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This is the quick guide for The Digsite. For a more in-depth version, click here.
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Details
| Start point |  Talk to an Examiner in the Exam Centre south of the digsite, which is past a members gate east of Varrock. It should be noted that this gate is the same gate used for the Priest in Peril quest, not the one directly outside Varrock's Eastern Gate.
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| Official difficulty | Intermediate |
| 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? |
| Length | Long |
| Requirements |
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| Items required |
Wear Gloves and boots at all times.
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| Enemies to defeat | None |
Walkthrough
Starting out
- Go to the exam centre.
- Ask an examiner about an exam.
- Talk to the Varrock museum curator.
- Talk to an examiner, you will fail the exam.
Lost and found
- Search the bushes on the map at (2) until you find a teddy bear.
- Take the panning tray at (4).
- Pan the water at (5) until you find a cup (browse through dialog if stopped).
- Steal from the workman at (3), until you get a skull and specimen brush.
- Talk to the student in purple clothes a small ways north of (3).
- Talk to her again.
- Run east, talk to the student in an orange shirt.
- Talk to him again.
- Run south, talk to the student in a green shirt.
- Talk to him again.
Exams
- Return to an examiner.
- Answer #1: The study of the earth, its contents and history.
- Answer #2: All that have passed the appropriate Earth Sciences exam.
- Answer #3: Gloves and boots to be worn at all times; proper tools must be used.
- Talk to all 3 students again.
- Return to an examiner.
- Answer #1: Samples taken in rough form, kept only in sealed containers.
- Answer #2: Finds must be carefully handled, and gloves worn.
- Answer #3: Always handle with care; strike cleanly on its cleaving point.
- Talk to all 3 students - the female will demand an opal. You can obtain this by panning.
- Return to an examiner.
- Answer #1: Samples cleaned, and carried only in specimen jars.
- Answer #2: Brush carefully and slowly using short strokes.
- Answer #3: Handle bones very carefully and keep them away from other samples.
Helping the expert
- Search the cupboards on the south wall of the west room in the exam centre.
- Talk to the archaeological expert.
- Return to the digsite at (3).
- Steal a specimen brush from the Digsite workman if you haven't already.
- Use the trowel on the dirt (at the level 3 site) until you find an ancient talisman. If you don't find it after several attempts try the dirt patch in the far north-east (with the dinosaur bones in it). Make sure to equip your leather boots and leather gloves.
- Talk to the archaeological expert.
- Use the invitation on a digsite workman wearing an apron in the northeast.
- Use a rope on the western winch, climb down.
- Search the bricks to the east, pick up an arcenia root then go back.
- Climb back up, then climb down using the other winch northeast.
- Talk to Doug about the rocks.
Explosives expert
- Unlock and search the chest at (4).
- Use the trowel on the closed barrel west.
- Use a vial on the barrel.
- If you don't have charcoal, search the tray a few steps north.
- Grind the charcoal.
- Use the unidentified liquid (be sure to right click->use otherwise you will empty the vial) and chemical powder on the archaeological expert.
- Mix the two together, add charcoal, then finally add the arcenia root.
- Climb down the left/west winch.
- Use the compound on the brick.
- Search the brick, use your tinderbox on it.
- Enter the large chamber, take the stone tablet.
Finishing up
- Use the tablet on the archaeological expert.
- Quest complete!