Every Skill in Old School RuneScape: Complete Guide

Old School RuneScape (OSRS) offers players 23 different skills to train, each with its own unique purpose and gameplay. Mastering every ability covers core combat skills, essential artisan production abilities, and supplemental non-combat skills too. While some directly aid in slaying monsters, others allow you to cook food, craft equipment, or build the home of your dreams.

The combat skills allow for defeating enemies and tackling dangerous boss monsters. The artisan skills enable obtaining raw materials and transforming them into useful items for your character. Supplemental skills provide alternative money makers or passive boosts through obstacle courses and thieving. Crucially, training these skills and progressing in OSRS often involves the accumulation and expenditure of OSRS GP (gold pieces), the game's primary currency.  In this article, we will look at all the skills in Old School RuneScape (OSRS) and what each of them does.

Every Skill in Old School RuneScape

Here is an overview of all the skills in Old School RuneScape: 

Combat Skills (OSRS)

• Attack: Allows players to wield stronger melee weapons and hit monsters more accurately.
• Strength: Enables dealing more melee damage and equipping certain high-level weapons.
• Defense: Allows wearing stronger armor sets and decreasing an enemy's chance to hit.
• Ranged: Allows equipping better-ranged weapons and armor, increasing ranged attack accuracy.
• Prayer: Provides access to temporary combat buffs or protections as aids.
• Magic: Enables casting various combat and utility spells.
• Hitpoints: Determines the maximum amount of damage a player can withstand.

Artisan Skills (OSRS)

• Mining: Focuses on obtaining ores and minerals from mineable rocks and deposits.
• Smithing: Covers smelting ores into metal bars and forging bars into armor/weapons.
• Fishing: Enables catching various types of fish using different techniques.
• Cooking: Covers preparing and cooking various types of food.
• Firemaking: Focuses on lighting fires using logs obtained via Woodcutting.
• Woodcutting: Covers chopping down trees to obtain logs used for Firemaking, Fletching, etc.
• Fletching: Crafts ranged weapons and ammunition like bows, arrows, and bolts.
• Crafting: Creates items like jewelry, pottery, leather goods, and ranged armor.
• Herblore: Mixes vials of finished potions from cleaned herbs and secondary items.
• Runecrafting: Crafts magical runes used for casting Magic spells in combat and skilling.
• Farming: Focuses on planting, caring for, and harvesting crops.

Supplemental Skills (OSRS)

• Thieving: Pickpockets NPCs for cash and lockpicks doors/chests.
• Hunter: Captures various creatures found in the wild for profit.
• Slayer: Kills assigned monsters requiring special strategies to defeat.
• Construction: Builds furniture and other additions within player-owned houses.
• Agility: Completes obstacle courses to increase run energy restoration rate.

With 23 highly diverse abilities spanning combat, production, and supplemental categories, mastering every skill in OSRS requires dedication but offers incredibly deep and satisfying gameplay.