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Grand Exchange

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Grand Exchange

Grand Exchange
Type Mechanic
Videos 3 (first 2020-07-21, latest 2025-05-29)
Main source Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS)

Grand Exchange is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 3 videos between 2020-07-21 and 2025-05-29. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

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Stats and numbers

  • Items under 50 gp are still not taxed and the Grand Exchange tax cap of 5 million per item remains in place for high-value trades, so it is not 10 million.1

Tips

  • Gnomonkey enables actively traded prices from OSBuddy in the RuneLite Grand Exchange plugin, so the Grand Exchange shows the buying price from OSBuddy, and also shows exact total value.2
  • A fuzzy fallback search option in the Grand Exchange plugin shows items even if you misspell the name by a character, which Gnomonkey says is super handy.2

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says that once Yama contracts are on the Grand Exchange and in players' banks, removing or radically changing the tradable system would require ripping out a huge chunk of content.3

Events

  • When asked what to buy or sell for the update, Gnomonkey hinted that a boss some people consider a chicken will be quite important, without elaborating.4
  • As of the late-May 2025 update, the Grand Exchange tax rate was increased from 1% to 2%, doubling it.1
  • Offers existing at the time of the update stay taxed at 1% or untaxed; only newly created offers after the update use the 2% rate.1
  • Low-value and early-game utility items such as low-tier food, energy potions, teleport tablets, early-game ammo and mind runes were made fully exempt from Grand Exchange tax.5

Trivia

  • Jagex's stated reason for the change is that GP entering the game has steadily increased while money sinks have not kept pace, so the tax increase is meant to curb inflation.6
  • Jagex explains that most Grand Exchange tax is deleted from the game to remove GP, while a small slice is used by the game to buy certain items from players and permanently delete them (the item sink system).7

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-05-29 Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS) Added: 6 statements (event, stat, trivia)
2025-05-13 Higher Hopes for Yama (OSRS) Added: 2 statements (event, opinion)
2020-07-21 Runelite Plugins Setup From Scratch (OSRS 2020) Page created: 2 statements (tip)
## References

  1. Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS), 2025-05-29. ▶ 12:11 ↩↩↩

  2. Runelite Plugins Setup From Scratch (OSRS 2020), 2020-07-21. ▶ 29:15 ↩↩

  3. Higher Hopes for Yama (OSRS), 2025-05-13. ▶ 37:43 ↩

  4. Higher Hopes for Yama (OSRS), 2025-05-13. ▶ 10:46 ↩

  5. Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS), 2025-05-29. ▶ 14:55 ↩

  6. Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS), 2025-05-29. ▶ 11:31 ↩

  7. Yama Contracts SAVED!!! (OSRS), 2025-05-29. ▶ 12:43 ↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics