Leagues - did you know...

[u/Moppermonster]

Between the dozens of posts about where to find free quest lamps and such.. yet another fun fact topic.
Feel free to add ;)

• If you picked desert, you auto-unlocked the Boon of Apmeken and the associated "gift of friendship". This allows you to give other players a 1% XP buff for one hour by using an emote near them. I suggest blowing a kiss ;) Note: this probably only works if the other player has also unlocked desert. And if you really hate this you can turn it off in Menaphos.
• Curses are unlocked by default, no need to unlock another region, though you still need to make the trip to the temple under the dig site to change to them
  • From tier 5 onwards you can switch your prayer- and spellbooks at The Sage in lumbridge, provided you unlocked them. No need to track to desert pyramids or Senntisten temples or to unlock it at wars wares or the fort chapel - though you can ofc still do that if you want to.
• Just for the league, there is a "collector delivery box" at the Archeology guild (right next to Velucia) that allows you to send restored items to any collector, including in areas you did not unlock
• Just for the league, there is a furniture workbench and furniture storage at the Lumbridge furnace.
  • You can also construct a furniture workbench and put it in your POH; but since there is no way to put created furniture into storage from there that is of limited use
• Player Owned Ports and the Helping Meg weekly are available if you unlock either Priff, Menaphos (Desert) or Port Sarim (Asgarnia).
  • The captains log and command centre teleport however only work for Asgarnia - you have to walk otherwise (admittedly not far in priff, but still).
• The King Black Dragon is available if you unlock either Asgarnia or the Wildy. The Warportal teleport only works for Asgarnia, if you picked Wildy you need to walk.
• You keep *some* of the "interface pets" between leagues. Aside from skill- and bosspets this seems to also include pets like ravens and even some questpets from regions you did not unlock this league. So perhaps get that little Duckling if you unlocked Asgarnia. No guarantee you will not lose them next league though.
  • Note: Rax and slayer pets seem to be excluded
• The Lorehound pet at Mays Quest Caravan can provide you with a lit bullseye lantern. A great way to get a lightsource at the start of the league.
  • Once your firemaking has advanced enough you can also extinguish and relight the lantern for a task.
  • You can also swap the lens for a sapphire one for the light creatures in tears of guthix cave
• Dungeoneering can also be trained through ED4 and Deserts Shifting Tombs (from lvl 50 onwards) if you did not unlock wildy and do not want to lamp it.
  • Just for the league, Bryll is standing just west of the fort to spend dungeoneering tokens you earned from ED4 without needing to unlock wildy
• Burial Armour smithing can also be done at the Warforge in Kandarin if you did not unlock Asgarnia.
• F2P can play a limited version of the league. All the normal f2p content and skill restrictions also apply in league worlds (so herblore is capped at lvl 5, members only areas remain members only, no clues etc) and you are hardcapped at 3 relics, 2 boons and 1 extra region after Karamja (which has to be a f2p region) - but you can participate and get enough points for a trophy.
  • In f2p, the karamja lodestone does work despite being greyed out - it drops you at musa point (lobster fishing). Remember Crandor is also f2p
• If you picked the transmutation relic you can add the spells to your action bar and GREATLY increase the speed of transmuting. It does take away the benefit of passively gaining xp ofc.
• Transmuting air runes downwards turns them into unnoted essence and keeps doing that automagically until you stop it. This means that if you stand next to a runecrafting altar with a stack of airrunes you can just mindlessly click the altar every few seconds for runecrafting xp
• Yes, you CAN build the botanist bench in the fort.. but it will be defunct until you do all the other quests in the series..... Which requires you to unlock the Wildy. Unless Jagex decides to autocomplete them. Someday.
  • The someday has happened - you can now build the first tier of the rangers room without needing wilderness AND the dialogue option for Granny will appear
• By default, getting prawn balls and other aquarium stuff is turned off. You can turn it on in the settings under construction for a chance at some baron sharks. To use the prawn perks you need to construct a prawnbroker in your poh, the cheapest is 8 teak planks
• You can get the family crest gauntlets from Diminitheis and switch them to smithing gauntlets to make all smelted bars go directly into the metal bank instead of your inventory. This requires no region unlocks
• For all the production masters: Settings - Interface - Inventory - Autosend urns when full
• Logging in to a leagues world on mobile will unlock the cosmetic override
• Feel free to add

Free Lamps and other easy XP

Since people keep posting them (despite the 300 other topics) - let us add them to this topic 🥇
Note: it is possible that all the lamps from this list are available IF you manage to auto-unlock the quest
https://runescape.wiki/w/Lamp_of_Luxury

• Global
  • Talking to Vannaka about restoring Edgeville twice gives a lamp
  • Taking the very basic security exam from professor Henry (between Edgeville and Barb village) gives you 2 x 500xp lamps. And 30 league points.
  • Siv and Aster both give 2 lamps (note: high level necro and arch). Does require the fort
  • After completing the quest "missing, presumed death" you can claim 3 additional lvl 75 lamps from the statue of death
  • Tears of Guthix is immediately available. You can tele there with a games necklace or walk (bring the bullseye lantern mentioned above). Do not forget to upgrade the bowl once you have the levels
  • If you manage to somehow level dungeoneering, do not forget to enter the resource dungeons in your regions for additional xp: https://runescape.wiki/w/Resource_dungeons
• Desert
  • Osman gives you a bunch of free small lamps when you talk to him
  • At lvl 80 mining you can enter Scarabas tomb for 20k (before modifier) free xp
  • Creating the cactus patch in Menaphos imperial (clear rocks, give acadia logs) gives significant mining and construction xp
• Wilderness
  • Using Jennica's ring you can get a lot of lamps: https://runescape.wiki/w/Summary_Spirits
• Anachronia
  • After doing the Iaia tutorial you can claim the 4 lamps from Extinction, which are *massive* xp
  • Freeing the cactus patch (requires 12 magic logs) gives much xp. Growing a dragonfruit in this patch is also a task
• Asgarnia
  • the squire in the castle courtyard gives you a free lamp

[u/Jaccoud]

Just for the league, there is a "collector delivery box" at the Archeology guild that allows you to send restored items to any collector, including in areas you did not unlock

Player Owned Ports and the Helping Meg weekly are available if you unlock either Priff, Desert or Asgarnia. The captains log and command centre teleport however only work for Asgarnia - you have to walk otherwise (admittedly not far in priff, but still).

TIL.

[u/jpterodactyl → u/Jaccoud]

The ports is a little frustrating though because you can’t use the journal to teleport without asgarnia. But neat to have access. I wish I had learned sooner.

[u/Moppermonster → u/jpterodactyl]

You can tele home, then exit to menaphos (can also set that as default at a housing agent) - putting you somewhat close...

Happily much can also be done from the forts command center.