Stealing artefacts

This article is about the thieving activity in Port Piscarilius. For the thieving activity in Civitas illa Fortis, see stealing valuables.

Stealing artefacts
Released								7 January 2016 (Update)
Type								Minigame
Members								Yes
Location								Port Piscarilius
League region								Kourend✓
Participants								1
Skills								Thieving
Reward currency								Coins
Tutorial								Yes
Map
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Stealing artefacts is a Thieving minigame located in Port Piscarilius, requiring level 49 Thieving to participate. Players must speak to Captain Khaled, located in the foodhall on the eastern side of the city, to start stealing artefacts from houses in the residential district. These houses are found in the south-western section of Port Piscarilius, consisting of 6 buildings on 4 docks over the water.

A lockpick or hair clip is required to steal artefacts (stolen pendant, stolen garnet ring, stolen circlet, stolen family heirloom, or stolen jewelry box) from drawers inside the assigned house and smuggle them out without attracting the attention of constantly moving patrolmen and patrolwomen. Players must travel back to Captain Khaled on foot because any teleportation, including random events or logging out, removes the artefact. If players are caught with a stolen artefact, the artefact will be confiscated and the player will be relocated to near the general store on the south side of the city and will need to get a new task.

Successfully picking the lock grants 750 Thieving experience. Delivering the artefact to Captain Khaled yields additional Thieving experience equal to 40 times the current Thieving level and 500–1,000 coins.

Delivering an artefact to Captain Khaled is a task in the Hard Kourend & Kebos Diary.

Experience rates

Using guard lures (see below) and stamina potions or super energy potions, the average times to steal the artefact from each house and return to Captain Khaled are shown below. Using Kharedst's memoirs to teleport to the centre of Piscarilius (requiring completion of The Queen of Thieves) after handing the artefact in to Captain Khaled increases the maximum number of artefacts stolen per hour from approximately 48 to 55.

House	Time	Time (Kharedst's memoirs)
North	1:00	0:50
South-east	1:05	0:55
South	1:10	1:00
West	1:20	1:10
North-west	1:25	1:15
South-west	1:30	1:25

Level	Estimated XP/HR
	Base rate	Teleport
49	130,080	150,000
55	141,600	163,000
60	151,200	174,000
65	160,800	186,000
70	170,400	197,000
75	180,000	208,000
80	189,600	219,000
85	199,200	230,000
90	208,800	241,000
95	218,400	252,000
99	226,080	261,000

Basic routes

Paths in a single image.

The routes shown to the right are recommended for beginners getting familiar with the guards' patrol patterns. They involve escaping off the piers to the north, heading east to the bank, then south and east to the Foodhall.

North-western, western and south-western houses

In each house, the artefact is located in a drawer upstairs. For the south-western house, wait until the patrolwoman is walking away from you, then run to the spot in the first image.

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  Stand here until both the eastern patrolman and northern patrolman face away from you, then run to the spot in the next image.
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  Once the patrolman is south of you and facing away from you, run away from the residential district.

Northern, southern and south-eastern houses

The artefact is located in a drawer on the ground floor in the northern house, and upstairs in the others. If stealing an artefact at the northern house, wait until both the patrolman circling around the house and the patrolwoman north of the house are walking away from you before moving to the spot in the second image.

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  Once the patrolwoman is facing away from you, quickly run to this spot. Then, once the patrolmen are in the position shown in this image, quickly run to the spot in the next image.
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  Once the patrolwoman and the patrolman west of you are facing away from you, quickly run to the spot in the next image. If it appears the patrolman circling around the house will be able to catch you, wait until he won't be able to do so while running to the next spot.
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  Here, the patrolwoman must be walking away south of you, and once the patrolman is walking east, facing away from you, run away from the residential district.

Advanced routes

Routes using guard lures.

These routes involve luring the guard on the east bridge (the one east of the northern house) so that they are facing south, and optionally also the guard on the south-east bridge (the one east of the south-eastern house) so that they are facing west. This allows players to safely get across these bridges, saving a considerable amount of time and improving experience rates accordingly. Alternatively, players can simply hop worlds until they find one in which the guards have already been lured.

Before attempting any of these strategies to lure the guards, ensure you have the stolen Artefact in your inventory or else the guards won't target you and the lure will fail.

The three main strategies are as follows:

• To lure the east bridge guard, steal an artefact, then run under the guard from 2 tiles away, and teleport to a location that is south of Port Piscarilius (suitable teleports include Kourend Woodland on Rada's Blessing, Xeric's Glade on Xeric's talisman, and Lunch by the Lancalliums on Kharedst's memoirs).
• To lure the south-east bridge guard, steal an artefact, run under the guard from the tile on the opposite side of the pillar, then quickly run back into the south-eastern house and climb the ladder.
• To pass the western bridge, wait until the patrolling guard moves east, then run to the tile just south of where he stops. Wait until he starts moving west again, then continue moving. Warning: do not go if the guard that slowly circles the northern house is approaching, as he will catch you while you are trying to cross the bridge.

When passing the bridges with the lured guards, simply ensure you maintain a gap of at least one tile between yourself and the guard.

East bridge guard lure

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  Run under the guard to get his attention without being caught, and quickly teleport somewhere to the south.
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  Passing the east bridge is then possible if players keep a 1-tile distance from the guard.

South-east bridge guard lure

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  Run under the guard to get his attention, then run back and climb the ladder to lose his attention, causing him to look west.
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  Passing the south-east bridge is then possible when keeping a 1-tile distance.

Passing the western bridge

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  Passing the western bridge, starting from the safespot behind the pillar.

Ground Markers

Below are some ground markers you can import if you use the Runelite application to play the game.

These mark safe spots to stand and show the houses designated by Captain Khaled making it much easier for new players to learn and navigate the activity.

To use these you'll:

1. Copy them to your clipboard
2. Right click the World Map globe on the minimap and select "import ground markers"
3. Click "yes" when prompted to import the 17 ground markers.

Combine this with the "NPC Indicators" plugin, you can shift + right-click on the patrolmen to highlight them, to make the activity easy to understand and pull off quickly.

Stealing Artifacts Ground Markers

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