   Skills in RuneScape are the abilities that enable players to perform activities in the game. Players gain experience (EXP) in a skill when they utilize the skill, e.g. mining ore increases the mining skill, thereby increasing their level in that skill. As the skill level rises, the ability to retrieve better raw materials and produce better products increases, as does the experience awarded. The total skill level of a player partly symbolizes the player’s status in the game. The RuneScape highscore tables can be viewed by all players. Upon reaching the highest available level in a skill, members may buy a special cape for 99000 coins, referred to as a “Cape of Achievement” or a “Skill Cape”, which, when operated, gives a bonus in that skill and can be used to perform an emotion related to that skill. Some bonuses have limited durations to limit the advantage given in combat.
Gaining levels in certain skills like: attack, strength, defence, ranged, magic, hitpoints, prayer, and summoning increases the player’s combat level. Some skills, such as woodcutting and fishing, enables the player to collect raw materials that can be processed into usable items using other skills, such as fletching and cooking, respectively. The items created can be used by the player or sold to other players in game for a profit. Other skills allow players to kill certain NPCs, build their own houses which is called “Player Owned Houses (POH), move around the map with greater ease, steal from NPCs and various stalls and chests located in-game, cook their own food, create their own potions with the skill herblore, create runestones and weapons, grow their own plants with the skill farming, hunt NPC animals with the skill hunting, and summon familiars to help in combat and skilling with the skill summoning.
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