# Old School RuneScape/Skills
## Skills

In Runescape, there are things called "skills" which are tasks players can level up. For example, one of these skills is cooking. When a player wants to cook, they will have to do a task, such as getting meat to cook on a fire. When the player finishes the task, they receive 'xp', or 'experience', towards that skill. For example, for cooking meat, players get 30 xp towards the cooking skills for successfully cooking the piece of meat. Players also have to reach a certain amount of experience to reach the next level. For example, at level 1, players need 83 xp to reach level 2.
The maximum xp that players can earn in each skill is 200,000,000. So far, only 3 players have reached this mark.
There are 21 skills that players can raise in Runescape. However, only 15 of these skills are available for free players, which are listed below. Combat (melee) has 4 skills that players can raise.

### Experience Table

Below is the link to the experience table. This table shows players how much experience they need to reach to get to the next level, as well as the experience difference from the last level they were at.
* Experience Table

### Free Skills

These are skills that all players can raise, both members and non-members.
* Combat (Melee) - This skill involves players fighting with their fists and weapons. This one of the three combat styles.
* Cooking - This skill involves players baking and cooking food, such as fish and pies. Eating these foods will heal a player's hitpoints, which is involved with combat.
* Crafting - This skill involves players creating items, such as tiaras and pots.
* Firemaking - This skill involves players lighting logs and lamps. Many players do not raise this skill, as no money can be gained from it.
* Fishing - This skill involves players fishing at rivers and seas. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
* Magic - This skill involves players fighting with magical spells. This is one of the three combat styles.
* Mining - This skill involves players hitting rocks with pickaxes to obtain ores. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
* Prayer - This skill involves players burying bones which are dropped when a player defeats an enemy. This is the slowest skill to raise in all of RuneScape.
* Ranged - This skill involves players fighting with projectiles from a distance. It is one of the three combat styles.
* Runecrafting - This skill involves players creating runes which are used for magic.
* Smithing - This skill involves players creating weapons and armour which can be worn when fighting. It is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
* Woodcutting - This skill involves players cutting trees. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.

### Members Skills

These are skills that members can raise.
* Agility - This skill involves players taking shortcuts to arrive at destinations quicker. This is a slow skill to raise.
* Farming - This skill involves players growing their own vegetables and fruits. Many players do not like this skill as it takes a long time to grow the vegetation.
* Fletching - This skill involves players creating items which can be used for ranged. This is one of the more popular skills and one of the best money-making skills.
* Herblore - This skill involves players creating potions which can be used on them to help them.
* Slayer - This skill involves players killing certain monsters.
* Thieving - This skill involves players stealing from stalls and monsters.