Controls - Banks

As your wealth in RuneScape increases, you will soon run out of space in your inventory to carry it all around with you. It is quite risky to have all of your items on you because, when you die, you will drop the majority of them.

To prevent such a devastating loss, your character has been provided with a bank account. You can place any item in your bank account and retrieve it at any time from any bank.

The Bank of RuneScape has branches all over the world. Branches of this bank can be found in Varrock, Falador, Edgeville, Draynor Village, and many other populated areas.

When you arrive at a bank, simply click on the bank booth to perform the default action, Use Bank booth. By doing this, you will start a conversation with one of the bankers. Talking to a banker is very important as this allows you to set your bank account PIN.

Right-clicking on the booth will display the following options - Use Bank booth, Use-quickly Bank booth, Collect Bank booth and Examine Bank booth. These options are always displayed for a player using a single button mouse.

By selecting Use Bank booth, you will start a conversation with a banker. To bypass the conversation screens and access your account immediately, select the Use-quickly Bank booth option.

To check up on any offers you have made at the Grand Exchange, select Collect Bank booth. This will bring up a small window to inform you whether any trades have been completed. You can collect any cash or items you have won by clicking on the trade.

Once you have decided to use the bank, your bank account will be displayed. Here you will see all of the items that you have gathered and saved.

Storage space in bank accounts are different for members and non-members. Members have hundreds of spaces in their bank, while non-members have 68.

If you have multiple items of the same type in the bank, a number will appear next to it to indicate how many you have. The bankers aren't fussy and will safely store anything from runes to big piles of coal!

Some items will not stack in your bank, as the bankers find them too confusing. These items are usually used to hold other items, like the satchels from Tower of Life. Other items are simply unbankable, but these are rare on RuneScape.

To deposit or withdraw an item, simply click on it. Players with multiple button mice will withdraw or deposit a single piece of that item. Players using a single button mouse will get a menu of options.

To deposit more than one of an item at a time, players using a multiple button mouse should right-click on the item to deposit or withdraw, and select the number you wish to deposit or withdraw from the list. Alternatively, you can use the three icons in the bottom-right to deposit everything from your inventory, your equipped inventory or your Summoning familiar's inventory. The banks are free to use, so making use of them to safely store your extra items is a very good idea!

If your account is filling up with items, you'll find it useful to know that there is a function that allows you to search your bank account for specific items. Simply click the 'Search' button and type the name, or part of the name, of the item you are looking for; this will filter out all of the other items visible in your bank interface, so you can easily locate an item buried deep in your overflowing bank account. You can turn off the search feature at any time by clicking the 'Search' button again or clicking outside of the Search window.


To help organise your bank account, you can arrange specific items into 'tabs'. At the top of the interface, you will see two main tabs; the first of these is the 'All' tab, and is marked with the 'infinity' symbol (which looks like a sideways 8). This tab shows every item in your bank account.

To set up a tab, simply drag an item onto the tab marked with a '+'. This will create a new tab that will only show a set of items that you specify and will be marked with the item you first drag onto it. Dragging more items onto the tab will place them into that section of your bank account. Each of these sections will be marked in your main account window, or you can click on the tab to view only those items.

For instance, if you want to keep your melee combat gear in an easy-to-find location, you might like to keep all of it in a specific tab. You will still be able to find it in your main account (by clicking the 'All' tab), but you can choose specific items to be displayed to make accessing them much quicker.

You may also drag items from a Search into a tab or to create a new one. Up to 8 tabs can be created at any one time. For an at-a-glance view of how many spaces remain in your bank, look at the counter at the bottom of your bank screen (right of the 'note' toggle button).

To remove a bank tab, right-click on it and select 'Collapse tab'. A tab will also be removed if you clear it of items.


There are two ways for you to rearrange your bank account: Swap and Insert. You can select which by clicking the 'Swap/Insert' button, at the bottom of the bank interface. If you have selected the 'Swap' option, you can drag and drop items in your bank on top of other items, and the two items will swap positions in your bank.

If you have selected the 'Insert' option, dragging an item on top of an existing item will move other items around to accommodate it.


These numbers represent your non-member and member bank space. The left-hand numbers, separated by a diagonal line, represent your non-member bank space. In this instance, the player has filled all of their non-member bank space (68 items in 68 bank spaces).

The right-hand numbers, separated by another diagonal line, represent the member bank space and how much of it you have filled. In this instance, the player has only used 45 of their available 438 member bank slots.

There are a few things worth remembering when glancing at these numbers.

• Members can freely use the full 506 bank slots (68 non-member + 438 member).
• Non-members with member items (from when they used to be a member, for example) are able to store their member items freely in their member bank space, up to a limit of 438. They are also able to store free items in their free bank space up to a limit of 68.
• Players with more than 438 member items will find that their items overflow into their non-member bank slots. Players with more than 68 non-member items will find that their items overflow into their member bank slots. You may view your overflow by hovering your cursor over the numbers at the bottom of your bank interface. For example, if someone had 70 non-member items and 30 member items then their numbers would read 68/68 - 32/438. By hovering over these numbers, the player would be able to see there an overflow of 2 non-member items into their member bank space.

Any items which don't normally stack in your inventory and that are tradable (such as ore and food) can be withdrawn in the form of a note. If an item cannot be traded, you will not be able to withdraw it as a note. This allows large trades without taking up lots of inventory slots. To choose to withdraw the items as a note, you can toggle the 'Note/Item' button at the bottom of the interface.

Items stored in note form cannot be wielded or equipped, and cannot be used in most skills. They can be sold as notes to any shop that would buy the un-noted item, and they can also have the low and high alchemy spells cast upon them.


If you have a beast of burden familiar (from the Summoning skill), you can move its entire inventory into your bank account by clicking the 'wolf head' icon at the bottom-right of the bank interface.


There is a need to keep our riches safe and sound, therefore the Bank of RuneScape has given each bank account the option of a PIN system.

You will have to create one for yourself, preferably the first time you access your bank account.

To get to this screen, simply talk to the banker and select 'Check your PIN setting'. This bank PIN setting will provide you with information on the status of your pin.

You can click on 'Set a PIN' to set your PIN for the first time or change it later.

If you want to change how long a PIN recovery takes, click on 'Change your recovery delay'.

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