Discontinued items and holiday drops
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Discontinued items and holiday drops are items that cannot be obtained through the game and, therefore, their numbers are not increasing. However, some of these items may still be obtained through trading with other players. Because the number of these items does not increase, players often refer to these items as rares.
Rare items are items that are discontinued. These items are now very few in number and are very expensive. They were taken out of the game because players gained money by not putting in hard work into the game, and some players complained that they did not get one.
Holiday drops are items that were dropped on certain holidays, such as Christmas or Easter. These items are also few in number and are very expensive. Holiday drops that are wieldable are often worn by players to either show their wealth, for fashion or to show how long they've played.
These rares are also a very important part of Runescape's economy, many players work hard with skills to achieve a long-term goal of owning a rare and discontinued holiday item. For the most part Rares either hold their value or grow, like that of a stock. In some special occasions, such as the recent "Unbalanced Trade Removal" update the price of rares will drop, but players can be certain that if they hold a rare long enough it will eventually be worth it because no more rares will ever enter the economy. Items such as dragon chainbodies have high prices compared to other non-discontinued items, but will eventually fall because it is possible to get more of them, and in the case of tradable holiday items, this is not a possible reason for the price to lower. A big concern that some players have about buying a holiday item is that in the future they might release an update to make them untradable or even remove them, though it is unlikely that Jagex would ever do that.
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[edit] Before December 22, 2003
When RuneScape Classic was still known as RuneScape, Jagex decided that they would drop items randomly across RuneScape on certain holidays.
On Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, Jagex would drop a certain item. For example, in December 2001 during Christmas, Jagex dropped 'Christmas Crackers'. These christmas crackers could only be obtained during a certain day during December. When a player walked around RuneScape, they may have seen a christmas cracker pop up out of nowhere on the ground nearby. This was how the items were dropped.
Originally dropped for fun, Jagex kept this going on for a few more years. Every Christmas, Halloween, and Easter, an item would be dropped. Unfortunately, players began to notice that these items could not be obtained any more unless they were bought from other players. Seeing this, players began to buy the holiday items low, and then sell them at an incredibly high price. This started the rise in the prices for holiday items. Players were also angry that they missed the drops. Players would complain to Jagex demanding that they redo the drop. Jagex decided to make the next few drops nontradable. However, this only enraged players even more.
Jagex, realizing what was happening, decided to stop holiday drops, as players were becoming too greedy. On December 22, 2003, Jagex put an anouncement on RuneScape's main page, saying that they were ceasing holiday drops. From then on, items were not dropped on holidays.
[edit] After December 22, 2003
A year passed and no holiday drop was made. However, on December 21, 2004, Jagex changed that. Santa was placed in the game and gave a holiday item to players who talked to him. After this, holiday items were no longer tradeable. Instead of the items being dropped, Jagex introduced tasks players had to complete to obtain the holiday item.
[edit] Dying with an item
Even though some items, such as the Blue partyhat, can fetch up to 500 million coins on the street, they are near to worthless in alchemy and store buy prices, which determine which items are kept. Discontinued items are bought at 1 to 2 coins in a general store. This means that a player who dies while holding 3 near-worthless items (say, three trout) the player will lose the party hat despite its much higher value due to its lower store price (unless they used item protect to keep 4 items). The non-tradeable holiday drops can however be retrieved from Diango in Draynor.
[edit] Easter items
- 2001 Easter event - nothing
- 2002 Easter event - Easter egg
- 2003 Easter event - Bunny ears
- 2004 Easter event - nothing
- 2005 Easter event- Rubber chicken
- 2006 Easter event - Easter ring
- 2007 Easter event - Chicken Set
- 2008 Easter event - Chocatrice cape
[edit] Halloween items
Items that required a mini-quest are in italics. Items that are nontradable are in bold.
- 2001 Hallowe'en event - Pumpkin
- 2002 Hallowe'en event - Halloween mask
- 2003 Hallowe'en event - Scythe
- 2004 Halloween event - nothing
- 2005 Hallowe'en event - Zombie head
- 2006 Hallowe'en event - Spooky Set and Jack lantern mask
- 2007 Hallowe'en event - Grim reaper hood
[edit] Christmas Items
Items that required a mini-quest are in italics. Items that are nontradable are in bold. Items that are member's only have an asterisk besides them.
- 2001 Christmas event - Christmas cracker and Party hats, which are obtained from Christmas Cracker
- 2002 Christmas event - Santa hat
- 2003 Christmas event - nothing
- 2004 Christmas event - Yo-yo
- 2005 Christmas event - Hats and scarves, and Marionette
- 2006 Christmas event - Reindeer hat, Wintumber tree*
- 2007 Christmas event - Snow globe
[edit] Other discontinued items
Previously in RuneScape there was an area known as the 'Black Hole', where rule breakers were held. Normal players could visit this area by purchasing this disk, and spinning it to return from the Black Hole.
Due to a change in the Cooking skill in the past, Wine was changed so it has 1 swig, not 2, only people with half jugs at the time of the change had these.
- Amulet of Accuracy (RSC)
On RuneScape Classic but not the main game, the Amulet of Accuracy can be considered a discontinued item. The Amulet of Accuracy is a tradable reward from the Imp Catcher quest, and it can only be obtained once. Since no new accounts can be created on RuneScape Classic, no further amulets can be introduced, thus essentially making it a discontinued item. In RuneScape 2, each new player can obtain this item upon completion of the Imp Catcher quest, providing a supply of this tradable item.
[edit] Discontinued items
On the Holiday drop of Christmas 2006, players could pick up snowballs. However, they disappeared after leaving the Island of Karamja. But, after doing the mini quest for the Holiday drop, players could pick them up again. Afterwards, they melted some time between January 25 and February 17 2007. They were not tradable. Snowballs are now able to be made when you shake the snowglobe that players got during the 2007 chrismas event.
In the 2006 Halloween mini game located in Draynor Village, players used a Ghost Buster 500 to defeat various ghosts that had taken up residence in Diango's workshop. Ammunition for the Ghost Buster was available in different colours that matched the types of ghosts. After defeating a certain amount of ghosts you could report back to Diango for your reward. This mini game only lasted for two weeks. It didn't have any requirements to do. The rewards can be found in the Halloween items. This item and all ammunition is non-existant since the event ended.
In the 2007 Easter event there were several piles of Easter Eggs in the Chocolate Kebbit Bowling Area that you could take eggs from. Once the event was over the eggs all "melted away" once you logged back into the game. A message in the chat box informed you of this.
In the 2007 Easter event, the Easter Bunny asked you to retrieve his Rabbit mould (which he used to make chocolate rabbits) for him. You had to attempt to retrieve it, whilst dodging Nigel, an angry, shovel wielding farmer. Once the event was over it was removed from the game.
In Halloween 2005 there were children in Lumbridge asking for candy. You could obtain it by scaring the little kids with a zombie head. Once the event was over, the candy melted into chocolate dust, even if you had it in your bank. The candy was not tradable and healed 3hp. However, Purple Sweets are now available from Treasure Trails.
The sleeping bag was used with the fatigue system in RuneScape Classic. Since RuneScape 2 does not use fatigue, sleeping bags were removed.
Players used to obtain a Shantay disclaimer when entering the desert. However, players no longer obtain them, and remaining ones were removed.
In the 2005 Easter event players received a Basket of Eggs. The player would equip the basket and right click on a player then select "give egg". Once the player handed out enough chocolate eggs they would then go and talk to the easter bunny to claim the rubber chicken as a reward. The baskets were removed from the game after April 4th.
- Woodcutting axe head and handle
A random event was once in the game that caused a players's axe head to fly off the handle while woodcutting. The player would have to find the head nearby and replace it before another player took it. The event was removed in mid-2007, and with it the heads and handles.
Another discontinued item from Runescape Classic.
Discontinued item from Runescape Classic.
Obtained via a glitch in Runescape Classic.
You used to be able to mess up making a cocktail, and this was the result, but no more.
[edit] Replacing items
Ask Thessalia in the Varrock clothing store that is southwest of the main fountain for your bunny ears or scythe back and she will happily oblige.
Diango is found in Draynor Marketplace. He will return your holiday items if you lose them, including the scythe, chocatrice cape, and bunny ears.
| Discontinued items and holiday drops |
| Tradeable: Christmas cracker | Disk of returning | Easter egg | Half full wine jug | Halloween mask | Party hats | Pumpkin | Santa hat |
| Untradeable: Bunny ears | Chicken set | Chocatrice cape | Easter ring | Grim reaper hood | Hats and scarves | Jack lantern mask | Marionette | Reindeer hat | Rubber chicken | Scythe | Snow globe | Spooky Set | Wintumber tree | Yo-yo | Zombie head |
[edit] Trivia
You can't sell rare items in general stores due to Real World Trading.
