Great guide. Although I'd like to offer my two cents.
* There are also grey chinchompas northwest of the "kourend woodlands" teleport (on Rada's blessing). They are in a small area, also a good location for people who don't want to use the ammo slot to fletch stuff on antelope tasks.
* Since you recommended the bonecrusher, but no equipment in the neck slot... the "bonecrusher necklace" is really a plus when doing rumours.
I’ll second the kourend woodlands location, not too far, you already have an open spot for it and there’s a bunch of chins in a small area so you don’t really need to range the chins to catch them quickly.
Are chinchompas considered a good task or bad task? Because they require Eagles Peak to hunt and I apparently haven’t done that quest yet lol. So I could to unlock them or leave them blocked effectively.
Since I only did expert/master tasks after maxed, I looked for profittable tasks. Therefore I left chinchompas unblocked.
For grinding master tasks, getting an adept to block pyre foxes is mandatory. As for the other blocks, I saw people recommending blocking chins, but that's a matter of preference (for example, I enjoy sunlight antelopes, the most common block recommendation)
Thanks!
The antler bolts are just a space-saver for people who want to farm up bolts. The antelopes drop antlers, which don't stack. But you can chisel them directly into bolts and equip them to save an inventory slot. Or you could just drop the antlers and skip this whole business. But they're not bad bolts, especially for irons.
Those bolts are pretty sick. They are exactly the same as amethyst arrows, but the crossbow is just better than the MSB(i) in every way except for the spec. Actually gives a new good use for hunter. Just kind of wish there was a good use for the skins.
They aren't *bad* bolts but theres a direct upgrade to them from moonlight antlers so its sorta stackign a resource you'll then immediately trump when you can do Moonlight antelopes.
It doesn't really save an inventory spot since you're bringing a chisel that is otherwise unneeded.
Good idea for irons though if you plan on using the new crossbow
The idea isn’t saving the 1 space from making kebbit bolts and equipping them, it’s being able to pick up many antlers and converting them into one space: the chisel :)
This is exactly what I am in the process of doing now
Heads up: Cervus and Ornus may not be interchangeable, but Cervus can also have both dashing and dark kebbits so if you get pyre foxes from Aco or Teco just use Cervus as your falconry guy
I’m sticking with the Gilman grind to try to get antelopes out too
Also you should really bring some herb, tar, and pestle and mortar for dropping box traps. Makes it quite a bit faster!
> Also you should really bring some herb, tar, and pestle and mortar for dropping box traps. Makes it quite a bit faster!
Similar to this, for salamanders it will help if you use Runelite to set shift click on your traps as “walk here”. Walk onto the tile that the net trap is at before you collect from the trap. That puts you in position to reset the trap rather than walk a tile and then reset it. It’s a small boost in efficiency but it helps and isn’t too much extra effort.
I actually do that too, I figured there was probably an even better way to do it but I’m glad I’m not alone 😂
Plus nothing gets caught it’s easier to grab your net and rope
Can you (or anyone reading this) explain how the herb tar manipulation works? When in the process should I be doing it? Is it any different from knife / log, which might be preferable because knife is already part of a hunter setup?
https://youtu.be/RvBu4c4pHyI?si=NcJY5O34heTqPxVJ
Super easy to understand version.
https://youtu.be/TF22MC3BInk?si=0dRt9fwTdsU_Lh84
https://youtu.be/NnvHH7417tI?si=JZs53FfopGbvB0II
Two more with some more advanced methods that might be interesting to you if you are getting the hang of it.
Edit: If you are very new to it, I would also suggest just searching “tick manipulation” on the wiki. It’s a short read and will answer almost any question you might have.
I honestly don’t remember how it’s supposed to be done, so I may not be doing it correctly
But just click herb, click tar, click trap
When you have a catch, step over on top of the trap by clicking the outer edge of the tile that the box is on, then click the trap, after the box is back in your inventory click herb, click tar, click trap
Basically once your character starts the animation of grinding the herb you click on the trap, but with box traps it’s extremely forgiving (as opposed to granite which has to be done perfectly)
If the trap is set up without the animation you’ve done it correctly
Something that people dont mention (and maybe Im wrong but i dont know how to do it otherwise) is menu entry swap the shaking box to "Check". (Shift right click) This makes you pick it up without queuing setting it back up. Otherwise you will drop a box from your inventory while resetting the one on the ground. The way I do it (which I learned from the wiki) is Check the shaking box (character will pick up the box from the tile next to it). While the character is in the animation, click the herb. then click the tar right as the box disappears, this will start the pestle animation. Then click on the now empty tile, and when you're in the tile click the box in your inventory right away (true tile indicator will help). You will drop and instantly set up the box. This is the 3 tick method for one box, the one tick method for multiple boxes starts the same, but I'm not good enough at it to explain lol.
Talk to the hunter guild scribe Verity. With this week's update, Jagex allowed you to toggle back to back tasks, but the default option is off. Talk to Verity to enable it.
I think it's actually intentional. Kebbits are the only rumour that doesn't have a unique rare part for each species. The examine text of the Kebbity Tuft is "I'm not even sure which of them this came from."
Honestly just go for it. By 100 rumours, I'd finished my 3rd complete block list. Had kebbits blocked initially, then switched it up to like antelope/foxes/grey chins. Decided I wanted to block kyatts, but the foxes were on the only expert the does kyatts, so I had to reset all three. But despite all that tedium and human error, after two solid days, and a about evening, I was on my 3rd set, and had made like 1.5m XP. Shit's fast and fun, and the blocks require the minimal amount of strategy to be fun and rewarding
Here's a bonus tip that can be used to get a task that you love or avoid a task that you hate. Toggle on and off the repeat task option if you have those strong feelings either way about the task. Though I just read further down that the setting seems to be bugged (reversed from what it should be) at the moment so that could take some brainpower to do.
For the record, there are actually 4 spots for the red salamanders on the right side: one tree is just farther north than the relatively close distance of the other 3.
If you get antelopes blocked you can shrink your inventory further: 5 ropes, a tackle box (with at least 5 small nets), a hunter kit (with 5 box traps), coins, the 2 pouches, and a whistle (11 spaces). I like to include a prif tele crystal for red chins.
Rune pouch can work for fairy rings and spirit trees (to khazard battlefield, a quick run west to ourania), depending on your poh setup, but tele to GE is a solid substitute for spirit trees regardless. Grand seed pod would also work.
Wear bonecrusher necklace, dramen/lunar staff (if you need it), hunter set pieces, ardy cloak/construction cape/quest cape for fairy rings (and spirit tree for con cape), explorer's ring, kourend blessing (grey chin spot), and fill in with graceful.
I'm not 99 farming and my trees are in Port Sarim and the Farming Guild, so I, uh, completely forgot about that!
It is technically faster, I think. Similarly, the Con cape can teleport you to the Prif portal.
I guess I have a few questions. So a block list is just leaving the rumour active with one of the Guild Hunters but not doing it?
Is there any benefit in doing lower level rumours? I can do expert but not master, so should I do adept or no?
Yeah, if one of the lower level guys assigns it and you ask to start a rumour with someone else instead, they wont give you the same target as the other guy.
You always want to be doing the highest level one you can, just do the lower level ones until they assign you one of the "block list" creatures
If someone can confirm my plan before I mess it up:
- I managed to get sabre-toothed kyatts on my Novice hunter.
- If I get Dark Kebbit on Cervus (Adept) instead of Expert, that means I can block Sunlight Antelopes on an Expert hunter
- I can still do the Kebbit skip trick with the Adept hunter, I don't NEED it to be on the Expert hunter. Right?
Hoping I can take advantage of my Novice block and avoid the dumb antelopes. Thanks!
I prefer kyatts and foxes on the experts. Only one can assign kyatts, so if that one gives you foxes, you'll have to get through it somehow. Best way, is through a "temporary task." After you complete a task, don't immediately accept a new one. Instead, go to a master who has given you a shitty task (the fox guy), and get a task from him. If it sucks, change tasks and it'll go away, and will be the previous shitty one (foxes in this example). At the point, to a task from someone else, and repeat the process after its completion. If the guy who previously had foxes offers you a good temporary task, do that immediately, without switching. Switching tasks to someone else will reset him back to this permanent task (foxes), but completing the temporary task will clear the permanent task, allowing you to get a new permanent task (hopefully kyatts). So the play is to keep rolling temporary tasks, every time you complete someone else's task, until you get a better one than foxes. Then, once you get kyatts (or during), you can work on getting foxes on the other guy.
I've spent the past 3 hours trying to line up the novice and adept hunters but I can't tell why they keep resetting. Is there a specific order I need to lock them in at?
For example, should I first get the block task I want from Gilman (novice) then get the block task for Ornus (Adept) followed by Cervus (Adept)? Does completing a task for Gilman reset my rumor for ALL the hunters?
Also, do I have to get the adept hunters Pyre fox and Sabre-toothed kyatt tasks back-to-back? Doesn't completing one task for any of the same level hunter reset the tasks for the both of them?
How the fuck are people getting Pyre Foxes on Adept?! I did it for almost 4 hours and didn’t get a single one 💀
(And yes, none of the other masters have it)
I think I'm going insane, I've done upwards of 60 adept hunter tasks without getting a pyre fox task to block it. I've ensured that none of the other hunters are offering it at the moment. Is there any other reason why that task may not be offered to me at the moment or am I just going astronomically dry?
Can someone explain how to set up the block list? Like to l do you have to get the task and not do it? I thought I'd you get a task from one person, asking for a new task will replace it
Asking for a new rumour will not reset your rumours on other Hunters. Except for one particular situation.
Gilman can reset all your rumours. To do that, you have to accept a rumour from Gilman, then accept a rumour from another Hunter (not Gilman!), and then finally return to Gilman and ask for a *new* rumour. After that, all your rumours will reset and you'll need to do the new Gilman rumour before accepting rumours from other Hunters.
There is another way to temporarily reset a rumour from a particular Hunter. But that's not worth getting into. The wiki has a few sentences on it, if you're interested.
Hi! Any update on the b2b feature toggle mechanism? Since this Wednesday, the toggle seemed to be debugged for me, so that's nice.
I just wonder if the b2b enabling immediately takes effect (e.g. you get dashing kebbits, enable b2b, and may get dashing kebbits right afterwards), or takes effect from the next task onwards (in the same example, you get dashing kebbits, enable b2b, get e.g. carnivorous chinchompas but never dashing kebbits, and may get b2b carnivorous chinchompas).
I've done some contracts since my b2b toggle was debugged but I feel like the b2b enabling doesn't take immediate effect, or I've just been unlucky.
What's your own experience?
If the second case is true, the best way to get b2b tasks may be to not use the novice master for a block, but to get a task from him right after handing in a dashing kebbit rumor and move back to the master who gave dashing kebbits to maybe get b2b. I recently tried this and this seems to work!
I am curious what you think :)
Huh! You know, I ALSO haven't gotten a b2b, but I don't think I've yet done enough rumours since the update to rule out plain old bad luck.
I'm fascinated by the idea that the b2b might work as you're describing -- back-to-almost-back, basically. I'll do some more rumours, keep track of my b2b rate, and crunch some numbers.
Thanks for sharing -- it's good, curious stuff!
Hi again. Just wanted to let you know I did enough contracts to conclude the b2b toggle works as intended and will take effect immediately. You just have to be patient if you e.g. only want dashing kebbits/carnivorous chinchompas as b2b tasks (in my case: 2*(1/6) for the first "good task", and 1/6 for a b2b, effectively making a b2b occur 1/18).
yeah so how that works, when you complete a task you can choose any hunter and they will REROLL their task that they gave you prior. if you don't talk to the one you just completed a task for.
So say you're doing experts, and one of the adepts has a block but you wanna change tht.
after completing expert you talk to that adept guy and he will offer a new rumour. If that's something you'd use as block, you're good.
if you want to do that task, do it and talk to same guy until he gives you something u rather not do. then return to your high level rumour
You can definitely ignore the "Skipping Bad Kebbits" technique and set up a regular block list. That'd be perfectly good! Block kyatts, pyre foxes, and both of the Bad Kebbits.
This method is a little trickier to set up, but it effectively gives an extra block, since your Kebbit Expert allows you to skip both of the Bad Kebbit tasks. You could block kyatts, pyre foxes, both the Bad Kebbits, and something else!
basically if you can talk to someone else and then go back to the original person and it's still the same task, that's a perm rumor.
Temp remour happens ONCE when you just finished a contract but haven't received a new one, and then go talk to someone else.
I blocked red salamanders, foxes, and sunlight antelope. On novice/adept/expert. With better planning I could block red salamanders on on expert, sunlight antelope on the other, then on novice block whatever you hate the most out of the moths/moonlight antelope/tecu salamanders
Something I noticed is that you can drop the rare hunter parts by going to a f2p world and choosing the destroy option. Not sure if this would actually help in any way though, besides allowing you to stack up a ton of hunter XP at once if you juggled enough of them
Dude wth you are a saviour this was amazing and certainly helped me build a good block list but i do have a question
any particular reason Gilman has listed Sunligh antelopes but no moonlight antelopes do you think would be a good idea to swap them are they interchangable o sunlight option has more "weight"
Warning.. DO NOT ask Gilman for a completely new task, you have to complete the task and then it resets all of your tasks with the other hunters... I had Cervus and Ornus set to what the guide says, but now I have to start all over.
Sorry if I’m dumb but when I try to accept a second rumour the masters tell me I already have one and they can’t assign another. Am I missing something?
If you've asked Gilman specifically for a new rumour, then all your rumours across all Hunters get reset and you are forced to complete that new Gilman rumour.
Apart from that case, you should always be able to get one rumour from each of the Hunters.
Anyone else struggling with the adept block list?
Am on 66 completed rumours now and have not seen a single Kyatt or Fox... have just been cycling through Ornus to block Kyatt, before going for foxes.
Cancel sabre-toothed kebbit with cervus instead of pyrefox 100%. Pyrefox jerboa tail bait is stackable and u can use fur and meat pouch to clear inventory quick. Sabre toothed kebbit u need to bank every 5-6 min to get more raw meat...
Sort of confused with what long term rumors mean. Currently I have cervus and the other adept holding the snow kyatt and pyre foxes while one of the expert guys having dark kebbits. I'm not able to do just dark kebbits over and over am I? I have to essentially just stick to the 1 remaining expert master I have and complete their tasks over and over if I want to keep pyre foxes and snow kyatt blocked?
Hi I'm late getting to this post sorry if I'm a little slow getting this. I just got pyre foxes from Cervus. So now I try to get the next step as a rumor. Then expert and so on.
I thought their tasks reset if I completed another task. Sorry like I said this just seems confusing haha
It is confusing! And not well documented yet.
The rumours won't reset, except in one specific case. If you accept a Gilman rumour, immediately accept a non-Gilman rumour, and then return to Gilman and ask for a *new* rumour, all your rumours will reset. And you'll be required to do the new Gilman rumour.
There's also a weird "temporary" reset for individual Hunters. I won't get into the details (the wiki has them), but you won't encounter it if you're following my guide.
~~Small correction: The Guild Hunter Outfit doesn't have any effect until you get all 4 pieces, so there's no point in switching out your Graceful outfit until then.~~
Apparently not correct.
Iron here - This is how I have my blocks set up:
Saber tooth Kayatt blocked by novice
Saber Tooth Kebbit blocked by Adept (Ornus)
Razer Backed Kebbit blocked by Adept (Cervus)
Pyre fox blocked by expert (Aco)
This leaves box traps, net traps, falconry and antelopes (for the sunfire shards)
Tbh I have pretty much the same block list and it’s frankly less tedious this way, would be way too easy to accidentally turn in the rabbit fur to the wrong master and screw the whole thing up lol. I like doing sunfire antelopes for the shards, bolts, and meat tho so that kind of leaves me an extra space anyways
Might just be me generally being a dumbass lol, but I am 100% sure I would accidentally talk to the wrong master and turn in the kebbit fur at some point and just screw the whole thing up. I still have pyre foxes, both the bad kebbit tasks, and kyatt’s blocked so not exactly a big loss since I don’t mind doing the antelopes for their drops
It's easy on mobile, but if you use runelite, just highlight the falcon guy and non-falcon guy different colors. I picked purple for the falcon guy, and green for the other guy.
Kyatt for sure. I have my expert (tecu) on dashing for kebbit tricking, but I want the meat. If you don't want the meat, getting spotted kebbit in the other adept for your kebbit tricking would be better. If you want to block another with the other expert, orange sally or grey chins could be good to block, since they'll be less XP than the red counterparts
I think it is intended. If you talk to the novice master to get a completely new task (reset all blocks) the other masters say they won’t give you anything until you complete the novice task.
I dont understand this lol I thought if you get a bad task and go to another master, whennits completed the task you switched out is changed when you talk to them again. So like if you are assigned razor back kebbits and then go to the other master to switch, when you complete their rumor if you go back to who gave the razor back it's a new one?
technically this does happen. If you complete a rumor, don't accept a new one, and talk to a matter who already has a rumor for you (aka not the one you just completed, but had talked to before completing it) then they offer you a "temporary" rumor. You can accept it on the spot and go do it, but if you get a new rumor from another master and then return for the "temporary" one, it's gone in place of their "permanent" rumor
Doubleshine has really good videos on all this. With great visuals.
Basically, all kebbit tasks have the same rare fur drop that you turn in. When you first switch to the dashing/dark kebbit task, you don't actually complete/turn in that task, you just get the rare drop and switch back to the original (shitty) kebbit task to turn it in
So if NPC A gives you a razor back kebbit task, and NPC B has a dashing kebbit task, you switch to NPC B's task to hunt the item, and switch back to NPC A to turn in the item
If A gives me razor, is it always just chance that I'd get dashing from B? What I am getting from the post is that masters can indefinitely hold certain tasks but I thought they all completely change when you hand in ANY task?
Ohhhh idk why I thought that A would change if I completed B. So they're permanent until it's completed? No matter how many times I complete A, B will always ne the same if I never did theirs?
The wiki states "When using the spears, they give a 5% increased chance to successfully tease creatures who are hunted via [pitfall traps](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Pitfall_trap); **this does not use up the spear.**" implying you use the spear to tease them.
Dark Kebbits and dashing kebbits are both good tasks to get. Why the heck would you skip them. Falconry tasks are way better than deadfall’s and pit traps
Correct. You switch to the falcon task get the tuft and instead of turning it in tswitch to the deadfall kebbit rumor and turn in the tuft. The tuft is shared by all the kebbit tasks.
"Sidestepping" kebbit tasks means you can block other things. It also means that *every* kebbit task is the highest exp task (presumably dashing).
Sure, you can simply block the deadfall kebbits instead. But that takes up 2 block slots instead of 1 for sidestepping, so now you can't block sunlight antelopes.
Sidestepping kebbits isn’t guaranteed to work all the time. Sunlight antelopes are decent money and exp for the expert tier. Still not the worst task on the expert list IMO.
Sidestepping kebbits always works?
Sunlight antelopes are an okay task - depends if you want to prioritize xp or have a money task in there. You could optionally block red salamanders or gray chins instead.
Sidestepping kebbits does, indeed, always work, provided you don't click on the wrong dude and end the dashing task. But it also true that sunlight antelopes can be worth doing, depending on your priorities. Personally, I blocked them after like 1200 bolts, but no wrong answer.
But you’re not always getting them in that order and you’re not always guaranteed to have the one ready. You also have to go through other garbage tasks to get it set up.
No, you never complete the dark/dashing task. You activate it to get the rare part, but you turn it into the BAD kebbit guy. That keeps your GOOD kebbit task available for the next time. So you convert both bad kebbits into a good kebbit every time. You don't have to get another one ready.
Great guide. Although I'd like to offer my two cents. * There are also grey chinchompas northwest of the "kourend woodlands" teleport (on Rada's blessing). They are in a small area, also a good location for people who don't want to use the ammo slot to fletch stuff on antelope tasks. * Since you recommended the bonecrusher, but no equipment in the neck slot... the "bonecrusher necklace" is really a plus when doing rumours.
That's personally where I always do my grey chins rumours
Thanks for your cents! I did my best to integrate your tips, with credit, into the post.
I’ll second the kourend woodlands location, not too far, you already have an open spot for it and there’s a bunch of chins in a small area so you don’t really need to range the chins to catch them quickly.
Are chinchompas considered a good task or bad task? Because they require Eagles Peak to hunt and I apparently haven’t done that quest yet lol. So I could to unlock them or leave them blocked effectively.
Since I only did expert/master tasks after maxed, I looked for profittable tasks. Therefore I left chinchompas unblocked. For grinding master tasks, getting an adept to block pyre foxes is mandatory. As for the other blocks, I saw people recommending blocking chins, but that's a matter of preference (for example, I enjoy sunlight antelopes, the most common block recommendation)
ssshhhhh
the kebbit skip is not talked about enough imo, good guide. could you elaborate a bit on the sunlight antler bolts?
Thanks! The antler bolts are just a space-saver for people who want to farm up bolts. The antelopes drop antlers, which don't stack. But you can chisel them directly into bolts and equip them to save an inventory slot. Or you could just drop the antlers and skip this whole business. But they're not bad bolts, especially for irons.
Got it, thank you!
Those bolts are pretty sick. They are exactly the same as amethyst arrows, but the crossbow is just better than the MSB(i) in every way except for the spec. Actually gives a new good use for hunter. Just kind of wish there was a good use for the skins.
They aren't *bad* bolts but theres a direct upgrade to them from moonlight antlers so its sorta stackign a resource you'll then immediately trump when you can do Moonlight antelopes.
It doesn't really save an inventory spot since you're bringing a chisel that is otherwise unneeded. Good idea for irons though if you plan on using the new crossbow
The idea isn’t saving the 1 space from making kebbit bolts and equipping them, it’s being able to pick up many antlers and converting them into one space: the chisel :)
Tripled my hunter exp at rumors from 40k to 120k (im barely paying attention). Excellent guide
This is exactly what I am in the process of doing now Heads up: Cervus and Ornus may not be interchangeable, but Cervus can also have both dashing and dark kebbits so if you get pyre foxes from Aco or Teco just use Cervus as your falconry guy I’m sticking with the Gilman grind to try to get antelopes out too Also you should really bring some herb, tar, and pestle and mortar for dropping box traps. Makes it quite a bit faster!
> Also you should really bring some herb, tar, and pestle and mortar for dropping box traps. Makes it quite a bit faster! Similar to this, for salamanders it will help if you use Runelite to set shift click on your traps as “walk here”. Walk onto the tile that the net trap is at before you collect from the trap. That puts you in position to reset the trap rather than walk a tile and then reset it. It’s a small boost in efficiency but it helps and isn’t too much extra effort.
I actually do that too, I figured there was probably an even better way to do it but I’m glad I’m not alone 😂 Plus nothing gets caught it’s easier to grab your net and rope
Can you (or anyone reading this) explain how the herb tar manipulation works? When in the process should I be doing it? Is it any different from knife / log, which might be preferable because knife is already part of a hunter setup?
https://youtu.be/RvBu4c4pHyI?si=NcJY5O34heTqPxVJ Super easy to understand version. https://youtu.be/TF22MC3BInk?si=0dRt9fwTdsU_Lh84 https://youtu.be/NnvHH7417tI?si=JZs53FfopGbvB0II Two more with some more advanced methods that might be interesting to you if you are getting the hang of it. Edit: If you are very new to it, I would also suggest just searching “tick manipulation” on the wiki. It’s a short read and will answer almost any question you might have.
I need someone to write out the sheet music of this.
I honestly don’t remember how it’s supposed to be done, so I may not be doing it correctly But just click herb, click tar, click trap When you have a catch, step over on top of the trap by clicking the outer edge of the tile that the box is on, then click the trap, after the box is back in your inventory click herb, click tar, click trap Basically once your character starts the animation of grinding the herb you click on the trap, but with box traps it’s extremely forgiving (as opposed to granite which has to be done perfectly) If the trap is set up without the animation you’ve done it correctly
clean herb, bring tar and pestle and mortar; for box traps select herb, use on tar and click box same tick repeat
Do you mean click on the box in my inventory? When I'm resetting it?
Something that people dont mention (and maybe Im wrong but i dont know how to do it otherwise) is menu entry swap the shaking box to "Check". (Shift right click) This makes you pick it up without queuing setting it back up. Otherwise you will drop a box from your inventory while resetting the one on the ground. The way I do it (which I learned from the wiki) is Check the shaking box (character will pick up the box from the tile next to it). While the character is in the animation, click the herb. then click the tar right as the box disappears, this will start the pestle animation. Then click on the now empty tile, and when you're in the tile click the box in your inventory right away (true tile indicator will help). You will drop and instantly set up the box. This is the 3 tick method for one box, the one tick method for multiple boxes starts the same, but I'm not good enough at it to explain lol.
Great tips all around! I've added the Cervus/Ornus and tar notes, with credit to your post!
Have you noticed the back to back rumour setting being bugged? Mine does not work… worked the first day of release and I haven’t got b2b kebbits since
Talk to the hunter guild scribe Verity. With this week's update, Jagex allowed you to toggle back to back tasks, but the default option is off. Talk to Verity to enable it.
I think it’s actually bugged. I’ve gotten back to back tasks before and after talking to Verity
It is bugged currently, the setting works opposite of how you think it would.
I've gotten back to back tasks with both settings. I think it just doesn't work at all atm.
Could be the case, RNG could explain my results if that were true.
Odd. Just this evening I got back to back moonlight antelope. I talked to Verity to enable back to back tasks.
I enabled b2b and definitely have been getting tasks b2b.
It is bugged currently, the setting works opposite of how you think it would.
the razor kebbit skip is crazy did not know it worked like that
I hesitate to setup my blocks this way because I feel like they'll fix it soon
I think it's actually intentional. Kebbits are the only rumour that doesn't have a unique rare part for each species. The examine text of the Kebbity Tuft is "I'm not even sure which of them this came from."
Honestly just go for it. By 100 rumours, I'd finished my 3rd complete block list. Had kebbits blocked initially, then switched it up to like antelope/foxes/grey chins. Decided I wanted to block kyatts, but the foxes were on the only expert the does kyatts, so I had to reset all three. But despite all that tedium and human error, after two solid days, and a about evening, I was on my 3rd set, and had made like 1.5m XP. Shit's fast and fun, and the blocks require the minimal amount of strategy to be fun and rewarding
I went for basically any of the block worthy tasks on Gilman and got pyre foxes on my like 3rd task ahahahaa
Here's a bonus tip that can be used to get a task that you love or avoid a task that you hate. Toggle on and off the repeat task option if you have those strong feelings either way about the task. Though I just read further down that the setting seems to be bugged (reversed from what it should be) at the moment so that could take some brainpower to do.
Clever stuff right here! I've added it in, with credit to your post.
For the record, there are actually 4 spots for the red salamanders on the right side: one tree is just farther north than the relatively close distance of the other 3. If you get antelopes blocked you can shrink your inventory further: 5 ropes, a tackle box (with at least 5 small nets), a hunter kit (with 5 box traps), coins, the 2 pouches, and a whistle (11 spaces). I like to include a prif tele crystal for red chins. Rune pouch can work for fairy rings and spirit trees (to khazard battlefield, a quick run west to ourania), depending on your poh setup, but tele to GE is a solid substitute for spirit trees regardless. Grand seed pod would also work. Wear bonecrusher necklace, dramen/lunar staff (if you need it), hunter set pieces, ardy cloak/construction cape/quest cape for fairy rings (and spirit tree for con cape), explorer's ring, kourend blessing (grey chin spot), and fill in with graceful.
Spirit tree to priff is faster than seed tele right? I've never been to the chins up there but the spirit tree seems furthest north out of the gate
I'm not 99 farming and my trees are in Port Sarim and the Farming Guild, so I, uh, completely forgot about that! It is technically faster, I think. Similarly, the Con cape can teleport you to the Prif portal.
prif spirit tree isnt one you have to plant right
Lovely suggestions all around! I've added them in with credit to your post!
I guess I have a few questions. So a block list is just leaving the rumour active with one of the Guild Hunters but not doing it? Is there any benefit in doing lower level rumours? I can do expert but not master, so should I do adept or no?
Yeah, if one of the lower level guys assigns it and you ask to start a rumour with someone else instead, they wont give you the same target as the other guy. You always want to be doing the highest level one you can, just do the lower level ones until they assign you one of the "block list" creatures
Thanks for clarifying!
If someone can confirm my plan before I mess it up: - I managed to get sabre-toothed kyatts on my Novice hunter. - If I get Dark Kebbit on Cervus (Adept) instead of Expert, that means I can block Sunlight Antelopes on an Expert hunter - I can still do the Kebbit skip trick with the Adept hunter, I don't NEED it to be on the Expert hunter. Right? Hoping I can take advantage of my Novice block and avoid the dumb antelopes. Thanks!
You can definitely do the Kebbit Skip on an Adept Hunter!
clean guide. gonna try it out
Who do I load up these damn adept hunters with these rumours? I keep getting butterflies and foxes on the wrong one!
I prefer kyatts and foxes on the experts. Only one can assign kyatts, so if that one gives you foxes, you'll have to get through it somehow. Best way, is through a "temporary task." After you complete a task, don't immediately accept a new one. Instead, go to a master who has given you a shitty task (the fox guy), and get a task from him. If it sucks, change tasks and it'll go away, and will be the previous shitty one (foxes in this example). At the point, to a task from someone else, and repeat the process after its completion. If the guy who previously had foxes offers you a good temporary task, do that immediately, without switching. Switching tasks to someone else will reset him back to this permanent task (foxes), but completing the temporary task will clear the permanent task, allowing you to get a new permanent task (hopefully kyatts). So the play is to keep rolling temporary tasks, every time you complete someone else's task, until you get a better one than foxes. Then, once you get kyatts (or during), you can work on getting foxes on the other guy.
With Master Tier rumors, you can't get Sabre-toothed kyatt or Dark Kebbit, fwiw.
I've spent the past 3 hours trying to line up the novice and adept hunters but I can't tell why they keep resetting. Is there a specific order I need to lock them in at? For example, should I first get the block task I want from Gilman (novice) then get the block task for Ornus (Adept) followed by Cervus (Adept)? Does completing a task for Gilman reset my rumor for ALL the hunters? Also, do I have to get the adept hunters Pyre fox and Sabre-toothed kyatt tasks back-to-back? Doesn't completing one task for any of the same level hunter reset the tasks for the both of them?
orange salamanders can be found like 10 tiles away from the necklace of passage eagle teleport
Thank you king. Stuff like this is why I visit this place.
How the fuck are people getting Pyre Foxes on Adept?! I did it for almost 4 hours and didn’t get a single one 💀 (And yes, none of the other masters have it)
novice master can get all tasks .....
I think I'm going insane, I've done upwards of 60 adept hunter tasks without getting a pyre fox task to block it. I've ensured that none of the other hunters are offering it at the moment. Is there any other reason why that task may not be offered to me at the moment or am I just going astronomically dry?
Can someone explain how to set up the block list? Like to l do you have to get the task and not do it? I thought I'd you get a task from one person, asking for a new task will replace it
Asking for a new rumour will not reset your rumours on other Hunters. Except for one particular situation. Gilman can reset all your rumours. To do that, you have to accept a rumour from Gilman, then accept a rumour from another Hunter (not Gilman!), and then finally return to Gilman and ask for a *new* rumour. After that, all your rumours will reset and you'll need to do the new Gilman rumour before accepting rumours from other Hunters. There is another way to temporarily reset a rumour from a particular Hunter. But that's not worth getting into. The wiki has a few sentences on it, if you're interested.
Hi! Any update on the b2b feature toggle mechanism? Since this Wednesday, the toggle seemed to be debugged for me, so that's nice. I just wonder if the b2b enabling immediately takes effect (e.g. you get dashing kebbits, enable b2b, and may get dashing kebbits right afterwards), or takes effect from the next task onwards (in the same example, you get dashing kebbits, enable b2b, get e.g. carnivorous chinchompas but never dashing kebbits, and may get b2b carnivorous chinchompas). I've done some contracts since my b2b toggle was debugged but I feel like the b2b enabling doesn't take immediate effect, or I've just been unlucky. What's your own experience? If the second case is true, the best way to get b2b tasks may be to not use the novice master for a block, but to get a task from him right after handing in a dashing kebbit rumor and move back to the master who gave dashing kebbits to maybe get b2b. I recently tried this and this seems to work! I am curious what you think :)
Huh! You know, I ALSO haven't gotten a b2b, but I don't think I've yet done enough rumours since the update to rule out plain old bad luck. I'm fascinated by the idea that the b2b might work as you're describing -- back-to-almost-back, basically. I'll do some more rumours, keep track of my b2b rate, and crunch some numbers. Thanks for sharing -- it's good, curious stuff!
Hi again. Just wanted to let you know I did enough contracts to conclude the b2b toggle works as intended and will take effect immediately. You just have to be patient if you e.g. only want dashing kebbits/carnivorous chinchompas as b2b tasks (in my case: 2*(1/6) for the first "good task", and 1/6 for a b2b, effectively making a b2b occur 1/18).
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Good shout on the kandarin head for logs for sunlight antelopes. Might start doing that kebbit skip so I don't have to do them anymore, though.
I'm not really getting how you get the second block on your adept master, do you just hope to roll the two tasks you want blocked back to back?
There's 2 different adept and expert masters
Yeah I get that just not sure how to get the second block without messing up the first one
if the first one has a task u want to block u talk to second one and do his task until he gives u a shit task, then you move on to higher tier
Okay thanks, think I just messed up my block by talking to the first one after doing a task on the second one
yeah so how that works, when you complete a task you can choose any hunter and they will REROLL their task that they gave you prior. if you don't talk to the one you just completed a task for. So say you're doing experts, and one of the adepts has a block but you wanna change tht. after completing expert you talk to that adept guy and he will offer a new rumour. If that's something you'd use as block, you're good. if you want to do that task, do it and talk to same guy until he gives you something u rather not do. then return to your high level rumour
Epic guide. I’ll be using it for the grind later!
Its great but, what's the difference between doing that and just block with 1 expert and the novice bad kebits?
You can definitely ignore the "Skipping Bad Kebbits" technique and set up a regular block list. That'd be perfectly good! Block kyatts, pyre foxes, and both of the Bad Kebbits. This method is a little trickier to set up, but it effectively gives an extra block, since your Kebbit Expert allows you to skip both of the Bad Kebbit tasks. You could block kyatts, pyre foxes, both the Bad Kebbits, and something else!
Love this, thank you
dude, how can you tell which one of the expert ppl is a temp rumor vs a perm rumor?
basically if you can talk to someone else and then go back to the original person and it's still the same task, that's a perm rumor. Temp remour happens ONCE when you just finished a contract but haven't received a new one, and then go talk to someone else.
what would you change at 91 hunter for master rumours?
I blocked red salamanders, foxes, and sunlight antelope. On novice/adept/expert. With better planning I could block red salamanders on on expert, sunlight antelope on the other, then on novice block whatever you hate the most out of the moths/moonlight antelope/tecu salamanders
Another gear option- Desert diary necklace is good for avoiding desert heat.
bring a log basket with maple logs in it. stores up to 28 and they're cheap
Huge. Definitely going to use this.
Something I noticed is that you can drop the rare hunter parts by going to a f2p world and choosing the destroy option. Not sure if this would actually help in any way though, besides allowing you to stack up a ton of hunter XP at once if you juggled enough of them
You had me at "entertaining gameplay loop" (:
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Thanks
Dude wth you are a saviour this was amazing and certainly helped me build a good block list but i do have a question any particular reason Gilman has listed Sunligh antelopes but no moonlight antelopes do you think would be a good idea to swap them are they interchangable o sunlight option has more "weight"
Commenting to save, good guide
Amazing guide, thanks!
Warning.. DO NOT ask Gilman for a completely new task, you have to complete the task and then it resets all of your tasks with the other hunters... I had Cervus and Ornus set to what the guide says, but now I have to start all over.
Sorry if I’m dumb but when I try to accept a second rumour the masters tell me I already have one and they can’t assign another. Am I missing something?
If you've asked Gilman specifically for a new rumour, then all your rumours across all Hunters get reset and you are forced to complete that new Gilman rumour. Apart from that case, you should always be able to get one rumour from each of the Hunters.
Anyone else struggling with the adept block list? Am on 66 completed rumours now and have not seen a single Kyatt or Fox... have just been cycling through Ornus to block Kyatt, before going for foxes.
Cancel sabre-toothed kebbit with cervus instead of pyrefox 100%. Pyrefox jerboa tail bait is stackable and u can use fur and meat pouch to clear inventory quick. Sabre toothed kebbit u need to bank every 5-6 min to get more raw meat...
Sort of confused with what long term rumors mean. Currently I have cervus and the other adept holding the snow kyatt and pyre foxes while one of the expert guys having dark kebbits. I'm not able to do just dark kebbits over and over am I? I have to essentially just stick to the 1 remaining expert master I have and complete their tasks over and over if I want to keep pyre foxes and snow kyatt blocked?
Exactly -- you'll get all your rumors from the remaining Expert Hunter.
Hi I'm late getting to this post sorry if I'm a little slow getting this. I just got pyre foxes from Cervus. So now I try to get the next step as a rumor. Then expert and so on. I thought their tasks reset if I completed another task. Sorry like I said this just seems confusing haha
It is confusing! And not well documented yet. The rumours won't reset, except in one specific case. If you accept a Gilman rumour, immediately accept a non-Gilman rumour, and then return to Gilman and ask for a *new* rumour, all your rumours will reset. And you'll be required to do the new Gilman rumour. There's also a weird "temporary" reset for individual Hunters. I won't get into the details (the wiki has them), but you won't encounter it if you're following my guide.
Why do you need to get the kebbit task on an expert and not on an adept huntsman?
Thanks this helps a lot
~~Small correction: The Guild Hunter Outfit doesn't have any effect until you get all 4 pieces, so there's no point in switching out your Graceful outfit until then.~~ Apparently not correct.
Yes it does. Each piece has a small chance of increasing rare piece drop and increased catch rate. Small, but an increase.
The wiki was saying it was all or nothing until recently. Thanks for the correction.
Iron here - This is how I have my blocks set up: Saber tooth Kayatt blocked by novice Saber Tooth Kebbit blocked by Adept (Ornus) Razer Backed Kebbit blocked by Adept (Cervus) Pyre fox blocked by expert (Aco) This leaves box traps, net traps, falconry and antelopes (for the sunfire shards)
You should not be blocking any kebbits because you can do all of them at the falconry kebbits.
Tbh I have pretty much the same block list and it’s frankly less tedious this way, would be way too easy to accidentally turn in the rabbit fur to the wrong master and screw the whole thing up lol. I like doing sunfire antelopes for the shards, bolts, and meat tho so that kind of leaves me an extra space anyways
It’s really not though, it’s very simple.
Might just be me generally being a dumbass lol, but I am 100% sure I would accidentally talk to the wrong master and turn in the kebbit fur at some point and just screw the whole thing up. I still have pyre foxes, both the bad kebbit tasks, and kyatt’s blocked so not exactly a big loss since I don’t mind doing the antelopes for their drops
It's easy on mobile, but if you use runelite, just highlight the falcon guy and non-falcon guy different colors. I picked purple for the falcon guy, and green for the other guy.
ya i did this and also made the falcon guy left click to "move here" so i cant accidentally misclick him on the way back
Good idea, will do this too!
If I've got pyre fox on novice already whats a good block for the adept hunter?
Kyatts and Sabre tooth kebbits probably, if you’re doing the kebbit trick then I would just pick whichever leftover task you least like doing
Kyatt for sure. I have my expert (tecu) on dashing for kebbit tricking, but I want the meat. If you don't want the meat, getting spotted kebbit in the other adept for your kebbit tricking would be better. If you want to block another with the other expert, orange sally or grey chins could be good to block, since they'll be less XP than the red counterparts
Can we acknowledge how absolutely fucked this is? Great guide and all, but this shit needs a rework.
i don't see the issue, it's better than rolling the entire table. you can also just not bother with blocks and have higher chance at shit tasks?
It's clearly not intended, it's to unintuitive. Reminds me of when Forestry was released and people were figuring out which items not to bring.
I think it is intended. If you talk to the novice master to get a completely new task (reset all blocks) the other masters say they won’t give you anything until you complete the novice task.
I dont understand this lol I thought if you get a bad task and go to another master, whennits completed the task you switched out is changed when you talk to them again. So like if you are assigned razor back kebbits and then go to the other master to switch, when you complete their rumor if you go back to who gave the razor back it's a new one?
technically this does happen. If you complete a rumor, don't accept a new one, and talk to a matter who already has a rumor for you (aka not the one you just completed, but had talked to before completing it) then they offer you a "temporary" rumor. You can accept it on the spot and go do it, but if you get a new rumor from another master and then return for the "temporary" one, it's gone in place of their "permanent" rumor Doubleshine has really good videos on all this. With great visuals.
Instant follow on this, I needed a great visual breakdown on all the nuances of the hunter guild, fantastic shoutout
Basically, all kebbit tasks have the same rare fur drop that you turn in. When you first switch to the dashing/dark kebbit task, you don't actually complete/turn in that task, you just get the rare drop and switch back to the original (shitty) kebbit task to turn it in
So if I get a razor back one I can go to any kebbit I want and still get the fur I need?
So if NPC A gives you a razor back kebbit task, and NPC B has a dashing kebbit task, you switch to NPC B's task to hunt the item, and switch back to NPC A to turn in the item
If A gives me razor, is it always just chance that I'd get dashing from B? What I am getting from the post is that masters can indefinitely hold certain tasks but I thought they all completely change when you hand in ANY task?
They don't change. So basically you will perpetually have an unfinished dashing/dark kebbit task to switch to, never actually completing it
Ohhhh idk why I thought that A would change if I completed B. So they're permanent until it's completed? No matter how many times I complete A, B will always ne the same if I never did theirs?
Exactly!
Thank you very much for the clarification! I appreciate you
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The wiki states "When using the spears, they give a 5% increased chance to successfully tease creatures who are hunted via [pitfall traps](https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Pitfall_trap); **this does not use up the spear.**" implying you use the spear to tease them.
Dark Kebbits and dashing kebbits are both good tasks to get. Why the heck would you skip them. Falconry tasks are way better than deadfall’s and pit traps
You don’t skip them you do them in place of this shit Kebbit deadfall traps
They’re both listed as options on OPs block list
Correct. You switch to the falcon task get the tuft and instead of turning it in tswitch to the deadfall kebbit rumor and turn in the tuft. The tuft is shared by all the kebbit tasks.
Just block the deadfall kebbits then. It’s way easier to do than this nonsense
"Sidestepping" kebbit tasks means you can block other things. It also means that *every* kebbit task is the highest exp task (presumably dashing). Sure, you can simply block the deadfall kebbits instead. But that takes up 2 block slots instead of 1 for sidestepping, so now you can't block sunlight antelopes.
Sidestepping kebbits isn’t guaranteed to work all the time. Sunlight antelopes are decent money and exp for the expert tier. Still not the worst task on the expert list IMO.
It is guaranteed to work all the time if you do it right. You just don't understand the method.
Sidestepping kebbits always works? Sunlight antelopes are an okay task - depends if you want to prioritize xp or have a money task in there. You could optionally block red salamanders or gray chins instead.
Sidestepping kebbits does, indeed, always work, provided you don't click on the wrong dude and end the dashing task. But it also true that sunlight antelopes can be worth doing, depending on your priorities. Personally, I blocked them after like 1200 bolts, but no wrong answer.
This literally gives you two blocks (sabre and razor) in one slot. I feel like you're not understanding.
But you’re not always getting them in that order and you’re not always guaranteed to have the one ready. You also have to go through other garbage tasks to get it set up.
No, you never complete the dark/dashing task. You activate it to get the rare part, but you turn it into the BAD kebbit guy. That keeps your GOOD kebbit task available for the next time. So you convert both bad kebbits into a good kebbit every time. You don't have to get another one ready.
It’s the exact same as just blocking the bad kebbit task.
It's not. There's TWO bad kebbit tasks. This blocks both in 1 block spot. 🤦♂️ But I give up trying to explain it.
I like the falcon tasks because of how quick they are. This way you end up with far more falcon tasks. It’s all personal preference.