Keldagrim Trading

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Keldagrim Trading was an unreleased minigame developed by Mod Vincent and later Mod Greg, planned for the Trade Octagon on the first floor of Keldagrim Palace. The minigame would have focused on merchanting, and involved speculating on the fluctuating prices of the items sold by the dwarven traders.^[1][2]

At some point in 2005, Mod Vincent began work on the minigame. Implementation of the minigame didn't get past the prototype stage, with Vincent saying that he "wasn't able to get this activity to work after all", and he subsequently resigned from Jagex later that year.^[3] Assets relating to the minigame would manage to find their way into the game in subsequent years.

With the release of Ratcatchers on 28 November 2005, a minigame minimap icon was accidentally added to the Trade Octagon. The icon was subsequently removed on 17 January 2006. At some point after this, in response to a post on the RuneScape Official Forums regarding the icon, Mod Greg responded that a minigame was indeed intended for the area, but it kept being pushed to the bottom of his work pile.^[4]

The music track The Trade Parade and two jingles composed for the minigame were added to the live game files on 27 September 2005. The Trade Parade was updated alongside all other songs with the 6 March 2007 audio update, and then reworked and released on 26 November 2007 as the music for the Grand Exchange. Although this change post-dated the archive on which Old School RuneScape is based, it was backported to Old School RuneScape with the release of the Grand Exchange on 26 February 2015. Unlike the later Grand Exchange version, the original versions used instruments similar to Tale of Keldagrim.

Some of the models intended for the minigame were added to the live game files on 13 June 2006, alongside Mod Greg's rework to the Dwarf Cannon quest. These included papers which would presumably serve as backgrounds for an interface, numbers from 0 to 9 in green, yellow, and red, an exclamation mark, symbols of the nine Trade Octagon companies, and two models for the octagon itself. The Orange Flame is also included, despite not appearing in-game.

• The original version of The Trade Parade.
• The Trade Parade, after the 6 March 2007 audio update.
• "keldatrade win", presumably intended to play when winning the minigame.
• "keldatrade lose", presumably intended to play when losing the minigame.

• The Blue Opal
• The Brown Engine
• The Green Gemstone
• The Orange Flame
• The Purple Pewter
• The Red Axe
• The Silver Cog
• The White Chisel
• The Yellow Fortune

• While the minigame was never completed and released in either Old School RuneScape or RuneScape 3, The Orange Flame mining company did ultimately make it in-game with the release of RuneScape High Detail on 1 July 2008, when banners representing them replaced those of The Red Axe after completion of The Giant Dwarf quest. Additionally, after the release of Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf on 9 September 2009, players were given the ability to pickpocket the dwarven traders at the Trade Octagon with level 90 Thieving. Mod John A subsequently confirmed in a forum post that the ability to pickpocket the traders served as the replacement for the Keldagrim Trading minigame.

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