Pirate’s Treasure is a fun quest where you help Redbeard Frank, a sly pirate, sneak Karamjan rum into Port Sarim. In return, he reveals the secret location of his old captain One-Eyed Hector’s lost treasure—perfect if you enjoy a bit of pirate mischief.
Difficulty: Easy
Length: very short
General Questing Tips
To make your life way easier, make sure to turn on the RuneLite Quest Helper plugin. It highlights pretty much everything you need during the quest. Also, if you want to speed things up, just hold down the spacebar to skip through NPC dialogue and use your number keys to pick chat options—it’s much faster than clicking!
Quest Completion time
Pirate's Treasure is a quick quest; it only took me about 4 minutes to complete. If you have your teleports ready, you should expect the same.
Item Requirements for Pirate’s Treasure
- 1 Spade: You can pick one up from the Estate Agent's house in Falador, shown below during the last part of the quest.
Recommendations for Pirate’s Treasure
- 1 Varrock teleport tab or runes
- 1 Falador teleport tab or runes
- 1 charge of amulet of glory: to start the quest. Alternatively, bring the Lumbridge teleport
- A Melee weapon: makes defeating the level 4 enemy in the quest a lot quicker.
- 1 Stamina potion
Walkthrough of Pirate’s Treasure
Bring all required and recommended items when starting the quest so you don’t waste time going to a bank.
Starting the quest
- Teleport with the amulet of glory or run to Draynor Village, then head to Port Sarim and talk to Redbeard Frank (shown below). Pick dialogue options 1 1 to start the quest.
For Ironman: Since an Amulet of Glory can be difficult to obtain due to its high crafting and magic requirements, the fastest alternative is to run west from Lumbridge into Port Sarim.
Refer to the image below to find most of the NPCs in this quest.
- Next, run south along the docks and speak with a Seaman on the Port Sarim docks(shown above) so they can sail you over to Karamja (30 GP).
Smuggling Rum out of Karamja
- Once you arrive, run southwest to the Karamja Wines, Spirits, and Beers bar, right-click Zembo (highlighted above), and buy a Karamjan rum for 30GP
- Next, go north to the banana trees and pick 10 Bananas. I recommend you spam-click the Banana trees(each tree holds 5 Bananas) to get them quickly, then talk to Luthas (both shown above) and select option 1 to discuss working for him.
- Use the Karamjan rum on the crate outside Luthas’ house, then right-click the crate and select fill to put all the bananas in the crate. After that, talk to Luthas again.
- Head back to the docks and talk to the customs officer there, and select dialogue options 1, 2, 1 to travel to Port Sarim (30 GP).
Return to Port Sarim
- When you reach Port Sarim, go grab the white apron from the Fishing Shop (highlighted below) and put it on.
- Next, head into the back room of the Port Sarim food shop (look for the food store icon as shown below). Make sure you’re wearing your white apron before going in. When Wydin starts talking, just pick option 4 to continue, then right-click and search the crate in the back room to get the Karamjan rum.
- Leave the back room and go talk to Redbeard Frank with the Karamjan rum, and he will give you a key to a chest found upstairs in Blue Moon Inn in Varrock.
Finding the Treasure
- Now, teleport to Varrock, head south to Blue Moon Inn, climb up the stairs and you will find a chest in the southwestern room. Open it using the key given to you by Frank and you will find the pirate message
- Read the Pirate message to find the location of the treasure
- Teleport to Falador (or run there) and head to the park. If you forgot a spade, you can grab one from the bank or the Estate Agent's house. Dig at the exact location highlighted below in Falador Park; this will cause a Gardener (level 4) to appear. Kill him.
I defeated him very quickly with 30+ melee combat stats and an adamant scimitar without any food. Once he is down, dig in the same spot again to find the treasure and complete the quest.
Rewards from Pirate's Treasure
- 2 Quest points
- One-Eyed Hector's treasure
Pirate’s Treasure is a super quick, beginner-friendly quest that gives you 2 easy quest points. If you’re looking for other simple quests to rack up quest points fast, check out Vampire Slayer, Queen of Thieves, and Ernest the Chicken.
