Over the past few months, thousands of players have set sail, exploring the world of Gielinor in a completely new way. You’ve been drinking bottles from random crates at sea, blowing Krakens’ heads off with cannons, and teasing noobs without boats. It’s been a blast.

Your feedback has always been an extremely important component for the success of Sailing. Behind the scenes, we’ve been carefully reviewing community feedback on our recent updates, including broader discussions around Sailing. You’ve told us what’s working well, and some of the areas that we need to look at improving.

In an ideal world, all of the content that we’re working on are the best things that we can create for our game, and community. Sailing’s recent combat updates have been intended to improve that core experience, but they haven’t quite received the response we’d hoped for. With that in mind, we’re refocusing our efforts on the areas of Sailing that matter most to you.

Starting this month, alongside the Red Reef, we’ll be introducing a selection of targeted buffs to areas like training methods, combat, and UI/UX! Sailing has always been developed alongside our community and we’re excited to continue to working with our best asset: that’s you, to make it even better. We hope you’ll like this change in approach as it helps set the scene for exciting future content, like Wyrmscraig, the Player-Designed Island by ScreteMonge, and our latest Sequel quest. We’re very excited to share more official news on both of those projects soon!

Let’s take a look at some of the exciting changes you can look forward to for Sailing, some of which will be launched as soon as they’re ready (this/next week), and others that are planned for the launch of the Red Reef in May.

Overview

For those of you who might be locked into a raid and don’t have time to read this entire newspost, here’s a summary of the changes:

Port Tasks

• Port Tasks (Courier and Bounty) will receive a 10-15% Sailing XP boost.

Courier Tasks

• Polling Loot Sacks, containing materials used for ship-building will be added to Courier Tasks to help increase their GP/hr.
• Fixing a bug preventing players from taking two cargo of the same type for different tasks.

Bounty Tasks

• You’ll have a higher chance of getting Sailing-specific drops while on a Bounty Task.
• Bounty Tasks will be longer on average, reducing the time spent travelling to get a new one.
• Every sea creature will have a dedicated Port that offers a fixed and permanent Bounty Task for a specific creature.

Boat Combat

• Sailing-specific items will drop more frequently from the following creatures: Armoured Kraken, Vampyre Kraken, Veiled Kraken, and Great White Shark.
• Adding Dragon Sheets to the loot table of Orcas.
• Polling an auto-retaliate feature for cannons while you’re on them.
• Mapping various solo spawns of high-level seaborne creatures, such as Vampyre Krakens and Great White Sharks, so you can bully them easier.
• Exploring looting improvements, including crew-mates, visual displays, or AoE loot options.
• Polling Bosun’s Bench, a dedicated repair facility, as part of the Red Reef.

Side Panel

• Facilities will be moveable within the Sailing side panel.

Slayer

• Polling a task extension and weighting increase for Frost Dragons.
• Dragon Sheets will drop more frequently from Frost Dragons and Lava Strykewyrms on and off-task.

Uniques

• Buffs for the Aquanite Hopper and Belle’s Folly are being considered as part of the next Summer Sweep-Up, however, nothing is confirmed yet.
• Polling a buff to the Medallion of the Deep in Fossil Island’s underwater Thieving/Agility activity to reduce oxygen consumption by 80%.
• Fixing various bugs with the Horn of Plenty.

Deep Sea Trawling

• Sailing XP from Deep Sea Trawling will be roughly double what it currently is in-game.
• Reducing the player default gather rate from 4 ticks to 3.
• Fixing a bug with baited shoals. With this change, you’ll receive the 20% catch-rate and get more fish in your nets.
• Polling various standard Fishing spots at sea.

Cosmetics

• Polling a new customization system for boats to unlock basic sails at Level 41 Sailing.

Misc

• Adding a right-click Last Boat option to the Teleport to Boat spell.
• Adding extra functionality to the ‘Special Attack’ button whilst you’re on a boat and attached to the Helm, allowing you to release Wind Motes. Have fun zooming across Gielinor!
• Some boosted support facilities will be useable without needing to boost your Sailing level again.
• Food from Sailing will be changed to be more vibrant when cooked.
• Adding a rare chance (1 in 800,000) to get Soup from sorting Salvage.
• Adding the ability to use Telekinetic Grab on Lost Crates to retrieve them. Maximum efficiency engaged!

Misc. Bug Fixes

• Fixing a bug where the Boat Bottle indicator gets hidden in the Shipyard interface.
• Sailing items will be unblocked from Death’s Coffer as their prices have now stabilised.
• Fixing an issue related to the Cargo Hold when it is moved while items are still contained within.

Port Tasks

Sailing XP from Port Tasks (both Courier & Bounty Tasks) will be increased by roughly 10-15% across the board. Pun intended, sorry.

Port Tasks will be getting a much clearer purpose within Sailing through changes set to increase their GP / hour.

At the highest level, Barracuda Trials will always be the most optimal way to train Sailing due to how click intensive they are compared to other training methods. However, this change ensures Port Tasks are more strongly positioned at a medium intensity. This will mean they are more relevant for players who want something more than the completely ‘AFK’ Salvaging but less than Trials.

As with anything XP related, we’re balancing based on optimal XP efficiency. That means we look at the highest possible XP obtainable, then work backwards to see how much we can change without making other methods feel worse. Players really love Salvaging, so we don’t want to mess with that!

Courier Tasks

Successfully completing Courier Tasks will award Loot Sacks, helping you gather useful boat supplies as you progress through Sailing.

Loot Sacks are stackable and work similarly to Hunter Rumour loot sacks. You can open them to receive a bundle of supplies at once, with rewards scaling based on the level of the task completed and the distance travelled during the task:

• Sheets (Dragon)
• Nails (Bronze to Dragon)
• Cannonballs (Iron to Dragon)
• Other thematic drops
• Shark Paint (currently 1/36 from Port Tasks).

The GP normally awarded to Port Tasks will also be moved to the Loot Sack.

The goal of this change is to reduce the time it takes to obtain boat upgrades. High-tier upgrades such as Dragon Sheets and Dragon Nails were previously sourced primarily from content outside Sailing, such as Frost Dragons. Our original design intent was to gate these items behind higher-level unlocks so that these milestones became very exciting, however, it resulted in a feeling that these materials were excessively grindy. That’s not the kind of experience we want to create for players, especially when our goal is to incentivise players to have multiple different boats.

Throughout this blog, we’re making changes so that high-tier materials will become more accessible through Sailing itself. Ideally, this will encourage you to experiment with multiple boats and different loadouts, such as a combat boat, a trawling boat, or a speed-focused boat!

You can own up to five boats within Sailing, and we’d like to encourage you to make use of them. Plus, if you’re using multiple boats, then facility slots should feel less restrictive, which will allow us more design space for new facilities in future updates.

Poll Question: Should we add Loot sacks as a reward upon successful completion of Courier Tasks? These will offer additional boat supplies as a reward from Courier Tasks and scale based on the level of task you complete, and distance at which you’ve delivered cargo.

We also picked up a pesky bug where Courier tasks using the same cargo type are currently not able to be taken together. This is unintended behaviour and it will be resolved in a future Sailing update!

Bounty Tasks

Bounty Tasks will also be getting a much stronger purpose within Sailing. They’re not becoming a primary way to get Sailing XP, however, the changes below will position them as the best way to obtain specific sea creature drops while on task.

We also want to reduce the amount of time spent preparing for tasks or travelling between them, making the overall gameplay feel much smoother!

So, what’s changing?

First, we’re increasing the drop rate of Sailing-specific rewards from sea creatures, and then giving a further increase to them if you’re on a Bounty Task. The goal of this change is to position Bounty Tasks as the most efficient way to obtain rewards such as Dragon Cannon Barrel, Echo Pearl, Keel Parts, and similar drops.

Another change is that every sea creature will now have at least one port that always offers a fixed and permanent Bounty Task for that creature.

For example:

• Deepfin Point will always offer Veiled Kraken tasks.
• Fremennik will always offer Vampyre Kraken tasks.

This means you’ll spend less time spent sailing between ports searching for a specific task, helping reduce downtime and improve efficiency.

We’re also going to increase average length of Bounty Tasks. This will reduce how often you’ll need to return to port to pick up a new one.

Boat Combat

Boat combat needs to feel fun, rewarding, and in a healthy place.

Take a look at the changes we’ve got planned!

Sea Creature Drops

We’re increasing the drop rates of high-value Sailing items, such as Dragon Sheets and Keel parts, from high level sea creatures. The creatures that we’re looking at buffing in this way include:

• Armoured Kraken
• Vampyre Kraken
• Veiled Kraken
• Great White Shark

We’ll also be adding Dragon Sheets to Orcas’ loot table, so that there’s even more places to get them.

Please note, you’ll always get better rates for these items whilst you’re on a Bounty Task, since we want to give players more of a reason to do them.

Clue Scrolls from Sailing creatures also don’t currently get boosted by Combat Achievements – we’ll make sure that’s fixed too as part of these changes!

Side Panel

Side panel frustrations, begone! Or at least… Far less annoying than before.

Moveable Facilities

Ah, scrollbars. Don’t you just love them? Especially when you need them for stuff that you interact with over and over again. What’s that? You don’t love doing that? Skill issue.

Player feedback has highlighted that important facilities can be buried further down the panel, which is frustrating when you need to engage with those facilities frequently.

Additionally, while facility bottles let you move facilities around your boat, there is also no way to reorder them within the side panel itself, meaning any facilities positioned lower on the side panel will remain in those awkward spots permanently. Oops.

The team has been working on a change which we think you’ll love: we’re adding the ability to customise the side panel layout to your own preference. You’ll be able to place your most frequently used facilities in an easy to reach spot, for example, putting your two cannons next to each other. Take a look!

Here’s a GIF of this working in action:

While it won’t completely remove the scrollbar from the side panel, it should make interacting with facilities much smoother and more convenient because you’ll be able to customise them based on your preference.

You’ll be able to access this feature from the Shipyard.

Making combat feel more ‘AFK-able’

We’re all about pointing and clicking here, but boat combat currently asks for too many clicks. Click to disengage from the cannon, click to loot sea creatures, click to re-enter the cannon, and keep clicking. We’ve considered this feedback and we want to make boat combat a bit more relaxed, especially during longer sessions.

First, we’re adding an auto-retaliate setting for cannons against sea creatures that attack your boat. When enabled, any cannon that you’re locked into would automatically fire back at hostile sea creatures that attack you. Explode those Dolphins while you’re at work, go on!

Naturally, there would be a short delay before the cannon responds, which will ensure that actively targeting creatures yourself will always be the most efficient option.

Please note, this feature only applies to your cannon. Your player character would not auto-retaliate using normal weapons.

What do you think?

Poll Question: Should we add an auto-retaliate setting to cannons for sea creatures that attack your boat?

We’re also mapping various solo spawns of high-level seaborne creatures, such as Vampyre Krakens, Armoured Krakens, and Great White Sharks.

This doesn’t mean we’re changing combat to be single-way in these areas, however, it will mean that you’ll have a better time bullying them without several of them attacking you at once. We’ll be careful not to add these creatures near any popular Trawling routes – they should exist for bullying purposes only.

Looting

We want to make the process of getting your hard-earned rewards much nicer and much faster.

We’re also exploring further changes, so that we’re able to make boat combat a bit more AFK-able, however, we haven’t settled on them yet. Let us know if you like the following ideas through comments on this blog post:

• Allowing crew-mates to loot on your behalf. This could help reduce the amount of manual interaction needed during combat.
• A visual display for creature loot before you click to loot. Currently, players won’t know if a defeated creature has something valuable, like a Dragon Cannon Barrel, before clicking to loot it. On land, drops appear immediately on the floor, making it easy to tell whether something is worth picking up.
• Options to loot multiple defeated sea creatures at once, AoE-style. This could help to make looting feel easier to manage and require less clicks.

What do you think about them, are we on to a winner? Do you have any other ideas?

Repairs

Bosun’s Bench is a new facility introduced in the Pirate Encounters blog. When a crewmate or player is assigned to this facility, they will periodically repair your ship when it can be healed without overhealing it. This uses kits stored in your Cargo Hold and will still benefit from your crew’s Deckhandiness stats.

It can be built in any existing slot that currently supports a Salvaging Station. Previously, this was a Ballistic Attractor, but that’s been changed later in development.

We’re no longer proceeding with Pirate Encounters, so it will only need a schematic (acquired from Red Reef) plus the following:

Requirements:

• 63 Sailing
• 54 Construction

Materials:

• 6 Camphor Planks
• 24 Adamantite Nails
• 2 Lead Bar
• Bosun’s Bench Schematic (one-time unlock)

Poll Question: Should we add Bosun’s Bench as described in the blog as a reward from Red Reef? This would allow you to create a new facility that, when a crewmate is assigned, will periodically repair your ship when it can be healed.

Some of you have told us that this feature should just be added as a universal upgrade for all boats rather than a facility. We think that a benefit of effectively allowing you to ignore your boat’s HP for an indefinite period of time is worth a facility slot over a flat buff applied to every boat, since we’re generally making boat upgrades significantly more accessible.

Identity of cannons

As mentioned above, there has been plenty of discussion around the role of cannons in boat combat. They’re a core part of the fantasy of being at sea. Who doesn’t enjoy exploding things with a massive cannon?

Combat is still in its very early stages, and the Dragon Cannon cannot compete with powerful end-game items, such as Tumeken’s Shadow (despite having a Level 92 Sailing requirement). We’ve put some measures in place to mitigate that, such as having your cannon do more damage when you’re on it, however, that hasn’t fully given cannons their own identity.

Boat-to-boat combat is a promising avenue for addressing this feedback, with the potential to give cannons a more impactful role in Sailing through new mechanics and encounters at sea. Our current priority is to ensure we can build a stronger foundation first, and then we’ll consider expanding into content like this in future.

Community feedback matters, and getting this right is far more important than getting another round of changes out quickly. For now, we’re not going to change cannon damage values, flat armour, or sea creature Hitpoints. Once the updates outlined above are live, we’ll take time review your feedback and go from there. Keep letting us know how you feel about these changes and we’ll balance them against the priorities of other content.

Slayer

We’re making high-tier materials more obtainable, so we want to ensure that Frost Dragons continue to have a valuable place in the wider game.

We’re proposing two new Slayer unlocks:

• The first unlock will allow you to increase weighting of Frost Dragon tasks from 5 to 8 on both Nieve and Duradel, so you’re more likely to receive these as tasks.
• The second unlock will allow you to increase the task length of Frost Dragon Tasks, so you’re able to kill them for longer.

Currently, the numbers look like this:

• Duradel: 70-120
• Nieve: 60-100

With the second unlock, these numbers would change to:

• Duradel: 180-240
• Nieve: 180-240

These unlocks would cost 100 Slayer Points each.

Another change we’re making is that Frost Dragons and Lava Strykewyrms will now drop Dragon Sheets more frequently both on-task and off-task. These changes are aimed to position them as a more viable method to obtain high-level Sailing upgrades for those of you who prefer to train Slayer.

 

Creature	On task	Off task
Lava Strykewyrm	1/30	1/75
Frost Dragons	1/40	1/100

 

Poll Question: Should we introduce a new Slayer unlock to increase the weighting of Frost Dragon tasks from Nieve and Duradel from 5 to 8?

Poll Question: Should we introduce a new Slayer unlock to extend Frost Dragons from Nieve and Duradel as explained in the blog?

Uniques

As part of the next Summer Sweep-Up, we’ll consider changes to some of the unique rewards from Sailing, such as Belle’s Folly and the Aquanite Hopper. Their desirability feels lower than where it should be – we’ve seen a few players question what they’re used for, which isn’t a great sign!

Discussions are still to be had around balancing, so we don’t have firm plans yet. Let us know if you have any suggestions that you want us to pass on to the team.

Outside of that, bug-fixes for the Horn of Plenty:

Horn Of Plenty

• Toggling double catches off will correctly apply the invisible boost.
• Hunter animals that always trigger the Horn of Plenty’s double catch – such as Tecu salamanders – will no longer trigger it if the double catch toggle is off.
• The Horn currently rolls a 1/25 chance each time you catch anything with Hunter. We’re making a change to ensure it counts up to 25, then takes a charge.
• The Horn of Plenty’s double catch effect is currently not applying consistently across some Hunter activities.
• Will work with crab traps, including Red, Blue, and Rainbow crabs.

Medallion of the Deep

We’re also keen to improve the Medallion of the Deep, as mentioned in the Pirate Encounters blog post. To recap, we’re changing it to function throughout the Fossil Island underwater area, excluding the underwater Agility/Thieving activity.

Within that underwater Agility/Thieving activity, we’re proposing that the Medallion of the Deep would instead reduce oxygen depletion by 80% (previously pitched at 75%).

Poll Question: Should the Medallion of the Deep reduce oxygen depletion by 80% within the underwater Agility/Thieving area at Fossil Island?

Deep Sea Trawling

Deep Sea Trawling is a hot topic within the community, especially in light of recent discussions around Leechfin Fishing!

The good news is that we think players quite enjoy the gameplay itself and the profit-making potential, but there’s been a lot of feedback around how it feels from an XP perspective.

So, what’s changing?

First, Sailing XP is getting a big boost – roughly double what it is right now. Simply put, the Sailing XP is too low for how demanding it is. We’re also speeding things up a bit by reducing your gather rate from 4 ticks to 3. This keeps the ‘one-tick’ method alive for those who love it, while making things feel smoother and more rewarding for players who prefer a more relaxed playstyle.

Finally, baited shoals are getting a bug-fix. They were meant to increase your catch by 20%, but due to how the bonus was calculated, they haven’t worked as intended. With this change, you’ll receive the 20% catch-rate and get more fish in your nets.

So, that’s Sailing XP, but let’s talk about Fishing XP. What do we want to do there?

When we evaluate skilling content internally, we often look at three key factors:

• Intensity – How AFK the activity is, and how much attention or skill is required to perform it efficiently.
• GP per hour – How profitable the activity is.
• XP per hour – How rewarding the activity is for progressing skills.

Generally, the more click-intensive an activity is, the stronger we can justify a high reward output.

Over the years, many players have asked us to create profitable skilling methods. Traditional activities, like cutting Magic logs or catching Sharks, are approachable and don’t require much intensity, but they offer modest XP and GP in comparison to modern PvM content.

The goal of Deep Sea Trawling is to offer a profitable Fishing activity, where players could feel rewarded for their skills in both Fishing and Sailing. To make that possible, the activity needs to have meaningful barriers to entry and a more active gameplay loop.

High-end Marlin trawling requires:

• High Fishing and Sailing levels
• Higher-tier bait created by processing valuable fish
• A high-level boat with significant upgrade costs
• Active gameplay

Marlin are a top-tier food source, and are consumed at a high rate, which helps us to preserve their value.

Ideally, we want different skilling methods to solve different needs. Some should be profitable methods, some high-XP methods, AFK methods, and so on. This is so that one single method doesn’t dominate the entire meta for a skill.

If we buffed the Fishing XP from this activity, it risks being the best non-AFK Fishing option overall. We also expect that more players would engage with this activity which would substantially affect the price of the fish, cutting into its profitability.

So, for those reasons, we believe Deep Sea Trawling currently fills a healthy role within Fishing, and we’d love to hear your feedback on this approach. What do you think and are you happy with some of the buffs we mentioned above?

Fishing at Sea

Have you ever wanted to chill on your boat and engage in some regular Fishing? We’d like to add some regular Fishing spots out at sea to add a little more thematic flavour to Sailing.

The new fishing spots would work just like existing ones, but would be larger, so instead of the standard 1×1 tile spots that currently exist in the game they would be something closer to 5×5 tiles. Unlike the shoals in Deep Sea Trawling, these spots would be fixed in place and would not move.

You’ll catch the same fish, at the same rates, with the same tool, bait and requirements as you’re used to from land. Similar to land, you won’t be able to fish while the boat is moving, or while locked into a facility.

Sloops and Skiffs would support rod fishing, and the Raft will support harpoon, net, and lobster pot fishing. Whilst this has been designed in this way because of animation limitations, we actually feel that this could give rafts a cool identity as a go-to option for players who want also want to have a laid-back Fishing trip at sea, rather than just being something you use in the early game and never touch again.

Although this certainly doesn’t compete with established Fishing activities, such as Barbarian Fishing, we think this change might be relevant to some account types and provide a more AFK option for Fishing due to the fact that you’re able to have a larger inventory of space to store raw fish in your Cargo Hold. The Cargo Hold doesn’t compete with a Bank, so the spots near a bank will probably remain meta. However, this change adds atmosphere and just gives you more options while out at sea, which is always a plus!

Here are the list of fish we’d like to add:

 

Catches	Uses	Boats
Raw Sardine Raw Herring	Fishing Rod & Bait	Sloop and Skiffs only
Raw Mackerel Raw Cod Raw Bass Useless Junk	Big Fishing Net	Raft only
Raw Sharks	Harpoon	Raft only
Raw Lobsters	Lobster Pot	Raft only
Raw Tuna Raw Swordfish	Harpoon	Raft only
Raw Karambwan	Karambwan Vessel and Karambwanji	Raft only
Raw Anglerfish	Fishing Rod & Sand Worms	Sloop and Skiffs only
Raw Monkfish	Small Net	Raft only

The Karambwan Vessel is required to fish Karambwanji. Quest completion will still be required for cooking them.

Poll Question: Should we add regular Fishing spots at sea as described in the blog?

Cosmetics

Fashionistas, fear not. We’re still keen to launch the new range of basic sail cosmetics as outlined in our previous blog. This is mainly a systems update so that we can launch put a new system in place for future boat customisation:

Sails:

• Black
• Blue
• Green
• Pink
• Purple
• Red
• Yellow

They’re planned to launch alongside the Red Reef, but they won’t be related to completion of the quest. Sail customisation will be unlocked at 41 Sailing and each of the solid-colour sails can be created using 10 of the matching dye.

Looking further ahead, we’re keen to explore some of the community’s most popular ideas for sail cosmetics, or perhaps even run another player-designed competition in the future!

Let us know what you think!

Poll Question: Should we add a general system for customising boat sails, including a range of new basic sail colours?

For those of you who fell in love with the Dread Pirate sails pitched in our last blog, we’re keeping that in our back pocket as a reward from future thematically appropriate content.

Miscellaneous

Teleport To Boat

We’ll be adding a right-click Last Boat option to the Teleport to Boat spell, which will let you quickly return to the boat you most recently used.

Ancient Furnace

We’ve added a way to unnote metal bars for cannonballs at the Ancient Furnace, so that metal bars can be converted into regular ones. This was polled in the Gathering Efficiences poll and passed at a whopping 92%!

This service only works for metal bars and will not unnote food or other supplies and costs 100 coins per bar.

Special Attack Button – Wind Mote Functionality

By popular demand from the Sailing opinion poll, we’re adding extra functionality to the ‘Special Attack’ button whilst you’re on a boat (and attached to the Helm), allowing you to release Wind Motes. Have fun zooming across Gielinor!

Boostable Facilities

Currently, players are able to boost their Sailing level in order to build facilities, however, they can’t use those facilities unless they continue to boost their Sailing level to meet the requirement. We reckon that if you’ve gone out of your way to build a facility by using a boost, you should be able to continue using that without too much extra hassle.

We’ve decided to create a distinction between facility types, so that we can decide which ones are safe to use below the intended level.

Active facilities – Provide direct gameplay advantages or are repeatedly used during core Sailing gameplay.

• Cannons
• Salvaging Hook
• Trawling Net
• Chum Station

Support facilities – Less frequently used.

• Cargo Hold
• Range
• Keg
• Salvaging station
• Anchor
• Fathom Stone
• Wind / Gale Catcher
• Crystal Extractor

Not all facilities are used in the same way, so we need to treat them differently and carefully.

‘Active’ facilities will always require you to meet the Sailing level required to use. On the other hand, ‘Support’ facilities will not require you to meet their requirements once built, so you’re free to boost your Sailing level to create them and you won’t need to maintain the boost to use them.

There is one exception: Sails. If you’ve boosted your level requirement to create new Sails, you as the Captain will be able to use them without needing to boost again. However, other players on your boat cannot do so and will need to meet the level requirement.

Food

Food from Sailing will be changed to be more vibrant when cooked. Credit to the RuneLite ‘Food Colouring’ plug-in creator who took the time to offer an alternative client-side!

Soup

We’ll be adding a rare chance (1 in 800,000) to get Soup from sorting Salvage. If anyone actually does end up getting Soup in this way, please let us know… You’re picking our lottery numbers next.

Lost Crates

We’re adding the ability to use Telekinetic Grab on Lost Crates to retrieve them. Maximum efficiency engaged!

Misc. Bug Fixes

• We’re fixing a bug where the Boat Bottle indicator gets hidden in the Shipyard interface.
• Sailing items will be unblocked from Death’s Coffer as their prices have now stabilised.
• We’re fixing an issue related to the Cargo Hold when it is moved while items are still contained within.
• You’ll no longer be able to replace a Cargo Hold with another facility if it still contains cargo.
• Replacing a Cargo Hold with another Cargo Hold will correctly transfer stored items.
• Removing a Cargo Hold with items inside will warn you that the contents will be destroyed.
• You’ll be able to bottle boats with cargo contained, with clear warnings that doing so will discard items in your Cargo Hold.

What’s next?

What do you think about these changes, and have we missed anything? Let us know!

Some of these updates are already in progress. We’re aiming to launch some soon, with others arriving as early as tomorrow, or alongside the release of Red Reef, our second Tortugan quest, currently scheduled for May.

Our focus is on improving core areas of Sailing, including Port Tasks, Combat, and Deep-Sea Trawling, where we see the most opportunity for growth. Existing methods like Barracuda Trials and Shipwreck Salvaging already provide strong training options. As part of this shift, we’re adapting some of the plans outlined in our Winter Summit to support this work.

As we prioritise improving combat foundations, Pirate Encounters will no longer be launching as part of the Red Reef update. Boat-to-boat combat will still feature within the quest, and we’re keen to hear your feedback once you’ve had a chance to try it. Pirate Encounters remain something we would like to explore as standalone content in the future.

Similarly, the next Barracuda Trial is no longer a priority for this year, as we focus on these core improvements alongside community-led projects like Wyrmscraig and our Sequel Quest. We’ll be sharing more news about those very soon and we can’t wait to hear what you think!

As always, we appreciate your feedback and the opportunity to shape Sailing alongside you. This poll is planned to go live later this week, pending your feedback and any final changes.

Until then, we’ll see you on the high seas!

You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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This is a WIP guide aimed at helping you get to your first Tier II, Tier III (and eventually Tier IV) relic and area in Demonic Pacts League, as well as unlocking 9 Demonic pacts.

This guide is universal and can be followed regardless of your relic or area choice for this league.

The guide is updated daily, and will be adjusted after the official task list reveal and playtesting.

Route map

Runelite Plugin

If you would like to use this route in Runelite (Yes, in game!), you need the Tasks Tracker plugin from the Runelite Plugin Hub.

Instructions:

• Click Export to Tasks Tracker Plugin (in the Map Route)
• Save the .JSON file on your Computer
• Open it and copy contents to clipboard
• Paste into Tasks Tracker Plugin (Route > … > Import Route from Clipboard)

This works with the Shortest Path plugin in Runelite.

Starting out: Money and Early Hunter (Tier I)

The goal of this part is unlocking your Tier II relic, Hunter rumours, as well as rushing through the first early tasks.

• Open the Leagues Menu Demonic pact
• Complete the Leagues Tutorial Demonic pact
• Pick your first Relic
• Claim a free Spade, Impling jar and two Strange devices from the Leagues Tutor in Yama’s Lair
• Equip your Dramen staff and starting arrows
• Complete a lap of the Yama Agility Course
• Achieve Your First Level Up
• Visit Death’s Domain west of Civitas illa Fortis fountain
• Run south and bank everything at Fortis west bank
• Pickpocket a Citizen near the Bazaar 10 times to reach 5 Thieving and get 30 coins (less with Abundance)
• Achieve Your First Level 5

• Switch to Bakery stall until 20 Thieving, keeping all of the cakes
• This should take 51 thieving actions (less with Abundance)
• Steal a Chocolate slice
• Achieve Your First Level 10
• Achieve Your First Level 20
• Sell 26 cakes at Fortis General Store and keep 1, this should give you 550 coins, including the 30 you had from pickpocketing

NOTE: This should be enough for 3 Box traps, Bird snare, Plank, Glassblowing pipe + 20 Soda ash/sand, Banana, Knife, Shears, Uncut sapphire, Rake, Chisel, Hammer, Stew and Enchanted gem.

• Buy 3 Box traps, Bird snare, Hammer, Chisel and Knife from Fortis General Store
• Steal some Silk
• Buy a Stew and 8 Jug of wine from The Flaming Arrow
• Give Oli some Stew
• Buy a Green cape from Floria’s Fashion and equip it
• Everyone should now know that you’re the GOAT
• Don’t forget to say nice cape if you see another one
• Bank at Fortis west bank, withdraw coins, Knife, Bucket, 1 Cake, starting runes and starting bow (and Bronze pickaxe and Bronze axe if your relic isn’t Barbarian Gathering)

• Run West to Buffalos
• Milk a Buffalo and drop the bucket
• Kill a Buffalo, using starting runes and arrows, drop these after the kill
• Pick up its bones and bury them
• Buy a rake from Agelus’ Farm Shop
• Rake a Farming patch and deposit rake at the Tool Leprechaun
• Run to the mine NW of Hunter Guild
• Your inventory should look like this: coins, knife (and Bronze pickaxe and Bronze axe if your relic isn’t Barbarian Gathering)
• Mine 14 Copper ore and drop 5, keeping 9
• Mine 14 Tin ore and drop 5, keeping 9
• Run to Hunter Guild and quetzal to Civitas illa Fortis
• Pet Renu
• Run south and pet Xolo east of the Fortis temple
• Activate a prayer near an altar
• Drink from a Bird bath
• Chop 2 trees at the park near the Bird bath
• Use 1 log to fletch some arrow shafts and drop them
• Smelt 9 bronze bars using the Furnace close to the Fortis Colosseum
• Bank south, deposit everything and withdraw coins
• Buy Glassblowing pipe, Shears and Banana From Trader Crewmember at Fortis Cothon
• Buy 10 buckets of sand and 10 Soda ash
• Eat a Banana
• Run SE and make Molten glass at the furnace
• Buy an Amulet mould and Ring mould from Artima’s Crafting Supplies
• Bank and withdraw coins
• Run back to the Trader Crewmember, buy 10 more Sand/Soda ash and 1 Seaweed
• Run SE and make Molten glass at the furnace
• Bank south, deposit all, withdraw 9 bronze bars, Hammer, Logs, Tinderbox and Small fishing net if not Barbarian Gathering

• Run south to Spike’s Spikes and make 7 bronze maces and 1 Bronze full helm
• Sell the bronze maces to the mace shop, keep the helm
• Run south to the anchovy fishing spot
• Catch 49 Shrimp until 15 Fishing (less with Abundance)
• Reach Total Level 100
• After your first inventory is full, burn some logs
• Cook Shrimp
• Burn Some Food
• Successfully Cook 5 Pieces of Food
• Catch an Anchovy
• Cast Home Teleport
• Quetzal to Aldarin
• Cry in a Wheat Field
• Run west and fill a Grape barrel for the Vineyard foreman
• Investigate Meztlan and find out why he was banished from the lab
  • He is on the 3rd floor of the Mastering Mixology lab
• Bank everything, withdraw coins, Chisel, Glassblowing pipe and 20 Molten glass

• Run north to Toci’s Gem Store, make Oil lamps on your way for 20 Crafting, drop them
• Buy an Uncut sapphire
• Cut a Sapphire
• Sell the gems back and work your way up to Ruby
• Do this for 10 minutes to get 356k coins and 60 Crafting, without Abundance this should take:
• 21 Sapphire
• 32 Emerald
• 573 Ruby
• Keep one of each gem for a task later
• Achieve Your First Level 30
• Achieve Your First Level 40
• Achieve Your First Level 50
• Achieve Your First Level 60
• Run south and quetzal to Auburnvale
• Bank, withdraw 1805 coins, Shears, Bird snare, Knife and Tinderbox (also Bronze axe if Endless Harvest)

• Buy a Staff of fire from Sebamo’s Sublime Staffs
• Equip an Elemental Staff
• Buy a Torch from Auburnvale General Store
• Light A Torch and drop it
• Buy a Steel axe from Lunami
• Chop one of the 8 dead trees around the Auburnvale sawmill
• Turn any Logs Into a Plank at the Auburnvale sawmill and drop it

You should now have 600 points, unlock your 2nd relic and get the x8 xp multiplier.

We will be doing early Woodcutting, Firemaking and Fletching soon, but you can start during Hunter to save some time.

There are 3 trees west and north of Crimson swifts, 5 north of Copper longtails and many at Gloomthorn Trail.

You need to catch half as many creatures with Woodsman.

Bury all the bones from Hunter. We need to bury 11 bones now or 8 bones later at Tier III.

• (Skip with Abundance) Quetzal to Tal Teklan, run NE and catch 4 Crimson swifts to 9 Hunter
• Run and catch 5 Copper longtails north of Nemus Retreat to 17 Hunter (7 Hunter with Abundance)

NOTE: If the spot is crowded, consider quetzal to Aldarin and catching Copper longtails there, then taking the fairy ring to Zanaris.

You can also collect from Grubby sapling in Neypotzli, 1-17 Hunter should take ~23 minutes there.

• (Skip with Abundance) Activate the Statue of Ates on your way
• Run east across the bridge and fairy ring to Zanaris
• Shear a sheep
• Enter Puro Puro and get a Butterfly net, 7 impling jars and impling scroll from Elnock Inquisitor
• Drop the scroll
• Catch a Baby Impling
• Travel back to Zanaris
• Pick some Wheat
• Make Some Flour at the Zanaris windmill
• Fairy ring AIS and run back to Auburnvale
• Bank everything, withdraw coins, Steel axe, Tinderbox, Wool, Knife, Butterfly net (and Bronze axe if Endless Harvest)

• Chop some more logs and burn them to get 15 Firemaking
• Chop Some Logs With a Steel axe (drop if Barbarian Gathering)
• Chop logs and turn them into arrow shafts until 15 Fletching
• Catch 21 Ruby harvest in Auburnvale until 25 Hunter, north of the Auburnvale sawmill (15 Hunter with Abundance)
• At 23 Hunter, catch two Wild kebbit and keep one Kebbit claws
• At 25 Hunter, run south to Nemus Retreat
• Grab a Forestry kit from the Friendly Forester on your way (gnome hat icon)
• Chop and Burn Some Oak logs
• Fletch 1000 arrow shafts
• Fletch an Oak shortbow
• Fletch 25 Oak stocks
• Spin a Ball of wool
• Keep chopping and fletching Oak logs, banking them until 30 Woodcutting
• Chop and bank 1 Willow logs
• Achieve Total Level 250
• Bank using Bank buffalo, withdraw coins, Butterfly net and 3 Box traps

• Follow Mountain Guide to Quetzacalli Gorge
• Run west to Mons Gratia
• Catch 51 Sapphire glacialis to 35 Hunter (25 Hunter with Abundance)
• Catch 32 Snowy knight to 39 Hunter (29 Hunter with Abundance)
• Run east and quetzal to Hunter Guild
• Run west to Embertailed jerboa
• Catch 32 jerboa to 46 Hunter

You now have access to Hunters’ Rumours.

• (Optional) Catch 62 more jerboa for 57 Hunter with Woodsman to skip Novice Rumours

Hunter Rumours and Wealthy Citizens (Tier II)

The goal of this part is unlocking your Tier III relic via Hunter rumours and Stealing valuables, as well as completing some more easy/medium tasks.

If you picked Friendly Forager, you are slowly getting Herblore xp. Consider making a few attack potions soon to get 40 Herblore and carrying a clean irit for the Jekyll and Hyde random event to get an Agility potion(4) for Tai Bwo Wannai Trio.

It takes 169 Attack potions (cleaning the herb) to get 3-40 Herblore, but realistically much less with the relic passive effect.

• Run east to Hunter Guild and quetzal to Civitas illa Fortis
• Enter Yama’s Lair and get 32 Agility (with Hotfoot you passively get it in 8 minutes of running, and may choose to do some Hunter rumours now instead)
• Barbarian Gathering consider 55 Mining via Iron rocks for Heart of darkness instead for passive Agility
• Leave and run south to Silk stall to get 34 Thieving
• Bank everything, withdraw coins, Bronze full helm, Shears and Spade
• Run north and quetzal to Aldarin
• Complete Death on the Isle quest
• During or after the quest, use the Bronze full helm on a Hat stand in the Backstage entrance of Villa Lucens
• You should now be 50 Thieving
• Activate Statue of Ates on Aldarin
  • Pick-pocket Constantinius for the Chest key (Fancy chest)
  • Open and search the Fancy chest in the Villa Lucens Wine cellar to see the note ‘Taken for a clean. Be back soon.’
  • Search the south-west fountain on the villa grounds
  • Use the icon on the statue north of the Aldarin market
• Buy 10 Ixcoztic white from Moonrise Wines (16 heals for a Demonic pact later)
• Buy a Steel pickaxe from Mistrock Mining Supplies and run east
• Mine some Ore With a Steel Pickaxe
• Run NW fairy ring to Zanaris
• Run to Chaeldar and buy an Enchanted gem, Spiny helmet and Anti-dragon shield
• Pick and check your Slayer Task, then drop the Enchanted gem
• Fairy ring AJP to Avium Savannah
• Run north and pick some Sweetcorn
• Run north-west to Ortus Farm
• Pickpocket a Master Farmer near the farming patches to get a 3 potato seeds
• Take Rake from Tool Leprechaun
• Buy 2 Compost and Seed dibber from Harminia
• Plant Seeds in an Allotment Patch
• Protect Your Crops
• Deposit rake and dibber at Tool Leprechaun
• Run north and shear an Alpaca
• Run east to Civitas illa Fortis and pickpocket guards
• Open 28 Coin Pouches At Once
• Obtain 800 Coins From Coin Pouches At Once
• Bank at Fortis west bank, deposit all and withdraw coins
• Run south to Bazaar and pay an Urchin for Information
• Steal a House key
• Steal 15 House Keys
• Steal 25 Valuables
• Steal 100 Valuables
• Steal a Blessed bone statuette
• Steal from the Fortis Spice Stall
• Get at least 66 Thieving for the Final dawn
• (Optional) Achieve Your First Level 70

• Quetzal to Hunter Guild and bank everything. Withdraw Bird snare, 3 box traps and Butterfly net
• We are about to do ~4 Novice, 22 Adept and 24 Expert Rumours
• For Novice Rumours, you are hunting butterflies, jerboa or tropical wagtails if unlucky, using Gillman
• Complete a Hunter Rumour
• For Adept Rumours at 57 Hunter, you are using Ornus until he assigns Pyre fox, then switch to Cervus, who will only assign Black warlock and Red chinchompa
• Complete 10 Hunter Rumours
  • We need at least 617 Blessed bone shards for 43 Prayer later
  • You should get 632 on average from 4 Novice and 6 Adept rumours
  • If you wish to stop here, but were unlucky, consider doing a few more rumours
• Claim Basic quetzal whistle blueprint from Soar Leader Pitri and craft the Quetzal whistle using Willow logs in your bank
• (Optional) Complete 25 Hunter Rumours
• For Expert Rumours, you are using Aco, until he assigns Sunlight antelope, then switch to the Teco, who will only assign Red chinchompa and Moonlight moth at 75 Hunter
• Buy a Teasing stick from Imia’s Supplies
• (Optional) 100 Butterfly jars upon getting your first Moonlight moth task
• If you picked Friendly Forager, you might get 38 Herblore passively and pick a few Snape grass from the house NE of the Grand Museum
• (Optional) Bank a full inventory of Moonlight moth after every task until you run out of jars
• (Optional) Complete 50 Hunter Rumours
• (Optional) Catch 25 Sunlight antelope
• Craft an Enchanted quetzal if you were lucky to get Enhanced quetzal whistle blueprint and Yew logs from the rewards
• Recharge your whistle at Soar Leader Pitri on your last charge (using meat from rewards) if you are about to use it to travel elsewhere
• This should get you 80 Hunter, ~4k Blessed bone shards (enough for 57 Prayer with sunfire wine) and ~50k coins

NOTE: You should now have 1650 points (1380 if skipped optional tasks), unlock your Tier III relic and get the slayer perks.

If you did all of the optional tasks, you should also have 80 tasks complete and unlock Karamja.

If you are planning on doing more Hunter Rumours later, before unlocking Karamja, set up the following block list:

Gillman: Tecu salamander

Cervus: Red chinchompa

Teco will now only assign Sunlight Moth and Wolf will only assign Moonlight moth and Moonlight antelope.

If you prefer, buy another 100 Butterfly jars from Imia’s Supplies, quetzal to Tal Teklan, run south to Crypt of Tonali and hunt Black warlocks for early Super Strength potions.

Prayer and High Alchemy (Tier III)

In this part of the guide we are getting early gear, Prayer and 55 Magic. While the initial goal is getting ready for Moons of Peril, if you choose to avoid combat and Slayer until your next region, there is an alternative route you can follow.

• Bank and withdraw Quetzal whistle, 10 Quetzal feed, 4 Jug of wine and coins (and a pickaxe, if not Barbarian Gathering)
• Run SE to the Stonecutter Outpost, drinking the wine and filling jugs with water at Locus Oasis
• Complete The Ribbiting Tale of a Lily Pad Labour Dispute
• Mine 4 Clay
• Buy 3 Limestone brick from Stonecutter Supplies
• Make 4 Soft clay and drop the jugs
• Run to Sunset Coast
• Buy a Mithril full helm and Adamant full helm from Thurid’s Brain Buckets
• Charter a ship to Civitas illa Fortis
• Buy 15 pineapples from Trader Crewmember
• Run south and bank pineapples and helmets, keep coins, Quetzal whistle, 10 Quetzal feed, 3 Limestone brick and 4 Soft clay
• Run through the gate to Spike’s Spikes and buy a Rune mace
• Home teleport/Lodestone to Civitas illa Fortis
• Run NW to Kualti Headquarters and punch the combat Dummy for 8 Attack
• Attack a Dummy
• Purchase the following items from Fortis Blacksmith:
• Steel platelegs
• Mithril platelegs
• Adamant platelegs
• Mithril platebody
• Adamant platebody
• Mithril spear
• Adamant spear
• Adamant scimitar
• Bank armour and weapons south
• Drain your Prayer to zero
• Withdraw coins and 15 pineapples
• Run west and buy 2 bucket packs from Agelus’ Farm Shop
• Deposit them at Tool Leprechaun
• Put your pineapples in the Compost Bin and close it
• Run west to Cam Torum and build the Quetzal site
• Enter Cam Torum, buy a Steel and Rune pickaxe from Tizoro’s Pickaxes
• Buy 50 law runes from The Runic Emporium
• Bank, deposit all and withdraw the following:
• Staff of fire and Anti-dragon shield (equip)
• Quetzal whistle, 617-1600 Blessed bone shards, coins and Butterfly net
• 2-4 Jug of wine (do not drink these)
• Mithril full helm, Mithril platebody and Mithril platelegs
• Steel platelegs
• Adamant full helm, Adamant platebody and Adamant platelegs
• Spiny helmet and Dramen staff

• Quetzal to Tal Teklan
• Restore 5 Prayer Points at an Altar
  • If you skipped all optional tasks, you would unlock Karamja now
• Buy the following runes:
• 500 Mind rune and Chaos rune
• 800 Nature rune
• 1500 Air rune, Water rune, Earth rune and Fire rune
• 100 Cosmic rune and 50 Death runes
• Run east and kill 15 Blue dragon using defensive cast water spells at Dragon Nest and bury their bones for 30 Prayer
• (Alacrity to E: Tlatli rainforest: Log balance with 40 Agility)
• Keep at least 6 Blue dragon hide for a task later
• Cast Low Level Alchemy between hits on Nature rune when you reach 21 Magic
• This should get you 36 Magic and 33 Defence
• When you reach 5 Defence, equip Steel platelegs, Spiny helmet and alch them
• Equip some Steel armour
• When you reach 20 Defence, equip Mithril full helm, Mithril platebody and Mithril platelegs and alch them
• Equip a Full Mithril Set
• When you reach 30 Defence, equip Adamant full helm, Adamant platebody and Adamant platelegs, keep this
• Equip a Full Adamant Set
• Reach Combat Level 10
• Reach Combat Level 25
• Quetzal to The Teomat, bless your wine and use the Libation bowl to get 43-50 Prayer for Antler guard
• Pray at the Shrine of Ralos
• Use the Protect from Melee Prayer Demonic pact
• Activate Superhuman Strength and Improved Reflexes
• Kill an Icefiend in Varlamore north by the bridge
• Keep casting Low Level Alchemy until 55 Magic
• Quetzal to Cam Torum and run east to the Wolf Den
• Defeat a Dire Wolf
• Run to Ortus Farm and fill a bucket with Supercompost from the bin
  • Grab the bucket from Tool Leprechaun and deposit back
• Run south of Avium Savannah and kill a Hill Giant Demonic pact
• Travel to Zanaris (Alacrity to I: Zanaris: Cosmic altar path)
• Enter Puro-Puro and hunt eclectic implings for a gold bar
  • Hunt Magpie implings for Mystic gloves or Mystic boots
  • Equip a piece of Mystic set
• Fairy ring BKQ to Enchanted Valley and kill 5 bunnies
  • (Optional) Kill Tree spirits for a Rune axe, they are weak to fire spells
• Bank in Zanaris, withdraw Ring mould, Amulet mould and Ball of wool
• Craft an Emerald ring and Ruby amulet at the Furnace to the east
• Run to Kualti Headquarters and kill a Guard in the underground using defensive casting.
• Run SE to the Estate agent and purchase a Player-owned house
• Cast Teleport to House
• Teleport using Law Runes
• Enter your Player-owned house
• Enter build mode and build any room
• Exit the house and run south to the bank in Aldarin
• Grab an Adamant scimitar
• Run south and climb on top of the Aldarin windmill
• Use your scimitar on the Nice nest
• Hop worlds or relog
• Claim a Cake from the Nest
• At 49 Magic enchant an Amulet of strength
• At 54 Magic cast Civitas illa Fortis Teleport
• At 55 Magic cast High Level Alchemy
• We should be close to 50 Combat now to unlock another Demonic pact

You can now choose between a Combat Route and a Skilling Route. Pick whichever you fancy or do one after the other in any order, working your way towards Tier IV.

Skilling Route

The goal of this route is to unlock your first region of choice by completing tasks, the easy and most of the medium Karamja diary.

• Bank and withdraw coins, Steel pickaxe, Rune pickaxe, Tinderbox, Seaweed (Steel pickaxe and Steel axe if not Barbarian Gathering)
• Equip the Staff of air
• Quetzal to Sunset Coast (Tal Teklan if Barbarian Gathering OR F :Tlatli rainforest: Rock climb if you also have Alacrity)
• (Skip if Barbarian Gathering) Buy Fishing rod, Fly fishing rod, Lobster pot, Harpoon, Big fishing net, 100 Bait and 2000 Feather from Picaria’s Fishing Shop, then quetzal to Tal Teklan
• Run to the mine south of Tal Teklan and mine Iron ore until 1600 xp off 40 Mining, switching to Coal after (30 with Abundance)
• Mine 50 Iron rocks, keeping 4
• Mine 15 Coal rocks
• This gets you 41 Mining for Karamja diary (31 with Abundance)
• Mine some ore with a Rune pickaxe, drop your Steel pickaxe
• Run north to Tal Teklan and smelt an Iron bar
• Chop 3 Logs along the way
• Quetzal to Cam Torum
• Enter the gates, run east and mine a Calcified deposit
• Mine 250 Blessed bone shards
• Teleport to Cam Torum using a Calcified moth
• Quetzal to Civitas illa Fortis
• Fish a House key in the park
• Obtain a Casket from Fishing
• Find a Cosmic talisman in a Casket
• Locate a Runecrafting altar using a talisman
• Lodestone to Karamja
• Enter Brimhaven Agility Arena and get 10 Brimhaven voucher
• Receive an Agility arena ticket
• (Optional) Get 50 Agility for the Final dawn and Colossal Wyrm Agility Course
• Buy a Snapdragon From Pirate Jackie the Fruit
• Exchange your Agility arena tickets for xp
• Run east through the gate and kill an Imp on the Karamja Volcano
• Scatter some Ashes
• Pick and drop your Seaweed 5 times
• Run east and fill a crate with Bananas for Luthas at Musa Point
• Run to the fishing docks north of the Banana plantation
• Catch a Herring
• Catch 25 Sardines
• Get 20 Fishing
• Light some Logs and cook all the fish
• Cook 10 Sardines
• Keep the cooked fish
• Minigame teleport to Fight Pots
• Bank east and deposit everything, withdraw coins, Water runes, Chaos runes, Earth runes, Death runes and 10 Ixcoztic white (Steel axe and Rune pickaxe if not Barbarian Gathering)
• Check that you’re wearing an Anti-dragon shield

• Kill a TzHaar Demonic pact (might not count if not in Mor Ul Rek Inner Area)
• Leave the TzHaar City and run through the hidden wall to Isle of Crandor
• Defeat a Lesser demon
• Cast a Blast Spell
• Lodestone to Karamja
• Run NW and use the ropeswing to travel to Moss Giant Island and back
• Mine some Gold ore at the Horseshoe mine and drop it
• Run south of the House Portal
• Kill a Snake
• Pick a Pineapple
• Enter the Brimhaven Dungeon
• Kill a Moss giant
• Run west past the 22 Agility pipe shortcut and use the stepping stones
• Run up the south stairs and kill a Greater demon
• Down the stairs and past the Moss giants
• Kill a Fire giant
• Run all the way south
• Kill a Steel dragon Demonic pact
• Lodestone to Karamja
• Use Vigroy’s cart to travel to Shilo Village
• Bank everything, withdraw Fly fishing rod, Fishing rod, Feathers and Bait
• Catch Trout until 25 Fishing, bank all fish to cook later
• Catch a Pike
• Catch 2 inventories of Pike, burn chance is ~60%
• Burn some Logs near the bank
• Cook 20 Pike
• Catch Trout until 30 Fishing
• Catch a Salmon on Karamja
• Catch 50 Salmon
• Bank everything, withdraw coins, Chisel, Quetzal whistle, Teasing stick, Knife, Tinderbox, Earth runes, Fire runes, Law runes and Chaos runes (Small fishing net, Rune pickaxe and Steel axe if not Barbarian Gathering)

• Run NW and mine a Red topaz from a Gem rock
• Obtain a Gem While Mining
• Run east and sleep in the Paramaya Inn
• Use the stepping stones across the river
• Exit Shilo village
• Run west and visit the Cairn Isle
• Travel back across the bridge and trap a Horned graahk
• Obtain 2 Tatty graahk fur and 1 Graahk fur
• Chop two Logs and fletch one of them into arrowshafts
• Catch some Karambwanji
• Run north to Tai Bwo Wannai
• Kill a Jungle spider and make a Spider on shaft
• Burn some logs and cook it (don’t burn this one)
• Run north and buy a Pestle and mortar, Antipoison(3), Hammer and Machete from Jiminua
• Buy 3 Bronze bars (more if not 16 Smithing)
• Make a Bronze plateskirt on an anvil nearby
• Run SE to the dungeon sign and enter the Pothole Dungeon
• Kill a Jogre (keep the bones)
• You have now completed the Karamja Easy diary
• Lodestone to Karamja and claim the diary lamp, using it to get 27 Farming
• Charter a ship to Civitas illa Fortis from Karamja
• Buy 100 Soda ash/Bucket of sand from Trader Crewmember
• Make 100 Molten glass
• Make 100 Unpowered orbs
• Bank south, grab your Graahk furs and coins
• Quetzal to Hunter Guild and make full Graahk armour using Pellem’s Fur Store
• Equip full Graahk hunter gear
• Run south and complete 10 laps of the Colossal Wyrm Agility Course
• Quetzal to Quetzacalli Gorge and run north to The Darkfrost
• Kill The Hueycoatl using earth spells Demonic pact
• Use a mass world for an easy kill

You can now proceed with the Combat Route. If you have done both routes, continue with the next part of the guide.

If you did this route first, you should now be able to unlock your first region of choice.

Combat Route

The goal of this route is to get 48 Slayer and prepare ourselves for at least one completion of Moons of Peril.

Your melee weapon progression should look like this:

• Start Chaeldar slayer using melee until you reach 48 Slayer
  • You only need 38 to kill Sulphur Naguas with Abundance, but consider still getting 48 for Heart of Darkness
• You should have the following stats after you’re done:
• 55 Attack
• 55 Strength
• 55 Defence
• Quetzal to Cam Torum and run north to Neypotzli
• In the Antechamber use the SE entrance and travel through the Ancient Prison to Earthbound Cavern
• Run to the cooking range, grab Hunter and Herblore supplies
• Catch Moss lizards, cook them and make 2-4 Moonlight potion
• Run south and, training on defensive, kill Sulphur Nagua until you get Sulphur blades, restocking supplies as needed and picking up Sulphurous essence

NOTE: With average luck, this should take 225 kills, 1 hour and get you 60 Defence and 35 Runecrafting, giving the Sulphurous essence to Eyatlalli, south of the Ancient Prison. This is the earliest setup to do Moons of Peril. It is recommended to subdue them at least once at this point.

• (Optional) Keep killing Sulphur Nagua until 60 Attack and 60 Strength

If you would like to have a punish weapon for the Eclipse Moon, you can do 25 minutes of Toci’s Gem Store rubies for 765k coins and buy 8350 chaos runes, sell it for Tokkul and get the Tzhaar-ket-om.

• Subdue the Moons of Peril
• (Optional) Subdue the Moons of Peril 10 times
• (Optional) Subdue the Moons of Peril 25 times
• (Optional) Subdue the Moons of Peril 50 times

You can now proceed with the Skilling Route. If you have done both routes OR prefer to keep rushing combat, continue with the next part of the guide.

Fire cape (Tier IV)

The goal of this part is unlocking requirements to get the Glacial temotli, Arkan blade and Sunlight crossbow. You should be at Tier IV at this point and unlock the increased droprate and minigame points multiplier.

• Quetzal to Tal Teklan (F :Tlatli rainforest: Rock climb with Alacrity)
• Run to the mine south of Tal Teklan
• Get 55 Mining using Iron rocks
• Get 48 Slayer if you’ve only gotten 38 with Abundance
• Complete The Heart of Darkness, this should get you 53 Slayer
• Defeat Amoxliatl
• (Optional) Keep killing Amoxliatl until you receive the following items:
• Pendant of ates
• Glacial temotli
• Rune platebody
• Rune platelegs
• Varlamore echo orb
• Quetzal to Auburnvale
• Chop Willow logs in Auburnvale south of Lunami’s Axe Shop by the totem to spawn Forestry events
• Maple trees are slightly north of the totem
• Complete the Vale Totems miniquest if you haven’t already
• (Optional) Buy an Adamant axe if not Barbarian Gathering OR if you got a Rune axe
• Get 52 Fletching and 50 Woodcutting via Vale Totems

NOTE: If you want to rush combat now, get 52 Runecrafting from Sulphurous essence and scroll down to the Final dawn step.

• Get an Apple tree seed from Vale offerings
• (Optional) Get the Fletching knife
• Quetzal to Hunter Guild, run north to Ortus Farm
• Buy Plant pot, Trowel and Watering can
• Run east and pick up 9 Sweetcorn
• Fill your Watering can to the east
• Make an Apple sapling and water it
• Lodestone to Karamja
• Run north and withdraw Rake from Tool Leprechaun
• Plant your Apple sapling and protect it using Sweetcorn
• It should take 192 minutes or ~3 hours for it to grow
• (Optional) Set a timer for 192 minutes to know when to get back and check on the tree
• Deposit farming tools using Tool Leprechaun
• Use Vigroy to travel to Shilo Village (Shilo: Stepping stones with Alacrity)
• Bank, withdraw Fly fishing rod and Feathers (skip with Barbarian Gathering)
• Get 65 Fishing catching Trout and Salmon (55 with Abundance)
• Bank, withdraw Chisel, Machete, Spade, Antipoison(3), food (and Rune or Adamant axe, Adamant axe if not Barbarian Gathering)

• Mine and cut Gem rocks until you get full inventory of cut Opal, Jade and Red topaz
• Get at least 3 cut Red topaz
• Exit Shilo Village and run north to Tai Bwo Wannai
• Sell gems to Safta Doc one at a time until you get 1300 Trading sticks
  • If you did not get enough, go back and mine some more gems
• IMPORTANT: Keep 3 Red topaz, you can sell the rest of the gems
• Repair one village fence until you get some favour
• Talk to Murcaily and tell him you have been helping around the village until he gives you some Trading sticks
• Pay 100 Trading sticks to enter the Hardwood Grove
• Cut some Teak logs
• Cut some Mahogany logs
• Earn 100% favour in Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup
• You can do this by cutting Dense Jungle
• Keep doing this until you get a Gout Tuber Plant, then dig it up
• Talk to Safta Doc and exchange 3 Red topaz, 1200 Trading sticks and Gout tuber for Red topaz machete
• Equip a Red Topaz Machete
• Start the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest and do the Tiadeche part until you can catch Karambwan
• Catch a Karambwan
• Your Apple tree should take another 1-2 hours to grow, which is the only task left to complete the Karamja Medium Diary
• The lamp should be used on Runecrafting, but there are two ways we can keep working on the 52 Runecrafting requirement for Final dawn

Option 1: Crafting Cosmic tiaras.

Cosmic talismans can be obtained from big net fishing caskets at Fortis Park.

Silver bars can be mined using Hotfoot or traded in for Tokkul at Mor Ul Rek and then smelted.

Tiara mould can be bought from Artima’s Crafting Supplies.

Option 2: Sulphurous essence from Sulphur Nagua.

This method is explained earlier in the Combat Route.

• If you have access to an Essence mine, Guardians of the Rift or Arceuus Library, use those methods instead to work your way to 52 Runecrafting
• Use the preferred method for 1-2 hours until the Apple tree is grown
• Lodestone to Karamja to check it and claim the xp lamp from Pirate Jackie the Fruit, using it on Runecrafting
• Keep doing your preferred method until 52 Runecrafting
• Complete The Final Dawn quest to get access to the Arkan blade and Doom of Mokhaiotl
• Use the quest lamp to get 64 Ranged
• Get Mixed hide armour
• Get 66 Ranged using the Gemstone Crab or Slayer
• Get 74 Fletching using Vale Totems (64 with Abundance)
• Get the Sunlight crossbow and ~2000 Sunlight bolts (requires catching 167 Sunlight antelopes)
• (Optional) Get 91 Hunter using Hunter rumours for access to Moonlight bolts
• Complete the Fight caves
• Equip a Fire cape Demonic pact

If you made it all the way here, you are the GOAT! Enjoy the rest of your journey <3

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You’ll notice a cosy nook at the south entrance of the Grand Exchange. Start the event by talking to the Easter Bunny waiting for you there!

Upon completing the event, you’ll get the rewards well in hand – literally. Egg hunters who are successful will get their hands on Archibald, a holdable Easter egg, much like a pet rock!

You’ll be able to paint Archibald to unlock different designs. Flex your house’s ancient bloodline with the Dragon egg, match the Chick egg with the Nest Hat, go crazy with the fashionscape combinations!

• When: Thursday, April 2nd, 15:30 UTC
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• We’ll be sailing across Gielinor in Easter fashionscape on World 520 – route map will be shared next week!
• The finalists of the egg decoration competition will be polled by the Twitch chat.
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