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Hardcore characters

November 12, 2026 · 10:15

The form that names a new character now offers hardcore.

Characters

  • A new character can be made hardcore, on the form where it is named, and never changed after
  • A hardcore character wears a skull by its name wherever a name is shown
  • A hardcore character uses no auction house and stakes no wager, either way
  • Killed by a monster, a hardcore character dies for good: kept as it was, never played again, its place on the account freed
  • A dead character's profile says how it died and what it wore, carried and banked, and the leaderboards keep it with (dead) by its name
  • The world room tells each death, with the character's combat level and experience across every skill

Arena

  • An ordinary duel is a safe death for a hardcore character, and says so
  • Two hardcore characters can fight a duel to the death, ticked on the challenge and agreed by typing your own name, with no fleeing it

Here

  • Avoid fights, under Repeat, takes away every Fight button, for any character

Leaderboards

  • Every board can be read for hardcore characters alone, Everyone or Hardcore beside the week, the month and all time

Notifications

  • A sixth, when your character dies to a monster, in place of the queue's end, with a setting of its own

Reference

  • How hardcore works, a page of its own

Privacy

  • The privacy page names the cookie that remembers Avoid fights, and says what a dead hardcore character's profile keeps

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