I'm going to add my two cents since this tread came up in my search for farming (IDK?) Rock mining, this one is dear to my heart, it's my highest skill. Share the rocks, but don't claim the rocks. Like someone said earlier, don't try to claim the five western rocks at coal trucks if your only just starting with mining. If I'm in a good mood I'll just ignore you. If I'm in not so good of a mood, I'll follow you around. And sitting for 148 ores is a very long time. The unwritten rule for mining is don't irritate the high level miners. They were once were you were, so the good ones will let you train as long as you don't get in the way. And just because he is a level 27 combat doesn't mean he isn't a level 75 miner so don't get the two confused. They can one hit coal, do you think you stand a chance if he wants to be mean. Oh and don't threaten a miner with owning them in the wild. If you tell me your going to own me and I came for ore, what insentive do I have to even leave the rock. I seem to be owning you quite nicely in the skill that I have put months into. Just so that everyone knows, unwriten rules are the informal rules that govern the game. They are not the norms or the accepted practices or even what we wish people wouldn't do (arrow stealing, PK RC). They are rules that can not be broken without paying the price. Level 3 players don't go attack green dragons without expecting a quick trip to lumbridge. They are different from written rules (like no spaming, scaming, macroing, or filter bypassing) where someone has to actually step in and catch you and punish you. Most people know them but it is so obvious that they don't need to be written down in any kind of rule book, hence why they are called unwritten. Just because someone types them out on a forum doesn't change there status one bit. BTW there is a written rule that I want to bring up. Don't scam. Scamming by Jagex is misleading players by providing false or inaccruate informaton for your own personal game. You want to lure, guess what, rule 2 violation. Yea, a player shouldn't be stupid enough to go into the wild with anything they are not prepair to lose but if your saying your going to sell trimed armor in the wild and then kill the person you can't convince me that you didn't break rule 2.