the osrs wiki is actual peak. in my 20 years of video gaming, never have I seen a wiki better maintained and interconnected with a game ever. it's crazy how much we take standalone wikis for granted. "fandom wikis" are obnoxious, and some game wikis are horribly formatted. osrs wiki rocks

to all you experienced players out there, watch it anyway even if you learn nothing, kip deserves the views

as a maxed main im so happy to finally find a guide for me

31:47 you ain’t lying bro. I used to love to play RS back in middle school (2005). Since I didn’t have a PC, I’d go to the public library to play it until I got kicked off. Im in mid mid 30s and I just started playing again and man! What a nostalgic feeling. I can’t believe I still remember a lot of it. Thanks for the video.

Literally started playing an hour ago I needed these tips

Cant wait to get started! (I have 100+ days play time and can almost finally play the game)

This is so incredibly well done. The community, and potential new community members, have needed this for a long time. The hardest part of Runescape has always been getting started. In order to attract and help new members, this should be on the OSRS front page. Or this video could be the final part of tutorial island just before being teleported to Lumby. Awesome job Kip!

I have thousands of hours in OSRS and I wish I had this video back in the day. Great job mudkip! This is the kind of stuff that’ll keep our game alive for years to come!

It's literally awesome to see this game thriving so hard and with so many classic players as well as new people getting into the game. The game feels just as alive as it did back in '07. The good old days are back and here to stay brothers.

I've been trying to get back at osrs for a while now and watching this video really helped!! i watched the whole thing without even noticing it.

Im a maxed end game player with multiple accounts but I will still watch all of this to support mudkip’s hard work :D

A general tip I've given to a few of my friends who started playing is to not get all hung up on efficiency. Just because you don't have all the optimal gear to do something doesn't mean it won't be worth it to do anyways. For example, Blast Furnace can be done solo, and one you get to steel smiting, even with buying every piece of coal and bribing the foreman, you can still turn a good profit and make excellent smithing XP without ice gloves or goldsmith gauntlets even on an Ironman account. If every time you decide to embark on a new skill or money maker, you stop to backtrack into items or quests that will make it more efficient, you'll just end up playing the entire game beside a walkthrough.

Thanks for this. I'd played a little R3 in the past but I started OSRS yesterday after a watching your R3 vs. OSRS video. It's quite a bit different - and more enjoyable so far!

I REMEMBER YOU FROM years AGO! I am so glad you're still here and alive. You helped me back in 08-09 I believe coudl have been 2010 but thankful for the refresher!

Watching as a maxed player since I can finally start playing the game

Been playing for over 20 years and still consistently use the wiki skill guides. VERY useful. Thanks for making this

I highly recommend just buying membership with real money, having to sustain GP for a bond at a low level will feel like a chore, and the gold you can keep instead will be really beneficial to progressing your account

I'm watching this anyway just because the way Mudkip explains stuff for newbies is genuinely helpful.

Just started playing and I am on a free to play plan. I only play for maybe 20 minutes a day. This guide will help me know how to make the most use of that time. Thanks a bunch!

ive been playing rs since 2005 and have gotten friends to try osrs, but it can be challenging to explain things to new players sometimes. so thank you for this guide, ill have any new players give this a watch and itll hopefully help them out more than having a veteran player just dump information on them. love the content man, keep up the good work.

Hey Mudkip, Love the vid, I've been watchin ya for a while and love all the content, for any of the new people he has a series I watched way back when he made them called "Maintain a bond" thats a great place to start. That was way back when bonds were only 4m but all of that content just like his new content still stays relevent because he teaches you the skills you need not just the here and now. I played way back on Miniclip and came back to OSRS shortly after it came back, made my first bond killing ogresses and mining gold it takes a really long time on f2p but once you get to members so much opens up to you. So much more of the map, Skills like hunter or fletching like shown in his old video still will make you money and is still really good, never thought I would be 2100 total lvl on main but I really love this game and would recommend anyone to get into it despite the learning curve and the point and click old style you have to get used to but for me has nostalgia lvling woodcutting only behind lumby when I was a kid and just selling to general store XD, love the vids as always man and keep up the good work.

i was searching for a game to play with my old 2012 macbook, i thought why not osrs... im currently 3 days in and i am at total of 255, no regrets its awesome for easy and casual grind. Your video helped me alot!

Thanks Mudkip I can't wait to start!

Dunno why never stopped playing since 2004 and still watch those new player guide thing even if I don't need to 🤣

Watching this as a late game player just to relive that early game nostalgia (and of course for the usual quality content from mudkip)

Joining an active clan can be so helpful. So many people to chat with and potentially group together which I had never done in a decade of RS. I was dreading going from 62-77 prayer. A guy spent a mill and a half on dragonbones so I could get to 65 fast, and that gave me the initiative to just go the rest of the way using 1k bloodveld heads. That lead to me being able to pay it forward and help other people struggling getting a skill up.

Awesome video! I've almost completed my f2p goals (just gonna get the bosses) then I'm going to get membership. I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to commit but this guide really simplified things!

can’t wait to watch this. have never ever touched osrs in my life and i’m planning to use this to get started!!!

I just started playing again for the first time in like 5 years. I barely started when I did play too, although I did also play for a bit in the 2000s on an old character. Thanks for the guide, I'm gonna need it. Crazy good timing. Edit: omg I'm so happy to know there isn't any way to get into my original character from the 2000s too. I kept wishing I could remember the login, now it doesn't matter haha Edit 2: I was able to get my name changed back to my OG character now too! New sub here! I finished the video and it is gonna be a huge help. Thank you!

This was so unbelievably well done. Genuinely I absolutely loved this video it had so much good advice, I wish I had something like this when I was starting out in the game

Not THE wildmudkip uploading a beginner guide when I’m contemplating getting back into RuneScape on a fresh account

This is the exact guide i needed when i started playing 4 years ago! Since then I have used so many of your journey videos as skill guides for levelling my account and starting PVM. I'm maxed now and about to get my 1000th clog. Thanks for all the tips and tricks over the years!

Just started 3 days ago, what a great gave as well as relaxing.

Long term f2p goal... getting all f2p skills to a certain lvl b4 membership 😅 19:31 37:34 several people have offered me bonds 4 free no charge but my method of playing is kinda of like Ironman without the Ironman restrictions 😅

For non Ironmen, instead of using world 330 for poh, use world 331. There’s always someone who has a maxed poh open, either loveable or 24hr or someone else, and the world never gets full like 330 does

This video is a little bit late but I'm still gonna send it to my friend and hopefully it can still help him lmao. The OSRS wiki clears any other games' hands down. It's crazy.

If osrs didn't have the wiki, we would see players walking around like it was actually 07 scape. Combined with the fact, slayer music would be one if not the most important osrs player.

RUNESCAPR aka OSRS is becoming well know again the player base increasing by the 100s every day!

Glad he talked about using bonds to keep being a member. I wasn't around when they were much cheaper but at this point I'm not willing to pay mems and I'm not willing to go to work in the game lol. Not sure where that puts me. I feel like bonds aren't a realistic goal for anyone other than whales but they're effective at keeping you addicted to the content drip.

Most useful video I've watched as someone that just started playing

Loved this ,thank you! A friend who has been playing forever convinced me to try group iron man and i'm enjoying it so far. I can't believe I never played OSRS before. It's slow and grindy but there's no pressure to play every day :)

Just a comment to register the beginning of my journey in the game. Great video!

My god I haven’t played since 2012 cause of combat evolution. Got back on last week and the high lvl players are so damn generous! Within 3 4 days I literally got 44m and a free bond from high lvl players. In 2012 I remember players always kept everything to themselves.

As someone coming back to the game after 25 years I gotta say this video is awesome! 😊

Thank you for making this! Long time MMO player but somehow never got into Runescape growing up so I am interested in trying this but had no idea where to start :)

as someone who beat hypixel skyblock by staring at my screen for thousands of hours of nearly afk activities, "dont just watch your character chop trees for 100 hours" made me laugh, thats what im here for bro, i ENJOY watching my character do stuff that takes little input, i could watch paint dry competitively.

Dam needed this 2 weeks ago when I started playing.... Dropped £50 in bonds and only managed to get 58 smithing with it, kinda feel like I'm missing something lol

Mudkip constantly dropping videos trying to suck me back down the rabbit hole.

Coming back from playing in 07... the wiki reminds me of the Runescape guidebook they used to sell at the scholastic book fair. So damn cool!

It would be so cool if you made more how-to guides like these. I learned so much from watching your GIM series, like mounting an amulet of glory in your POH. It would be cool if you made different tips and tricks videos for herb runs/slayer/runescape hacks because you know the game so well and explain everything so well.

I started playing as an ironman my first time playing, never played it back in the day. I think being an Ironman is super interesting and you get to experience a lot of content that most players would never see because its "not optimal" and buying things on the GE can bypass much of the game. But its also extremely annoying. Having to walk across the world to get one item sucks, world hopping to buy things like sand sucks, having to grind out slayer with shit weapons before you can kill the monsters to get good weapons sucks. I only recommend it if you like pain and suffering, otherwise you'll eventually hit a wall and stop playing

I wanted to play but grinding for a membership all the time and doing other things while playing isnt my ideal game i realised so thanks for the vid so that i didnt waste my time

It’s so weird how iv just come back to this and you put out a video 😂

I figured I'd give this classic a try as I'm a lifelong gamer (now in my 30s) and am familiar with MMOs in general, and maybe this is a dumb question considering but...is this fun? Being able to put the game window to one side and grind a bit sounds really nice to me. Long, grindy quest-chains sounds like a great thing to chip away at from time to time. Considering how thriving the game still seems to be after all these years, not to mention the updates, it seems to be in a brilliant place. I guess what I'd like to know is how people jumping into the game late (like me) have thought about their experience so far? (Also, this was an absolutely fantastic intro for the game, I'll be coming back to this for sure! 🐐)

I haven’t played this game in almost 20 years I have no idea what’s going on I need to watch all the guides I can!

Happy to be a grey beard dad still playing osrs almost 25 years after I first played RS2 for the first time in my high school IT village 😳

Haven’t played since 2007 thank you this was so thoroughly explained and easy to follow

Great video full of so much practical information! Definitely checking out the rest of your channel. Good work 👊🏾

Tip from obsessed new player (lvl 1803) who started less than a year ago, this is perfect and Runlite is your best friend - but play around for a bit before you do. This game came out before modern quality of life improvements and it shows. The game requires a bit of everything to move forward and if you don’t enjoy absolutely everything you’ll be held back long-term. RuneLite helps this.

What a nice pokemon, out here helping the noobs

thank you for this! ive been playing on and off since january this year and definitely needed some motivation to continue playing. i'm not too pressed to getting a bond just yet, i want to get pretty far in f2p before switching over! hopefully watching other videos while playing osrs will help keep my attention on the game

Another new plauer here Thank you! Needed something slower paced EQ. Fishing and woodcutting sounds more chill. I'm tired of fighting all the time.

I entered this game a few days ago kinda lost and I was not expecting to be shown a guide on how to get my money up, cant wait to make my first bond

As a new player my best advice while you're mindlessly training skills as you said is to watch a show you love. example: I watch a ton of different anime and podcasts as I'm training skills and it really does help the mundane grind and make it more entertaining. This was a great guide, I'm completely new to the game so anything I say could be considered moot, but I did notice it being a second monitor game you really should do something else to pass the time. I'm watching this video while I'm leveling combat lol. great guide and the wiki is crazy useful.

not new but still love watching these guides, you did a great job! I wish I had this video when i first started oldschool haha, hopefully more new players get into the game as well and have your video to help :)

Some tips for new ironmen : Kittens = death runes, bring a ball of wool. Runelites menu entry swapper works for shops You can craft birdhouses while moving

I've started it yesterday, haven't played it before one thing I'd say is, I don't mind the graphics at all, everything else about the game like the skills and progression is what I've been looking for in an rpg game

Only been playing this game for about 20 years, might as well watch this video.

Great video man. You could probably make this into a whole series, there’s so much to learn as a new player.

Subbed. Just embarking on this journey, playing a 20 yr old game I've never played (and i'm 32 lol).

that little montage during the slayer bit was peak

I can vouch for getting involved in the community via clans/discord. I was a solo player for the longest time, but after joining a clan which had its own discord channel, they helped me progress my account and gain more knowledge of the game so much! I consider a lot of them to be my best buddies online, constantly bossing, doing clan events, bingo, etc.

Started playing 2 days ago, i am so overwhelmed lol, theres so much anywhere and everywhere.

I'm looking to return to runescape, I haven't played since probably 2010. I remember working my butt off to get an abyssal whip and doing the quest line to get that magic bow that didn't lose ammo? Wish I could get my original account back but I didn't even think about the fact that my account would have moved onto what is now RS3 so I'll be starting over. This was a great video my friend thank you for the info!

Hans still tells me that my character was created in March 2007 and has 2000 hours online. This isn't my first character in RuneScape, as I was playing in 2005. But I think it's interesting that my time spent in the game includes time in RS2, before OSRS was a thing. I expected it to only go back to when I started OSRS.

Anyone here want to start this game with me?

Thank you for this video. I wanted something like this help my friend become introduced to the game. :) You're the best!

"try woodcutting" Has 200m xp. Well damn, he really did keep trying it!

Nice, just picked the game back up, i'm 33, thanks for the video

I haven't played in a while but i've been intersted in playing a UIM, i'm going completely blind even after watching all your UIM videos; wish me luck! :D

Love Runescape music and mudkip is the cutest pokemon.

Your goals suggestion is making the game more fun for me, my current goal is rune armor 😂 then after that unlocking drag weps

Ive played since 05 & this guide is perfect for a friend of mines thats recently just sunk into osrs. Even tho I knew all of this, I watched it all Mudkip and also shared to my friend 😊

might start this game since im looking for something long to play over the summer

I wish they had a weekend bond because that’s the only time I have to play or like a 24 hour bond.

When you played this game for 20 years but you still see this 40 minutes spent with Mudkip as worth it. 🙃

Thanks for this, Mudkip! This is an invaluable resource for new players.

As someone who's first time playing this game was 2 days ago, ultimate iron man where you can't use a bank seems MAD!

This was an awesome video and opened up a lot of cool stuff I didn't know, thankyou!

So, when you earn enough gp in game it's possible to eventually grind a membership for free?

33:17 finally I heard this bit somewhere, and no wonder it's the runescape community that manage to systemize community building

3:49 Note about runelite as well, if you're on Linux it's available as a Flatpak.

Exceptional video and guide, thank you.

The option to buy a membership from other players with gold is something is pretty nice. I am sure there are a lot of scams but still nice option. And probably still better then earing some gem you get 1 of a day and the membership cost 500 or some bs like that.

this is probably the best thing ever in the whole wide world

you forgot to mention soup guides for the questing section. please remake video, thanks.

Dang good timing I just started last week.

Gnomonkey should do one of these, it would be hilarious hearing him tell new players how to tick eat goblins and animation cancel.

34:51 that mofo got revenge on wow that’s good

New to runescape in general, great video. Subscribed 👍