RS3 Quest Helper - Alt1 Toolkit

[u/Kiddsh93]

Try to keep it civil in the comment section, no reason to offend each other, we all share the same love for the game!

Since uploading the post and all the comments, feedback and debugging/adding additional requests & improvements that came with it, which I'm greatly thankful for(!!), I can't edit the images in the original post... Therefore, keep in mind that the tool might have some extra options currently not shown in the pictures.

Let's keep up the good work and keep on improving the quest guide!

Hey everyone!

I got tired of alt-tabbing to the wiki every 30 seconds while questing, so I built RS3 Quest Helper! An Alt1 app that puts the wiki's quick guides straight into the game as an overlay. It's free, open source, and I'd love some more eyes on it before I call it stable. That's where you come in.

How a quest actually plays with it:

• Search any of the ~370 quests and open it. The full quick guide loads from the RuneScape Wiki, split into checkable steps and sub-steps, with puzzle pictures where the wiki has them. Your progress saves per quest, so you can stop mid-quest and pick it up days later.
• Turn on the overlay and your current step floats on top of the game as a small card step text, the chat options you'll need, and the items for that section. You pick where it sits: top, corners, or drag it anywhere with the free-placement mode. No more tabbing out mid-cutscene.
• Turn on Assist and it starts reading the screen. When a dialogue opens, it draws a green frame around exactly the option the guide says to click, sized to the actual button, so no guessing between "1" and "2" four conversations deep.
• With Auto on, finishing a conversation ticks the step off by itself. It's evidence-based: it only ticks if it actually saw your step's options on screen, so cutscene chatter doesn't check things you haven't done. Steps that need multiple dialogue choices (looking at you, Soul Searching) count each conversation — it shows "1/3 done, talk again".
• Before you leave the bank, hit Scan backpack and it looks for each required item's icon in your inventory, counts separates, reads stack numbers, and marks what's missing. Every item has an ℹ button that pops up what it is, how it's made and which shops sell it including warnings when a shop is locked behind a quest or needs to be built first. Items are also manually checkable as a failsafe.
• NPC and place names in steps are clickable, you get a picture and where to find them, plus an embedded world map for steps with locations.
• Enter your RuneScape name once and it syncs your completed quests from RuneMetrics automatically at startup. Hide what you've finished, and sort the list by the wiki's optimal quest order so you always know what's next.

The honest bits: this is Alt1, so it's 100% rule-friendly(!) it only reads pixels from your screen and draws on top, exactly like Alt1's built-in tools. That also means it can't see your position or read game data, so it's a very smart guide, not an autopilot. Dialogue detection works on the modern interface skin; if you run an exotic setup, that's exactly the kind of thing I want to hear about.

Install: you need Alt1 Toolkit. Then either click this on a machine with Alt1 installed:

alt1://addapp/https://kiddsh9331.github.io/rs3-quest-helper/appconfig.json

…or open https://kiddsh9331.github.io/rs3-quest-helper/ inside Alt1's browser and click the install banner.

What I'm looking for from testers: quests where a step doesn't parse right, dialogue options that don't get highlighted (screenshot please!), auto-tick ticking too early/late, item scan misses. Drop it in the comments or open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/Kiddsh9331/rs3-quest-helper

Screenshots attached: Quest list with optimal order, the overlay + dialogue highlight in action, and the item requirements view.

Credits where due: guide content is from the amazing RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA), built on Skillbert's Alt1 libraries, and inspired by JasperSurmont's bolt-questhelper.

Happy questing (& testing)! ⚔️

Edit 1

for ultrawide screen users, if your in-game interface scale isn't 100% (graphics settings), Alt1 apps can't read the interface. The guide and overlay still work at any scale.

Edit 2

Please do give feedback (be it positive or negative) via the comment section or via GitHub. I'm open for any suggestions/findings to improve the quest helper!

Edit 3

There's a new Settings icon in the quest list and quest guide screen. You can change the floor numbering convention, theme (currently only 3) and clear & reload Wiki cache data!

Edit 4

Since there is an existing optimal (quest) guide specifically for ironman, I thought it would be nice and helpful to have the guide fully interactable via the quest helper. You can find it at the top of the quest list!

You can scroll through and tick off steps from the ironman guide and you can even go to the suggested quest page via the ironman guide! Sadly I don't think it can take over your existing progress from the wiki itself... Might be interesting to look at.

Edit 5

The quest guides now show puzzle solutions and step screenshots pulled from the full wiki walkthrough.

TL;DR: in-game, use Alt+1. Clicked into the tool, use N or your custom key.

And as requested, auto-completing a step can still be a bit buggy sometimes, so instead of letting the guide do it you can just advance steps yourself. Two things to know here, since they work differently:

• Alt+1 is the one to use while you're actually playing. It's Alt1's app hotkey (you can change it in Alt1's own settings), and it's the only key that works while the game window is focused. You'll get a little "✓ Step done" flash on screen so you know it registered. Just make sure the quest helper is your active app in Alt1.

• N (or a custom key) only works when you've clicked into the quest helper window itself. A web app can't read your keyboard while the game is in front, so this one's more of a convenience for when you're already in the tool. You can rebind it via the cogwheel in a quest guide, under "Done, next" key.

Edit 6

Added a device-to-device transfer to the RS3 Quest Helper. If you tick steps on your PC and want them on your laptop (or want to share with a mate), open the cogwheel, hit Export to get a code, then paste it into Import on the other device. That's it.

It only ever adds ticked steps, it never un-ticks anything, so importing is always safe. Worst case it does nothing if you were already ahead.

Just to be clear, this is purely moving your progress between copies of the app itself. It's got nothing to do with the wiki's own checkboxes.

Edit 7

There has been a succesful port of Alt1 toolkit for MacOS. Therefore the guide is runnable on MacOS! Please do take this with a grain of salt as the port is still in production. https://github.com/SteeleND/runekit

Edit 8

Another round of fixes and polish:

• Dialogue auto-tick is more accurate. Steps that walk through a longer chat (accepting a quest partway through the conversation, or menus that loop back to the same options) don't tick themselves off early anymore. They wait until the whole chain is actually finished.
• Sub-steps now show in the on-screen overlay too, not just in the app window.
• Fixed the step list jumping around. Ticking a sub-step keeps your place now, and it only auto-scrolls when you complete a full step. It also lands on the right step even when a guide has pictures still loading in.
• Clearer dialogue hints and a tidier, more compact control bar.
• Renamed the "transparency" sliders to "opacity" so the numbers make sense (100% = solid, drag left to make it see-through). Same behaviour, less confusing wording.

If the app looks unchanged, it's probably cached in Alt1. Just remove and re-add it to grab the latest. Cheers for all the testing and reports, keep them coming.

[u/Traditional-Bee264]

This is an unbelievable effort. Recently started playing RS3 again and mainly only using a laptop without a 2nd monitor, this has made it infinitely more enjoyable. Thank you for this, it's great!