Thieving Guide

Basics of Thieving

The thieving skill, when trained properly, can lead to great treasures and wealthiness.

To succesfully steal from NPCs, you have 3 options:
Pickpocket: Steal from a NPC's pocket. If the NPC can be pickpocketed, you can right-click on it, and the pickpocket option will appear.

Stall Stealing: Ardounge center has various stalls where to steal from, these go from a bakery stall, up to a gem stall.

Pick-locking: Many doors and chests in Runescape can be picklocked to get reward, these can go from 10gp up to Blood Runes and adamantine ores.

Pickpocketing

To pickpocket a NPC, you'll have to right-click on it, and select the "pickpocket" option, if your thieving level is high enough, your character will try to pickpocket it. There's a chance you'll be caught, be stunned for a little while, and lose some hp (Depending on the character you tried to pickpocket)

NPC Name	Level Required	Exp if Successful	Location	Reward
Man/Woman	1	8	All around Runescape	3gp
Farmer	10	14.5	Near chickens or cows	10gp
Female HAM Member	15	18.5	HAM Headquaters	HAM Clothes, Clue Scrolls, Misc.	Male HAM Member	20	22	HAM Headquaters	HAM Clothes, Clue Scrolls, Misc.	Warrior	25	26	Al Kharid and Ardounge	18gp
Rogue	32	35.5	Somewhere near level 55 Wilderness.	40 gp, Iron dagger (p) Wine, Air Runes, Lockpicks
Guard	40	46.5	Outside cities	30gp
Fremennik	45	65	Rellekka	40gp
Knight	55	84.5	Ardounge	50gp
Desert Bandit	55	79.5	South-West of the Shantay Pass	Lock Pick, Coins (30), Antipoison (1)
Watchman	65	137.5	Yanille	60gp, Bread
Paladin	70	151.75	Ardounge	80gp, Chaos Runes
Gnome	75	198.5	Gnome Stronghold	300gp, Earth Rune, King Worm, Swamp Toad, Gold Ore, Fire Orb
Hero	80	275	Ardounge	300gp, Death Runes, Blood rune, Fire Orb, Cut Diamond, Gold Bar, Wine

Stall Stealing

Stalls can be found in East Ardounge*, and are easy to steal-from. To steal from a stall, just right click it, and select the "Steal from" option, if your thieving level is high enough, your character will try to steal from it. There's a chance a guard might see you and will start attacking you.

Stall	Level Required	Exp if Successful	Reward	City
Cake Stall	5	16	Cake, Bread, Chocolate Slice,Meat Pie	East Ardounge
Tea Stall	5	16	Cup of Tea	Varrock
Crafting Stall	5	16	Chisels, Moulds	Ape Atoll
Monkey Food Stall	5	16	Banana	Ape Atoll
Silk Stall	20	24	Silk	East Ardounge
Fur Stall	35	36	Fur	East Ardounge, Rellekka
Fish Stall	42	42	Salmon, Tuna, Lobster	Rellekka
Silver Stall	50	54	Silver Bar, Ore	East Ardounge
Spice Stall	65	81	Pot of Spice	East Ardounge
Scimitar Stall	65	?	?	Ape Atoll
Magic Stall	65	?	?	Ape Atoll
Gem Stall	75	16	1 uncut gem (All except for Dragonstone)	East Ardounge

Pick-Locking

To picklock a door or chest simply right-click on it and press the "Picklock" or "Search for traps" options respectively. If your thieving level is high enough, your character will try to picklock,or disarm it. There is a chance you will miss to picklock the door, in that case, try again. Chests can't be missed (If you miss one, your thieving level isn't high enough)

Chest	Level Required	Exp if Successful	Location	Reward
Coins	10	7	East entrance to Ardounge, first north house, picklocking the door needed.	10gp
Ogre Coffin**	20	27	Ogre Cermonial Dance ground, South of Castle Wars.	Ancestral Bones, Nails, Coins, Clue Scrolls (Tier 1), Misc.
Nature Runes	28	25	East entrance to Ardounge, first south house, picklocking the door needed.Climb the stairs, north chest.	1 Nature Rune, 3 Coins
More Coins	43	125	East entrance to Ardounge, first south house, picklocking the door needed. Climb the stairs, south chest.	50gp

*East Ardounge isn't the only place with stalls.
Note: I know there are more chests, but I'm still lacking the thieving level necessary, I will be adding them as I get it.
If you get any new information or discover a mistake e-mail me to: pima_89@hotmail.com

**Ogre Coffins give one additional experience point for every couple seconds you spend trying to pick lock them. However, your thieving level will go down also ("Your hands grow numb from fumbling with the lock"). If you pick the ones that are outside the dance grounds, the Ogre Guards can knock you out and put you into the tomb with the Zogres. Ogre Coffins can also break lockpicks and release the disease.

Updated by: Xpheyel