Steel gauntlets

Not to be confused with Steel gloves.

Steel gauntlets
Released							9 April 2002 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							Family Crest
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Wear, Destroy
Destroy							You can obtain another set of Steel gauntlets from Dimintheis.
Examine							My reward for assisting the Fitzharmon family.
Values
Value							1 coin
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							0.226 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							778

Steel gauntlets are a reward for completing the Family Crest quest and an heirloom of the Fitzharmon family. Players can take them to any of the three brothers from the quest and have them enchant the gauntlets with a special ability. The magic of these gauntlets will always return them to the head of the Fitzharmon house should they be lost, so if a player loses the gauntlets, they can be retrieved from Dimintheis with their previous enchantment.

Before completion of the Family Pest miniquest, players can only have one pair of gauntlets at a time. After completing the miniquest, Dimintheis will hand the player as many pairs of steel gauntlets as they want for free.

Combat stats

Attack bonuses
+2	+2	+2	+0	+0
Defence bonuses
+8	+9	+7	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot
+2	+0	+0%	+0	List

The enchanted gauntlets

Players can bring their pair of gauntlets to one of the Fitzharmon brothers to have them enchanted. Before completing Family Pest, players must pay 25,000 coins to change their enchantment; after the miniquest, they can be enchanted for free.

Cooking gauntlets

Main article: Cooking gauntlets

Bring the gauntlets to Caleb, north-east from the Catherby bank. Cooking gauntlets greatly decrease the chance of burning lobsters, swordfish, cooked kyatt, monkfish, sharks, and anglerfish.

Goldsmith gauntlets

Main article: Goldsmith gauntlets

Bring the gauntlets to Avan at the Al Kharid mine. Goldsmith gauntlets increase the Smithing experience of smelting gold by 2.5x, from 22.5 to 56.25. This makes smelting gold bars more efficient, and allows players to earn over 300,000 Smithing experience per hour at the Blast furnace, the fastest in the game.

Chaos gauntlets

Main article: Chaos gauntlets

Bring the gauntlets to Johnathon in the Jolly Boar Inn north-east of Varrock (near the Wilderness border). Chaos gauntlets increase the max hit of bolt spells by 3.

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:1 September 2016| |0}} {{#explode:1 September 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:1 September 2016| |2}}]] (update)	The Family Pest miniquest released, allowing players to obtain all three enchanted gauntlet types simultaneously for the first time.
[[{{#explode:6 September 2005| |0}} {{#explode:6 September 2005| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:6 September 2005| |2}}]] (update)	The "Drop" option was replaced with a "Destroy" option.
[[{{#explode:30 August 2005| |0}} {{#explode:30 August 2005| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:30 August 2005| |2}}]] (update)	It becomes possible to change what type of enchanted gauntlets you currently own by paying a 25k fee to the respective brother. Prior, players chose between Chaos, Cooking, or Goldsmithing gauntlets, and then were locked to that choice for the rest of their account.

Trivia

• It is revealed in the Family Pest miniquest that the gauntlets are not really a family heirloom, and the fact that they always return to the head of the Fitzharmon house when lost is explained by the fact that Dimintheis simply has many pairs of them.