These Runescape Myths have yet to be Answered

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Series is back with another video - Mythbusting runescape! I had a lot of fun putting your suggestions to the test. If you have a myth or theory you'd like me to test out, make sure to leave in the comments below. OSRS is such a massive, in-depth game, I'm sure we can come up with some awesome things together. :) Enjoy!
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[@SoupRS]

we out here busting these runescape myths - make sure to leave any things that you would like me to try in the comments. :) Go to buyraycon.com/souprs for 15% off your order, plus get free domestic or flat fee international shipping. Brought to you by Raycon.

[@landlordwizard]

drayshort cut 3sec +plus run energy, u guys always forget run energy

[@PoorSharkie]

Why is the ad link c engineer's sponsor link..?

[@SoupRS]

@@landlordwizard True, but with how common Staminas and pool's are in a POH, I really don't think run energy is as relevant as it used to be.

[@landlordwizard]

@@SoupRS true but low level ironmans ;) love u soup - mrtradelimit

[@HUTCHSUCKSMUCH]

raycons are garbage lmao

[@StephireGG]

For me, the biggest gain of the draynor wall shortcut is the run energy saved, which only really plays out on longer journeys than the examples here. For future shortcut testing it would be interesting to see what your run energy is at the end of the two methods as well :)

[@Edzter]

on top of that, the cabbage patch tile is an extra click some people would not want to bother doing

[@HunterVook]

@@Edzter Aside from there being a teleport closer to the patch than the shortcut would service anyways

[@komosobyplays]

I came here to say this, but I knew in my heart it had already been said

[@bobmarley-ml7wn]

@@HunterVook suffice*

[@jiaan100]

Members out here thinking run is the default speed of runesvape. I'll stick to my f2p IM walking and grinding, you can keep your zoomer skilling minigames, powercrept rates, and daily/hourly farming obligations.

[@killlaqueen]

I think the pet rock is actually a baby rock crab which checks out because you get it in fremnic which is where rock crabs are located.

[@alexpowell1184]

It’s a rock.

[@yourGothicfriend]

That would actually be pretty dope

[@chadandersen6590]

@@alexpowell1184 nice spongebob reference

[@guzdozeman6555]

Coincidence? I think not!

[@BasildonJewellery]

Rock Lobster!

[@BuzRS]

I've heard a myth that you get more nests from trees by using a lower tier axe with a less likely cut chance. I believe this stems from some ambiguous wording on the Bird's Nest wiki page, but would love to have this disproven.

[@2rare2die26]

My myth - the goblins are sitting on a massive horde of unknown metal to Glienor: Zinc. Bronze is an alloy made from Copper and Tin. Brass is made from Copper and Zinc. Goblins are the only creature in the game to drop anything made of brass - a brass necklace. How could they have made the necklace without Zinc? Clearly, they have a depot of the stuff that us humans are completely unaware of

[@cytofusion6072]

I genuinely though the pet rock moving thing was common knowledge. I’ve always kept 25 multicolored pet rocks in my RS3 POH because o love how they move everytime I go in and out.

[@PlayThatDvD]

Another fun fact about the pet rock. If you out it in your POH in the menagerie, and delete the room, the pet rock will stay on the ground forever. Even after Building another room where the menagerie used to be, or when moving rooms around. It also never despawns. Truly amazing!

[@heymrhimr]

Does it stay on the ground in one spot or does it move around like in the video after deleting the menagerie?

[@PlayThatDvD]

@@heymrhimr it stays in the same place, and doesn't move

[@abraham3556]

@@heymrhimr Fun fact. you don't even need a menagerie for it. You can genuinely just :place the pet rock down: not in the menagerie, and it stays on the ground in your poh. If you have ground items enabled on runelite. The pet rock you "place" on the ground, instead of in the menagerie, is treated as an item and not a pet.

[@VanBurenOfficial]

I'm not subbed to Soup, I could be swayed, but I'm damn on the fence. Is he worth it!?!? I stay up all night in a cold sweat trying to decide. I go back and forth every 20 minutes.

[@wuu2]

its time to do a tier list of all agility shortcuts in the game brother

[@ProfCube]

think if we're talking time the hydra one DOES lose time. (With the benefit of taking 0 damage tho)

[@GospelFire]

@@ProfCube That one in the kourend catacombs near the metal dragons where you have to manually click on every rock is a close contender, legit takes like 15+ seconds to cross

[@Killerjerick]

The cosmic altar shortcuts are abysmal

[@Zehiret]

All wilderness shorcuts save a lot of time

[@sylvariatzaka]

You shouldn't give away S tier ideas like that for free my man

[@bakara19909]

Back in the day of rs2, me and my friend always believed that getting an uncut sapphire drop "reset" the potential drops in the drop table and oddly enough, we would get unique drops during the next kill or very close after receiving the uncut sapphires. This happened very commonly during our DKS trips. It felt very coincidental but we always believed it after a while.

[@anialator1000000]

There is a hidden benefit With the Draynor shortcut in such cases. Not only is it 3 seconds faster in your tests, It consumes less run energy. about 6-7 energy i think based on what you showed

[@CaelenSawyers]

Myth: Mage Training Arena actually trains my patience, not my mage

[@Lewufuwi]

"I'd like to submit this myth secretly" "EXJMOD WOLF IS SUBMITTING A MYTH SECRETLY" 💀💀💀

[@magei000]

Yeah, that also felt weird to me. Didn't seem like the rock moving in POH was what wolf meant

[@Wolfiiee]

Haha, I meant I didn't want to post it in response to his public tweet - secretly as in via DM. I can see how it can be interpreted differently!

[@Lewufuwi]

@@Wolfiiee I did actually assume that, but phrasing it this way gave me a giggle ;) glad you’re still involved in the community of osrs :)

[@Spindude2]

The hydra shortcut is slower than just running. Just protects you from now getting attacked

[@MGX93dot]

its the same speed. which is intentional, it wasnt meant to be a "short"cut, it was meant to be a "i cba to click through these annoying aggressive monsters"cut

[@sk8rdman]

@@MGX93dot If you die and have to get back to reclaim your items, you'd better be able to use that short cut, or at least be careful running past those minions. I almost died and lost my items like that one time.

[@TillykkeRS]

The shortcut to Alchemical Hydra has an insanely long black screen with text. Worth testing if it's only to negate damage from regular hydras.

[@olivieri2300]

I tested it myself and it is way longer but at least you dont take damage from the hydras. I guess this is the reason

[@TillykkeRS]

@@olivieri2300 A stretch classifying it as a shortcut then 😂 But yeah, assumed so.

[@InstancesKMS]

it was never supposed to get you there faster

[@Zehiret]

You save some energy run (useful if you are killing it with melee) and some prayer points

[@TillykkeRS]

@@Zehiret That's true. All my kills have been with tbow, so didn't even consider it

[@arnescheie2497]

The stile shortcut at the Falador cabbage patch actually teaches a valuable lesson about space and time, cause even though just running through the gate is much faster than the stile animation, The Stile is still the fastest way because you get to walk diagonally over the field.

[@KristofferGT]

In regards to the fence shortcut, if your destination tile was one more tile north (or north-east even) there would have been no difference in the ticks taken. Character runs at 2t/s and walks as 1t/s. Using the shortcut you were running as you hit the tile, but when going through the gate, you were walking. Essentially, the shortcut is only a ‘shortcut’ if your destination tile is an even amount of tiles away from the fence hop.

[@KristofferGT]

This, however, also doesn’t take into account whether your character is walking or running (aka starting an odd vs even amount of tiles away) to the last tile before doing the shortcut.

[@DerpyDerpDevit]

The chunk loading one can be longer if your client doesn't have certain assets cached. Either on new install or new content, the "Loading, please wait" can be a few ticks longer when teleporting etc.

[@ksfjcu]

You should compile the results of these into a spreadsheet or wiki article! I was looking for that one video where you test Tirranwn theories (how to successfully pass traps) and couldn't find it the other days

[@arandomwalk]

Soup has kept his competition voice eternally

[@xEric1993]

Another exception to the 1/8 trees is Sullisceps on fossil island which I believe are 1/16

[@harrycrosswell2844]

Myth: It's possible to run all the way from Lumbridge basement to Dorgesh-kaan and enter without a lightsource.

[@sk8rdman]

For the tick counting shortcut myths you should have enabled "current tile" on the tile indicator plugin. With that enabled, you only need to count how many times the current tile changes to determine the number of ticks it takes. This is more precise than what you did for a couple reasons. The current tile is always a bit ahead of where your character appears in the animation, so just trying to eyeball where the character is like you did will always be off, and how far it's off can vary with latency. Also, when running your current tile advances along the shortest path two tiles at a time, so if the path is an odd number of tiles, then you will always end up walking the final tile. To compare two paths fairly, you would want to ensure that both paths have an even number of tiles, or at least acknowledge that one path gets you one tile further in a given number of ticks. Changing your methodology to one based on game cycles is definitely an improvement, but you can still do better.

[@chewybacaking]

I've always heard, even back in 2005 staking days, that unpoisoned dragon daggers are more accurate than a dds for specs. I'd love to see if that was actually true or not.

[@twigwick]

i SWEAR by this! I was always laughed at the Duel Arena. That is... until they died.

[@Sanguivore]

Always heard this one too! Had lots of mates that used to PK with them for this exact reason.

[@skulltrick]

Myth: When running, using 1% run energy at 1% total run energy takes you more tiles than using 1% run energy at any other run energy %

[@altunovaz]

timing different methods of getting places is pretty interesting, like whats the fastest way to get to Taverly dungeon? Also, the skeletal wyvern cave got a new shortcut added, but you're in a black screen for so long that it doesn't feel like an actual shortcut so that would be fun to test.

[@nathanharmon8971]

Worst shortcut: pipe to get the alchemical hydra. It’s like a minute long dialogue you sit through almost certain that running around is faster

[@Xhotic]

runescape content is very few right now , good to finally see a video

[@stephenhughes1994]

This is one I've never been definitively able to figure out. When you cast NPC Contact, your character will face the direction of that NPC when progressing through dialogue but ONLY if they're on the same level as you (Ex: RuneScape Surface, Catacombs, etc.)

[@Mnkeys]

That wiki plugin is actually great, definitely enabling it. Would love to have a more updated wiki

[@reticulous_pets]

I have a myth that ive noticed. if i wait a while to do a birdhouse run. I tend to get more nests than if i do them regularly throughout the day. Of course ill end up with a similar amount since im doing them more frequently but, From a single bird house there seems to be more than the more frequently visited ones.

[@nbahoopshd5089]

Myth: Through the use of excessive logging out and patience you can utilize a smithing boost eternally

[@houndnz4703]

It's 12 seconds. You can world hop before you're logged in for 12 seconds to keep boosts forever.

[@DullUsername]

Myth: In the maze random event, it is faster to move it the tile before each door and then click it tick perfect than it is to just click the door. (in the cases where running to the door has you run all the way to the tile and not stop and walk the last one.) Maybe I'm just fooling myself but it feels faster.

[@eprimchad2576]

One i want to know is if the stepping stone shortcut from the gem mine to duradel is actually quicker than just running around, i assume it would be but a few times i exit the mine the same tick as someone, take the shortcut, but they seem to get to duradel before i do.

[@sylvariatzaka]

Insanely faster, no test required!

[@Grezwal]

14:23 did he forget oak or am I tripping?

[@zacharyjames4121]

It's really funny too with that shortcut it actually had a lower agility requirement, and no diary achievement needed back in OG RS

[@MagusArtStudios]

at 12:30 the way it works I'm pretty sure is the chunks are loaded in if there is a player there to trigger the chunk to be loaded in with the lag lines in game this would be a perfect test for mythbusters.

[@kanisnealon5062]

Either I'm insane or something is 100% bugged with the resurrect crops spell. I swear like half the time the crops that I resurrect die. My theory is that compost isn't re-applied correctly, even though it tells you it is.

[@MuwuRS]

The pet rock myth can easily be explained by it being moved by other pets/the servant/a burglar when we're not home!

[@quasarkid]

Regarding shortcuts that don’t save you time. I believe the hydra shortcut in Mount Karuulm slayer dungeon is the same time as if you ran, you just aren’t hit by hydras on the way through. And the Per Rock thing, I know you’re being a little cheeky, but whenever you enter your home instance it spawns in the pets on random tiles. You can have multiple “extra” pets in your menagerie up to 12 total. I put a bunch of rocks in for DKs trips and it’s very easy to see they just spawn in rendomly every time you load.

[@kevinryanndy3541]

There should be a point where the draynor shortcut does not save time (the more north of draynor you are starting from). It would be interesting to know the breakeven point between the two paths

[@MrQuinnlord]

0:30 - "submit a myth secretly" after revealing all the submitter's personal info

[@OSRSEman]

Is the agility check faster than the strength check when going to god wars dungeon?

[@blooo_blooo]

I always thought the main point of alot of shortcuts was not to save time, but run energy

[@amoeudaemonic6435]

Soup that Raycon transition was too seamless lmao

[@liptherapypirate]

The only reason I upgraded my menagerie was to have more rocks in my house - yes, you can stack them

[@XFoundNemoX]

I saw something on Reddit a while ago about nuggets from MLM being more common at levels ending in 1. 61,71,81,91 etc

[@dmonitize9011]

"Can I submit a myth secretly?" Proceeds to put his name and a screenshot of the secret request in the video GG Soup

[@Prostarman]

I think there is more to the POH load times. Myth: POH loads faster if your rooms are in the bottom left of the grid.

[@bobthenoob4643]

Please look into the myth, if you have run on while thieving from an ardy knight while someone is splashing will cause the knight to move more then if you had run off

[@NexusUwU541]

Make your rock fight another pet. Confirmed baby rock crab. Its definitely alive, when you place it in the fighting arena it will throw up a question mark then a bunch of "frown" =-( faces. I think it even jumped out of the arena the first time I placed another pet in with it. The pet rock definitely has unique interaction, and not only mechanically acts like an actual pet, but it very much has functions that give it a personality.

[@Svendzeen]

Myth: You will recieve more birdnests from birdhouses that has been ready to harvest for a while as opposed to birdhouses that just became ready to harvest. And same with herbpatches?

[@TaoTaoTaoTaoTaoTaoTaoTaoTaoTao]

76 agility and I keep failing the varrock lvl31 stepping stones to draynor there is 4 instances of agility checks (1 for each stone). Almost impossible to cross well on the 2nd and 3rd stone. Always slip.

[@SullivanUnderscore]

Another shortcut I’ve always wondered about was the incredibly long black screen when using the agility shortcut in the Asgarnian ice dungeon to skeletal wyverns. Only positive seems to be the save of your run energy

[@DaveChurchill]

Myth to Investigate: Is the chance of cutting a web is higher with a better weapon than just using a knife?

[@Nordicjuice]

You should do the agility shortcut from lumby to varrock at the fork, along with running around it past the guild.

[@hampsterducktape]

I keep my pet rock in my POH most of the time and always just assumed it was a SCP-173 type of situation.

[@Quade-]

Did the pet rock only move with or without a butler in the house? Maybe the butler is messing with us.

[@cbeds1221]

Myth: after taking breaks from the game, you have better RNG. Ever take a few weeks off and then come back and the drops just roll in? Then not so much a myth, but certain pets will interact with the Cat Tree in your POH. The two I’ve seen are the Hell Puppy and Vorki. Pretty interesting.

[@sylvariatzaka]

I've always wondered that too. Does account age/world your own/location you're at play a roll in any RNG? Methinks no. No, it's all mental.

[@matthijs2981]

Super good community shoutout to have the crowdsourcing things on. Makes the wiki less random opinions and more hard data :)

[@spiegs8188]

Pet rock moves at the dks doors. If you leave and have to come back before it despawns it will be about 5 tiles away from where you left it

[@cxgamer9680]

Myth: Birds nests have a higher chance to spawn when there's more walkable tiles around it.

[@ProfCube]

Myth: Fishing spots will never move if nobody is fishing at it. Do Fishing spots work like trees, a 1 in x change for the spot to move after each xp drop? Or are they set on timers that will move regardless if someone's using it?

[@Diatain]

Ad read made me giggle because I actually was listening to the video with Raycon earbuds. The draynor shortcut got me thinking. Lately, when I TP to Varrock, I've been running north through the castle grounds to get to the GE because it feels faster. Is it actually faster than running west and going behind the bank? EDIT: This is obviously assuming you don't TP directly to the GE.

[@Ozonencb]

that party room balloon coding is impressive.

[@Mockthenerd]

I knew about the pet rock for years. I even let it sit in the fancy cat basket.

[@IntolerantMaster]

Do the number of white balls in Akhha's enraged phase change based on the number of hitsplats his shadows take?

[@Dr.Zygote]

I thought it was based on the raid level

[@Yltimate_]

There's always same

[@Apvol]

Fun fact on the log cutting one, sullisceps have a 1/16 chance of cutting down

[@PersonOfBlah]

The shortcut to Alchemical Hydra is known to not really save time but its be interesting to see exactly how close it is vs just running past the little hydras.

[@jackscaping3618]

i just figured out that more than 1 kandarin headgear in the cave horror caves makes your screen BRIGHTER and BRIGHTER. Pretty cool huh

[@Brandon23642]

The redwood spots at the farm guild deplete faster than the woodcutting guild.

[@Fatso97]

The teleportation can be attributed by your ram, internet speed and cache. Teleporting will probably be different for most people

[@jeremytremblay9976]

the fishbowl does move too in the POH when you're away

[@invincaspartan]

Myth: You can get a superior Monster to spawn if you reanimate a Monster you have a task for.

[@Ark_Exercise]

ive had my pet rock running round my house for a whole yr now, i thought everyone knew that it moved

[@ashyams_]

7:47 probably pointed out before but the mith grapple shortcut at falador is literally SLOWER, like a lot

[@matthewbraker6306]

So this myth is just one that I feel happens to me like the tree one. When I let an allotment patch stay for a few days to a week I get more snapegrass or watermelons, than when I pick them the same day they grow.

[@jackoftraes2122]

I actually knew about the pet rock moving years ago. I thought most people noticed, but apparently not.

[@satanm8c40]

There's also a runelite plugin that plays a sound per tick (normally used for tick manipulation skilling)

[@yaminub]

Always a good day when Soup uploads

[@wakabala]

Was that J1mmy popping the balloons in the party room? Lol

[@collinjones9103]

squeezing through the crack at gwd is faster than the boulder

[@hygrant4928]

Myth: You can body block a farmer while pickpocketing but someone running underneath you will cause something in the farmers code to update and the block will fail. Not sure if this is a myth really, but would like to have a better understanding of the mechanics behind this.

[@codymiller8750]

Alright soup so what's next is you're going to do a series called battle of the hard cores. Where you region lock ghcim based on a region of there picking. You give them x amount of time to progress and then teams fight in brackets. Winner wins the opposing teams region. If their region is the same they get to either pick or spin a wheel. They can use their previous region along with the the new 1.

[@MrDuck313]

I am 100% convinced that the Attas seed is bugged. It should increase yield, but it actively decreased it instead. There was a tweet from mod ash a while ago in which he said something fishy was going on, but I can't find conclusive evidence of the contrary. Ash said it might have something to do with a strange interaction with the bottomless bucket.

[@pauly8856]

Would love to see the Shilo Village shortcut from the gem mine to Duradel. Is it faster to take the shortcut?

[@Japed]

So the pet rock is a weeping angel from Doctor Who, gotcha

[@EwokPanda]

Myth: The Enhanced crystal weapon seed exists (1800kc)

[@oposdeo]

Myth: If you stand on portal spawn in Guardians of the Rift, can it spawn on top of you or always spawn somewhere else? If it cannot spawn on top of you, what if you cover all of the spawns?

[@TheMrGurbz]

Don’t know if this has been confirmed before, but I’d like to see if the hydra shortcut is actually shorter

[@outotyyppi3739]

Here's a myth I've been wondering about forever that I'm still not sure either way about: Does running away from, or into an incoming projectile attack (mage/range) affect the exact time the hit will land on you? (e.g. Does running away from an already airborne dark bow spec make it hit later, therefore giving you more time to eat?)

[@marwansaeed6556]

what is fastest way to reach to nm without the tablet 1- tob bank and run 2- bank somewhere else and use ecto then slepe boat 3- use burgh de rot bank then boat to slepe

[@Exxar-Kuun]

I would like to say, I have seen the fence stile in use in the back country for whom ever to step offer with ease. It is a real thing!

[@IntingPig]

I feel like the Stile shortcut in Draynor was more effective when those gates could close. People would lock you out and you would have the animation of opening the gate, it's not much of a difference, but maybe saved a whole second instead.

[@anonanon8252]

Here's another agility related myth for you: the agility shortcut to get to Alchemical Hydra is NOT faster than simply running around.

[@qrowing]

Soup! We need another one of these!

[@James-pm1qr]

Myth: There's no quitting Runescape, only taking breaks.

[@callmepot]

The log balance at Sinclair mansion always felt cursed to me, I got the lyre(I) asap in spite of it

[@SHINKU93]

You can also put the fishbowl in the POH and it moves which makes me think its just some mechanic.

[@doopliss6648]

Wow this series just shows how far RS has gone... It was so popular that a youtube show was created about it!! (More than 1) I love OSRS...

[@smallblue08]

the agility shortcut to the alchemical hydra is slower than running there iirc but you avoid taking any damage from the regular hydras