Chapter 3 of 22
Ice Mountain, Falador, Taverley & Port Sarim
Asgarnia’s quests, Herblore unlocked, a big Smithing jump and bolt spells for safespotting.
Straight on from Edgeville: Ice Mountain, north of Falador, Taverley and Burthorpe, then south through Falador to Port Sarim and Karamja. The Magic training comes first because it’s on your way and makes the fights after it safer.
By the end: 33 Magic and roughly 60 quest points.
Quests in this chapter
Below Ice Mountain · Black Knights' Fortress · Goblin Diplomacy · Doric's Quest · Witch's House · Druidic Ritual · Death Plateau · Recruitment Drive · The Knight's Sword · Pirate's Treasure · The Corsair Curse
1 step in this chapter is marked dangerous or high risk. Hardcore safety covers what counts as an unsafe death and the stats to have first.
Ice Mountain & Magic for safespotting
Bring: Staff of air, Fire rune, Mind rune, Air rune, Food, Pickaxe
- At the Ruins of Camdozaal on the west side of Ice Mountain, talk to Willow and finish Below Ice Mountain: kill the level 25 Ancient Guardian, or mine the 4 pillars. Its 1,200 Mining XP takes you to 15.Below Ice Mountain
- Train Magic to 33 with Fire Strike on Icefiends on top of Ice Mountain. They are 100% weak to fire, so Fire Strike out-damages bolts here and needs no chaos runes.
Black Knights, Goblins & Doric
Bring: Iron chainbody, Bronze med helm, Cabbage, Orange dye, Blue dye, 6 Clay, 4 Copper ore, 2 Iron ore
Bank at Edgeville on your way down if you are carrying less than the list above.
- Walk down the north side to the Black Knights’ Fortress. Wear the iron chainbody and bronze med helm and enter by the sturdy door. Quest Helper shows the ladders to the grill: listen at it, go back to the entrance, then round through the dining area to the hole and use the cabbage on it (don’t eat it).Black Knights' FortressPreparation
- In Goblin Village, take 3 goblin mail from the crates: behind the generals’ hut, in the hut south-west of them, and up the southernmost ladder. Dye one orange and one blue.
- Give the goblin generals the orange, blue and plain goblin mail, one at a time.Goblin Diplomacy
- Bring Doric (his house is north of Falador, just outside Taverley’s east gate) 6 clay, 4 copper ore and 2 iron ore. Doric’s Quest’s 1,300 Mining XP goes on top of Below Ice Mountain’s.Doric's Quest
Taverley & Burthorpe
Bring: Raw bear meat, Raw rat meat, Raw beef, Raw chicken, Cheese, Leather gloves, 10 Bread, 10 Trout, Iron bar, Coins, Food, Staff of air, Fire rune, Mind rune
The four raw meats are cheap on the GE, or kill a cow, chicken, giant rat and bear on the way. You picked up the cheese and leather gloves in Chapter 2. Falador’s west bank is a short walk from Doric if you need to swap your inventory.
- Talk to the boy by the Taverley members’ gate, then look under the potted plant closest to the witch’s front door for the key. Read the diary, wear your leather gloves for the basement gate and take the magnet from the cupboard. Drop the cheese in the small southern room and use the magnet on the mouse. Slip round the garden to the fountain for the shed key and kill the experiment in all four forms: low levels can step under the first two from the north-east corner, and safespot with Fire Strike. Give the boy the ball.Witch's HouseDangerous
- Talk to Kaqemeex at the stone circle north of Taverley, then Sanfew upstairs in the herbalist’s, and dip the four raw meats in the Cauldron of Thunder (Taverley Dungeon). Give the enchanted meats to Sanfew, then talk to Kaqemeex to complete Druidic Ritual.Druidic Ritual
- Walk north to Denulth in Burthorpe and complete Death Plateau: Eohric in the castle, Harold upstairs in the bar (give him an Asgarnian ale and gamble 60+ coins for his IOU), place the coloured balls in the castle, then Saba’s cave north-west for the path and Tenzing beyond it. Dunstan swaps climbing boots, Denulth’s certificate and an iron bar for spiked boots; Tenzing takes those with 10 bread and 10 trout (unnoted) for the map.Death PlateauPreparation
Back through Falador
Bring: Coins, Food
- Report to Sir Amik Varze in the White Knights’ Castle to complete Black Knights’ Fortress. Rub its two 1,000 XP combat lamps on whichever melee stat is lowest.Black Knights' FortressPreparation
- Ask Sir Amik about Recruitment Drive, bank everything you’re wearing and carrying, then talk to Sir Tiffy Cashien in Falador Park to begin. Five of seven puzzle rooms come in a random order, and you always fight Sir Leye: a real death on Hardcore Worlds.Recruitment DrivePreparation
Port Sarim, Karamja & Corsair Cove
Bring: Coins, Spade, Redberry pie, Food, Tinderbox
- No redberry pie from the GE? Buy flour and redberries from Wydin in Port Sarim, make pastry dough, fill a pie dish (Varrock palace kitchen) and bake it at 10 Cooking on the range north of the docks.Optional
- Walk south through Port Sarim and give Thurgo (by the anvil on the coast south of it) the redberry pie, then talk to him again.The Knight's Sword
- Pick up the white apron in Gerrant’s Fishy Business (you need it to work for Wydin).
- Sail to Karamja. Ask Luthas for work at the banana plantation.Pirate's Treasure
- Buy Karamja rum (30 coins), pick ten bananas, use the rum on the crate outside, fill the crate with the bananas and tell Luthas. Kill a monkey on the way back for Rag and Bone Man I’s last bone.Pirate's Treasure
- Wear the white apron, get hired by Wydin and collect the rum from the crate in the food store’s back room.Pirate's Treasure
- Give Redbeard Frank the rum: he gives you a chest key for the Blue Moon Inn.Pirate's Treasure
- Talk to Captain Tock at the crossroads north of Port Sarim, then meet him on the dock just west of Rimmington and sail to Corsair Cove to complete The Corsair Curse (Ithoi the Navigator, level 35, at the end; food in your inventory). Its 1,200 Firemaking XP takes you to 10.The Corsair CursePreparation
The Knight’s Sword
Bring: 2 Iron bar, Food, Pickaxe
- Talk to the Squire in the castle courtyard again.The Knight's Sword
- Take the portrait from Sir Vyvin’s cupboard (castle second floor) while he is not looking.The Knight's Sword
- Walk back to Thurgo and give him the portrait.The Knight's Sword
- Go down the trapdoor east of Thurgo into the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon, mine one blurite ore (two if you’ll do Falador’s medium diary later) and leave immediately. Ice warriors are aggressive.The Knight's SwordPreparation
- Give Thurgo the blurite and 2 iron bars for the sword.The Knight's Sword
- Walk back north and bring the sword to the Squire to complete The Knight’s Sword.The Knight's SwordPreparation