The Dig Site/Quick guide
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| Start point |  Talk to an examiner in the Exam Centre south of the digsite. <maplink group="pins" align="center" text="<b>Show on map</b>" plane="0" y="3342" x="3361" zoom="2" mapID="-1">
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| Official difficulty | Intermediate |
| Official length | Medium |
| Description | Feeling uneducated? Desperate for buried treasure?
"There's gold in them there hills" (well stream actually) as well as many other items that can be found at the digsite. Join the students in their attempt to be a qualified archaeologist, and become experienced in making the earth move! Have you got what it takes to unearth the hidden altar to one of RuneScape's lesser-known Gods? |
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| Enemies to defeat | None |
| League notes | Unlocking |
Walkthrough
Starting out
- Go to the Exam Centre.
- Ask an examiner about an exam. (
) - Go to the Varrock museum and talk to Curator Haig Halen. He will give you a Sealed letter. ( )
- (Optional) Steal a cup of tea from the tea stall if you don't have one already. (This is a Varrock easy diary requirement)
- Go back to the Exam Centre and talk to an examiner. The chat options do not matter; you will fail the exam regardless.
Lost and found
Items needed: Cup of tea
- North of the exam centre at the hilltop with the blue urn, search the second bush to the right of the blue urn, marked (2) to find a teddy bear.
- Take the panning tray at (4).
- Talk to the panning guide to give him a cup of tea.
- Pan the water at (5) until you find a Special cup (browse through dialogue if stopped – referred to as "Shiny Cup" in dialogue). If you need an opal continue panning until you get one.
- Steal from the workman at (3), until you get an animal skull and specimen brush.
- Run north to the female student with blonde hair and pigtails on the north-west end of the dig (6), note that there are multiple 6s on the diagram, and give her the "teddy" by talking to her twice.
- Run east to the student in a reddish-orange shirt at (6) and give him the Special cup by talking to him twice.
- Run south to the student in a green shirt at (6) and give him the Animal skull by talking to him twice.
Exams
- Return to an examiner. ( •••) – You should receive 'Level 1 Certificate'
- Talk to all 3 students again.
- Return to an examiner to take the second exam. ( •••) – You should receive 'Level 2 Certificate'
- Talk to all 3 students – the female student will demand an opal (can be obtained by panning). Talk to her two times.
- Return to an examiner for the final exam. ( •••) – You should receive 'Level 3 Certificate'
- Save all of your certificates to hand in to Curator Haig Halen at the Varrock Museum in exchange for a fruit blast, a required item for Recipe for Disaster subquest Another Cook's Quest or a chocolate cake.
Helping the expert
- Back at the Exam Center, go in the western room and search the cupboards on the north and south walls to get a rock pick and a specimen jar, respectively.
- If you haven't already, steal a specimen brush from the Digsite workman at (3).
- Use the trowel on the soil in the enclosure north-east of (7), with a large skeleton, until you obtain an ancient talisman. Note: This step can take several minutes depending upon luck.
- Talk to Terry Balando in the exam centre.
- Use the invitation on any Digsite workman except the one by the western winch.
- Use a rope on the western winch at site (7) north of (3) on the map, then climb down.
- Pick up one of the arcenia root in the room, search the bricks to the east, then climb back up.
- Walk north-east to the winch, use the rope on the winch, climb down. (7) North of (6)
- Talk to Doug Deeping about the rocks. ( ) Climb up the rope.
Explosives expert
- Walk to the tent to the south (4 on the map), unlock the chest with the Chest Key and search to obtain chemical powder.
- Use the trowel on the closed barrel to the west of the tent.
- Use a vial on the barrel to get an unidentified liquid. If dropped, it will deal 25 non-fatal damage, and destroy the vial requiring you to re-open the barrel and collect more.
- Grind the charcoal with your pestle and mortar.
- If you don't have charcoal, search the tray a few steps north.
- Return to the exam centre and use the chemical powder and the unidentified liquid on Terry Balando (Note: make sure you right-click the liquid otherwise you'll empty it).
- Mix the nitroglycerin and ammonium nitrate together to create mixed chemicals, then add ground charcoal and finally arcenia root to produce chemical compound.
- Climb down the western winch.
- Use the compound on the bricks (not the rocks).
- Use your tinderbox on the bricks.
- Enter the large chamber, take the stone tablet. Low-levels should be wary of Level 22 skeletons.
Finishing up
- Use the tablet on Terry Balando.
- Congratulations, quest complete!
Rewards
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Quest points 
15,300 Mining exp
2,000 Herblore exp- 2 gold bars
- Show the museum curator the Level 3 certificate to choose between something to drink (Fruit blast) or something to eat (chocolate cake). Get the cake for Desert Treasure I / A Tail of Two Cats or the fruit blast for Recipe for Disaster. Make sure that you go through the dialogue for each one that you give it or he will not give you a chance to pick which reward you want and you will receive nothing.
- The ability to do Varrock Museum specimen cleaning to obtain a Digsite pendant.
- The Ancient talisman can be viewed in the Digsite Exhibit at the museum on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US].
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