Why Cake Was RuneScape's Most Popular Currency (OSRS)

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RuneScape is a strange MMO. The Grand Exchange and the changes made to it to combat botting, RWT, and hackers, made it even stranger. This RS video is all about the year Mint Cakes became RuneScape's most popular currency.
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[@ColonelloRS]

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[@Ebola419]

Hard pass

[@Zwazzeh]

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[@kingtunip6386]

Wow.... I seen scumbags.... Never thought our very own Colonello would become a raids shadow legend scum bag

[@ambrospike2]

Raid Shadow Legends gets children addicted to gambling through mtx Colonello. I really hope you reconsider this sponsorship.

[@shadowplague4274]

Nayyyy

[@MrGrombie]

"Don't worry guys, the price will stabilize" Oof lol

[@wannabeeish]

It did stabilize. Just a low lower. *taps head*

[@SociallyIneptInvertebrate]

@@wannabeeish lot* taps B I G // B R A I N

[@SuperSickNerd]

.... I just bought one for 100k

[@Vyrkhan]

but backwards lmao

[@TheGreenStone1988]

The great $CKE squeeze of 2007-8

[@andrewv2782]

I remember when mint cakes were the big thing for junk trading. I was so happy when i finally was the owner of one. It was a simpler time

[@Ventis1HerO]

adamant arrows p++ from zammy was too :D

[@XwSScout]

Maple longbow (u) aswell, sold my red phat for something like 150m worth of unstrung bows...

[@jarredcramp9311]

@@XwSScout i think you just got scammed bro

[@PatrickMeloModesto]

@@jarredcramp9311 lmfao

[@voiceofreason7558]

@what's up and your mom gave it to him

[@ingydegmar2060]

I was around at that time. Never had a clue why this cake was so damn expensive. Didn't even know what it was, couldn't bother doing gnome waiter stuff. Thanks for clearing up something I didn't even know I wanted cleared up.

[@SickFreakinNasty]

"Me buying Dogecoin at it's peak"

[@TheXshot]

$0.33 USD currently

[@QualityQontent]

@@TheXshot still useless

[@Spartan_767]

@@QualityQontent not if you bought it before

[@QualityQontent]

@@Spartan_767 correct.

[@BabyImSelfish]

0.52 usd currently

[@billyfallows1141]

I used to play a ton of gnome restaurant around the time mint cakes were being junk traded, managed to buy a pirates hook at the time worth about 10m street for 2m coins and 2 mint cakes and the newly released royal crown for 4 mint cakes. The day they made cakes drop in sets of 10 instead of 1 they were insta selling for 200k each, made about 40m caah before people caught on

[@fellowperson6406]

"one quick 20 seconds" *as I quadruple tap forward*

[@greatleader4841]

2020: hahaha buying dogecoin at it's peak because yellow dog hahaha" 2021: Ah fuck, i should have held all my dogecoin...

[@HapticNoise]

But can we talk about the inevitable yeast infection from that Reddit story? Yikes dude just use ice lol

[@SheyVick]

If you use sugar-free mints you should be okay

[@austiniscoolduh]

I miss the days of sniping bob shirts, Easter eggs, royal items, etc. and merching random items with Smokin Mils. Then junk trading away the items at the end with this item and many others. It was such a fun time

[@team3d180]

Holy shit i remember people "lending ags 24hr for mint cake" and they were like 48k ge Then they randomly shot down. Now i know rofl.

[@GamingTaylor]

I don't know if you've done a video on it, but during the trade-limit era, Opulent table packs were a junk-item that was used to trade for dragon claws when they were released. Shortly after Jagex decided to make the pack worth something by adding some guy who would buy these table packs for like 130k/each. So liteerally opulent table packs went from 2k each to 130k each with one update

[@EanFox7]

Editing in this video is so much better compared to a few older videos I watched of yours the other day. Can really see your skills in editing improving. My reaction to this video: *Nice*

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much! I've been trying a few new techniques, glad you like it! :D

[@EanFox7]

@@ColonelloRS course man! You know, I was in the middle of my RuneScape off season when I saw that your account has surpassed mine. Last time I watched one of your videos you were walking around in a dragon chain with a white partyhat. Got my ass back on, in gear, and got 99 in Att/Str/Def/HP

[@Zaphlyn]

I was actually there when the mint cakes were dropped. I picked up a noted stack of a few hundred/thousand (cant remember) mint cakes and my heart dropped when it said it was worth something like 25m. .. After weeks of waiting on the G.E., I managed to sell the entire stack for like 2m, but hey, a free 2m i got off the ground in 2010, not bad.

[@907living6]

Bought my first divine with a bunch of addy arrows P+++ when we had trade limit

[@jop6571]

That drop from Zammy was about 700k worth and so common, good old days

[@benjamink1774]

You sold divines with addy arrows, not bought divines with them

[@wariyoshidirector]

I remember I searched "cake" on the grand exchange in anticipation for my Runescape girlfriend's birthday (lol) and found the mint cake. I was confused because I had never heard of it before, so I put it in the GE (it was only like 2k at the time) and decided to just wait it out. Months passed and I still couldn't get one, so I increased the price like 50,000 or so and eventually got one. It's so surreal to think that I probably just randomly gave it to my gf to eat because it may have been worth 2mil at some point.

[@rich22221]

i remember this, the picture of RS mint cake will be forever ingrained in my mind from that event.

[@theikachi]

and im here, thinking when the bronze sword's price skyrocket to 10k was crazy

[@sethers]

Damn I remember this. I finally saved up for a whip at the max GE price (trade limit) but none were selling. I started asking around in-game and only way someone would sell me one is if I threw in a Mint Cake. I didn't have a Mint Cake though, because the day before some kind stranger asked me to give cookies to a gnome then paid me 5k for the cake that I got for it. I was devastated 'cus I worked so hard to afford my first whip, only to be told I couldn't buy it 'cus of some stupid cake.

[@erickchristensen746]

It was an odd time in rs history haha. I never bothered with the cakes myself.

[@d0sxxgaming94]

Noob get gud

[@chillbruh2320]

bruh i remember dropping my whole bank on mint cakes and they fucking crashed and never went back up it was horrible

[@codymcpeek7336]

NOSTALGIA!!! I remember doing these, they were epic i thought i was the only one who knew about it yet the price for scarfs and cakes were dumb! Great video.For some reason when i was a kid i always thought i was the smartest player ever, thought i knew things others didnt. Turns out i wasnt the only one :(

[@ProfCube]

I'd absolutely love a video on fist of guthix. Too many memories from that minigame

[@lukesfish5868]

this was at the same time Edibles spiked, i remember trading pumpkins and easter eggs for hats while everyone was busy focusing on these cakes... the hardest part was getting the junk to make up the trade limit lol

[@edwardcamacho3619]

So THATS why they were expensive as shit lmao, I remember people using it as currency,but for that reason? lmao

[@mapletree6308]

Bro just seeing the thumbnail brought up so many memories of those stupid cakes. Loool

[@Dryblack1]

Cool! I remember wondering what all the fuss over mint cakes was about back in the day

[@GuberShep]

Mint Cakes were right up there with Gilded flatpack items

[@TwinTurboZach]

Junk trading was awesome, but the gp limit was trash. Buddy of mine made billions doing junk trading and merching and transforming junk and reselling it. Man, he was cool as fuck, good times.

[@Asymmetrical-Saggin]

2 decades in the game... man.. memories from that era. Some of the best times i had were during that time and a little while afterwards. Loved the game since i started and still do. Love osrs also but nothing competes with those golden era years.

[@TheL0rd0fSpace]

Might wanna check up on that dogecoin chief

[@AmazingTSDO]

Imagine if jagex allowed real world trading I wonder how things would be

[@IL_Bgentyl]

Think there’s to much legal jargon around it.

[@LilacMonarch]

It's problematic legally and complicates tax for them, plus it massively inflates their server loads due to mass botting to fuel the RWT

[@JoeD908]

Thanks for having content thats not just leagues 😩

[@Zwazzeh]

Skip to 0:26 to pass the raid segment

[@daleHarrison93]

i was 1 of the first on the mint cakes, i made so much i used to have a screenshot with 24k of them i used to get 5m each for quite a long time, i also traded 500 mint cakes for a white phat which was 1.8b at the time, ah the good old days.

[@dialga236]

do you still have the phat?

[@Matt-km4mn]

Lol, Phats were junk when mints were popular. You had to sell phats with items like mint cakes.... sorry bud.. Anyways most people used 3rd age or even cat masks because they held more artifical value. There was also rates between stable and crashing junk. Weird times.

[@daleHarrison93]

@@Matt-km4mn lol phats have never been junk apart from when they were released, mint cakes were pretty much a scam/trick by a small amount of people and then more and more people realised but for some reason mint cakes kept going up until around 5m and thats when i sold most of mine unless i could swap them for any type of discontinued items

[@8BitGamer4life]

I remember when D Claws came out. This guy traded me his claws and Half wine of Jug because it held a high value and was considered junk. Needless to say I panic sold it for a small profit after testing them at the duel arena.

[@haydenbush3545]

@@Matt-km4mn So many people straight up lie about this time. Anyone holding a party hat knew they were screwed because you had to have a ton of 3a / mint cakes / masks to sell the thing.

[@Xevose]

The cake is a lie.

[@KnockOut101inc]

Wow I completely forgot about the Mint cakes... I always wondered why they were expensive. I know a lot of people used the dragonstone/tokkul method for RWT back inthe day

[@csys690]

2:30 ......Delivery existed before UberEats...?

[@madguitarist8042]

Awesome content lately man!!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you! I really appreciate that

[@demboyesboye3948]

Great vid ! I member when they were going for crazy price and I never understood why!

[@demboyesboye3948]

[@dialga236]

00:39 * vsauce music starts *

[@Adam-wr1wm]

Opulent tables were another item similar to mint cakes. Couldn't trade rares or third age without items like these at the time because of the trade restrictions. Really cool example of how markets will always adapt when constraints are put on them. Similar to how items like cigarettes have been used to trade within prisons.

[@ramuthra1]

My friends and I were relatively poor in RS back when this happened. I remember my friend catching wind of this early on, and he told me what was going on over Skype. Then for almost a week straight we farmed Aluft Aloft for Mint Cakes, Gnome Scarfs and Goggles. We both made 10x our bank value in a week, what it had taken years to do prior. It was absolute madness and it was one of the most fun things I ever did. Love the additional backstory here man, as I had no idea what was driving the price increase at the time... just rode the wave to riches. XD

[@Discokrieg]

"The guy would put mints in his mouth and bloodveld her clam."

[@pvmsasuke1700]

I was a peak noob at this time and me and my friends actually played Gnome Restaurant just to get a couple mint cakes of our own.

[@TaylorGainz]

I remember this. I never knew the reason why they were so expensive and I don't even know when they dropped again as I never traded with them. I always thought they were just very rare and people wanted a rare item. Crazy how I just now found out why they were so damn expensive.

[@matthaios9143]

As someone who ran multiple large merchant clans, I can confirm we used mint cakes a lot. It was a way to transfer gp to others. I co-founded a large one. It was an easy 1b gp a day.

[@georgepaps8432]

Greek?

[@georgepaps8432]

@matthaios greek?

[@matthaios9143]

@@georgepaps8432 ναι

[@georgepaps8432]

@@matthaios9143 παίζεις osrs

[@matthaios9143]

@@georgepaps8432 ναι ;)

[@anoldlady8]

But why did you have a picture of a regular cake in the thumbnail? Jebaited :[

[@ColonelloRS]

Fair point! I’ll change it as soon as I get home

[@duskshadowbrony]

Let this moment be highlighted as the time one commenter influenced an entire thumbnail to be changed.

[@syan7558]

Never knew the....backstory... of this, but I do remember making a lot of money off of it. All because I had a bunch of junk that I couldn't sell or lend off at the time, so I farmed a few dozen mintcakes with different accounts and the restaurant minigame. Offered to lowball the cakes to a merch clan friend of mine if he also bought the junk at about 70% price. Made enough out of that trade to get 99 summoning.

[@SourHog]

so like, deliveries existed before uber eats... reallly weird to hear someone not know that

[@nineicytails4287]

It's really weird to imagine that this was over a decade ago, and that there are now people playing the game that didn't actually play at the time it happened. I knew immediately by the thumbnail that this was for people who used them for junk trading after free trade was taken away.

[@lights473]

Yeah I remember the mint cake thing. I had friends who would pm me asking me to sell them mint cakes and I never knew why. This video explains it thank you

[@blight1934]

mint cakes...god damn i remember getting those thing soo many time when i was trying to go for the Gnome scarf. soo many hours of running around the gnome restaurant delivery. that shit might be relatable during covid.

[@UltimatePerfection]

No, I won't install Raid Shadow Legends. Not even if it would give me a lifetime OSRS membership.

[@gabijota11]

i would give my left pinky for lifetime osrs membership

[@Yourpolice69]

I would just uninstall it afterwards. Or get a new phone.

[@wavebuster61]

Why did you put (OSRS) when this occurred during Runescape 2/Runescape HD? This never occurred in OSRS.

[@easy.pete.wants.dynamite]

Great vid, I really like this format

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you!

[@Equitine]

It was a weird time but the story behind it is the best history behind this weird time.

[@AndyGamezoldschool]

This is real.I used to play with my chat off and someone followed me to the cakes location and payed me 1million for a cake. I was like that's weird,It went on a long time before Jagex even knew and I made about half a bil from them. It was from The Path of Glouphrie quest. This brings back so many good memories.

[@smellycandle2690]

Le me: Plays Runescape Colonello: "Nobody who plays runescape has s*x" Le me: *has child and one is in the oven* oh...

[@pkzammy666]

I remember those. As well as polished buttons. I remember within a week Polished buttons in f2p became like 500-1.5m per. And more in the high times. I managed to sell 19 buttons I got from hams for 119m XD

[@MrDontclickthislink]

Didn't this happen with lanterns too? I remember buying them for little and their G.E price was pretty high.

[@moth4514]

i remember this but i had no idea the details behind it

[@Jasongy827]

Rs economy is so complex and simple. Pretty much Wall Street

[@mrburnout]

You should do one of these about the day DS2 came out, superior bones were going for millions a piece for absolutely no reason

[@ColonelloRS]

Good idea! I’ll look in to it

[@mrburnout]

@@ColonelloRS not as much of a story as mint cakes but still a very bizarre day for OSRS. As one of the first people to finish DS2 making 4m + per vorkath kill was one of the most memorable parts of playing OS

[@KragothKills]

"The guy would put mints in his mouth and uh, bloodveld her clam."

[@love2rogue]

i remember krills 300 addy arrow P++ was a common "junk item" and youd often use those cakes to shift those :P so in an unusual way... zammy boss was good cash lol. you could even loan out your ags/claws ect this way to get people to pay more

[@brendanb8335]

You completely missed a huge aspect of mint cakes... they were a huge part of rare trading bc most partyhats had surpassed max cash value

[@ClOwOl]

I remember I did this on darkscape with shards and Jagex had to go in and add a way to get more 😂

[@jacksonwalsh6900]

Lmaooo u said buying doge at its peak that aged real well

[@michaelschuler2711]

Trading torstol was one of the best ways to get mint cakes

[@cheeseheadflipper]

Honestly I have taken my RS merch skills into the real world. I do the same thing now days but mostly with ebay and amazon VS the GE lol

[@SlendyWinky]

i never playd runescape, i don't think i will but i watched more OSRS content than playd a lot of things

[@maxwell_edison]

I'm a simple man. I see a Raid sponsor, I downvote the video. There are no exceptions.

[@maxwell_edison]

Here's the fact: Raid Shadow Legends is a scam designed to take your money, that is *universally* unfun. When a youtuber that is trusted talks about how "good" a game that even they probably hate is, for money, it betrays ethical trust and gets even more people to put money into a "game" designed solely to take money. Therefore, it is bad to support this practice, and *worse to support it for channels we want to respect* - By that logic, It is you who is a *selfish wretch of a human* - and for that, I feel bad for you.

[@maxwell_edison]

And for the whole "feeding their family" BS. Yeah sure. They can get a normal fucking job if they want that - One where they aren't basically *scamming their audience* for money. GO to this person's Twitch page, they have made THOUSANDS on *TWITCH* alone. That doesn't include their youtube profits. There are other sponsors that will pay him - he chose THIS one.

[@maxwell_edison]

The TL;DR, since you probably aren't smart enough to read the rest: You are the selfish one. He isn't broke. Raid is a scam. That means anyone who is sponsored by them is trying to sell us a scam. What does that make them? No, screw that, a TL;DR can't summarize enough: If you like a youtube channel, you *have to be against raid sponsors* because they are the embodiment of a bad channel - the youtuber is lying about liking a game that is universally hated, a game which wants your money and time. *you are selfish, incompetent, arrogant, foolish, ignorant, and worst of all... a bad fan, if you allow a youtuber you like to continue raid sponsors*

[@maxwell_edison]

So to put it again, just as I did from the very start: I see a Raid sponsor. I downvote the video. *There are no exceptions.*

[@externalboss9404]

@@maxwell_edison me too

[@michaelschuler2711]

The best and easiest way to get mint cakes was getting torstols... good times (just realized I basically said the same thing 3 months ago when I first watched the video )

[@CursedOutRS]

Super energy’s restores 20 energy per dose

[@ColonelloRS]

Correct, in OSRS :) In RS2 in 2009 it was updated to 40%.

[@Knuffeldraak]

Though; what does this have to do with OSRS? The mint cake economy happened long before OSRS even existed.

[@kinshraslave3450]

I remember this time! I always thought the cakes were just... arbitrarily chosen? Something with a good balance of easy to get and worth a lot XD I was too much of a noob to care. Was busy with low-mid level questing.

[@babshee7841]

Came back to this video because I remembered you spoke about buying dogecoin lmao, hope its going well for ya

[@Slurpified]

Wtf

[@PatientBoat]

10+ years later and now it all makes sense ..

[@citykani9223]

"Why Coal Was RuneScape's Most Popular Currency (Classic/OSRS)" When?

[@TheÒvÓwl]

Before certs were put into the game

[@NoCurrencies]

So do we add mint cakes to the official list of currencies now?

[@Michael-uo4jj]

Never even knew this happened

[@kalb1430]

Thanks for the agility training plug.

[@michaelszczech9829]

wow jagex pulled a robinhood.

[@Yupperzzzz]

I would like to also add you couldnt buy rares without having a mint cake in on the deal. especially H'ween masks and Santa Hat's.

[@liamcgalt]

doge coin comment aged badly =(

[@ColonelloRS]

Ikr, wish I bought more LOL

[@liamcgalt]

@@ColonelloRS at least you had some!

[@asdfqwerty9137]

Why have (OSRS) in the title if this isnt about OSRS? Otherwise good video.

[@Beriorn]

As of right now a mint cake is 526gp btw.

[@VVillB]

The nostalgia is real. And bloodveld her clam?

[@codyslone9258]

Imagine needing a mint just to gown down on your girlfriend..

[@Mcdoublegood2g]

I remeber buying that cake for like 1m because my friend said its next rare item lol 😆

[@007order007]

I farmed them back then and sold them for 20k each thinking i was getting a good deal, oof

[@SnackFoodOSRS]

Crazy history! Love me some mint chocolate cake

[@2012YoutubeWasBetter]

Imagine thinking doge peaked 5 months ago

[@sbh_tx]

You got that Reddit thread link?

[@bffbfjghbfkj]

Am I gay if I thought it was two guys originally?

[@Jinxy-Jo]

I miss rs. I could of made a new account like everybody else when osrs dropped. Yet I let rs3 break me down to the point I can’t be bothered to remember account info.

[@AndyAndyAndy11111]

I've never heard of this huh

[@ColonelloRS]

Yeah it’s pretty obscure hahah

[@AndyAndyAndy11111]

@@ColonelloRS The way you said "Don't believe old wives tales" made me think it was a more commonly known thing lol

[@Saxony]

because its just some nonsense somebody made up

[@JLeiva-ph9ly]

Lmao, I remember merching all day and night in these times.. haha sweaty times man

[@johnnysilverhand1124]

And all the Merchants go "HUUUHHHGGG?!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@explodingasstechnique8457]

Do a video on when they changes climbing boots to 55k high arch value. Truly believe Jagex did that and real life traded there gold.