The Hardcore Worlds guides first, then Game Pulse’s own Hardcore Worlds updates, the records timeline and Jagex’s official news, newest first.
Guides
- OSRS Hardcore Worlds, the first days: a route built around not dying
Every other mode rewards speed. This one rewards still being alive in a month. The route below is slower than a normal account's and it is the one the day-one…
- OSRS Hardcore Worlds: rules and safety, what counts as a death
The rule is one life. The detail is which deaths count, and the list surprises people who have played Hardcore Ironman, because the ruleset here follows Hardcore Group Ironman rather…
Game Pulse updates
- The real Gielinor map, and a shooting star tracker fed by the community’s scouts
The Old School section now draws the game's own world map from the OSRS Wiki, with shooting stars, death reports and every landing site on it, and a…
- Hardcore Worlds known issues after launch, and what to do about each
Every launch ships with a list. These are the Hardcore Worlds ones that affect how you play in the first week, with the workaround where there is one.
- The Hardcore Worlds hiscores, day one: who got ahead and how
A day in, the top of the Hardcore Worlds hiscores sits above 1,000 total level. The leaders are not fighting anything; they are skilling the safest content at…
- Hardcore Worlds opened at 11:00 UTC: the first 24 hours
Old School RuneScape's one-life worlds went live on 4 November on every platform. The first death came within hours, the first Fight Caves completion the same day, and…
Records and events
- First 99 on Hardcore Worlds: FiremakingLunny HCW
Lunny HCW reached 99 Firemaking on 6 November, two days after the worlds opened: the first level 99 of the mode.
- Rank one after the first day: 1,038 total levelSoloMssion
SoloMssion led the Hardcore Worlds overall hiscores a day in with 1,038 total level and 2.2 million experience, ahead of HCW Alfie on 948.
- 3,114 deaths on the first day, by one player’s countEveryone
A player's chat log counted 3,114 death broadcasts on the first day of Hardcore Worlds. Giant spiders killed the most.
- First Fight Caves completionHCW Deviate
HCW Deviate completed the TzHaar Fight Caves on launch day. On Hardcore Worlds a death in the caves is a real death, which makes the fire cape the first serious trophy of the mode.
- One player left Tutorial Island before the openingUnnamed
Jagex reported that a single character reached the Hardcore worlds early, built wealth on normal worlds and carried it in at launch. The company addressed it in an update to its launch post.
- First death on Hardcore WorldsM Hardcorpse
M Hardcorpse became the first character to meet the Reaper on the new worlds, nine seconds after leaving Tutorial Island on launch day, and the first name read out by the in-game broadcast.
- The Reaper’s RaffleJagex
Jagex announced a Reaper's Raffle alongside Hardcore Worlds the day before launch, part of the opening week's events.
Official news
Sources: Records: each names where it was reported. News: the official Old School RuneScape news feed.