Currently gold ore rocks respawn in 1 minute and 30 seconds. Gold ore rocks used to respawn at a rate inversely proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world before the update on 13 March 2017. If the world was empty, the ore respawned in 2 minutes; if it was full (with 2000 players), it respawned in 1 minute. Thus the respawn rate of gold ore was minutes, where x is the number of players in the world. A table of the historical respawn rates is given below.