OSRS Sheep Shearer Quest Guide

Sheep Shearer is also one of the first quests in OSRS. It involves helping Fred the Farmer shear his sheep and has no requirements.

General Questing recommendations

• Enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section. 
• Hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog. 

Item requirements for Sheep Shearer

• 20 balls of wool

Regular Accounts Sheep Shearer Guide

Normal accounts can purchase 20 balls of wool from the Grand Exchange and take them to Fred the Farmer to finish the quest. Ironman accounts must obtain the items themselves, since they can’t trade with other players. The best method to get all the required items is shown below.

Ironman Guide for Sheep Shearer

• Talk to Fred the Farmer, located north of Lumbridge, and reply 1, 1 to start the quest. After the conversation, he will give you shears.

• Next, climb the fence into the field,  east of the farmer, using the Stile shown below.

• Click different Sheep there to shear them until you have 20 wools. Be careful not to click the ram, as this will make your character attack it.

Go to Lumbridge Castle and climb the stairs to the middle floor, then use the spinning wheel to spin the wool into balls of wool.

• Run back and speak to Fred the farmer to deliver the balls of wool to finish the quest.

Reward from Sheep Shearer

• 1 quest point
• 150 crafting XP
• 60 coins