Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless

Old School RuneScape sailing animation underwater.

Exciting times in Old School RuneScape, folks. An MMO mystery spanning more than two years has finally been solved following hundreds of thousands of discarded fish and boots, and a proper community scavenger hunt.

I'm going to skip to the end a little bit. "The mystery drop from the Stranglewood fishing spot has been obtained, at a confirmed rate of 1/500,000!" the official OSRS Wiki announced earlier today, citing confirmation from Jagex developer Mod Lykos.