Vote On The Future of Treasure Hunter, MTX & RuneScape
Vote On The Future of Treasure Hunter, MTX & RuneScape
The future of RuneScape is in your hands.
We promised to make major changes to secure the long-term future of RuneScape – one where MTX is significantly reduced, integrity is back at the heart of the game, and where future success is defined by a growing community.
That journey starts here. This is part of a wider belief from us - the need to build a stronger foundation for the next era of RuneScape. Over the last few months, we’ve been rethinking how we design, fund, and evolve the game to make sure every decision supports fair, rewarding, and lasting gameplay. This vote represents the first and most major step in restoring that balance.
Through our MTX Experiments, we’re more confident than ever that dramatic, bold change is the right way forward. We now know we can strike a healthy balance of integrity-led design, serving those with less time and ensuring everything remains sustainable.
We believe in this proposal as an era-defining change for the future of the game. We want this to pass. But as we promised, our last step is to validate any decision with the community. So, just as we did for the birth of Old School, YOU will cast the deciding vote.
The Vote
From today until November 11th at 11:59pm GMT, we’re opening a public vote on our proposal for the future of RuneScape! You can find it here.
Harkening back to the birth of Old School, voting for this proposal is a simple opt in decision. If you agree with the proposal, Vote Yes. If you don’t agree, simply abstain.
If we receive 100,000 votes or more, we’ll confirm our proposal as the future direction of the game! We’ll let you know our plans for what to expect and when once the vote closes.
Any votes over 100,000 will act as a clear signal of the importance and belief the community has in these plans. As a result, we’ll increase our investment and focus on delivering stronger integrity in our Roadmap – and at no cost to our content plans!
If we don’t receive the 100,000 votes needed, the game will continue as it is today for now and we’ll need to evaluate next steps.
The Proposal
We are proposing a new future for the game led by integrity, where your achievements are based on merit, and the vast experiences within Gielinor can truly shine.
Full Removal of Treasure Hunter
Treasure Hunter will be completely removed from RuneScape - no more Paid Keys, Free Daily Keys, Quest Keys or Daily Challenge Keys. It’s gone, forever.
Removal of 225 Direct XP & Skilling Items From Sale
As part of our focus on integrity, we will also be removing 225 Direct XP and Skilling related items from sale. This means no more purchasable Direct XP, no more Proteans, no more Dummies and a whole lot more.
Not only does this represent a significant reduction in MTX offerings, but it also represents a move to an integrity-led future for RuneScape. In keeping with that, many of these items will no longer be available via gameplay either.
Should these items be removed from sale, we’ll make sure there’s an extended amnesty period where you can use up any of these items you currently own. You can find the full list in the expandable box below.
If you are one of the players who usually depends on these items, we’ve heard your feedback. While change will have an initial impact, we’ll be investing heavily in new, integrity-first content that creates more meaningful ways to play, progress and achieve your goals in healthier ways for the game.
Click here for a Full List of Items Removed From Sale
Click here for a Full List of Items Removed From Sale
| Item |
|---|
| Abandoned gorajan trailblazer skilling outfit |
| Abyssal Creature Wildcard |
| Acheron Mammoth Wildcard |
| Advanced pulse core |
| Agility skill training dummy |
| Antique chest |
| Archaeology skill training dummy |
| Arctic trapper skilling outfit |
| Artisanal gears |
| Aura refresh (4 tiers) |
| Blood ethereal skilling outfit |
| Bubbling Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Burnt shark skilling outfit |
| Cash Bag (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Celebration Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Chaotic Tomes (Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Cinder core |
| Combat training dummy |
| Corrupted Creature Wildcard |
| Crafting cleaner (Inactive) |
| Crystal Shapeshifter Wildcard |
| Death ethereal skilling outfit |
| Deathtouched dart |
| Desert camouflage skilling outfit |
| Desert trapper skilling outfit |
| Distraction & Diversion reset token (daily, monthly, weekly) |
| Divination chronicle skilling outfit |
| Divination energy skilling outfit |
| Divination memory skilling outfit |
| Divine adamantite rock |
| Divine banite rock |
| Divine bird snare |
| Divine box trap |
| Divine bronze rock |
| Divine cavefish bubble |
| Divine coal rock |
| Divine crayfish bubble |
| Divine deadfall trap |
| Divine herring bubble |
| Divine iron rock |
| Divine kebbit burrow |
| Divine lobster bubble |
| Divine magic tree |
| Divine maple tree |
| Divine mithril rock |
| Divine necrite rock |
| Divine oak tree |
| Divine orichalcite rock |
| Divine rocktail bubble |
| Divine runite rock |
| Divine salmon bubble |
| Divine shark bubble |
| Divine swordfish bubble |
| Divine tree |
| Divine trout bubble |
| Divine willow tree |
| Divine yew tree |
| Dragon trinkets |
| Dummy processor |
| Dungeoneering skill training dummy |
| Dungeoneering token box (Small, Medium, Large) |
| Dwarven chainaxe |
| Dwarven excavator |
| Dwarven fish extractor |
| Dwarven harvester |
| Dwarven ramhammer |
| Edimmu Wildcard |
| Emerald golem skilling outfit |
| Erupting Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Experience chest |
| Fixate charge token |
| Fletching cleaner (Inactive) |
| Forgotten Belongings (Small, Medium, Large) |
| Frozen gorajan trailblazer skilling outfit |
| Furnished gorajan trailblazer skilling outfit |
| Gem of aspiration |
| Gemstone Dragon Wildcard |
| Giant supreme star |
| Greater Demon Wildcard |
| Hunting skill training dummy |
| Hydra Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Imp soul in a box |
| Jungle trapper skilling outfit |
| Keldagrim camouflage skilling outfit |
| Knowledge Bomb (Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Lava Lanterns (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Lava Strykewyrm Wildcard |
| Law ethereal skilling outfit |
| Life refresh |
| Living Wyvern Wildcard |
| Loot Chest (Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Lost Grove Creature Wildcard |
| Lost keepsakes |
| Lucky abyssal whip |
| Lucky Ahrim the Blighted's equipment |
| Lucky arcane spirit shield |
| Lucky Armadyl equipment |
| Lucky Bandos equipment |
| Lucky chaotic claw |
| Lucky chaotic kiteshield |
| Lucky chaotic longsword |
| Lucky chaotic maul |
| Lucky chaotic rapier |
| Lucky chaotic spear |
| Lucky chaotic crossbow |
| Lucky Dharok the Wretched's equipment |
| Lucky divine spirit shield |
| Lucky dragon equipment |
| Lucky elysian spirit shield |
| Lucky farseer kiteshield |
| Lucky Guthan the Infested's equipment |
| Lucky Karil the Tainted's equipment |
| Lucky Robes of Subjugation |
| Lucky Saradomin Godsword |
| Lucky Saradomin sword |
| Lucky spectral spirit shield |
| Lucky Torag the Corrupted's equipment |
| Lucky Verac the Defiled's equipment |
| Lucky Zamorak Godsword |
| Lucky Zamorakian spear |
| Lumbridge beach booster |
| Luminite injector |
| Lunar shard |
| Lunar spheres |
| Magic notepaper |
| Maple sentinel skilling outfit |
| Mask of Broken Fingers |
| Mask of Crimson |
| Mask of Dust |
| Mask of Gelatin |
| Mask of Gloom |
| Mask of Granite |
| Mask of Mourning |
| Mask of Reflection |
| Mask of Stench |
| Mask of Stone |
| Mask of the Abyss |
| Mask of the Airut |
| Mask of the Aquanites |
| Mask of the Automatons |
| Mask of the Black Demon |
| Mask of the Dagannoth |
| Mask of the Ganodermic |
| Mask of the Green Wyrm |
| Mask of the Kura |
| Mask of the Troll |
| Mask of the White Wyrm |
| Mask of the Yellow Wyrm |
| Mask of Vines |
| Metallic dragon trinkets |
| Meteorite (Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Mimic kill token |
| Mystery box (Treasure Hunter) |
| Nightmare Wildcard |
| Oaken sentinel skilling outfit |
| Occult gorajan trailblazer skilling outfit |
| Oddments |
| Pestilent Gem shard |
| Phoenix Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Portable brazier |
| Portable crafter |
| Portable fletcher |
| Portable range |
| Portable sawmill |
| Portable well |
| Portable workbench |
| Prifddinas camouflage skilling outfit |
| Prismatic Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Protean bar |
| Protean chest |
| Protean cog |
| Protean essence |
| Protean hide |
| Protean logs |
| Protean memory |
| Protean plank |
| Protean powerup |
| Protean processor |
| Protean prolonger |
| Protean protein |
| Protean shake |
| Protean trap |
| Restored artefact replicator |
| Ripper Demon Wildcard |
| Ruby golem skilling outfit |
| Sapphire golem skilling outfit |
| Shadow Creature Wildcard |
| Shark skilling outfit |
| Shining Prismatic fallen stars (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Shining Prismatic lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Silverhawk feathers |
| Skilling chest |
| Slayer skill training dummy |
| Slayer VIP ticket |
| Slayer Wildcard |
| Smouldering Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Soul Devourer Wildcard |
| Soul Reaper Refresh |
| Space Dust (Small, Medium, Large, Huge) |
| Spirit diamond |
| Spirit dragonstone |
| Spirit of Battle |
| Spirit onyx |
| Spring |
| Spring cleaner |
| Stalker Creature Wildcard |
| Superior knowledge bomb |
| Supreme Stars (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Thieving skill training dummy |
| Tiger shark skilling oufit |
| Token of the lost |
| Unfinished business |
| Unstable protean bar |
| Unstable protean cog |
| Unstable protean essence |
| Unstable protean hide |
| Unstable protean logs |
| Unstable protean memory |
| Unstable protean plank |
| Unstable protean protein |
| Unstable protean shake |
| Unstable protean trap |
| Volcanic Lamps (Small, Medium, Large, Huge, Giant) |
| Wicked hood teleport token |
| Willow sentinel skilling outfit |
Year-Long Integrity Roadmap
While MTX has caused friction and frustration for many years, so have many of our legacy issues left untouched over the years. This was no more apparent than in our recent Leagues, where players both new and returning faced some of these challenges head on.
We will invest in a year-long Integrity Roadmap that addresses the heart of issues that have long held RuneScape back – from UI, to onboarding, to Dailyscape, revisiting the combat status quo and beyond. We’ll also be looking at the balance of our XP progression with a significant reduction in free and paid MTX progression options to make sure each Skill is still a satisfying experience to level up.
And here’s our promise to you. This will all be done without impacting one of the biggest and most ambitious content Roadmaps in RuneScape’s history. If the vote passes, we’ll announce this Roadmap alongside our Content Roadmap in January’s RuneScape Ahead.
Purchasable Bonus XP
For those of you who told us you rely on MTX items to fit RuneScape into your life, we will continue to offer Bonus XP in the store as the only purchasable means to support progression.
Bonus XP feeds into the healthy gameplay loops of RuneScape, requiring you to participate in the core gameplay and use items earned or acquired from other players to benefit.
To further reinforce this intent for players, there will be a per skill cap on storable Bonus XP - encouraging you to use what you have through active play and discourage stockpiling.
We believe offering Bonus XP in a limited, healthy way strikes the right balance, supporting the 54% of players that expressed a desire to retain a progression-friendly MTX option in our MTX Experiment surveys, while significantly reducing the harm to game integrity through the many items removed with these changes.
Cosmetics
We’ll continue introducing new gameplay-earnable and paid cosmetics to RuneScape, but with a few changes based on what we’ve learned in the Experiments.
We will have a firm focus on visual integrity for future cosmetics, ensuring they feel grounded and always true to the visual identity of Gielinor. This will be paired with less overt cosmetic effects that distract and clutter social areas within the game.
For those who want the purest experience, we’ll also be giving you more control over cosmetic visibility through a new cosmetic toggle options.
What Happens If It Passes
Even if we reach 100,000 votes before the poll closes, we will be confirming what comes next on November 12 2025 (the day after the poll closes).
On this day, we'll outline more details on what to expect and when. We're sure you'll have plenty of questions, so this will include an extensive FAQ covering the ramifications of change so you know exactly what to expect.
As to when this will happen, if validated, the changes will not be implemented immediately. Once we know you support this, we'll need a few months to complete our development work. We'll announce our launch date for changes on November 12.
Time To Have Your Say
This is one of the most important decisions in RuneScape's history, and it’s one we’ll make together.
If you believe in this proposal as much as we do, head on over to our Vote Page here and cast your vote to support the proposal. In just 14 days, history will be made either way.
We can’t wait to see what you think.