Hardcore Worlds open in Old School RuneScape on November 4, and Jagex is launching them with a real-world prize draw. The Reaper’s Raffle runs from November 4 to November 30. Players earn raffle entries by completing tasks on the new worlds, and the winners will be drawn live on December 8.
How entries work
Death has put together a set of Bounty Boards covering PvM, Skilling and the Wilderness. Each task you complete on Hardcore Worlds gets you one raffle entry. Logging in during the first month earns your first entry automatically.
Hardcore Worlds are built around dying and starting over, so it matters that tasks and entries stay with you after death. Progress you make before dying still counts, and you can keep working on other tasks while you rebuild.
There is no in-game interface for the tasks. Jagex says it tracks completions behind the scenes and checks them itself. If you want to follow your own progress, the task list is on the official Reaper’s Raffle page. It includes a tracker you update by hand, with:
- An overview of your progress overall and for each board
- Room to pin up to 50 tasks
- Filters, sorting and search by task or task type
- A view of which prizes your completed tasks make you eligible for
- Saved progress, pins, hidden tasks and filters, but only on the same device
The tracker is only there for your own reference. Entries are based on what Jagex records, not on what you tick off.
Prizes, World Goals and World Firsts
More than 100 prizes are in the draw, including:
- Official OSRS merchandise
- A custom Death statue
- A Starforge PC bundle and other Starforge items
- Creator Crafted items
- Sets from OSRSBricks
Some prizes are still being made, and Jagex will add preview images once they’re finished.
The community can also add prizes to the pool through World Goals. These are shared targets the whole player base works toward, such as 250,000 quests completed, 500,000 bosses killed or 100,000,000 XP earned in total. They run for the same period as the raffle, and you take part just by playing. Each goal reached adds a prize to the draw. Most of these are cash prizes, plus a second Starforge OSRS PC Bundle (Pro).
There will also be World Firsts. Some will be celebrated in-game, others come with prizes from Jagex, and the people who achieve them will be honoured at Jagex HQ. The full list will be published on Wednesday, shortly before the worlds go live. Jagex plans to update World Goal progress and any World Firsts on the event page every day.
The December 8 livestream will feature Death and other guests. Besides drawing the winners, the stream will look back at player achievements and run an in memoriam for those who died most often. Winners will be contacted only through the in-game messaging system, and prizes are due to ship at the beginning of 2027.
Source: Old School RuneScape official news.
