@@sbz666_ work has been busy and my girlfriend is back to university now so we only make a couple things each week sadly - there will be a tiny restock in about three weeks
I ended up getting my own rune pickaxe because some guys pickaxe head fell off and i picked it up and kept it. then when my own pickaxe broke i just attached the rune head to my broken pickaxe handle. Great moment.
Hell yeah. Back when all the skilling spots had tons of people. When someone got the random and had the guts to take it on, half the people are cheering you on and half are hoping you die so they can take your stuff.
Random events were my favorite part of the game to be honest. I hate how many of them were removed and you can just dismiss them. I also hate that you can't pick up other players' items when they die anymore. The game lost a lot of soul by being so casualized.
I remember one of the coolest flexes you could do in F2P back in the day was fight the shade and get the shade robe set from it. We were all poor kids back then so seeing someone fight a lvl120+ in rune armour was super badass to us.
Yeah I remember when somoene was afking or at least trying to kill it and got low health left, everyone around him would follow that guy and hope he would die so you can loot him
Thoss are the randoms they should of kept, to deter afking and add a but of randomness to training. Instead we just get the boring teleport away to solve puzzle ones.
Dude the nostalgia from this video... I specifically remember finding a D axe head on the ground while cutting yews near the flax in cammy. I immediately sold it and got a full set of blue elegant and a beret because fashionscape lmao.
Holy shit, I remember the tangle vines random event! I remember being about 10 at that point, and my English was decent, but nowhere to the same level, and I googled "Runescape gold cheat" or something similar earlier in the day, and I figured someone hacked my Runescape account so I didn't play for almost 2 weeks cus I was terrified I got a virus on my RS account or I got the family computer hacked. Goddamn, I'm old.
Yea dude i have a memory of those wines appearing randomly out of nowhere aswell... im not sure it was in the gane for only 3 hours because i really remember the vines damaging me, but i dont remember getting killed by them
I remember there was this random event that would note your items, it happened to me when I was a kid. I didn't know what a banknote was, I thought my items had been magically turned to paper. So I dropped everything, thinking it was worthless lmfao
When I was a kid, I thought for a long time that jagex gave events manually. So I said "ty jagex" every time I got a random event in hope of good loot and events more often lol. I wasn't the smartest kid.
Dr. Ford appearing randomly: "How many fingers am i holding up?" >Proceeds to flipp you off The mental image of this scene with an unsuspecting player has sent my sides into orbit
I've just discovered your channel a few hours ago and binge-watched through several of your videos, this one in particular hit me with that deep nostalgia. Thanks for remembering me the times when I was broke and had no money to repair my rune hatchet LMAO those were the good ol days!
This video was a nostalgia trip and a half. I remember hearing about the vines but never seeing them. The attacking ent sticks out to me. I remember when you examined it the tree was still called a tree (or whatever variety it was) but the color of the text was yellow like an NPC and you couldn't do anything to it. Run away and come back to reset it. The whrilpool and swarm I had totally forgotten about. This was the best youtube video I watched all day. OSRS is such a weird hybrid of the game I geeked the fuck out on as a preteen/young teen and an entirely new game all together. The optics of seeing stuff like this you forgot about is strange.
sometimes I feel like harmful random events make the game feel actually better. It's like the world is out there to get you and you don't have full control. Now, in rs3 for example, you're literally a god. Although those random events are inconvenient, I find it more immersive that way.
I was thinking, it was also kind of the style per say of videogames back in that era to be less forgiving. Around this era, checkpoints that didn't set you back awfully far were still a more newer concept and I wonder if that ties in with how much harder they made RS as a result. I mean the main focus was to attack botters, but they might of gone through with these randoms with the above concept as a secondary reason
I picked up OS Mobile on day one, after not having played since '08. I had experienced almost all of these events but remembered none of them! This has been a great nostalgia trip
i remember people dying from random events and it was like a drop party everytime someone died kinda wish rs wasnt as safe as it is now. back in the day you could literally lose your bank if you werent careful
Dude you brought back so many memories of these fandoms that I totally forgot about as a 11 year old In 2004 (28) now and still playing just came back from a break a couple months ago of 2 years.
I miss all these. When I was young, I didn't even know about bots. So to me, these events were interesting ways to break up the repetition. I will never forget killing the Rock Golem. I think I was doing Doric's Quest, and I wasn't a high level, but considerably high to only just be getting around to Doric. I was wearing all my best gear, mining the materials near Rimmington (because back then, I never did anything efficiently). I even had food on me. It was the biggest achievement to me and made me feel amazing. Killing this rock monster that always chased players away, which I thought was totally unkillable. I remember all these random events, and it saddens me to know they're no longer in the game, not properly anyway.
Honestly, the fact that Doctor Ford was super buggy really made it seem like your character got a concussion, since you started seeing multiple of him or you evidently could not see what fingers he actually held up because they showed the wrong one. Kinda funny like that.
i fought many of tree spirits, rock golems, evil chickens and river trolls in my time since starting in 05 lol my favorite was the evil chicken. i felt like such a badass killing it
i used to always have to repair my axe when chopping yews lol that was such a good money maker back then. me and my irl bestfriend who died last month used to chop away for hours during sleepovers. i miss those days.
Woah massive kick in the nostalgia! I remember all of these, bar the first candle event in the church! :D I was thinking about the axe/pickaxe damage the other day. I swore the pickaxe would fall apart and this literally confirmed it :L. Awesome content, great memories :)
Best random event related thing to ever happen to me was back in 2007-2008 or so when I was cutting magic trees at the spot near the Legends guild. Someone was in a blue rizard robe (g) set wearing a blue h'ween mask. They were either botting or just AFK and everyone was sitting there waiting for them to die. I knew the blue h'ween mask would be at the bottom of the pile since it had a high alch value of 0gp or something. While everyone sat there spam clicking the pile when he died I quickly right clicked it, went to the bottom, and was able to quickly snatch the mask. Can't remember what it was worth back then but I think it was around 20-30m which was a lot at the time
great video I remember all of those events back when I started to play in 2004 I just now got back into the game plan RS3 Man things have changed but I experienced everything in this video this was a good one
I remember having my pickaxe head yeeted behind me and damaging my axe on willow trees all the time. Man i miss those days. I banked about 8k willow logs and i couldn't believe what i had accomplished
Back when I was a kid, I remember my dad telling me that the guardians only spawned to kill cheaters, lol. I was always so nervous seeing the Evil Chickens spawn.
I knew english, but I could've sworn I picked the right answer for these boxes but they just keep spawning on my inventory. I quitted that account and created a new account that I still use to this day.
The same thing happened to me, I then banked all my stuff and died with the boxes which left only 3 boxes in my inventory and I managed to guess them randomly. I remember that when you died, the boxes where extremely large on the floor. Wish I had known how to take a screenshot back then.
I completely forgot the swarm existed, but as soon as you said it, I could hear that annoying sound in my head. I used to deal with the rock golem, exploding rocks, and broken pickaxes on a daily basis.
People would often try to kill the damaging events, with prayer they were quite easy. Many had chances of decent rewards (rune picks and axes from golem and tree spirit), shade pieces from the shades, lots of feathers from the evil chicken (which were still worth something, though not much). Many killed them for the challenge, and many people would bring a weapon when skilling to kill them. A great example is Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, who would give much better rewards if you killed him rather than talked to him - high level herbs or potions, rather than just a strength pots. The only one that gave no reward for killing was the strange plant, which while seemingly invincible, could be killed by using guthans armour. While you had a max hit of 3 against the strange plant, and it had very high hp, as healing was calculated before the strange plant's damage reduction, you could hit a 2 and heal a 20. It however took a good 10+ minutes to kill, and gave no drops at all.
The rock golem actually dropped a few ores iirc. The evil Chick dropped a decent amount of feathers. I don't remember if the woodcutting or fishing one dropped anything good, but I imagine it's roughly the same idea. They did reward players for killing them, but most people didn't have gear on when they were Skilling.
Man I remember the swarm. That thing sucked lmao. I also got a Dragon wc axe head in Catherby when it broke off someone's axe and they didn't pick it up. Ahh good times. The swirl from fishing and the smoking ores while mining are bringing back some serious nostalgia. Great video!
Around 8 minutes you claim that the guardian-type random events didn't have rewards. There were absolutely rewards! The rewards were for killing them. The evil chicken dropped many, many feathers. The river troll dropped raw fish if I recall.
id love to see more of these retrospective type videos, dont get me wrong i love the rs abuse series but these videos about runescapes past are great too
How remembers them rich mofos would let the swarms nearly kill them everyone spam clicking hoping to get all their gear and then they eat at the last second! 😂
I experienced all of these except for the middle finger. I miss the simple days where myself and other noobs would freak out at the random events lol. The stress of finding your rune pickaxe head in 1 minute was STRESSFUL
Damn you just brought back some serious memories from when I was like 8, the rune axe breaking. I couldn’t remember if that actually happened or it was just some weird dream I had one night lmao.
Remember a decent sum of these; in which, the first random that ever killed me was the Evil Chicken -- was pretty new to the game and only combat level 8 or so with no idea with what was going on. The most devastating death was when I got killed by the Tree Spirit random; was wearing my full rune set but forgot my weapon in the bank as I preferred to kill the random once I was strong enough to take them out; even though I had a dragon axe the accuracy was miserable and I ended up dying to it, losing my full rune set for like the 4th time that month. I've had the Tree ent axe head removal and exploding rocks event happen to me often; I've picked up quite a few players axe heads and pick axe heads, never had the fishing one happen. **(Quick search shows they removed all of the broken tools along with the randoms; would've been a neat novelty item.)** Makes me wonder if I could get access to that account in this day and age what those axe heads and such would be in rs3 now? With the many changes to mining and smithing along with removal of randoms for rs3.
Man. Most of these I remember. Literally videos like this make me wish I went back 16/17 years to do it everything again the super inefficient way I did.
In my 20 years playing off and on I witnessed almost every random event, including the vines. The only one I don't recall anymore is the one with the candles. I miss picking up other peoples axe/pick heads and either getting your own handle fixed or trying to trade it back to the person who just lost it for something in return.
I played rs like it was my job from 2001-2011. The later years i was stuck playing Castle Wars grinding for that armor. I had every 1 of these events happen to me, except the vine one. I actually enjoy every one of these events because it helped change up the monotony of some of these skills
I got my first rune axe from a random event! I saw someone cutting maple trees outside of the Catherby bank and watched as his axe head fly off. I was a little bit an ass back then, so I started lighting fires all over the place so the guy wouldn't find his axe head. 60 seconds later, I picked up his rune axe head, attached it to a handle, and had my own rune axe.
What's amazing to me is how much they just removed completely rather than just fixed. You know you have spaghetti code when you don't even want to fix your own bugs.
They made a new sorta replacement, which is instead rewarding you for taking an active role in your gathering. I personally enjoy that element, chasing shiny rocks and occasionally clicking.
I'll be sure to buy one of these figurines once I graduate, assuming you guys keep at it. Quite impossible while in college, tho... Best of luck crumb, love your content
What's even weirder was back in the day randoms didn't have a delay timer until you got another one like they do now. I remember getting fishing trolls back to back within a few minutes in 2004 while at Karamja f2p.
I still reflect on that one time that I dropped an Uncut Onyx as a child to see how beautiful it looked on the ground, then got teleported into a Maze before I could pick it back up. I picked the Onyx back up in time, but I was too young for that type of anxiety.
Yeah and it poisoned you which was the worst. I remember being AFK for just a second and seeing i was under attack. Ages away from a bank with no tele and the frantic run while I slowly died from poison was the worst as a kid
I remember all of these except the vines. I also remember getting my first rune axe from someone who lost their axe head and I picked it up. One of the things you did not cover was what happened when you killed one of the guardian randoms. They would drop items of their normal mob counterparts. Crazy chicken gave you chicken and feather. Tree spirit gave you some logs, mining golem gave you ores. With protection prayers it was possible to kill them but since they scaled with your level it was extremely difficult without a full inventory of food and protection prayers. One of my biggest complaints about randoms today is there is no longer guardian randoms. I do miss the days of the bragging rights to your friends of being able to defeat such a formidable foe while skilling. World 42 magic trees in cammy that was the most prestigious thing you could do.
Blast from the past! I remember that tangle vine, but didn't know it was so short lived lol. I started the summer of 02, maybe 03, (lol) got my first rune scimitar from a dead bot in Catherby that got dropped by an evil chicken 🤣
The random events that would attack you would actually provide loot. I remember the zombie one, for example, had the chance of dropping dragon bones or the shade would drop shade robes (this was the only way to get shade robes back then). I used to always carry food and armor on me wherever I went and no matter what I was training so that I could fight them and get the rewards
Those last few you mentioned were so brutal. The explosive ore and the whirlpool fishing spots. Just snags your equipment and there that lol. The shade and for some reason that zombie always fkd me up
I remember when I was young and spent the time to get 60 wc to cut yew logs. Back in those days, 1 inventory of yew logs was like 14-24k, I don't remember exactly. I was so proud finding such a profitable money making method that my friends didn't know about. And yes, my rune axe got bit by the ent. Also, with the pickaxe, I didn't know I could reatatch the pick so I was selling it to the ge and bought a new rune pickaxe
im in my early 20s and i remember the tree messing up my axe and the whirlpool thing with the fishing. Wow I was so young hahaha. Honorable mention for the strange plant random event. Some good memories
I could be mistaken, but I think that random vine event happened while I was on Karamja. A dude said stand still, but it could've been a jungle spider.
I remember never quite understanding the wiggly tree random event for the longest time. It's not like you'd pay attention to the tree you were chopping. Always had to keep a few extra rune axes in the bank.
Supposedly, someone said you can use insect repellant on the swarm to kill it. I loved wcing back in the day, and always carried insect repellant in my inventory, waiting for the opportunity to use it on a swarm
Several of those, I never encountered. But something you didn't mention, those ones that attacked you, sometimes had great drops, like the Tree Spirit could drop a Rune Axe or a stack of Nature Runes, the Evil Chicken could drop a big stack of Feathers, and the Rock Golem could drop random Ores. The Bee Keeper Random appears to be buggier than ever, last couple of times I tried it, I couldn't get it completed. And the Pinball Random has greatly improved, it used to spin and with the strange moving overlays, it gave me motion sickness. I like Molly and Pete for Gems and ScapeRune for the XP boosts. You didn't mention the Dragon Teacher either, and I love the Book of Knowledge for the XP.
i have so many memories of that smoking rock i totally forgot about that until i saw it, also the stange box and the murder RE are the other ones i remember the most.
✅ Checkout those Jad Figurines! crumb.store/
Think I still have the top bit of my old rune hatchet lol I never got it repaired
@@sbz666_ work has been busy and my girlfriend is back to university now so we only make a couple things each week sadly - there will be a tiny restock in about three weeks
Too expensive I’d rather buy pot
@@Eyeiiiseeyou Going to feel pretty slick in a few weeks when I'm having seshes with ma little Vorkath.
Hey wait! What about the Strange Fruit Plant! Iv'e died to that so many times :/ Always forgot to pick it.
Anybody else remembering killing shades thinking that was how you got ghostly robes? Ah, the good ol days.
Yeah some mf I still know to this day told me that. What a waste of time
Yeah, I literally had like 7 shade robes stacked up in my bank xP
Shade robes, not ghostly.
Ghostly robes were from the same miniquest as they are now
that was me as a kid lmaooo
Lmao bro
I'm laughing my ass off imaging a kid getting the random event "how many fingers am I holding up" and getting flipped off lmfao
I wanna try this in real life ahahaha
And, of course, programming the answer to
Always random
2,3,4,5
never occurred to Jagex. The geniuses.
Imagine answering correctly but the game is bugged so you still get teleported.
The equipment damaging randoms were still there well after 2004, I started in 2006 and I remember all 3 of them.
Same
yup started in 2005, they were very well there lol busted axes, pick axes etc.
So frustrating I remember back in the day cutting willows in Draynor afk and getting my axe getting fucked up
Yea I started 2006 and I remember almost dying in lumbridge swamp tryna mine some tin or copper cause the rock exploded
I ended up getting my own rune pickaxe because some guys pickaxe head fell off and i picked it up and kept it. then when my own pickaxe broke i just attached the rune head to my broken pickaxe handle. Great moment.
I used to love just chilling and fishing, mining or WC and then watching someone have to fight a gollum or evil chicken
Hell yeah. Back when all the skilling spots had tons of people. When someone got the random and had the guts to take it on, half the people are cheering you on and half are hoping you die so they can take your stuff.
Low key I kind of liked how chaotic they made things, especially the equipment damaging ones.
Low key, though? Seriously?
Who needs low key when you gotta lockpick?
Random events were my favorite part of the game to be honest. I hate how many of them were removed and you can just dismiss them. I also hate that you can't pick up other players' items when they die anymore. The game lost a lot of soul by being so casualized.
@@WarioLand3 Gimme the loot, gimme the loot!
When the lv 3 bot gets blown up by a gas explosion and sent back to lumbridge.
I remember one of the coolest flexes you could do in F2P back in the day was fight the shade and get the shade robe set from it. We were all poor kids back then so seeing someone fight a lvl120+ in rune armour was super badass to us.
I think that I still have Shade Robes on some of my old accounts.
This. Nostalgic.
@@javabeanz8549 you can buy them off the ge
shade robes were not f2p
@@masonhales yes they are and always have been. You're probably thinking about ghostly robes.
I miss evil chicken and the troll from fishing,always would see noobs getting trashed or see them hauling ass to a bank lmao.
Yeah I remember when somoene was afking or at least trying to kill it and got low health left, everyone around him would follow that guy and hope he would die so you can loot him
Thoss are the randoms they should of kept, to deter afking and add a but of randomness to training. Instead we just get the boring teleport away to solve puzzle ones.
Imagine just chopping a tree, almost getting knocked out, and then get flipped off LOL
Umm..
"How many fingers am I holding up, idiot? Fuck you."
i litterally cant stop laughing xD
Straight up took the words out of my mouth lol
You brought back so many memory’s, I totally forgot about the weird box
Dude the nostalgia from this video... I specifically remember finding a D axe head on the ground while cutting yews near the flax in cammy. I immediately sold it and got a full set of blue elegant and a beret because fashionscape lmao.
Holy shit, I remember the tangle vines random event! I remember being about 10 at that point, and my English was decent, but nowhere to the same level, and I googled "Runescape gold cheat" or something similar earlier in the day, and I figured someone hacked my Runescape account so I didn't play for almost 2 weeks cus I was terrified I got a virus on my RS account or I got the family computer hacked.
Goddamn, I'm old.
Yea dude i have a memory of those wines appearing randomly out of nowhere aswell... im not sure it was in the gane for only 3 hours because i really remember the vines damaging me, but i dont remember getting killed by them
I remember there was this random event that would note your items, it happened to me when I was a kid. I didn't know what a banknote was, I thought my items had been magically turned to paper. So I dropped everything, thinking it was worthless lmfao
xd
Yeah I think I remember something like this.
When I was a kid, I thought for a long time that jagex gave events manually.
So I said "ty jagex" every time I got a random event in hope of good loot and events more often lol.
I wasn't the smartest kid.
I remember the poisoned chests killing someone in front of me when I was younger. I took that dude's g-maul
I remember it was rumored you'd get a great reward for killing one of the guardians... turned out to be a waste of precious swordfish.
Dr. Ford appearing randomly: "How many fingers am i holding up?"
>Proceeds to flipp you off
The mental image of this scene with an unsuspecting player has sent my sides into orbit
I don't think the doctor "duplicated himself" as a bug, you were literally dizzy from the rock/wood hitting you so you were seeing him multiple times
No, it was a bug causing it to not work properly. Did you even listen?
@@amatesamaru mate...
nice idea. They should of kept it in!
Just without the fail bug.
Imagine having a dragon harpoon get taken by a whirlpool lol 🤣🤣
Imagine afking at mlm and you lose your dpick
Neither d harpoon nor pick were around back then
@@philipbrooks9682 its a joke bro chill.
@@philipbrooks9682 you really are an idiot aren't you?
Dragon axes were expensive back then and I know of a few people who lost their heads 😂
I've just discovered your channel a few hours ago and binge-watched through several of your videos, this one in particular hit me with that deep nostalgia. Thanks for remembering me the times when I was broke and had no money to repair my rune hatchet LMAO those were the good ol days!
This brought back some serious memories. I remember Id be so happy getting random events especially the ones where you get cool clothing
This video was a nostalgia trip and a half. I remember hearing about the vines but never seeing them. The attacking ent sticks out to me. I remember when you examined it the tree was still called a tree (or whatever variety it was) but the color of the text was yellow like an NPC and you couldn't do anything to it. Run away and come back to reset it. The whrilpool and swarm I had totally forgotten about.
This was the best youtube video I watched all day. OSRS is such a weird hybrid of the game I geeked the fuck out on as a preteen/young teen and an entirely new game all together. The optics of seeing stuff like this you forgot about is strange.
Man this video took me right back, made me all misty eyed and nostalgic haha
Loved the video my man
i remember flexing my combat stats when fight dr jekyl while fishing. weird flex but i was like 10
Gotta let those nerds fishing tunas know who's the boss
@@itsicearmour exactly
They should bring them back. They were fun to break up the boredom
sometimes I feel like harmful random events make the game feel actually better. It's like the world is out there to get you and you don't have full control. Now, in rs3 for example, you're literally a god. Although those random events are inconvenient, I find it more immersive that way.
I was thinking, it was also kind of the style per say of videogames back in that era to be less forgiving. Around this era, checkpoints that didn't set you back awfully far were still a more newer concept and I wonder if that ties in with how much harder they made RS as a result. I mean the main focus was to attack botters, but they might of gone through with these randoms with the above concept as a secondary reason
I miss them, too :/
I picked up OS Mobile on day one, after not having played since '08. I had experienced almost all of these events but remembered none of them! This has been a great nostalgia trip
i remember people dying from random events and it was like a drop party everytime someone died
kinda wish rs wasnt as safe as it is now. back in the day you could literally lose your bank if you werent careful
Yep. Game is trash now anyways.
Dude you brought back so many memories of these fandoms that I totally forgot about as a 11 year old In 2004 (28) now and still playing just came back from a break a couple months ago of 2 years.
I miss all these. When I was young, I didn't even know about bots. So to me, these events were interesting ways to break up the repetition. I will never forget killing the Rock Golem. I think I was doing Doric's Quest, and I wasn't a high level, but considerably high to only just be getting around to Doric. I was wearing all my best gear, mining the materials near Rimmington (because back then, I never did anything efficiently). I even had food on me. It was the biggest achievement to me and made me feel amazing. Killing this rock monster that always chased players away, which I thought was totally unkillable. I remember all these random events, and it saddens me to know they're no longer in the game, not properly anyway.
Honestly, the fact that Doctor Ford was super buggy really made it seem like your character got a concussion, since you started seeing multiple of him or you evidently could not see what fingers he actually held up because they showed the wrong one. Kinda funny like that.
i fought many of tree spirits, rock golems, evil chickens and river trolls in my time since starting in 05 lol my favorite was the evil chicken. i felt like such a badass killing it
i used to always have to repair my axe when chopping yews lol that was such a good money maker back then. me and my irl bestfriend who died last month used to chop away for hours during sleepovers. i miss those days.
@@leftypirate sorry to hear about your friend. Hope you’re ok now bud. This game holds so many great memories for so many of us 🙂
@@perrymason866 much appreciated
@@leftypirate good man. Glad to hear you’re getting through it. I know how hard it can be to lose friends.
@@perrymason866 much love for the kindness my friend. you dont see tat much in this community :)
Woah massive kick in the nostalgia! I remember all of these, bar the first candle event in the church! :D I was thinking about the axe/pickaxe damage the other day. I swore the pickaxe would fall apart and this literally confirmed it :L. Awesome content, great memories :)
I had forgotten these!! Damn, this takes me way back! Thanks for the memories
Best random event related thing to ever happen to me was back in 2007-2008 or so when I was cutting magic trees at the spot near the Legends guild. Someone was in a blue rizard robe (g) set wearing a blue h'ween mask. They were either botting or just AFK and everyone was sitting there waiting for them to die. I knew the blue h'ween mask would be at the bottom of the pile since it had a high alch value of 0gp or something. While everyone sat there spam clicking the pile when he died I quickly right clicked it, went to the bottom, and was able to quickly snatch the mask. Can't remember what it was worth back then but I think it was around 20-30m which was a lot at the time
great video I remember all of those events back when I started to play in 2004 I just now got back into the game plan RS3 Man things have changed but I experienced everything in this video this was a good one
I remember having my pickaxe head yeeted behind me and damaging my axe on willow trees all the time. Man i miss those days. I banked about 8k willow logs and i couldn't believe what i had accomplished
Oh man I remember the smoking rock. "Can you smell what the rock is cooking!"
haha 2004 was a fun time
As a kid I remember very clearly having my rune pickaxe blown up, if I remember correctly there was a sound effect that went off when it did so.
I really miss the large variety of random events, they really helped to shake things up.
Back when I was a kid, I remember my dad telling me that the guardians only spawned to kill cheaters, lol. I was always so nervous seeing the Evil Chickens spawn.
Brought back so many childhood memories, mum got me playing runescape when I was 6, had alot of smiles thanks
Dude you just brought back so much memories! i love you CRUMB
You're my favourite RS youtuber man, great work!
Thanks man that makes my day :)
i made a new account cus of that damn box i didnt know english at all back then....
Sorry but that is hilarious!
I knew english, but I could've sworn I picked the right answer for these boxes but they just keep spawning on my inventory. I quitted that account and created a new account that I still use to this day.
The same thing happened to me, I then banked all my stuff and died with the boxes which left only 3 boxes in my inventory and I managed to guess them randomly. I remember that when you died, the boxes where extremely large on the floor. Wish I had known how to take a screenshot back then.
Seeing people try and fight the guardians was always really fun. I miss those days.
I completely forgot the swarm existed, but as soon as you said it, I could hear that annoying sound in my head.
I used to deal with the rock golem, exploding rocks, and broken pickaxes on a daily basis.
The Nostalgia! OH THE NOSTALGIA! I remember all of these except the vine event lolol. i love these figurines too. Creative and original. Love it!
People would often try to kill the damaging events, with prayer they were quite easy. Many had chances of decent rewards (rune picks and axes from golem and tree spirit), shade pieces from the shades, lots of feathers from the evil chicken (which were still worth something, though not much). Many killed them for the challenge, and many people would bring a weapon when skilling to kill them. A great example is Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, who would give much better rewards if you killed him rather than talked to him - high level herbs or potions, rather than just a strength pots.
The only one that gave no reward for killing was the strange plant, which while seemingly invincible, could be killed by using guthans armour. While you had a max hit of 3 against the strange plant, and it had very high hp, as healing was calculated before the strange plant's damage reduction, you could hit a 2 and heal a 20.
It however took a good 10+ minutes to kill, and gave no drops at all.
The rock golem actually dropped a few ores iirc. The evil Chick dropped a decent amount of feathers. I don't remember if the woodcutting or fishing one dropped anything good, but I imagine it's roughly the same idea. They did reward players for killing them, but most people didn't have gear on when they were Skilling.
Pure nostalgia when you talked about the evil chicken and the fishing events... I miss all of them so very much!
holy crap, you just brought back 15 years man
Man I remember the swarm. That thing sucked lmao. I also got a Dragon wc axe head in Catherby when it broke off someone's axe and they didn't pick it up. Ahh good times. The swirl from fishing and the smoking ores while mining are bringing back some serious nostalgia. Great video!
Around 8 minutes you claim that the guardian-type random events didn't have rewards. There were absolutely rewards! The rewards were for killing them. The evil chicken dropped many, many feathers. The river troll dropped raw fish if I recall.
this brought so many feelings back, thank you ^.^
id love to see more of these retrospective type videos, dont get me wrong i love the rs abuse series but these videos about runescapes past are great too
wow I didn't think I'd remember these because I never really got into OSRS back in the day nice vid !
How remembers them rich mofos would let the swarms nearly kill them everyone spam clicking hoping to get all their gear and then they eat at the last second! 😂
I experienced all of these except for the middle finger. I miss the simple days where myself and other noobs would freak out at the random events lol. The stress of finding your rune pickaxe head in 1 minute was STRESSFUL
Damn you just brought back some serious memories from when I was like 8, the rune axe breaking. I couldn’t remember if that actually happened or it was just some weird dream I had one night lmao.
Yes! Was waiting for you to mention the poison ivy event :D
I recently started playing again and was surprised my ax head wasn't flying every where lol. I also remember the guardians. Nice vid.
Remember a decent sum of these; in which, the first random that ever killed me was the Evil Chicken -- was pretty new to the game and only combat level 8 or so with no idea with what was going on.
The most devastating death was when I got killed by the Tree Spirit random; was wearing my full rune set but forgot my weapon in the bank as I preferred to kill the random once I was strong enough to take them out; even though I had a dragon axe the accuracy was miserable and I ended up dying to it, losing my full rune set for like the 4th time that month.
I've had the Tree ent axe head removal and exploding rocks event happen to me often; I've picked up quite a few players axe heads and pick axe heads, never had the fishing one happen.
**(Quick search shows they removed all of the broken tools along with the randoms; would've been a neat novelty item.)**
Makes me wonder if I could get access to that account in this day and age what those axe heads and such would be in rs3 now? With the many changes to mining and smithing along with removal of randoms for rs3.
Man. Most of these I remember. Literally videos like this make me wish I went back 16/17 years to do it everything again the super inefficient way I did.
Nothing comes close to the fear of getting a sandwich wrong and getting teleported to the wilderness
2007: SELLING LAMPS 20m ea
In my 20 years playing off and on I witnessed almost every random event, including the vines. The only one I don't recall anymore is the one with the candles. I miss picking up other peoples axe/pick heads and either getting your own handle fixed or trying to trade it back to the person who just lost it for something in return.
Started playing rs classic back in 2003. Seeing all these random events brings back so many memories. 😄
I played rs like it was my job from 2001-2011. The later years i was stuck playing Castle Wars grinding for that armor. I had every 1 of these events happen to me, except the vine one. I actually enjoy every one of these events because it helped change up the monotony of some of these skills
I got my first rune axe from a random event! I saw someone cutting maple trees outside of the Catherby bank and watched as his axe head fly off. I was a little bit an ass back then, so I started lighting fires all over the place so the guy wouldn't find his axe head. 60 seconds later, I picked up his rune axe head, attached it to a handle, and had my own rune axe.
How about the teleporting random event? Where it would send you into a flesh room with eyeball levers..
Glad someone else mentioned this
What's amazing to me is how much they just removed completely rather than just fixed. You know you have spaghetti code when you don't even want to fix your own bugs.
Wow i totally forgot about the spinning cube !! Cool video habibi
I miss the shade
Was so scary fighting it
(I know it’s in the stronghold but not the original)
This is the first video, to my knowledge, where I've actually learnt/seen something about RS history I didn't know or slightly know of.
They made a new sorta replacement, which is instead rewarding you for taking an active role in your gathering. I personally enjoy that element, chasing shiny rocks and occasionally clicking.
I'll be sure to buy one of these figurines once I graduate, assuming you guys keep at it. Quite impossible while in college, tho...
Best of luck crumb, love your content
What's even weirder was back in the day randoms didn't have a delay timer until you got another one like they do now. I remember getting fishing trolls back to back within a few minutes in 2004 while at Karamja f2p.
This was a pretty nostalgic video for me. I've actually experienced almost all of these!
I still reflect on that one time that I dropped an Uncut Onyx as a child to see how beautiful it looked on the ground, then got teleported into a Maze before I could pick it back up. I picked the Onyx back up in time, but I was too young for that type of anxiety.
Hey crumb, you forgot about the strange fruit that used to attack you ! Great video though brought back lots of memories
I forgot about that one! It would give you a run energy restoring fruit when picked
Yeah and it poisoned you which was the worst. I remember being AFK for just a second and seeing i was under attack. Ages away from a bank with no tele and the frantic run while I slowly died from poison was the worst as a kid
I remember all of these except the vines. I also remember getting my first rune axe from someone who lost their axe head and I picked it up. One of the things you did not cover was what happened when you killed one of the guardian randoms. They would drop items of their normal mob counterparts. Crazy chicken gave you chicken and feather. Tree spirit gave you some logs, mining golem gave you ores. With protection prayers it was possible to kill them but since they scaled with your level it was extremely difficult without a full inventory of food and protection prayers. One of my biggest complaints about randoms today is there is no longer guardian randoms. I do miss the days of the bragging rights to your friends of being able to defeat such a formidable foe while skilling. World 42 magic trees in cammy that was the most prestigious thing you could do.
Blast from the past! I remember that tangle vine, but didn't know it was so short lived lol.
I started the summer of 02, maybe 03, (lol) got my first rune scimitar from a dead bot in Catherby that got dropped by an evil chicken 🤣
The random events that would attack you would actually provide loot. I remember the zombie one, for example, had the chance of dropping dragon bones or the shade would drop shade robes (this was the only way to get shade robes back then). I used to always carry food and armor on me wherever I went and no matter what I was training so that I could fight them and get the rewards
What a blast from the past. I remember being nervous moving from RS Classic to RS2 because of the scary aggressive events lol
Idk if you'd do this considering you're selling them but it'd be so cool to watch you guys make the figures you're selling! I love them!
Those last few you mentioned were so brutal. The explosive ore and the whirlpool fishing spots. Just snags your equipment and there that lol.
The shade and for some reason that zombie always fkd me up
I absolutely love these types of videos.
I remember when I was young and spent the time to get 60 wc to cut yew logs. Back in those days, 1 inventory of yew logs was like 14-24k, I don't remember exactly. I was so proud finding such a profitable money making method that my friends didn't know about. And yes, my rune axe got bit by the ent. Also, with the pickaxe, I didn't know I could reatatch the pick so I was selling it to the ge and bought a new rune pickaxe
im in my early 20s and i remember the tree messing up my axe and the whirlpool thing with the fishing. Wow I was so young hahaha. Honorable mention for the strange plant random event. Some good memories
Awesome video! I hope we fin footage of the candle event one day
Oh boi! I experienced every single random even you mention, yes even the vine trap, bring back good old memories
They did stop some bots in the balloon animal game and it was funny seeing them standing there doing nothing.Good video btw.
I could be mistaken, but I think that random vine event happened while I was on Karamja. A dude said stand still, but it could've been a jungle spider.
I remember never quite understanding the wiggly tree random event for the longest time. It's not like you'd pay attention to the tree you were chopping. Always had to keep a few extra rune axes in the bank.
Supposedly, someone said you can use insect repellant on the swarm to kill it. I loved wcing back in the day, and always carried insect repellant in my inventory, waiting for the opportunity to use it on a swarm
Several of those, I never encountered. But something you didn't mention, those ones that attacked you, sometimes had great drops, like the Tree Spirit could drop a Rune Axe or a stack of Nature Runes, the Evil Chicken could drop a big stack of Feathers, and the Rock Golem could drop random Ores. The Bee Keeper Random appears to be buggier than ever, last couple of times I tried it, I couldn't get it completed. And the Pinball Random has greatly improved, it used to spin and with the strange moving overlays, it gave me motion sickness. I like Molly and Pete for Gems and ScapeRune for the XP boosts. You didn't mention the Dragon Teacher either, and I love the Book of Knowledge for the XP.
Dr Ford: How many fingers am I holding up? 🖕
i have so many memories of that smoking rock i totally forgot about that until i saw it, also the stange box and the murder RE are the other ones i remember the most.
Oh man I remember losing my rune pickaxe due to it breaking and I was devastated.
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Oof