Hunter is one of the more unique skills in Old School RuneScape. Instead of gathering resources from rocks, trees, or fishing spots, Hunter involves tracking and catching creatures using traps, bird snares, box traps, and other specialized methods.
Training can feel slow at first, but the skill becomes significantly faster as you unlock better creatures and training methods.
Hunter also unlocks useful rewards and several profitable activities at higher levels.
This guide walks you step by step from level 1 all the way to 99 Hunter using efficient training methods.
Fast experience at higher levels
Hunter becomes considerably faster once you unlock stronger training methods.
Useful account unlocks
Hunter provides access to creatures, equipment, resources, and activities used throughout OSRS.
Money-making potential
Some Hunter methods can provide valuable resources while you train.
Different training styles
You can choose between active high-XP methods and more relaxed alternatives depending on how you prefer to play.
Method: Bird Snares
Start your Hunter journey by catching Crimson swifts.
You'll need a bird snare, which can be purchased from Hunter shops.
Place the snare near the birds and wait for one to interact with it.
Why this works
-Cheap equipment
-Simple...
Slayer is one of the most important combat skills in Old School RuneScape. Instead of training against the same monsters repeatedly, Slayer sends you around the world to defeat different creatures assigned by Slayer masters.
It is also one of the slower skills to reach 99.
The upside is that Slayer trains your combat stats at the same time and eventually unlocks powerful monsters, bosses, and valuable money-making opportunities.
This guide walks you step by step from level 1 all the way to 99 Slayer using efficient training methods.
Train multiple skills at once
Slayer allows you to train Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic, Hitpoints, and Slayer simultaneously depending on your combat style.
Unlock profitable monsters
Higher Slayer levels give you access to monsters with increasingly valuable drop tables.
Unlock Slayer bosses
Slayer eventually gives you access to several bosses and boss variants.
Great for account progression
Instead of training combat separately, Slayer allows you to build your combat stats while progressing toward 99.
At the beginning, your priority should simply be completing tasks quickly.
Use an appropriate Slayer master for your combat level and complete the monsters you're assigned.
Early Slayer masters include:
-Turael
-Mazchna
-Vannaka
Your tasks...
Ranged is one of those skills that almost every OSRS player ends up training sooner or later.
Maybe you want to kill bosses faster.
Maybe you're working toward a Fire Cape.
Maybe you're preparing for raids.
Or maybe you're simply tired of watching your friends hit huge numbers while you're still shooting arrows that feel like wet noodles.
Whatever the reason, getting 99 Ranged is one of the most rewarding upgrades you can make to your account.
The problem is that the journey isn't always fun.
Many players start training Ranged, get a few levels, then burn out after realizing just how many hours still remain.
The good news is that there are faster methods than most players realize.
Unlike some skills that mostly exist for achievement diaries or maxing, Ranged impacts a huge amount of content.
A high Ranged level helps with:
• Slayer
• Bossing
• Raids
• Fire Cape
• Inferno
• Colosseum
• Money making
You'll notice the difference almost immediately once your levels start climbing.
Higher accuracy means faster kills.
Faster kills mean more GP.
More GP means better gear.
Everything starts snowballing.
Most players become obsessed with saving GP.
While that's understandable, it often slows down progress dramatically.
Many people spend dozens of extra hours training with slower...
If you've tried visiting PieGP recently, you've probably noticed that the website appears to be offline.
At the time of writing, there hasn't been any official statement explaining exactly what's going on. Because of that, it's impossible to know whether this is a temporary issue, maintenance, or something more long-term.
Like many players, we're simply waiting for more information.
PieGP has been around for years and became a familiar name to many players who buy and sell RuneScape gold.
As another long-running business in the OSRS space, we know firsthand that running a website isn't always easy. Technical issues happen, unexpected problems come up, and sometimes things don't go according to plan.
That's why it's never nice to see a community website become unavailable.
Many long-time RuneScape players will remember other well-known names that disappeared or changed over the years, including Bogla, Alch.com, and Arcus. Alch.com was previously known as Bogla before rebranding. Every time something like this happens, it's a reminder of how much work goes into keeping a business running year after year.
Behind every website are real people who have spent countless hours building something for the community.
If you're currently waiting on an order or looking for updates, your best option...
OSRS bonds are one of the safest ways to buy GP in Old School RuneScape. But are they actually worth the price?
That’s where a lot of players start questioning things.
Bonds are fully supported by Jagex, completely legal, and impossible to get banned for using properly. The problem is the value you get for your money is honestly pretty bad compared to how expensive bonds have become.
For newer players, bonds can feel amazing at first. You instantly skip early grinding and can afford decent gear, supplies, quest items, and skilling materials. But once you start getting into higher-level PvM or expensive setups, bond prices start feeling brutal very quickly.
In this guide, we’ll break down how OSRS bonds work, how much they cost, why players buy them, why some players buy gold instead, and the risks involved with both options.
OSRS bonds are items sold directly by Jagex for real money. Players can redeem them for membership or sell them on the Grand Exchange for GP.
Each bond gives 14 days of membership when redeemed, but a lot of players buy them specifically to convert into gold.
This is basically Jagex’s official system for buying GP legally. Instead of risking account bans through third-party sites, players can safely purchase bonds and sell them for gold in-game.
That safety is the main reason bonds remain popular...
Strength is one of the most important combat skills in Old School RuneScape. Increasing your Strength level raises your maximum melee hit, allowing you to deal more damage and defeat enemies faster.
For most melee-focused accounts, Strength is worth prioritizing because higher damage can improve both combat XP rates and PvM efficiency.
This guide walks you step by step from level 1 all the way to 99 Strength using efficient training methods.
Higher max hits
Increasing Strength allows your melee attacks to deal more damage.
Faster combat training
Higher damage generally means faster kills and better combat XP rates.
Important for PvM
Strength is useful throughout Slayer, bossing, raids, and general melee combat.
Useful for PvP
Many PvP account builds prioritize Strength because of its effect on maximum hits.
Method: Low-Level Monsters
Start by training against easy enemies with low Defence and Hitpoints.
Good options include:
-Chickens
-Cows
-Goblins
-Monks
Use the best Strength-training weapon available for your Attack level.
At these levels, progression is extremely fast, so there is little reason to spend much time optimizing your setup.
Method: Low-Defence Monsters
Good options include:...
Breaking through doors, taking money from innocent NPCs, and stealing cakes from stalls, what more could you want from a skill? Released in May of 2002, Thieving has become a popular choice for members in Old School Runescape, and a relatively quick 99. Put on your masks and get ready to thieve, as we go through not only the fastest way to 99 thieving, but also the most profitable! Feel free to rotate through the methods in this OSRS Thieving Guide, especially towards the later levels.
Quests
Before we get into the OSRS thieving guide, we'd like to mention the importance of questing. The early levels of thieving can be quite tedious and click intensive, so we suggest completing a few quests that provide a decent amount of thieving experience to zoom through the early stages. Here's the list of all OSRS quests that provide thieving experience.
Useful Equipment
To help you along your Thieving journey, here's a few items we strongly recommend, as they provide exceptional benefits.
Dodgy Necklace 
This enchanted opal necklace, while equipped, gives you a 25% chance of not being stunned and damaged while pickpocketing any NPC. This helps you tremendously while pickpocketing and...
Whether you're trying to make the highest-level jewelry, or take advantage of the skill cape, crafting is near the top of the list of skills to max. Released in May of 2001, crafting follows a "choose your own adventure" kind of method, where you could either achieve 99 extremely quick, for a hefty price tag, take it slower for a much lesser price, or even something in the middle. Get your crafting hat on as we go through the ways you can get to 99 crafting in Old School Runescape.
Quests
Before we get into specific levelling techniques for our OSRS Crafting Guide, we should mention some of our favorite quests that give a considerable amount of crafting experience, so you can zoom through those early levelling stages. Here's a list of a few quests that give crafting experience. Note that the following quests are quests which we deem to be quite helpful for your whole Runescape journey. For a full list of quests that provide Crafting Experience, look below.
Dwarf Cannon - 750 Crafting Experience 
Ask any Runescape ranged expert, a cannon is their best friend. To get a cannon, you'll need to complete no other than the Dwarf Cannon quest itself. Doing so, you'll even get some quick crafting experience along the way, that'll surely boost you through some early levels! For...
Farming, released in July of 2005, is one of those passive, but rewarding skills to train. Just investing a small section of your time into it can produce massive results, which is why it's worth it. However, with its somewhat complex structure, it can be quite intimidating to know what to do, which is why some players choose not to farm. But we've got good news! In this OSRS Farming guide, we've compiled the best methods to get 99 farming, and there's sure to be something to suit you!
Quests
We can't stress this enough - quests are so important for farming! Being a slow and progressive skill, being able to skip a few early levels would save you hours of pointless low-level farming! Here's a list of all the quests in OSRS which provide farming experience.
Useful Equipment
To make your Farming journey more efficient and enjoyable, here's a list of the equipment we heavily recommend you get.
Magic Secateurs 
Magic Secateurs are one of the most important tools in farming (if you plan to farm herbs, allotments, grape vines and hops). They increase the crop yield of specific plants by 10%, which adds up in the long run. To get them, you need to kill Tanglefoot in...
Released in March of 2004, Runecrafting is easily one of the most profitable skills in the game, which is the reason why thousands of players take on the challenge to make exceptional amounts of gold. However, the deterrent factor of Runecrafting is its slowness, repetitiveness and tediousness. Embarking on this challenge will require quite a lot of determination, but it's all worth it in the end. Get ready for a long journey, as in this OSRS Runecraft guide, we go through not only the fastest ways to 99, but also the most profitable.
Quests
Just before we jump into our OSRS Runecrafting guide, we recommend a few quests for you to complete that provide Runecrafting. Any skill, especially Runecrafting with its slow early levels, can be easily zoomed through via questing. Here's the full list of quests in OSRS that provide Runecrafting experience.
Useful Equipment
To make your Runecrafting journey a little easier, we recommend getting the following items.
Graceful Outfit 
Since you'll be running constantly throughout your Runecrafting journey, the graceful outfit will help you tremendously. In its most basic form, the graceful outfit, once worn, provides a weight...
Let's be honest - we all need OSRS Gold. Whether you're out for that twisted bow, or even a dragon scimitar, a few extra GP wouldn't be that bad. However, with a game like Runescape, and the plethora of things to do, finding a viable money-making method can be quite intimidating. Luckily, at PartyPeteShop, we've brought you our favorite consistent, relatively low-medium level money makers for Runescape. Try them all and find which one works for you!
Killing Ankous - 140k/h
Requirements: Combat stats to kill multiple level 75s.
Ask any slayer expert, Ankous are absolutely amazing money and exp for such an easy monster. For this Runescape money making method, you'll simply need some extremely basic combat equipment to kill these level 75s (trust me - they're really weak!), and some food. Quick tip -since Ankous are weak to melee, we suggest bringing melee equipment.
Once you've got everything, it's time to head to Barbarian Village. More specifically, you'll need to go down to the Stronghold of Security, using the hole as shown on the map. Navigating through the mazes of each level, you'll find yourself on the bottom floor, the “Sepulchre of Death†floor. And as shown...
Starting Old School RuneScape for the first time can honestly feel overwhelming.
There are hundreds of quests, skills, bosses, items, and money makers to learn. Unlike most modern games, OSRS does not really hold your hand or tell you exactly what to do next.
That freedom is part of what makes the game so fun, but it can also confuse newer players.
If you’re starting OSRS in 2026, this guide will help you avoid common beginner mistakes and show you the best way to progress your account early on.
Even after all these years, Old School RuneScape continues to attract massive numbers of players every day.
One reason is because no two accounts progress the exact same way.
Some players focus on:
- PvM and bossing
- Skilling
- Questing
- Flipping
- Raids
- PvP
- Collection logs
- Ironman mode
OSRS gives players a huge amount of freedom compared to many other MMORPGs.
That’s one reason people keep coming back to it year after year.
One of the biggest mistakes newer players make is ignoring quests.
Quests unlock huge parts of the game and save countless hours of grinding later on.
Some early quests worth focusing on include:
- Waterfall Quest
- Witch’s House
- Fight Arena
- Tree Gnome Village
- The Grand Tree
- Priest in Peril
Many quests provide massive XP...
