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29th June 2025 - Rare Items

The original circumstances behind introducing tradeable rare items was organic and will be impossible to recreate. Their perceived value in RS3 is because they’re never going to return that same way again. Limited supply, unique backstory, and a significant way to elevate your status as a player. In OSRS they were dumped en-masse and are no more than accessories for your character’s appearance.

We can’t turn back the clock to have Andrew Gower hand out Christmas crackers around the holidays, or recreate cheaters finding a way to dupe partyhats in RSC forever impacting their supply and value. We can’t make them as common as bones and we can’t make them untradeable. No matter what we do it can never be authentic enough. But we can give you something to work towards obtaining while we’re hard at work on these updates.

Over the next 4 months starting with the game update on July 12, every weekend all online players eligible will have an incredibly *rare* chance to obtain a random rare pre-RS2 item by doing any action ingame. There will a minimum playtime and level requirement.
If you are the first player to receive that rare, you’ll be recognized and get recorded in our server’s history. There will be a bounty prize pool for the first winners!


If you can’t play, maybe you can search: RS Archive really needs your help. They will offer up to $500 for unique cache submissions - check your family’s old PCs! Please do this before they bitrot or literally rot in a landfill, Jagex only has bits and pieces saved on their end. The amazing humans running that effort are unaffiliated with Lost City, we simply share the same hobby to preserve this game.

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