Money making guide/Cremating urium remains
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| Shades of Mort'ton | |
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| Profit | Experience gained |
| −938,817, after tax |  150,000  36,150 |
| Inputs (4,199,400) | Outputs (3,260,583, after tax) |
300 ×  Urium remains (2,784,000)300 ×  Redwood pyre logs (1,415,400) | 54.29 ×  Battlestaff (382,058)9.87 ×  Amulet of the damned (full) (322,015)37.22 ×  Fine cloth (243,011)551,250 ×  Coins (551,250)8.23 ×  Rune longsword (151,732)13,035 ×  Swamp paste (260,700)3.29 ×  Rune platebody (124,304)3.29 ×  Rune plateskirt (122,804)3.29 ×  Rune platelegs (121,807)1.65 ×  Dragon longsword (95,144)3.29 ×  Rune chainbody (95,486)289 ×  Death rune (52,550)2.22 ×  Runescroll of bloodbark (923)4.94 ×  Rune scimitar (72,772)3.86 ×  Gold locks (69,805)4.94 ×  Rune sword (58,760)4.94 ×  Dragonstone ring (49,643)3.29 ×  Dragon dagger (55,119)4.94 ×  Rune med helm (54,066)2.22 ×  Runescroll of swampbark (792)1.65 ×  Dragon mace (46,865)4.94 ×  Adamant platebody (45,665)3.29 ×  Dragonstone (34,619)192 ×  Soul rune (71,800)6.58 ×  Flamtaer hammer (34,102)13.16 ×  Adamant full helm (24,389)4.94 ×  Adamant plateskirt (17,611)4.94 ×  Adamant platelegs (17,423)6.58 ×  Adamant chainbody (17,005)11.52 ×  Adamant spear (9,743)8.23 ×  Mithril plateskirt (10,620)3.29 ×  Adamant kiteshield (9,638)9.87 ×  Adamant spear(p) (6,624)4.94 ×  Adamant longsword (7,986)41.05 ×  Yew logs (4,433)27.36 ×  Redwood logs (17,322)1.71 ×  Clue scroll (elite) (0) |
The profit rate assumes 300 shades cremated (and their keys opened) per hour. Up to 320 is possible with maximum efficiency. 50% more experience will also be rewarded after completing the respective Achievement Diaries. Your actual profit may be higher or lower depending on your speed and luck. Clue scrolls take additional time to complete and are not included in the profit calculation.
Cremating urium remains, collecting the keys and opening the Gold Chests in the Shade Catacombs, rewards a large number of coins and alchable items as well as a decent amount of Firemaking and Prayer experience. Chests can also reward pieces of the Zealot's robes, which is the Prayer skilling outfit.
Players interested in clues can expect roughly one elite clue every 35 minutes. If you are very quick at completing clues this can be more profitable. For a guide that factors in the time to complete those clues see Money making guide/Completing elite clues (urium remains).
For free transportation, Morytania legs 3 or better is the best way to get to Mort'ton regularly. Mort'ton teleports are also an option, but at 11,794 each they are fairly expensive and will reduce the hourly profit by a lot, for only 20 or so seconds saved per trip. The Minigame teleport can also be used to teleport to Flamtaer for free once every 20 minutes.
The gold coffin holds 28 remains and speeds things up considerably; it can be created with tradeable gold locks for only 18,440.
To cremate the shades:
- Fill up the gold coffin with 27 urium remains and fill the rest of the inventory with redwood pyre logs and a tinderbox. It can remain equipped in your cape slot the entire time.
- Run to the pyres, drop around 5 logs to make space, empty 5 remains into your inventory, and cremate them.
- Empty 10 more remains into your inventory with the newly available space, picking up the logs off the ground as you cremate this inventory.
- Empty the last 12 remains into your inventory and cremate them.
The fastest way to cremate remains is to alternate between two pyres. Light the first pyre, then click the second pyre 2 ticks after the XP drop. Timed correctly, there will be no delay between the logs disappearing from one pyre and appearing on the other pyre. Stack up multiple rewards on the pedestal to save time (note the loot will disappear after 5 minutes). Tick manipulation methods can be used to slightly increase the speed the shades are cremated, up to around 400 cremations + loots per hour, or 600 cremations without chests.
You can either bank the keys or go open chests directly from there. They are about the same overall speed, although saving up keys can lead to more efficient chest opening because you won't have to switch chest types as often and instead of running a partial inventory of keys while getting coin drops, more keys can be used in one run. Either way, enter the Shade Catacombs, go through the gold door, and start opening chests. Each loot will give coins, swamp paste, and one other item – none of them are incredibly valuable (besides the elite clue), but they all add up to make each chest well over 10,000 on average.