OSRS Halloween 2022 Guide
Here's all you need to know about how to complete the 2022 Old School RuneScape Halloween event.
The 2022 Halloween event runs in OSRS between October 26th and November 16th. This means you have a minimal timeframe to engage in this event, which you cannot do at any other time of the year. At the end of the tasks, you will be given some untradeable rewards, which means you won't gain any OSRS gold for doing it. You will not gain any experience, but you will entertain yourself, celebrate an international event, and feel the festive spirit.
OSRS Events In A Nutshell
Each year Jagex prepares at least a Christmas, Easter, and Halloween event, but there are other temporary events like the pride event, which will hopefully also become a yearly thing. None of these events will reward OSRS gold or XP, but rather an experience since each of the events will require you to perform specific tasks and speak with specific NPCs to follow a story and get compensated with a few cosmetic untradeable items. Participating in the current year's event will also unlock the rewards from the previous years. Because of their limited availability, many players even consider them better than gaining XP or OSRS gold, and hence just have fun for some time and dive deep into the game, enjoying the relaxing experience of the festive events.
Halloween Event Walkthrough
To start the event, go to Varrock using either the Varrock teleport spell with magic or a Varrock teleport tablet. Alternatively, you can use the skull sceptre to teleport to the barbarian village and run east or run north from Lumbridge. Unlike other seasonal events where you'd typically unlock the previous year’s rewards upon completing the current year's event, this Halloween, you'll be able to claim the previous rewards upon starting the event by speaking to the costumed children in Varrock. You can quickly locate the event on the minimap by the seasonal event icon displayed.
The Halloween event is available on both free-to-play and members worlds. Once you interact with the costumed child in Varrock, he will give you a treat cauldron which you can equip in your off-hand slot. When asked whether he has any spare costumes (option 3), a new interface will open where you can claim any of the previous years’ rewards. Even though you can play the event in either free-to-play or members’ worlds, some of the previous years' rewards are members, which means you can only claim them in members' worlds—for example, the gnome child icon or magical pumpkin. To do the event, you must equip three Halloween items to go ahead and trick-and-treat NPCs around Gielinor.
If you didn’t collect the OSRS items you wanted the first time you interacted with the costumed child, you have the option to write and select the option click Holiday-items Costumed Child. This will save you time if you want to collect all of them, deposit them in your bank, or bring them to your player-owned house. You will also have the option to right-click check costume Costumed Child in case you are not sure whether or not you are currently wearing enough Halloween items to begin trick or treating. If you’re wearing enough Halloween items, the Costumed Child will reply, ‘Ooh, that’s a spooky costume,’ so you’ll know you’re ready to proceed with the event.
Your goal is to gather enough treats for this year’s rewards, which means 720 treats. You will be able to get a new reward for every 90 treats. Most NPCs will give you three to five treats, but some will give you 100 at once. A high prayer level will help you when trick or treating, as having the protect from magic spell on will prevent most NPCs from tricking you and turning your character into a spider, rat, or bat 85 percent of the time. You should also take a ghostspeak amulet with you if a ghost spawns when you trick or treat. Alternatively, you can use a pair of Morytania legs 2, 3, or 4 to replace the ghostspeaking amulet.
To finish this fast, also take a home teleport if your house is in Rimmington, a charged Amulet of Glory, a Falador Teleport tablet, and a Lumbridge teleport. Since you’re in Varrock, walk east and then south to enter the Varrock Castle and trick or treat king Roald for 100 treats.
Next, teleport to the house, exit the portal to get to Rimmington, and walk southeast of the house portal to get to the southeastern building and trick or treat Hetty for another 100 treats. Use your Amulet of Glory to teleport to Draynor village and speak to Aggie. You can find her in the house accessible from the corridor you can get to by walking north then west from the Amulet of Glory Draynor village teleport, just north of the Wise Old Man house.
Teleport to Falador and start walking east to speak to Party Pete in the Falador Party room. Feel free to trick or treat other NPCs on your way to him. For the last NPC who will award you 100 treats, head to Lumbridge and climb to the second floor in Lumbridge Castle to speak with duke Horacio. You should now have over 500 treats. Go ahead and trick or treat other men, women, or guards around Gielinor to gather 720 treats. You can, for example, do this in Falador near the teleport, as there’s a large density of guards roaming around.
Another great place you can do this is the Lumbridge courtyard and castle and the Varrock castle. If you trick or treat one of the guards too many times, they will refuse to give you anything for a little while. Your total amount will be displayed in the game chat each time you receive treats. You can also right-click check treats the cauldron if you logged out and need a reminder of how many you had without trick or treating any NPC. After you get at least 720 treats, head back to where you started the event in Varrock and deposit your treats in the big cauldron. You will be awarded this year's untradeable items, so you can’t turn them into OSRS items for sale. However, if you hang around the cauldron long enough, there will be Halloween masks spawning from time to time around it, and they are worth around 10k OSRS gold each on the Grand Exchange so that you could profit from this Halloween event.
