Beginners Guide

Leaving Tutorial Island and Entering The Main Land of RuneScape

Lumbridge contains many things to do. From here you can start to improve on those skills that you were taught to use in Tutorial Island, visit the shops, windmill and castle, kill some goblins or start a quest. Be sure to talk to the Lumbridge Guide who stands just outside Lumbridge Castle. If you can't see him, the Lumbridge Guide can be identified by the following symbol on the mini-map:

Lumbridge Guide

Quests

There are different levels of quests in RuneScape - Novice, Intermediate, Experienced and Master.

To find the starting location of possible quests to begin, look for the Quest Start symbol on your mini map - . If you are unsure of how to use the different maps in RuneScape view the map http://www.runescape.com

Lumbridge can offer you a selection of the different types of quest available in RuneScape. However, for a new player the novice level quests are the most suitable. These will provide you with the experience of undertaking a quest and will help build up your initial skills.



Some of the quests available in Lumbridge are :

• Cook's Assistant - which you start by speaking to the cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle, which is on the ground floor.
  
• The Restless Ghost - which you start by speaking to the priest in the church opposite Lumbridge Castle.
  
• Sheep Shearer - which you can start by speaking to the farmer in the house just south-east of the windmill in Lumbridge.
  
• Rune Mysteries - which you can start by speaking to the Duke in Lumbridge Castle on the first floor.
  

Skills

When you first arrive in Lumbridge you may find that you need to obtain various items before you can start training your skills. To get yourself used to the skills used in RuneScape we recommend that you start with training the following skills:

Woodcutting

Once you get to Lumbridge you can start to immediately train this skill because the only item you'll require is a woodcutting axe. This skill is useful because it enables you to obtain a ready supply of logs that can be used to level up some of your other skills. For more information on this skill please see our Woodcutting Guide.

Firemaking

This is one of the easiest skills to start training. All you need is a tinderbox and some logs. Firemaking is essential when you are not near a cooking range so that you can cook your meat or fish in order to restore your hitpoints after a battle.

Cooking

Cooking is a useful skill because you provide yourself with food to heal those lost hitpoints, instead of using money to buy food. The chicken pen to the north-west of the General Store in Lumbridge will provide you with raw meat to start building this skill. For more information about the Cooking skill.

Fishing

This skill gives you an alternative method of obtaining food other than by killing an animal and cooking the meat dropped. It is an essential skill throughout the game as some food, in particular certain types of fish, can heal more hitpoints than others.

Mining and Smithing

Mining allows you to extract different materials from certain rocks. Using the ores that you get from the rocks you can smelt them into bars and smith the bars into useful items. For a beginner, these two skills can be useful because from a low level you can make useful items to help you in battle. For a novice it will be wise to make some armour to protect yourself against attacks when building up your combat.

Combat

Combat is divided into many skills - attack, defence, hitpoints and strength. You can start to train these skills as soon as you have a weapon - this may be an axe or sword etc. By levelling up your combat skills you can kill higher level monsters more easily, and hence receive more valuable rewards.

Other players

Playing an online role-play game like RuneScape will require you to communicate and sometimes rely on the help of others in order for you to complete your tasks. Some players make use of this opportunity by trading with others and creating alliances to build up a network of friends that they can rely on in-game to help them. For more information about the advantages of having friends in RuneScape.