Hunter

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This article is about the Hunter skill. For information on training Hunter, see Hunter training.

Hunter
Also known as	Hunt
Release date	21 November 2006 (Update)
Members only?	Yes
Players with 99	18,709 as of 20 April 2019
Players with 200M XP	97 as of 20 April 2019

Hunter is a members'-only skill where players catch different animals and creatures in RuneScape. Although Hunter is a non-combat skill, players can still be damaged while hunting. Using hunting equipment bought from hunter stores, players can hunt specific creatures obtaining rewards such as spotted kebbit fur for spotted cape, chinchompa ammunition, black salamanders, and the fabled dragon impling jar.

Hunter level-up music (link)

The first music that can be played when levelled up.

Hunter level-up music (link)

The second music that can be played when levelled up.

Hunter items

Only two Hunter stores exist: Aleck's Hunter Emporium in Yanille, and Nardah Hunter Shop in Nardah. Using the Lunar Magic spell Hunter Kit (spell), players can obtain a hunter kit which contains various useful hunter items.

Level	Equipment		Cost	Uses
1		Noose wand	4 coins	Tracking
1		Bird snare	6 coins	Bird snaring
15		Butterfly net	900 coins	Butterfly netting
15		Butterfly jar	1 coin	Butterfly netting
27		Box trap	38 coins	Box trapping
27		Rabbit snare	18 coins	Rabbit snaring
31		Teasing stick	60 coins	Pitfall trapping
39		Torch	4 coins	Smoking traps to remove player's scent - increases catch chance by 2%
71		Magic box	788 coins	Magic imp hunting

Other useful items are as follows:

Level	Item	Uses
1	Iron spit	Must be used to cook beast or bird meat, and can cook rabbit meat
5	Waterskin and Desert clothing	Protection in Kharidian Desert
23	Knife and logs (and/or axe to cut them)	Deadfall and pitfall trapping
27	Rope to fly eagles	Eagle transport system
29	Rope and small fishing net	Net trapping
29	Bait - 15 swamp tar, herb (Guam leaf, Marrentill, Tarromin, Harralander), pestle and mortar	Net trapping
39	Tinderbox to light the torch. Note that left clicking a lit torch results in extinguishing it.	To light the torch
43	500 coins for renting a falcon	Falconry
71	Bait - beads (Imp Catcher quest)	Magical imp boxes

Hunter equipment

Crossbows and bolts

Leon inside the Hunter shop in Yanille sells a Hunters' crossbow for 1,300 coins and makes bolts for a small fee.

• 6 Kebbit bolts costs a kebbit spike (Prickly kebbit) and 20 coins
• 6 long kebbit bolts cost a long kebbit spike (Razor-backed kebbit) and 40 coins

Note: You can make your own bolts by using a chisel on a kebbit spike. The Hunters' crossbow is a fast crossbow (as fast as any shortbow) requiring 50 Ranged to wield.

Fancy Dress Shop

You receive many types of fur while hunting and all of these may be traded in at the fancy-dress shop in south-east Varrock for different types of hunter gear. The costume maker requires a few coins to make sets of hunter gear as well.

The kebbit, weasel and devil fur is used to make camouflage clothing. Kyatt, graahk and larupia hunter gear are an improved form of camouflage for the area(s) the clothing's fur came from. Wearing camouflage does not improve your chances of successfully capturing prey.

The shop can also make items which have other uses. Spotted and spottier capes reduce your weight when worn allowing you to run for longer, and the gloves of silence made from dark kebbit furs make pickpocketing easier.

Prices for the clothes range from 20 to 1000 coins. You need 2 furs per cape made, and 1 or 2 furs for every item of camouflage clothing made.

Other

Other equipment include coloured feathers, spikes for vambraces and bolts, wieldable harpoons, ingredients for Hunter potions, creature ranged weapons, and butterflies which raise other players' combat bonuses.

Hunter areas

Hunter areas are places where players can hunt. Most of the hunter areas, including the hunter shops, are close to fairy rings. The central ring in Zanaris is close to a bank which can be used to deposit rewards. Other methods of transportation are listed below.

After completing the Eagle's Peak quest, a player can use the eagle transport system to fly an eagle from Eagles' Peak in the woodland area to 3 of the other training areas: snow, jungle and desert.

Hunter locations
Area type	Prey level	Hunter guide	Knowledge Base name	Fairy ring
Training areas with multiple species	1	Jungle	Feldip Hunter area	AKS
	1	Snow	Trollweiss and Rellekka Hunter area (polar)	DKS
	3	Woodland	Piscatoris Hunter area	AKQ
	5	Desert	Uzer Hunter area	DLQ
	9	Woodland	Kourend Woodland	N/A
	67-73	Wilderness		N/A
Hunting areas with a single species	29	Swamp	Swamp lizard area (east of Canifis)	CKS
	41	Karamja	Horned graahk area (Karamja)	CKR
	43	Woodland (Falconer)	Falconry area (3 types of kebbits)	AKQ
	59	Altar	Red salamander area (near Zamorak monks, south-west of West Ardougne)	N/A
Hunter shops
Yanille				CIQ
Nardah				DLQ

Hunting techniques

Bird snaring

Birds are hunted using a Bird snare.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
1	Crimson swift	34	Jungle
5	Golden warbler	47	Desert
9	Copper longtail	61	Woodland
11	Cerulean twitch	64.5	Snow
19	Tropical wagtail	95	Jungle

Tracking

Some types of kebbit can be tracked and caught with a Noose wand.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
1	Polar kebbit	30	Snow
3	Common kebbit	36	Woodland
7	Feldip Weasel	48	Jungle
13	Desert Devil	66	Desert
49	Razor-backed kebbit	348	Woodland
80	Herbiboar	1950	Fossil Island

Herbiboar gives a base experience value of 1950, with additional XP being granted based on Hunter level (Roughly 29 exp per level past 80).

Bird house trapping

Requiring completion of Bone Voyage, bird house traps are done by using bird houses on certain spots on Fossil Island. The first is found west of the ancient shroom in the Mushroom Forest, and directly north of the magic mushtree. The second is found by the entrance to the Tar Swamp, while the third and fourth are found in the Verdant Valley south of the Museum Camp. These are easily accessible by using the Magic Mushtrees.

A bird house trap that has been set.

Bird traps are made by using the appropriate logs on a piece of clockwork while having a hammer and chisel. Once the bird house trap has been set, players will need to fill it with 10 hop seeds in order to lure the birds in, or only 5 seeds if using wildblood seeds. A single bird takes, on average, 5 minutes to capture.

After placing the hop seeds as bait, the bird house trap will passively capture birds, up to a maximum of 10. To claim the Hunter experience, head back to the bird house trap to empty and dismantle it. Players will receive 5-6 feathers and one raw bird meat per bird caught, as well as a chance of receiving bird's nests. The bird house will be lost in the process, with the clockwork being returned, requiring a new one to be set up. In other words, you will need only four total clockworks to set all your bird houses indefinitely, after which you will only need to supply logs and hop seeds.

The maximum amount of bird's nests obtainable from a bird house is ten, with the chance of successfully receiving one being dependent on the tier of bird house. You can only receive one seeded nest per house.

The tier of seed you use does NOT affect amount of nests received.

Type		Crafting lv	Crafting exp	Hunter lv	Hunter exp (full birdhouse)	Chance of nest	Expected nests per run (4 houses)
	Regular	5	15	5	280	10%	4
	Oak	15	20	14	420	12.5%	5
	Willow	25	25	24	560	15%	6
	Teak	35	30	34	700	17.5%	7
	Maple	45	35	44	820	20%	8
	Mahogany	50	40	49	960	22.5%	9
	Yew	60	45	59	1,020	25%	10
	Magic	75	50	74	1,140	27.5%	11
	Redwood	90	55	89	1,200	30%	12

Deadfall trapping

Deadfall trapping is done with a Knife and Logs, with the exception of maniacal monkeys, where a Kruk monkey greegree and bananas are needed to catch them.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
23	Wild kebbit	128	Woodland
33	Barb-tailed kebbit	168	Jungle
37	Prickly kebbit	240	Northern Woodland
51	Sabre-toothed kebbit	200	Snow
60	Maniacal monkey	1,000	Kruk's Dungeon

Falconry

To catch some types of kebbit you'll need a Gyr falcon, which can be borrowed in the Piscatoris Hunter area for 500 coins.

Level Req	Creature	Exp
43	Spotted kebbit	104
57	Dark kebbit	132
69	Dashing kebbit	156

Box trapping

Box trapping is done with a Box trap.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
27	Ferret	115	Woodland, after Eagles' Peak
53	Chinchompa	198.25	Woodland
63	Carnivorous chinchompa	265	Jungle
73	Black chinchompa	315	Wilderness

Butterfly netting

Butterflies are caught with a Butterfly net.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
15	Ruby harvest	24	Woodland
25	Sapphire glacialis	34	Snow
35	Snowy knight	44	Snow
45	Black warlock	54	Jungle

Pitfall trapping

Pitfall trapping is done using a Teasing stick. A knife and logs are used to set the trap.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
31	Spined larupia	180	Jungle
41	Horned graahk	240	Karamja
55	Sabre-toothed kyatt	300	Snow

Net trapping

Net trapping is done using a Small fishing net and Rope.

Level Req	Creature	Exp	Area
29	Swamp lizard	152	Swamp
47	Orange salamander	224	Desert
59	Red salamander	272	Lava (Near Battlefield)
67	Black salamander	319.5	Lava (Wilderness)

Implings

Implings are small creatures that can be hunted within Puro-Puro as well as spawning at random points around the world. Catching an Impling requires the use of a Butterfly net or Magic butterfly net and Impling jar. Alternatively Implings can be caught barehanded - without the use of a net or impling jar - but require you to be 10 levels above the normal requirement.

Level Req With Net	Level Req Barehanded	Creature	Experience in Puro-Puro	Experience in world
17	27	Baby impling	18	20
22	32	Young impling	20	22
28	38	Gourmet impling	22	24
36	46	Earth impling	25	27
42	52	Essence impling	27	29
50	60	Eclectic impling	30	32
58	68	Nature impling	34	36
65	75	Magpie impling	44	216
74	84	Ninja impling	50	240
83	93	Dragon impling	65	300
89	99	Lucky impling	80	380

Rabbit snaring

Rabbit holes.

Rabbits can only be hunted using a Ferret and a Rabbit snare after the Eagles' Peak quest.

Level Req	Creature	Exp
27	White rabbit	144

Magic box trapping

Imps can be caught using a Magic box.

Level Req	Creature	Exp
71	Imp	450

Temporary boosts

• Hunter potions require level 53 Herblore to make using avantoe and kebbit teeth dust (from Sabre-toothed kebbits) for 120 Herblore experience; they temporarily raise the player's Hunter level by 3.
• Yellow spicy stews can alter your level by up to +5, but also to -5.
• Operating the Hunter cape will temporarily boost the hunter's level to 100.

Quests rewarding Hunter experience

Quest	Experience reward	Hunter req.	Other requirements
Natural history quiz (miniquest)	1,000	-	-
Eagles' Peak	2,500	27	-
Monkey Madness II	15,000	60	69 , 70 , 55 , 55
Total	18,500

Skill choice

Upon completing any of the following quests, players may choose to allocate experience to Hunter. These rewards usually come in the form of items, such as lamps or books, and are independent of any experience rewards directly received for completing the quest.

Quest	Experience reward	Skills available	Skill requirements
Client of Kourend	500 twice	Any	-
Fairytale II - Cure a Queen	2,500	Any skill above 30	49 , 57
A Tail of Two Cats	2,500 twice	Any skill above 30	-
The Great Brain Robbery	5,000	Any skill above 30	16 , 30 , 50
King's Ransom	5,000	Any skill above 50	65
Darkness of Hallowvale	2,000 three times	Any skill above 30	5 , 20 , 22 , 32 , 33 , 40
Curse of the Empty Lord (miniquest)	10,000	Any skill above 50	Some players will need 31
One Small Favour	10,000 twice	Any skill above 30	36 , 25 , 18 , 30
Recipe for Disaster (The final battle)	20,000	Any skill above 50	175 , 48 , 50 , 53 , 53 , 25 , 59 , 40 , 50 , 40 , 40 , 10 , 10 , 36
Total	74,500