OSRS Death Plateau Quest Guide: Ironman-friendly

Death Plateau is a short quest where you help the Burthorpe Imperial Guard access the Death Plateau to defeat hostile trolls. It’s quick, easy and perfect for ironman accounts seeking quest points and early Attack XP.

Enable RuneLite Quest Helper for step-by-step guidance. Press spacebar to skip dialogue and use number keys for faster chat options.

Completion time: Around 8 minutes with teleports.

Item Requirements

Regular Accounts

• 60 coins
• Premade Blurberry Special
• Iron bar
• Bread
• Trout
    

Ironman Accounts

• 60 coins
• Premade Blurberry Special: Buy from the Barman on the 2nd floor of Burberry Bar, Gnome Stronghold (climb stairs from the bottom, turn east).
• Iron bar: Smith from iron ore at a furnace.
• Bread: Buy from Wydin’s food store in Port Sarim.
• Trout: Catch via fly-fishing.
   

Quest Walkthrough

Start the Quest 

• Speak to Denulth, in a tent south-east of the Warriors’ Guild in Burthorpe shown in the map below

• Select dialogue options 1 → 1 to start.
• Your task: find a new route to the Death Plateau and access the locked equipment storage.
   

Gathering Information

• Head to Burthorpe Castle and climb stairs shown in image below to the top floor to speak to Eohric

• He tells you Harold, the previous night’s guard, is at The Toad and Chicken pub, south-east of the castle.
• Go upstairs in the Toad and Chicken pub, head to the west room, and talk to Harold, who is reluctant to share the combination.

Gambling With Harold 

• Return to Eohric → he suggests beer and gambling to loosen Harold.
• Give Harold Asgarnian Ale or a Premade Blurberry Special to make him drunk. You can find Asgarnian ale in the pub as shown in the image below.

• Play dice games until Harold is out of money → he gives an IOU, which reveals the storage room combination on the back.

Tip to skip gambling: Give Harold a Blurberry Special or Premade Blurberry Special to make him drunk. While intoxicated, Harold will miscount the dice, letting you automatically win all dice games as he mistakenly thinks you’re using all four dice.

Tip to gamble: Start bets at 100 coins, double after a loss, reset to 100 after a win.

Storage Room Puzzle 

• Return to Burthorpe Castle → pick up 5 coloured stone balls (yellow, green, blue, red, purple).
• Place them in the holes in the same order as shown in the image below.

Note: Read the IOU/combination before placing balls, otherwise the door won’t open.

Finding a New Route 

• Head to the cave northwest of Burthope in map below and speak with Saba about an alternative route.

• Exit cave → follow path west, then south (ignore northern path, trolls attack there).

• He converts them into Spiked Boots. If you already have spiked boots, Dunstan won’t make duplicates.

Finishing the Quest 

Items Needed: 10 loaves of bread, 10 cooked trout, combination, Tenzing’s spiked boots

• Return to Tenzing, hand over all items at once (bread and trout un-noted).
• Receive the Secret Way map.
• Exit Tenzing’s house → climb stile → follow path north then east, past mountain goat and rock shortcut. Ignore warning popups; trolls only appear on the normal path till you reach point shown in image below

• Return to Denulth with the Combination + Secret Way map to complete the quest.
  

Tip: Lost combination or map? Reclaim from Harold or Tenzing.

Rewards from Death Plateau

• 1 Quest Point
• 3,000 Attack XP
• Some steel claws + ability to make claws
• Completion unlocks Secret Path to Troll Stronghold

The Attack XP and steel claws from Death Plateau give a solid early-game combat boost, helping players prepare for tougher encounters ahead. Completing the quest also unlocks access to Troll Stronghold, opening the path to several important mid- to high-level quests in the Troll Stronghold questline.