Dungeoneering Puzzles

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Walk-to means to move your character to the instructed place - it does not ever mean to turn run off.

• Mine the brown wall 5+ times
  
• Walk-to beside the statue missing its weapon. After clicking you may immediately start the next step
  
• Craft the block in your inventory to make the required weapon for each statue
  
• The required weapon is the combat triangle advantage to the statue facing opposite
  
  • For example, far left holds a sword, so you craft a staff against that one
  
  
• Click each statue after crafting it - if you have different types of weapons in your inventory at once use the weapons on the statues
  
• Once all the statues have the correct weapon, the puzzle is complete!

Remember the combat triangle: Sword > Bow > Staff > Sword

• Mine the brown wall
  
• Walk-to beside the statue missing its weapon. After clicking you may immediately start the next step
  
• Craft the block in your inventory to make it its weapon
  
• Click that statue - puzzle complete!

You can craft the block while running. If monsters are interrupting you hide behind a statue to craft.
There are three layouts. In two layouts the brown rocks are immediately to your right. The last layout has them in the far left corner. Examining the statues tells you their weapon (or lack of). Sometimes a door in this room will be openable without completion of the puzzle.

Clicking a tile adjacent to the empty space moves that tile into that space, however, if you do a move that hinders your progress you instead fail and take damage.
Each tile takes time to move, so a good use of this time is running towards the door between each move.

• Push (Strength) barrels blocking your way
• Pickup circled Barrel Piece
  
• Fix (Construction) circled Barrel
  
• Push that Barrel under the moving stream of water
  
• When the bar at the top of the screen fills the puzzle is complete!

The Barrels are NPCs, so it is possible to trample monsters or players that block your way (step on then off their square) to allow the Barrel to be pushed through the target.

• Mine the rocks
  
• [Re]Construct the pillars
  
• Don't miss keys

Goal: Get the coloured books in their matching shelves

• Every few seconds if a bookcase is facing another bookcase or shelf the two will exchange books
  
• Rotate the bookcases to send matching books to their shelves and to the bookcase that can get them there
  
• It's always quickest to get the outer shelves done first

Correctly shelved books cannot leave their shelf again.

1. Jump (agility) the bridge
   
2. Obtain 5 planks
   
3. Construct the bridge (right click)

Steps 2-3 should only ever be done to let other players bypass the agility requirement without the GGS.

• Push/Pull (Strength) each block into a coloured square/recess
  
• Obtain coloured vials from the circled shelf on the wall
  
• Use each respective vial on the block that has the matching coloured line coming from it
  
• Eg. Use the Purple vial on the block that is on top of the purple recess

This puzzle does not require herblore levels, but is only doable in p2p.

Goal: Get ferrets into their coloured squares

• Ferrets move away from you when you are within their range of sight
  
• If you're diagonal from it, it will also move diagonally
  
• Above is an example - the ferrets start in random places
  
• When you walk-to 1, the ferret moves to its colour 1, and so on
  
• Left click Scare a ferret if it's along a wall to make it move randomly
  
• Stepping under a ferret works similarly

Ferrets move after 2 ticks in sight and remember where you were during both. For example, running right up to one will cause it to take 2 steps away from you. They can still walk diagonally around objects if you are diagonal, but not if you are in their line of sight for both ticks, since walking around an object takes 2 ticks. As NPCs, they move W/E before N/S if blocked by an obstacle. Don't worry if you don't understand this paragraph.

• Goal: Have all lights converge in the centre simultaneously - these lights move 1 square per tick
  
• Activate (Magic) each of the lodestones to your right as the centre crystal is lit up
  
• If you screw up or some started activated, you must step on the corresponding pressure pad to pause that colour from moving

Running over a pad to pause it for a tick makes it much easier to fix mistakes, especially with lag. You must start 2 squares away from the pad since you run 2 squares per tick - if you stand adjacent and run over it nothing will happen. In the above example, red is 1 tick ahead of green and yellow which are sync'd. Either of the yellow clicks to the other will pause red for 1 tick, causing it to sync.

• Each player stands on a pressure pad
  
• When all players are on their respective pad, the statues will mime an emote from the options below
  
• Copy the emote of the statue in front of you
  
• After 3 emotes are correctly copied by the team the puzzle is complete!

Aggressive monsters must be killed to do this puzzle. Failing an emote causes mild skill damage. In 5:5s this is reduced to 1 lp damage.

If you have trouble differentiating emotes, scroll forward to view it closer.

If you step off your pad diagonally onto another pad, the game continues the emotes process. You can even do someone else's emote, them do yours, and swap places like this and it'll be correct. This is not useful in the slightest, however.

• Get-riddle (Summoning) Enigmatic Hoardstalker
  
• Unlock (Thieving) small doors to access items
  
• Refer to table for which item to use on the Hoardstalker

Riddle	Answer	Location
A serpent am I, yet on land I would die.	Dusk eel	3
Born through fire, I am lost in winds and muddied in water.	Ashes	4
Completed I can make you dead, but currently I have no head.	Headless arrow	1
From your veins I flow, from essence did I grow.	Blood rune	2
I am cursed with but one eye. And from haystacks I will spy.	Needle	2
I am water that brings fire to your heart.	Firebreath whiskey	3
I can get you almost anything you want, but with no one to accept me, I am worthless.	Coins	2
I demonstrate faith in a dark god.	Unholy symbol	2
I pluck the denizens of the sea, to serve a salty sailor's tea.	Fishing rod	1
Remove my yellow skin, and dine on me within.	Banana	3
Sticks and stones may break me, exercise may ache me.	Bones	4
The blunt force I provide is surprisingly constructive.	Hammer	1
The slowest of assassins, I'm at home on your blade or in your drink.	Poison	3
Though I am light, I can not illuminate the dark.	Feather	1
Though my friends fly high, I was always destined to protect.	Novite kiteshield	4
While many call me mould, some call me savoury.	Gissell mushroom	3
Without me, a deathslinger is merely a gorajo with a stick.	Bow string	1
Without me you would perish, but fill a room with me and you would surely die.	Vial of water	3

Missing the thieving requirement? You can use items found outside of this room as the answer - for example, it's much faster to use your own salve eel than it is to get the eel from the barrel. Or if you need a banana, you could cast bones to bananas.

Each area is roughly a type of item.

Area 1: Tools

Chest / 2: Wealth + Leftover tools

Barrel / 3: Food / Liquids

Area 4: Remains (The shield is all that is left of that forgotten warrior...)

• Fish 2-3 raw vile fish from the circled fishing spot (requires feathers )
  
• Cook the fish at the circled fire
  
• Throw (Ranged) the vile fish to lure the ferret to the pressure pad

The ferret moves diagonally before going straight, as shown in the above example.

You can cook the vile fish on any fire, which is useful when getting a teammate to do the requirement for you. If holding ggs you can can carry the ggs to the fire while teammates fish so they can teleport to the fire.

If two people throw a vile fish to the pressure plate at once the ferret will glitch (it'll go there but not complete the room). If you are trying to complete it faster, do the next move shortly after someone. If you do glitch it, simply make it step off the pressure plate.

The board is always the same, but the pressure pad and ferret can be in any 2 corners.

• Flip or Force (Runecrafting) tiles to make all tiles the same colour
  
• Flipping a tile causes all adjacent tiles to swap colours, except diagonal tiles, as shown in the picture above
  
• Forcing (Right click) causes 1 tile to swap colours and deals minor damage

A handy simulator (right click to force. Check the box below if you can't right click):

• The Flowers cycle through these colours endlessly: Pink > Yellow > Blue > Purple
  
• The big flower that you are trying to uproot changes twice as fast as the small flowers
  
• You can only cut a small flower when it matches the colour of the big flower
  
• The fastest method to the big flower is circled - which only works if you immediately start upon entering

• Chop (Woodcutting) each flower as it matches the main one
  
• Don't miss keys
  
• Uproot (Farming) the big flower - puzzle complete!

Remember the order of colours it cycles through to predict which flower will be cutable next, or memorize the 7 layouts. Cutting a flower at the wrong time causes mild damage. Failing to uproot the big flower does too. You can examine a flower to find out what colour it is.

1. Fletch
   
2. Cook
   
3. Smith - puzzle complete!

• Watch for the spirit to enter a ghost
  
• Kill that ghost
  
• The Spirit now enters the nearest ghost
  
• Once all are dead the puzzle is complete!

It can be useful to attack ghosts while the spirit is transferring. This way, the ghosts don't wander and you know for sure which ghost is next. Aggroing ghosts can also be useful if you are attempting to suicide back to base. Thresholds are overkill, but Berserker or Metamorphosis is useful.

Attacking ghosts that don't have the spirit is extremely ineffective. The ghost heals when the spirit transfers into it. Ghosts can melee diagonally.

1. Obtain Broken Climbing Hook Head
   
2. Repair it (Smithing) to get Climbing Hook Head
   
3. Obtain Meatcorn
   
4. Spin it (Crafting) to get Meatcorn Rope
   
5. Use Meatcorn Rope on Climbing Hook Head to get Climbing Hook
   
6. Throw (Ranged) Climbing Hook chasm
   
7. Cross tightrope (Agility)

Method 1 video

(Has audio)

This puzzle has at least 12 layouts [1]. There is no hope memorizing them, but there are tricks to doing them!

Goal: Step on the 4 pressure pads

• Go diagonal from either your 2 starting squares, or the 2 nearby corners
  
• This should lead you onto a pressure pad, or 1 move to checkmate pressure pad
  
• This pressure pad should always get you to the other 4

When attempting to go diagonal, click 1 sq diagonally from your character. Never try to solve it by starting from the area in front of a different door than you entered - these doors are spawned randomly based on the map, so you will never be required to use the squares in front of them to complete the puzzle. Though on occasion it can help you solve 1-2 pads faster. You are almost always best off backtracking to a pad you've been on and finding how it connects to another pad.

• Mine the rock
  
• Walk-to beside the gap. After clicking you may immediately start the next step
  
• Craft the rock in your inventory to make a carved keystone
  
• Construct the bridge

As a solo'er you simply sequentially pull each lever. You have a generous time-frame to do so. Failing this room causes moderate damage if you're near the edge of the room. If you're in the centre you don't take damage.

In a team each player takes a lever and one person counts to 3. When they say "3", pull your lever.

With experts, one player will take the two circled levers. If one of the circled ones are taken, go to a different lever unless they're all taken. Failure to do so is likely to cause displeasure among teammates.

One player doing 2 levers allows someone to path & save time for the floor. It's especially useful when someone is on an ungated path. Otherwise it just saves time for people who are slow to gt.

You type 3, click 1st lever, hit enter, & then quickly click the 2nd lever.

Doorlag can screw this up, but is very unlikely to.

When choosing your lever, don't forget the map. It makes sense for the gt holder to pick the lever by the biggest path.

1. Take Lump of Stone from the magical chest
   
2. Craft the Lump in your inventory into the missing part
   
3. Imbue (Runecrafting) the part in your inventory
   
4. Repair construct
   
5. Charge (Magic) construct - puzzle complete!

You can examine the robot to see what part it's missing. The robot takes its time to actually open the room.

• There are 4 layouts for this, which I describe based on the first 2 rows
  
• Some memorization required
  
• Described using NSEW, but the room can be rotated. North is away from the entrance, East is Right, West is Left, and South is towards the entrance.

Memorization is the only efficient method to these. These basic instructions and experience will make it easier over time. Zoom out (scroll wheel) to see more of the maze ingame.

The Mercenary Leader is a high-tiered forgotten mage that summons endless forgotten warriors, mages, and rangers. It heals to full health if you leave the room for a few seconds - if you die, teleport back asap to prevent it from healing. Like other forgotten mages it can bind and reduce stats. If soloing the room in a large you will likely need food if you do not wish to die.

• Mine the rocks
  
• [Re]Construct the walls if you are going to go through this room again

Different rocks have different level requirements. 2/8 of the repairable ( Construction) walls are circled. The rocks are excellent mining xp.

• Activate Monolith
  
• Kill the shades that spawn
  
• When the bar at the top of the screen fills the puzzle is complete!

Shades don't spawn in the NE of the room. You don't necessarily need to complete the puzzle to open all doors. Sometimes a door will be a regular door or skill door.

You can pgt trick to avoid damage when there are tons of shades, like in the video below. Your 2nd gatestone uses no runes. Draw aggro with ranged weapon (ricochet/chain abilities are extremely useful for this).

Read the sarcophagus to find out which herb to pick.

1. Pick (Herblore) four herbs
   
2. Consecrate (Prayer) the herbs in your inventory
   
3. Use each herb on a torch and light them (Firemaking)
   
4. Unlock (Thieving) the Sarcophagus - Puzzle complete!

The options when picking a herb are listed below. Memorizing these can be useful to quickly get 2nd page herbs while under attack.

One pondskater unlocks the room when you fish it. No feathers required.

• Correct skater spawns in the SouthWest of the 4 middle squares and returns there each cycle
  
• If you are quick you can spot which one as you enter the room
  
• Spam click it!
  
• If not, spam click a random one until you fish, taking mild damage but having a chance for success (waiting takes an extra ~17 seconds)
  
• You can often fish 2 before they return to the centre

It can be extremely difficult to spot which square is SouthWest quickly if you don't know what direction you're travelling. You should always spam click the skater, as your character is unlikely to catch it otherwise.

Goal: Have all players stand on the pressure pads in the centre.

• Pick one the 3 starting portals & note it in your head.
  
• Go through it, and keep taking the opposite portal of where you end up
  - For example, if you end up at an S portal in one of the rooms, go north.
  
• Continue doing this until you reach center
  
• If you are led back to the 3 starting portals, take the remaining portal and do the opposites method
  - It is guaranteed to get you to the center this time

This isn't always the fastest method to get to the center, but it is the most consistent. It avoids backtracking and thus has the highest chance of getting you to the center fastest. The portals are linked differently each time.

Once you've reached the center, tell your teammates which way to go. Often people will direct with "E opps" type thing, telling you to start at the east portal and then do the opposites method described here.

• Push/Pull the statues to make the South side mimic the North
  
• My example uses Pulling, as monsters can block you from Pushing
  
• Don't miss keys

• Kill the unaggressive Ramokee Skinweaver that heals the other Ramokees
  
• Kill the Bloodrager (Melee), Deathslinger (Ranged), and Stormbringer (Mage) Ramokees

You can hide behind the other Ramokees or the Obelisk where the Bloodrager can't attack you.

• Hit the eyeballs when they can't see you
  
• Avoid the line of sight of centre seeker (or don't and win anyway..)

The centre seeker rotates every 5 ticks. Getting spotted by it deals minor damage and teleports you to a random doorway, which can be useful for traversing this room quickly. If you're spotted by the little eyeballs they will shriek, causing the big one to look at you. If the little seeker is in the way of its line of sight, it will be unable to teleport you. The picture below illustrates this.

• Turn run off or they'll wake up
  
• Pickpocket each guard for their guard key
  
• One of the keys will open each door
  
• If you fail to pickpocket or run in the room the guards will wake up - if this happens you must kill them for their keys

Pickpocketing the guards has no thieving requirement and is doable in f2p. With 1 door it is often worth trying the keys you have before pickpocketing or killing more guards.

1. Mine the rock
   
2. Walk-to beside the statue
   
3. [Re]Construct the statue
   
4. Push (Strength) the statue - Puzzle complete!

Step onto the grooves sequentially until you find the one in each row that does not damage you. On teams, people will say the solution as such: 3 1 4, which means for the first row there are no spikes 3rd from the left, the next row is leftmost no spikes, and final row rightmost for no spikes. Stepping on these spikes takes mild damage, but the alternative is extremely slow - you investigate each groove with your thieving skill until you know for sure which groove on each row is safe. You may wish to use gatherer's ring for this puzzle to reduce damage.

1. [Re]Construct pillar
   
2. Unlock (Thieving) Sarcophagus
   
3. Bless (Prayer) Sarcophagus
   
4. Pickup Antique Ring
   
5. Click the chest
   
6. [Re]Construct pot - Puzzle complete!

1. Obtain Broken Climbing Hook Head
   
2. Repair it (Smithing) to get Climbing Hook Head
   
3. Obtain Meatcorn
   
4. Spin it (Crafting) to get Meatcorn Rope
   
5. Use Meatcorn Rope on Climbing Hook Head to get Climbing Hook
   
6. Throw (Ranged) Climbing Hook chasm
   
7. Turn Winch (Strength) - Puzzle complete!

If 2 or more people throw the climbing hook in step 6 at once, the bridge magically appears, as in the video below. This can save a few seconds.

Original Guide by: Tui

Special thanks to: Chu Dsl, Corrupt Idea, El Bomb, Warfare52

Thanks to: Bladekill133, Don Draper, Guac a moley, Jettrider, Namyaila, Obtaurian, Rare Pain, Salazar, Teren, Thai Tong, Toad, Usa Hell Yes, Warriormonkx

Last updated by: Tui

Last updated on: 24-01-2014