The purpose of this guide is to help get you on your feet for the early steps of the league. The goal is to move you orderly through zones to complete early easy/medium tasks and give basic structure to your start. This is not meant to be an all inclusive min-max guide As such, it ignores some helpful steps like achievement diary and some questing. Here are some helpful notes to consider as you move through zones:
- Buy items from shops that you may need later as you go by them if you have the money for it
- Start quests as you go by the NPCs that give them. Try to complete steps as you work through your route, and remember what items you may need to bring with you to do so. I don’t mention every quest you could start or work on as you go, just the more important ones.
- If something is bottlenecked, come back to it later (very likely in the first 10 mins), waystones make returning easy.
- This guide does not consider any shattered relics/set effects you may unlock. Adjust your strategy accordingly if you get something you like.
- I mostly ignore Zeah (one task included) since we aren’t as sure what will be a task.
My skill unlock choices are based on the logical progression of this route. They are ordered in a way to best take advantage of experience gained during this route, even if minimal. They are not chosen based on which skills return a ton of points (hunter for example). You’ll have plenty of opportunity to go deep in individual skills after this route, or in the middle if you choose.
You should end this guide with well over 50 renown unspent, which I’ve done intentionally to leave room for each person’s individual play style.
- Unlock magic skill in tutorial
- Activate Thick skin to get to 0 pray points (accuracy relic)
- Pick wheat north of catherby farming shop
- Talk to banker, withdraw 25 coins – deposit pot, equip arrows, shield, pickaxe
- Buy knife from Arhein (catherby dock, cheaper than charter), sell dagger, sword
- Pickpocket a man
- Buy hammer+empty jug from Charter ship
- Sell shortbow to Hickton (Ranged shop)
- Catch shrimp until you can cook one and burn one
- Buy rake, spade, seed dibber from farming shop
- Rake farming patch
- Get stung by bees (beehive is west of league tutor)
Unlock Woodcutting
- Chop 2 logs
- Fletch arrow shafts
- Visit death’s domain (west, near the seers Yew trees)
- Burn logs
- Set autocast to defensive until 5 defence
- Kill moss giant west of fishing guild if available, skip if bottleneck
- Kill goblin & bury bones on the way to coal trucks
- Run to coal trucks (near Dwarf Cannon quest start, you can’t use the log shortcut so run the long way)
- Buy and drink poison chalice from Stankers (Chat option 2, 1), drink when clear of bats
- Run to barb village Agil course, start barcrawl
- Run to the gnome stronghold
Unlock Agility
- Complete the agil course until level 10 (3 laps)
- Start the Grand Tree quest
- Buy chocolate dust, bucket of milk, dwellberries from food store north of grand tree bank
- Minigame tele Ferox Enclave
- Unlock Ferox waystone
- Buy a beer from bartender (Camarst)
- Take underground route to soul wars (stairs near bartender)
- Right click soul wars portal to tele to edgeville
- Take lever to Ardy
- Take lever back to wild for diary
- Take lever back to Ardy
- Start Hazeel cult, go to Tree Gnome after killing Alomone (no items needed)
- Start tree gnome village, use elkoy to leave. Come back to this quest later
- Finish Hazeel cult
- Check pets at Probita
- Unlock Ardy waystone
- Try to buy garlic from spice shop or pick up from spawn in nearby house
- Boat to brimhaven
- Kill moss giant across rope swing to the west (unless you did earlier)
- Pick a pineapple
- Unlock Brimhaven waystone (likely south of the food store)
- Complete Tribal totem, use waystone during quest (no items needed)
- Bank all
- Thieve cake stall until lvl 40, bank 12 bread + 1 silk + rest of inv cakes (you can steal silk but it’s slower xp/hr)
- Withdraw coins, rake, seed dibber, 5-8 cakes, fire strike runes
- Pickpocket guard until 28 pouches, open all at once
Unlock Hitpoints
- Kill a guard
- You can choose to continue pickpocketing to level 55 for cash (Pickpocketing relic?) or move on, I suggest moving on
- Pickpocket master farmer for 3 potato seeds
- Plant potato seeds at ardy allotment
- Buy 2 compost from farmer and protect patch
- Buy fishing rod, fly fishing rod, 150 feathers, 10 bait, lobster pot, harpoon in Witchhaven
- Buy swamp paste, several pots of flour, 2 ropes in Port Khazard
- Bank all, withdraw coins, pickaxe, tinderbox
- Buy 15 pineapples from Charter (skip until a charter later if you can’t get now)
- Deposit pineapples
- Mine 1 copper ore/1 tin north of yanille
- Buy hunter supplies (box traps, butterfly net, butterfly jars, bird snares, teasing stick, torch)
- Light torch
- Buy greenman’s ale from Yanille pub
- Home teleport
- Deposit all, withdraw coins, copper, tin, 15 pineapples, put in compost bin, close
- Monk’s friend (empty bucket can be used on well, then bucket of water on empty jug toone Ardy
- Smelt a bronze bar, buy 23 balls of wool
- Pray at altar
- Withdraw fire strike casts, coins, food
- Minigame tele Tzhaar fight pit
- Kill a Tzhaar (skip if fewer than 100 casts remaining)
- Pick up 1x red spider eggs upstairs
- Kill a lesser demon
- Fill crate with bananas
- Boat to port sarim
- Buy redberries, cheese at port sarim food shop, can get berries later if empty
- Deposit food items at deposit box near entrana monks if less than 9 inv spots free
- Run west to Melzar’s maze, pick up 8 onions
- Pick up 1 snape grass near crafting guild
- Rimmington boat to Ardy
- Withdraw bronze axe, bronze pick, bucket, tinderbox, empty jug, swamp paste, coins, fishing rod, spade, garlic
- Complete mon fill it)
Unlock Firemaking
- Get 30 Firemaking with Oaks
- Complete sea slug
- Waystone to Catherby
- Complete fishing contest
Unlock Mining
- Withdraw chocolate dust, snape grass, bucket of milk, rope, dwellberries, fishing rod, bait, small net, coins, fire strike spells, spade, bucket
- Complete plague city
- Start biohazard (Consider auto unlocking for 2 points)
- Boat to rimmington
- Continue biohazard at chemist (unless skipped)
- Boat to lands end at Veos (north Port Sarim)
- Fish herring, raw sardine, anchovies (keep raw fish) at Lands end
- Run to shayzien clothing shop, buy chef’s hat
- Deposit all at Land’s end bank, withdraw coins, tinderbox, fire strikes, 10 food
- Return to port sarim
- Enter draynor manor
- 30 laps Draynor rooftop course
- Start vampire slayer, get garlic
- Pickpocket HAM member until steel axe/pickaxe/rusty sword/opal
- Chop/burn 100 willows
- Buy 3 buckets, shears from general store
- Shear 1 sheep
- Unlock lumbridge waystone
From here on choose your unlocks based on preference. I’ll likely go with combat
Combat oriented: Attack/Strength/Pray/Slayer
Skilling/questing oriented: Hunter/Construction/Crafting/Fletching/Smithing
- Get 1 cowhide, 1 egg, 5 buckets of milk
- Tan cowhide in Al Kharid
- Complete Al Kharid agility course
- Kill Al Kharid warrior
- Buy moulds/needle/10+ thread
- Unlock Al Kharid waystone
- Deposit all, withdraw coins, knife, rope, 5 cakes, fire strikes
- Buy empty waterskin, shantay pass, desert robes
- Cut a cactus for water
- Enter the kalphite lair
- Run back to carpet, fly to pollnivneach
- Kill a crocodile
- Fly to Nardah
- Use bank for task
- Withdraw egg, flour, milk, steel pickaxe, wool from sheep, 19 balls of wool, fly fishing rod, feathers, axe, tinderbox
- Home teleport
- Waystone Lumbridge
- Spin ball of wool
Unlock Cooking
- Cook’s assistant + cook something on the range (withdraw raw herring/anchovies)
- Complete sheep shearer
- Fish/cook until catch 50 salmon task (keep some cooked salmon)
- Start rune mysteries, restless ghost
- Pick up 1 swamp tar
- Mine ore with steel pickaxe (southeast lumby swamp)
- Continue restless ghost/rune mysteries to wizard tower step
- Minigame tele soul wars
- Right click portal to tele to Edgeville
- Deposit all
- Withdraw some food (salmon), varrock tele runes, milk, raw sardine, fire strikes, coins, plague sample, touch paper, research package
- Complete entire stronghold of security, equip fancy boots (stop using guide here if you picked fighting boots)
- Teleport to Varrock
- Start Gertrude’s cat (get doogle leaves)
- Start romeo & juliet (at juliet)
- Pickpocket guard
- Start demon slayer
- Complete 19 laps of Varrock course (50 rooftop lap task)
- Talk to Shilop in marketplace
- Talk to Sir Prysin
- Get Captain Rovin and Drain keys
- Pet stray dog
- Buy Staff of Fire, equip
- Talk to Aubury twice for Rune Mysteries, buy 1 death rune and more fire strike runes if low (I’ll probably want 300+ strike spells at this point)
- Keep death rune in inventory until 41 mage, then cast blast spell
- Do biohazard steps
- Withdraw steel axe, 15 food
- Steal tea
- Cut logs + make 1 plank
- Continue Gertrude’s cat at lumber mill
- Turn in Gertrude’s cat
- Minigame tele Burthorpe
- Get slayer task from Turael
- Check slay task
- Buy and equip spiny helm
- Enter taverly dungeon
- Get dusty key, go through gate
- Kill 2 blue dragons
- Bury 1 dragon bone, save other for chaos altar d bone step
- Home teleport, withdraw pickaxe, Aubury’s notes, air runes, mind runes (equip fire staff), 24 empty inv spaces
- Waystone to lumbridge
- Kill chickens for 24 bones
- Finish rune mysteries, get key for demon slayer at wizard tower (kill 1 wizard for 25th bone) – keep blue wizard top if dropped, it’s a task
- Kill lesser demon if it’s spawned, skip and come back later if there’s a queue
- Use locate on air talisman
- Tele to rune essence mine, mine essence until full inv
- Deposit all but one essence at draynor
- Run to air altar, craft air rune
- Unlock Falador waystone
- Waystone to Ferox enclave
- Withdraw food, fire strike runes, law runes, dragon bone, knife/slash weapon
- *If a looting bag drops from any NPC, pick up and open for a task*
- Kill chaos dwarf, pick up bones. Can safespot on tree stump
- Enter & leave Wilderness Godwars cave
- Activate Thick skin prayer if not already 0 pray points
- Pray at chaos altar (Get back to 0 pray points to regain magic accuracy relic if it’s equipped)
- Use dragon bones + bones on altar (prayer should still be a locked skill, the experience wasted is insignificant)
- Kill a green dragon south of Lava Maze (110+ casts at level 30-40 mage). Can skip this step if you want to save time, it’s only 1 task/5 points, I’ll be skipping it.
- Enter deep wildy dungeon
- Kill fire giant
- Bank at mage arena for task (maybe buy a few laws/nats/cosmics)
- If available, minigame tele to ferox or home tele to catherby. Waystone Ardy
- If not, use lever to Ardy
- Turn in biohazard
- Complete easy Ardy diary for cat turn-ins
- Mine 50 iron ore (east of Ardy or north of Monastery)
- Waystone to Varrock
- Complete Priest in peril (complete regularly or autocomplete with 2 renown)
- Enter morytania
- Kill a ghast
- Kill a werewolf
- Complete Canifis agility course
- Search bookcases in Fenkenstrain castle for triangle pieces
- West bookcase: The Joy of Grave Digging
- East bookcase: Handy Maggot Avoidance Techniques
- Unlock Experiment cave, kill experiment