Prince Ali Rescue/Speedrun guide
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This guide is for Quest Speedrunning worlds. For main game guides, please use the in-depth guide.
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Details
| Start point |  Speak to Chancellor Hassan in the palace at Al Kharid. |
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| Official difficulty | Novice |
| Official length | Short |
| Description | Prince Ali of Al Kharid has been kidnapped by the scheming Lady Keli. You are hired to stage a rescue mission. |
| Requirements |
These skills are given upon setting up the speedrun: |
| Items required |
These items are provided upon setting up the speedrun:
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| Enemies to defeat | None |
Walkthrough
Pre-quest set-up
- Set the Grouping menu to teleport to Giants' Foundry.
Speedrun
- Talk to Chancellor Hassan (
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1 Is there anything I can help you with? 1 Yes. - Talk to Osman. Finish listening to him or Lady Keli will not talk to you. You do not need to pick any dialogue options afterwards.
- Go to Ali Morrisane's shop and buy:
- 2 buckets
- 1 bronze pickaxe
- 1 pot
- 1 tinderbox
- Run northwards to the south-east Varrock mine and mine one copper ore. Keep west of the unicorns and bears for a shortcut.
- (Optional) Tuna can be eaten as a form of tick manipulation to mine quicker. This is not required for a platinum time.
- Pick one bunch of redberries from the redberry bush north-west.
- Run to the south-west Varrock mine and mine one tin ore and clay. You may pass north of the circle with dark wizards for a faster route.
- Purchase a pink skirt from Thessalia's Fine Clothes.
- Purchase shears from the Varrock general store.
- Use Lumbridge Home Teleport and fill the two buckets with water from the nearby fountain.
- Use one bucket of water on the clay while running to the next objective.
- Purchase three beers from the bartender in The Sheared Ram. (
1 I'll have a beer please. - Talk to the woodsman tutor nearby,
icon on the minimap to get a bronze axe. (
1 Any advice for an advanced woodcutter? - Run westwards and shear three sheep for wool.
- Exit the sheep enclosure the same way you came in and pick two onions from behind Fred the Farmers house. Pay attention in case you get an onion seed instead!
- Head north to the Mill Lane Mill and pick some grain outside. Climb up to the top floor of the mill and use the grain with the hopper, then pull the lever. Climb down and take the flour from the flour bin with the pot.
- Head to the jail and talk to Lady Keli. (to get the the key imprint.
1 Heard of you? You're famous in Gielinor! 1 What's your latest plan then? 2 How do you know someone won't try to free him? 1 Could I see the key please? 1 Could I touch the key for a moment please? - Run eastwards to Lumbridge Castle courtyard.
- Chop a log on the way there and light a fire.
- Use copper ore or tin ore on the furnace further north to smelt a bronze bar.
- Use the key print and bronze bar on the furnace to create the bronze key.
- Run back to Lumbridge Castle.
- Climb up the stairs once and use the spinning wheel in the southern room to make three balls of wool.
- Pick up the ashes on the way to the next objective.
- Run to Ned in Draynor Village.
- Talk to Ned. (to get a wig.
1 Could you make other things apart from rope? 2 Well... that's an interesting thought. Yes, I think I could do something. Give me three balls of wool and I might be able to do it. 1 I have them here. Please make me a wig. - Buy a rope from Ned.
- Talk to Aggie. (to get paste.
3 Can you make skin paste? 1 Yes please. Mix me some skin paste. - Right-click Use the onion on her to get the yellow dye.
- Use the yellow dye on the wig while running to the next objective.
- Talk to Leela.
- Use a beer on Joe until all three disappear from your inventory.
- Use the rope on Lady Keli.
- Open the prison gate and talk to Prince Ali.
- Minigame teleport to Giants' Foundry.
- Return to Chancellor Hassan to complete the quest.
Speedrun complete!
Optimizations
Mining
Clicking to mine with a bronze pickaxe will start an 8 tick timer, at the end of which your character will have a chance to mine a rock. This is the same skilling timer as most other skilling and combat options, so with some clever routing you can reduce your wait quite a bit. You will start your skilling timer on some other action, then arrive at a rock when the skilling timer is about to end.
To do this, you will click on this tree without an axe. This sets your skilling timer to 3. You then run for 4 ticks to the tin rock. If you eat a tuna on the way, you can add a 3 tick delay to your skilling timer and arrive at the rock at the right time. Once the tin ore is mined, you can eat another tuna and immediately click the clay rock. This adds 3 to your skilling timer and takes 1 tick to move there, which works perfectly.
Alts
Alts can help with mining similarly to above. If you lure a unicorn, you can punch it at a good time on the way to the copper rock, saving 7 ticks.
There are a lot of NPCs in this quest with decently large wander ranges. Here is the order of preference you would want to use an alt to hold them to save the most time on average:
- Unicorn
- Thesselia
- Aggie
- Ned
- Chancellor Hassan
- Joe + Keli (same alt can hold both, though need to be careful and retalk during minigame tele)
- Shop keeper
- Mugger
- Osman
- Leela
- Prince Ali
Deathwarping
With very good luck, you can die to the guards while picking nettles at the end to save a little bit of time. On average, this method is a bit slower than the Giants' Foundry teleport, but with the best hit RNG it will save time. Note that you do not need 10gp to get through the gate after you have saved Prince Ali.
Dying faster means getting back to Lumbridge faster. When picking nettles, you want to make sure both guards are able to hit you. By picking the north nettle, then switching to the nettle one south, then back to the north one, you can make sure the guards aren't stacked on each other.
Rewards
 Bronze |
 Silver |
 Gold |
 Platinum |
 Diamond | |
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| Time | 17:00 | 14:00 | 12:00 | 11:00 | 9:30 |
| Points | 10 | 30 | 80 | 200 | 0 |
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