In 2002, RuneScape Classic grew tremendously, and started to gain popularity.
January
- 4 January - Servers 5 and 6 online.
February
- 27 February - RuneScape membership was released along with the new skill Herblaw and 5 new quests: Druidic Ritual, Lost City, Witch's House, Heroes' Quest and Merlin's Crystal.
March
- 1 March - Latest RuneScape News (1 March 2002)
- 18 March - Latest RuneScape News.
- Blood Rune released with high level spells.
- Teleport to Camelot.
- Wilderness area in Edgeville Dungeon.
- Glass Making ability for Crafting.
- New Monster - Black unicorn.
- Two additional full time staff members are are hired by Jagex
- 21 March - 2 New RuneScape Servers online. 8 Worlds, 10,000 capacity.
- 25 March - Fletching skill was released.
- 26 March - Stringing bows xp was increased. Woodcutting trees xp was increased.
April
- 9 April - Family Crest quest was released.
- 30 April - Thieving skill was released.
- Tribal Totem quest was released.
- City of Ardougne was released.
May
- 10 May - Latest RuneScape News.
- Fire Giant released.
- Make Over Mage released.
- Level - 56 wilderness open.
- Curry released.
- 28 May - Latest RuneScape News:
- Fishing Contest was released
- Monk's Friend was released
- 29 May - 2000 RuneScape accounts were stat-wiped for macroing/autoing or using third-party RuneScape clients.
June
- 17 June - Fishing guild was released.
July
- 10 July - Some bugs fixed
- 12 July - More ways to get membership!
- 18 July - Talk about switching to a new server
- 19 July - RuneScape database on a faster server.
- 20 July - Customer Support database online
- 23 July - 3 new members quests, The Holy Grail, Tree Gnome Village, and Fight Arena, were added.
- 26 July - The Highscore tables show the top 100,000
August
- 15 August - 2 new members quests, Hazeel Cult and Sheep Herder, were added.
- 26 August - In the pipeline...
- 26 August - Warning about fake websites.
- 27 August - The Plague City quest is added, along with the Ardougne teleport spell.
September
- 9 September - The quest Sea Slug was added.
- 11 September - Report abuse feature added.
- 19 September - Graphics Previews.
- 24 September - Tutorial Island, the Waterfall Quest, and the King Black Dragon were added.
- 25 September - World map updated.
- 30 September - RuneScape Newsletter created.
October
- 9 October - Talk about work on RuneScape 2 progress
- 18 October - More sneak peak images of RS2
- 23 October - Several new updates, including:
- 2 members quests, Biohazard and Jungle Potion
- The town of Yanille
- The members spells Enfeeble, Stun, and Vulnerability, along with the Soul rune.
- Dragon bones
- The combat system was changed so that Monsters that were far weaker than the player would no longer auto attack.
- 25 October - Talk about previous week's update and work on Agility skill.
- The Halloween Masks were dropped on 30 October.
November
- 1 November - Jmod gets called a noob
- 6 November - Glitch in Varrock warning.
- 11 November - Servers upgraded.
- 13 November - Fatigue system was released.
- Wilderness monsters made aggressive regardless of level.
- 14 November - Fatigue system tweaked.
- 15 November - Get more gems while Mining and further tweaks to fatigue system.
- 25 November - The Mining and Fishing systems were changed.
- 28 November - Windows OS update negatively affected RuneScape.
December
- 2 December - Talk about changing look of the website.
- 11 December - New website design released.
- 12 December - The Agility skill was added, along with the Grand Tree quest.
- - over 400 botters banned.
- 23 December - New servers added.
- 25 December - the 2002 Christmas event started, with the introduction of Santa Hats.
First level 99s
9 more skills were maxed out for the first time this year:
- Firemaking - Cowchicken
- Fishing - Tks
- Attack - Zonghui
- Strength - Ladykilljoy
- Hits - Zonghui
- Defense - Zonghui
- Thieving - Swedemike
- Mining - Joe Bill64
- Ranged - Snake Salva
- This record is in dispute, however, as the account was later banned for cheating.
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