Guides

Guides for playing Sarim RSPS, a free OSRS private server: setting up the client, choosing an account and pace, and your first goals. For bosses, perks and equipment, see the Wiki index.

Start playing

• Sarim Home: the server at a glance and the tools around home.
• RuneLite: the Sarim client, launcher setup and troubleshooting.
• Account modes: Regular, Ironman, Hardcore Ironman, Ultimate Ironman, Group Ironman, Hardcore Group Ironman and Lucklocked.
• XP rates: Normal 25×, Hard 10×, Extreme 3× and Masochist 1×, and what changing difficulty does.
• First day: your first perk, Slayer, achievements, clues and early goals.

Training and rewards

• Skilling: tools, starting spots and gathering level goals.
• Equipment progression: first weapons, later upgrades and supplies.
• Items: item requirements, combat bonuses, charging and uses.
• Perk builds: starter choices, combat cores and saved loadouts.
• Perk ascension: mastery challenges, attempts and ascended player-perk benefits.
• Skill prestige: XP requirements, skill resets and permanent training bonuses.
• Item perks: equipment attachments, level values, practical benefits and limits.
• Money making: first coins, daily rewards and repeatable combat trips.
• Collection log: unique items, perk milestones and completion reward claims.
• Slayer: getting assignments, choosing a master, skipping tasks and earning points.
• Daily Tasks: five daily assignments, rewards and claim instructions.
• Sarim Hub: travel, drop tables and task controls.
• Sarim Shops: buying supplies, shop currencies and useful first purchases.
• Sarim Achievements: task requirements, rewards and a starter route.
• Combat Achievements: combat tasks, reward tiers and Echo unlocks.
• Bosses: fight guides and drops.

More encounters and equipment

• Doom of Mokhaiotl: delves, checkpoints, pending loot and rewards.
• Tormented Demons and Demonbane equipment: fighting demons and making their weapons.
• Demonbane spells: spell requirements and Purging staff autocasting.
• Duke Misthalin: solo or duo court mechanics.
• Key chests: batch opening, key saving and reward delivery.
• 15% Raid Drop Rate Scroll and Eternal shark: use and limits for owners.

Skill training and self-supply

• Motherlode Mine: pay-dirt, repairs, nugget rewards and the bigger sack.
• Smithing: furnace recipes, anvil training, coal bags and cannonballs.
• Prayer: bones, altars, overheads and prayer scrolls.
• Herblore: useful recipes, herb supply and potion doses.
• Farming: patch runs, fast growth, disease and potion ingredients.
• Farming Guild: access, contracts, seed storage and supplies.
• Hespori: planting, entering and fighting the boss.
• Chompy hunting: Rantz, bait, ogre weapons and hunting rewards.
• Echo gathering tools: supported actions and toggles for tool owners.
• Gemstone crab: reaching the combat-training creature.
• Construction: buying a house, making planks and useful furniture.

Activities and capes

• Barrows: supplies, protection prayers, six-brother runs and chest rewards.
• Warriors Guild: earn tokens and work from bronze to dragon defenders.
• Gauntlet: normal and Corrupted preparation, Hunllef and rewards.
• Fight Caves: a reward run for the fire cape and separate practice modes.
• Inferno: waves, Zuk, the infernal cape and practice limits.
• Pest Control: points, activity requirements and Void equipment.
• Wintertodt: supplies, Warmth, stored points and the reward exchange.
• Shooting Stars: finding stars, mining layers and spending Stardust.

Account operations and reward chances

• Lucklocked: permanent mode rules, bonus containers and the Lucklocked Hub.
• Fortune Hunts: weekly Fortune goals and reward claims.
• Group Ironman: forming a group, shared storage, lives and membership changes.
• Gear Loadouts: saving equipment, bank-based loading and sorting bank tabs.
• Costume Overlay: wearing cosmetics over combat gear and saving outfits.
• Drop rate and boosts: which bonuses affect ordinary loot, raids and pets.
• Clue scrolls: instant reward claims, master follow-ups and caskets.
• Reward boxes and caskets: compare opening, reward and overflow rules.
• Pets: summoning, boosts and free lost-pet recovery.

Raids

• Raids: preparation and an overview of the four raids.
• Chambers of Xeric: regular Chambers, Olm-only and Challenge Mode.
• Theatre of Blood: party setup and all six encounters.
• Tombs of Amascut: invocations, path bosses and the Wardens.
• The Forsaken Trials: a solo custom raid through six Echo boss encounters.

Death and dangerous areas

• Death: protected items, dangerous deaths and what to do after dying.
• Wilderness: preparation, player combat, Risk Protection and escape limits.

Choosing a server

• OSRS private servers: what an RSPS is and how it differs from official OSRS.
• Choosing a private server: eight things to check before you commit.
• No-reset policy: what "No server resets. Ever." covers.
• Ironman: planning a self-sufficient account on Sarim.

Sarim custom content

• Custom content: equipment enhancements, player perks and custom bosses.
• Custom items: custom equipment, starter gear and utility item guides.
• Item Creation Bench: all equipment recipes, success chances and individual item guides.
• Tempering: raise account-wide equipment family levels using eligible duplicates.
• Argentavis, Malakar and Ophidia: custom boss fights and rewards.

References

• Glossary
• Player and item perks
• Item Workbench

Play Sarim free

Gridmaster seasonal mode

• Gridmaster: World 2, fresh seasonal progression and how to open the board.
• Gridmaster board and tasks: progression, row and column rewards, and claim rules.
• Gridmaster task list: all 49 tiles and their completion requirements.
• Gridmaster relics: gathering, skilling, utility, combat and equipment reward directory.
• Gridmaster combat masteries: six shared tiers for all three combat styles.
• Gridmaster rates: XP upgrades, rare drops, pets and activity points.
• Gridmaster rewards: mega-weapon choices and the main-account cosmetic shop.

New encounters and rewards

• Halloween event: invasion, candy, tokens, dailies and event pets.
• Maggot King: solo mechanics and reward choices.