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Contents 1 Options 2 Types of gravestones 2.1 Available to All Players 2.2 Available to Members 3 Notes

Gravestones are generated when a player dies via any means -- including suicide -- except during Bounty hunter or through a safe minigame. All of the player's items (other than their bones) are kept safe under the gravestone until the gravestone is destroyed. This can occur either due to timeout or demolition by the player.

Gravestones can last from three minutes to six minutes, depending on the type purchased. A gravestone can be walked through by a player, and right-clicking yields four options:

Without repairs or blessing, gravestones will collapse on their own after a certain period of time, depending on the type of gravestone purchased. At 1 minute and 30 seconds a basic gravestone becomes broken, and at 30 seconds until collapsing it becomes a collapsing gravestone. The gravestone will remain upstanding if the player logs out, but the timer until demolish will not be paused. The text that appears on the gravestone will also change. The comparison between the Memorial Plaque and the Angel of Death gravestones are shown below:

Currently the Gravestone timer will still run even if you get teleported by a random event.

[edit] Options

• Read: Reveals the name of the player who died and, in some cases, how long ago.
  • Read your own gravestone: "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes. Isn't there something a bit odd about reading your own gravestone?"
• Repair: Allows a player with a prayer level of 2+ to extend the longevity of the gravestone by up to five minutes, by giving up one prayer point per minute. Can only be used on broken or collapsing gravestones, as long as you have more prayer points than necessary to extend the life of the gravestone.
• Bless: Allows a player with a prayer level of 70+ to extend the longevity of the gravestone by as many points of prayer as they have, minus ten, or up to one hour after the gravestone had been set up.
  • Bless your own gravestone: "The gods don't seem to approve of people attempting to bless their own gravestones."
• Demolish: Destroys the gravestone. Only the player that the gravestone was dedicated to may do so.
  • Demolish one's own gravestone: "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes. You demolish it anyway."
• Examine: An awesome statue placed in memory of the person who died here.

[edit] Types of gravestones

[edit] Available to All Players

These gravestones can be purchased by donating to Father Aereck in the Lumbridge church (all proceeds go to the Varrockian Guards' Widows & Orphans Fund). You must complete The Restless Ghost in order to purchase gravestones.

Image	Gravestone name	Cost	Duration	Text
	Memorial Plaque	Default (Free to switch to)	3 Minutes	In memory of (player name), who died here.
	Flag	50 Coins	3 Minutes	In memory of (player name), who died here.
	Small Gravestone	500 Coins	3 Minutes	In loving memory of our dear friend (player name), who died in this place _ minutes ago.
	Ornate Gravestone	5,000 Coins	4 Minutes	In loving memory of our dear friend (player name), who died in this place _ minutes ago.

[edit] Available to Members

These gravestones can be purchased by talking to Blasidar the sculptor in Keldagrim. Requires completion of The Giant Dwarf.

Image	Gravestone name	Cost	Duration	Prerequisite	Text
	Font of Life	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	None	In your travels, pause awhile to remember (player name), who passed away at this spot.
	Stele	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	None	In your travels, pause awhile to remember (player name), who passed away at this spot.
	Symbol of Saradomin	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	None	(Player name), an enlightened servant of Saradomin, perished in this place.
	Symbol of Zamorak	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	None	(Player name), a most bloodthirsty follower of Zamorak, perished in this place.
	Symbol of Guthix	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	None	(Player name), who walked with the Balance of Guthix, perished in this place.
	Symbol of Bandos	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	Land of the Goblins Quest	(Player name), a vicious warrior dedicated to Bandos, perished in this place.
	Symbol of Armadyl	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	Temple of Ikov Quest	(Player name), a follower of the Law of Armadyl, perished in this place.
	Ancient/Zaros Symbol	50,000 coins	5 Minutes	Desert Treasure Quest	{Player name}, servant of the Unknown Power, perished in this place.
	Angel of Death	500,000 coins	6 Minutes	None	Ye frail mortals who gaze upon this sight, forget not the fate of (player name), once mighty, now surrendered to the inescapable grasp of destiny. Requiescat in pace. *Note: Requiescat in pace is Latin for "May he/she rest in peace".

[edit] Notes

• Unfortunately, some untradeable items are not protected by the gravestone - for example, magic secateurs.
• Essence pouches and ectophials crumble to dust.
• Chinchompas and other animals will be released when you die.
• All Barrows equipment will break when you die.
• Other items that gets destroyed when dropped will behave accordingly
• Demolition of the Gravestone causes items underneath to appear for around 30 seconds before disappearance, and natural destruction removes the items immediately. Therefore, it may be a good idea to pick up items while the gravestone is still standing, and pick up the most valuable items if a gravestone is about to collapse.
• Gravestones only appear if items are lost. If the player was only carrying 3 items when he died, it would not appear. However, if players lost a fourth item, even if it's as insignificant as a needle, a gravestone would appear.
• If a player dies and loses items when a gravestone belonging to him is already standing, that gravestone and all items belonging to it are destroyed immediately and a new one is set up at the new site of death. (valid as of 07 October 2009)
• The Memorial Plaque is the default gravestone. You can switch back to it for free by speaking to any of the two .
• If a player wishes to change their gravestone, they must purchase a new one at the full price.
• Contrary to popular belief, graves are not a one-use item, but rather a one-time purchase long term investment for all of your deaths - one purchase of a grave will allow all of your deaths to use this grave.
• Players may kill themselves to purposefully create a gravestone as a temporary decoration in banks or other places.(In some banks its been noted that the persons name will not appear. This is thought to be to prevent people from wanting to die in a bank to spread their name. The grave will read" The inscription is too unclear to read.")
• It is common practice to bless or repair someone else's gravestone.
• Gravestone types purchased by members can still appear in the free world, even if their subscription runs out. The timeout is also identical.
• As of 19 February 2008, Recipe for Disaster quest gloves can now be retrieved from your gravestone.
• Graves of Jagex moderators cannot be repaired or blessed.
  

  Mod Mark's grave text and text appearing when you try repair or bless a Jagex Mod's grave.
• Gravestones will not appear upon death in the Corporeal Beast's lair.
• When a player logs out, their grave stone will still be where it was before. However the gravestones timer will still keep on even while logged out.
• If the owner of the grave is logged off it will read: The inscription is too unclear to read.
• The phrase "Requiescat in pace" might be a reference to the death of Fortunato, one of the characters of the short story "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe.
• You can not take the items of the people who died even if their gravestone collapses.
• You only receive a gravestone if you are risking an item, it could be any item.
• The formula for calculating the cost of any given gravestone (excluding the memorial plaque) is as follows:

Where is the gravestone number (1 is a flag, 2 is a small gravestone, 3 is an ornate gravestone, 4 is any of the Keldagrim gravestones excluding the Angel of Death, and 5 is the Angel of Death). This formula shows that the lower priced gravestones value than the higher priced ones. However, the one minute could practically be necessary to save one's items that could very well have a greater value than the 500K that the Angel of Death costs - and of course can be used time and time again.