Was hoping to pick up some items to get some early tools/money, I haven’t seen any topics about world spawn items and how long it takes for them to respawn. I have been waiting ages for a respawn. I remember doing this back in the day and it never took more than a minute or two.
It’s different for each item, there’s an internal value called respawnrate which is the amount of game ticks before an item will respawn. The steel armor spawns in the wilderness are 2000 ticks for example, so 20 minutes.
Thanks for the quick response, is this respawnrate value something purposely selected for a design reason? Genuinely curious about the inner workings but I am not well versed enough in the code to read it fluently just yet.
Yw 
Items’ respawn rates come from the game cache so they’re accurate to how Jagex designed them in 2004. For example here’s the configs for platebodies: Server/data/src/scripts/skill_combat/configs/melee/platebodies.obj at 953c5d0b211a90cd1cad8ee31baa76f3211820bb · 2004Scape/Server · GitHub
You’ll notice that the respawnrate value is omitted for items that are not spawned on the ground anywhere, so only the top two (iron and steel) have a respawn rate.