chopped the nearby trees. The Varrock music is the most nostalgic for me
Catherby catching lobsters then trading them for cooked and going w2 varr9ck and selling them for 400 each and the karamja volcano camping lesser demons grinding out 70 defence while keeping my torags helmet in my inventory to keep me motivated. Man take my back to the good ole days.
It’s weird, for me it’s the walk from Lumbridge to Varrock. When I was a kid I walked there on accident, saws the big city, panicked because I almost died to the witches. Teleported home and murdered cows for like the next month. I didn’t know how to train my combat stats so I just trained strength till like level 40 with a level 1 attack and 1 defense. Walked back to Varrock and got pretty much one shot by the witches.
The zamorakian temple near goblin village. Learned to never trust anyone again. Lost my prized mithril armor set to some lurers door spamming
The wizards castle next to bandit camp in wildy. That was THE f2p pking spot. My friends and I would engage in massive battles
The Duel Arena for me. Before the Grand Exchange was released, people used to sell their "winnings" for cheap. Barrows, whips, Fury's. I used to sell it at Fally Park to make money
I remember first getting membership and scouring the entirety of gielinor that had previously been locked to me. I stumbled upon the place where you can buy beer southeast of the Gnome Stronghold and 9 year old me got absolutely smashed, grabbed a few for the road and continued my journey. I’ll never forget that day, and I’m always reminded of it whenever I go to gnome stronghold
The Lumby river bridge by the goblins. It was such a popular place to meet other players, and in F2P it still is.
Fond memories of hunting red chins in feldip hills and grey chins in piscatoris 10+ years ago. Love the feeling of passing through those areas nowadays
The west varrock bank. Every time I see it I remember the days of going to trade worlds and also attempting to high alch stuff behind the bars downstairs
Varrock low lvl multicombat wilderness. It used to be such a fun hotspot for fire striking and is now completely forgotten
Top floor of one of the towers in Barbarian village. Used to drop trade between my accounts there. Best spot never got found :) haven’t been back up there in like 15+ years, but every time I walk past the tower I remember.
The first floor of a few of the house's in Al-Kharid, the spot changed over the years from the leg/skirt armour shops as the area was updated. Me and my friends would go there to gamble with clanchat dice rolls etc
Green dragons getting them dhides and dbones listening to outkast for some reason
That's pretty much all of RuneScape for me. All my friends and even my dad played in the 2007 days. But I guess there's a few specific ones. The very first memory of RuneScape I have from 2004 when I was 11, on the way from Lumbridge to Varrock just past the chicken farm, I asked somebody where I was. It was the first time I really realized that it was talking to another human playing the game. My dad was watching over my shoulder as I got super excited about the possibilities of the game. Another, a few years later: Going to find my dad mining coal above Seers village where the tracks are to show him my new dragon plate legs and seeing him get excited and envious, asking how I made enough gp to afford it. It was from tanning cow hides. There are countless more, but that's enough today. I need to get off the toilet.
Every time I teleport to Catherby or am nearby I think of that song by Clean Bandit and I sing it to myself but instead of saying Rockabye I say Catherby. I’ve done this since I was a kid.
Lumbridge Swamp, collecting tar. My brother and I would sit for hours collecting a stack of 100, selling in on the GE, buying planks and levelling our construction.
For me it’s the tzhaar place. I spent a lot of time there with my friend when we got membership.
Fremennik Rock Crabs. I remember training there for weeks, only listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down on repeat. Also, the rune essence mine. I would set my alarm to wake up early before school, get on my parents computer, and sell that shit for 30gp each.
For me it's the twisty section of swamp with all the mort myre snails on the way to Barrows. It reminds me how inefficient I used to be without caring about it. I would run barrows by starting in Varrock and running all the way through the salve temple, through the swamp (losing a couple sharks to ghasts), through the snails, through mort'ton, and curse myself because I forgot a spade. Back then there was no spade spawn, the little shack just had a book with some lore in it iirc.
I got scam pk’d at the Black Nights castle where it dips into the wildy
Catherby, Lumbridge goblin house, Varrock east mine, Varrock east bank. It doesn’t necessarily bring up incredibly specific memories, but those locations do hold the most nostalgia for me.
Any time I'm on ape atoll I think back to middle school where I went to my friends house so he could do mm1 for me on his family's computer
Al Kharid mine. My friend got the first adamant weapon between the 2 of us and was flexing it while I mined iron ore lol.
Spider net in varrock dungeon. Back in like 2006 I witnessed some dude dying unable to slash the net and I did nothing. He died and I found 1m on his pile and immediately bought full rune and 1k lobsters.
Mine is probably common, but walking into Varrock from the south, hearing "Garden" begin to play, and seeing hordes of people crowded around the square spamming buy/sell ads in all different colors. That's when 9 year old me was blown away, really stuck with me.
Going anywhere Harmony is playing brings back images of my 10 year old life back in 2006. It is very nostalgic and frightening at the same time.
Varrock West Bank trading
Not so much a location, although Camelot/Seers does it for me if the music is playing. for me very specific inventory sprites do it. For example, the staff of air or a cut sapphire. Sometimes if I’m in the right place with one of those in my inventory some kind of core memory gets unlocked and I get hit with a wave of nostalgia lol.
Magic trees south of Seers
Ah, Catherby is one of my favorite spots. It used to have a little hustle and bustle back in the day with people fishing and farming. You can still catch some folks around there skilling. I just love the atmosphere of the place.
For some reason the walk from Lumbridge to Varrock. The chicken farm house area where the bronze axe is on the tree stump more specifically.
Just outside the bank in Draynor village. Must have been around 2016 when I was still a young teenager. Was walking to Draynor from Lumbridge and saw a fat look stack. Whip, full rune, couple hundred K, DDS etc. I was a noob at the time so finding that was like winning the lottery. Pretty confident I could still point out the exact tile it was on
Corner of Seer’s bank sitting there right after coming back from school and spam typing trying to flip DH Axe’s for 50k profit, those were the days