Emotes

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The emotes interface showing unlocked emotes.

Emotes are animations that a player can select for their character to perform. Before Quick Chat was released, emotes were also the only way for muted players to communicate.

Emotes can be activated from the Emotes interface. Emote images that are not blacked out are unlocked, or came as default. Blacked out emote images have yet to be unlocked.

[edit] Default emotes

These emotes are given to players after completing the Unstable Foundations tutorial quest, while in Lumbridge.

Name	Name	Name	Name
Yes	No	Bow Curtsy (enhanced)	Angry (enhanced)
Think (enhanced)	Wave	Shrug	Cheer
Beckon (enhanced)	Laugh	Jump for Joy	Yawn (enhanced)
Dance (enhanced)	Jig	Twirl	Headbang
Cry	Blow Kiss	Panic	Raspberry
Clap	Salute	Curtsy

[edit] Non-holiday unlockable emotes

Certain emotes requires the player to do a certain task before the it is unlocked. This may involve receiving a random event or achieving a certain point in quests.

Icon	Name	Unlocking method
	Goblin Bow	This emote is a reward from The Lost Tribe quest, where players quickly bow. If they do this in front of Mistag, he will bow back.
	Goblin Salute	This emote is a reward from The Lost Tribe quest, where players jump from side to side, and finish with pumping a fist into the air. Do this in front of Mistag and he will get frightened.
	Glass Box	This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where players lift their hands as if they were in a box.
	Climb Rope	This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where players climb an invisible rope.
	Lean	This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where players lean against nothing for a while.
	Glass Wall	This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where players will slowly move their hands in the air to imitate the presence of an actual wall.
	Idea	This emote is obtainable from the Box of Health in the Stronghold of Security, where players think with an unlit light-bulb above their head, finally coming up with an idea, raising their hand and making the light-bulb lighten up.
	Stomp	This emote is obtainable from the Cradle of Life in the Stronghold of Security, where players stomp the ground of frustration, making the ground vibrate.
	Flap	This emote is obtainable from the Gift of Peace in the Stronghold of Security. If a player wears the Chicken Set from the 2007 Easter event, an enhanced version, that looks as if the player is actually flying is unlocked.
	Slap Head	This emote is obtainable from the Grain of Plenty in the Stronghold of Security. The emote will cause the player to slap or hit their head, as if they just realised something they forgot.
	Zombie Walk	This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event. This emote makes players slowly sway back and forth, as if they were a zombie.
	Zombie Dance	This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event. This emote causes players to lift their fists and start to dance like Michael Jackson's background-dancers in the music-video "Thriller"
	Skillcape	There are 25 different Skill Cape emotes in RuneScape: 24 skill emotes (one per skill cape), which are only activated when wearing the skill cape and an additional emote for the Quest Cape, which can be worn if every quest in RuneScape is completed. If a new quest is released, the Quest Cape becomes inactivated until the player completes the new quest. See Skill Cape.
	Air Guitar	Available after unlocking 500 or more songs in the RuneScape jukebox. Plays 5 notes when activated. See music.
	Safety First	Available after completing the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence miniquest, where players cross their arms over their chest, making a huge shield appear in front of them.
	Explore	Unlocked by completing Beginner tasks of Lumbridge and Draynor Achievement Diary, where players hold their hand over their eyes, leaning forward as if they searched for something, and finally taking out a sextant out of their pocket, and looking through that instead.

[edit] Holiday unlockable emotes

A player performing the "Around the World in Eggty Days" Emote.

Icon	Name	Unlocking method
	Zombie Hand	A zombie hand comes out of the grounds and barely misses the user.
	Scared	This emote is a reward for doing a Halloween seasonal event starting in 2005 and 2009, where players hide their head in their arms, shaking with their whole body.
	Bunny-hop	This emote is rewarded to players who have done an Easter seasonal event, where players simply jump up and down like a bunny, scratching their nose a bit in the end of the emote.
	Snowman Dance	This emote is unlocked by players who have built or helped to build snowmen in the 2007 Christmas event, where players jump from side to side in a happy Christmas-musical-way.
	Trick	Unlocked by completing the 2008 or 2009 Hallowe'en event event. To unlock, peer into Maggie's cauldron. The player lifts his arms and bats appear.
	Give Thanks	Unlocked by completing the 2008 Thanksgiving event. Players had to find 10 Hidden Turkeys to obtain this emote, or by killing the turkeys that appeared during the period. The player changes into a turkey and does a turkey dance.
	Freeze and Melt	Unlocked by completing the 2008 Christmas event. Players receive it by talking to Jack Frost, who has to be found with the help of a Snow imp. The player freezes into an ice block, melts, and turns back into a human again.
	Around the World in Eggty Days	Unlocked by completing the 2009 Easter event, by talking to the Easter Bunny. The player run's very fast, and returns with a chocolate egg.

Note: Emotes related to holiday events are usually unlockable every year during the respective holiday events. Players who have not unlocked emotes from the previous year can unlock them in the current year.

[edit] Operating emotes

Some items, when operated, may activate an emote.

Item	Emote	Description
Rubber chicken	Dance {enhanced)	This emote is used by either right-clicking a Rubber chicken and clicking dance or operating it while wielding it. It will make players do the "Chicken-Dance".
Reindeer hat	Reindeer	This emote is only usable by those with a Reindeer hat. To activate the emote, players must operate their hat while wearing it. It will make them act like a reindeer.
Chocatrice cape	Giant Easter Egg	Available after completing the 2008 Easter event. Players must operate the chocatrice cape to use this emote. It will make players pop out of a giant, yellow egg with a red bow in the middle.
Toy kite	Toy kite	Released on 1 April 2008, as an April Fool's joke parodying the item "dragon kiteshield." Toy kites can be purchased from Diango in Draynor for 100 coins. It makes the wind blow extra hard in the kite.
Broomstick	Sweep	Available after completing Swept Away. To activate the emote, players must press 'Sweep' option. It will make the player sweep similar to the Sorceress' Apprentice.
Falador shield 1, 2, 3	Shield Power	Available when wielding any Falador shield obtained from the Falador Achievement Dairy. To activate the emote, players must wield it, and then operate it.
Lily of the valley	Smell	These flowers could only be picked during the 2009 Start of May. When operated, the player would smell the flower and love it. The lilies were removed on 6 May, 2009.

[edit] Penguin emotes

During and after the Cold War quest, there are 8 penguin emotes which can be used while in a Penguin suit.

Icon	Name	Description	Emote
	Shiver	Crosses fins over chest and lowers head. Body shakes as if he/she is cold. "Brrr..!"
	Spin	Spins once in a clockwise direction. "Spin around!"
	Clap	Claps fins together. "Very good performance!"
	Bow	Lifts both fins into the air. Places left fin over chest and bows. "Thank you!"
	Cheer	Waves fins above head. "Raise the roof!"
	Wave	Waves left fin. "G'bye!"
	Preen	Turns head down; moves left fin behind; shakes head."Stupid fleas..!"
	Flap	Lifts fins into air and flaps them rapidly. "Flap, flap, flap.."

[edit] Acrobat emotes

During the Agility performance in Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza, players can use some new emotes. However, these can only be used on the rope.

Icon	Name	Suggested level	Image of emote
	Small hop	10
	One-leg balance	20
	Twirl	30
	Handstand	40
	Cartwheel	50
	Small leap	60
	No-hand cartwheel	70
	Forward roll	80
	Large leap	90
	Backflip	99
	Juggle	Depends on item

[edit] Emote enhancers

Main article: Emote enhancers

Emote enhancers are equipment that when worn make an emote be performed differently. Before the quest Tower of Life, emote enhancers were only available through Treasure Trails. All of the enhancers are tradeable except for the satchels, Builder's costume and Chicken Costume. All of the enhancers are members-only items, except for the Chicken Costume.

Enhancer	Emote	Information
A powdered wig	Angry	Tradeable: 90,600coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
Flared trousers	Dance	Tradeable: 1,700,000coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
Builder's costume	Beckon	Nontradeable. Tower of Life quest suit, consisting of 4 parts. First non-treasure trails emote enhancer. Satchels will also enhance Beckon.
Pantaloons	Bow	Tradeable: 23,400coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
Sleeping cap	Yawn	Tradeable: 66,300coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
Chicken Costume	Flap	Nontradeable. Received from Easter 2007.

[edit] Skillcape emote

Main article: Skillcape (emote)

A player performing the Quest Point Cape Emote.

The Skillcape emote is unlocked when a player first wears a Cape of Achievement, gained by purchasing one after gaining level 99 in a skill, or completing all the quests to obtain the Quest point cape. Using this emote will perform an emote respective to the current equipped Cape of Achievement, as each skillcape has a different emote.

Subsequently, it can only be performed while the player has a Cape of Achievement equipped. Note that players will have to be wearing the cape, as wearing the matching hood would not enable the emote to be performed. If used without an equipped Cape of Achievement, the player gets a message, "You need to be wearing a Skill Cape in order to perform that emote."

[edit] Emote bugs

There are several of emote glitches, for example, you can do the freeze emote while lighting a fire. One of these bugs is activated by using the freeze emote beside the Grand Exchange underwall tunnel agility shortcut and quickly using it. It is unconfirmed whether this works on any other underwall shortcuts.

You could also freeze the lumbridge home teleport by clicking an emote while performing the teleport.

[edit] Trivia

If players do the Air Guitar emote then quickly enter a cave or shortcut then they will appear to stop playing the guitar however notes will continue to appear.
It was possible to activate the Give Thanks emote and make a fire to turn into a giant turkey, (and at times, messed up) but this glitch was soon fixed by Jagex. However soon after, the glitch returned.

It is possible to make emotes in egg, stone or monkey form. Only emote-created items like light bulb or zombie hand appear.

It was possible to combine Air guitar with Snowman Dance, resulting in doing the Snowman Dance while playing the Air guitar. This was done clicking the Snowman Dance emote, quickly followed by the Air guitar emote. This glitch was fixed by Jagex, and is no longer possible.

Zombie dance is similar to the dance performed in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video.

Pelting a player wearing the Quest Points Cape with a Snowball, causing the quest logo to disappear from above the cape wearer's head. This has now been corrected by Jagex as it was not intended to happen.

It is possible to use the Freeze emote in combat. However, instead of sinking into the ground, the ice will just "slide" off of you.

If you use the Freeze emote in highly populated places (like Stealing Creation team pens) it'll look like a Quicksand emote only visible to other players. The ice doesn't appear for them due to lag.

If you first clicked on Lumbridge Home Teleport, followed by freeze and melt emote and then clicking on an monster far away, you will be able to run in a fast burst of speed after the melting phase of the freeze and melt emote.

Emotes from random events have now been updated. This occurred on 25 February 2009.

The Freeze emote is the only emote to, when having the mouse hovered over it, have a different name in the upper Left-Hand corner of the screen. Even though the emote is called Freeze, it is named Freeze and Melt in the upper corner.

With the recent (date needed) introduction of the emote-delay limit, players can only do one emote at a time. The limit goes into effect until the emotes' animation has ended. A lot of glitches involving the Give thanks emote, or overlapping of other emotes have been fixed as a result. Attempts to do more than one emote results in the message "You're already doing an emote!".

If you whack a person with the Easter Carrot and quickly use the Around The World In Eggty Days then you end up standing still while the smoke appears and then the chocolate egg falls into your hands and you eat it without moving. To others you seem to disappear without doing the emote.

While doing the Freeze emote, you can change your clothes and turn into an egg when your character appears to be underground.
While chopping a tree, you could select an emote and you could be "chopping a tree with bare hands" or something else. This glitch has now been changed.

If you walk and fast click on Zombie Hand emote, then fast click on the map and still walk, you won't do the emote but a hand will appear above you.

Due to a hidden update, you can no longer do emotes while in combat.
Before, after the Custom Cursors update, when the player moved the cursor over the 'Spin' emote, it would show a pot. This is because this update uses the name of the action, rather than the action itself, to identify the image to portray. In this case, the word 'spin' is also used in crafting, when you spin a clay pot. This has been fixed by renaming the emote 'Twirl'.
Attempting to do an emote in the Stealing Creation waiting room results in the message, "You might miss the start of the game!"
Using the Blow Kiss, Idea, Safety First, Explore, Trick, Freeze, or Around the World In Eggty Days emote in a very populated area, e.g. G.E., Falador Party Room, will result in the item in the emote not appearing. e.g. no heart in Blow Kiss, no lightbulb in Idea, no shield in Safety First, no sextent in Explore, no bats in Trick, no ice in Freeze, and no egg in Around the World In Eggty Days. This glitch has yet to be fixed by Jagex.
The Easter 2009 emote has been changed to look better while Prayer icons are active as of November 9 2009.
Due to an update on November 9 2009 the penguin Spin emote no longer has a Crafting cursor.

There was a glitch where the player would sit down and do a Skillcape Emote at the same time. The glitch was made by clicking on the 'Rest' button and fast click the Skillcape Emote. This glitch has been fixed.

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