Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless

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Old School RuneScape players have tracked down an extraordinarily rare fishing find

Old School RuneScape sailing animation underwater
(Image credit: Jagex)

Exciting times in Old School RuneScape, folks. An MMO mystery spanning more than two years has finally been solved following hundreds of thousands of discarded fish and boots, and a proper community scavenger hunt.

I'm going to skip to the end a little bit. "The mystery drop from the Stranglewood fishing spot has been obtained, at a confirmed rate of 1/500,000!" the official OSRS Wiki announced earlier today, citing confirmation from Jagex developer Mod Lykos.

Austin Wood
Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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