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The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on Tutorial Island.
Tutorial Island Map

Tutorial Island eventually became the first place a player loads into when joining RuneScape Classic. It was added to the game on 24 September 2002. The website update which announced it's arrival may be found here. It is possible to skip the tutorial by going to Options and selecting the "Skip tutorial" option. First you select your character's gender and clothing colour. The player is then instructed on how to use various skills and receives some basic items. It is similar to the present-day (as of now the "old" island) Tutorial Island in RuneScape 2. After skipping or completing Tutorial Island, the player will appear in Lumbridge, on the same tile where a player will go if they are to die.

Inhabitants

These are the human inhabitants of Tutorial Island, in the order of which they are encountered by players:

Classes (Historical)

Classes

When Runescape first came out, players who made accounts would spawn in Lumbridge. Then between early March 2001 and July 2002, players used to be able choose a class when creating an account, prior to spawning. Before the release of the Wilderness in August 2001 players got to choose if they wanted to be a player killer or a non-player killer.

Depending on the class chosen, new players would start with a higher level in the appropriate skill at a compensation of lower skill levels in other areas and then be spawned in Lumbridge.

  • Miner (7 Mining, 10 Hits) - Started out with a pickaxe, which at that time was the only type available. These were later turned into bronze pickaxes.

When the class system was removed and prior to tutorial island, all new players would start with a bronze axe, one piece of cookedmeat, and tinderbox, like adventurers. Tutorial Island was released in 24 September 2002.

Trivia

  • You get no xp for killing the rat and it has no drop
  • You cannot kill more than one rat. If you try to kill another you will get the message "That's enough rat killing for now"
  • While it is possible to use the Drop trick to obtain multiple Raw rat meat you will only ever be able to successfully cook one of the meats, burning the rest
  • You can only catch a total of 5 shrimp resulting in a total of 50 fishing xp. If you attempt to fish more shrimp you will get the message "that's enough fishing for now go through the next door to continue the tutorial"
  • Players may only mine three tin ore. If they attempt to mine more then they will receive the message "Thats[sic] enough mining for now"
  • You can get 99 Firemaking and 99 Woodcutting on tutorial island. As there are no limit to the amount of trees you can cut and fires you can light
  • You retain all skills and items held in your bank and inventory when you leave tutorial island
  • A sinking and sunken Fishing trawler can be seen from the western shore of the island
  • Initially the Miner class wasn't featured into the available classes. With the removal of the Necromancer class, the Miner class got introduced into the game

Glitches (oversights)

  • The Combat instructor says the rat has a green combat level when it is in fact a yellowish shade of green Tutorial Rat
  • When talking to the Combat instructor another Combat instructor may take over and continue the dialogue mid-conversation
  • The Bank assistant will address female characters as Sir if you talk to them again
  • The Fatigue expert can have dialogue triggered that tells players eating food will reduce Fatigue

Transcript

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