About

About Hardcore Hub

A free, fan-made site for OSRS Hardcore Worlds, and the people and projects it stands on.

Updated 12 November 2026

Hardcore Hub is a free, fan-made site for Old School RuneScape Hardcore Worlds, the one-life worlds with their own economy that launched on 4 November 2026. It's an independent project, built for players.

Hardcore Hub is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Jagex Ltd. Old School RuneScape and RuneScape are trademarks of Jagex Ltd. Game content and materials are © Jagex Ltd.

Where the data comes from

Source	What it gives the site	Terms
Jagex: Old School RuneScape	The game itself, Hardcore Worlds, and the official Hardcore hiscores behind Player insights, Compare and your own stats.	Old School RuneScape is made and owned by Jagex Ltd (see the notice above).
The Old School RuneScape Wiki	Quest, item, shop, monster and diary details behind the route guide; item and quest icons; the world map on Stars & implings; item names and IDs (from its Real-time Prices API).	Content under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (see below). The map tiles are © Weird Gloop.
WikiSync (OSRS Wiki)	Quest lists of players who use the WikiSync RuneLite plugin, for the quest tracker and your own quest sync.	Used with the wiki staff’s permission.
deathtoll.gg	Hardcore Worlds deaths: Fumbles of the day, death counts and Hardcore safety.	Its public data, credited here.
Hardcore World Tool Kit	Live Hardcore Worlds Grand Exchange trades and offers, from players running its RuneLite plugin: the GE terminal’s prices.	Used with its owner’s written permission.
Star Miners	Shooting star sightings on Hardcore Worlds.	Used with their permission.
Impling Finder	Impling sightings on Hardcore Worlds.	Used with its maker’s permission.
Shortest Path, by Skretzo	The collision map and doors behind walking routes and distances on Stars & implings.	BSD 2-Clause licence (see below).
Explv’s Map	“Full map” links from Stars & implings.	A link only.
Kick, Twitch and YouTube	Streamers’ channels, live status and clips on the Streamers page.	Shown from their public pages and players; the names and logos belong to their owners.
RuneLite	The game client whose plugins (WikiSync, the Tool Kit, Hardcore Hub’s own) feed several of these.	Hardcore Hub’s plugins only read; they never play for you.

How fresh and how accurate

Hardcore GE prices: new trades within seconds, item summaries about every 30 seconds. A sample of the market (players running the Tool Kit plugin), not every trade.
Player stats: the hiscores' overall table every hour; players whose XP changed are re-read after that. Quest lists from WikiSync, for players who use it.
Stars and implings: the page refreshes every 20 seconds.
The route guide: requirements, XP and max hits are from the OSRS Wiki. The route order and wording are this guide's own. Content that is thinly sourced is labelled "Unverified" in the app.

Privacy

Your guide progress is saved in your own browser. Player insights only show what the official hiscores, WikiSync and deathtoll.gg already make public. The Compare board only lists players who choose to join it. To see which pages get used, the site sends a small usage ping: a random ID for your browser, the page you're on and how far through the guide you are. If you've linked your Hardcore account or joined the Compare board, it also carries that account name, so the site's admin can tell visitors apart. Unlink the account and leave the board, and the name is removed the next time the page checks in. No other names, and no IP addresses.

Licences

Text, data and images from the Old School RuneScape Wiki are used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; Hardcore Hub's versions of that content are shared under the same licence, and the site is non-commercial. The walking map uses data from Shortest Path by Skretzo, under the BSD 2-Clause licence:

Copyright (c) Skretzo and the Shortest Path contributors. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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