The economy & bestiary

Overview

Items

79

Monsters

10

Node kinds

281,440 on the map

Recipes

62

Zones

14320×320

Shop stock

3items

How to read the per-minute columns

Gathering figures are a burst rate: one pair of hands on one node, at 0.6s per swing, ignoring the walk. Each node also has a sustained figure that includes working it flat until it depletes and then waiting out its respawn.

Fighting figures assume the weapon a player would plausibly hold in a zone of that tier (shown in the Zones table), and add a flat 6s per kill for finding the next one. Ammunition is netted off at its sale price, because the cost of firing a round you already own is what you could have sold it for. That is the honest number for a player who makes their own bullets, and it flatters a player who buys it: a wood bullet costs 6 over the counter, so a tier-0 player buying rounds to farm slimes is losing money no matter what the column says.

What the numbers say

Items 79 rows

Value is what a thing is worth — which, at the Grand Exchange, is exactly what it fetches when nobody has sold one (Opens at). Floor is where that price stops falling once the world is swimming in them. Restock is what the exchange charges to make one from nothing, and it is blank for everything but the three staples — you can only buy what somebody sold. A dash means the exchange will not touch it at all: your purse, and your tools.

Spells 8 rows

Every gate, cost, cooldown and effect below is generated from the same SPELL_CONFIG the authoritative cast path reads. Dust worth prices the consumed Magic Dust at its live item value; damage uses the Magic scaling rule at the unlock level and at the level cap.

Monsters 10 rows

Level is the combat level a player reads off a tooltip before deciding whether to pick the fight. It is display only — nothing in the sim reads it — and it is hand-set rather than computed, for the reason in MONSTER_CONFIG.level. Drops is the chance a kill pays out at all — the product of every row missing, not the sum of the chances. Kills are auto-looted: the drops go straight into the killer’s pack and fly there from the corpse, with no sack to walk to. (Loot piles still exist, for PvP deaths.) Value is the expected worth of a kill, Sold what it becomes at a beacon, and Coin/min nets off the rounds it took at the loadout in the Zones table.

Resource nodes 28 rows

Burst is items a minute with hands on the node. Sustained is what ONE node of that kind really produces over a full work-and-respawn cycle at the minimum tool, and at mithril is the same cycle with the best tool in the game — lower, every time, for the reason in the Overview.

Recipes 62 rows

Crafting is station-free and recursive: ask for a rifle and the planner smelts the bars and mills the planks out of what your pack holds, down to six levels deep. It is no longer instant — a craft is a job on a queue of up to 8, and the time is spent wherever you are and while you do something else, so Time below is a throughput number rather than a wall. It shortens as Crafting rises; both ends are shown, and the gap between them is what the skill buys. Margin is why you craft rather than sell raw. The four tool recipes are the exception and their margins are meaningless — one axe id carries three tiers and ITEM_CONFIG holds one price, so a mithril axe reads as an enormous loss and is nothing of the kind.

Weapons 5 rows

Damage scales 2% per Ranged level, so a weapon is worth 20% more at level 10 than at 1 and 120% more at 60. Coin/dmg is what a point of damage costs in ammunition at the cap: the number that separates a fast weapon from an efficient one.

The Grand Exchange 75 books

One global market at every town beacon, with the game as the counterparty on both sides. You sell into it, anybody can buy out of it, and the price of a thing falls as the world sells more of it. Each item has a book holding the net units players have sold in, and the price is a pure function of that one number:

price = clamp(floor(value × 3,000 / (3,000 + supply)), floor(value × 35%), value × 3)

So an empty book pays exactly what the item is worth — the Value column and the Opens-at column are the same number, by arithmetic rather than by coincidence — and 3,000 is the price’s half-life in units sold: a book holding that many pays half, and three times that pays a quarter. The exchange sells at 100% of its own bid, and every book sheds a 1/12 of its supply every 30s, so prices drift back up while nobody is selling.

Every unit of an order is priced separately, walking up the curve as it goes — so selling a hundred wood in one lot pays exactly what a hundred sales of one wood would have. There is no bulk bonus and no bulk penalty, which is what stops hoarding being a strategy.

The staples 3 made to order

The three things the exchange will manufacture when its book runs dry, so that a settler who has lost everything can always walk into a town and leave able to hunt. Everything else in the game is buyable only when another player has sold one — see the Grand Exchange.

You pay here is the restock price, 3× worth, and it is meant to be a bad deal: a producer of last resort should be the seller everybody undercuts. A round trip through it costs 67% of what you spent — which, together with the curve pushing the price up as you buy back what you sold, is why there is no money printer here. The list is short on purpose, and it is short of the same things it always was: no coal, no ore, no planks and no tools, because the smelting ladder IS the mid game.

Skills & gates 10 skills

Every level requirement in the game, read out of SKILL_GATES — which is itself derived from the config table that carries each number, so a gate appears here because it exists rather than because somebody remembered it.

The XP curve

RuneScape’s shape, computed by an integer fixed-point recurrence because Math.pow is banned anywhere a replay reads. Levels 1, 2, every fifth, and the cap.

Towns 1 rows

Nothing here is built. Every structure in the world is authored by the map, owned by the town, and cannot be placed, paid for or taken down — there is no build flow and no Construction skill. A town’s beacon sets your home and is the keeper’s counter.

Zones 14 rows

Loadout is the weapon the fighting estimate assumes for that tier — the single authored guess on this page, spelled out so it can be argued with. Walkable is how much of the zone can be stood on, which is what tells you that the biggest zone on the map is the sea.

Payroll 12 rows

Your first 2 copies work for nothing. Every one past that draws 75 coin every 30 seconds straight out of your Pack — 150 a minute each. A copy that cannot be paid works at half speed and never stops, and it picks up again on the interval after the coin comes back.

Break-even is that wage against what a single pair of hands earns gathering the best thing in the zone, at the exchange’s opening price. It is measured against gathering rather than fighting on purpose: a fight loop is real, but the line a player builds out to a dozen copies is a chop or a mine, and pricing the wage against the richest thing in the zone would flatter it.