Server

"World" redirects here. For the fictional world in which RuneScape is set, see Gielinor; for the other worlds and planes of existence, see Cosmology. For the music track named Worlds, see Worlds (music track).

The complete list of RuneScape English language servers

Servers (also sometimes referred to as a world) are dedicated game servers maintained either by Jagex themselves, or by contractors retained by Jagex. RuneScape servers can be found distributed across many countries and continents. A single server is capable of hosting many RuneScape worlds.

Types of servers

Web server

The first type of server players will meet is a web server. Jagex web servers process requests made to the main RuneScape website. It is unknown how many individual computers manage the website and whether the Grand Exchange Database, RuneScape Forums and HiScores are all hosted by the same server. The Grand Exchange and HiScore databases probably both interface this server.

Download server

After launching the RuneScape game client, the client must first perform a loading process connecting players to the RuneScape download server. In this process, the game client and Jagex cache files are downloaded and stored partially on the player's hard drive and in memory.

Login server

Once a player's game client has passed the loading process, they are connected to a login server. Because all servers are separate, a single login server is necessary in order to keep player data (player names, emails, passwords, inventory, etc) on every world.

Game server

Also known as a world server, once connected to a login server, players are automatically assigned a world, although players may select another server to connect to if they wish.

• Each world allows 1500 players to be connected at once.
• There are currently 137 worlds excluding instance shard worlds, Beta worlds, and Fresh Start Worlds.
  • 127 in English language
  • 3 in German language
  • 2 in French language
  • 5 in Portuguese language
• The default server players are assigned upon connecting to a login server is selected based on three factors: Server latency, language, and physical distance.

Miscellaneous servers

• The Friends List and Ignore List are loaded after connecting to the Friends server.
• Clan Chat operates via its own server.
• The RuneScape Forums operated via dedicated web servers, accessible when game servers were down.
• Instance shard worlds are dedicated game servers which are used to host certain Distractions and Diversions, Minigames, and Clan Citadels.
• Old School RuneScape (and RuneScape Classic prior to its closing) is hosted on its own servers, which can be accessed even if the main game is down.

List of world servers

This is the list of servers, including Jagex-defined world themes, server location, P2P/F2P status, and whether or not LootShare is enabled on that world.

Number	Members	Activity	Location or Language	LootShare
1		Trade - Members	United States (East Coast 1)
2		Trade - Members	United States (East Coast 1)
3		Trade - Free	United States (West Coast)
4			Canada
5			Norway
6		Barbarian Assault	United States (East Coast 1)
7		Dungeoneering	United States (East Coast 1)
8		Clan Recruitment	United States (West Coast)
9		Falador Party Room	United States (East Coast 1)
10			Netherlands
11			UK
12			New Zealand
14			United States (West Coast)
15		Barrows	Australia
16		Bonfires	UK
17			Europe
18		Legacy Only - Player Killing	United States (East Coast 1)
19			Netherlands
20		Minigames - Free	United States (West Coast)
21			Europe
22		Community Fishing Training	United States (East Coast 1)
23		War's Retreat - PvM Hub	UK
24		Castle Wars	UK
25		Community Farming Training	UK
26		Elder God Wars Dungeon	Europe
27		Social Slayer	United States (East Coast 1)
28			Poland
29		Bonfires	United States (East Coast 1)
30		Skill Total (2000)	United States (West Coast)
31		Open Gilded Altars	United States (East Coast 1)
32			Germany
33		Legacy Only - Player Killing	United States (East Coast 1)
34			United States (East Coast 1)
35		Fight Pits	United States (East Coast 1)
36		RC Running & ZMI Altar	UK
37			United States (West Coast)
38		RuneSpan	United States (West Coast)
39		RuneSpan	United States (East Coast 1)
40			United States (West Coast)
41		Role-Playing Server	United States (West Coast)
42		Role-Playing Server	United States (East Coast 1)
43			Canada
44		Soul Wars	United States (East Coast 1)
45		Stealing Creation	United States (East Coast 1)
46		Community Agility Training	United States (East Coast 1)
47			Português
48		Skill Total (2600)	United States (East Coast 1)
49			Australia
50			Australia
51			United States (West Coast)
52		VIP Server	United States (East Coast 1)
53		Pest Control & Conquest	UK
54			Germany
55			Français
56			Belgium
57		Legacy Only (US)	United States (West Coast)
58		Artisans' Workshop	United States (East Coast 1)
59		Castle Wars	United States (East Coast 1)
60		Penguin Hide & Seek	United States (East Coast 1)
61			United States (East Coast 1)
62		Stealing Creation	United States (East Coast 1)
63			Lithuania
64			Canada
65		Minigames Spotlight	United States (West Coast)
66		EoC Only	United States (East Coast 1)
67			Denmark
68		Group Bossing	UK
69		Pest Control & Conquest	Germany
70		Artisans' Workshop	United States (East Coast 1)
71		Lava Flow Mine & Penguin Hide & Seek	UK
72			Canada
73		Player Assist/Lend (GE)	United States (West Coast)
74		Clan Wars	United States (East Coast 1)
75			Português
76		Community Summoning Training	United States (East Coast 1)
77		Dungeoneering	United States (East Coast 1)
78			Mexico
79		Community Divination Training	United States (East Coast 1)
80		Clan Wars	UK
81		Fist of Guthix	Germany
82		Clan Recruitment	UK
83		Living Rock Caverns	UK
84		Portable Skilling	UK
85		Effigy Incubator	United States (West Coast)
86		Skill Total (1500)	United States (West Coast)
87			Canada
88		Shades of Mort'ton	UK
89		Fish Flingers	United States (East Coast 1)
91		Heist	United States (East Coast 1)
92		Fist of Guthix	UK
94			Português
96		Quick Chat	United States (West Coast)
97			United States (East Coast 1)
98		Elder God Wars Dungeon	United States (East Coast 1)
99		Community Cooking Training	United States (East Coast 1)
100		Group Questing & Treasure Trails	United States (East Coast 1)
101		Legacy Only	Português
102			Deutsch
103			United States (East Coast 1)
104		Trouble Brewing	United States (East Coast 1)
105			Finland
106			Germany
108			Australia
114		Skill Total (1500)	United States (East Coast 1)
115		Legacy Only (US)	United States (East Coast 1)
116		Deep Sea Fishing	United States (East Coast 1)
117			United States (East Coast 1)
118			Français
119			Sweden
120		Legacy Only - Minigames	UK
121			Deutsch
122			Deutsch
123			Netherlands
124		Livid Farm	UK
134		Sinkholes & Shifting Tombs	UK
135		EoC Only	UK
136		Legacy Only (EU)	UK
137		Legacy Only (EU)	Germany
138		Elite Dungeons	UK
139			UK
140		South America	United States (East Coast 1)
141		South America	United States (East Coast 1)
210			United States (East Coast 1)
215			UK
225			United States (West Coast)
236			Germany
239			Germany
245			United States (East Coast 1)
249			United States (East Coast 1)
250			United States (East Coast 1)
251			Português
252			United States (East Coast 1)
255			Australia
256			Australia
257			Australia
258			Australia
259			Australia

The Locations of the RuneScape servers

It is recommended that players connect to the server closest to them, or that has a ping number of less than 100, as they will experience more reliable connections and less lag. However, this is not mandatory.

• The German servers are located in the United Kingdom and in Germany.
• The Brazilian servers are located in United States.

Server flags

When viewing a player's world on the Friends List, Friends Chat, or Clan Chat, a flag of the country the server is intended for will be displayed next to the world number they are logged into. In some instances, a different flag is shown when a player is logged into:

• — a VIP server (requires Premier Membership).
• — a beta world.
• — an Old School RuneScape world.
• — a client that is in a different language, see #Other languages below (now removed).
• — a DarkScape world (now removed).

Isolation of worlds

Each world server known by the short name world is intended to be isolated from the others. A player is permitted to be logged in to at most one world server at any given time.

For the most part, events that occur in one world will not affect any other RuneScape world. For example, character and item respawns and resource regeneration are all managed individually for each server. Additionally, player actions and public chat messages contained in one world will not be visible to players in another world.

There are exceptions to this isolation. The Grand Exchange trades with players across all worlds. Shop stock is unique to the player; if a player buys out the apples at an NPC shop, the same shop on other worlds will also be sold out for that player. Clan chats and friends chats are accessible from any world, and private chat messages can be sent to other worlds.

Ping

Ping describes the duration from the moment your computer initiates communication with the server and for the server to respond, or the round-trip time, which is typically measured in milliseconds. In simple terms, this value is primarily affected by the distance from the end user to the server and how much traffic the server is currently handling. For example, if the server is geographically further away from the player and/or the server is handling network requests from more players, the ping will be higher.

Game processing overhead

While ping measures the latency between the user and the server, the processing overhead during a game cycle leads to a higher perceived latency with every server-based action (for example, clicking on a tile to move the position of your character). When a player performs a server-based action, a packet containing the action type and payload is sent to the game server (for example, move self to coordinate X, Y, Z). The game server places these actions in a queue for processing, then determines which players will receive update packets to reflect the changes in the game state. The game processing time is affected by a number of variables; however, in most scenarios, it is completed within one game cycle. In scenarios where a game server is bogged down (for example, too many players), the action could be processed in the next game cycle(s), which explains why a world, despite having a lower ping, can lead to higher perceived latency.

Determining home worlds

As a general guideline, prioritise low ping worlds with fewer than 200 players, especially during critical moments. For the most optimal experience, aim for worlds with 100 or fewer players, although such instances may be relatively rare.

Players should select one or more home worlds based on factors that offer the best conditions for their gameplay. This process involves identifying worlds with the lowest ping (generally below 40ms is acceptable) and determining which worlds tend to have lower player counts during the times they usually play. The selection process may require trial and error and adjustments if the player relocates or modifies their gameplay schedule.

Checking Ping

To manually check the Ping value to a specific server, enter the following command in the system command line (e.g. cmd on Windows or a Linux terminal):

ping world1.runescape.com

This command will send echo packets to the server and display the time it takes to receive the response. Replace 1 with the server number to check. For example, 1 stands for World 1.

World switching

Settings when opening the "World Select" menu

While players can log out of one world and log in to another at will for any reason, there is a specific practice of World switching (or world hopping). It could be done by right-clicking the World Map icon, selecting "Open World Select" and then right-click a world and choose "Quick-hop". If you have added players to your Friends List, right clicking "Join" on their names can be simpler and quicker at the expense of taking up space in said list.

Players change worlds rapidly in order to take advantage of situations that expire and recur on different worlds. These can include opportunities for player killing, seeking a more populated area to find more players for a minigame, trading, etc.

Prior to the move to infinitely stocked shops, player would often change worlds rapidly to buy from one store many different times. However, the shop improvement update gave most stores infinite stock, and later the personalised shop updates returned finite stocks, but made stocks for a particular player independent of world.

Players may switch to less populated worlds for fewer players, so they can have more monsters, and other resources for themselves.

To quickly switch without using the "join" option, three worlds may be favourited by clicking on the icon. These worlds then appear as icons next to the play button in every lobby tab but the options.

There were no limits on how frequently worlds can be hopped in quick succession, however one can still be logged out after multiple hundreds of hops.

Persistence of character state

When a user logs off of a world, all settings particular to that character are saved to the player's account profile in a global database. Therefore, when logging into a different world, the character's skills, inventory, etc. will be restored to the same state, regardless of which server the character last logged onto. The only exception is that if a player goes from a members-only world into a free world, their statistics will be restored to the normal level.

Themed worlds

After the Themed world update on 13 August 2007, a new column on the world select screen was added by Jagex. This column highlights worlds that Jagex has suggested for certain activities, to make it easier to find other players who wish to do the same thing, such as play Trouble Brewing or Castle Wars.

The worlds are only recommendations; players may still use any world they want to perform most activities. The exception to this is LootShare which is only available on the appropriate themed worlds. Oppositely, Jagex only allows players with the appropriate levels to log in to a Skill total world. Players who log into the Quick Chat world are restricted to communicating solely from the quick chat menu.

VIP

Worlds where only players who have Premier Membership are allowed to enter. It is denoted by this flag: ()

Trade

Worlds where players gather in the Grand Exchange to trade a variety of items. Players also gather at Manor Farm to sell animals.

Role-playing

The notice received when logging into a Role-playing world

The official role-playing world for members is world 42, and the official world for free-to-play is world 41, though other unofficial worlds may be used. Jagex identifies these world for players who wish to act in character (rather than a modern, real life person controlling a game sprite) along with like-minded players, as if they were genuinely living in the semi-medieval world of Gielinor. Special conventions are used to indicate if a person is not speaking "in character".

Group questing

This type of world is where players gather together and do quests. They are popular for players looking for a partner for Heroes' Quest.

Falador Party Room

The official Falador Party Room world. This world is a theme for hosting or joining a Drop party.

Skill total

Only members with a certain total level (not including virtual levels) can log on to these servers. Besides the total level requirement, there are no further limitations. These worlds are sometimes called "anti-noob" worlds. Servers 86 and 114 were originally limited to players with a total level of at least 1000, but the March 2010 update increased the requirement to 1500. With a February 2013 update, worlds 30 and 48 required a minimum skill total of 2000 and 2400, respectively. World 48 was increased to 2600 on 10 April 2017.

Legacy Only/EoC Only

Legacy Only and EoC Only worlds restrict the player to using either Legacy Mode or Evolution of Combat only. Legacy Only worlds require the use of the Legacy interface and cannot be accessed on RuneScape Mobile.

Instance Shard Worlds

Instance shard worlds is a world sharded off from the rest of the servers and is used for certain Distractions and Diversions & minigames, and Clan Citadels. For example, when a clan member opens a citadel by teleporting to it from the clan camp, Jagex creates it in a separate "instanced" server. The citadel will exist on this world for any clan member who enters, but will close when the last member leaves. It will be created again, on a world assigned by Jagex, whenever it is needed. Teleporting is not allowed when on these worlds.

Technical issues

Server blackout of 10th August 2008

See also: Server blackout

Sometimes a technical issue will occur which may cause every game world to crash and log out players in the middle of the game; it may or may not also affect the RuneScape Forums. Players may not be able to log back in if the login server is also affected. The problem is usually resolved in a short time. A server rollback may or may not occur which will reset players back to status before the crash occurred.

Occasionally only a single world will crash/experience a glitch and depending on the problem, the other worlds may be purposefully taken offline, or not.

Information about this will appear in the forums Technical Support section. Other fan sites may also have information if the forums are down. Take special note that servers marked with "OFFLINE" have been purposefully taken down by Jagex, whereas servers with 0 players have crashed.

Changes to worlds

• In mid-April 2008, Jagex moved all eight servers from Eastern Canada to the United States.
• On 15 October 2008, World 150 was added as the sixth German world with the introduction of PvP worlds.
• On 10 December 2008, World 150 moved from a German world to a French world.
• On 9 November 2009, various "Skill" worlds were released: they required a Skill total exceeding or reaching 1000 for free players and 1500 for members.
• On 3 March 2010, world 114 was changed from being a skill total 1000 world to a skill total 1500 world.
• On or before 26 August 2010, Worlds 170 and 171 are either removed or no longer visible.
• On 1 February 2011, all of the player-vs-player, bounty hunter and bounty hunter (+1) worlds were changed to normal worlds.
• On 9 February 2011, worlds 21, 32, 40 and 85 were changed from free-to-play to members worlds.
• On 25 February 2011 world 172 was added to RuneScape as a members world.
• On 2 November 2011 four new Europe Free Servers were added and several worlds were removed or re-numbered.
• On 5 December 2012, Jagex moderator Mod Emilee posted a thread to forums, which contained possible world theme changes in future. On 14 December 2012, many worlds had their locations and activities switched (according to feedback from the aforementioned forum thread), and some free-to-play worlds were converted to members worlds.

Other languages

• RuneScape Germany
• RuneScape France
• RuneScape Brazilian
• RuneScape Latin American Spanish (removed)

• 

  The complete list of RuneScape German servers

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  The complete list of RuneScape French servers

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  The complete list of RuneScape Brazilian Portuguese servers

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  The complete list of former RuneScape Spanish servers

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 2 October 2023 (Update):
  • Players can now toggle the visibility of EOC-only and legacy-only worlds in the in-game world-hop interface.

• hidden 18 June 2021:
  • Servers 239, 249, 250, 252, 255, 256, 257, and 259 have been added to the game world list.

• patch 18 August 2020 (Update):
  • Changed wording and formatting of popup messages while attempting to enter a full world or leaving the queue to enter a full world.

• patch 3 August 2020 (Update):
  • Made the world select interface full screen and removed a white-bar blocking the settings button on iOS.

• hidden 3 August 2020 (Update):
  • Game servers have had their maximum player count reduced to 1500, from 2000.

• patch 18 May 2020 (Update):
  • Improved server performance by changing how faction invasions work within the Heart of Gielinor.

• patch 27 January 2020 (Update):
  • Expanded drop-down menus in the world-hop interface now hide correctly when settings are closed.

• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • Made a number of improvements to the World Select interface:
    • The refresh button on the world select screen has functionality again
    • Activity and location have been separated. All worlds will now display their location rather than using the RuneScape symbol if they have an activity.
    • Worlds without an activity will display a dash.
    • Increased the overall size of the interface.
    • Increase the height on the rows to be bigger on mobile.
    • Increase the majority of text size on mobile.
    • Increased the spacing between the settings for easier selection on mobile.
    • Widened the settings bar and panel.
    • Removed some PC terminology.
    • Toggle world-hop confirmation will be toggled ON by default on mobile.
    • The world-hop confirmation toggle is now independent to each platform, so toggling on/off on one doesn't effect the other.
    • Extended the select region on the filters in the header bar across the text and to the toggle world-hop confirmation check box, so that they're easier to select.
    • Added tooltips over players names in both the Friends Chat and Clan chat list which displays information about the world they're on.

• patch 25 February 2019 (Update):
  • Improved information when updating the servers to those in the lobby.

• patch 28 January 2019 (Update):
  • Your current world will now be more visibly highlighted in the world select interface.
  • It is no longer possible attempt to quick world hop to worlds you do not meet the requirements to enter.

• patch 19 November 2018 (Update):
  • Players are now able to enter the VIP worlds with Gold Premier Club 2019 active

• patch 21 May 2018 (Update):
  • Aligned text on hop world settings interface.

• ninja 7 August 2017 (Update):
  • World 77 is now the only members' Dungeoneering world.

• patch 15 May 2017 (Update):
  • German, French and Portuguese-language worlds will now have a 21:00 UTC (game time) Happy Hour slot.

• ninja 15 May 2017 (Update):
  • A toggle has been added to the world hop interface to ignore confirmation when left-click world hopping.

• ninja 8 May 2017 (Update):
  • Clicking on the current world in the world hop interface will no longer unnecessarily close the interface.

• ninja 10 April 2017 (Update):
  • World 48 now requires 2,600 total skill levels, up from 2,400.

• ninja 6 February 2017 (Update):
  • Favourite worlds are now saved at the top of your "Hop Worlds" interface in game.

• patch 6 June 2016 (Update):
  • The correct world flags will now show on the in-game world hop interface.

• patch 1 February 2016 (Update):
  • Players Invention levels are now taken into account when trying to enter a skill total world.

• ninja 5 October 2015 (Update):
  • Quick-hopping to a Legacy or EoC only world while in the opposite mode now asks for confirmation before making the switch.

• patch 1 September 2015 (Update):
  • Players completing Rune Mysteries on F2P servers will no longer see a message to log into members' world.

• patch 16 March 2015 (Update):
  • Opening and closing the Hop World interface no longer disables keybinds.

• ninja 9 March 2015 (Update):
  • The World Select interface can now be assigned a keybind.
  • The World Select interface can now be reached by right clicking the world map icon.
  • The World Select interface will now automatically scroll to the world the player is logged into when opened.

• ninja 9 February 2015 (Update):
  • The World Hop interface in-game now shows more information on activities.

• ninja 11 August 2014 (Update):
  • There should now be fewer instances of being kicked to the login screen when attempting to switch worlds.

• patch 14 January 2013 (Update):
  • Players trying to 'Join' a friend in Runescape Classic will no longer disconnect, but instead be told this isn't possible.

• patch 6 December 2011 (Update):
  • Player display names on Quick Chat worlds now appear in the correct position.

• patch 24 November 2010 (Update):
  • The Australian flag on the world list now uses one less star.

• update 15 October 2008 (Update):
  • World selection has now been moved entirely in game.
    • The in-game world switcher now shows lots of extra information, including suggested activities for various worlds.
  • When logging in, the game will automatically choose a suitable world.
    • Players can choose to play on a specific world by choosing it from the world switcher first and then pressing 'Log in'.
  • The in-game world switcher now lets players select up to 2 worlds as favourites. Extra buttons for these worlds can be found directly on the title screen, and can be clicked to go straight to those worlds.

• patch 2 September 2008 (Update):
  • Two worlds (60 and 61) have been designated as suggested 'Great Orb Project' worlds.

• update 19 March 2002 (Update):
  • Two new severs are now online now.
    • They hosted in a different location to the previous 6 worlds.
    • One new server is members and the other is free-edition server.
    • This increases the total capacity to 10,000 simultaneous players.

• update 4 January 2002 (Update):
  • Two new servers have arrived.
    • They are now setup and running world 5 and 6.
    • This increases the total capacity to 7500 simultaneous players.

• update 8 December 2001 (Update):
  • The player limit was reduced back to the original 5000.
    • This was due to server crashes despite upgrading kernel, drivers and network code.

• update 24 May 2001 (Update):
  • The server status page now shows the top crafter, top magician, and top cleric.

• update 14 November 2001 (Update):
  • All non-essential parts of the website have been removed.
    • This saves server resources.
    • Moderating message boards has become a huge amount of work for the team size.
    • Better security (one place where you need to enter your RuneScape password)

• update 10 May 2001 (Update):
  • Windows client now lets you select which server to use.
  • Improved speed and reliability of the servers.
  • Fixed a bug where the server would sometimes send the wrong error message on login.

Trivia

• RuneScape launched with two servers (likely a login server and a game server), but the second world wasn't added until 9 May 2001.
• Before the 22 new worlds update, World 156 had not existed. However, players were once able to access this world using easy-to-decipher URLs. It was said that the world was a test server for Jagex to test their updates in-game, but this has not been confirmed.
• Jagex stated that servers for the Caribbean region would be added in 2011 or 2012. They were set to be world 171 for Members which would be located in the island of Trinidad, and World 170 for free-to-play, which would be located in the Dominican Republic.
• World 200 to 275 were used for the combat beta update. World 200 was later used for the Login Lockout Account Integrity beta.
• A delay of 30 seconds used to exist between logging out of one and logging into another world. It was removed in a hidden update on 3 February 2014.
• World 13 is not shown in any server lists but does exist and is used as a JMod-only world. Attempting to join it by hopping to a Jmod in a Friends Chat or Clan Chat will give the message: "This world is restricted to Jagex staff only." Jagex sometimes applies similar restrictions to regular worlds for maintenance purposes.
  • The decision to use World 13 as a nonpublic server could be a reference to Triskaidekaphobia, the superstition regarding the number thirteen as unlucky.
• Prior to its closing, players connected to a DarkScape server would have the DarkScape flag () displayed next to their name when viewed via the Friends List, Friends Chat, or Clan Chat.