OSRS Stealing Artefacts Guide: XP Rates, Worlds, Strategies

Stealing artefacts is a thieving minigame located in Port Piscarillius. It is a great alternative method for training thieving as it is less click-intensive than regular thieving training methods and offers good experience rates. Players are required to have atleast 49 thieving to participate. To start, they must speak to Captain Khaled who can be found in the foodhall on the eastern side of the city. He will ask them to steal an artefact from a specific location in the residential district of Port Piscarillius, If the player successfully delivers the stolen artefacts to Captain Khaled, he will reward them with thieving experience equal to 40 times their current thieving level and 500-1,000 coins.

How does Stealing Artefacts work?

The location where players can be assigned to steal the artefact can be one of the 6 buildings on 4 docks over the water, found in the south-western section of Port Piscarillius.

The artefact is usually in a drawer in the assigned house and the players need to have a lockpick or hair clip to pick the lock and get it. After that, the player has to smuggle the stolen artefact to Captain Khaled without getting caught by patrolmen and patrolwomen. If the player is caught, they will be teleported to the south side of the city and the artefact will be taken from them as well. Logging out, teleporting away or any other random events will also result in the artefact being removed from the player’s inventory.

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Recommended Items for stealing Artefacts

Lockpick: these are required to pick the locks and obtain artefacts.

Weight-reducing clothing: Since a lot of running is required, wearing outfits like the Full Graceful would help maintain the player’s run energy.

Energy-restoring potions: Potions like the stamina potions are useful to increase the player’s run energy since a lot of run energy is required.

Kharedst’s memoirs; Players can use this to teleport to the center of the Piscarilius after receiving a new location to steal an artefact from Captain Khaled, this will save time and increase the player’s experience rates. This is a reward item obtained from the completion of Client of Kourend and it contains 100 charges.

Locations For Stealing Artefacts and How to Evade the Guards there

The artefact can be found in one of these locations shown below 

North-western, Western and South-western houses

The artefact is located in a drawer upstairs in each house found in the northwestern, western and southwestern houses as shown in the image above.

Suppose Captain Khaled tells you that the artefact is in the southwestern house, after climbing up to get to the artefact. You have to wait until the patrolwoman walks away from you as shown above, then run to the below spot. 

Stand in the spot shown above till the guards in the east and north face away from you as shown below then run to the spot also shown below

When the guard south of you is facing away as shown below, run away from the residential district and return to Captain Khaled.

Once the guard is south of you and facing away, run away from the residential district. Players can apply the same method above when stealing the artefact northwestern and western houses but of course, the first steps won’t be needed and players can follow the step from the spot there is a patrolman east and north of you shown above.

Northern, Southern, and South-eastern houses

The artefact can be found in the drawer on the ground floor in the northern house. When stealing from this house, you have to wait until both the patrolman circling around the house and the patrolwoman north of the house are walking away then move to spot 2 in the image below 

The artefact can be found in the drawer upstairs in the Southern and Southeastern houses.

When trying to get past the guards in from the southern house, wait until the patrolwoman is facing away from you then run quickly to spot 1 shown above. Then when the patrolmen are in the position also shown above, quickly run to spot 2 shown below:

Once the northern patrolwoman and the patrolmen west of you are both facing away from you. Run to the tile shown in the next image. Also, ensure patrolman circling the area is walking away from you

When you get to the point shown above, the patrolwoman must be walking away south of you, and once the patrolman is walking east and facing away from you, run away from the residential district.

When done optimally, players can find the artefact in these locations and get it to Captain Khaled in the time below:

• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute or 50 seconds when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.
• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute and 5 seconds or 55 seconds when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.
• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute and 10 seconds or 1 minute when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.
• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute and 20 seconds or 1 minute and 10 seconds when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.
• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute and 25 seconds or 1 minute and 15 seconds when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.
• Players steal the artefact from the Northern room in 1 minute and 30 seconds or 1 minute and 25 seconds when using the Kharedst’s memoirs.

Efficient strategy for Stealing Houses

The best strategy for stealing artefacts involves following the shortest routes and using clever practices to maneuver the guards, this involves luring the guard on the east bridge so they are facing south and also the guard on the south-east bridge so that they are facing west, players can also hop worlds till they find one where the guards are already facing these directions. This allows the player to safely cross the bridge, saving the time that would be needed otherwise

The best strategies players can follow to lure different guards are shown below, ensure you have the stolen artefact in your inventory before attempting them or the guards will not target you and these strategies will not work

• To pass the western bridge, you have to wait until the guard in that region moves east, then run to the tile just south of where he stops. Wait until he starts moving west again, then continue. Ensure that the guard that circles the northern is not approaching, as he can catch you when you try to cross the bridge.

• To lure the patrolman located south-east of the bridge, ensure you have the artefact then run to the tile where he is standing from the opposite side of the pillar then quickly run back into the southeastern house and climb up the ladder

If done corectly, the patrolman will face west as shown in the image above, The player has to maintain a 1-tile distance and run past him to not get caught.

• To lure the east bridge patrolman, ensure you have stolen the artefact then run under him(stand on the tile he is standing on) from 2 tiles away, and then teleport to a location that is south of Port Piscarillius, the best teleport methods are the Kourend Woodland on Rada’s blessing, Xeric’s Glade on Xeric’s talisman and Lunch by the Lancalliums on the Kharedst’s memoirs.

If done correctly, the patrolman will face south as shown above and the player can run past him by maintaining a one-tile distance.

Experience rates when Stealing Artefacts

The player will get 750 thieving experience for picking the locks where the artefact is located

When Stealing artefacts, players can expect the following thieving experience rates

• At level 49, players can get 130,080 thieving experience per hour
• At level 55, players can get 141,080 thieving experience per hour
• At level 60, players can get 151,200 thieving experience per hour 
• At level 65, players can get 160,800 thieving experience per hour
• At level 70, players can get 170,400 thieving experience per hour
• At level 75, players can get 180,000 thieving experience per hour
• At level 80, players can get 189,600 thieving experience per hour
• At level 85, players can get 199,200 thieving experience per hour
• At level 90, players can get 208,800 thieving experience per hour
• At level 95, players can get 218,400 thieving experience per hour
• At level 99, players can get 226,080 thieving experience per hour