What is an Ultimate Ironman?
An Ultimate Ironman is a player in RuneScape that has some restrictions imposed on them to make the game more difficult. An Ultimate Ironman cannot trade or accept aid from another player. They only have one life - once you die, you lose all your items and experience gained since you started the game. An Ultimate Ironman also does not have access to the banking system that other players have. That being said, these players have an entire 28 inventory spaces to hold all of their items (not including items that are worn/wielded).
Tutorial Island
It's important to plan to be an Ultimate Ironman right as you create your character. After talking with the first guide, you will be asked to chop down a tree and start a fire. keep cutting trees and starting fire until both your firemaking and woodcutting skills are at level 3. That is the max that you can get to in any given skill while on Tutorial Island. Catch plenty of shrimp when given the opportunity. Only cook on your fire until you the tutorial asks you to continue on. Cook the rest on the range after cooking the bread. Strive to reach level 3 in cooking. Next, the tutorial will take you around to talk about quests and then down underground to mine some ore and create a weapon! You guessed it! Mine and smith until your mining and smithing are level 3. After you reach level three in smithing, you can continue on to train your combat skills. Unfortunately, you cannot continue training your combat skills at this stage. After going through the banking info and prayers, you will arrive at the magic tutor. After casting your first spell, talk with the Ironman NPCs outside of the building. Set your Ironman status to Ultimate Ironman and get ready to rock the world of RuneScape! Talk with the magic tutor and ask to be teleported to the main land.
Main land
Now that you are on the main land, talk with the Ironman NPCs to get armour that will show everyone that you are an Ultimate Ironman and will help protect you for the first little bit (it has the same stats as iron armour). It's not the best armour, but is a great startup armour. Now you are ready to begin your journey through the World of RuneScape!
Next Steps
One of the best things about RuneScape is that anyone can do anything. You aren't restricted by classes or species. There are many things you can do. Under the getting started link above, you can select any one of the quick guides to help you get started. I would suggest going to the quests page and doing some quests. Quests are a great resource to get some quick experience in skills.
Another great place to start is to start with some combat-based training as you only have one life and it'll be useful to have more hitpoints to help you stay alive.
Another great place to start is to start with some combat-based training as you only have one life and it'll be useful to have more hitpoints to help you stay alive.