OSRS Project Zanaris, Jagex Approved Community Servers

Ever wanted to increase the experience rates? Or maybe you wanted to increase your weapons damage or your health… With project Zanaris now you can! Learn how you can create your own Runescape community server in the future with this blog post!

What is Project Zanaris?

Project Zanaris is a brand new project that has been worked on by Jagex. In a nutshell, Jagex will provide a tool to players for them to create their own private servers with their own rules! This idea was asked on a survey last year and was pretty well received, so Jagex decided to move forward with the idea.

This new project has a brand new dedicated team working on it meaning it will not slow down any other updates and features that Jagex has been developing.

What are Community Servers and What can you do In them?

Community servers are servers created by the players, for the players, using the tools Jagex will provide in the future. You can think of these servers as privately hosted servers that you have in any other game like Minecraft. 

When you host one of these servers you can decide how many people you want to play with. If you want to, you can play by yourself all alone in Gielinor or you can invite your friends and have the entire world to yourself. If you think your idea can be big you can open it up to the entire community so everyone can enjoy your creation! Obviously just like any other game where you server host, you will need to pay Jagex a certain fee (depending on your server size) every month to keep your server open. Jagex have guaranteed that these prices will be in line with industry standards!

Jagex’s first focus for these servers are tweaking already existing mechanics and numbers, meaning at first you can most likely be able to do the following:

1. Decrease or increase experience rates.
2. Decrease or increase your damage dealt or taken.
3. Lock the entire game into certain areas.
4. Move or spawn bosses wherever you please.
5. Increase or decrease drop chances of items.
6. Increase or decrease your attack or movement speed.
7. Implement already existing perks and mechanics from Deadman Mode and Leagues.
8. You will be able to import your character and bank from the main game.
9. If you want to you can make all of the game PVP or you can remove PVP all together. Which some players will definitely do.
10. You will be a moderator in your own server so you can protect it from bad actors if there happens to be any.
11. You might even get to edit your stats!

These are just the starting points for this project. As it gets developed any player will be able to edit and create more and more unique futures and game modes for players to enjoy. 

We have to add one last thing, any rules that apply to the main game will be applied to your community server.

Check out the short video that the OSRS team has made for this project:

Feedback & Getting Involved

If you want to take part in this project you can join the official OSRS servers! Also there will be beta tests for this idea in the upcoming year so you can participate that way as well!

This is all the information we have access to for now, follow our blog to always be up to date with everything OSRS!