Glossary

Here is a list of unique terms you might see around while playing WalkScape! A lot of these will stem to the wiki, but you may see some of them around the social interfaces used with Discord or Reddit as well. Some may not be listed directly because there are so many or used in niche cases, but here are some of the most commonly seen.

Game Terms

General

BiS - Acronym of Best in Slot. The item that is relatively the best to use in a particular Gear or Tool equipment slot.
Exp / XP - Abbreviation of Experience.
GSI - Gear Score Index is an aggregated score of increased exp, chests, fine materials, and normal materials you get by wearing a piece of gear.
lvl - Abbreviation of Level.
RNG - Acronym of Random Number Generation, used in terms of luck typically since most things in-game involve 'rolls' for outcomes.
Rolls - Something that utilizes RNG, where it is stimulating the idea of 'rolling the dice' to reach something happening or not.
W.E.A.R. - Work Efficiency Adjusted Rate gives the average steps to get an item when at max efficiency for an activity. When multiple items can drop at once, it's the average steps to get 1 item. It's a metric that provides a higher degree of predictability for the average steps required to obtain an item. Although this is not the true steps to gather an item, it is useful for comparison as it eliminates the effect of work efficiency maximums, one of the biggest variables in calculating the true rate. Oftentimes the WEAR is shown across many different sources of the same item, which helps users to determine the most efficient way to gather it. With equal double action and double rewards across methods, the WEAR is effectively a perfect, scaled predictor of what method is most efficient.
WiP - Acronym of Work in Progress.
WS - Acronym of WalkScape.

Attributes

BE / BXP - Acronym of Bonus Experience.
CF - Acronym of Chest Finding.
CO - Acronym of Crafting Outcome.
DA - Acronym of Double Action.
DR - Acronym of Double Rewards.
FBN - Acronym of Find Bird Nests.
FC / CF - Acronym of Find Collectibles.
FG / GF - Acronym of Find Gems.
FMF - Acronym of Fine Material Finding.
NMC - Acronym of No Materials Consumed.
WE - Acronym of Work Efficiency.

Activities/Recipes

AMA - Acronym of Antique Market Assessor.
MFF - Acronym of Merfolk Farm Foraging.
RFYL - Acronym of Run For Your Life.
Upcycling - Slang of the Upcycle Trash crafting recipe.
UAC - Acronym of Underwater Aqueduct Construction.
WGS - Acronym of Wine Grape Stomping.

Several other activities/recipes get turned into acronyms that can be inferred from their starting letters found from the activity or their recipes pages that aren't used as commonly.

Items

AKA / AotAK - Acronym of Amulet of the Animal Kingdom.
AoD - Acronym of Axe of Destruction.
BIS - Acronym of Blue Ice Sickle. (Not to be confused with 'BiS'.)
CoHA / HAC - Acronym of the Cape of Half-Achiever.
CoFA / FAC / CoA - Acronym of the Cape of Achiever (Cape of Full-Achiever).
RoHS - Acronym of Ring of Homesickness.
RoP - Acronym of Ring of Pandemonium.
RSA - Acronym of Rock-Star Amulet.
TG - Acronym of Trash Grabber.

Locations/Regions

Jarv - Shorthand of Jarvonia.
GDTE - Acronym of Grand Duchy of Trellin-Erdwise.
The Bog / Swamp - Shorthand of the locations in the center of the GDTE.

Several other locations get turned into acronyms that can be inferred from their starting letters found from their location pages (Jarvonia, GDTE, and Syrenthia) that aren't used as commonly.

Services/Buildings/Shops

AG - Acronym of Adventure Guild.
ETF - Acronym of Erdwiss Trinketry Factory.
GG - Acronym of the Gold'n Grail tavern shop chains (Gold'n Grail Bilgemont, Gold'n Grail Blackspell, and Gold'n Grail Everhaven).

Fun Slang

Anything here is up to some minor interpretation and shouldn't be taken very seriously.

CBT - Acronym of Closed Beta Test.
Cheesing - Doing something in a way that may not be fully intended, but is typically allowed.
Forked - Going over rate for a particular drop. The higher the person is over the rate, the bigger the fork.
Going Dry - Going over rate for a particular drop.
OSRS - Acronym of OldSchool RuneScape.
RS3 - Acronym of 'current' RuneScape.
Scuffed - Something broken or messed up.
Spinning - Walking around an area in very small circles.
Spooned - Going under rate for a particular drop. The lower the person is under the rate, the bigger the spoon.
WFH - Acronym of Work From Home.