Sorceress's Garden

This is a safe activity.

If you die here, you will not lose any of your items, including those stored inside an Item Retrieval Service (deathbank).
Warning: It is still dangerous for Hardcore group iron players.

Sorceress's Garden
Released								12 February 2007 (Update)
Type								Minigame
Members								Yes
Location								Al Kharid
League region								Desert✓
Participants								1
Skills								Farming, Thieving
Reward currency								No
Tutorial								No
Music								Sorceress's Garden, Garden of Winter, Garden of Spring, Garden of Summer, Garden of Autumn
Map
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Location on World Map
Al Kharid
↑
Shantay Pass	←	Sorceress's Garden
↓
Kharidian Desert

The Sorceress's Garden is a Thieving/Farming minigame located in Al Kharid which may be accessed after the completion of Prince Ali Rescue. In it, players attempt to sneak past guards in order to steal sq'irk fruit to make sq'irkjuice, or herbs from the garden.

Sq'irkjuice can be exchanged with Osman or Selim for Thieving experience or be used to temporarily boost your Thieving level and restore run energy.

Getting there

• Members can use an amulet of glory to teleport inside the palace, on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] in the southern room. This brings you close to both Osman and the mini-game, as well as a bank.
• Members that have completed The Grand Tree quest can use the gnome glider to travel to and from Al Kharid.
• From Lumbridge, use the toll gate which costs either 10 coins, or if you have completed the Prince Ali Rescue quest, the gate is free.
• Members can use a ring of dueling to teleport to the Emir's Arena, just north-east of Al Kharid.

Introduction

If you talk to Osman after completing the Prince Ali Rescue quest (or Selim after completing Beneath Cursed Sands), you will find out that he wants to get sq'irkjuice, but the sorceress with whom he normally deals now refuses to give it to him. To this end, he will enlist you to steal sq'irk fruit from her garden. You can get to the garden from the apprentice who works in the house near the Shantay Pass. After following below steps once, you can immediately right-click Teleport at the Apprentice the next time.

Step-by-step:

• Talk to Osman (completing Prince Ali Rescue is required) or Selim (after completion of Beneath Cursed Sands) and ask him if there is something you can do. ( 1•1•2)…

  1
  1	Where do I get sq'irks?
  2	Thanks for the information.

• Go to the house north-east of the Shantay Pass and talk to the apprentice. ( 2•2•2•3•1)…

  2	Surely there must be upsides to the task?
  2	Oh you can talk to me. I can see you're having a bad day.
  2	A sympathetic ear can do wonders.
  3	You mentioned something about the garden.
  1	Wow, cast the spell of me. It will be good Magic training for you.

The gardens

Central garden's fountain

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The garden is divided into five areas. You appear in the central garden with a fountain and Del-Monty the cat. Drinking from the fountain will teleport you back to the Sorceress's house. Del-Monty will tell you about the garden and the minigame if you speak to him while wearing a catspeak amulet or have completed Dragon Slayer II to the point of being enchanted (after which the player can speak to cats without the amulet).

Surrounding the central garden are four seasonal gardens, each of which has a Sq'irk tree:

• The Winter garden has a tree with withered fruits.
• The Spring garden has a tree with nearly-ripe fruits.
• The Autumn garden has a tree with over-ripe fruits.
• The Summer garden has a tree with perfectly ripe fruits.

You can only enter a seasonal garden if your current Thieving level matches or exceeds the garden's required level. Fruits gained from a garden can be crushed into an empty beer glass using a pestle and mortar to make sq'irkjuice. Beer glasses needed for this minigame can be obtained for free by searching the shelves in the Sorceress's house.

Level	Season	Sq'irk fruit	Sq'irk juice	# of sq'irks	Thieving boost	Run energy recovery	Experience from Osman	Experience per fruit
N/A	Winter			5	0	5%	350	70
25	Spring			4	1	10%	1,350	337.5
45	Autumn			3	2	15%	2,350	783.3
65	Summer			2	3	20%	3,000	1,500

You can only pick one fruit per trip, or if you pick herbs instead, you will always get two clean herbs at once before you are teleported out of the garden. The types of herbs will vary, but picking them will always yield 50 Farming experience, or 25 experience per herb, regardless of which garden is chosen. You may enter the seasonal gardens again for more resources. Crushing sq'irks always gives 5 Cooking experience, regardless of the season.

To leave the garden, simply drink from the fountain located in the central garden. Alternatively, use an amulet of glory or ring of dueling to teleport to Al Kharid, which gets you close to Osman to hand him the sq'irkjuice.

Herb drop table

The herbs obtainable within the gardens are listed below.

The following drop rates are provided by Jagex, unless otherwise specified.

Winter

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guam leaf	1	16/54	368	1
	Marrentill	1	14/54	445	3
	Tarromin	1	13/54	452	6
	Harralander	1	11/54	733	12

Spring

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guam leaf	1	16/75	368	1
	Marrentill	1	14/75	445	3
	Tarromin	1	13/75	452	6
	Harralander	1	12/75	733	12
	Irit leaf	1	11/75	1,568	24
	Avantoe	1	9/75	3,368	28

Autumn

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guam leaf	1	16/99	368	1
	Marrentill	1	14/99	445	3
	Tarromin	1	13/99	452	6
	Harralander	1	12/99	733	12
	Irit leaf	1	11/99	1,568	24
	Avantoe	1	10/99	3,368	28
	Ranarr weed	1	9/99	6,785	15
	Kwuarm	1	8/99	3,668	32
	Cadantine	1	6/99	3,079	39

Summer

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Guam leaf	1	16/111	368	1
	Marrentill	1	14/111	445	3
	Tarromin	1	13/111	452	6
	Harralander	1	12/111	733	12
	Irit leaf	1	11/111	1,568	24
	Avantoe	1	10/111	3,368	28
	Ranarr weed	1	9/111	6,785	15
	Kwuarm	1	8/111	3,668	32
	Cadantine	1	7/111	3,079	39
	Lantadyme	1	6/111	1,973	40
	Dwarf weed	1	5/111	2,114	42

Walkthrough

Getting through a garden is much easier with run toggled on. Low weight and a decent Agility level helps significantly extend the length of time you can run. Wear weight-reducing gear and use stamina or super energy potions if possible. Main articles linked below include strategies and recommended inventory setup.

Mass worlds

Doing Sorceress's Garden in masses is not popular anymore so it is usually not possible to find a world where there are enough players to do this.

In worlds with many players running at the same time, the chance that any one player is individually caught is very low, which allows them to almost always reach the sq'irk tree with minimal clicks and attention. This strategy works on any of the four gardens, however it requires very large amounts of players to work. As such, the lower level gardens will generally only work during peak times, with the summer garden being populated enough more often.

Compared with the One-click Summer Garden Method, mass worlds offer the benefit of not requiring the complex set-up, but its viability depends on having a very large number of fellow thieves running together. To execute this method, you must find a world in which there are a lot of players, this can be difficult as there are no official worlds for the activity. When inside the garden, click on the tree. Due to the large amount of players, you will normally not get caught.

In some cases, it appears that the same player is targeted multiple times by the elemental and teleported out of the game. The elementals target players based on a poorly understood order of priority comparable to PID. If you find yourself being targeted by the elementals in the mass world method, using a VPN, a different network or resetting your router will usually offer a solution.

Winter

Main article: Sorceress's Garden/Winter

Spring

Main article: Sorceress's Garden/Spring

Autumn

Main article: Sorceress's Garden/Autumn

Summer

Main article: Sorceress's Garden/Summer

Tips and equipment

• Beer glasses can be made using the Crafting skill or obtained by searching the shelves in the house that the apprentice and Aadeela the Sorceress are in.
• The ideal inventory setup has just enough empty inventory slots to hold the required amount of sq'irk for making the juice, one pestle and mortar, optional potions/boosters and the remaining space as beer glasses.
• It is possible to get into the gardens by using Thieving boosts, such as those from the juices themselves.
• The elementals can only 'see' and teleport the player when there are two or fewer squares between them and the player.

Slot	Item (most effective → least effective)
	Graceful hood	N/A	N/A
	Graceful cape	Spottier cape	Spotted cape
	Graceful top	N/A	N/A
	Graceful legs	N/A	N/A
	Graceful gloves	Penance gloves	N/A
	Graceful boots	Boots of lightness	N/A
	Ring of endurance	N/A	N/A

Changes

Date	Changes
Date unknown	The official worlds, 523 and 524, for the minigame have been removed.
[[{{#explode:7 November 2023| |0}} {{#explode:7 November 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:7 November 2023| |2}}]]	Two new official worlds have been designated for the minigame: 523 and 524.

Trivia

• According to former Jagex developer Mod James, Sorceress's Garden was originally planned as part of a subquest of Recipe For Disaster, but was repurposed due to being finished after said quest.