Museum Camp

Museum Camp
Released		7 September 2017 (Update)
Members		Yes
Location		Fossil Island
League region		Misthalin✓
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Type		settlement

The museum camp is a small camp on Fossil Island, established by the Varrock Museum expedition. At first arrival, the camp will not be very useful, but players can utilise the Construction skill to build improvements within the camp.

Fossil Island can be reached via the barge from the Digsite. After arriving on Fossil Island via the canal barge, the player will be just west of the Museum Camp. There are also several teleports which can be used, listed here:

• Digsite pendant — top of the Digsite, near the barge.
• Ring of the elements — earth altar, a small north-west of the barge.
• Volcanic mine teleport — volcanic mine, on south-eastern Fossil Island.
• Digsite teleport — eastern entrance of the Digsite.
• Gnome glider — eastern entrance of the Digsite.
• Lumberyard teleport — the lumberyard, a medium run from the barge.
• Senntisten teleport — exam centre, a long run from the barge.

There are three tents pitched in the base camp. Players can build the following features in them:

In total, players will need the following items to build everything, taking up exactly 28 slots, or one full inventory:

After building all of the camp improvements, players can speak to Peter (by the rowboat) to receive five unidentified small fossils. These can be stored in the nearby fossil storage crate.

There is also a poll booth in the bank tent, which can be used without needing to be build.

• The Fossil Island mine is found immediately to the north of the camp. The mine contains two runite rocks and five adamantite rocks, as well as three mithril, 20 coal, and seven iron rocks to mine.
• Players can go soil digging within the camp. with the help of tools such as the trowel, rock pick, specimen brush, leather gloves and boots (which can all be found in a crate next to the fossil cleaning bench), dig up numulites by using the tools on soil found in the archaeological digs all around the camp. Doing this grants 5 Mining experience per attempt.
• Immediately to the north-west, through a tunnel under the hill, are three hardwood tree patches.
• Around the north-west quadrant of the camp are several herbiboar spawns.

A number of other Fossil Island training spots can be found immediately after departing the camp.

Just outside the general store is a notice board that lists things to do on Fossil Island. These are simple mini-tasks that are meant to introduce the player to the various content the island has to offer. The list is split into four sections: the Museum Camp, the Northern Reaches, the Southern Swamps, and the Mountainous East.

Players who have completed a section of the list can speak to Peter, who can be found panning south-west of the notice board, for a reward. Players who complete the list for the Museum Camp and Northern Reaches will receive 10 unidentified small fossils (5 per section), and completing the list for the Southern Swamps and Mountainous East will give 10 unidentified medium fossils (5 per section).

• Charles, a natural historian who believes the island has an accelerated rate of evolution.
• David, who relaxes at the camp after doing very little on the way there.
• Dog, who can be pet. The dog is owned by the fossil collector, and is named Tray.
• Fossil collector, who by her own admission is obsessed with fossils.
• Jardric, a former boatman and now a researcher for Keldagrim.
• John, a crewmember who gets some rest at the camp fire.
• John, an archaologist who talks about soil digging.
• Mattimeo, a bird-watcher who doesn't want the island's birds to be trapped.
• Peter, a man busily panning on the shore.
• Shop keeper, who runs the Fossil Island general store.

• The Museum Camp contains one of the game's few toilets. Strangely, though there is no non-player character inside the outhouse, attempting to open the door will cause a man inside to yell Occupied! This is in contrast to the Hosidius Vinery outhouse which is occupied by Man (Hosidius Vinery toilet).

v t e Fossil Island
Museum Camp	Fossil Storage Fossil Island bank Fossil Island General Store Notice board NPCs Charles David Dog Fossil Collector Jardric Peter John John Mattimeo Petrified Pete Shop keeper Items Fossil Island fossils Numulite Scenery Broken spinning wheel (built) Chest pieces (Fossil Island) (built) Fire pit (built) Half-built Loom (built) Ring of Stones (built) Table parts (built)
Mushroom Forest	Mycelium pool Wyvern Cave NPCs Ancient Zygomite Irene Herbiboar Maz Squirrel Weve Ammonite Crab Items Pyrophosphite Calcite
Tar Swamp	Bellshroom Sulliuscep Spine mushroom NPCs Hoop Snake Charles Charlington Tar Monster Deranged archaeologist Items Hoop snake Sulliuscep cap Uncooked mushroom pie Mushroom pie Breadcrumbs Archaeologist's diary Steel ring
Fossil Island Volcano	Volcanic Mine Petrified Pete's Ore Shop NPCs Lava beast Petrified Pete Items Soda ash Volcanic ash Volcanic mine teleport Calcite Pyrophosphite Iron ore fragment Silver ore fragment Coal fragment Gold ore fragment Mithril ore fragment Adamantite ore fragment Runite ore fragment Large rock Ash covered tome Heat-proof vessel Ore pack Dragon pickaxe (broken) Scenery Ash pile Boulder (Volcanic Mine)
Underwater	Mairin's Market Pile of Fishbowls Plant door Clam Chest Hole NPCs Mernia Mairin Ceto Annette Puffer Fish Harlequin Fish Paradise Fish Red Fantail Fish shoal Lobstrosity Items Mermaid's tear Glistening tear Pufferfish Drift net Merfolk trident Seaweed spore Bowl of fish
House on the Hill	Mycelium Transportation System Stone chest Strange Machine Strange blocks Strange stone NPCs Skeka Items Ancient wyvern shield Small enriched bone Medium enriched bone Large enriched bone Rare enriched bone Fossil island note book Ancient diary
Other	Wilhelm
Music	Fossilised Lagoon Lava is Mine Preservation Preserved