Achievements

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Achievements (also known as Tasks and previously known as Achievement Diaries) are small challenges that players may complete in order to earn rewards. The Achievement system consists of Tasks that are usually tied to a specific area and are meant to test the player's knowledge about that area. There are currently thirteen areas that have Tasks to complete.

The Tasks of each area are split into five categories, based on their difficulty. The easiest tasks usually do not require any skill levels to complete, but most higher level tasks require the player to have high skill levels and difficult quests completed, as well as in-depth knowledge of a particular area within RuneScape, such as the TzHaar Fight Caves. With the exception of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks, the Tasks are for members only, as many tasks involve members' skills or quests. A small number of the Varrock and Falador Tasks can be done as a non-member, but the task set will not be 'completed' unless the player is a member. With the release of the Wilderness Tasks, there are 690 tasks in total. Once a player has completed all tasks, he/she may be required to lobby for the achievements to be registered as completed.

History

The first achievement set (Karamja) was released on 8 May 2007. It was originally named an Achievement Diary and had three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The interface resembled that of the quest list and was actually a sub-menu of the Quest Tab. As with quests, each diary turned green once completed. Achievement diaries were later split into a separate interface tab, merged into the Noticeboard tab, and eventually put in the Hero interface in RuneScape 3.

A total of six more Achievement Diaries were later released. The Ardougne Tasks, released on 20 October 2009, was the first set to have a fourth difficulty level, Elite. Elite Tasks were added to most other areas on 7 September 2010.

On 24 November 2010, the system of Achievement Diaries was changed into the Task system. The interface was redesigned, extra rewards were added, and more tasks (not considered to be part of the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks set) were released for the Lumbridge area, meant as an introduction to the Tasks system for new players. Since then, more tasks have been periodically added to this generic set. Many of these "Miscellaneous" tasks are very simple to complete (e.g. Use the "Run" feature) and as such have a Beginner difficulty level.

On 19 September 2012 the Task System was renamed Achievements.

The Task system

To access the Task system, players should click on the Hero icon in their interface. In Legacy-mode you'll need to click the Settings-icon to access this. Doing so will bring up the Hero interface. By opening the Achievement tab, a player can view a list of all tasks in their current area. They are broken down into five colour-coded difficulty levels, from Beginner to Elite Tasks. The Burthorpe/Taverley set only contains Beginner Tasks. The Lumbridge/Draynor set contains Beginner to Hard Tasks. All other sets contain Easy to Elite tasks.

Blue – Beginner
Green – Easy
Red – Medium
White – Hard
Purple – Elite
Lock icon – You lack one or more prerequisites to complete this task
+ – Pinned task to refer to it from the side window (right click to pin/unpin)
Check mark – Completed task

Players can view Tasks of another area by selecting a different area in the drop-down menu in the top left corner of the interface. In the Task list the player can also see the total amount of Tasks they have completed, and filter out Tasks they don't have the requirements for yet or that are not part of an area set.

Hero (Achievements) interface — The Task list

When the player hovers their pointer over a Task, its name will be displayed. The player can click on a Task to see more information about it, including a detailed description of the Task, the rewards that will be earned upon completion, the requirements needed to complete the Task, and in some cases a hint about how to complete it. Here, players may also select to 'pin' the Task. A pinned Task will always be displayed in their Tasks side interface, wherever they are. Since the 31 January 2012 update, pinned Tasks also appear in a small window on the left side of the screen. Currently only one Task can be pinned. Attempting to pin a different Task will automatically unpin the player's prior choice.

Tasks that are part of an area task set have the icon next to them. Completion of all of a particular area's easiest grade of area tasks enables players to claim a Magic lamp, claim a unique wearable item for that area that has special abilities, and unlock extra benefits from resources in that area. Completion of each subsequent grade of tasks upgrades the wearable item, unlocks better benefits, and provides more lamps. Tasks that lack the are not part of the area tasks and do not need to be completed to gain these benefits. These other miscellaneous tasks generally give small cash rewards that can be collected from Explorer Jack. Following the update on 3 December, cash rewards were added directly into the money pouch, though other rewards still needed to be claimed from Explorer Jack.

When a Task is completed, players will be informed in the chat interface, and that particular Task will be struck out in the journal. A popup at the top of the screen will also inform the player that the Task is completed. These popups may be disabled from the Task list.

If 350 Tasks are completed, the player will unlock the music track The Task at Hand. If all tasks are completed, including those that are not part of an area set, the player will unlock the Taskmaster emote.

There currently is no Task Tutor, although many NPCs, such as Sir Vant in the former tutorial, have mentioned one.

List of Tasks

There are 13 Task areas at the moment, with 43 Taskmasters:

Task area	Taskmasters
Ardougne Tasks	Easy: Dr Orbon
	Medium: Town crier
	Hard: Aleck
Burthorpe and Taverley Tasks	Orla Fairweather
Daemonheim Tasks	Easy: Dungeoneering tutor
	Medium: Marmaros
	Hard: Talsar
	Elite: Thok of Daemonheim
Desert Tasks	Easy: Grand Vizier Hassan
	Medium: Zahur
	Hard: Ali the Mayor
	Elite: Clay golem
Falador Tasks	Easy: Redbeard Frank
	Medium: Chemist
	Hard and Elite: Squire Asrol
Fremennik Province Tasks	Easy: Council workman
	Medium: Yrsa
	Hard and Elite: Advisor Ghrim
Karamja Tasks	Easy: Pirate Jackie the Fruit
	Medium: Kaleb Paramaya
	Hard and Elite: Jungle forester
Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks	Beginner: Explorer Jack
	Easy: Bob
	Medium and Hard: Ned
Morytania Tasks	Easy: Hiylik Myna
	Medium: Robin
	Hard: Strange Old Man
	Elite: Old Man Ral
Seers' Village Tasks	Easy: Seer
	Medium: Stankers
	Hard and Elite: Sir Kay
Tirannwn Tasks	Easy: Elf Tracker
	Medium: Gwir
	Hard: Arianwyn
	Elite: Elen Anterth
Varrock Tasks	Easy: Rat Burgiss
	Medium: Reldo
	Hard and Elite: Vannaka
New Varrock Tasks	Tiny Zemouregal
Wilderness Tasks	Easy: Mr Ex
	Medium: Mandrith
	Hard: Quercus
	Elite: Kolodion

Requirements

Skill requirements

The left table shows the skill levels required to complete all Tasks, including the levels needed to complete quests that also are required. The right table shows the skill levels required to complete all Tasks available in Free-to-play.
Temporary boosts may be used to obtain the required level to complete certain Tasks.
The current experience required to complete all of the Tasks is 140,978,512 excluding skill requirements of quests required for some Tasks and assuming no skill boosts are used. This is roughly 5 times the amount of experience required to complete all current quests and earn the quest point cape.
The current experience required to complete all of the Tasks available in free-to-play is 2,485,014 assuming no skill boosts are used (the same even if skill requirements from quests are included).

* - You require at least one skill with at least level 99, or own the quest point cape for one of the Tiranwnn Elite Tasks.


Total level: 2400
90	90	90
90	90	95
90	94	96
90	95	95
95	98	92
90	93	90
91	95	91
90	90	95
95	90	----
127	275*	500
----	-----


Total level: 529
20	----	30
----	----	68
25	----	30
5	----	50
45	50	60
59	----	30
57	----	----
----	----	----
----	----	----
52	33	----
10	-----

Quest requirements

The list below shows the quests required to complete all tasks. The quests are listed by location.

Lumbridge/Draynor

Players also need to have started Dragon Slayer, which requires 33 quest points.

Burthorpe/Taverley

Ardougne

Note: Although these are the only quest requirements, more quests may be needed for the 500 song requirement.

Falador

Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen partially complete
Elemental Workshop I
Garden of Tranquillity
The Hand in the Sand
Ratcatchers
Recruitment Drive
Rune Mysteries
The Slug Menace
The Knight's Sword
Temple at Senntisten

Fremennik

Morytania

Karamja

Seers' Village

Varrock

Desert

Daemonheim

Tirannwn

Wilderness

Summer's End

Rewards

Tasks set

Main article: Tasks set

File:Elite task set.png

Antique lamps

Antique lamps require the player to have a certain level in the skill it is used on. The highest such requirement is 85-95, for the lamps awarding from 50,000 to 95,000 experience.

In total, the antique lamps from all task sets combined grant 2,385,500 experience.

Other Tasks

Lodestone Network tasks

Main article: Lodestone Network Tasks

The Lodestone Network Tasks were released on 13 March 2012 along with the Lodestone Network update. This task set does not reward the player with an item, but does allow the player to Home teleport to a variety of towns. There are a total of 20 tasks that can be completed; one for each Home teleport that can be unlocked with the exception of Lumbridge, Burthorpe, Bandit Camp, and Lunar Isle.

Divination tasks

The release of the Divination skill saw 10 tasks added to the Burthorpe/Taverley tasks involving all aspects of the skill. These tasks are all beginner difficulty, and count towards the area reward and the Taskmaster emote. Completing the tasks rewards 500 Flickering energy, by talking to Orla Fairweather after doing so.

Dialogue

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Trivia

Seven areas that do not have a current task list are still displayed as locations in the tasks tab when visiting the areas. These areas are the Gnome Lands, Feldip Hills, Keldagrim, Dorgesh-Kaan, Piscatoris, Islands (Entrana, Ape Atoll, Crash Island, Void Knights' Outpost, Braindeath Island, Mos Le'Harmless, Harmony Island, Rock Island Prison and Iceberg), and the Outer Planes (Zanaris).
If you have completed all the tasks for a higher group (Hard tasks, for example) without completing the ones that precede it, then you are not able to claim your reward until you've done so.