Courier tasks

Courier tasks are a type of port task where players deliver crates of cargo between two ports. A task has the following steps:

1. Visit a notice board to choose a task.
2. Collect cargo from the ledger table (both hands must be free). Some tasks require more than one crate, so multiple trips to the boat may be required.
3. Load the cargo hold on a boat with all the crates of cargo.
4. Sail to the destination.
5. Withdraw all the crates from the cargo hold and deposit them at the ledger table.

At level 1 Sailing, only one port task of either type (courier or bounty) can be accepted at a time, with more slots becoming available at higher levels:

• Tasks can be freely cancelled by using a port master's cancel-task option, or from the captain's log.
• If a boat carrying cargo is relocated, such as by summoning it or by sampling drinks in sealed crates, all cargo is removed from the boat's cargo holds.
• Level requirement to accept tasks is not boostable.
• The selection of tasks available are unique to each notice board.
• Players are restricted to using their own boat for courier tasks.
• Players who deposit the final cargo of a task without having enough inventory space for the reward can complete the task using the Claim-rewards option on a port master after making some space in their inventory.

Unloading the cargo at the destination ledger table provides Sailing experience and an equal amount of coins, and rarely, one shark paint.

The experience gained for completing a task is based on distance travelled, such that a round-trip delivery will give double the experience as a one-way trip. For example,

1. accepting a task in Catherby
2. picking up cargo in Port Sarim,
3. and delivering to Catherby

will grant double the experience compared to

1. accepting in Port Sarim
2. picking up in Port Sarim
3. and delivering to Catherby.

Since players can teleport themselves and relocate their boats before loading them with cargo, tasks where the noticeboard and the cargo are in different locations will offer more experience per hour.

Crewmates can be ordered to carry crates between the ledger table and the cargo hold. Those with a deckhandiness stat of 3 or 4 can carry 2 crates at a time.

Two special deliveries take place during quests:

All standard tasks are listed below. This table can be sorted by multiple columns in succession, by holding shift and clicking the column headers.

• Should players attempt to smuggle cargo outside ports, they will be given the You are leaving port with some cargo. If you do not return it, it will be confiscated by the shipwright wizard's autonomous tracking unit. message; if they continue to do so, the cargo will be taken from them (and optionally their crew) and will be given the Your cargo has been confiscated by the S.W.A.T. team. message.
• There are no direct courier tasks between Lunar Isle and any of the nearby Fremennik settlements, likely due to the longstanding rivalry between the Moon Clan and Fremennik peoples.

v t e Port tasks
Tasks	Courier tasks Bounty tasks
Scenery	Ledger table Notice board
Crates	Adamantite ore Alpaca wool Amulets Angler outfit pieces Antelope fur Antelope meat Arrowtips Astral runes Bait Bananas Barley Battleaxes Bear meat Beer glasses Beer Berries Books Bows Bread Cacti Calquat Camphor logs Cannonballs Chainbodies Chinchompas Clothes Coal Cocktails Coconuts Compost Coral Crab paste Crystal seeds Daggers Dragon bitter Dragonhide Dyes Eye patches Fabrics Feathers Fishing supplies Fish Flax Fruit Furs Gems Gin Glassmaking supplies Gold bars Gold ore Granite Grog Gunpowder Halberds Herbs High importance Historical artefacts Honey Huasca Iron bars Iron ore Javelins Jewellery Karambwans Kebabs Kebbit fur Khali brews Kyatt teeth Lead ore Leather Lobsters Logs Looty Maces Machinery parts Mahogany logs Meat Mithril ore Monkfish Nickel ore Nothing sinister Onions Oranges Ores Peg legs Pest remains Pickaxes Pies Pineapples Planks Platebodies Poison Potatoes Potions Protective clothing Rabbit meat Red coral Redwood logs Rope Rotten bananas Rum Runes Salamanders Sandstone Sand Scimitars Sea shells Secret stuff Secret things Seeds Shields Ship parts Pandemonium Silk Silver ore Snakeskin Spears Spices Staffs Steel bars Sunbeam ale Suqah hides Swamp paste Swords Teak logs Tokens Vegetables Vials Vodka Warhammers Wax Wine Wrath runes Xerician fabrics Yak hair
Bounty tasks	Sharks Bull shark jaw liver Hammerhead shark jaw liver Tiger shark jaw liver Great white shark jaw liver Marine mammals Mogre mace head Narwhal blubber tusk Orca blubber teeth Krakens Pygmy kraken tentacle ink sac Spined kraken tentacle ink sac Armoured kraken tentacle ink sac Veiled kraken tentacle ink sac Vampyre kraken tentacle ink sac Rays Eagle ray fin skin Butterfly ray fin skin Stingray fin skin Manta ray fin skin Birds Tern feather beak Osprey feather beak Frigatebird feather beak Albatross feather beak

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