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Run energy

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Run energy

Run energy
Type Mechanic
Videos 2 (first 2025-01-08, latest 2026-06-04)
Main source MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS)

Run energy is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-01-08 and 2026-06-04. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

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Stats and numbers

  • Under the new run energy system, run energy drain is now based on Agility level as well as the regen rate, whereas previously only regen depended on Agility, so Agility levels matter much more.1
  • Run energy drains very slowly at low or negative weight, such as when wearing Graceful, so skilling or other activities at zero weight use basically no energy.2
  • Right after the update, Gnomonkey got through the entire Monkey Madness tunnels from 100 energy to zero and made it to Zooknock at 60 Agility on his backup hardcore, which he calls night and day for questing.3

Tips

  • In the run energy beta he completed an entire Hallowed Sepulchre run from floor one to five without touching an obelisk and still had energy left, and he assumes it is the same on release without having tested it.4
  • Torva and Masori are heavy so you are at the weight cap (64) in a raid regardless, that he was 99 Agility, and that lighter setups like Bandos and a Bow of Faerdhinen weigh around 50.5
  • Gnomonkey expects that in Chambers of Xeric at less than 99 Agility or without perfect play you will still use maybe one or two stamina doses at worst, mostly for Olm, but will get through all basic rooms including Vespula without one.6
  • He has not tested the Inferno but expects a regular Inferno needs no stamina for Zuk and a speed run might need one stamina instead of the usual two, while Blast Furnace will still use stamina since you carry heavy ores, but less than before.7

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey considers the run energy update a massive quality-of-life buff to PvM, skilling and questing that he had waited months for, and says it improves ironmen a lot.8
  • Gnomonkey says the released version is slightly weaker at 99 Agility than the last run energy beta, in which no stamina potions were needed in any PvM, and considers the released balance fairer because stamina now needs only an occasional dose in rare cases.1
  • Gnomonkey says stamina potions are effectively gone from Theatre of Blood, such as at the Nylocas and Verzik pot chairs, with stamina only worth buying to store in the bank, and that you will probably not need stamina in PvM at all anymore.6
  • Gnomonkey says he did not get his suggestion of a small stamina effect, but this is a much needed buff, and that harralander potions would now mostly be used for compost potions on an iron or Mixology.9

Records

  • Gnomonkey tested two Chambers of Xeric runs in max gear (one with Scythe, one 4:1) at the weight cap and found it is still possible to finish a raid without stamina potions: on the Scythe run he would have been just about at zero energy at Olm's head phase, and on the 4:1 run he finished with about 15 run energy left.4

Events

  • The January 2025 update added the run energy changes from the beta to the full game, improving energy regeneration at lower Agility levels while leaving it unchanged at level 99, and making energy drain more slowly in all scenarios at every weight and Agility level.8
  • Completing a quest, and curing damage-over-time effects like poison, now fully restores run energy.10
  • One to three dose energy potions are added to a variety of early-game loot tables at a fairly common rate, and energy potions are buffed to restore 15% run energy per dose.10
  • The herb recipe for energy potions is changed to use an unfinished guam potion instead of an unfinished harralander potion.9

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-06-04 The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS) Added: 4 statements (event, opinion)
2025-01-08 MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS) Page created: 12 statements (event, opinion, record, stat, tip)
## See also

References

  1. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 1:03 ↩↩

  2. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 1:37 ↩

  3. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 5:32 ↩

  4. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 2:09 ↩↩

  5. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 3:09 ↩

  6. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 4:09 ↩↩

  7. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 4:38 ↩

  8. MASSIVE UPDATE - Run Energy and Megascales (OSRS), 2025-01-08. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩

  9. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 45:18 ↩↩

  10. The New Summer Sweep Update is CRAZY (OSRS), 2026-06-04. ▶ 44:57 ↩↩

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