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WARNING:

This guides below obviously contains spoilers on how to solve the clues. Don't look if you want to figure this stuff out for yourself. For the coordinate clues, a spade is necessary for the solution. Simply use a spade where the solution states. Note that you are still required to carry your Sextant, Chart and Watch for Coordinate clues with you or your treasure will not be revealed.

Clue Guides

Select your clue type to see the relevant guides for that clue.
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Treasure Trails Standard Tips

So, you got your first clue, congratulations. Now you must be off to get your treasure! Remember sometimes when the clue gives a coordinate, you get to the place, realizing that you forgotten to bring your watch or chart? Never fear, with this comprehensive guide, what you need to bring is all listed here!

Things to bring

Every time you go treasure hunting, you must
ALWAYS bring the following to save loads of time:

Watch
Sextant
Chart
Spade
Clue Scroll

The other items are best to make the trip as smooth as possible:

Rope (mainly for waterfall, I see that it is one of the most common coordinates)
About 100-500gp (for expenses, e.g. traveling to Karamja/Brimhaven)
Any weapon (just in case for any reason)
Runes, recommended runes; 5 Law, 3 earth, 3 fire, 3-4 water (Ardougne teleport) and an air staff/battlestaff
Wizard's Mind Bomb if your magic is too low to cast certain teleport spells
Amulet of Glory(4) (easy teleportation)
Some food, you may need to run past enemies
Boots of Lightness (reduces your weight)
Anti-poison pots (you never know)
On level 3 clues you will be attacked by a level 108 Saradomin wizard or level 75 Zamorak wizard (in wilderness) as you dig, so be prepared to fight: bring an antipoison, use prayer; it is advisable to turn on magic protection!

Treasure trails is for RS Members only. It is sort of a small mini-quest in which you can get rare unique pieces of equipment or other things.

Note: Do note that even though the list says an enemy drops a clue, it may take a long while before you actually get one from the enemy.

To increase chances of getting a clue, a Ring of Wealth may help. Your best chance however is to just find a good area for whatever enemy it is, and hope there isn't a lot of people in that area.

There are a lot of solutions in this guide and you might not even find yours if looking manually. Simply use the "CTRL + F" feature and search for keywords. For example "halt us" or "under cook".

Aquiring Sextant, Watch, and Chart

In order to aquire a sextant, watch, and chart, you first must have a coordinate clue and have either started or completed the Observatory Quest. Once you have met these requirements, the steps are as follows:

With the coordinate clue in your inventory, talk to the Observatory professor about Treasure Trails.
Head over to Port Khazard and speak to Murphy to obtain a sextant.
Speak with Brother Kojo in the Clock Tower for a watch.
Finally, go back to the Observatory and speak with the assistant for the chart.
Speak to the Observatory professor for the last and final time. Now you can do coordinate scrolls!

Clue Droppers

For clue droppers you can check our Drop Tables page.
Search for "Clue Scroll"

Common Farming Locations

Here is a list of commonly farmed NPCs and their locations.

Scroll	NPC/Location	Notes
Easy	Thugs - Edgeville dungeon level 2 wilderness	In the wilderness, thugs are aggressive to all combat levels. Watch for PKers within 2 levels.
Easy	Men - All over RuneScape	Men can be killed very quickly, thus improving the speed of obtaining a clue scroll.
Medium	Guards - Falador	Guards can be safespotted from behind the fences.
Hard	Hellhounds - Taverly dungeon	A Dwarf Multicannon can be used here to greatly speed up farming.

Trail Levels and Rewards

For clue rewards you can check our Clue Tables page.
Select the clue tier you wish to view drops for