RuneScape Basic

RuneScape Basic is a much simpler version of the game players have come to know and love since 2004. Players might choose to play this instead of the main game if they are overwhelmed by the complexity of the main game, or if they want to feel nostalgic about the old RuneScape. It runs the RS2 engine and graphics before the interface update of 2006, so it has a very old-fashioned RuneScape of 2004-2006 feel, which can suit veteran players missing the "old RS". Most skills have been combined with similar skills, and some have been removed completely. RuneScape Basic is only available to members who have played for at least one year and have gotten no blackmarks for macroing, real-world item trading, account sharing, and a maximum of two instances of any kind of scamming. This is to protect players from abuse of the free trade system.

Skills

 * Strength - Gaining levels here provides abilities given in both RS2's Strength and Attack skills.
 * Defence - Gaining levels here provides abilities given in both RS2's Defence and Hitpoints skills.
 * Ranged - Works exactly like the Ranged skill of the main game.
 * Prayer - Works exactly like the Prayer skill of the main game.
 * Magic - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Magic and Runecrafting skills.
 * Manufacturing - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Crafting and Fletching skills.
 * (what's a good name for mining and smithing combined? - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Mining and Smithing skills.
 * Culinary - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Fishing and Cooking skills.
 * Deforestation - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Firemaking and Woodcutting skills.
 * Stealth - Gaining levels here provides abilities in both RS2's Agility and Thieving skills.

Skills no longer in the game are Herblore, Slayer, Farming, Construction, Hunter, and Summoning.