Hunter

Hunter is a skill that allows players to catch animals all over RuneScape. Hunter was released on 21 November 2006 and was the last skill released in Old School RuneScape. Although Hunter is a non-combat skill, players can still be damaged while hunting. Using hunting equipment bought from hunter stores like Yanille, players can hunt specific creatures, obtaining rewards such as bones, butterflies, animal furs, etc.

Hunter items

Only three Hunter stores exist: Aleck's Hunter Emporium in Yanille; Ayleth Beaststalker's small store in Taverley; another one in Nardah.

Alternatively, players may wish to purchase hunter gear from other players although it may take time. A hunter kit; containing various items, can be made using Hunter Kit (spell), a Lunar spell.

Aleck's Hunter Emporium sells 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	1 coins	Pitfall trapping
39	Torch	4 coins	Smoking traps to remove player's scent
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
51	Bait - cowhide hunter is an goat	Deadfalls
53	Bait - tomato or spicy minced meat	Box Trapping
71	Bait - beads (Imp Catcher quest)	Magical imp boxes

Hunter equipment

Crossbows and bolts

Leon inside the Hunter shop in Yanille sells a Hunter's 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 costs 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 Hunter's 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 gear 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 improves your chances of capturing your prey.

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 Eagles' 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
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 (ZMI, south-west of West Ardougne)	N/A
	67	Lava	*Black salamander area (level 20 Wilderness)	N/A
Hunter shops
Yanille				CIQ
Nardah				DLQ
Taverley				N/A

Hunter training

Level	Subject & Location	Notes
1-11/19	Crimson swifts: Feldip Hills hunter area	Purchase two bird snares at the hunter shop in Yanille, and head south to the hunter spot in Feldip Hills. These birds are in the beach area to the east.
11-19	Cerulean twitches: Rellekka hunter area northeast of Rellekka	In the snowy hunter area to the northeast of Rellekka and north of the Keldagrim cave entrance, cerulean twitches are found. These birds offer 64.5 XP per catch compared to the 34 XP that the crimsons offer.
19-33	Tropical wagtails: Feldip Hills around the hunter expert's hut	If you chose to hunt ceruleans out in Rellekka, return to Feldip Hills to hunt tropical wagtails. The best spot to catch these specifically is located slightly north of the hunter expert's hut between the jungle and tropical tree. Their feathers are used to catch rainbow fish other than Fletching and baiting barb-tailed kebbits, which should be hunted at level 33.
33-43	Barb-tailed kebbits: same spot as crimson swifts	Grab an axe and a knife, and go back to the crimsons. Resume catching crimsons as you set up deadfall traps to catch the kebbits using the knife and axe.
43-47	Spotted kebbits: Falconry	Withdraw 500 coins from the bank, and deposit any weapon, shield and gloves if worn. Go to the Piscatoris hunter area and into the Falconry. Borrow the falcon to catch these kebbits, and be prepared to pay 500 GP again only if you exit the Falconry. The fur can be used to make spotted capes!
47-59	Orange salamanders: Desert hunter area	You'll need at least three small fishing nets and some protection like waterskins from the desert heat's effect. Extra nets and stuff could come in handy too! Pass through Shanty Pass, and head east until you've reached a bridge. Cross it, and the spot is a bit more east.
59-63/80	Red salamanders: outside Ourania Cave	These salamanders are located west of the spirit tree near the Battlefield of Khazard. They can provide anywhere from 50,000 to 120,000 XP hourly!
63/80+	Carnivorous chinchompas: Feldip Hills	Take a minimum of four box traps, and revisit Feldip Hills. Go southwest past the hunter expert to the teardrop-shaped lake. Set up your traps in a diamond, square or X-formation on the northwest side of the lake to the east of the adjacent jungle tree and the nearby fern with one of your traps directly next to it. Your traps should be parallel to the vine and by the fern. After each successful catch, click on the trap that contains the chinchompa, and click on a spare trap to quickly set another one. If a pesky hunter is present, attempt to set a trap one square away from where you wish to initially set it, but pick it up immediately, and move to that square and proceed to finish setting up another trap. It'll take 47,796 red chinchompas from level 63 or 41,692 red chinchompas from level 80 to get to level 99.