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Treasure Trails
Every step in the game is listed below, with the answer to it. Nothing here is guesswork - the tiles, object ids and monsters are read straight out of the server's own step pool.
How a trail works
Bosses drop a scroll box, which stacks, so you can bank a pile of them and open them one at a time. Opening one unrolls a clue scroll - the live trail. You can only have one trail per tier at a time, and opening a second box while one is running is refused rather than wasting the box.
Read the scroll for your current step. Finish it and the scroll rewrites itself with the next one; finish the last and it pays a reward casket, which you open yourself.
The scroll is tradeable, and your progress lives with it. Drop it, sell it, or die holding it and the trail ends - it is real loot, and a player carrying a live master scroll through the Wilderness is carrying something worth taking. Keeping it in the bank or a looting bag counts as holding it.
The three tiers
| Icon | Tier | Steps per trail | Steps it can roll | Wilderness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hard | 3 to 4 | 32 | Never. No step on a hard trail is past the ditch. |
 | Elite | 4 to 5 | 59 | Sometimes. At most one step, and never the first. |
 | Master | 5 to 6 | 81 | Always. The last step is in the Wilderness, and one earlier step may be too. |
A tier rolls from its own steps and every easier tier's, which is what stops a master trail being six deep-Wilderness digs in a row.
Hot and cold
A hot-and-cold scroll never names a place. It carries a relic that reports how close you are, re-read every couple of ticks, and the step is done when you dig within two tiles of the buried tile. The wording is the ladder:
| Reading | Distance |
|---|---|
| Searing hot - dig here | 2 tiles or less |
| Hot | 3 to 8 |
| Warm | 9 to 20 |
| Lukewarm | 21 to 45 |
| Cold | 46 to 100 |
| Freezing cold | Over 100 |
The reading only works on the same plane as the buried tile, and the tables below give every one of them away, so you never have to sweep for one.
Every step
81 steps, grouped by what they ask of you. The Tier column is the lowest tier that can roll a step - anything harder can roll it too.
A dig step wants that exact tile: standing one square off does nothing. A search step matches on the scenery and its tile, so the same crate somewhere else will not do - and a crate id appears thousands of times across the map. A kill step counts wherever you make the kill.
Dig steps (33)
| What the scroll says | How to solve it | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Dig in the courtyard of Lumbridge Castle. | Dig at 3222, 3218 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig on the road outside the eastern gate of Varrock. | Dig at 3271, 3428 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in the palace grounds at Varrock. | Dig at 3222, 3468 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig among the wheat in the field north-east of Draynor Village. | Dig at 3120, 3275 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in Falador Park, within sight of the mole hills. | Dig at 3008, 3374 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig by the road running south from Falador. | Dig at 3011, 3320 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in the palace grounds at Al Kharid. | Dig at 3293, 3167 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig on the docks at Port Sarim, where the ships tie up. | Dig at 3045, 3204 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in Barbarian Village, among the huts. | Dig at 3082, 3416 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in the grounds of the monastery north of Falador. | Dig at 3050, 3489 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig on the crab beach north of Rellekka, where the rocks come alive. | Dig at 2700, 3720 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig on the island of the Wizards' Tower, south of Draynor. | Dig at 3110, 3160 with a spade. | Hard |
| Dig in the market square of East Ardougne. | Dig at 2660, 3305 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig in the streets of Yanille. | Dig at 2605, 3095 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig in Seers' Village. | Dig at 2725, 3485 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig in the square at Canifis. | Dig at 3500, 3490 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig in the desert town of Nardah. | Dig at 3425, 2895 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig on the wharf at Port Piscarilius. | Dig at 1815, 3690 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig in the village of Tai Bwo Wannai. | Dig at 2790, 3065 with a spade. | Elite |
| Dig beside the chaos temple just north of the Wilderness ditch. | Dig at 3237, 3611 with a spade. | Elite Wilderness |
| Dig among the bones at the Graveyard of Shadows. | Dig at 3170, 3670 with a spade. | Elite Wilderness |
| Dig at the Forgotten Cemetery, in the western Wilderness. | Dig at 2975, 3665 with a spade. | Elite Wilderness |
| Dig on Ape Atoll, far to the south-west. | Dig at 2760, 2790 with a spade. | Master |
| Dig on Mos Le'Harmless, among the pirates. | Dig at 3700, 3010 with a spade. | Master |
| Dig on Fossil Island. | Dig at 3745, 3805 with a spade. | Master |
| Dig on Lunar Isle, at the top of the world. | Dig at 2100, 3910 with a spade. | Master |
| Dig at Zul-Andra, by the water. | Dig at 2200, 3055 with a spade. | Master |
| Dig at the bandit camp in the western Wilderness. | Dig at 3040, 3700 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
| Dig within the Lava Maze. | Dig at 3050, 3810 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
| Dig by the Wilderness agility course, high in the north-west. | Dig at 2998, 3920 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
| Dig at the deserted keep, deep in the northern Wilderness. | Dig at 3155, 3925 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
| Dig among the Demonic Ruins. | Dig at 3290, 3885 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
| Dig beside the Fountain of Rune, in the far north-east of the Wilderness. | Dig at 3370, 3890 with a spade. | Master Wilderness |
Search steps (31)
| What the scroll says | How to solve it | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Search the bookcase in the house east of Lumbridge Castle. | Search the Bookcase at 3232, 3206. | Hard |
| Search the crate in the axe shop at Lumbridge. | Search the Crate at 3228, 3205. | Hard |
| Search the crate in the yard north of Lumbridge Castle. | Search the Crate at 3209, 3243. | Hard |
| Search the boxes on the road north-east of Lumbridge. | Search the Boxes at 3245, 3245. | Hard |
| Search the crate on the east side of Varrock square. | Search the Crate at 3228, 3433. | Hard |
| Search the crate just south of Varrock square. | Search the Crate at 3215, 3419. | Hard |
| Search the crates outside Varrock's southern gate. | Search the Crates at 3243, 3398. | Hard |
| Search the crate south of Varrock Palace. | Search the Crate at 3227, 3452. | Hard |
| Search the crate in the north of Draynor Village. | Search the Crate at 3096, 3261. | Hard |
| Search the old bookshelf in the house at Draynor Village. | Search the Old Bookshelf at 3091, 3253. | Hard |
| Search the crates in the north-west of Falador. | Search the Crates at 2955, 3390. | Hard |
| Search the boxes inside a building in northern Falador. | Search the Boxes at 2991, 3367. | Hard |
| Search the crate on the docks at Port Sarim. | Search the Crate at 3029, 3233. | Hard |
| Search the sacks in the east of Al Kharid. | Search the Sacks at 3314, 3174. | Hard |
| Search the boxes in the market at East Ardougne. | Search the Boxes at 2669, 3308. | Elite |
| Search the crate in the streets of East Ardougne. | Search the Crate at 2655, 3303. | Elite |
| Search the bookcase in a house at Yanille. | Search the Bookcase at 2589, 3082. | Elite |
| Search the crate on the shore at Catherby. | Search the Crate at 2805, 3431. | Elite |
| Search the statue in the grounds of Camelot Castle. | Search the Statue at 2780, 3508. | Elite |
| Search the old bookshelf in a house at Canifis. | Search the Old Bookshelf at 3477, 3481. | Elite |
| Search the boxes at Port Phasmatys. | Search the Boxes at 3686, 3461. | Elite |
| Search the apple basket in the orchards of Hosidius. | Search the Apple basket at 1781, 3617. | Elite |
| Search the study desk in Pollnivneach. | Search the Study desk at 3367, 2966. | Elite |
| Search the crate within the Dark Warriors' fortress. | Search the Crate at 3026, 3628. | Elite Wilderness |
| Search the sack in the north-east corner of the Dark Warriors' fortress. | Search the Sack at 3038, 3638. | Elite Wilderness |
| Search the crate in the ape village on Ape Atoll. | Search the Crate at 2769, 2765. | Master |
| Search the skeleton at Weiss, in the frozen north. | Search the Skeleton at 2857, 3966. | Master |
| Search Herman's desk at the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. | Search Herman's desk at 2353, 3682. | Master |
| Search the crate at Miscellania. | Search the Crate at 2503, 3848. | Master |
| Search the sack by the Mage Arena, deep in the northern Wilderness. | Search the Sack at 3093, 3956. | Master Wilderness |
| Search the sack inside Rogues' Castle. | Search the Sack at 3282, 3932. | Master Wilderness |
Kill steps (10)
| What the scroll says | How to solve it | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Slay a cow. Any field will do, and Lumbridge has more of them than most. | Kill Cow anywhere in the world. | Hard |
| Slay a goblin. | Kill Goblin anywhere in the world. | Hard |
| Slay a hobgoblin. | Kill Hobgoblin anywhere in the world. | Hard |
| Slay a rock crab on the beach north of Rellekka. | Kill Rock Crab anywhere in the world. | Hard |
| Slay a werewolf in Morytania. | Kill Werewolf anywhere in the world. | Elite |
| Slay a bloodveld. | Kill Bloodveld anywhere in the world. | Elite |
| Slay an ogre. | Kill Ogre anywhere in the world. | Elite |
| Slay General Graardor in the God Wars Dungeon. | Kill General Graardor anywhere in the world. | Master |
| Slay the Corporeal Beast in its lair. | Kill Corporeal Beast anywhere in the world. | Master |
| Slay the King Black Dragon in his lair. | Kill King Black Dragon anywhere in the world. | Master |
Hot and cold steps (7)
| What the scroll says | How to solve it | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| A cold iron charm is bound into the scroll. It warms as you near what it wants and burns when you stand upon it. It is pulling you into Misthalin. Dig where it burns. | The relic is buried at 3259, 3268. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Hard |
| A charm of dull glass hangs from the scroll, growing warmer the closer you come. It has turned towards Asgarnia. Dig where it burns. | The relic is buried at 2975, 3238. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Hard |
| The scroll is wound about a splinter of bone that beats like a slow heart. It quickens in the north, beyond the mountains. Dig where it beats loudest. | The relic is buried at 2660, 3670. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Elite |
| A drop of blood is sealed into the scroll, and it stirs the nearer you come. It is stirring already, and it points past the ditch. Dig where it boils. | The relic is buried at 3105, 3560. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Elite Wilderness |
| A shard of black glass is set into the scroll. It clouds when you stray and clears when you close. It is clearing somewhere north of the ditch. Dig where it runs clear. | The relic is buried at 3230, 3650. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Elite Wilderness |
| The scroll carries a fang that aches as you approach. It aches for the deep Wilderness, far to the north. Dig where the ache becomes unbearable. | The relic is buried at 3230, 3945. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Master Wilderness |
| A cinder is folded into the scroll and it brightens as you close on what it wants. It burns for the far north of the Wilderness. Dig where it flares. | The relic is buried at 3200, 3835. Dig within 2 tiles of it. | Master Wilderness |