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"World" redirects here. For the fictional world in which RuneScape is set, see Gielinor; for the other worlds and planes of existence shown in the RuneScape game but separate from Gielinor itself, see Category:Worlds.

Not to be confused with Servant.

The complete list of RuneScape German servers

The complete list of RuneScape French servers

The complete list of RuneScape Brazilian servers.

The complete list of RuneScape Spanish servers

The Servers are the computers that host RuneScape. Servers are maintained by Jagex and by contractors retained by Jagex. They are distributed across the real world. There are several types of servers used in RuneScape.

The first server players will meet is the web server, which runs the main RuneScape website. It is unknown how many individual computers manage the site and as to whether the Grand Exchange Database, RuneScape Forums and Hiscores are all on this server. It is probable that the Grand Exchange and Hiscores databases both interface this server.
After selecting the 'Click Here to Play' button on the home page, the game first does a loading process which includes connecting to the Download server. In this proccess, the game client and all of its updates are downloaded and stored partially on the player's hard drive and partially in memory.
The optimal World server for the player is selected upon loading the game, although players may select another server to connect to if they wish. Each world allows 2000 players to be connected at once. There are currently 139 worlds (three are German-speaking, two are French-speaking, four are Portuguese-speaking and one is Quick Chat only), but more are routinely added. The optimal server selected is measured based on three factors: latency, language, and physical distance.
The player is connected to the Login server when the loading process is completed and a world server is selected. Because all servers are seperate, a single Login server is necessary in order to keep player data (player names, emails, passwords, inventory, etc) on every world.
After logging in, the Friends list and Ignore list are loaded after connecting to the Friends server.
Clan Chat is run via it's own server
The RuneScape Forums have their own servers, which are accessible even when the game servers are down.

List of serversEdit

This is the list of servers as of 14 December 2012, including Jagex-defined world themes, P2P/F2P status and whether or not lootshare is enabled on that world.

List of servers
Number	Members	Location, Activity or Language	Lootshare
1		Trade - Members
2		Trade - Members
3		Trade - Free
4		Canada
5		Norway
6		Barbarian Assault
7		Dungeoneering
8		Clan Recruitment
9		Falador Party Room
10		Netherlands
11		UK
12		New Zealand
13		United States (West Coast)
14		United States (West Coast)
15		Barrows
16		Bonfires
17		United States (West Coast)
18		Organised Player Killing
19		Netherlands
20		Minigames - Free
21		United States (West Coast)
22		Community Fishing Training
23		UK
24		Castle Wars
25		Mobilising Armies (20)
26		Europe
27		Social Slayer
28		Poland
29		Bonfires
30		United States (West Coast)
31		Open Gilded Altars
32		Dungeoneering: Levels 1-80
33		Organised Player Killing
34		United States (West Coast)
35		Fight Pits
36		RC Running & ZMI Altar
37		United States (West Coast)
38		Runespan
39		Runespan
40		Duel Arena - Friendly
41		Role-Playing Server
42		Role-Playing Server
43		Canada
44		Soul Wars
45		Stealing Creation
46		Community Agility Training
47		Português
48		United States (East Coast)
49		Australia
50		Australia
51		Vinesweeper
52		Castle Wars
53		Pest Control & Conquest
54		Duel Arena - Staked
55		Français
56		Belgium
57		Player Assist/Lend (GE)
58		Blast Furnace
59		Castle Wars
60		Penguin Hide & Seek
61		Duel Arena
62		Stealing Creation
63		Canada
64		Lithuania
65		United States (West Coast)
66		Great Orb Project
67		Denmark
68		Group Bossing
69		Pest Control & Conquest
70		Artisan's Workshop
71		Lava Flow Mine & Penguin Hide & Seek
72		Canada
73		Player Assist/Lend (GE)
74		Clan Wars
75		Português
76		Mobilising Armies (4)
77		Dungeoneering: Levels 100-120
78		Mexico
79		Soul Wars
80		Clan Wars
81		Fist of Guthix
82		Clan Recruitment
83		Community Smithing Training
84		Living Rock Caverns
85		United States (West Coast)
86		Skill Total (1500)
87		Canada
88		Shades of Mort'ton
89		Fish Flingers
91		Mage Training Arena
92		Fist of Guthix
94		Português
96		Quick Chat
97		Community Fishing Training
98		United States (East Coast)
99		Community Cooking Training
100		Group Questing
101		Português
102		Deutsch
103		United States (East Coast)
104		Trouble Brewing
105		Finland
106		Europe
108		Australia
114		Skill Total (1500)
115		House party
116		Fishing Trawler
117		Dungeoneering: Levels 80-120
118		Français
119		Sweden
120		Europe
121		Deutsch
122		Deutsch
123		Netherlands
124		Livid Farm
134		Europe
135		Europe
136		Falador Party Room
137		High-risk Wilderness Worlds
138		Rat Pits
139		UK

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 Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands.

* The Brazilian servers are located in United States.

On 2nd November 2011 four new Europe Free Servers were added and several worlds were removed or re-numbered.

Isolation of worlds Edit

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. A delay of 30 seconds is in place between logging out of one and logging into another world.

For the most part, events that occur in one world will not affect any other RuneScape world. For example, character/item respawns and ore 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. The "Strange Power" event which occurred on the 23rd of January 2010 was experienced across worlds.

World switchingEdit

Main article: World switching

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 commonly known as world hopping. Players change worlds rapidly in order to take advantage of situations that expire and recur on different worlds. These can include the spawning of rare resources such as runite ore, 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, logs, ores (etc.) for themselves; however, there is a slower respawn time for many objects on less populated worlds - this includes both rocks and trees.

Persistence of character state Edit

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, his/her statistics will be restored to the normal level.

Themed worldsEdit

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. There are some exceptions to this: LootShare and High Risk Wilderness are 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.

All themed worlds display the flag instead of the country flag in the world select menu.

Players who are logged into the Combat beta will have a flag displayed next to the world number they are logged into.

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 member's worlds.

TradeEdit

Worlds where players gather in the large cities (such as, Falador, Varrock or Seers Village) to trade items.

Rune runningEdit

Worlds where players can run runes for money or craft runes to raise their Runecrafting skill.

High Risk WildernessEdit

Main article: High Risk Wilderness World

The World (currently 137) where players can kill each other in the Wilderness where the Protect item prayer and curse are disabled.

Role-playingEdit

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 questingEdit

These worlds are where players gather together and do quests. They are popular for players looking for a partner for either Shield of Arrav or Heroes' Quest.

Party roomEdit

The official party room world for free-to-play is world 136, and the official world for members is world 9.

Skill totalEdit

Only members with a certain total level can log on to these servers. Besides the total level requirement, there are no further limitations. Both of these were originally limited to players with a total level of at least 1000, but the March 2010 update increased the requirement. Skill total (1000) and (1500) worlds are on some occasions called "anti-noob" worlds. With a February 2013 update, worlds 30 and 48 were set up as skill total (2000) and (2400) worlds.

Player defined world themesEdit

Certain worlds have acquired themes defined by the player-base designated for particular activities. This is usually to socialise with similar players who share interests or to participate in events which require many people, such as minigames or parties. These worlds are:

World	Free/Members	Location	Activity
1	Members	Lumbridge castle Daemonheim Anywhere	Trade Dungeoneering Clan-Owned Cities
2	Members	Mort'ton Daemonheim Grand Exchange (Varrock) Anywhere Edgeville	Temple repair Dungeoneering Trade Clan-owned cities Player Killing
3	Free	Lumbridge Castle Wilderness Varrock Grand-Exchange	Socializing Trade Player Killing
6	Members	Low level wilderness Grand Exchange (Varrock)	Player Killing Socializing
18	Members	Wilderness (Mostly low level)	Player killing
22	Members	Gunnarsgrunn	Fishing training
25	Members	Recognised 'Antihost' GE world	GE Socialising Bonfires
31	Members	1. Yanille house portal 2. Rimmington house portal	1.Prayer training at gilded altars (hosts lighting burners as well) 2. Socializing
39	Members	Wizards' Tower	Runespan
46	Members	Ape Atoll and Gnome	Agility training
56	Members	Tai Bwo Wannai	Cleanup
60	Members	Distractions and Diversions locations	Penguin Hide and Seek Shooting Star Familiarization Evil Tree
64	Members	Sophanem	Pyramid Plunder
66	Members	Falador	Riot World
71	Members	Lava Flow Mine	Mining
77	Members	Living Rock Caverns	Mining, Fishing, & Slayer training
78	Members	King Black Dragon	King Black Dragon slaying
83	Members	Edgeville furnace	Smelting & Crafting
84	Members	Living Rock Caverns	Mining, Fishing, & Slayer training
88	Members	Piscatoris Fishing Colony Grand Exchange (Varrock)	Monkfish fishing Anti-Gambling
91	Members	Al Kharid Catherby Farming patch Grand Exchange (Varrock)	Tanning guild Farming guild Anti-Gambling
97	Members	Enchanted Valley Catherby	Socialising Lobster/shark fishing
99	Members	Rogue's Den	Thieving & Cooking training
100	Members	Shantay Pass	Firemaking (Bonfires) & Cooking Training
116	Members	Otto's Grotto	Heavy rod fishing
131	Members	Mort'ton	Temple repair
132	Members	Yanille Bank	Fletching guild & Alchemy guild

CitadelEdit

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.

Technical issuesEdit

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. (This rollback is different from an edit rollback or revert.)

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.

Jagex warning players for maintenance

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.

Recent events Edit

Main article: server blackout

In mid-April 2008, Jagex moved all eight servers from Eastern Canada to the United States.
On 23 April 2008, World 36 had a glitch where non-members were allowed to enter the world, but could only access free-to-play actions.
On Friday, 13 June 2008, all of the servers experienced downtime due to problems with one of the game's internet service providers, Telstra.
On 10 August 2008 all of the servers crashed multiple times during the day. The crashes lasted a few minutes but went down again soon after. The servers then completely went offline for the rest of that day.
On 15 October 2008, World 150 was added as the sixth German world with the introduction of PvP worlds.
On Thursday, 23 October 2008, an error with the login servers showed up. At 19.15 GMT all servers were down. The RuneScape Forums went offline as well.
With the release of the 150th quest a server blackout happened. The blackout lasted for about 50 minutes.
On 10 December 2008, World 150 moved from a German world to a French world.
On 2 July 2009, all the Australian and New Zealand servers went down. Players were logged out and when attempting to log back in, they were given the message that "Their account has not logged out from their last session"
On 16 July 2009, multiple servers were offline for a large amount of time. Jagex Mod Gibson stated, "We have pinpointed the world crashes to a problem with one of our servers in America."
On 16 July 2009, 41 worlds went offline. Some of the worlds affected were:1, 2, 4, 5, 7-9, 13-14, 17, 19, 21-22, 26-32, 37, 42, 47-48, 56, 62, 64, 70, 72, 100, 113. Jagex had the issue under control, although a few worlds remained offline for a while.
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 18 February 2010 some worlds went offline.
On 3 March 2010, accompanying the log in interface update, all flags marking countries turned to the Flag of the United States.
On 3 March 2010, world 114 was changed from being a skill total 1000 world to a skill total 1500 world, causing some upset for those newly excluded.
On 14 April 2010, all of the worlds, including RuneScape Classic, were down.
On 14 July 2010, world 31 went offline.
On 22 July 2010, nobody was able to join a clan chat, browse the forums, and add people to their friend's list or ignore list. Later on, the forums were back online and a few worlds were fixed while the rest of them still had no access to clan chat, the friend's list, and the ignore list.
On or before 26 August 2010, Worlds 170 and 171 are either removed or no longer visible.
On 9 October 2010, few Canadian servers went offline.
On 26 October 2010, many people experienced server disconnection issues. Some servers which may have been affected were: 21, 24, 32, 36, 39, 44, 46, 52, 54, 56, 58 (unconfirmed), 60, 64, 71, 77, 79, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 103, 114, 119, 124, 131, 137, 143, 148, 151, 157, 166
At the same time, half of the Australian worlds (107, 109, 110, 111) were either removed or became no longer visible. These worlds are still inaccessible as of 28 September.
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 a P2P world was added to Runescape
On 15 May 2011, world 143 went offline for a few hours.
On 9 August 2011, all Runescape servers were forcibly shut down due to memory issues. This may be related to the new Grand Exchange.
On 29 August 2011, worlds 6, 9, 18, 22, 27, 29, 31, 33, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 70, 76, 77, 78, 79, 89, 91, 97, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 114, 115, 116, 129, 130, 131, 132, 141, 143, 145, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164 went offline. The reason behind this is uncertain.
On 20 June 2012, ALL worlds went offline for estimated 15 minutes. The reason behind this is unknown, because Jagex stated that maintainence would be happening on the 21st (stated here ).
On 1 July 2012, the world servers suffered a blackout.
On 28 November 2012, a scheduled maintenance was due to be performed between 6:00AM and 6:45AM GMT.
On April 4th 2013, Several worlds experienced blackouts, including, but not limited to; World 16, 23, 24, 25, 67, and 83.

TriviaEdit

The second world was added on 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.
After the removal of the Unstable Foundations tutorial, all new players used to spawn in Explorer Jack's hut in World 34. With the release of the Troll Warzone tutorial, they no longer do.
Because they are other-language servers, worlds 47, 55, 75, 94, 101, 102, 118, 121, and 122 do not exist on the English server list. (as of 09:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC))
While some worlds will appear as "FULL" in the Lobby menu, a player can still access these worlds by adding them as a favourite world (by clicking the heart shape beside the world number) and then clicking it in their favourites list. This is particularly useful when trying to get on a server with quick respawn times. It is unconfirmed whether this is a glitch or not.
That was later fixed when the queue system was added in 2011. Players that attempt to join a full world will now be placed in a queue which you can see your place in in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. You are able to talk in your clan chat or private message from the lobby while in a queue. Once you reach the place of 1 you will be logged into that world.
It is noted that most riots take place in World 66.
Some years ago, you could see where the server was located, which was useful to find out or you would have a good connection with it. This was before the Ping was added to the list (the RuneScape servers previously blocked ping requests).
Jagex has stated that servers for the Caribbean region will be added in 2011 or 2012. These are set to be world 171 for Members which will be located in the island of Trinidad, and World 170 for Free to play, which will be located in the Dominican Republic.
World 200 to 275 are used for the combat beta update.
There was a bug with all words above (and not including) 200, where they would be displayed on the Game Bar friends list as 'Unknown World'. In addition to this, if a player viewed their own Adventurer Log and a player on their friends list is on a world above 200, none of the people in the friends list item would have their online status displayed beside their name. This bug has been fixed
There was a little known bug in the lobby, that you were able to multi-log (twice) on the same account at the same time the bug was corrected in October 2012, the patch note did not mention the bug.

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