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Grand Gold Chest



Released								17 July 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Quest								No
Location								Jalsavrah Pyramid
League region								Desert✓
Options								Search
Examine								Anyone lost an ark?

Map

Advanced data

Object ID								20946
Link								MOID

The Grand Gold Chest can be found and looted in every room when playing the Pyramid Plunder minigame.

Looting the chest grants Thieving experience.

Players often loot the chest for the Pharaoh's sceptre, though they are most likely to find regular Pyramid Plunder items (stone/gold artefacts). Players can receive Rocky, the Thieving pet, by looting the chest, with the rarity depending on the room.

The chance of receiving a Pharaoh's sceptre scales depending on the room where it is situated, upon searching the Grand Gold Chest regardless of if the player fails or succeeds the search.

There is also a chance of finding a scarab swarm inside of the chest, which is considered as "failing" to loot the chest, meaning that no Thieving experience is given, even though the loot inside is still obtained normally. The swarm will attack the player rapidly (0.6s/attack), but will not deal more than 1 damage per hit. Finding a scarab swarm instantly and unavoidably damages the player by 3 hitpoints, but the swarm's subsequent hits can be completely negated with Protect from Melee, although this will not negate the chance of being poisoned by it. The pet Rocky can be obtained, regardless of whether the player finds scarabs or not. ^[1]

Players often choose to loot the Grand Gold Chest instead of the Sarcophagus, since looting the Sarcophagus grants Strength experience rather than Thieving experience. The Sarcophagus also takes significantly more time to loot, thus being less efficient to loot for players aiming to get an as high as possible Thieving experience rate. The Grand Gold Chest and Sarcophagus both independently provide the chance to receive a Pharaoh's sceptre.

Thieving info

Note: If a Scarab Swarm is spawned, no experience is awarded, but there is still a chance to receive a Pharaoh's sceptre or Rocky.

Room 1Room 2Room 3Room 4Room 5Room 6Room 7Room 8
Grand Gold Chest

Level required					21
Thieving XP					40 xp

Thieving chance

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Loot

Room 1

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Stone seal	1	1/4	152	12
Stone scarab	1	1/2	176	12
Stone statuette	1	1/4	200	12
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/4,200^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 2

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Stone scarab	1	1/2	176	12
Stone statuette	1	1/2	200	12
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/2,800^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 3

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Stone scarab	1	1/4	176	12
Stone statuette	1	1/2	200	12
Gold seal	1	1/4	750	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/1,600^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 4

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Stone statuette	1	1/2	200	12
Gold seal	1	1/2	750	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/950^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 5

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Stone statuette	1	1/4	200	12
Gold seal	1	1/2	750	18
Golden scarab	1	1/4	999	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/800^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 6

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Gold seal	1	1/2	750	18
Golden scarab	1	1/2	999	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/750^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 7

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Gold seal	1	1/4	750	18
Golden scarab	1	1/2	999	18
Golden statuette	1	1/4	1,272	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/650^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Room 8

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Golden scarab	1	1/2	999	18
Golden statuette	1	1/2	1,272	18
Pharaoh's sceptre	1	1/650^[2]	Not sold	50,000

Drop rates for receiving Rocky

Shown below are the base chances of receiving Rocky.^[3]

A player's actual chances of receiving it is 1 in B - (Lvl * 25), where B is the base chance and Lvl is the player's Thieving level.

One of the faster methods on average to receive Rocky is by thieving only the Grand Gold Chest in Pyramid Plunder.

The effective proximate rate if one opens the chest in every room is ~1/1644 at level 91 and ~1/1604 at level 99.

To find the pet chance for a method at a given level, refer to the skill pet chance calculator.

Method	Base chance
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 1)}^[a]	41,355
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 2)}^[a]	29,540
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 3)}^[a]	25,847
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 4)}^[a]	20,678
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 5)}^[a]	20,678
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 6)}^[a]	20,678
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 7)}^[a]	10,339
Grand Gold Chest_{(room 8)}^[a]	6,893

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Chance is rolled upon opening the Grand Gold Chest in the room, even if a scarab swarm appears.^[4]

If the player searches all Grand Gold Chests in rooms 1-8 in Pyramid Plunder, the approximate cumulative rates for obtaining Rocky per run are as below.


Room	Level Req	Chance for Rocky (level 91)	Cumulative Rate (level 91)	Chance for Rocky (level 99)	Cumulative Rate (level 99)
1	21+	1/39,080	1/39,080	1/38,880	1/38,880
2	31+	1/27,265	~1/16,060	1/27,065	~1/15,957
3	41+	1/23,572	~1/9,552	1/23,372	~1/9,483
4	51+	1/18,403	~1/6,289	1/18,203	~1/6,235
5	61+	1/18,403	~1/4,687	1/18,203	~1/4,645
6	71+	1/18,403	~1/3,736	1/18,203	~1/3,701
7	81+	1/8,064	~1/2,553	1/7,864	~1/2,517
8	91+	1/4,618	~1/1,644	1/4,418	~1/1,604

Changes

Date	Changes
30 August 2023 (Update)	The drop rate of the pharaoh's sceptre has been adjusted; previously, it was reduced once players reached the sixth room, and becoming four times rarer in the eighth room. The Grand Gold Chest will now roll the sceptre if players fail to open it.

Historical

Before 30 August 2023, the player only had a chance of obtaining the sceptre if scarabs did not spawn. This meant the effective rates of obtaining a sceptre were far lower than stated.

Room	Lvl Req	Start		24 March 2021		30 August 2023
		Lvl Req	Lvl 99	Lvl Req	Lvl 99	All Levels
1	21+	1/1,741	1/1,164	1/6,095	1/4,073	1/4,200
2	31+	1/1,652	1/1,169	1/3,716	1/2,630	1/2,800
3	41+	1/1,571	1/1,174	1/1,963	1/1,468	1/1,600
4	51+	1/1,488	1/1,180	1/1,116	1/885	1/950
5	61+	1/1,422	1/1,185	1/924	1/770	1/800
6	71+	1/1,362	1/1,191	1/885	1/774	1/750
7	81+	1/1,306	1/1,196	1/849	1/778	1/650
8	91+	1/1,255	1/1,202	1/816	1/781	1/650
Total			1/148		1/132	1/126

Trivia

The examine texts are an allusion to the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 23 October 2018. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Mod Ash: "No, it rolls for the pet even if you got scarabs."
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 "Poll 80 ToA Changes & DMM Tweaks". Old School RuneScape News. Jagex. 30 August 2023. Archived from the original.
^ Jagex. Mod Kieren's Twitter account. 26 September 2016. Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Mod Kieren: "Okay... first one! Thieving pet rates! Others soon :). Retweet! [1]"
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Mod Ash: "[Can you still get the change of the Rocky pet in PP if you get the scarab swarm, while opening the gold chest?] Yes."

Pyramid Plunder

NPCs

Monsters	Scarab swarm Mummy
Other	Guardian mummy Simon Templeton Tarik

Rewards

Artefacts	Ivory comb Pottery scarab Pottery statuette Stone seal Stone scarab Stone statuette Gold seal Golden scarab Golden statuette
Other	Pharaoh's sceptre

Scenery

Other

Jalsavrah Pyramid

Source site	Old School RuneScape Wiki
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