Exploring the Great Kourend in Old School RuneScape

The Great Kourend is a city in the region of Zeah. To give you an idea of its vast expanse, it's actually bigger than Misthalin and Asgarnia combined. Players can access it by talking to Veos in Port Sarim. From there, they can choose to arrive at the Piscarilius House in the eastern area of the city, or at Land's End in the southwest. After visiting the city from Port Sarim once, they can use teleportation to instantly travel there.

It's a whole new region to explore and gather OSRS gold. Five houses exist in the city. These are the Arceuus, Hosidius, Lovakengj, Piscarilius, and Shayzien Houses. As long as you're in the region, the game will keep track of your favor with these five houses. Some features will unlock depending on how much favor you've gained.

What You Can Do in the Great Kourend

With favor, your potential activities become more varied. Here are the things you can do when you've gained 100% favor with all houses.

·         Arceuus House

Players can access Thyria's Wares, get the ArceuusSpellbook, make dark essence blocks, make magic tablets, and get the Arceuus signet. You'll also be able to access the Blood, Dark, and Soul Altars, and Regath's Wares. Get favor by assisting in their library, collecting dark manuscripts, and mining dense essence blocks. You're going to run often to gain favor, so wear light equipment or bring energy or stamina potions.

·         Hosidius House

You can steal fruit, plant a Spirit Sapling, plant grapes, enter the Woodcutting Guild, participate in a minigame, and use the kitchens. What you've planted in the allotment patches won't die of disease, too. More than that, you can make use of the Charcoal Burner, Saltpetre, and various shops. Gain favor by helping their production of food or preparing food for soldiers. Activities for the former include plowing fields, making fertilizer, cooking in the mess hall, and planting grapes.

·         Lovakengj House

With 100% favor in this house, you'll be able to buy dynamite through ThirusUrkar's Dynamite Store, access the LovakengjMinecart Network, and blast rocks in the Blast Mine. Among the other mines players can explore are the Sulphur Mine, Lovakite Mine, and the Lovakengj Mine. Collect favor by gathering resources for blast mining and creating armor. That means making dynamite, armor, and delivering minecart control scrolls.

·         Piscarilius House

Access Kenelme's Wares, buy things from Frankie's Fishing Emporium, train Thieving by stealing artifacts and catching anglerfish. There's also Tynan's Fishing Supplies and Leenz's General Supplies here. Favor gathering activities include repairing fishing cranes, taking fresh fish to Frankie, hunting sandworms, and the aforementioned stealing artifacts.

·         Shayzien House

100% favor gives you the chance to earn a tier 5 Shayzien armor set. Other weaker armor sets can be earned in earlier favor levels. You may also access Briget's Weapons and Briget's Armor. Helping out in the infirmary, killing Lizardmen, and tackling organized crime all increase your favor with this house. The last one is quite dangerous though, so take all the necessary precautions if that's what you want to do.

Warnings and Parting Words

If you want to keep your 100% favor, make sure you talk to the corresponding house's architect to lock it in. When you start gathering favor from other houses, that 100% will go down unless you do. Don't forget!

Outside of the areas within the Five Houses' control, there's also the Catacombs of Kourend, Kourend Woodland, Kourend Castle, Land's End, Settlement Ruins, Wintertodt Camp, and the Unmarked Grave to explore. Further out there's also the Chambers of Xeric, Kebos Lowlands, Lacerta Falls, Lizardmen Settlement and Caves, Mount Quidamortem and Cave, and Xeric's Shrine. There are many things to do in Zeah, so go and explore them all!

Have fun, and keep enjoying OSRS!

OSRS Gold Farming Tips

In games such as Old School RuneScape as well as in the real world, money is an all-important resource that everybody needs. To that end, many methods of OSRS gold farming exist. Listing all of them isn't the purpose of this article though. Instead, we'll tackle some tips and reminders for when you're trying out those methods.

Please do take note that these methods will not always give you the same profit every time. Market prices are always fluctuating, so don't worry if your profit margins sometimes are sometimes lackluster.

First Tip: More Opportunities for Paid Players

It's a well-known fact that more content is available for paid members. However, that shouldn't discourage you from trying to farm gold however which way you want. While there are more opportunities for members, that actually makes it harder to choose which method to follow. You might even end up being spread too thin among all the alts you have.

Tying in with the next tip, sometimes all you need are the basic things.

Second Tip: Higher Yields Do Not Always Make Better Methods

So you have a rather difficult method of gold farming, but the rewards are so worth it. Or is it really? Sometimes, faster but less profitable methods are better. Say the more profitable one takes one and a half hours and yields 10,000 gold. The other method takes thirty minutes, but only yields 4,000 gold. By doing the latter method, you get 12,000 in relatively the same amount of time you do the former.

In this case, what is available to free players can actually be more profitable than those available to members. Then again, it all depends on your preference.

Third Tip: Perseverance is Key

Many of the methods you'll find require a great deal of repetitive action. Sure, you can use bots or scripts, but are the gold rewards really worth the risk of possibly getting banned? If you want to keep your account, you're going to have to do everything by hand. Doing that requires no small amount of perseverance and patience.

Who knew gold farming is so character-building?

Fourth Tip: Know Your Limits

If at any point you start getting tired of OSRS gold farming, go and do quests, explore, or raise your skills. It's not a necessity to go out there and farm all the time. Better yet, turn off your PC or phone and go and enjoy the real world for a bit. Grinding 24/7 will never be healthy for anybody, so be sure to take breaks often! You’ll be fresh with renewed vigor for the game when you come back.

Fifth Tip: Enjoy!

It's actually a part of the previous. There will be a point where grinding for OSRS gold will get old, and it stops being enjoyable. When it does, it's a good time to take a break. The main purpose of a game is for players to enjoy. So when it stops being fun, it's not serving its purpose.

At any rate, continue enjoying OSRS! Whether you're questing, skilling, hunting, or just general passing time, have fun.

99 Runecrafting Guide for Old School RuneScape

Runes are necessary to cast magic. They can be bought from various magic shops around Gielinor. If you're unwilling to buy these runes, Runecrafting is the way to go. It's a skill players can learn, and here's how to reach 99.

Free-to-Play Players

Free-to-play players have no access to certain features which limits their options. They can craft Air, Earth, or Fire runes till level 20. Earth runes become available to craft at level 9; Fire runes at level 14. At level 20, players can craft Body runes until they reach 99. Body runes yield the highest experience for Runecrafting for F2P players.

Alternatively, they can craft Water Tiaras from 1-99. These are the most cost-efficient tiaras F2P players can make and has the 4th highest experience yield. It will require unenchanted tiaras, water talismans, and a water rune. Collecting enough talismans is probably the most difficult and time-consuming part of this process.

Pay-to-Play Players

With access to more features than F2P players, P2P players have more options to take advantage of. They start out like F2P players, with crafting Air, Earth, Fire, and Body runes. The difference starts at about level 23 when crafting Lava runes become available. Lava runes yield high amounts of experience. Crafting them is the fastest way to level Runecrafting. The drawback of this method is that it's pretty costly.

At level 27, players who have completed the Lost City quest have the option to craft Cosmic runes. Upon reaching level 35, they can craft Chaos runes. It is quite inefficient if only done for leveling the skill, though. At level 44, Astral runes become available. It requires completing the Lunar Diplomacy quest. Astral runes don't require a talisman or a tiara when crafting at the altar.

After that, other runes become available. Nature runes start at 44, Law runes at 54, Death runes at 65, Blood runes at 77, and Soul runes at 90. If you'd like, there's also the option to double craft runes. Cosmic runes can be double crafted at 59, Astral runes at 82, and Nature runes at 91.

Alternatively, there's also the Ourania Altar, which creates random runes. Because of this randomness, the experience yield is random. It also depends on the level of Runecrafting you have. The teleport spell needs 71 Magic and completion of the Lunar Diplomacy quest.

At any rate, you'll end up with more runes than you can use, so you can sell them for OSRS gold.

Recommended Gear and Items

Monsters surround most of the altars, so you'll have to tank/run away from creatures. Even if you'll need the space to make the most runes every run, there are still some things you have to bring. First of all, are rune pouches. They increase the number of runes you can craft by collecting more essences. Don't forget to repair them often as any pouch bigger than small decays.

As for equipment, the Boots of Lightness, Spottier Cape, Penance Gloves, and a Graceful Outfit are your best bet. However, stamina potions or a high Agility skill level can fill in gaps in equipment. Lastly, if going through the Abyss, bring a Black Pickaxe. It's the lightest pickaxe in the game and won't slow you down.

Check out other guides for a more in-depth explanation and how-to. Enjoy leveling Runecrafting in OSRS!

By the Sea: How To Earn Pisacrilius House Favors

In the kingdom of Great Kourend, it’s vital that you not only earn OSRS gold, but also the favor of each house. It already goes without saying that this includes the prominent Piscarillus house. So, you want or need to max your Favours with this house by and of the sea? Then read up, put on your thinking cap, and become, for a lack of a better term, so highly-favored.

What About Piscarilius

Before you go swimming around doing all sorts of stuff for Piscarilius, here are some things you should know. First and foremost, Piscarilius, obviously, is a house mainly composed of fishermen. Other than fishing, they also dabble in the overseas trade.

The Piscarilius House is the house that owns the port where everyone going to Zeah enters. Newcomers, however, shouldn’t expect a friendly welcome, as the Piscarilius house is deeply mired in crime and corruption, so thieves and smuggles run around–and actually run–the place.

Cranes and Fishing

Still, it’s not all bad. After all, you’ll be getting a few perks from Piscarilius if you gain their favor. The good news is that there are countless ways to do that.

The simplest one to accomplish would be by repairing fishing cranes, which rewards with 0.5% Favour each. These are found across Piscarilius House, and they break down on a regular basis. To repair them, you need level 30 Crafting. And by repairing them, the amount of crafting XP that you’ll receive is three times your level. For example, if your crafting level is 30, you’ll receive 90 XP for every crane repaired.

To repair a crane, you need a hammer, nails (preferably mithril), and three planks. In case you need nails, you can always buy iron nails from Leenz.

Another good way to rack up Favour is by helping Frankie collect fresh fish, and subsequently putting them into a cooler. But before you can do so, you will need to have at least 15% Favour, as well as level 15 Fishing. For this particular task, you have to be fast, as the fresh fish disappears into nothing after around a minute. Each fish is worth 0.2% Favour.

Here’s a handy tip: collect fresh fish from the nearby barrel. You can collect around 20 in one go, and even up to 25 if you’re good at it.

Sandworms and Booty

Upon reaching 30% Favour, you can start hunting for Sandworms. For this, you’ll need level 15 in Hunter, a spade, and five buckets, as you’ll be putting the sandworms you catch in them. To start, go to the area north of Tynan’s Fishing Supplies. Each bucket of sandworm collected will earn you 0.2 Favour.

To dig the worms up faster, click “Walk Here” on the square where the sandworms appear, then swiftly click on the spade in your inventory.

Finally, when you get 75% Favour and level 49 in Thieving, you can now go ahead and steal booty from other people’s houses, just like the usual people who run around Piscarilius. To get an assignment, talk to Captain Khaled, who’s in a huge building south-east of the bank. Before going out to steal, make sure you have a lockpick in order to open the drawers.

What you’ll be doing may be a crime, but it certainly pays—a lot! If you succeed in a heist, you’ll not only be getting 2% Favour, but also a few hundred Old School RuneScape gold, 750 Thieving XP for picking the lock and looting the booty, and another Thieving XP that is worth forty times your Thieving level after giving the booty to Captain Khaled. If that isn’t an impressive heist, then I don’t know what is!

Now that you know how to raise your Favour with Piscarilius to a hundred, you can now start putting this knowledge into practice. So what are you waiting for? Go earn those Favours–you deserve it.