Quests
Yellow indicates that the quest has been started but not yet finished.
Green indicates that the quest has been completed.
MQ: indicates that it is a miniquest.
Quests are groups of interrelated tasks, usually involving a story line, that can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours or even a few days to complete.
The starting locations for all quests are labelled with a blue compass icon 
on the minimap, and completing them can provide rewards ranging from experience and items, to access to new areas, minigames and miniquests.
As of 25 September 2024, there are a total of 169 quests in Old School RuneScape with 22 free and 147 member-only quests. The first quest was Cook's Assistant and the most recently added quest is The Heart of Darkness. A total of 319 Quest points are rewarded for the completion of all quests, including 44 quest points from quests available to free players. Players who have obtained the maximum number of quest points are entitled to purchase and wear the quest point cape.
The Quest journal on the interface has the complete list of quests. Each quest's name is colour coded:
Skill requirements
All quests
| Levels required by Ironmen | ||
|---|---|---|
 50
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 50
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 72
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 60
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 70
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 70
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 65
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 70
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 65
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 60
|
 72
|
 70
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 50
|
 70
|
 75
|
 75
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 60
|
 71
|
 60
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 69
|
 70
|
 70
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 70
|
200
|
 85
| ||
| Minimum levels could be the same | ||
| Levels required to complete every quest | ||
|---|---|---|
| 50
|
50
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72
|
| 60
|
70
|
70
|
| 65
|
70
|
62
|
| 60
|
72
|
70
|
| 50
|
70
|
75
|
| 75
|
60
|
71
|
| 60
|
69
|
70
|
| 70
|
70
|
200
|
| 85
| ||
| Temporary boosts may be used in some quests | ||
The quests requiring the highest skill level are:
- Agility - Song of the Elves
- Attack - Sins of the Father
- Construction - Song of the Elves
- Cooking - Freeing King Awowogei (Recipe for Disaster subquest)
- Crafting - Monkey Madness II
- Defence - King's Ransom
- Farming - Song of the Elves
- Firemaking - Desert Treasure II
- Fishing - Swan Song, Tai Bwo Wannai Trio for ironmen if the karambwan is burnt
- Fletching - Sins of the Father
- Herblore - Song of the Elves
- Hitpoints - Dragon Slayer II
- Hunter - Song of the Elves
- Magic - Dragon Slayer II, Desert Treasure II
- Mining - Making Friends with My Arm
- Prayer - The Great Brain Robbery
- Ranged - Mourning's End Part I
- Runecraft - Desert Treasure II
- Slayer - Monkey Madness II
- Smithing - Dragon Slayer II
- Strength - The Path of Glouphrie
- Thieving - While Guthix Sleeps
- Woodcutting - Grim Tales
- Combat - Dream Mentor
- Quest points - Dragon Slayer II
Free-to-play
| Levels required by Ironmen | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1
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10
|
15
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| 1
|
1
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34
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| 1
|
1
|
1
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| 1
|
1
|
10
|
| 1
|
8
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
32
|
| 3
| ||
| Temporary boosts may be used in some quests | ||
| Levels required to complete every quest | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1
|
10
|
10
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
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| 1
|
1
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
|
| 1
|
1
|
1
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| 1
|
1
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1
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| 1
|
1
|
32
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| 3
| ||
| Temporary boosts may be used in some quests | ||
The quests requiring the highest skill level are:
- Attack - None
- Cooking - The Knight's Sword for Ironmen
- Crafting - Dragon Slayer I for Ironmen
- Defence - None
- Firemaking - None
- Fishing - None
- Hitpoints - None
- Magic - None
- Mining - The Knight's Sword, Doric's Quest for Ironmen
- Prayer - None
- Ranged - None
- Runecraft - None
- Smithing - Dragon Slayer I for Ironmen
- Strength - None
- Woodcutting - None
- Combat - None
- Quest points - Dragon Slayer I
List of quests
Types of quests
| Quest Complete! | |
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The most common quest complete music
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| File:Quest Completed (1).ogg | |
| Quest Complete! | |
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A less common quest complete music
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| File:Quest Completed (2).ogg | |
| Quest Complete! | |
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A rather uncommon quest complete music
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| File:Quest Completed (3).ogg | |
Quest series
Many Old School RuneScape quests are a part of a series of quests that share a common plot-line.
Progress in a quest series is made in a linear fashion, with each quest requiring the completion of the previous one. There are, however, a few exceptions to this progression, and are found usually when a quest is involved in multiple plot-lines.
The majority of the quest series are based out of a specific area, and their completion is often needed to access either more of that area or specific features within it. For example, West Ardougne as a whole is inaccessible unless at least some progress is made in the Elf series of quests.
Subquests
A subquest is a part of another quest, which upon completion gives additional rewards as well as quest point(s). Subquests may take less time and require fewer items, although they may have additional skill or quest requirements.
- Recipe for Disaster has ten subquests (one for the recipe, one for each member of the Lumbridge council, and the final one for the Culinaromancer boss fight).
Miniquests
Miniquests are smaller pieces of story and skill content that are not required for the quest point cape, but still tell stories similar to quests. Most miniquests are smaller in scale and shorter than a normal quest, but may have requirements stretching higher than normal quests or none at all. Many are connected to existing pieces of content or used to tie up loose ends from quests.