Maze

Maze
Released								2 August 2004 (Update)
Type								Random event
Members								No
Location								N/A
League region								General✓
Music								Time Out
Map

The maze is a random event initiated randomly by the appearance of the Mysterious Old Man, who offers the player a chance to complete a maze. It is favourable to complete over most other random events because the rewards it gives tend to be much more valuable than those given by other events despite taking longer to complete.

The maze itself is a large square area full of "walls" made of floating cubes. The goal is to navigate through the maze to the centre and touch the rotating shrine found there; once the player does so, they will be teleported back to where they spoke to the Mysterious Old Man and will receive a reward. Run energy doesn't deplete at all in the maze.

The maze layout is always the same but not the player's starting position. Meaning the path to the centre depends on where the player spawns. The maze may also be rotated to not face north.

There are 4 possible starting locations.

	Maze Centre
The jingle that plays upon interacting with the maze centre.

While inside the maze, the bottom right corner of the screen displays the event's "reward potential", which starts at 100% and slowly drains away as the player spends time in the maze, at a rate of 1% every 5 ticks (3 seconds).^[1] Players typically finish with 65-75% reward potential, though this can vary with starting location and it is possible to obtain up to 80-81%. Players who reach 0% reward potential will be teleported out of the maze (back to where they were before the event started) with no reward. Some rewards can be very valuable in the amounts they are offered, with the highest rewards possible around 155,400 coins (three times ~280 Death Runes).

Upon completion, the maze event will reward the player with varying amounts of three resources randomly selected from the table below, which can be the same or different resource each selection, scaled to the remaining reward potential and the player's skill total in the following manner:

where the divisor depends on the specific item rewarded in the following way:

For example, a player with 1772 total and 75% completion could receive 4430 coins, 491 chaos runes, or 27 mithril ore. The practical maximum rewards where completing at 75% potential and at max total level are 5,693 coins, 2,846 feathers, 1,898 iron arrows, 632 chaos runes, 474 steel arrows, 316 death runes, 126 coal, 35 mithril ores, and 32 nature runes.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	0–7,590	3 × 1/9	0–7,590	0–7,590
	Feather	0–3,795	3 × 1/9	0–11,385	0–3,795
	Iron arrow	0–2,530	3 × 1/9	0–15,180	0–2,530
	Chaos rune	0–843	3 × 1/9	0–89,358	0–45,522
	Steel arrow	0–632	3 × 1/9	0–3,792	0–4,424
	Death rune	0–421	3 × 1/9	0–77,885	0–45,468
	Coal	0–168 (noted)	3 × 1/9	0–24,528	0–4,536
	Nature rune	0–42	3 × 1/9	0–7,182	0–4,536
	Mithril ore	0–46 (noted)	3 × 1/9	0–6,946	0–4,462

Furthermore, there are several rewards chests along the way which may give low-tier resources like elemental runes, bronze arrows and bolts, iron arrows, attack, strength, and defence potions. Due to the reward timer not counting down during dialogue, players may keep the reward dialogue open for 60 seconds, allowing them to loot the chest again once it closes. It is possible to loot one chest numerous times during a single Maze random event, if the player is willing to wait 1 minute each time. Opening such a chest cost 1% reward potential, this combined with the amount of time it takes to take the slight detour is generally not worth the cheap rewards, but has proven useful for some specific ironman accounts.

Players with a full inventory who have space in their bank for the rewarded item, will have the rewarded items be sent directly to their bank. Ultimate Ironman players with a full inventory will have the items drop to the floor instead.

Drop rates are estimated based on 9,000 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.
The average Maze chest reward is worth 85.9.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Air rune	15	1/10	75	30
	Water rune	10	1/10	50	20
	Earth rune	10	1/10	50	20
	Fire rune	10	1/10	50	20
	Bronze arrow	20	1/10	100	20
	Bronze bolts	10	1/10	20	10
	Iron arrow	15	1/10	90	15
	Attack potion(2)(m)	1	1/10	10	5
	Strength potion(2)	1	1/10	40	7
	Defence potion(2)(m)	1	1/10	374	54