Hunter

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Hunter
Released		21 November 2006 (Update)
Also called		Hunt
Members		Yes
Type		Gathering
Statistics
Players with 99		86,751 as of 1 March 2024 - update
Players with 200M XP		278 as of 17 March 2024 - update

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Hunter is a members-only skill in which players catch different animals and creatures in RuneScape. Although Hunter is a non-combat skill, players can still be damaged while hunting. Using hunting equipment bought from hunter stores, players can hunt specific creatures obtaining rewards such as spotted kebbit fur for spotted cape, chinchompas, black salamanders, and the fabled dragon implings.

Hunter can be trained in a variety of locations throughout the game, with most players beginning their training in the Feldip Hills. Birdhouses are often utilised at later levels, and at level 46 players can access the Hunter Guild, located in the Avium Savannah, along with its associated rumours.

Released in November 2006, Hunter is the most recent skill added to Old School RuneScape.

Hunter areas

There are a couple designated Hunter areas that form a habitat housing multiple Hunter creatures. These habitats are a desert, jungle, woodland and a snowy area. These Hunter areas are not the only locations in Gielinor that house Hunter creatures. There are also several other locations housing a single species.

After completion of the Eagle's Peak quest, a player can use the eagle transport system to fly an eagle from Eagles' Peak in the woodland area to three of the other training areas: snow, jungle and desert.

Hunter guide's name	Area		Hunter creatures		Map
Aerial	Lake Molch	35		Bluegill	File:Lake Molch map.png
		51		Common tench
		68		Mottled eel
		87		Greater siren
Ape Atoll	Kruk's Dungeon	60	Maniacal monkey (Hunter)	Maniacal monkey	N/A
Desert	Uzer Hunter area	5	Golden warbler	Golden warbler	File:Uzer Hunter area location.png
		13	Desert devil	Desert devil
		47		Orange salamander
	Necropolis Hunter area	47		Orange salamander	N/A
Jungle	Feldip Hunter area	1	Crimson swift	Crimson swift	File:Feldip Hunter area map.png
		7	Feldip Weasel	Feldip Weasel
		19	Tropical wagtail	Tropical wagtail
		31	Spined larupia	Spined larupia
		33	Barb-tailed kebbit	Barb-tailed kebbit
		45	Black warlock	Black warlock
		63		Carnivorous chinchompa
Karamja	Karamja Hunter area	41	Horned graahk	Horned graahk	N/A
Lava	Ourania Hunter area	59		Red salamander	N/A
	Boneyard Hunter area	67		Black salamander	N/A
Savannah	Avium Savannah	39	Embertailed jerboa	Embertailed jerboa	N/A
		51	Pyre fox	Pyre fox
		65	Sunlight Moth	Sunlight Moth
		72	Sunlight antelope	Sunlight antelope
		75	Moonlight moth	Moonlight moth
		79	Tecu salamander (Hunter)	Tecu salamander
		91	Moonlight antelope	Moonlight antelope
Snow	Rellekka Hunter area	1	Polar kebbit	Polar kebbit	File:Rellekka Hunter area map.png
		11	Cerulean twitch	Cerulean twitch
		25	Sapphire glacialis	Sapphire glacialis
		35	Snowy knight	Snowy knight
		51	Sabre-toothed kebbit	Sabre-toothed kebbit
		55	Sabre-toothed kyatt	Sabre-toothed kyatt
Swamp	Canifis Hunter area	29		Swamp lizard	N/A
Woodland	Piscatoris Hunter area	3	Common kebbit	Common kebbit	File:Piscatoris Hunter area map.png
		9	Copper longtail	Copper longtail
		15	Ruby harvest	Ruby harvest
		23	Wild kebbit	Wild kebbit
		27		Ferret
		27	White rabbit	White rabbit
		37	Prickly kebbit	Prickly kebbit
		49	Razor-backed kebbit	Razor-backed kebbit
		53		Chinchompa
	Falconry	43	Spotted kebbit	Spotted kebbit	File:Falconer map.png
		57	Dark kebbit	Dark kebbit
		69	Dashing kebbit	Dashing kebbit
	Kourend Woodland	9	Copper longtail	Copper longtail	File:Kourend Woodland map.png
		15	Ruby harvest	Ruby harvest
		53		Chinchompa
Other	Gwenith Hunter area	63		Carnivorous chinchompa	N/A
	Fossil Island underwater	44		Fish shoal	N/A
	Mushroom Forest and Fossil Island Volcano	5		Bird houses	N/A
	Mushroom Forest	80	Herbiboar	Herbiboar	N/A
	Wilderness	73		Black chinchompa	N/A
	Gielinor	71	Imp	Imp	N/A

Hunting techniques

Aerial fishing

Main article: Aerial fishing

Aerial fishing is a Hunter technique requiring 35 Hunter and 43 Fishing. The aerial fishing technique is used to catch several fish species at Lake Molch. With the required Hunter and Fishing level and a cormorant's glove equipped, clicking on a fishing spot will send the cormorant towards the spot to catch a fish. The cormorant will always return to the player with a fish.

Bird house trapping

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Main article: Bird house trapping

The bird house trapping technique is used to catch birds on Fossil Island. With the required Hunter level, the player may set up a bird house and fill it with seeds and wait approximately 50 minutes for it to fill up with birds. The player may then check the bird houses, from which they will receive Hunter experience, feathers, raw bird meat and a bird nests. The bird house will be lost in the process, but the clockwork will be returned.

Bird snaring

Main article: Bird snare

The bird snaring technique is used to catch several birds. With the required Hunter level, the player may set up a bird snare and wait for a bird to approach the trap.

Box trapping

Main article: Box trap

The box trapping technique is used to catch ferrets and chinchompas. With the required Hunter level and completion of the Eagles' Peak quest, the player may set up a box trap. When a chinchompa or ferret passes the trap, it may be caught, but only when the player is not standing on the trap.

Butterfly netting

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Main article: Butterfly net

The butterfly netting technique is used to catch butterflies, implings and bats. With the required Hunter level, a butterfly net (or magic butterfly net) and the appropriate container (a butterfly or impling jar), the player may left-click on a flying creature to capture it.

Deadfall trapping

Main article: Deadfall

The deadfall trapping technique is used to catch kebbits, maniacal monkeys, and pyre foxes. With the required Hunter level, a knife and logs in the inventory (or a banana when hunting maniacal monkeys), clicking on a boulder will set the trap. When the kebbit or monkey paths towards the trap, it may be caught.

Drift net fishing

Main article: Drift net fishing

The drift net fishing technique is used to catch fish shoals. With the required Hunter and Fishing level, and a drift net in the inventory, clicking on the drift net anchors will set the trap. When a fish shoal swims towards the net, it may get stuck in the net. The player can choose to actively chase the fish shoals to speed up the process. A merfolk trident gives an increased chance to scare off fish shoals into the net.

If ten fish shoals get stuck in the trap, the net will be full, and the player will have the option to "check" the drift net. This will reward the player with ten raw fish.

Falconry

Main article: Falconry

The falconry technique is used to catch several kebbits. With the required Hunter level and a gyr falcon, clicking on a kebbit will send the falcon towards the kebbit. When the falcon catches the kebbit, the hunter needs to retrieve both the falcon and the drops.

Implings

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Main article: Impling

Implings are small creatures that can be hunted within Puro-Puro as well as spawning at random points around the world. Catching an Impling requires the use of a butterfly net or magic butterfly net and an impling jar. Alternatively, implings can be caught barehanded - without the use of a net or impling jar - although this requires a Hunter level of 10 levels above the normal requirement.

Net trapping

Main article: Net trap

The net trapping technique is used to catch salamanders. With the required Hunter level, a rope and small fishing net in the inventory, clicking on a young tree will set the trap. When the lizard or salamander passes the trap, it may be caught, but only when the player is not standing on the net.

Magic box trapping

Main article: Magic box

The magic box trapping technique is used to catch imps. With the required Hunter level, the player may set up a magic box. When an imp passes the trap, it may be caught, but only when the player is not standing on the trap.

Pitfall trapping

Main article: Pitfall

The pitfall trapping technique is used to catch spined larupias, horned graahks and sabre-toothed kyatts. With the required Hunter level, a knife and logs in the inventory, clicking on a pit will set the trap. With a teasing stick in the inventory, the player has to tease the creature and then jump over the spiked pit. When the creature passes the trap, it may be caught.

Rabbit snaring

Main article: Rabbit snare

The rabbit snaring technique is used to catch white rabbits. With the required Hunter level, completion of the Eagles' Peak quest and a ferret in the inventory, the player may set up a rabbit snare and flush a rabbit hole to trap a white rabbit.

Tracking

Main article: Tracking

The tracking technique is used to catch several kebbits and herbiboars. With this technique the player inspects scenery objects in the creature's habitat to uncover a creature's tracks. These tracks will eventually lead the player towards the hiding creature. When the hiding creature is found, right-click 'Attack' while wielding a noose wand to receive loot and experience. A noose wand is not needed to catch herbiboar.

Miscellaneous

Bait and smoking traps

There are three ways for player to increase the catch rate of creatures: a higher skill level, using bait and smoking the trap. Many Hunter creatures have a preferred bait that players can use on a trap to increase the catch rate. To find out what the preferred bait of a creature is, visit the creature's page or the in-game Hunter guide. By smoking a trap, the player's scent will vanish, and thus make the creature less suspicious of the trap. A trap can be smoked by using a lit torch on the trap.

Adding a creature's corresponding bait to a trap will increase the catch rate by +3%, while smoking a trap with a Torch will increase the catch rate by +2%. Due to the low increase of the catch rate, most players believe that smoking or adding bait to traps doesn't justify the extra actions it takes.

Multiple traps

Box trapping, net trapping, bird snaring and rabbit snaring can be done with multiple traps at once, with the maximum amount of traps depending on the player's Hunter level.

An extra trap may be set while hunting black salamanders or black chinchompas in the wilderness.

Temporary boosts make it possible to use more traps at lower levels.

	Traps
1	1
20	2
40	3
60	4
80	5

Hunter shops

There are two Hunter stores in which players can buy hunter tools. These shops are Aleck's Hunter Emporium in Yanille and Nardah Hunter Shop in Nardah. Both shops have the same items in stock.

Item		Price

Hunter spell

Casting the Hunter Kit spell on the Lunar spellbook, requiring level 71 Magic and Dream Mentor, players will obtain a hunter kit which contains various useful hunter tools: a bird snare, box trap, butterfly net, impling jar, noose wand, rabbit snare, teasing stick and unlit torch.

Hunter crossbow

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Leon, who is located inside the Hunter shop in Yanille, sells a hunter's crossbow for 1,300 coins. This crossbow possesses a firing speed of 4, which is equivalent to that of a shortbow, requires 50 Ranged to wield and can only use kebbit bolts and long kebbit bolts as ammunition. At level 74 Fletching, this crossbow can be upgraded with a Sunlight antelope antler to create the Hunters' sunlight crossbow.

Players can make their own bolts using the Fletching skill by using a chisel on a kebbit spike, or they can pay Leon a small fee to makes the bolts for them.

• 6 Kebbit bolts costs a kebbit spike (Prickly kebbit) and 20 coins
• 6 long kebbit bolts cost a long kebbit spike (Razor-backed kebbit) and 40 coins

Additionally, players can make bolts for their upgraded Hunters' sunlight crossbow by fletching antelope antlers.

• 12 Sunlight bolts from one Sunlight antelope antler (requires level 62 Fletching)
• 12 Moonlight bolts from one Moonlight antelope antler (requires level 72 Fletching)

Hunter and camouflage clothing

Main article: Fancy Clothes Store

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Some Hunter creatures will reward the player with the creature's fur when caught. These furs may be traded in at the Fancy Clothes Store in south-east Varrock for different types of hunter gear. In addition to the furs, the costume maker will also charge a small fee to create this gear.

• Polar camouflage gear - Polar kebbit fur
• Wood camouflage gear - Common kebbit fur
• Jungle camouflage gear - Feldip weasel fur
• Desert camouflage gear - Desert devil fur
• Larupia hunter gear - Larupia fur and tatty larupia fur
• Graahk hunter gear - Graahk fur and tatty graahk fur
• Kyatt hunter gear - Kyatt fur and tatty kyatt fur

Wearing camouflage gear does not improve the chance of successfully capturing creatures , although the tops and legs reduce the player's weight when worn by 3kg and 2kg respectively.

The Larupia, Graahk, and Kyatt hunter gear sets reduce damage from Hunter creatures by 20%, 40%, and 60% respectively.

The costume maker can also make a few other items. Spotted and spottier capes reduce the player's weight when worn, and the gloves of silence made from dark kebbit furs make pickpocketing easier.

Storage items

The following items can be used to store or produce hunter equipment and catch:

Item	What is stored	Source
Small meat pouch Small meat pouch	14 pieces of meat	Sewn from 4 Fox furs
Large meat pouch Large meat pouch	28 pieces of meat	Sewn from a small pouch and 3 sunlight antelope furs
Small fur pouch Small fur pouch	14 furs	Sewn from a 4 larupia furs
Medium fur pouch Medium fur pouch	21 furs	Sewn from a small pouch and 3 graahk furs
Large fur pouch Large fur pouch	28 furs	Sewn from a medium pouch and 3 kyatt furs
Huntsman's kit Huntsman's kit	Various pieces of hunter gear	Hunters' loot sacks from rumours
Tackle box	Small nets for net traps, diving equipment for drift net fishing and Molch pearls from aerial fishing	Tempoross, via the reward pool
Herb sack	Grimy herbs from Herbiboar	Slayer Rewards or Farmer Gricoller's Rewards from Tithe Farm
Log basket	Logs for deadfall trapping and pitfall trapping	Forestry Shop
Jar generator	Produces butterfly and impling jars	Elnock's Exchange in Puro Puro
Hunter kit	Produces various hunting tools	Hunter kit spell

In addition, the following NPCs offer storage services for hunter-related items:

NPC	What is stored	Activity
Annette	Drift nets	Drift net fishing
Elnock Inquisitor	Butterfly nets, imp repellent and impling jars	Impetuous impulses

Hunter pets

Baby chinchompa

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Main article: Baby chinchompa

The baby chinchompa is a skilling pet that can be obtained while catching any kind of chinchompa. The chances of getting it are dependent on the player's Hunter level and the type of chinchompa being hunted.

Herbi

File:Herbi (follower).png

Main article: Herbi

Herbi is a pet obtained from hunting herbiboars found in Fossil Island's Mushroom Forest. There is a 1/6,500 chance to receive the pet after the player harvests the herbs from the herbiboar.

Quetzin

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Main article: Quetzin

Quetzin is a pet that can be obtained as a potential reward from completing Hunters' Rumours in the Hunter Guild. The pet can be obtained from any tier of rumours.

Temporary boosts

Main article: Temporary skill boost

Temporary skill boost/Hunter

Quests

Quests requiring Hunter

Quest	Hunter requirement	Other skill requirements
Cold War	10	File:Construction icon.png 34 , 30 , 30 , 15
The Ascent of Arceuus	12	-
Perilous Moons	20	File:Construction icon.png 10 , 20 , 20 , 48
Eagles' Peak	27	-
At First Light	46	File:Construction icon.png 27 , 30
Defender of Varrock	52	55
Secrets of the North	56	69 , 64
Monkey Madness II	60	69 , 70 , 55 , 55
Song of the Elves	70	70 , File:Construction icon.png 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70

Quests rewarding Hunter experience

Main article: Quest experience rewards

Quest	Experience reward	Hunter requirement	Other requirements
Natural history quiz (miniquest)	1,000	-	-
The Ascent of Arceuus	1,500	12	-
Eagles' Peak	2,500	27	-
At First Light	4,500	46	File:Construction icon.png 27 , 30
Perilous Moons	5,000	20	File:Construction icon.png 10 , 20 , 20 , 48
Defender of Varrock	15,000	52	55
Secrets of the North	40,000	56	69 , 64
Song of the Elves	40,000	70	70 , File:Construction icon.png 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70 , 70
Monkey Madness II	50,000	60	69 , 70 , 55 , 55
Total	150,000

Skill choice

Upon completing any of the following quests, players may choose to allocate experience to Hunter. These rewards usually come in the form of items, such as lamps or books, and are independent of any experience rewards directly received for completing the quest. Template:SkillChoice

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:22 November 2018| |0}} {{#explode:22 November 2018| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:22 November 2018| |2}}]] (update)	The message received when smoking a trap can now be filtered.
[[{{#explode:21 April 2016| |0}} {{#explode:21 April 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 April 2016| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Implings can now be caught barehanded and do not require a jar. Clue scrolls have been added to impling drop tables.
[[{{#explode:14 April 2016| |0}} {{#explode:14 April 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:14 April 2016| |2}}]] (update)	Levelling up to 22 hunter now states you can catch young implings rather than adolescent implings.

See also

• Hunter/Experience table, a list of all Hunter experience sources
• Hunter/Level up table, a list of all requirements and unlockables within the Hunter skill