OSRS Desert Achievement Diary Guide

The Desert Achievement Diary is one of the most beneficial diaries in Old School RuneScape, offering perks such as free teleport to Nardah, infinite water skins, and boosts for desert-related activities. Whether you’re a mid-game Ironman or a maxed main account, completing these diaries will greatly improve your efficiency in the Kharidian Desert. 

The Desert Diary is a set of tasks split into four tiers (Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite) located across the Kharidian Desert region, including areas like Al Kharid, Nardah, Pollnivneach, and the Desert Mining Camp. Each tier completed rewards you with Desert amulet upgrades and experience lamps. Want us to do it for you? Please visit our achievement diary service

Why Complete the Desert Diary?

• Free pass-through of the Shantay Pass and the Ruins of Unkah
• Unlimited Nardah teleports for banking and prayer restoration
• Efficient Slayer training (Dust Devils, Smoke Devils, Kalphite tasks)
• Kalphite Queen noted drops, increasing profit per trip

Okay, now we'll show you the requirements and steps to follow to complete each diary. After completing each diary, you can talk to Jarr in the Shantay Pass to claim your rewards. Let's proceed.

Easy Desert Diary

  Tasks

• 1. Catch a golden warbler.
• 2. Mine five clay in the north-eastern desert.
• 3. Enter the Kalphite Hive.
• 4. Enter the Desert with a set of desert robes equipped.
• 5. Kill a vulture (can be found north-west of Agility Pyramid).
• 6. Have the Nardah herbalist (Zahur) clean a herb for you.
• 7. Collect 5 Potato Cactus from the Kalphite Hive.
• 8. Sell some artefacts to Simon Templeton.
• 9. Open the sarcophagus in the first room of Pyramid Plunder.
• 10. Cut a desert cactus open to fill a waterskin.
• 11. Travel from the Shantay Pass to Pollnivneach by magic carpet.

  Items required

• 400 coins
• Shantay pass (can be purchased at the Shantay Pass Shop)
• Bird snare
• Any pickaxe
• 2 Ropes
• Knife or any slash weapon
• Desert shirt
• Desert robe
• Desert boots
• Any grimy herb
• Any Pyramid Plunder artefact
• Empty waterskin
• Weaponry, preferably Ranged or Magic

  Skills required

• 5 Hunter
• 21 Thieving  

  Quests required

• Started Icthlarin's Little Helper
• Gertrude's Cat

  Rewards

• Desert amulet 1
• 1 Antique lamp worth 2,500 experience in any skill above 30.
• Pharaoh's sceptre will hold up to 10 charges.
• Simon Templeton will purchase artefacts as bank notes.
• Desert goat horn will be dropped in noted form.

Medium Desert Diary

  Tasks

• 1. Climb to the summit of the Agility Pyramid.
• 2. Slay a desert lizard.
• 3. Catch an orange salamander.
• 4. Steal a Phoenix feather from the Desert phoenix.
• 5. Travel to Uzer via magic carpet.
• 6. Travel to the desert via the Eagle transport system.
• 7. Pray at the Elidinis Statuette in Nardah.
• 8. Create a combat potion in the desert (outside of desert cities).
• 9. Teleport to Enakhra's Temple with the Camulet.
• 10. Visit the genie (achieved during Spirits of the Elid).
• 11. Teleport to Pollnivneach with a redirected teleport to house tablet.
• 12. Chop some teak logs near Uzer 

  Items required

• 200 coins
• Ice cooler
• Rope
• Small fishing net
• Any axe
• Any light source
• Scroll of redirection
• Teleport to house
• Harralander potion (unf)
• Goat horn dust
• Charged Camulet

  Skills required

• 37 Ranged
• 50 Crafting
• 45 Firemaking
• 43 Prayer
• 39 Magic
• 37 Mining
• 30 Agility
• 22 Slayer
• 47 Hunter
• 37 Thieving
• 36 Herblore
• 35 Woodcutting
• 20 Construction

  Quests required

• The Golem
• Enakhra's Lament
• Spirits of the Elid
• Eagles' Peak

  Rewards

• Desert amulet 2
• Free teleport to Nardah once per day.
• 1 Antique lamp worth 7,500 experience in any skill above 40.
• Pharaoh's sceptre holds up to 25 charges.

Hard Desert Diary

  Tasks

• 1. Knock out and pickpocket a Menaphite Thug.
• 2. Mine some granite.
• 3. Refill your waterskins in the Desert using Lunar spells.
• 4. Kill the Kalphite Queen.
• 5. Complete a lap of the Pollnivneach Rooftop Course.
• 6. Slay a Dust devil in the desert cave with a Slayer helmet equipped.
• 7. Activate Ancient Magicks at the altar in the Ancient Pyramid.
• 8. Defeat a locust rider with Keris.
• 9. Burn some yew logs on the Nardah Mayor's balcony.
• 10. Create a Mithril platebody in Nardah.

  Items required

• Any blackjack
• Any non-filled waterskin
• Means to cast Humidify (an astral rune, a fire rune and 3 water runes)
• Weaponry
• Slayer helmet
• Keris or Keris partisan
• 5 mithril bars
• Yew log
• Tinderbox
• Hammer
• Any pickaxe
• Any light source

  Skills required

• 10 Fletching
• 40 Ranged
• 31 Herblore
• 85 Combat level
• 60 Mining
• 55 Woodcutting
• 70 Agility
• 68 Magic
• 65 Thieving
• 65 Slayer
• 61 Crafting
• 50 Attack
• 40 Defence
• 60 Firemaking
• 68 Smithing

  Quests required

• Partial completion of The Feud
• Dream Mentor
• Lunar Diplomacy
• The Fremennik Trials
• Lost City
• Rune Mysteries
• Shilo Village
• Jungle Potion
• Druidic Ritual
• Eadgar's Ruse
• Desert Treasure I
• Priest in Peril
• Waterfall Quest
• Temple of Ikov
• The Tourist Trap
• The Dig Site
• Druidic Ritual
• Troll Stronghold
• Death Plateau
• Partial completion of Contact!
• Prince Ali Rescue
• Icthlarin's Little Helper
• Gertrude's Cat

  Rewards

• Desert amulet 3
• 1 Antique lamp worth 15,000 experience in any skill above 50.
• All carpet rides are free.
• Pharaoh's sceptre holds up to 50 charges.
• Option to toggle the Camulet teleport location to the cavern entrance.
• Zahur will create unfinished potions at a cost of 200 coins each—works with notes.
• Permanent ropes at both the Kalphite Lair and the Kalphite Queen tunnel entrances. (Note: Both ropes need to be placed the first time you enter these tunnels after completing the Diary).
• 126 More experience on the final obstacle of the Pollnivneach Rooftop Course

Elite Desert Diary

Items required

• 15,000 coins if you don't yet have a Skill Hall in your house
• Raw wild pie
• Means to cast Ice Barrage (2 blood runes, 4 death runes and 6 water runes)
• Dragon dart tip
• Feather
• Stuffed kq head
• 2 mahogany planks
• 2 gold leaves
• Saw
• Hammer

  Skills required

• 15 Agility
• 10 Herblore
• 50 Firemaking
• 40 Ranged
• 20 Smithing
• 78 Construction
• 85 Cooking
• 95 Fletching
• 94 Magic
• 85 Prayer
• 91 Thieving

  Quests required

• Desert Treasure I
• Priest in Peril
• Waterfall Quest
• Temple of Ikov
• The Tourist Trap
• The Dig Site
• Druidic Ritual
• Troll Stronghold
• Death Plateau
• Started Icthlarin's Little Helper
• Gertrude's Cat

  Tasks

• 1. Bake a wild pie at the Nardah clay oven.
• 2. Cast Ice Barrage against a foe in the Desert (outside of desert cities). It must not splash.
• 3. Fletch some Dragon darts at the Bedabin Camp.
• 4. Speak to the Kq head in your POH.
• 5. Steal from the Grand Gold Chest in the final room of Pyramid Plunder.
• 6. Restore at least 85 Prayer points when praying at the altar in Sophanem.

  Rewards

•  Desert amulet 4
• 100% protection against desert heat when worn.
• Unlimited teleports to Nardah and the Kalphite Cave.
• 1 Antique lamp worth 50,000 experience in any skill above 70.
• Free access to the Shantay Pass gate without the need of tickets.
• Pharaoh's sceptre holds up to 100 charges.
• Access to a squeeze-through crevice shortcut, requiring 86 Agility in the Kalphite Lair that takes you directly from the beginning of the maze-type path of the lair, to the tunnel entrance above the Kalphite Queen Chamber.

Conclusion

The Desert Achievement Diary is not just another checklist. Its rewards directly impact your training, money-making, and bossing efficiency in the harsh desert lands. Make this diary a priority milestone in your OSRS journey. Want us to do it for you? Please visit our Want us to do it for you? Please visit our achievement diary service