Lore
Couldn't easily find something like this anywhere, so I used my limited skills to put it together myself. Map of the full known world so far between OSRS/RS3. Minus some minor geographical differences like landmass shape.
I think it’s just cause everything is so much closer together. Havenhythe is heavily spread out, assuming players will be surging through a lot of it. It looks great for our zoomed out cameras we have now, but back in the day they had a very limited view frame to work with, so it all had to be much closer.
Morytania definitely is a lot busier of a region for its size.
The lore on this is super weird and unclear, are they the same place? Didnt kerapac pull Anachronia forward in time? Does this mean fossil island is current (?) Anachronia?
Yes Fossil Island was the modern day version of the island but kerapac used the needle to essentially bring a copy of its past self to replace it so you see the island in its more or less prime. Reason Fossil Island is so much smaller is due to the thousands up thousands of years of erosion, water level risings, you know the usual stuff.
I hardly knew it existed at all tbh. Despite being a fan on-and-off for almost 20 years, my knowledge of things outside the f2p area is extremely limited. Let alone anything RS3 related, as I haven't touched that at all given I checked out before EoC was implemented.
Anachronia is Fossil Island in pretty close to it's prime, it was pulled from pre-history through the power of the needle essentially replacing modern day fossil island.
IIRC it's "in universe," as in it definitely exists somewhere on Gielinor, but it's purposefully not mentioned so that lore from the MMOs doesn't impact it or vice versa.
You're right, and I forgot the most crucial thing in that, they said Ashenfall is that far away, by the time you get back to the mainlands, you would have forgotten about Ashenfall.
Ashenfall's map has actually grown since I've played it last. Looks like Umbral Sands will be south of Dowdun Reach June 23rd and the Scorned Wilderness connected somewhere to the sands September 15th
Imagine it won't be long before OSRS gets a new continent or at least a big island chain to go with sailing. Wyrmscraig is a little island getting added from a player design contest. Zeah pretty much done now though besides another pass over Great Kourend to touch it up since it's a decade old now and the team has gotten much better at designing new areas.
Tbf that's because so much of the world was already crowded they couldn't really expand the surface so there is a tremendous amount of stuff underground or off planet or in another realm and such. RS3 is the much bigger world it's just hides it.
Remember that RS3 also had a whole bank of updates from August 2007 onward that OSRS just generally never got. Some of them got added later like the Grand Exchange, but in general they just aren't there. This means OSRS had a sort of "clean slate" while RS3 had an already packed full world in 2013. Doesn't help that OSRS also just kinda skipped the whole RSHD era, so any addition to RS3 by default takes more work than an addition to OSRS, especially area expansions. In terms of new areas on the mainland since EOC there's Prifddinas, Menaphos and the area for The Needle Skips and that's basically it. And Prifddinas technically isn't on the "main map" anyway, it's got its own tab.
Ideally they'd rescale the RS3 map so that there's a better sense of verticality and distance - render distances are huge in RS3 now, they just weren't considering seeing that far away in 2001 - but that's a Herculean task, basically asking for a full game rewrite at that point.
I've been pretty much entirely out of touch with RS3 for over a decade. I only just today found out how much more land there is in OSRS and it completely threw me for a loop. Like what do you MEAN there's an ENTIRE continent in OS that just doesn't exist in the "future"?
What if RS3 didn't cram every new update into pre-existing land? Well you have Zeah and Varlamore.
I know Jagex is slowly decluttering the game, but I wish they sped it up with an entire new landmass for existing content. I think it's just bad timing for Havenhythes release etc, but some mainland content still needs to go elsewhere. It's still jammed with stuff.
As much as I would like that option to, I think the logistics of expanding the mainland (say, 2x the size of Falador/areas around it), would be such a massive headache, to the point you would need to start from the very edges of the mainland, and calculating exactly how big you'd want to make certain areas.
Want to 2x the size of Misthalin? How far do you push back Morytania and Kharidian desert on the map.
Yes, it would be a massive task. What I mean is scaling up the entire world's area. Buildings and such could remain the same, but the world itself would be bigger, making it less cluttered. Tomb of Guthix wouldn't be right outside Ardougne, wizards' tower wouldn't be blocking the way from Sarim to the sea, teleports wouldn't be few tiles apart... but I know it would be a massive task that affects everything. It could be the biggest effort in the game's history
I'm really interested to see where Sailing takes the map, particularly in seeing the surface of the Cursed Archipelago (where I'm pretty sure ED3 takes place on the bottom) and Imcandoria.
Forgot Ashenfall which is North of the mainland, Plus Anachronia and Fossil island is the same location, Anachronia is RS (rs3) fossil island, just pulled into the future. But overall I LOVE this, looks really good.
Didn't know Ashenfall existed while I was making this, and then also see that we don't know exactly how far north it is. Could be the "arctic", could be the other side of the planet.
Similarly for Anachronia/Fossil Island. Honestly I'm very out of the loop on what like 75% of the map even is.
Zeah is a continent the OSRS team has been slowly building on for the past decade. It's pretty much done now. Zeah - OSRS Wiki Has a dozen quests and bosses, raids, etc. It being so well received is part of the reason we're getting Havenhythe.
Wuahanko needs to move a but further east. Currentøy its Anachronia is fosil island. Why did you even bother to
Mess with ungael. I dont care what the iron enclave is its badically the node. And if yiu messed with ungael why not menaphos?
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u/Supersnow845 Jun 15 '26
I always find it odd to see that havenhythe is already bigger than mortytania
Morytania always feels so large