OSRS Christmas Occasion Information

Outdated Faculty RuneScape has fairly a convention of bringing new and heart-warming seasonal occasions yearly. Three vital seasonal occasions stand out: the Easter occasion, the Halloween occasion, and, after all, the Christmas occasion. Finishing this 12 months’s occasion will make the earlier years’ rewards accessible, simply in case you weren’t taking part in RuneScape years in the past. The rewards are usually cosmetics. Way back, Christmas rewards can be extraordinarily useful; they primarily consisted of Occasion Hats or Christmas Crackers, which might include extra occasion hats!

Though they’ve now misplaced their GP worth, the occasion hats stay an iconic merchandise for Outdated Faculty’s Christmas occasions, and you’ll obtain them upon finishing this 12 months’s occasion.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

Why is the Christmas Occasion Particular This Time Round?

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

A Walkthrough of the Occasion

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taking part in With Coal

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

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

Gingerbread, Gingerbread, Gingerbread Rock

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

You could keep in mind that there are 4 varieties of gingerbread you’ll be able to choose up from the bottom, they usually all give factors besides the pink one (shattered gingerbread), which offers you minus 10 factors.

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

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

A Snow-filled Fiasco

Exit the constructing via the north exit to go in direction of the final minigame. Right here you’ll profit probably the most from having loads of stock area as you’ll need to seize as many snowballs and use them towards NPCs to get rid of them from the competitors.

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

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

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