Hunter
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| Hunter | ||||
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| 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 area
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Talk to the hunting tutor and purchase 1 of the 3 skilling outfits for a 10% XP BOOST!
Setup bird snares up until you can move onto swamp lizards (crimson swifts up until lvl 19 then switch to tropical wagtails).
Continue doing this until you can move onto net traps. Once you get to level 29 move over to swamp lizards. Have a small fishing net and a rope in your inv then click on a tree to setup a trap and wait for a swamp lizard to get caught. Every 20 levels you are able to setup 1 additional trap.
Continue doing this until you get to level 47 then move over to orange salamanders. Same concept.
Once you get to level 53 start doing chinchompas by laying box traps in the designated area below:
Keep doing this until you get to level 60 then start placing 4 traps at a time. I like to place them into a square or a straight line to increase odds of getting a catch.
Move over to red chinchompas when you get to lvl 63, placing 4 traps at a time.
Move over to black salamanders when you can at level 75 located ::champ north. Once you're level 80 you should start putting 5 traps up at a time.
Continue doing this until you can do black chinchompas at ::chins. Be sure to place 5 traps at a time and continue doing this method until you reach 99
| Hunter guide's name | Area | 
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Hunter creatures | Map | |
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| Skilling Island | Skilling Island | 35 |  |
Bluegill | add |
| 51 |  |
Common tench | |||
| 68 |  |
Mottled eel | |||
| 87 |  |
Greater siren | |||
| Wilderness | Chins | 60 | Maniacal monkey (Hunter) | Maniacal monkey | N/A |
| Swamp | Canifis Hunter area | 29 |  |
Swamp lizard | N/A |
Hunting techniques
Bird snaring
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
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
The butterfly netting technique is used to catch 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.
Implings
Implings are small creatures that can be hunted on the skilling island and in the wilderness.
Net trapping
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.
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%.[1] 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.
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Traps |
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| 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 2 |
| 40 | 3 |
| 60 | 4 |
| 80 | 5 |
Hunter shops
There are two Hunter stores in which players can buy hunter tools.
Hunter and camouflage clothing
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 [2], 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.
Hunter pets
Baby chinchompa
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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.
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Quetzin
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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.
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| [[{{#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) |
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| [[{{#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