2001 Christmas event

The 2001 Christmas event was the second holiday event. After the 2001 Hallowe'en event, Jagex decided to do another holiday drop for Christmas, this time with Christmas crackers. The event started with a rainbow system message flashing across the screen saying "Merry Christmas", and Christmas crackers were scattered across Gielinor. Players picking them up would use them on others, and both players would receive a reward. One would get a party hat of random colour, while the other would get a completely random item, like a gold ore or silver bar, or with good luck a rune plate mail body. At that time, partyhats were only worth a few coins and bank storage was very limited (48 items max), resulting in many partyhats being given away, dropped or sold to General Stores.