• 1.0 - Introduction
• 2.0 - Interface
• 3.0 - Cleaning Up
• 4.0 - Tools for Storage
• 5.0 - Recommendation
• 6.0 - Clothing/Armour
• 7.0 - Useless Items

Nearly every player in RuneScape, at some time or another, has filled their bank to the brim and then wanted more space. Since there are several thousand items in the game, it would be impractical to have Jagex allow players to store every item. So what should you do when your bank gets too full? Before we get to the guide, a few notes of warning, member banks and free player banks are very different due to the number of items you can store so the guide is broken up into free and member banks (free players have 68 bank spaces while members have 496 bank spaces). However, should you lose membership, your member's items will not affect your free bank space.

Interface Button	Description
View all contents.	Clicking on this tab will allow you to view the entire contents of your bank. However, items will still be divided into there tab groups
New tab	Dragging an item from your bank onto this tab will create a new tab group. The first item in tab will appear as your tab icon. There is a limit of 8 tabs. To remove a bank tab, right-click on it and select 'Collapse tab' or if you clear it's contents of items. Some recommended tabs are arrows, runes, jewelry, skill materials, and other useful items together, so you may find all your gear easier. This provides easy access to the item you require and brings the useless items out of hiding. A very nifty way of keeping your bank free of clutter is to organize items according to use. (Example)
Bank slots used	This will show the amount of bank spaces that you have used and how many you have in total, currently the total bank slots for free players is 68 and for members it is 496.
Switch insert/swap mode.	Clicking on this button will allow you to change the mode in which you move items around in your bank.
Switch to note/item withdrawal.	Clicking on this button will allow you to change how you withdraw items from the bank, either in note or item form.
Deposit inventory	Clicking on this button will deposit your inventory.
Deposit beast of burden's inventory	Clicking on this button will deposit your beast of burden's inventory; see the Summoning guide
Deposit worn inventory	Clicking on this button will deposit all equipment you are currently wearing.
Bank Pin Settings	Clicking on this button will allow you to edit your bank pin settings.
Search your bank	Using this feature will allow you to search the entire contents of your bank. Only the results will be displayed on your screen (Example).

First of all, this is not a guide to tell you what you have to throw out, it's a guide on what is generally recommended to lose if you find you're short of space. Go to our Item Database and search for your items in there if you're unsure what they're for or whether you should keep them if they're quest items.

The two major things that often clutter up banks are quest items and items of clothing/armour. Many quest items have no use after a quest is completed, and if you need the item in a future quest, Jagex always makes sure there is a way to regain the item for those who had dropped it.

If you wish to know if a quest item would be worth keeping, go show it to the Wise Old Man in Draynor Village. He's only useful for free player quest items currently, but even knowing which of those can be cleared out is helpful.

There are many tools available ingame to help you hold onto the largest number of items you might want. Some of these tools require you to do a quest, other tools require you to have certain levels (or friends with certain levels).

• Player Owned Houses
• Tool Leprechauns
• Key Ring
• Boxed Armour Sets
• Diango

1. In player owned houses, there are three different rooms you can store items in. The first room is the skill hall which requires level 25 construction. You can mount a suit of armour and a suit of castle wars armour.

The second room is the quest hall requiring level 35 construction. You can mount various items on the walls such as your silverlight, darklight, or excalibur, your anti-dragonbreath shield, amulet of glory or cape of legends. So if you rarely use 2 of the above items, this is a good spot to store it outside of your bank.

The best storage unit in your player owned house is your costume room which requires level 42 construction. Every item in this room can be flatpacked by someone with the correct level including magic wardrobes and cape racks. Because every item can be flatpacked, you don't need a construction level of 96 for the magic wardrobe or 99 for the best cape rack. Every treasure trail item/set, every set of mystic robes, every piece of random event clothing, nearly every cape and more can be stored in your costume room. This can free up over 200 spaces in your bank of clothing alone!

2. Tool leprechauns are very useful for farmers. They will store your buckets, compost and regular farming tools giving you up to 8 spaces in your bank for other items.

3. The keyring is a reward from the One Small Favour quest. It can hold many of the keys needed ingame. When you want to use unlock a door, take the key ring out and open the door - there is no need to take the key off the ring!

4. With the Grand Exchange, there is another tool to help make more space in banks. You can store (full) sets of armour in boxes to take up one space instead of 3-5 spaces. Any armour set (including treasure trail sets), dragonhide sets, barrow sets, robe sets, dagannoth sets and even your cannon can be boxed up.

5. Diango is a very useful feature for free players. He will store every holiday item you get for you. Diango can be found in Draynor Village which is in the middle of the free lands so it is only a short walk to get whatever holiday item you have a hankering to show off.

There are a few quest items that are recommended to keep. These vary obviously on the player's in-game playing style but generally are the only ones that need to be kept.

Silverlight: This is a good item that you gain from the Demon Slayer quest for slaying demons (lesser, greater, black etc). If you do not slay demons often or are a high enough combat level to kill them easily, then you can drop the Silverlight. You can get it back again from Sir Prysin in Varrock Palace.

Another quest item that is recommended you keep is the Ectophial, because it is a very useful teleportation tool to the Morytania area; it is the reward from the Ghosts Ahoy quest.

The Dramen Staff is another good item to always keep that you gain from the Lost City quest. It allows you to enter Zanaris (The Lost City). If you lose it, you'll have to go back to the Entrana Dungeon and cut another branch off the Dramen Tree.

The gauntlets from the Family Crest quest are always useful for a player. The most useful set is the cooking gauntlets but if a player casts bolt spells or smelts a lot of gold, the crafting or chaos gauntlets are useful to them.

The issue of clothing/armour taking up space is one shared by many. Everyone wants to look stylish and many want a different look for different activities or just to show off their wealth. You have to look at your 'closet' and decide what you rarely ever wear or need.

Here's a list of items that generally need to be gotten rid of for the average player. Ways to get rid of them include selling to other players, selling to general stores, or just dropping them on the ground.

• » Clothing you never/rarely use.
• » Items of armour you do not use.
• » Chompy hats.
• » Quest items.
• » Seeds you do not need/do not plan on using.
• » Herbs you do not plan on using/cant use or clean.
• » Talismans/tiaras you never use.
• » Runes you never use (like body, dust etc).
• » Easily gotten items like pots, buckets, eggs etc that you will rarely if ever use.
• » Burnt food.

Now, other ways that you can de-clutter your bank is look and see if you have 'raw' and 'finished' or 'semi-finished' items using the same items. If you have cut and uncut gems of the same type, cut them all; if you have unfinished potions and finished potions of the same type, finish the potions. If you have ores and bars of the same type, smelt the ores. If you have various doses of the same potion, mix them into a common dose so you do not have 4 different doses of the same potion taking up 4 bank spaces.

If you have many kinds of cooked fish in small quantities, use up the fish by training or sell them. Do not let them sit in your bank for months on end.

Below is a list of items that have little to no use for the average player and if you find you have them stored up, they can be dropped.

• Flier
• Newspaper
• Potion (spot potion)
• Skull

Remember, nearly any item you will ever need in RuneScape can be obtained at any time, or re-gained from a NPC, so it's not necessary to hoard every item you ever come across.