2002

In 2002, grew tremendously, and started to gain popularity.

January

 * 4 January - Servers 5 and 6 online.

February

 * 27 February - RuneScape membership was released along with the new skill Herblaw and 5 new quests: Druidic Ritual, Lost City, Witch's House, Heroes' Quest and Merlin's Crystal.

March

 * 1 March - Latest RuneScape News (1 March 2002)
 * States Andrew's intentions to bring new RuneScape Servers online
 * Asks for potential employees to send their CV to be considered for a job with Jagex
 * 18 March - Latest RuneScape News.
 * Blood Rune released with high level spells.
 * Teleport to Camelot.
 * Wilderness area in Edgeville Dungeon.
 * Glass Making ability for Crafting.
 * New Monster - Black unicorn.
 * Two additional full time staff members are are hired by Jagex
 * 21 March - 2 New RuneScape Servers online. 8 Worlds, 10,000 capacity.
 * 25 March - Fletching skill was released.
 * 26 March - Stringing bows xp was increased. Woodcutting trees xp was increased.

April

 * 9 April - Family Crest quest was released.
 * 30 April - Thieving skill was released.
 * Tribal Totem quest was released.
 * City of Ardougne was released.

May

 * 10 May - Latest RuneScape News.
 * Fire Giant released.
 * Make Over Mage released.
 * Level - 56 wilderness open.
 * Curry released.
 * 28 May - Latest RuneScape News:
 * Fishing Contest was released
 * Monk's Friend was released
 * 29 May - 2000 RuneScape accounts were stat-wiped for macroing/autoing or using third-party RuneScape clients.

June

 * 17 June - Fishing guild was released.

July

 * 10 July - Some bugs fixed
 * 12 July - More ways to get membership!
 * 18 July - Talk about switching to a new server
 * 19 July - RuneScape database on a faster server.
 * 20 July - Customer Support database online
 * 23 July - 3 new members quests, The Holy Grail, Tree Gnome Village, and Fight Arena, were added.
 * 26 July - The Highscore tables show the top 100,000

August

 * 15 August - 2 new members quests, Hazeel Cult and Sheep Herder, were added.
 * 26 August - In the pipeline...
 * 26 August - Warning about fake websites.
 * 27 August - The Plague City quest is added, along with the Ardougne teleport spell.

September

 * 9 September - The quest Sea Slug was added.
 * 11 September - Report abuse feature added.
 * 19 September - Graphics Previews.
 * 24 September - Tutorial Island, the Waterfall Quest, and the King Black Dragon were added.
 * 25 September - World map updated.
 * 30 September - RuneScape Newsletter created.

October

 * 9 October - Talk about work on progress
 * 18 October - More sneak peak images of
 * 23 October - Several new updates, including:
 * 2 members quests, Biohazard and Jungle Potion
 * The town of Yanille
 * The members spells Enfeeble, Stun, and Vulnerability, along with the Soul rune.
 * Dragon bones
 * The combat system was changed so that Monsters that were far weaker than the player would no longer auto attack.
 * 25 October - Talk about previous week's update and work on Agility skill.
 * The Halloween Masks were dropped on 30 October.

November

 * 1 November - Jmod gets called a noob
 * 6 November - Glitch in Varrock warning.
 * 11 November - Servers upgraded.
 * 13 November - Fatigue system was released.
 * Wilderness monsters made aggressive regardless of level.
 * 14 November - Fatigue system tweaked.
 * 15 November - Get more gems while Mining and further tweaks to fatigue system.
 * 25 November - The Mining and Fishing systems were changed.
 * 28 November - Windows OS update negatively affected RuneScape.

December

 * 2 December - Talk about changing look of the website.
 * 11 December - New website design released.
 * 12 December - The Agility skill was added, along with the Grand Tree quest.
 * - over 400 botters banned.
 * 23 December - New servers added.
 * 25 December - the 2002 Christmas event started, with the introduction of Santa Hats.

First level 99s
9 more skills were maxed out for the first time this year:


 * Firemaking - Cowchicken
 * Fishing - Tks
 * Attack - Zonghui
 * Strength - Ladykilljoy
 * Hits - Zonghui
 * Defense - Zonghui
 * Thieving - Swedemike
 * Mining - Joe Bill64
 * Ranged - Snake Salva
 * This record is in dispute, however, as the account was later banned for cheating.