Party Room

This article is about the party room in Falador. For one in a clan citadel, see Party Room (Clan Citadels).

The official world for Party Room is world 9 (P2P).

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Party Room
Release						24 July 2007 (Update)
Members						No
Location						Falador
Music						Max Reidneer Variations
Map

The Party room, also known as the Falador Party Room, is a building in north-east Falador. It is used to host drop parties where items, regardless of value, can be indirectly given to other players. These items drop randomly from Party Balloons, which players have to pop, in order for the items to appear on the ground.

Features

Party Pete

Main article: Party Pete

The owner of the party room, Party Pete is a fun-loving non-player character, and one of the few characters in RuneScape who wears a partyhat. Although he wears a partyhat, it is generally thought that this is because of his name and role, not his wealth. He will use the dance emote, and count down until the release of the Party Balloons. He will also remove 'cheap' items from the Party Chest. He also sells Afros in his emporium. When they were removed as drops, he also began to sell 10th anniversary candles (15 coins) and 10th anniversary cakes (150 coins).

Talking to Party Pete is one of the easy Falador achievements.

Dancing knights

Main article: Knight (Party Room)

Pulling the lever near the chest will give a player the option of summoning six dancing knights for 500 coins. The knights will dance on the tabletop, singing a song in parody of a similar scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Party chest

Players can donate items to the party chest, but cannot withdraw them again. Items that cannot be dropped, traded, banked, or stored in a beast of burden may not be put into the chest. Pulling the lever next to the chest for 1000 coins will cause Party Balloons to float down around the hall. Popping these balloons may yield an item from the chest. If stacked or noted items are put into the chest, they do not necessarily have to appear in the same balloon. As an example, twenty noted lobsters put into the chest can appear in four different balloons, with random amounts in each whose sum is twenty. Player-owned farm animals are reclaimed directly to the player's inventory rather than spawn on the ground. This feature, and the bar upstairs, makes the party hall a popular place for drop parties. There is also a chance of receiving one of four pets from popping the balloons, the Balloon cat, the Balloon dog, the Balloon sheep, and the Balloon goat follower pets. These appear to drop in that order but the number of balloons needed to pop in order to get them is random.

Bar

The bar upstairs, run by barmaids Megan and Lucy, serves regular beer for 2 coins. Players can also dance with Megan.

Postie Pete

Postie Pete frequently visits the party hall. He does not trade any items, mostly just tells jokes. Players can converse with him one at a time.

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  Dancing knights of the Party Room.

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  Dropped balloons.

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  Drop chest interface.

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  Upstairs in the bar.

Criticisms

When the Party Room was popular among players, a number of issues were the source of criticism:

• The fact anything can be put in the party chest, therefore many people put more useless items in than valuable items. There were also "party crashing" clans that gathered useless items to fill treasure chests.
• That some people always closed the chest when other players tried to see what is being dropped inside.
• That players could set free lots of toys (toy dolls, toy soldiers, etc.) so that players might accidentally click one instead of a balloon.

Party announcements

Bankers counting down to the next big drop.

From 17 March 2009 to 1 February 2011 certain NPCs would announce that a party was about to take place. This was to stop players from making covert trades (especially real trades) by attracting lots of people into the room to take the items.

The party advertisement varied depending on the value of the items in the chest:

• 0-50,000 No advertisement. Ten second delay between pulling the lever and the balloons dropping.
• 50,000-150,000 Falador bankers and party room barmaids advertise. One hundred tick delay (one minute) .
• 150,000-1,000,000 Falador men, women, bankers and party room barmaids advertise. Five hundred tick delay (five minutes).
• 1,000,000 or more Falador men, women, and party room barmaids advertise. Also, nearly every banker in RuneScape will advertise and offer free teleports to the party room. One thousand tick delay (ten minutes).

The non-player characters in Falador, such as the bank staff and the guards, reacted with excitement when a party was in progress. One of the phrases said referred to "high value items", but it was hard to tell if that was true.

The NPC chat only appeared on the main screen, not in the chat box.

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!

• patch 15 April 2024 (Update):
  • The Falador Party Room Balloon Bonanza will no longer be blocked by planting Mithril Seeds in the Party Room.

• update 13 February 2023 (Update):
  • Tightened restrictions on the items that can be put in Falador Party Room chest. Now for an item to go in, it must be all of the following: tradeable, bankable and possible to store in your Beast of Burden (alongside other more special checks).

• patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
  • Player-owned farm animals can no longer be obtained by Ironman accounts by popping Falador party room balloons.

• patch 2 November 2015 (Update):
  • The dancing White Knights have updated their song, as they no longer have plumes in their helmets.

• patch 16 February 2015 (Update):
  • The Party Room knights will now dance on the table, as they should.

• patch 12 January 2015 (Update):
  • The balloon pop sound in Falador's Party Room has been updated.

• patch 20 October 2014 (Update):
  • The Party Room table's shadow no longer sits above the table.

• ninja 17 February 2014 (Update):
  • Pets and familiars can no longer be taken into the Falador Party Room.

• hotfix 17 December 2013 (Update):
  • Prevented players from attempting to teleother players inside the Party Room.

• patch 10 September 2013 (Update):
  • The Party Room chest has been updated to the new interface theme.

• update 1 February 2011 (Update):
  • Players can now place unlimited wealth into the party chest and can have drop parties. If you’re worried about your party being gate-crashed, bankers no longer shout about Party Room drops! The POH treasure chest has also had an increase to how much gold they can award.

• patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
  • Chat about the Party Room has been updated to match the text on the world list.

• patch 26 October 2009 (Update):
  • Added some ceiling tiles back in the Falador Party Room.

• patch 21 July 2009 (Update):
  • Megan will now dance for a bit longer in the Party Room.

• patch 1 April 2009 (Update):
  • The Falador Party Room Achievement Diary task has been modified (Going Along With the 'Fro).

• update 17 March 2009 (Update):
  • We've made a couple of changes to the party room due to concerns about abuse by real-world traders. Firstly, drop parties are now available only on two worlds (131 and 152). Secondly, players must now enter their bank PIN (if they have one) before putting items into the drop chest. We're sorry we have to do this, but we can't let real-world traders ruin the party.

• patch 17 March 2009 (Update):
  • The Party Room is now a familiar-free area.
  • The Party Room chest now has a bank pin.

• update 24 July 2007 (Update):
  • The Party Room previously in Seers' Village has moved to the north-east of Falador, which means all of our free players can now attend other players' parties or host their own!

• update 27 July 2004 (Update):
  • Party pete will now periodically clear worthless junk from the drop chest. He will leave anything which he thinks has some value.
  • If there are lots of items in the chest, you now get a greater chance of getting something in a balloon.
  • It is also now cheaper to pull the lever or get the knights to dance.

• update 29 March 2004 (Update):
  • Features from the beta were added to the game with the launch of RuneScape 2.

• update 10 February 2004 (Update):
  • We added some fun new features to the Seers Village party hall.
    • Party Pete, Megan, Lucy, drop chest and dancing knights were added to Party Room in RuneScape 2 beta.

• update 25 March 2002 (Update):
  • Original Party Room (party hall) added in Seers' Village.

Trivia

The old party room in Seers' village

• Originally the party hall was located in Seers' Village and was accessible to members only. It was replaced with Seers' Village Courthouse and moved to Falador with the release of the King's Ransom quest. Before this change, a large house called the Falador mansion occupied the area.
• The party room was built in response to the large popularity of "drop parties". Many players were complaining about how people would cheat by just telegrabbing the item and making it impossible for other players to get anything. When built, it was just an empty building in which the telekinetic grab was disabled. When the game was updated to RuneScape 2, the building became quite a bit more structured, adding the chest, lever, and bar. The telegrab still doesn't work inside the Party Room, however, resulting in the message You can't cast this spell within the vicinity of the party hall. This message has remained unchanged since RuneScape Classic.
• During the RuneScape 2 beta, there was originally a glitch which allowed players to duplicate any item by depositing a greater amount than they had into the chest and then withdrawing it. In this way, many players made millions by duplicating items such as rune platebodies and dragon medium helmets.
• Players were able to close the door in the party room until sometime in April 2008. This was changed because of door spamming.
• One previous criticism was that players would bring familiars or pets into the party room, causing others to accidentally click them instead of the balloons. This has been changed, however, and the party room is now "a Summoning-free area". Players who try to enter with a follower will be turned away from the door, and pets can no longer be dropped in the building.
• Many people criticised that the fact that they can receive random events while in the party room. If the player receive a random event in a crowded room, they may get teleported away and receive something less valuable if anything. This is no longer possible, as random events have been removed from the game.
• After-parties commonly follow a drop party, which consist of items players obtained from the first drop party that they re-deposited.
• Some players who quit RuneScape would buy millions of needles from the Grand Exchange at one coin each and then put them in the chest. This caused many players to come to the Party Room in hopes of getting an item worth a large amount of coins, because the bankers and other non-player characters would say how much coins' worth of items is being dropped in the Party Room, but would not distinguish between a singular expensive item and the amount needles equivalent to the item's value.
• When activated the dancing knights will use the dance emote.

An old Falador map showing the house (13) which was replaced by the Party Room.

• If a large amount of an item which is regarded as hard to sell is put in the chest, the items may still be in drops several days later, with players constantly re-adding them.
• If you attempt to light a fire in the party room, it will say "Lighting a fire in the party room would be a safety hazard!"
• In the past, some Dungeoneering items have been dropped at the party room after being smuggled out of the dungeons.
• If you scroll over any worn item that is in the chest while wearing damage boosting armour it will say Damage: 0.
• It is also possible that the room will randomly generate items that weren't in the chest before.
• Mod Hohbein implied in the Wilderness FAQ that party rooms may eventually be available in POH's.
• From 17 March 2009 to 1 February 2011 the Party Room would only function in special worlds (102, 103, 131 and 152) with "Party Room" as their official activity. This change was justified as a way of further combating real-world trading.
• Players used to be able to put pink hats into the party room chest, but are no longer able to do so after an update, which was due to the quite popular idea of saying that one was holding a party hat drop party, but then dropped pink hats and not partyhats.
• During the festive cracker events, attempting to place anything in the chest would give the message: "You cannot withdraw or deposit items in the chest whilst a Festive Cracker drop is active."