Barbarian Training

This miniquest has a quick guide. It briefly summarises the steps needed to complete the quest.

Barbarian Training is a miniquest that explores a set of expansions to Farming, Firemaking, Herblore, Fishing, and Smithing. The miniquest provides access to the Ancient Cavern and the numerous monsters within, such as the mithril dragon.

Initially released as a standalone activity on 3 July 2007, Barbarian Training was reworked into a miniquest on 14 February 2024, alongside the addition of Barbarian Farming. This page contains information on both the miniquest itself, as well as the individual methods of training skills.

Talk to Otto Godblessed in his grotto, on top of Baxtorian Falls. Players can get there quickly by using the games necklace teleport to the Barbarian Outpost and running south. Alternatively, players can also use the Barbarian Assault minigame teleport (after fully playing through the tutorial), or run up directly from East Ardougne and climb the cliff side of the waterfall to the plateau.

Otto is interested in the cultural history of his people and will offer to teach eligible players about barbarian skills. Upon speaking to him, respond with, "You think so?" to start the miniquest.

Later on, if you ask about the Ancient Cavern under the lake, he will give a blank note book. You can add to the note book as you find ancient pages within, which are usually collected by searching skeletons on the cave floor. Note that doing so may result in a skeleton heavy or skeleton hero attacking.

Otto will give the player information about barbarian Fishing, allowing the player to fish with a heavy rod and catch new fish, as well as catch fish barehanded. Note that you do not need to complete both sections to begin fishing in the nearby waters with a barbarian rod.

Items needed: Barbarian rod or the equipable version, the Pearl barbarian rod. Also, Fishing bait, feathers, fish offcuts, roe or caviar
Items recommended: Knife
Skills needed: 48 Fishing, 15 Agility, 15 Strength

Speak to Otto and ask "What can I learn about the use of a fishing rod?" He will explain that barbarians use heavier tackle to catch leaping fish in the lake nearby, and tell you to search under his bed to obtain a barbarian rod.

Use the rod at the fishing spots in the lake to catch leaping trout, leaping salmon, or leaping sturgeon. This is a low-effort training method that also grants Strength and Agility experience.

Caught fish can be gutted with a knife to obtain roe or caviar, granting a small amount of Cooking experience. Gutting may fail, but at level 80 Cooking it is no longer possible to fail when cutting salmon or sturgeon. Gutting also has a chance to produce fish offcuts. Offcuts, roe, and caviar can all be used as bait at these fishing spots, though roe and caviar are only used if no other bait is in the inventory.

At least one roe is needed for the Barbarian Herblore section below, so keep one when gutting.

Fish offcuts can also be used for aerial fishing, deep sea trawling, and baiting crab traps.

Fish		Level				Experience
	Leaping trout	48	15	15	0	50	5	5	10	70
	Leaping salmon	58	30	30	0	70	6	6	10	92
	Leaping sturgeon	70	45	45	0	80	7	7	15	109

Level	XP/h (AFK)			XP/h (3-tick)
		/	Total		/		Total
48	23,000	2,300	27,600	41,000	4,100	5,400	54,600
58	37,000	3,400	43,800	68,000	6,300	9,300	89,900
70	48,000	4,400	56,800	90,000	8,200	13,800	120,200
80	52,000	4,700	61,400	97,000	8,800	14,800	129,400
90	54,000	4,900	63,800	103,000	9,300	15,800	137,400
99	57,000	5,200	67,400	108,000	9,800	16,800	144,400

The following table shows the ratio between Fishing and Agility/Strength experience:

Skills needed: 55 Fishing, 35 Strength

Speak to Otto and ask "Please teach me of your cunning with harpoons." He will tell you that instead of using a harpoon, you will use your arm as bait. Find a fishing spot where a harpoon is required; Catherby is a good location with no requirements, while the Fishing Guild is closer but requires level 68 Fishing to enter. The fairy ring BJP to Soul Wars is directly next to a spot. The fishing spots in Tempoross Cove will work as well.

While barehanded fishing is identical in speed and catch rate as fishing with a regular harpoon, it requires 20 additional Fishing levels to fish the same fish barehanded (boosts can be used). Barehanded fishing also gives small amounts of bonus Strength experience (see the table below).

Fish		Level		Experience
	Raw harpoonfish	55	35	8.5	10	18.5
	Raw tuna	55	35	80	8	88
	Raw swordfish	70	50	100	10	110
	Raw shark	96	76	110	11	121

Otto will give the player information about barbarian Firemaking (This does not require completing or even starting the fishing section). He will tell you to take a bow and use it with oak logs as a way of lighting them without a tinderbox.

Items needed: Any standard bow made with logs, and one set of oak logs
Skills needed: 35 Firemaking

Lighting logs with a bow gives the same experience as lighting them with a tinderbox. You can use your logs on the bow to make it less click intensive. After lighting your first set of Oak logs, speak to Otto again to be able to continue.

This stage of barbarian training is required to enter the Ancient Cavern, which is the location of mithril dragons, and is required for completion of Dragon Slayer II.

Logs		Firemaking
		Level	Exp
	Logs	21	40
	Achey tree logs	21	40
	Oak logs	35	60
	Willow logs	50	90
	Teak logs	55	105
	Arctic pine logs	62	125
	Maple logs	65	135
	Mahogany logs	70	157.5
	Yew logs	80	202.5
	Camphor logs	86	245
	Magic logs	95	303.8
	Ironwood logs	99	220.5
	Rosewood logs	99	268
	Redwood logs	99	350

Items needed: Any woodcutting axe, tinderbox or suitable bow
Items recommended: One-click teleport, food and armour to kill level 304 mithril dragons.
Skills needed: 11 Firemaking, 11 Crafting

Warning: This section involves entering the Ancient Cavern, a dangerous area filled with high-level monsters that can attack using multiple combat styles, including dragonfire. There is no exit immediately available upon entering the dungeon, so it is highly recommended to bring a one-click teleport. Don't bring in anything you are not willing to lose.

After creating a fire using oak logs with a bow, players can ask Otto "I have completed firemaking with a bow. What follows this?", and he will explain how to make pyre ships, which involves diving into the Ancient Cavern below the lake to obtain chewed bones. Only mithril dragons will drop chewed bones (at a rate of ~1/42), and obtaining one is required to complete the miniquest; mangled bones will not count.

After receiving the bones, players can build the pyre ship, requiring a set of logs (preferably magic logs for the elite Kandarin Diary requirement), a woodcutting axe, and a tinderbox or suitable bow. Pyre ships can be created on the pyre sites around the lake near Otto's Grotto. Burning a pyre ship will grant the player an experience bonus of up to 300%, depending on the logs used, the next time they bury bones. In order to receive this bonus, the player must have fully completed the Firemaking portion of barbarian training.

Peaceful barbarian spirits released from chewed bones will give you some items, including a 1/256 chance for a dragon full helm, while spirits released from mangled bones result in a level 166 ferocious barbarian spirit appearing, who will attack the player. Please note that if you use mangled bones to make a pyre ship, you will be unable to make another pyre ship until you kill the spirit. If you attempt to make another one while a barbarian spirit is around, the sacrifice will be declined.

Pyre ships have boostable Firemaking and Crafting level requirements.

Logs		Level		Experience		Number of bones with bonus exp
	Logs	11	11	10	40	1
	Achey tree logs	11	11	10	40	1
	Oak logs	25	25	15	60	2
	Willow logs	40	40	22.5	90	2
	Teak logs	45	45	26.2	105	3
	Arctic pine logs	52	52	31.2	125	3
	Maple logs	55	55	33.7	135	3
	Mahogany logs	60	60	39.3	157.5	4
	Yew logs	70	70	50.6	202.5	4
	Camphor logs	76	76	61.2	245	4
	Magic logs	85	85	75.9	303.8	5
	Ironwood logs	90	90	80	320	5
	Redwood logs	95	95	87	350	5
	Rosewood logs	97	97	105	420	5

Otto will give the player information about barbarian Farming (This does not require completing or even starting the fishing section). Completion of barbarian Farming allows players to plant seeds without a seed dibber, and automatically destroy empty plant pots when planting trees.

After asking about agricultural training, Otto will request that you plant a seed without a seed dibber. This can be done using any type of patch that requires a seed dibber to plant seeds, for example herbs and allotments, however planting grape seeds will not progress the miniquest. After the seed is planted, you can return to Otto immediately; you don't need to wait for it to grow. Note that during the quest, this can fail, so it is advised to use low cost/plentiful seeds.

You'll know you succeed when you receive the message You feel you have learned more of barbarian ways. Otto might wish to talk to you more. Once completed, there is no longer a chance to fail to plant seeds bare-handed; you will always succeed in planting them.

Items needed: A spade, any sapling, 1 free tree patch, fruit tree patch or special tree patch.
Items recommended: An axe or 200 coins to clear the required patch if it is occupied
Skills needed: 15 Farming

Talk to Otto again after planting a seed bare-handed, and ask again about agricultural training. He will speak about channeling your anger and strength into smashing the pot into dust, as not to leave a mess of pot shards all over the place. Otto will then give you the ability to smash and destroy pots automatically after planting the contents within.

After planting a filled plant pot with any sapling to an empty tree patch, your character will smash the pot to dust, and you can return to Otto to complete your Barbarian Farming training. This feature can be toggled in the settings menu under "Automatically smash empty plant pots."

After completion of Barbarian Fishing, speak to Otto and ask "Tell me more about the use of spears". He will teach you how to make spears and hastae, but only after you've completed Tai Bwo Wannai Trio and claimed the combat xp from Tamayu. Completion of this section is required to equip the Zamorakian hasta and dragon hunter lance.

Items needed: two bars, two corresponding logs, and a hammer
Skills needed: 5 Smithing, completion of Tai Bwo Wannai Trio

Take a metal bar and some corresponding logs, and use them on the barbarian anvil outside Otto's Grotto. Once you've made the spear, talk to Otto again, and he will tell you about hastae. Be careful to make only one spear, as the second bar is required for the next step.

Forging hastae is exactly the same; take a metal bar and the corresponding logs, and then use them on the barbarian anvil. Next, talk to Otto again, and your Barbarian Smithing training will be completed. If Otto says, "You do not exude the presence of one who has poured his soul into manufacturing spears," it means that you need to first smith a spear on the anvil near his grotto.

A table of the spears and hastae that you can make, as well as the logs and bars needed, is found below:

Spears		Hastae		Logs required		Smithing
						Level	Exp
	Bronze spear		Bronze hasta		Logs	5	25
	Iron spear		Iron hasta		Oak logs	20	50
	Steel spear		Steel hasta		Willow logs	35	75
	Mithril spear		Mithril hasta		Maple logs	55	100
	Adamant spear		Adamant hasta		Yew logs	75	125
	Rune spear		Rune hasta		Magic logs	90	150
	Zamorakian spear[n 1]		Zamorakian hasta[n 1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Items needed: a normal attack potion (2 doses), roe or caviar (can be obtained during Barbarian Fishing)
Skills needed: 4 Herblore, completion of Druidic Ritual

After completion of the rod fishing part of Barbarian Fishing, speak to Otto and ask "What was that secret knowledge of herblore we talked of?" He will tell you that the secret is in the roe and caviar that you may receive when gutting leaping fish.

Otto will ask you to make an attack mix from a 2-dose attack potion. Add the roe you obtained during the Fishing section to the two-dose attack potion, and hand it back to Otto. This will fully complete the training.

After finishing this training stage, many other potions can be enhanced by adding roe or caviar to a two-dose variant of the potions. To make 2 two-dose potions from a four-dose potion, players can use the four-dose potion on an empty vial, or have certain NPCs do it for them.

Through the creation of barbarian mixes, they will additionally heal 3 or 6 Hitpoints (depending on the mix type) in addition to the regular effects to normal potions, with the trade-off being that each potion mix is only two doses, as well as incurring the standard attack delay from eating food. Note that roe cannot be used in mixes higher levelled than the stat restore mix; any higher level mix requires caviar, which is obtained the same way as roe.

Left-clicking will not work for barbarian Herblore. The best way to avoid accidentally consuming the fish eggs is to position them in the bottom row of the inventory so that one can select the "use" option immediately after right-clicking, without needing to move the cursor.

Potion		Herblore		Heals (per dose)	Eggs used
		Level	Exp
	Attack mix	4	8	3	or
	Antipoison mix	6	12	3	or
	Relicym's mix	9	14	3	or
	Strength mix	14	17	3	or
	Restore mix	24	21	3	or
	Energy mix	29	23	3
	Defence mix	33	25	6
	Agility mix	37	27	6
	Combat mix	40	28	3
	Prayer mix	42	29	6
	Superattack mix	47	33	6
	Anti-poison supermix	51	35	6
	Fishing mix	53	38	6
	Super energy mix	56	39	6
	Hunting mix	58	40	6
	Super str. mix	59	42	6
	Magic essence mix	61	43	6
	Super restore mix	67	48	6
	Super def. mix	71	50	6
	Antidote+ mix	74	52	6
	Antifire mix	75	53	6
	Ranging mix	80	54	6
	Magic mix	83	57	6
	Zamorak mix	85	58	6
	Stamina mix	86	60	6
	Extended antifire mix	91	61	6
	Ancient mix	92	63	6
	Super antifire mix	98	70	6
	Extended super antifire mix	99	78	6

Completion of barbarian training is required for the following:

• Dragon Slayer II - Partial completion of barbarian Firemaking is required in order to access the Ancient Cavern.
• Hard Kandarin Diary
• Elite Kandarin Diary
• Elite Morytania Diary

• Earlier drafts of barbarian training briefly contained a design for Barbarian Woodcutting, which would involve shouting at trees to topple them over, along with a design for Barbarian Mining, which would allow players to excavate ore by bashing their head against the rocks.^[2]
• Completing Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl also grants what could be seen as a form of barbarian training, with a barbarian teaching how to smash empty vials into dust on finishing a potion, similarly to smashing plant pots as taught in the Farming segment of the miniquest.