Anachronia

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Anachronia
Also called								Fossil Island, The Land Out of Time
Release								8 July 2019 (Update)
Kingdom								Anachronia
Members								Yes
Music								On Safer Ground
Teleports								Anachronia lodestone, The Stormbreaker, Slayer cape perk, Archaeology table, master archaeologist outfit
Features
Banks								1
Altars								0
Obelisks								1
Map

Anachronia, also known as Fossil Island or The Land Out of Time, is a prehistoric-style jungle island located north-east of Daemonheim.

The island features the player-built base camp, an activity called Big Game Hunter, a weekly Distraction and Diversion called Herby Werby, an island-wide Agility Course, 8 Slayer monsters requiring a Slayer level ranging from 90 to 114 (consisting of plants and dinosaurs), Slayer Master Laniakea, the Orthen Dig Site, and continuation of the story where the Desperate Times quest left off.

The island also features the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm, 'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking activity, the bosses Raksha, the Shadow Colossus and Rex Matriarchs, and overgrown idols.

There are no requirements to access the island, but players are required to complete the Anachronia base camp tutorial to learn how to unlock this location.

Getting there

Main article: Anachronia base camp tutorial

Anachronia's base camp

Map of routes around Anachronia

Travelling to Anachronia for the first time requires the player to use The Stormbreaker, the ship built during the Breaking the Storm event, which is located east of the Varrock Dig Site (show on map). Players can board the ship, located on the river, to visit Anachronia. Players will be shown a cutscene the first time they travel to the island and will have to guide a group of NPCs, including an archaeologist, Laniakea, and two guards, through the island.

Travel

Orthen teleportation device locations in Orthen Dig Site

Agility course

Main article: Anachronia Agility Course

The primary means of travel across the island is traversing the Anachronia Agility Course. This requires Agility levels 30 to 85 to traverse. The course is divided into seven sections of varying difficulty but requires level 85 Agility to complete the whole lap.

Teleports

Quick methods to teleport across the island are:

• Anachronia lodestone, which can be unlocked using materials after completing a tutorial with Giles at the base camp
• Slayer cape to teleport to one of Laniakea's locations, south-east ruin
• Anachronia Teleport spell if a Totem of the Abyss is planted and active
• Anachronia tablet to teleport to the Player Lodge; it requires the Love Story quest and a tier 2 Player Lodge
• Ancient seed to Herby Werby
• Mystical tree at Manor Farm to Anachronia Dinosaur Farm and then to the west coast of Anachronia
• Dig sites map to Orthen Dig Site

Orthen teleportation device

Main article: Orthen teleportation device

Players with at least level 90 Archaeology can unlock the Orthen Dig Site and activate the Orthen teleportation devices, allowing them to teleport to four locations across the island:

• Crypt of Varanus, located near the arcane apoterrasaur hunting area
• Observation outpost, located north of the pavosaurus rex hunting area
• Moksha ritual site, located just east of the scimitops hunting area
• Xolo city, located within the Anachronia Swamp Fortress on the south-eastern tip of the island

Notable features

Base Camp

Main article: Base camp

After arriving on Anachronia, the player can establish a base camp and upgrade it with resources that you can assign workers to find. These upgrades can grant many passive effects that are useful in both Anachronia and the rest of Gielinor.

Players can also build a lodestone at the Base camp to connect Anachronia to the Lodestone Network.

Rex Skeleton

Main article: Rex skeleton

In the base camp lies a platform for a rex skeleton to be built. The pieces can be obtained from the Orthen Dig Site. Once the skeleton is fully completed, it provides a 65 minute buff that increases the experience gained while excavating, hunting and traversing through the island's agility course. It also increases the drop rate of said activities on the island, including those from fighting Slayer monsters.

Anachronia Agility Course

Main article: Anachronia Agility Course

Anachronia is a large island, and the player can travel around the island quicker by using the Anachronia Agility Course. The course is split up into seven sections, requiring anywhere from level 30 to 85 Agility to complete. As you traverse the course, there is a chance to gain one of several different totem pieces, or codex pages which can be used to create either the Double Surge or Double Escape codex and unlock two abilities. The player can also make tradeable versions of these codices to sell to others.

Totems

Main article: Totem

While adventuring around Anachronia, the player can find various totem pieces. There are seven totems in total, each made of three different pieces. After finding all three pieces for one totem, the player can place it in one of three totem spots on Anachronia. The player can then activate the totem to gain one of eight different effects.

• The Totem of Intimidation removes kill count requirement at the God Wars Dungeon
• The Totem of Navigation reduces player-owned port voyage times by 15%
• The Totem of Auras reduces the cooldown of auras by 15%
• The Totem of Crystal reduces Elven clan pickpocketing lock-outs by 5 minutes, to 15 minutes
• The Totem of Treasure reduces the number of steps required to complete a clue scroll by one
• The Totem of the Abyss allows you to teleport to where it's placed
• The Totem of Summoning allows Summoning familiars to last 16 minutes longer.

Hunter

Anachronia came with several additions to Hunter. While Hunting on Anachronia, players can earn Hunter marks to spend at Irwinsson's Hunter Mark Shop for rewards. Irwinsson is also the starting point for the Father and Son miniquest. In addition, if players find and return the compass arrow to Irwinsson, they can complete the A New Direction achievement.

Players can also hunt previously-added creatures on Anachronia in a simpler manner than before. Butterflies such as ruby harvests and black warlocks can be continuously caught and released by the player for AFK experience if being caught barehanded.

Players can also catch several jadinkos here without the need to build special habitats such as at Herblore Habitat. Common, shadow, igneous, amphibious, diseased, and carrion jadinkos can all be found in areas around Anachronia, and can be caught with just a marasamaw plant. In addition, the player can also catch cannibal, aquatic, camouflaged, and draconic jadinkos here, but will need to bring a juju hunter potion to catch them (the required secondary ingredient to catch these jadinkos is at each habitat already). Hunting jadinkos can also give the player a chance at finding a jadinko to raise at the player-owned farm.

Jadinkos found on Anachronia require a Hunter level 10 higher than their Herblore Habitat variants.

• Common jadinkos can be found on the east coast, south of the diseased jadinkos, or south of base camp
• Shadow jadinkos can be found on the east coast, east of the Lampenfloras
• Igneous jadinkos can be found near the northern room of the Base camp, or in the northwest room of Laniakea's building in the southeast of the island
• Cannibal jadinkos can be found on the northwest coast, west of carrion jadinkos. Two green vine blossoms appear in the area for the required juju hunter potions.
• Aquatic jadinkos can be found east of base camp (west of the liverworts), or north of The Stormbreaker landing. Red vine blossoms appear in the areas for the required juju hunter potions.
• Amphibious jadinkos can be found northeast of base camp, between malletops and pavosaurus rex
• Diseased jadinkos can be found in the ruins on the northeast coast, east of Herby Werby, or southeast of the base camp in the north part of spicati apoterrasaur's clearing
• Carrion jadinkos can be found on the northwest coast, west of venomous dinosaurs, or southwest of Anachronia Swamp mine
• Camouflaged jadinkos can be found north of the base camp if you travel on the Anachronia Agility Course until just after the cave. Two green vine blossoms appear in the area for the required juju hunter potions.
• Draconic jadinkos can be found south of the base camp, in the north part of bagrada rex's clearing. A red vine blossom appears in the area for the required juju hunter potions.

There are other Hunting methods available as well. Players can find grenwalls north-east of the pavosaurus rex clearing or south-east of the scimitops clearing. Pawyas can be found in the south-western ruins. South of the pawyas, players can find yellow salamanders. Golden warblers can be found next to the Anachronia canyon mine (five spawns), or south of the Anachronia western ruins mine.

Big Game Hunter

Directions to all of the Big Game Hunter dinosaurs

Main article: Big Game Hunter

Big Game Hunter is a method of training Hunter that players can start after reaching level 75 Hunter and level 55 Slayer. In several spots on Anachronia, dinosaurs can be found. In this activity, the player must bait and hunt these dinosaurs using boss-like mechanics, and being careful not to get caught. Hunting these dinosaurs can also give the player a chance at receiving a dinosaur egg for the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm.

Slayer

Laniakea is a Slayer Master that can be found on Anachronia. Players can receive tasks from her if they have level 90 Slayer and 120 combat. Laniakea is one of only two Slayer Masters that can assign cluster tasks, which are Slayer tasks of a category of monsters, allowing players greater freedom over which monster they want to kill. For example, she can assign to kill dragons, and the player can complete the task with whatever dragon they want. She also assigns a miniquest, Helping Laniakea, where the player must help her find a strong enough poison to help her protect the base camp against Anachronia's stronger monsters.

Dinosaurs and Vile blooms are also two categories of high-level Slayer monsters featuring various mechanics, and they can be found spread out all over the island. Slaying the dinosaurs can also give the player a chance at receiving a dinosaur egg for the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm.

Bosses

Main articles: Raksha, the Shadow Colossus and Rex Matriarchs

Anachronia is also home to both Raksha, the Shadow Colossus and the Rex Matriarchs. Raksha's lair can be accessed south-west of Laniakea on the south-eastern part of the island. The dungeon containing the Rex Matriarchs can be accessed from the teleportation device on the south-eastern corner of the Spirit grove in the centre of the island.

Herby Werby

Main article: Herby Werby

Herby Werby, a Distraction & Diversion, can be played once every week. The player must aid Anachronia's ancient zygomites in destroying corrupted flora in their cavern. The player can earn Herblore and Firemaking experience, and earn several rewards, such as a bag that holds grimy herbs, two totem pieces, and a pet called Sasha.

Farming and Herblore

Arbuck seeds are exclusive to Anachronia; they may be found from Big Game Hunter and the slayer monsters on the island. These can be used to grow arbuck herbs, which are used in several potions, such as the stamina potion, extended super antifire potion, aggroverload, and adrenaline renewal potion.

A cactus patch can be found near the northern totem location, after the player constructs it with 12 magic logs. Goob will help look after the player's crops.

Anachronia Dinosaur Farm

Main article: Anachronia Dinosaur Farm

Anachronia Dinosaur Farm can be accessed through the mystical tree on the west coast of Anachronia. Different livestock can be obtained via Slayer (varanusaurs and brutish dinosaurs), Hunter (jadinkos), Big Game Hunter (apoterrasaur - (arcane, spicati, or oculi), scimitops, asciatops, malletops, and 3 rexes - (Bagrada rex, Corbicula rex, & Pavosaurus rex), or the Farmers' Market (frogs and salamanders). There are 14 breeds in total, with four variant types within each breed (including one shiny breed). Any variant within each breed can produce offspring of any variant within the same breed - interbreeding of variants in the same breed is possible. Interbreeding between different breeds (e.g. Bagrada Rex and Corbicula Rex) is not possible. The 10 different jadinkos are considered of the same species and can interbreed.

'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking

Main article: 'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking

The south western peninsula of the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm contains 'Accidental' Fletching and Firemaking skilling stations. It provides methods for training Fletching and Firemaking. It serves as the method of creating elder god anima-imbued dinarrows. All activities require completion of Extinction quest.

Overgrown idols

Main article: Overgrown idol

Just as in Karamja, Anachronia has two overgrown idols which players can help clear at level 81 Woodcutting. Clearing the overgrowth will reward the player with a Totem of Navigation base and one of several different temporary Woodcutting boosts.

Fishing

There are two areas at which players can fish. They can cage, net, and harpoon fish north of the ripper dinosaurs in the south-east of the island, or they can cage, harpoon, lure, and bait around the spirit grove in the middle of the island.

Mining

There are four mining sites on Anachronia:

• Anachronia canyon mine (north-east mine) has six drakolith rocks and five orichalcite rocks.
• Anachronia south-west mine has three light animica rocks.
• Anachronia Swamp mine (south-east mine) has four dark animica rocks.
• Anachronia western ruins mine (north-west mine) has five adamantite rocks and four luminite rocks

All mines are far from a bank, so bringing an ore box is highly recommended.

The western ruins mine and the swamp mine can be both reached by using the Orthen teleportation device to teleport to Crypt of Varanus and Xolo City, respectively.

The swamp (south-east) mine can also be reached by using the Slayer cape teleport to Laniakea and walking north-west.

Archaeology

Orthen Dig Site

Main article: Orthen Dig Site

The island serves as the sixth dig site for the Archaeology skill, requiring level 90 Archaeology in order to get started. Rewards from this dig site include recipes for Herblore potions, several relics and teleportation nodes to transport to various areas of the island.

The Orthen Dig Site consists of the following four dig site locations which require Associate Qualification to enter.

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  Crypt of Varanus

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  Observation outpost

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  Moksha ritual site

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  Xolo City

Caches

Main article: Anachronia north excavation site

Anachronia has an excavation site on the north side of the island that contains four material cache (orthenglass) nodes. Orthenglass is a level 20 Archaeology material.

Runecrafting

Time altar

Main article: Time altar

The runecrafting altar for time runes is located on a small peninsula on the north-western coast of the island. Entry into the time altar requires level 100 Runecrafting and either of the enchanted keys. Time runes can be crafted here from pure essence.

Quests

The following quests may be started in Anachronia:

•  Sins of the Father may be started by speaking to Mr Mordaut, located at the base camp, east of the Anachronia lodestone.
•  Raksha, the Shadow Colossus (quest) may be started by speaking to Laniakea at the Anachronia Swamp Fortress.

The following miniquests may be started in Anachronia:

•  Helping Laniakea (miniquest) may be started by speaking to Laniakea at the base camp.
•  Father and Son (miniquest) may be started by speaking to Irwinsson south of the Anachronia lodestone.

History

Official artist's rendition of Anachronia

The dragonkin once resided in a city on Anachronia called Orthen, or "First City" in human language. This was where they settled after surviving The Great Revision and discovering Gielinor.

Predating the Dragonkin's arrival, the island was inhabited by dinosaurs and semi-sentient plants. The ancient zygomites on the island had also existed around the same time as them, as mentioned in the Fragmented Memories mystery.

As the Dragonkin set about to gain their new bearings, they split into four creeds; the Syrtes, Dactyl, Nodon and Aughra, each of whom had different goals, although the former two pursued a means of confrontation, while the latter were more patient. The Kindra Council at the time were undecided with what to do, but the latter two creeds were worried about the ambitions of the former two. After Kerapac drew anima from Gielinor's animasphere to create shadow anima, the Elder Gods, led by Jas, emerged, destroyed most of Orthen, and bound the surviving Dragonkin to the Stone of Jas.

The creeds then went their own ways, with the Syrtes falling to the Stone's power, the Dactyl choosing to fight against it, the Nodon choosing to sleep through the curse, and the Aughra fleeing to the Abyss or committing suicide in order to escape the pain. The island was eventually abandoned and forgotten.

During the First or Second Age, when the runecrafting altars were created by the ancestors of the Moon Clan, they built the time altar on Anachronia. From this, it can be deduced that the Fremennik of that age were at least aware of the island's existence and travelled to it at least once (to build the runecrafting altar). It's currently unknown what other activity, if indeed any at all, the Fremennik could have conducted on the island when they had knowledge of it. Because the time altar would have been built thousands of years after the point in time from which Kerapac went on to pull Anachronia forward in time from to the present using The Needle, players must first anchor the altar in time before they're able to access it.

During the Fifth Age, the Varrock Museum learned of Anachronia and called it Fossil Island, believing that an island so far up in the north would be devoid of life. They attempted to construct numerous boats to reach the island, but all nine ended in failure for a number of reasons.

During the Sixth Age, Kerapac fled to the island to begin his plan to rid Gielinor of all life to stop the Elder Gods, using the Needle to pull a past version of the island forward in time. This had the side effect of erecting a magical stormwall around the island due to the temporal divergence, preventing anyone from getting close. King Roald immediately increased the Varrock Museum's funding and ordered the construction of a new boat, overseen by Mr. Mordaut and assisted by numerous adventurers. The boat was eventually completed and, utilising many skills, the boat managed to breach the stormwall safely.

Around the same time, Irwinsson learned of the island through his fellow Varrock Museum friend Brodie and set sail, though he ended up shipwrecked with amnesia after he attempted to go through the stormwall surrounding the island.

The adventurer set off with a small expedition force to explore the island, coming upon the bones of several massive creatures. As they continued exploring, they encountered a massive creature which ambushed them, but they were saved by Irwinsson, who brought them to the ruins in the centre of the island that was safe from the natural fauna. The archaeologists began setting up a base camp from the ruins to both protect themselves and unlock new opportunities. Mr. Mordaut eventually arrived on the island himself, and, noting that island was so far north that such vibrant life should not exist on the island, renamed Fossil Island as Anachronia, the Land out of Time.

In Desperate Measures, it is revealed that Kerapac had used the Needle to pull a version of Anachronia sometime after the Dragonkin were cursed, but before his shadow anima device was destroyed. This explains the presence of the diverse flora and fauna in a land that they could not possibly survive in.

Music

• Adagio for Anachronia
• Anachronia Encounter!
• Beasts Of Anachronia
• Beyond the Storm Wall
• Beyond Time's Reach
• Building a Better Future
• Dinosaur Slayer
• Discover
• Dragonkin of Old
• Laniakea's Journey
• On Distant Shores
• On Safer Ground
• On the High Ropes
• Scare or Snare
• Seen and not Herb
• The Forgotten City Orthen
• Untamed Horizons

Achievements

Main article: Anachronia achievements

Players can complete several achievements on Anachronia such as for building the base camp buildings.

Transcript

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Gallery

Concept Art

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  Unreleased Anachronia Dungeon concept art

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  Location on Anachronia labelled 'Orthen Digsite' on Artstation

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Pre-release

Main article: Anachronia/Pre-release

Anachronia was previously known as Fossil Island, also known as Kudos Island. Mentions of the island first appeared in the game after an update to Varrock Museum in 2007. The island was spoken of by the Museum's curator, Haig Halen, who mentions that reaching the yet-unexplored island is one of Varrock Museum's projects. A canal barge was under construction in the northern part of the Varrock Dig Site, overseen by the barge foreman, and claimed to be used to travel to the island via the River Salve. Obtaining 100 museum kudos was to be required to participate in the expedition.

Fossil Island was mentioned in a lore livestream in October 2012 as a massive project that had been talked about for years but which was not currently being developed. Mod Mark suggested that Fossil Island would be home to one of the Dragonkin. In the 2014 March VIP Q&A, Mod Osborne commented again that Fossil Island was not being worked on. At RuneFest 2015, Fossil Island was mentioned as a potential contender for an upcoming RuneLabs poll to add a new in-game area. However the poll, which took place in December 2015, was won by The Arc.

Anachronia was announced on 21 May 2019 as the "big summer update of 2019."

Anachronia was developed by Mods Daze, Erator, and Ramen. It was QA'ed by Mods Cel and Shrew. Mods BakingaZ and NicePants made the concept art. Mods Ian, Surma, and Slippers worked on the audio.

Release

Anachronia's release was promoted by the login screen by introducing a background titled The Land Out of Time, and playing excerpts of the music tracks heard on the island: Untamed Horizons, On Safer Ground, Discover, Adagio for Anachronia, and Laniakea's Journey.

Event noticeboards could be used to teleport to The Stormbreaker in Varrock Dig Site, while royal messengers could be found at some of the lodestones, handing out royal messages and offering to take players to the boat.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• ninja 18 July 2022 (Update):
  • The agility obstacles on Anachronia are now easier to tap on mobile.

• update 3 May 2022 (Update):
  • 'Accidental' Fletching & Firemaking Training added.

• patch 11 April 2022 (Update):
  • Unnecessary map blocking has been removed from the tile by the Anachronia's Light Aminica Rocks.

• patch 9 November 2020 (Update):
  • The bonfire in the south-east of Anachronia no longer references spooky-wooky vampyres.

• patch 5 October 2020 (Update):
  • You are now unable to walk through the rocks near the liverwort in Anachronia.

• patch 22 June 2020 (Update):
  • Pillar in ruins nearby to Pavosaurus rex can no longer be walked through.

• update 1 June 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed a tree on Anachronia that appeared to have a floating canopy.

• patch 3 February 2020 (Update):
  • Updated the mining skill guide to include Anachronia mining locations for various ores.

• patch 20 January 2020 (Update):
  • Content creators, rejoice! You can now get up close and personal to those absolute units in Anachronia before they get camera shy and disappear.

• patch 13 January 2020 (Update):
  • There are now no options present when examining a zygomite that is in the ground.

• patch 5 August 2019 (Update):
  • A broken square of water has been fixed on Anachronia.

• patch 22 July 2019 (Update):
  • The world map view of Anachronia has been tweaked slightly to better represent the terrain.
  • Blocking has been added to a rock on Anachronia.
  • Minor tweaks have been made to resolve issues regarding lighting on newer assets in areas such as Anachronia.
  • Fixed some typos across Anachronia.
  • Filled in a hole in the terrain by the Herby Werby DnD entrance on Anachronia.

• update 8 July 2019 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Fossil Island was referenced in the 2014 April Fools event. It could be seen as a destination reachable at level 120 Sailing.
• Dino Island are the concept art labels in the Gallery images dated 2019.
• The name "Anachronia" comes from the word "anachronism", which in turn comes from the Greek ana- meaning "backward" or "previous", and khronus meaning "time". This relates to the island's alternate name "The Land Out of Time".
• "The Land Out of Time" may also be a reference to the 1988 animated dinosaur film The Land Before Time, which is referenced in Anachronia dinosaur farm animal names and a 2007 Postbag from the Hedge.
• The overall concept of Anachronia seems to be heavily based on the concepts of multiple similar science fiction media such as author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Lost World", or the 1974 NBC Network television series "Land of the Lost"; both of which involve groups of people that are, by either design or circumstance, transported to strange lands where prehistoric flora and fauna exist.
• On the far east side of the island there is a pool shrine overlooked by a dragonkin statue. Observing the statue yields the following: "There is an inscription at the base of the statue written in the dragonkin language. You make out the word 'Orthen' which you believe to mean 'first city'."
• Attempting to import a save in which the player is on Anachronia on the Weapon Diversity Beta teleported the player to Lumbridge as that area did not exist in that version of the game.
• The examine text of the hermit crabs near the landing site of The Stormbreaker references the 1993 movie Jurassic Park (film) line by Jeff Goldblum, "Life, uh, finds a way."
• The names of the various buried Zygomites reference many television shows such as Rick and Morty, The Big Bang Theory, Ed, Edd n Eddy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sons of Anarchy and others.
• Upon unlocking the island with the tour group atop the mountain, a cut scene ensues with one of the hunters, quoting "When you see dinosaurs, do what we do; run" which is a reference to the film Matrix where Cypher tells Neo, "if you see an agent, do what we do; run".
• The keyboard shortcut for Anachronia on the Lodestone Network interface is Alt+D, perhaps a reference to the island's association with dinosaurs.