Graphics
- Buildings and trees now show all the way to the horizon. Turn on the HD world setting to download them.
- The Full detail and Middle detail settings choose how far around you the world shows in full and in a simpler form.
- The minimap shows the ground around you again, and the world map opens from the Map of Gielinor.
- The world map now shows every player, monster and item on the ground across the world. The P, N and I buttons hide or show each, and pointing at a dot shows its name.
- Windmill sails and other moving scenery now move out to the edge of full detail, where they stood still past 25 tiles.
- Overhead chat always uses one font, where it changed with distance.
- After a teleport the area around you appears about three times faster, and a place you just left shows at once when you go back.
- With Roofs set to Hide none, a roof seen from inside its building now shows whole, where only strips of it showed.
- Ceilings inside buildings are closed again, each in the floor of the building's middle.
- With Roofs set to Hide local or Hide all, people and items on the hidden floors no longer show. Someone fighting up there shows faded.
- The floors above you now hide as soon as you log in, where they stayed until your first step.
- In HD, the graphics card now poses players and monsters, leaving the game more time in crowds.
- The game no longer freezes when you arrive at the Chambers of Xeric.
- Doors, chests and passages inside raids answer your clicks again.
Combat
- A hit can now deal more than 2,147,483,647 damage, where it stopped at that number before.
- Monsters and players can now have more than 2,147,483,647 health.
- 17 special attacks have had their energy, accuracy and damage updated. For example, Cleave now deals 25% more damage, and Sever turns off protection prayers for 8 ticks.
- The granite maul with the ornate handle and the magic shortbow (i) now use 50% special attack energy.
Drops
- The Ring of wealth now raises your chance of a gem or a rare item from the gem and rare drop tables.
- 60 monsters now roll part of their drops two or more times on each kill. For example, the Dark Beast rolls part of its drops twice.
- Revenants, superior Slayer monsters, Scurrius and Yama now drop from their full table, where they dropped only a few items before.
- Pickpocketing with extra loot now works with one free slot, where it said your inventory was full.
Farming
- Trees, fruit trees and hardwood trees now grow from saplings in place of seeds. Fill a plant pot with soil at an empty patch, plant your seed in it and water the seedling. It becomes a sapling at the next growth cycle, also in your bank or while you are logged out.
- The stump of a tree you grew now grows back into a full tree, where it stayed a stump before.
- A full inventory no longer shows its message twice when you chop a tree you grew.
- Allotments, hops and celastrus trees now give more crops from each patch, and more as your Farming level rises.
- A flower patch now gives one flower, where it gave three or more. Limpwurt and belladonna give more as your Farming level rises, and mushrooms give six.
- Using a rake, seeds or another item on a patch now walks you to it before you start.
Cooking
- Dairy churns now turn milk into cheese, pats of butter and pots of cream.
- 20 ales and ciders now raise and lower your skills when you drink them, in a glass or from a keg. For example, Asgarnian ale raises your Strength and lowers your Attack.
- Cooking messages now read "some shrimps" in place of "a shrimps".
- You can now brew ales and cider in the fermenting vats of Keldagrim and Port Phasmatys. Fill the vat, add ale yeast, and drain the finished brew into the barrel to fill your glasses and kegs.
- Food cooked in the Hosidius kitchen now burns less often.
Smithing
- The Ring of forging now melts after 140 iron bars, where it never lost a charge before.
- You can now use the dragon forge, the Lovakite furnace, the polishing wheel and the singing bowls. For example, a crystal armour seed and 50 crystal shards make a crystal helm at a singing bowl.
- The singing bowls now answer their Sing-crystal option.
Magic
- You can now cast Plank Make and Humidify from the Lunar spellbook.
- You can now cast Magic Imbue. For 12 seconds you can craft combination runes by using the other rune on the altar, with no talisman.
- Superheat Item now works on every ore that makes a bar, such as blurite, lovakite and lead.
Prayer
- You can now offer prepared guppies, cavefish, tetras and catfish at the altar in the Ruins of Camdozaal.
Runecraft
- You can now craft astral, blood, soul and wrath runes at their altars.
- The Dark Altar now turns dense essence blocks into dark essence blocks.
- You can now craft combination runes. Use a talisman on the altar with essence and runes in your pack, and wear a binding necklace to stop the essence from failing.
- A binding necklace now lasts for 16 crafts of combination runes, then crumbles.
Fishing
- Lubufu now reminds you to bait an empty karambwan vessel when you use it on a karambwan spot.
Slayer
- A Slayer master now cancels a task that is too hard for you when you ask, where the task stayed before.
Travel
- Saniboch now also takes 8,750,000 coins once, and the Brimhaven Dungeon door then stays open to you for good.
- Eluned now also takes 7,500,000 coins once, and then re-enchants your teleport crystal for free.
- Each paid ship route now also takes 300,000 coins once, and that route is then free for you.
- The Al Kharid gate guards now also take 100,000 coins once, and the gate is then free for you.
- Party Pete now also takes 100,000,000 coins once, and his rides to the party room are then free during drop parties.
- Each party room event can now also be bought once for 10,000 times its price, and you then start it for free.
- You can now hold a monkey greegree, and with it go through the monkey hole on Ape Atoll.
World
- Over 140 doors, gates and fences now open, such as the large doors inside Lumbridge castle.
Website
- Every page of the website has a new look, with the menu across the top and each page laid out in one grid.
- Point at an item or a monster to see its card. An item's card shows its stats, bonuses, attacks, price and the monsters that drop it, and a monster's card shows its combat stats and drops.
- Keep the pointer on a name inside a card for five seconds to open that name's card.
- The hiscores show the skills beside the table. Buttons choose players, bots or both, and two boxes find a rank or a name.
- While you are logged in, your name at the top of every page opens your account pages and Log out.
- Skill pages and the hiscores show detailed skill icons.
- Skill pages no longer list each skill cape twice.
- Attack styles read Chop, Slash and Smash, where two-handed swords read "Handed sword chop".
- The Play safely guide opens from the guides page again.