Barbarian Training is a set of expansions to Firemaking,
Herblore,
Fishing, and
Smithing. This activity also provides access to the
Ancient Cavern and the numerous monsters within, such as the
Mithril dragon.

Otto Godblessed, a barbarian interested in the cultural history of his people, will offer to teach eligible players about
Barbarian skills if a player speaks to him in
his grotto, on top of
Baxtorian Falls. Otto will begin training the player after he or she responds with, "You think so?". Players can get there quickly by using the
Games necklace teleport to the
Barbarian Outpost and running south. Alternatively, players can also use the
Barbarian Assault
minigame teleport, or run up directly from
East Ardougne and climb the cliff side of the waterfall to the plateau.
When you begin, you will receive a long book titled " Barbarian Skills", which can be used to look back on what Otto has instructed you to do throughout the tasks. Later on, if you ask about the
Ancient Cavern under the lake, he will give a note book that is blank at first. You add to the note book as you find
ancient pages in the dungeon usually collected by searching skeletons on the cave floor. Be careful though, as a
Skeleton (level 132) will sometimes attack you when you search them.
Requirements[]
Barbarian Firemaking
- 35
Firemaking
- 11
Crafting
Barbarian Fishing
- 48
Fishing (55 to finish bare-handed fishing)
- 15
Agility
- 15
Strength
Barbarian Smithing
- 5
Smithing
- You must have completed the
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio
quest.
Barbarian Herblore
- 4
Herblore
Equipment[]
Required:
- 2 metal
bars (of a level you can smith — if you bring
mithril or
runite, also bring
maple or
magic logs, respectively)
Oak logs (You can get some oak logs north of
Otto's house, down a hill.)
- 2
logs (There are logs around Otto's house.)
- Some
fishing bait or
feathers
- A normal
attack potion (2 doses)
Roe (obtained during Barbarian Fishing)
- Any
bow Except
Twisted,
Dark,
Crystal and
Ogre bow
- A
knife
Hammer
- An
axe
Recommended:
- A
games necklace to teleport to the
Barbarian Outpost
Armour,
weapons and
food for fighting
Mithril dragons to obtain
chewed bones
- Tools - a
tinderbox and any
Woodcutting axe
Teleport to Camelot for
Catherby Beach or transport to the
Fishing Guild
The activities[]
Barbarian Firemaking[]
Firstly, speak to Otto, and ask about the barbarian
Firemaking skills; he will tell you to take a
bow and use it with oaken (
oak) logs as a way of lighting them without a
tinderbox. You can use any type of bow except
twisted bows,
cursed goblin bows,
ogre,
dark bows,
crystal bows, and the
signed oak bow. Although lighting logs with a bow is fancier, it gives the same experience as lighting them with a tinderbox and is more click-intensive. After lighting your first logs, speak to Otto again to be able to continue.
Logs | Firemaking level needed | Experience gained |
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21 | 40 |
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21 | 40 |
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35 | 60 |
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50 | 90 |
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55 | 105 |
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62 | 125 |
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65 | 135 |
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70 | 157.5 |
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80 | 202.5 |
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95 | 303.8 |
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99 | 350 |
Pyre ships[]

An Ancient Barbarian Spirit being laid to rest
Talk to Otto after you completed an oak
bow fire. Otto will now explain the art of making a
pyre ship after doing the following.
- Tell him that your mind is ready for
Firemaking wisdom.
- Seek more answers, and ask him, "What follows this?"
You need to enter the dungeon below the lake and fight the monsters within to obtain
chewed bones or
mangled bones to be used in constructing a pyre ship.
High-level dragons will use a
magic-based attack on you immediately after descending the steps in the dungeon. Don't bring in anything you are not willing to lose.
When rummaging through barbarian skeletons found on the ground or killing the various barbarians within the cavern, you may find mangled bones. The only way to get chewed bones, however, is to kill mithril dragons. Both chewed and mangled bones, in conjunction with any type of log, can be used on the burnt spaces (pyre sites), found scattered around the lake near
Otto's house, to make a pyre ship. Burning a pyre ship will grant the player an experience bonus of up to 300%, depending on the logs used, the next time they bury
bones.
Spirits released from chewed bones are benevolent and will give you some items, including a slim chance for a
dragon full helm, while spirits released from mangled bones are
aggressive
ferocious barbarian spirits. Please note that if you use mangled bones to make a pyre ship, you will be unable to make another pyre ship until you kill the spirit.
If you attempt to make another one while a barbarian spirit is around, the sacrifice will be declined.
Completing the barbarian skills book requires burning chewed bones dropped by mithril dragons. Otherwise, the final paragraph of the section on crafting pyre ships will be missing, and page 21 of the book will be blank even if the rest of the training has been completed. You will also need to speak to Otto again after burning the bones.
Logs | Firemaking/Crafting level required | Crafting experience gained | Firemaking experience gained | Number of bones with enhanced XP rewards | |
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Normal | ![]() |
11 | 10 | 40 | 1 |
Achey | ![]() |
11 | 10 | 40 | 1 |
Oak | ![]() |
25 | 15 | 60 | 2 |
Willow | ![]() |
40 | 22.5 | 90 | 2 |
Teak | ![]() |
45 | 26.2 | 105 | 3 |
Arctic pine | ![]() |
52 | 31.2 | 125 | 3 |
Maple | ![]() |
55 | 33.7 | 135 | 3 |
Mahogany | ![]() |
60 | 39.3 | 157.5 | 4 |
Yew | ![]() |
70 | 50.6 | 202.5 | 4 |
Magic | ![]() |
85 | 75.9 | 303.8 | 5 |
Barbarian Fishing[]
Otto will give the player information about Barbarian
Fishing. To start this section of the training, the player must have a
Fishing level of at least 48, an
Agility level of 15, and a
Strength level of at least 15.
There are two types of activities that fall under Barbarian Fishing: heavy rod fishing and bare hand fishing.
Heavy Rod Fishing[]
Speak to Otto and then ask about fishing rod methods. He will tell you that barbarians use stronger fishing rods to catch leaping fish in the lake nearby. Search under his bed and collect a heavy
barbarian rod; make sure to also have
fishing bait or
feathers on you. Use the fishing spots around the lake and hook a leaping fish. The
Cooking experience refers to the amount of experience received from successfully gutting the fish with a knife and obtaining
roe or
caviar as well as a good chance of obtaining
fishing offcuts, which can be used as bait for this fishing method. Roe and caviar can also be used as bait if there are no feathers, offcuts, or fishing bait in the player's inventory.
To use the barbarian rod, you don't need to do anything other than obtain the rod from Otto's bed. Find a world with people power-fishing (drops will not appear immediately after hopping), collect some fish, and cut them using a knife to get some bait. Rapidly using the knife on the bottom-right fish in the inventory will gut all fish of that type very quickly, and is faster than manually dropping them if not using Windows Mousekeys. However, in order to keep fishing relatively uninterrupted, the number of fish offcuts in the inventory must be at most equal to the number of empty inventory spaces after all the fish have been gutted.
Fish | Image | Fishing level required | Strength/Agility levels required | Fishing experience gained | Strength/Agility experience gained | Cooking experience gained from cutting |
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Leaping Trout | ![]() |
48 | 15 | 50 | 5 | 10 |
Leaping Salmon | ![]() |
58 | 30 | 70 | 6 | 10 |
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70 | 45 | 80 | 7 | 15 |
Bare-Handed Fishing[]
Speak to Otto Godblessed about the barbarian
Fishing methods; he will talk to you about catching fish with your arms instead of a harpoon. Level 55 Fishing is required to do this part of the training. To fish bare-handed, you do not have to retrieve
mangled or
chewed bones from the
Ancient Cavern, or burn a pyre during the
Firemaking section of the training; you only must have lit a fire with the bow method.
Go to an area where you can harpoon swordfish,
tuna or
sharks; the
Fishing Guild and
Catherby are good choices. You may also wish to use an
Amulet of glory to teleport to
Karamja. Click on the harpoon spot as you would normally, but without a harpoon equipped or in your inventory, and you will catch a fish using your fingers as bait!
Fishing barehanded is just as fast as fishing normally with a harpoon, but it provides small amounts of bonus Strength experience (see the table below); however, it takes a significantly higher level to fish this way.
Fish | Image | Fishing level required | Strength level required |
Fishing experience gained |
Strength experience gained |
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Tuna | ![]() |
55 | 35 | 80 | 8 |
Swordfish | ![]() |
70 | 50 | 100 | 10 |
Shark | ![]() |
96 | 76 | 110 | 11 |
Barbarian Smithing[]
You must bring two sets of bars and two
logs to complete the
Smithing portion, not just one!
To begin Barbarian Smithing, the player must have finished Barbarian Fishing. They must also have completed the
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest and have level 5
Smithing. To create and wield a
hasta, you do not have to retrieve
mangled or
chewed bones from the
Ancient Cavern, or thereoff burn a pyre during the
Firemaking section of the training; you only must have lit a fire with the bow method. If Otto says, "You do not exude the presence of one who has poured his soul into manufacturing spears," it means that you need to smith a spear on the anvil near his hut first.
There are two types of activities that fall under Barbarian Smithing: Spear smithing and
Hasta smithing.
- Wielding a
Zamorakian hasta requires completion of barbarian hasta making.
Spears[]
The first part of Barbarian Smithing a player will learn is about how to make spears. You will need a
hammer, a metal
bar and some corresponding
logs, and use them on the barbarian anvil near
Otto's house. Once you've made the spear, talk to
Otto again, and he will tell you about
hastae.
Hasta[]
Forging hastae is exactly the same. Take a metal
bar and the corresponding
logs, and then use them on the barbarian anvil. Next, talk to
Otto again, and your Barbarian Smithing is completed.
A table of the spears and hastae that you can make, as well as the logs and bars needed is found below:
Spears & Hasta | Wood required | ![]() |
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Bronze hasta | ![]() |
Logs | 5 | 25 |
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Bronze spear | ||||
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Iron hasta | ![]() |
Oak | 20 | 50 |
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Iron spear | ||||
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Steel hasta | ![]() |
Willow logs | 35 | 75 |
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Steel spear | ||||
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Mithril hasta | ![]() |
Maple logs | 55 | 100 |
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Mithril spear | ||||
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Adamant hasta | ![]() |
Yew logs | 75 | 125 |
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Adamant spear | ||||
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Rune hasta | ![]() |
Magic logs | 90 | 150 |
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Rune spear | ||||
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Zamorakian hasta | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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Zamorakian spear |
Barbarian Herblore[]
Before learning this section, the player needs at least level 4
Herblore. Seek more answers, and select the first option. Talk to
Otto to learn about barbarian
potion-making after you completed
Barbarian Smithing. You will be asked to make an
Attack mix from a
Attack potion (2 doses).
Add the roe you obtained during
Barbarian Fishing to the normal two-dose attack potion and hand it back to Otto. Your training is now completed.
After finishing this training stage, many other potions can be enhanced by adding roe or caviar to a two-dose variant of the potions. The Barbarian Herblore skill, through the creation of 'mixes', allows ordinary potions to not only heal 3-6
Hitpoints but also to provide the regular benefits of that potion, though each potion mix can have at most two doses.
Enhancing potions[]
First, the player must have a two-dose vial of a particular potion. To make 2 two-dose potions from a four-dose potion, the player can just use the four-dose potion on an empty vial or have certain
NPCs do it for you. The player must then add either some
roe or
caviar to the two-dose potion, which will create a mix. Note that
roe cannot be used in mixes higher levelled than the
Stat restore mix; any higher level mix requires
caviar. When the mix is consumed, it will not only grant the regular benefits but it will also heal 3
Hitpoints (
restore mix and lower) or 6 Hitpoints (
energy mix and higher). Mixes therefore count as food, and drinking them will interrupt combat in the same way as eating food does.
Left-clicking will not work for Barbarian Herblore, and each mix must be created manually. The best way to avoid accidentally consuming the fish eggs is to position them in the bottom row of the inventory so that one can select the "use" option right after right-clicking without moving the cursor.
Potion | Image | Herblore Level Required | Experience gained | Eggs used |
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Attack mix | ![]() |
4 | 8 | ![]() ![]() |
Antipoison mix | ![]() |
6 | 12 | ![]() ![]() |
Relicym's mix | ![]() |
9 | 14 | ![]() ![]() |
Strength mix | ![]() |
14 | 17 | ![]() ![]() |
Restore mix | ![]() |
24 | 21 | ![]() ![]() |
Energy mix | ![]() |
29 | 23 | ![]() |
Defence mix | ![]() |
33 | 25 | ![]() |
Agility mix | ![]() |
37 | 27 | ![]() |
Combat mix | ![]() |
40 | 28 | ![]() |
Prayer mix | ![]() |
42 | 29 | ![]() |
Superattack mix | ![]() |
47 | 33 | ![]() |
Anti-poison supermix | ![]() |
51 | 35 | ![]() |
Fishing mix | ![]() |
53 | 38 | ![]() |
Super energy mix | ![]() |
56 | 39 | ![]() |
Hunting mix | ![]() |
58 | 40 | ![]() |
Super str. mix | ![]() |
59 | 42 | ![]() |
Magic essence mix | ![]() |
61 | 43 | ![]() |
Super restore mix | ![]() |
67 | 48 | ![]() |
Super def. mix | ![]() |
71 | 50 | ![]() |
Antidote+ mix | ![]() |
74 | 52 | ![]() |
Antifire mix | ![]() |
75 | 53 | ![]() |
Ranging mix | ![]() |
80 | 54 | ![]() |
Magic mix | ![]() |
83 | 57 | ![]() |
Zamorak mix | ![]() |
85 | 58 | ![]() |
Stamina mix | ![]() |
86 | 60 | ![]() |
Extended antifire mix | ![]() |
91 | 61 | ![]() |
Super antifire mix | ![]() |
98 | 70 | ![]() |
Extended super antifire mix | ![]() |
99 | 78 | ![]() |