Old School RuneScape hero makes history by completing ludicrous, multi-year quest to collect every boss drop in the game

pcgamer.com:

In an act of, sure, let's call it heroism, an Old School RuneScape (OSRS) player has become the first ever to acquire every single one of the potential drops spat out by the game's bosses on death. Spotted by GamesRadar, a player named Bazilijus managed fill every entry in the Bosses section of the game's Collection Log—basically a checklist of the game's many, many items—making RuneScape history and putting themself squarely in the #1 position of the game's Collection Log leaderboard.

FIRST PERSON TO GREEN ENTIRE BOSS LOG pic.twitter.com/Vhr8c5qLnzJune 25, 2023

That's a staggering amount of work, and it's totally up to chance. Like pretty much any MMO, the drops you get when you defeat a boss in OSRS are up to the fickle whims of the game's RNG systems, meaning Bazilijus had to slog through multiple boss encounters over and over and over again before finally being able collect everything it was possible for each one to drop. Some quick back-of-a-napkin maths from me says that the player amassed around 150,000 boss kills in total to reach their prize.

If you check their leaderboard entry, you'll see that some bosses only needed defeating a hundred-or-so times before Bazilijus had gathered everything it was possible for them to drop. Others needed fighting several thousand times. At least one boss—Callisto—has died to Bazilijus 10,001 times. I think it's just bullying at that point, although I'm not sure of who.

Bazilijus says they have about 919 days—or 22,000 hours—in OSRS all-told, but not all of that has been dedicated to their mission to complete the game's boss log. In fact, even though the Collection Log itself was added to the game back in 2018, Bazilijus only really started on their quest back when the Covid-19