Falling stars are landing! ... or crashing actually. Save the star sprite and receive excellent mining experience and even some special rewards once a day for the bits you mine.
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Sites are grouped by estimated location. You can hover over small maps for a closer view. Don't forget your pick! A Lunar/Dramen staff and run-and-energy enhancement are good ideas to carry along too. (Spotty capes, penance gloves, boots of lightness, energy pots, Spirit Terrorbird with scrolls, Oo\'glug salty pool.)
Stars can be spotted ahead of their arrival by using a telescope in the
Study of a Player Owned House. You can use yours or someone else's and anyone can read
any level of scope at that scope's accuracy.
What are the telescope accuracies and the associated levels?
Better telescopes give tighter windows for the time that
the star hits.
Scope
Construction Level
Window Accuracy
Oak
44
30 minutes
Teak
64
10 minutes
Mahogany
84
2 minutes
How do stars appear?
Stars arrive at random times in a random location for
each world. Across all worlds, all of the stars land in a 20 minute time
range. The star to star interval in a world is about 2 hours.
Immediately following a star fall, a telescope will show nothing (your
character makes a random comment). Within a about 10 minutes, the next
star to land in the world will show up in the telescope. At the site where
the star lands, it will appear with a whistling noise and a shadow moving
from the east, west to the site. On landing, it will break into a random
level, 1 to 9. When the star has been mined down, the sprite inside the
star will be revealed. The sprite now hangs out for about 10 minutes
and once its time is up, it will simply disappear. If the star is not
mined completely before the next star arrives, it will also disappear.
What are these levels? Why can't I mine the star?
Stars fracture into a random level when they crash. Only
higher level miners can break the highest level stars. Even so, as a
star is mined, it will drop through the levels until it cracks open when
level 1 has been mined down. Anyone of at least 10 mining can mine part
of any star as long as they can get to it and higher levels are there to
break it down to their level. There is also a greater likelihood of gems
being mined from the higher levels of a star.
Star Level
Mining Level Required
Experience per Unit
Units per Level
Experience per Level
Units in Star
Experience in Star
9
90
210
15
3150
2935
78820
8
80
145
40
5800
2920
75670
7
70
114
40
4560
2880
73470
6
60
71
80
5680
2840
68910
5
50
47
180
8460
2760
63230
4
40
32
250
8000
2580
54770
3
30
29
430
12470
2330
46770
2
20
25
700
17500
1900
34300
1
10
14
1200
16800
1200
16800
What is this star dust? What do I do with it?
Star dust is what you mine from the star. Its only use in the game is
to turn in to the sprite at any
star. For turning in the dust you get a proportional amount of
Cosmic runes, Astral runes, Gold ore notes and Gold coins.
Talk to the sprite at any cracked open star to trade in
your dust. You only get to turn in dust one time in a day, even if you
only turn in 1 dust! Days renew at about midnight UTC+0 (aka. GMT or
Zulu) within server update tolerance.
The maximum amount of dust that you can have is 200, and that is the
total on your character and in the bank. You can mine stars without
restriction and still get experience for mining dust at the stars
current level.
If you die while carrying dust, it is not an item left on the ground to
pick up.
Star dust is untradeable and has no value except what you can trade it
for at a star.
The maximum amounts of the reward for turning in 200 dust are 50,002 GP,
152 Cosmics, 52 Astrals and 20 Gold ore notes.
Are there other rewards? What's this tagging first? What is the
mining bonus after turning in dust?
Besides the rewards from trading in dust and the relatively fast mining
experience for mining the star, there are 2 more rewards that are
possible.
If you are the first person to touch (not necessarily to mine) a star,
you get a tag bonus of mining experience that is your level in mining
times 75. For example, if you just reached 10 mining and happened to tag
a star for the first time that you could mine it, your tag bonus would be
750 mining experience. On the other hand, a 99 mining level player can tag
a star first for 7425 experience.
The other reward for turning in your dust is the mining bonus. For turning
in 200 dust, for 15 minutes afterward you can mine any ore and have about a
10% chance to recover an extra ore. With a Varrock plate mining bonus,
it is possible to mine 3 ores at a time from 1 rock. It has also been noted
that this mining bonus can score double ores from a runite rock.
First line: Group:Quick name (response time) Quick name
is suggested for call outs in CC and Private communications. Response times are very
subjective and based on most forms of transport being available. See last lines.
Second line: Location or site, description.
Remaining lines: Means of reaching location, any FR notes refer to Fairy Rings.
· Ectophial · Kharryl teleport · Trouble Brewing Rum · Druid Pouches* · Blessed silver sickle* or Flail of Ivandis* · * Protection in swamp, these are not necessary equipment.
· Waterskins or Enchanted Water tiara · Glory Amulet (charged) · Duel Ring · Camulet (charged) · Pharaoh's Sceptre (charged) · money for Carpet · Ring of Charos (a) ·
1.0 Released: 2009 Jan 24
1.1 Updated/corrected some directions, added some info suggested by Flinding (RS): 2009 Feb 07
1.2 Added FAQ notes in a drop-down section, various requirement details: 2009 Apr 05
1.3 A few item notes, reformatted consistent with site style: 2009 Sep 15
to enter guild)
Dragon slayer quest completed at least to trip to Crandor.