Hunter training

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This guide describes the most effective methods to train the Hunter skill. The experience rate estimates in this guide do not incorporate the use of any experience boosting items or bonus experience. They also assume that players are not banking any products that they obtain from hunting. Hunter is a gathering skill which involves using equipment such as box traps and bird snares to catch creatures and obtain products such as animals' fur, feathers, and bones. As players level up the Hunter skill they gain the ability to catch creatures which award greater amounts of experience when they are caught. Levelling up the Hunter skill also allows players to lay more traps at once when hunting using traps.

level	Concurrent traps
1	2
30	3
60	4
80	5
80+	6

Useful equipment

Enhanced yaktwee stick

An enhanced yaktwee stick gives a 2% increase in the amount of Hunter experience gained if it is wielded while hunting. It can be obtained by upgrading a regular yaktwee stick by speaking to Yaktwee Swinmari Cianta after hunting 1,000 charm sprites. Charm sprites can be hunted with at least level 72 Hunter. Wielding the enhanced yaktwee while hunting charm sprites gives a 20% increased chance of discovering the rarer types of charm sprites.

Augmented off-hand item with Wise perk

The Wise perk will increase the experience you gain by up to 4% without costing charge and can be put on an off-hand weapon or a shield and used in combination with the yaktwee stick.

Hunter's outfit

Pieces of the hunter's outfit give a percentage increase in the amount of base Hunter experience gained. This effect stacks with that of the enhanced yaktwee stick. The outfit pieces can be purchased using chimes and taijitu from the Waiko Reward Shop in The Arc; to access The Arc the player must have completed the Impressing the Locals quest. The full set costs a total of 10,000 chimes and 10 taijitu.

Image	Name	Experience boost
	Hunter's headwear	1%
	Hunter's chestpiece	1%
	Hunter's gloves	1%
	Hunter's legwear	1%
	Hunter's boots	1%
Set bonus		1%
Total experience boost		6%

Trapper outfits

The Trapper outfits are elite skilling outfits for Hunter. Pieces of the desert trapper outfit, jungle trapper outfit and arctic trapper outfit can be created from trapper fragments, which are awarded to players with at least 70 Hunter at 5 minute intervals when hunting. Each outfit consists of 5 pieces: head, body, legs, hands, feet. The fragments can be assembled into outfit pieces after discovering the Invention blueprints, requiring 80 Hunter and 20 Invention.

The outfit pieces were also previously available from Treasure Hunter during the Elite Trapper Outfits promotion which originally ran between 23 August and 28 August 2017.

When wearing a complete version of any of these three outfits, players gain the following bonuses:

• 5% increased hunting success rate.
• Juju hunter potion is automatically reapplied while in Herblore Habitat.
• Increased chance of finding rarer charm sprites.
• 3 teleports to Hunter locations per day.
• If the player owns the hunter's outfit, they will receive its 6% increased base experience effect while wearing a trapper outfit.

Players who own all pieces of the desert trapper outfit, jungle trapper outfit, and arctic trapper outfit can combine these outfits' components to form the volcanic trapper outfit. This outfit gives superior benefits to those given by the other trapper outfits. Players gain the following bonuses from a volcanic trapper outfit:

• 7% increased hunting success rate (as opposed to 5% with the other trapper outfits).
• 5 teleports to Hunter locations per day (as opposed to 3 with the other trapper outfits)
• 10% chance of double loot.
• Can deploy an extra trap (increasing to a maximum of 6 traps placed simultaneously).
• Increased conversion rate for Big Chinchompa reward points. (A maximum of 2250 points instead of 1500)
• Chance to instantly deploy/pick up traps.
• Chance of double loot from implings (up to 3 times per day).
• Works as a Hunter's Catalyst fragment, if the player owns one.

Scentless potions

Scentless potions cause all traps laid by the player to act as if they have been smoked using a torch. Smoking a trap removes a player's scent from it, increasing the chance of a creature approaching it and being caught. Each dose of scentless potion lasts for 6 minutes. Some traps have a higher chance of catching creatures when players are 5 tiles away, as the Hunting expert says during the quest While Guthix Sleeps. However, the scentless potion makes doing this unnecessary.

Name	GE price
Scentless potion (1)	388
Scentless potion (2)	804
Scentless potion (3)	6,677
Scentless potion (4)	10,914
Scentless flask (6)	48,346

Tracker auras

Tracker auras increase a player's chance of catching a creature by a percentage while they are activated. These auras' effects last for one hour after they are activated. Players may use 5 or 10 vis wax to extend a tracker aura's activation time by 50% or 100% (costing 88,265 or 176,530 coins). This effect must be applied before the aura is activated. Once a tracker aura has been used the player must wait 3 hours before using it again. Tracker auras can be bought using Membership loyalty points. All lower tiers of the aura must be owned before a higher tier aura can be purchased.

Tier			Percentage chance of catching a creature increased by	Loyalty point cost
				Individual	Cumulative
1		Tracker	3%	5,000	5,000
2		Greater tracker	5%	16,000	21,000
3		Master tracker	7%	29,000	50,000
4		Supreme tracker	10%	61,000	111,000
5		Legendary tracker	15%	119,000	230,000

Torstol incense sticks

Each potency level of torstol incense sticks provides a 0.5% increase to base XP gain. The potency level will increase every 10 minutes and will reach its maximum at level 4 (+2% to base XP). Overloading consumes 6 sticks but instantly provides the maximum potency.

Urns

Urns can be used to gain additional Hunter experience while training. When held in the inventory, urns are filled as the player hunts. Only base experience counts towards filling the urn. Full urns can be teleported away to receive additional experience. Only one urn is filled at a time, though players may own up to a total of 10 full urns. If a player owns 10 full hunter urns they must teleport at least 1 away before they can fill more urns. Urns are only tradeable in their (nr), non-runed, forms. In order to use a hunter urn the player must add a mud rune to it; this makes the urn untradeable. Urns are not filled while hunting with protean traps.

Name	Crafting level required to add mud rune	GE price of non-runed urn	Charges gained from	Activities	Experience required to fill	Experience gained for teleporting
Cracked hunter urn	3	2,336	Creatures up to and including level 11		1,100	220
Fragile hunter urn	17	965	Creatures up to and including level 29		2,500	500
Plain hunter urn	34	1,746	Creatures up to and including level 53		5,000	1,000
Strong hunter urn	55	2,238	Creatures up to and including level 74		7,000	1,400
Decorated hunter urn	79	7,553	Creatures up to and including level 99		8,000	1,600

Players who have at least level 24 Invention and who have completed Nomad's Elegy can discover how to make an urn enhancer. When in the player’s inventory the urn enhancer grants 25% additional experience for teleporting a full urn. This effect costs 20 charges from the player’s charge pack. Assuming the player purchases divine charges from the Grand Exchange, it would cost 663.99 to use the urn enhancer when teleporting an urn.

Summoning familiars

There are five Summoning familiars available which invisibly boost a player's Hunter level while they are summoned. This does not let a player access higher level content, but allows them to catch creatures more effectively. Players can choose to hide familiar options in the Gameplay tab of the Settings interface to prevent misclicking on a familiar while hunting.

Image	Name	GE cost of pouch	Summoning level required	Hunter levels boosted	Familiar duration (minutes)
	Spirit graahk	2,882	57	5	48
	Spirit kyatt	6,741	57	5	48
	Spirit larupia	3,051	57	5	48
	Arctic bear	1,555	71	7	32
	Wolpertinger	3,885	92	5	64

Seren spells and prayers

A crystallised skilling node

Access to Seren spells and prayers, which can be found in the ancient magicks and ancient curses spell and prayer books, is unlocked upon completing The Light Within quest. Crystallise requires level 88 Magic and 6 each of water, fire, chaos, and soul runes to cast. A box trap that has been crystallised will auto-reset for players upon being checked, and will grant 10% additional experience each time a creature is caught, though no resources will be gained. This effect lasts for 30 seconds after Crystallise has been cast; it is not possible to cast Crystallise on more than one trap at the same time. It is possible for a trap to fall apart while it is crystallised, if too much time has elapsed since it trapped a creature. If this happens, the player will be able to cast Crystallise again immediately. With level 80 Prayer, players can use the Light Form prayer, which enhances the effects of Seren-aligned spells while it is activated, to further increase additional Hunter experience gained from checking a crystallised box trap to 20%. A grace of the elves can be worn to increase the duration Light Form is active; halving the prayer drain rate from 300 prayer points per minute to 150 prayer points per minute. In addition to halving prayer drain rate for Seren spells, wearing a grace of the elves gives the player a chance to spawn a Seren spirit which, when interacted with, awards the player with a random item from the rare drop table.

Players will need to consume around 53 doses of prayer potion per hour (or roughly 26 doses with a grace of the elves equipped), with level 99 Prayer, to maintain the prayer points required to keep Light Form activated. Use of prayer renewal or super prayer renewal potions can help to regain some prayer points. When training Hunter using Crystallise players may cast the spell around 120 times an hour, costing 776,880 in runes. This cost can be reduced by using staves to provide some of the required runes. Crystallise cannot be cast on marasamaw plants or on box traps while the player is within a private Hunter area.

Catalyst fragments

The Hunter's Catalyst fragment or Combined Catalyst fragment are obtained from completing the quest Sliske's Endgame. When equipped, it resets box traps, magic boxes, bird snares, and tortle traps when they fail to catch a creature.

Ring of Whispers

Ring of Whispers is obtained from completing the quest Sliske's Endgame. When equipped, it provides a +3 invisible level boost to the following gathering skills: Hunter, Farming, Fishing, Divination and Archaeology.

Necklace of Shadows

Necklace of Shadows is obtained from completing the quest Sliske's Endgame. Wearing the necklace along with the Ring of Whispers and the Combined Catalyst fragment allows players to occasionally find manifested knowledge when training which will offer experience in the skill they were training when it appeared.

Avantoe incense sticks

Avantoe incense sticks can be consumed to give a 5% chance to automatically bait Hunter traps. Each incense stick consumed provides 10 minutes of this effect; the duration of the effect can be extended by consuming more sticks. When incense effects are active their potency increases every 10 minutes up to potency 4, which multiplies the effect's strength up to 4 times (20% chance to automatically bait traps). Alternatively, 6 sticks can be consumed at once via the 'overload' right click option, skipping straight to potency 4.

Hunter cape

The hunter cape's perk allows the player to instantly set traps. The perk does not function when simply wearing the cape but must be activated just prior to attempting to set up the trap. One way to do this is to set up your action bar(s) to include the Hunter cape and whatever trap you are using. You can then hit the associated key to activate the perk followed shortly by the key to set the trap. This process will eliminate the trap laying animation and immediately set an active trap on the ground. In addition, as soon as you start the "check trap" status you can start to deploy your trap straight away.

Potions

Using the super and extreme hunter potions can assist with catch rates, as well as allowing access to higher-level creatures. The extreme hunter potion boosts the player's Hunter level by 15% + 3 for six minutes, significantly improving success rates while trapping.

Relic powers

Players with level 117 Archaeology can activate the Inspire Effort relic power at the mysterious monolith for a 2% experience increase to Hunter.

Methods

Following an update, XP from catching Skillchompas is no longer multiplied by the number of Skillchompas caught, nullifying Agility bonuses.

Summary

See here to calculate how many creatures will be caught during training.

Levels	Method	Experience per hour	Alternative methods
1-19 or 30	Plain whirligigs	12,000	Complete the Natural history quiz in the Varrock Museum to go from 1-9. Feed oogleroots to rabbits within the Vinesweeper minigame for 10,000 experience per hour. Catch ruby harvest (Hunter) from 15-19 for 12,000 experience per hour as well as moderate profit. At 19 Hunter, hunt tropical wagtails for 40,000 experience per hour (with two traps).
19-30 or 53 or 67	Tropical wagtails	40,000 with two traps 66,000 with three traps 90,000 with four traps	Cobalt skillchompa (Hunter) at 27 Hunter for 30,000-35,000 experience per hour.
30-50	Gliding whirligigs	95,000 - 120,000
50-67 or 70	Swift whirligigs	190,000 - 300,000	At 53 Hunter, hunt chinchompas for 25,000-50,000 experience per hour. At 59 Hunter, hunt red salamanders for 72,000 experience per hour. At 63 Hunter, hunt carnivorous chinchompas for 82,000 experience per hour.
67-75 or 80	Black salamander (Wilderness)	110,000-186,000	Catch charm sprites from 72-80 for 100,000 experience per hour. This increases up to 162,000 experience per hour with the enhanced yaktwee stick. Trap plover birds for 95,000-114,000 experience per hour from 73-80. (This is a less intensive option) Do Big Game Hunter from 75-99 for 90,000-400,000 experience per hour. (This is a very profitable option)
80-96 or 99	Jadinkos on Anachronia	60,000-120,000 up to 190,000-380,000	Catch charming moths from 88-99 for 180,000-240,000 experience per hour. Hunt crimson skillchompas from 89-97 for 150,000-200,000 experience per hour as well as moderate profit. Catch black warlocks barehanded from 95-99 for 150,000-180,000 experience per hour. (This is a less intensive option)
96-99+	Ornate tortles	280,000-420,000 500,000+ with Contracts	Hunt crystal skillchompas at 97 Hunter for 250,000-300,000 experience per hour as well as moderate profit.

Details:

• Player may prefer to place trap item on hotbar, allowing for easier deployment of traps.
• After placing a trap, if timed correctly, placing any command such as checking another trap will cancel the automatic walking toward west animation-lock.
• Upon seeing exp gain from successful trap, a player may start to place their next trap to cancel soft animation of retrieving previous trap.
• Walking onto a successful trap tile, then proceeding to check it saves time due to auto-walk/checking animation-lock.
• Walking onto a rebuild trap tile, placing a new trap then picking up the previous with area-loot is faster than rebuild animation-lock.
• Game designers allowed many of the animation-lock to be purposely avoided, rewarding good timing, allowing higher exp gain per hour if player choose a more intensive play-style.
• Casual play-style may opt to place a line of trap, then check them all in reverse order or as each requires attention, then repeat process.
• New trap setters are encouraged to try multiple trap configuration other than straight line as each player will find their own preferences.

Levels 1-19/30: Catching plain whirligigs

Players can hunt plain whirligigs at Het's Oasis. It is possible to achieve over 12,000 xp/hr. This is a very click intensive method. Players may find playing on mobile to be easier for this method. It is recommended to use the south-east pond because it does not have any trees that may be clicked on by mistake. 1115 plain whirligigs are required to reach level 30. Plain whirligigs reward a plain whirligig shell, worth 495 coins. However, looting the shells may decrease experience rates.

If planning on catching other whirligigs in the future, this may be the most efficient method to level 30 as it begins the process of unlocking Dundee's Crocodile Upgrades which increases experience rates considerably. These upgrades must be manually purchased. At 250 whirligigs caught, the catch rate increases by 10%. At 500 caught, there is a 25% double loot chance. At 1000 caught, there is a 25% flower saving chance. At 1,500 caught, the experience awarded per catch is increased by 10%.

The method consists of handling the crocodiles Frito or Chito and directing them to catch whirligigs by clicking on them. The first whirligig clicked on causes the crocodile to chase after it, and while this is happening three more whirligigs can be 'stacked' by clicking on them while the crocodile is travelling to and from the targeted whirligig. Stacked whirligigs give the same experience as the initial target, but do not reward the shell. Failure is possible, but the crocodile redirects to the next clicked whirligig. An attempt may be queued every game-tick (0.6 seconds). Players may benefit from reducing the graphics to minimum settings, as the water the whirligigs reside in has a sun glare that can make it difficult to see.

Turning run mode off (i.e. keeping walking) is strongly advised due to spam-clicking on scarabs (to stack them) missing a lot due to their small size, which causes the player to run all over the place if they do not turn run mode off.

Levels 19-30/53/67: Tropical wagtails

Best spots to place traps to hunt tropical wagtails, slightly west of the Oo'glog lodestone

With level 19 Hunter players can start hunting tropical wagtails, laying 2 bird snares at the same time. With level 19-24 Hunter players can gain approximately 40,000 experience an hour hunting tropical wagtails. This increases to 55,000-66,000 experience per hour at level 30 when players can use three bird snares; and up to 90,000 experience per hour at level 60+ when players can use four bird snares. Upon successfully catching a tropical wagtail players will receive bones, raw bird meat and stripy feathers. Tropical wagtails are located in the Feldip Hunter area. Good places to catch them are located west and north of the Oo'glog lodestone. The best way to catch them easily is to place the snares close to their spawn points. Players can wear a jungle camo top (costing 1,376) and jungle camo legs (costing 1,761) to increase their success rate while hunting in this area.

Levels 30-50: Catching gliding whirligigs

Players can hunt gliding whirligigs at Het's Oasis. Before the 10% experience increase at 1,500 whirligigs caught, it is possible to achieve over 100,000 xp/hr. With the experience increase unlocked, it is possible to achieve over 120,000 xp/hr. This is a very click intensive method. Approximately 900-1,000 gliding whirligigs must be caught to reach level 50. Gliding whirligigs reward a gliding whirligig shell, worth 8,032 coins. However, looting the shells may decrease experience rates, at least until the automatic looting upgrade is purchased at 2,500 whirligigs caught.

Unlike plain whirligigs, gliding whirligigs require flowers (specifically roses) to be hunted. The roses must be placed in the flower baskets, which must first be constructed. Each basket requires five teak planks and ten steel nails to build and yields between 50-4,950 Construction experience (depending on level). Each basket can hold 32 flowers of the same type. Approximately 100-200 roses are consumed each hour, with each costing 37 coins.

Levels 50-67/70: Catching swift whirligigs

Players can hunt swift whirligigs at Het's Oasis. Before the 10% experience increase at 1,500 whirligigs caught, it is possible to achieve over 200,000 xp/hr. With the experience increase unlocked, it is possible to achieve over 240,000 xp/hr. This is a very click intensive method. Swift whirligigs reward a swift whirligig shell, worth 5,484 coins. However, looting the shells may decrease experience rates, at least until the automatic looting upgrade is purchased at 2,500 whirligigs caught.

At 3000 whirligigs caught, the stack limit of the crocodiles increases from 3 to 5 whirligigs. This drastically increases the experience per hour to over 300,000 xp/hr.

Unlike plain whirligigs, swift whirligigs require flowers (specifically irises) to be hunted. The irises must be placed in the flower baskets, which must first be constructed. Each basket requires five teak planks (protean planks also work) and ten steel nails to build and yields between 50-4,950 Construction experience (depending on level). Each basket can hold 32 flowers of the same type. Approximately 100-200 irises are consumed each hour, with each costing 68 coins.

Levels 53-67/75/80: Chinchompas and skillchompas

Players with level 53 Hunter can begin to hunt chinchompas or viridian skillchompas using box traps. This gives around 50,000-72,000 experience an hour while using 3 traps at level 53-60 Hunter. Once the player can use 4 traps, with level 60 Hunter, this gives around 60,000-82,000 experience per hour. Up to 6 skillchompas can be caught per trap, which scales with Agility level. However, this does not increase the experience rewarded. Chinchompas will always give one per catch and are not affected by Agility level. Once trapped, chinchompas and skillchompas become stackable items. Viridian skillchompas can be caught at the Port Phasmatys Hunter area, which is found south of Port Phasmatys. Chinchompas can be caught in the Piscatoris Hunter area north of the Eagles' Peak lodestone. Ironmen may prefer to use this method all the way to 75/77 in order to collect baby chinchompas or ammunition for ranged combat (chinchompas).

Players may also start catching carnivorous chinchompas at 63 Hunter with similar experience per hour. These are located north of the Oo'glog lodestone in the Feldip Hunter Area.

At 68 Hunter, players may catch azure skillchompas for a similar experience per hour. These are located in the northern section of the Rellekka Hunter area. Upon entering the area, head to the north-eastern part of the area and climb a set of stairs to get onto an iceberg, then climb the ladder just north of this entrance to get to the azure skillchompa hunting area. Players can wear polar camouflage gear or kyatt hunter gear to increase their success rate in catching creatures while hunting in this area. Both sets are tradeable, with polar camouflage gear costing a total of 75,132 coins to buy, and kyatt hunter gear costing a total of 28,478 coins.

Levels 59-67: Red salamanders

At level 59 Hunter players can begin to hunt red salamanders using net traps. This gives around 55,000-72,000 experience per hour while using 3 traps. At level 60 Hunter, when players can use 4 net traps, this increases to around 65,000-80,000 experience per hour. Red salamanders are located in the Ourania Hunter area, located west of the spirit tree near the Battlefield of Khazard. To get there, use the Lunar magic spell Ourania Teleport, travel using the spirit trees, or teleport to Castle Wars Arena and walk north. There are two spots in which hunting salamanders is possible: one is located directly south of the altar, the other is located east of the entrance of the path that leads to the altar. There is also a bank in the Ourania Cave, however using the bank requires a payment of 20 runes of any type.

Catching a red salamander completes It's My Newt from the Ardougne achievements.

Levels 67-75/80: Black salamanders

With at least level 67 Hunter players can hunt black salamanders to gain between 110,000 to 186,000 experience per hour. Black salamanders can be caught using up to 4 net traps in the Boneyard Hunter area found in the Wilderness. Players may reach this location by using the Wilderness lodestone and walking east of the Chaos Temple. Black salamanders become a level 70 Ranged weapon when caught. This can be a profitable method with each weapon worth 1,734 coins. Players must bring a small fishing net and a rope for each trap, or 4 nets and 4 ropes if wanting to plant 4 traps. When a salamander is caught, players simply click on the trap. If the trap fails, the rope and net will fall to the ground. Players can quickly pick these up using area loot and pressing the spacebar. For best experience rates, players should right click a Black salamander in their inventory and select "Release all" to clear their inventory.

Because of the 'Release All' option added to salamanders on July 8, 2019, this has become a less attractive venture for player killers due to their targets being able to nearly instantly destroy their entire inventory.

Players should note that hunting black salamanders, despite being a Wilderness activity, does not benefit from having an equipped demonic skull.

Levels 75-77/99: Big Game Hunter

Directions to the Big Game Hunter dinosaurs

Players who have at least Hunter level 75 and Slayer level 55, can begin hunting Arcane apoterrasaur dinosaurs on Anachronia within the Big Game Hunter single-player activity (commonly known as "BGH"). It is the most profitable hunting method in the game, providing boss-drop like reward chests as well as a chance to obtain the Dragon mattock, currently worth 53,368,594 coins. Tier 3 dinosaurs also have a chance to drop pieces of the Terrasaur maul. Players can perform this activity right up to level 99. Each kill takes around 2 to 5 minutes, and each dinosaur can be killed 5 or more times before it goes on cooldown and cannot be killed for an hour. Between one to three dinosaurs of the same type can spawn in each encounter (commonly referred to as a single, double or triple hunt).

There are nine different species of dinosaur to hunt on Anachronia, shown in the table below.

• Each species is found in a separate "arena", which is a fairly open space in the overworld.
• Arenas are spread out around Anachronia, as shown on the map.
• Players must have certain level requirements in Hunter and Slayer for each dinosaur, both of which can be boosted.
• Each dinosaur also requires a specific bait to be lured and caught.
• Experience is awarded after completing a hunt / kill.
• When facing multiple dinosaurs in one encounter, the experience rates are higher.

Tier	Dinosaur	Level	Level	Bait	Bait cost	XP	XP	Chance to drop
1	Arcane apoterrasaur	75	55	Raw shark	478	6,000	800
1	Scimitops	75	55	Raw sailfish	6,208	6,000	800
1	Bagrada rex	75	55	Raw manta ray	952	6,000	800
2	Spicati apoterrasaur	80	60	Raw bagrada rex meat	61,506	12,000	2,050
2	Asciatops	85	65	Raw arcane apoterrasaur meat	8,777	12,000	2,050
2	Corbicula rex	90	70	Raw scimitops meat	172,327	12,000	2,050
3	Oculi apoterrasaur	94	74	Raw asciatops meat	248,527	21,000	3,800	Tribal fin
3	Malletops	95	75	Raw corbicula rex meat	427,036	21,000	3,800	Volcanic fragments
3	Pavosaurus rex	96	76	Raw spicati apoterrasaur meat	349,753	21,000	3,800	Superior long bone

Levels 77-96/99: Grenwalls using Crystallise

A player hunting grenwalls

Players who have at least level 77 Hunter can hunt grenwalls using box traps, after completing the Regicide quest to gain access to Isafdar. This method requires access to Crystallise (unlocked at level 88 Magic after completing The Light Within quest) and Light Form (unlocked at level 80 Prayer, also after completing The Light Within quest) as well as completion of the medium Tirannwn achievements, which allows players to trap grenwalls without bait.

Casting Crystallise on an empty box trap will cause it to give an additional 10% experience (20% when using the Light Form Prayer) at the cost of any resources gained for 30 seconds. During this time, a crystallised box trap will also automatically reset. Upon successfully catching a grenwall, players will always receive bones and 18-21 grenwall spikes, worth 329 coins each, and have a chance of receiving raw pawya meat and grimy herbs (up to grimy dwarf weed), and so by leaving at least one box trap un-crystallised, and with the help of a demon horn, twisted bird skull, or split dragontooth necklace in addition to a bonecrusher, players can maintain prayer points needed for Light Form without having to bring prayer potions or other prayer restoration items (the grace of the elves will also halve the prayer point drain of Seren spells, like Light Form).

Grenwalls can be found in three locations: in the Gorajo resource dungeon in Prifddinas, requiring level 95 Dungeoneering, just south of the Elf Camp, and on the island of Anachronia north-east of the lodestone on the eastern side of the pavosaurus rex spawn location. The Anachronia location does not spawn pawya, which can increase the rate at which grenwalls enter your traps, it also means if you are planning to use protean traps for grenwall hunting, this is an ideal location. All three locations work well, but it is suggested to use the Anachronia location as it is more efficient than the other two locations.

When hunting grenwalls at the Anachronia location, using Crystallise and no other boosts, players can expect around 70,000-180,000 experience per hour from levels 77-99 Hunter. With the use of level and catch-boosting items however, these base rates can become almost doubled, resulting in experience rates that can easily exceed 500,000 when combined with other experience boosting items.

Levels 80-96/99: Jadinkos on Anachronia

At level 80 Hunter, players can start training on jadinkos on Anachronia using marasamaw plants. If the player has the Hunter level for it, jadinkos should always be hunted on Anachronia rather than at Herblore Habitat. The experience rates per hour here vary depending on the type of jadinko you are catching. When hunting a jadinko at its minimum required level, approximately 300 jadinkos can be caught per hour. At level 99 Hunter, using a Combined Catalyst fragment and the Hunter cape perk to reset traps quicker, this number increases to approximately 600 jadinkos per hour. Using no further experience boosting items or urns, this puts the base rate between 60,000-120,000 (common jadinkos) and 190,000-380,000 (carrion jadinkos) experience per hour. If using Protean Traps, experience rates become significantly higher. Between 900,000 and 1,000,000 experience can be earned an hour for carrion jadinkos (level 88+), though you will not receive any drops as a trade-off. Players can buy Zamorak's favour to gain an extra 10% experience when hunting Jadinkos within the Herblore Habitat and Anachronia.

Some of the jadinkos require you to use juju hunter potions on a vine blossom nearby before they become interested in the marasamaw trap. This is the case for cannibal, aquatic, camouflaged, and draconic jadinkos.

Levels 88-96/99: Charming moths

A charming moth

With level 88 Hunter, players can start hunting charming moths. They are caught bare-handed and level 83 Agility is also required to catch them.

Experience rates can vary greatly, depending on which items players are willing to bring. From level 88-99 Hunter, players can gain around 180,000-240,000 Hunter experience and 34,000-45,000 Agility experience an hour from hunting charming moths, with no items whatsoever. With the use of experience and catch-boosting items, this can increase up to 900,000 Hunter experience per hour (see the charming moth page for further information). As charming moths are located in the Wilderness, players should not be skulled while training at charming moths.

Players can gain 40% additional Hunter experience if a demonic skull is equipped while hunting charming moths. When caught, a charming moth gives either a crimson, gold, green, or blue charm. Around 360 charms an hour can be obtained from hunting them at level 99. However, it is possible to be attacked by other players while equipping the skull, therefore players should not bring items that they are not willing to lose.

Levsls 88/92-99: Decaying Guards

Players with at least level 88 Hunter can gather from decaying Lumbridge guards and decaying Varrock guards within the Croesus Front (outside the boss arena). Players with level 92 Hunter can gather from the enriched versions of the same nodes, which grant greatly increased experience but are only active occasionally.

Over 575,000 experience can be gained per hour at level 99 with this method and the player character will repeatedly gather at a node until it depletes or becomes enriched. However, achieving such high experience rates requires the use of 1,200 or more sign of the porter charges per hour, preferably through the use of a grace of the elves amulet, otherwise the player will be required to drop or bank the same number of gathered fungal spores per hour. The latter would simply be a waste of time, as most of any given hour would be spent returning to the area after banking as fungal spores are gathered fairly quickly. However, the cost of porter charges can be offset by gaining Elder Troves and resonant anima of Bik (tradeable) if the player has a pontifex shadow ring that has been upgraded accordingly. A viable much more labour-intensive alternative to porters would be to use magic notepaper on the normal and enriched fungal spores as they are gathered, or to place the spores on the action bar and repeatedly drop them. Players with the Sword of Edicts (echo) activated through the Memorial to Guthix can receive Memory shards which can then be transmuted into sign of the porter charges, drastically reducing the cost.

Using a magic butterfly net marginally increases the catch rate of spores, but it drastically reduces the experience generated and is not recommended if seeking experience. It is recommended to use the enhanced yaktwee stick instead.

Alternative methods of gaining experience

Protean traps

Players that have protean traps can hunt any of the following creatures using proteans. It is recommended to save up proteans and use them on Double XP Live events for additional XP. Ideally players should start using proteans at around level 60+, as the lower levels are quick with regular hunter training. The player only needs to click the auto-deploy protean trap option every 60 traps, making these methods extremely AFK. Hunter urns do not work with protean traps. Players can use extreme hunter potions to boost their levels and train on higher level content.

Creature		Level required	Level required with	Experience	Recommended
	Carnivorous chinchompa	63	N/A	287
	Pawya	66	N/A	500
	Azure skillchompa	68	65	249	Catch one approximately every 6 seconds.
	Grenwall (Private area available)	77	72	726	Catch one approximately every 10 seconds. Slow during Double XP Live, good experience otherwise.
	Common jadinko	80	73	200	Low experience.
	Shadow jadinko	81	74	473
	Igneous jadinko	84	76	500
	Cannibal jadinko	85	76	510	Requires a juju hunter potion to catch.
	Aquatic jadinko	86	77	570	Requires a juju hunter potion to catch.
	Amphibious jadinko	87	77	450	Low experience.
	Carrion jadinko	88	78	635
	Diseased jadinko	88	78	500
	Camouflaged jadinko	89	78	515	Requires a juju hunter potion to catch.
	Crimson skillchompa	89	78	309	Catch one approximately every 3 seconds.
	Draconic jadinko	90	79	554	Low experience. Requires a juju hunter potion to catch.
	Crystal skillchompa	97	82	410	Catch one approximately every 3 seconds.

Dream of Iaia

The Dream of Iaia area offers skilling locations that can be built and interacted with for high experience rates. Access to the Dream of Iaia requires completion of Extinction. Inside the area, players can build the hunting lodge skilling station to gain Hunter experience; this requires 50,000 of each Anachronia base camp resource and awards 135,000 experience stored in the station as well as 15,000 direct experience. When the station has experience stored, the player can skill at the station to "withdraw" the stored experience at a rate of 350,000 experience per hour. After being built, the hunting lodge can be restocked with vines from Anachronia base camp. Contributing two vines stores one experience in the station. The station can store a maximum of 350,000 experience points.

Private grenwall Hunter area

A player hunting in the private Hunter area

Players who have at least level 77 Hunter and who have unlocked the ability to access grenwall hunting areas in Isafdar, through completing the Regicide quest, can also hunt grenwalls within a private grenwall Hunter area. At least one grenwall quota ticket is needed in order to enter the grenwall portal, which is located in the south-eastern part of the Gnome Stronghold, to access the private area. Grenwall quota tickets can be purchased as a reward from the Big Chinchompa minigame, for 10 competence points per ticket. One quota ticket is used up each time that the player successfully catches a grenwall. Players may earn a maximum of 150 grenwall quota tickets, if they obtain the maximum 1,500 competence points, each time that they participate in Big Chinchompa.

Grenwalls are caught using box traps baited with pawya meat. Completion of the medium Tirannwn achievements is highly beneficial when hunting using this method, as this allows players to trap grenwalls without using bait. Unlike regular grenwall hunting spots, the private grenwall hunting area does not contain pawyas so players must leave the area to bank to obtain more pawya meat if they do not have this ability unlocked. The closest location at which players can bank is found north-west of the grenwall portal, within the Stronghold. Upon successfully catching a grenwall players will always receive bones and 18-21 grenwall spikes, worth 329 coins each, and have a chance of receiving raw pawya meat and grimy herbs (up to grimy dwarf weed). Players may find it useful to bring a bonecrusher and herbicide to convert some of the items received from hunting grenwalls into Prayer and Herblore experience.

With the use of experience and catch-boosting items, along with the medium Tirannwn achievements completed, players can gain around 310,000 experience an hour hunting grenwalls in the private hunter area with level 99 Hunter. They will also consume around 282 grenwall tickets an hour and obtain approximately 5,450 grenwall spikes, worth 1,793,050 coins, as well as any herbs and seeds that are not destroyed.

Feeding Ogleroots to rabbits

At level 1 Hunter players may begin training by feeding ogleroots to rabbits within the Vinesweeper minigame. This gives approximately 10,000 experience an hour. However as only 4,470 experience is needed to achieve level 20 Hunter, it should take players with no previous experience of the skill approximately 27 minutes to achieve level 20. Players can travel to Vinesweeper by using the teleport option on any of the tool leprechauns found at farming patches throughout Gielinor. Upon arriving players can purchase ogleroots from Farmer Blinkin for 10 coins each. At most, 149 ogleroots are needed to achieve levels 1-20 Hunter. Once the player has obtained some ogleroots, then they should climb over any of the stiles to enter the gameplay area. The gameplay area can contain up to 8 rabbits; simply click on them to feed them ogleroots and receive Hunter experience. Once a rabbit has been fed an ogleroot it will disappear, so players must change worlds (using the "join" option on any player added to their friends list or the "hop worlds" option in the options menu) after feeding all the rabbits present on one world in order to find more. Players with lower Agility levels may wish to bring energy potions to regain run energy.

Big Chinchompa

Players can gain Hunter experience while taking part in the Big Chinchompa Distraction and Diversion. Up to 209,500 experience an hour can be gained with level 99 Hunter. Players can participate in this Distraction and Diversion a maximum of 2 times per day. Big Chinchompa takes place every hour, at half past the hour, when an entrance to the Big Chinchompa's cavern appears in one of several possible locations. Players can quickly travel to the cavern's entrance using Nyriki's portal which is located in the Tree Gnome Stronghold, south of the Gnome Agility Course. The portal may be used up to 3 times a day.

The aim of the Distraction and Diversion is to catch soporith moths and feed them to the large chinchompa, located in the centre of the room, to make it fall asleep. Upon entering the cavern, players will be given a moth jar which is required to store soporith moths. Simply run around the cavern and click on any soporith moth to add it to the moth jar. Players should also search for moths by checking the cocoon-laden branches in the arena, if the tree is currently shaking. Protea flowers can help players to catch more moths; as while they are wielded they will occasionally attract moths which a player's character automatically attempts to catch. Protea flowers can be picked from spawn points in the corners of the area. A player's Hunter level determines the types of moth that they spawn and are able to catch. A player may store up to 15 moths at a time in their moth jar. After catching 15 moths players must empty their moth jar into the pit which contains the big chinchompa, in the middle of the cavern. Depositing moths awards Hunter experience and competence points according to the Hunter level that is required to have caught the moths. Players may earn a maximum of 1,500 competence points each time that they play Big Chinchompa.

Image	Colour	Hunter level required	Hunter experience per moth deposited	Competence points per moth deposited
	Red soporith moth	1	15	1
	Orange soporith moth	13	50	2
	Yellow soporith moth	26	150	5
	Green soporith moth	39	250	8
	Blue soporith moth	52	300	12
	Purple soporith moth	65	320	15
	Grey soporith moth	78	400	18
	Black soporith moth	91	450	21

Depositing moths also increases the big chinchompa's drowsiness level, which is shown in a bar in the Distraction and Diversion's interface. The Distraction and Diversion will end either when 20 minutes have passed or if the big chinchompa reaches 100% drowsiness. The chinchompa's drowsiness increases each time that it eats the soporith moths that are emptied into its nest. If the player has moths remaining in their moth jar at the time that the game ends, then they will be awarded Hunter experience and competence points for the moths at the normal rate.

Supply runs

The start of a supply run

Supply runs are a safe activity that take place on Mazcab every 12 hours (at midnight and noon game time). The activity begins with goebie supplies spawning at the supply rock near to Querci in Kanatah and is available until 25 minutes past the hour. Players may take up to 10 goebie supplies per day from the supply rock. Upon taking goebie supplies players become flagged for safe PvP and can be attacked by other players, with death resulting in the loss of all goebie supplies that the players are carrying. After obtaining goebie supplies players must travel north-west through the Nemi Forest to Otot, where the supplies may be exchanged for experience with Quercy. The player will be given a choice between two skills in which to gain experience: Agility or Crafting, Farming or Herblore, and Hunter or Woodcutting. Different skills are offered on different worlds, so players may change worlds to find a world where the skill in which they wish to gain experience is offered.

Between 495, with level 1, and 48,515, with level 99, experience can be gained from exchanging 10 goebie supplies. Assuming the activity is completed in 5 minutes, experience is awarded at a rate equivalent to between 5,940, with level 1, and 582,180, with level 99, experience an hour.

Croesus

Scaling experience can be obtained by gathering from the enriched nodes in private instances from the dagannoth corpse in the Croesus skilling boss fight, reaching roughly 340 experience per successful gather at level 99 Hunter. Since the boss quickly resets when the player's stats have been drained, it is not necessary to bring restores nor to dodge the boss's mechanics. Instead, the player should focus entirely on gathering from the enriched nodes, which offer twice as much experience as the non-enriched nodes.

However, the player should be vigilant of the fairy circle mechanic, which can teleport them far away from the dagannoth corner. If this happens, the player should run into the mushroom field to quickly reset the boss fight.

At hunter level 99, players may see upwards of 340,000 experience an hour with the trapper outfit, magic butterfly net and Hunter cape.

Hunting speedy whirligigs at Het's Oasis level 90-99+

Speedy whirligigs can be hunted at Het's Oasis from level 90 Hunter. Hollyhocks will need to be placed in the flower boxes in order to attract them.

Assuming that all necessary unlocks at Dundee's Crocodile Upgrades have been purchased, and that Het's statue has been fully repaired for a 10% experience bonus to Het's Oasis skilling activities, a player will receive a passive 20% increase to experience received for each whirligig. It is recommended to unlock all the available upgrades through increased scarab stacks. The only upgrades that don't directly affect experience gains are the chance at double loot, and the golden crocodile cosmetic. Speedy whirligigs award a base of 450 per catch/stack. With passive bonuses from Dundee's Crocodile Upgrades and Het's statue they will award 540 per catch/stack. Experience rate calculations for this article will account only for these experience bonuses as they are permanent passive unlocks that apply directly to this activity.

Crocodile catch speeds are approximately 5-8 seconds assuming catching the closest whirligigs. It is possible to obtain a full stack count every catch even if the crocodile fails to catch a scarab. Stacked catches award experience immediately on a successful stack, even if the crocodile fails. Stacked catches can be failed, however if scarabs are clicked continuously you can gain more stacks until the limit is reach. Stack counts reset immediately on a failed catch, or when the crocodile returns to shore on a successful catch. While possible to maintain a faster catch rate it is assumed a 7 second average on crocodile catches as flowers will need to be refilled.

At 540 experience per catch/stack this will be 6 counts every 7 seconds. This will be a crocodile catch rate of approximately 514 per hour. If this rate can be maintained steadily with maximum stack counts it will be possible to achieve a base experience rate of 1,600,000 per hour. This rate may be obtained as long as intensity of training is maintained even with catch failures. This is an intense training method and requires constant rapid clicking to maintain the experience gain rate.

Quests for Hunter experience

Main article: Quests/Experience rewards § Hunter

Quest	Members	XP reward	Hunter requirement	Other requirements
Father and Son (miniquest)		Medium Hunter XP lamp	N/A	N/A
Jed Hunter (miniquest)		Medium Hunter XP lamp	90	91 Crafting
Perils of Ice Mountain		500	5	5 Farming 5 Thieving 5 Construction
Eagles' Peak		2,500	27	N/A
Hunt for Red Raktuber		1,500	45	38 Thieving 45 Construction
Summer's End		5,000	35	23 Summoning 37 Woodcutting 45 Mining 47 Firemaking 55 Prayer
A Void Dance		10,000	46	47 Construction 47 Mining 48 Summoning 49 Herblore 52 Woodcutting 54 Thieving
As a First Resort		15,000	48	51 Firemaking 58 Woodcutting
Defender of Varrock		15,000	51	51 Agility 54 Smithing 59 Mining
Deadliest Catch		26,000	67	3 Herblore 70 Thieving 70 Fishing
Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf		30,000	61	61 Firemaking 69 Strength
Crocodile Tears		35,000	73	72 Fishing 47 Woodcutting 30 Agility
The Lord of Vampyrium		50,000	76	75 Attack 75 Defence 75 Strength 75 Constitution 79 Construction 78 Slayer
Total		190,500

Money-making using the Hunter skill

Hunter money making guides

Method	Profit	Skill	Experience
Hunting graahks	956,000	41 (60+ recommended)	52,000
Hunting polar kebbits	922,000	None	3,150 472
Hunting implings	1,660,000	83 (91 recommended) 20 (50/79 recommended)	18,000
Hunting ruby harvests	405,000	15 (30 recommended)	10,080
Hunting green salamanders	444,000	29 (higher recommended)	39,520
Hunting kyatt	948,000	55 (70+ recommended)	35,000 1,740
Hunting larupia	3,922,000	31 (50+ recommended)	31,000 2,600
Hunting grenwalls	932,000	77 (80+ recommended for 5 box traps) 69 (optional for fruit bat familiar)	181,500 175
Hunting cobalt skillchompas	582,000	27 42 recommended	30,000-60,000
Hunting viridian skillchompas	820,000	46 64 recommended	60,000-100,000
Hunting azure skillchompas	570,000	68	88,953
Hunting crimson skillchompas	566,000	89	168,348
Hunting black salamanders	371,000	67+ (higher recommended) 13+ for Beast of Burden (higher recommended) 84 recommended	115,800
Hunting red salamanders	1,530,000	59 (higher recommended)	89,600
High level private Grenwall hunting	1,474,000	77 (99 recommended) 71 (optional for best results)	181,500
Hunting orange salamanders	2,396,000	47 (higher recommended)	89,600
Hunting sabre-toothed kebbits	2,032,000	51	28,000 630 3500
Hunting Crystal skillchompas	6,476,000	97 (99 highly recommended) 99 71 recommended	300,000
Hunting Grenwalls	2,119,000	77 (80+ recommended) 71 (for best results)	217,800
Hunting igneous jadinkos	10,487,000	74 (80+ recommended) 71 (for best results) 70 (to grow Ugune seed for maximum profit) 64 (to mix Juju farming potion (3) for maximum profit)	300,000
Hunting white rabbits (Hunter)	5,291,000	27 52 or higher recommended	41,464