Parties
Parties allow you to team up with other players for coordinated gameplay experiences. Currently, parties are used for competing in leagues, with more features coming in future updates.
What Are Parties?
A party is a group of characters working together. Parties have a maximum of 4 members and are led by a designated leader. Any of your characters can create or join a party, including your alt characters.
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Parties are currently used primarily for league competitions. More uses for parties are planned for the future!
Creating a Party
To create a new party:
- You must not already be in a party.
- Give your party a name (or it will default to "Party").
- You'll automatically become the Leader of the party you create.
Any of your characters can create a party separately. For example, you could have one character in a Woodcutting league party and another character in a Mining league party on the same account.
Ranks and Permissions
| Action | Leader | Member |
|---|---|---|
| Invite characters | ✔ | ✗ |
| Remove invitations | ✔ | ✗ |
| Join leagues | ✔ | ✗ |
| Leave leagues | ✔ | ✗ |
| Close the party | ✔ | ✗ |
Inviting Members
Only the party leader can send invitations:
- Search for a character by name (minimum 3 characters needed).
- Send an invite to that character.
- The invited character will receive your invite and can accept or decline it.
- You can have up to 5 pending invitations out to characters at any time.
INFO
When inviting a member, an invite persists until accepted, declined, or the party is closed.
Invite Limits
- Each party can have pending invites equal to its available slots (e.g., if you have 2 members, you can have up to 2 pending invites).
- Each character can receive a maximum of 5 pending invites across all parties at once.
Accepting or Declining Invites
When you receive an invite to join a party:
- You can see all your pending invites in your invites tab.
- Accept the invite to join the party.
- Decline the invite to reject it.
Once you accept, you'll become a Member of that party and can start participating in that party's activities.
Leaving a Party
Members can leave their party when it is not locked. When you leave:
- You'll be removed from the party immediately.
- If your party was participating in a league, your contribution data remains (it's tracked individually).
INFO
Leaders cannot leave their parties directly. As a leader, you must close the party instead.
Closing a Party
Only the party leader can close a party, and only when it is not locked:
- Closing a party removes all members immediately.
- Any pending invites are cancelled.
- If the party is currently in a league, the party's registration is terminated and all progress is lost.
WARNING
Closing a party while in an active league will cause you to lose all league progress. This cannot be recovered.
Locked Party
Certain activities can lock a party to keep its members together. While the party is locked, members cannot join or leave, new invitations cannot be sent, and the leader cannot close it. Existing invitations cannot be accepted until the lock ends.
A lock icon beside the party name shows that the party is locked. The message below explains the reason. The eye icon marks a private party and is separate from the party lock.
Slayer Contracts
Accepting a party Slayer contract locks the party until all its contracts expire. Each contract lasts 24 hours from acceptance. Finishing the contracts early does not unlock the party. Accepting another contract later can extend the lock to that contract's expiry.
The leader must confirm the lock before generating a contract. Make sure everyone is ready before accepting it.
Character and Account Deletion
A party lock does not prevent character or account deletion. The deleted character is removed from the party.
If the leader is deleted, leadership passes to the longest-standing remaining member whose account is not being deleted. Characters whose accounts have already been deleted cannot become leader. If no eligible member remains, the party is deleted.
When the party survives, its Slayer contracts keep their progress, kill targets, rewards already earned, and original expiry times. Deletion does not unlock the party or free contract slots early.
Party Restrictions During Leagues
Joining an upcoming or active league prevents new members from joining and new invitations from being sent. Pending invites are automatically cancelled when the party joins the league.
League participation alone still allows members to leave and the leader to close the party. If Slayer contracts also lock the party, those actions remain blocked until the contracts expire.
Once the party has no upcoming or active leagues, it can invite new members again, provided no party lock is active.
Using Alt Characters
You can use your alternative characters in parties:
- Each of your characters can have their own party or join together to be in one party.
- An alt character can join someone else's party (and vice versa).
Future Expansions
Parties are a foundation for future gameplay. Additional features and uses for parties are planned for upcoming releases.