OSRS Index
Menu

Wire machine

Article
Live index

This copy was last processed on . The copied wiki revision is dated .

Open on the wiki
Wire machine
Wire machine
Released20 March 2007 (Update)
MembersYes
QuestNo
LocationDorgesh-Kaan
League regionMisthalin Misthalin✓
OptionsGrab
Examine
  • Chimney: Smmmokin'!
  • Cogs: The guard is there for a reason.
  • Smoke: Bad for your health, kids!
  • Wire machine: Noisy and dangerous; don't get too close.
  • Wire: The wire is collected here.
Map
Advanced data
Object ID22727,22728,22730,22732
LinkMOID

The Wire machine is a machine that produces wire. It is located next to the anvil in southern Dorgesh-Kaan. It can be stolen from at level 44 Thieving to receive a piece of cave goblin wire and 22 Thieving experience if successful. After 8 ticks, 5 seconds, the wire respawns and can be grabbed again (a total of 10 ticks per wire stolen). On failure, the player will take 5 points of damage and be temporarily stunned.

2 wires will be stolen each time if the Elite Lumbridge & Draynor Diary is completed. Rogue equipment has no effect on how much wire is stolen from the machine.

Due to cave goblin wire's use in crafting light orbs, it has a value of 1,550. This makes stealing from the wire machine a potential source of profit. However, the Thieving experience gained is poor, capping out at around 13,000 experience per hour, assuming no downtime and no failures, but a more realistic experience rate is somewhere around 9,000 experience per hour.

Thieving info

Wire machine
Level requiredThieving 44
Thieving XP22 xp
TypeChest
ToolNone
Respawn time6 seconds

Thieving chance

Success rates are estimated based on 23,848 samples from the Drop Rate Project. 

{"type":"scatter","options":{"tooltips":{"intersect":false,"format":"skillingSuccess"},"datasetsPerGroup":3,"aspectRatio":1.35,"title":{"display":true,"font":{"size":18},"text":"Thieving chance","position":"top"},"scales":{"y":{"ticks":{"stepSize":0.1,"format":"percent"},"scaleLabel":{"display":true,"labelString":"Success rate"}},"x":{"ticks":{"stepSize":1},"scaleLabel":{"display":true,"labelString":"Level"}}},"maintainAspectRatio":false,"fill":false},"minWidth":"300px","resizable":true,"width":"min(540px, 100vw - 32px)","isChartObj":true,"height":"400px","isFinished":true,"minHeight":"300px","data":{"datasets":[{"fill":false,"borderCapStyle":"round","label":"Cave goblin wire  ","showLine":true,"data":[{"y":0.54296875,"x":44}],"pointStyleImg":"Cave_goblin_wire.png","hoverBackgroundColor":"rgba(151,198,222,0.5)","backgroundColor":"rgba(166,206,227,0.3)","borderDash":[5,5],"borderColor":"rgba(166,206,227,1)","hoverBorderColor":"rgba(151,198,222,1)","pointRadius":0,"clip":5,"baseColor":"brown"},{"pointRadius":0,"label":"Cave goblin wire  ","showLine":true,"data":[{"y":0.54296875,"x":44},{"y":0.55078125,"x":45},{"y":0.55859375,"x":46},{"y":0.56640625,"x":47},{"y":0.57421875,"x":48},{"y":0.58203125,"x":49},{"y":0.58984375,"x":50},{"y":0.59765625,"x":51},{"y":0.60546875,"x":52},{"y":0.61328125,"x":53},{"y":0.62109375,"x":54},{"y":0.62890625,"x":55},{"y":0.63671875,"x":56},{"y":0.64453125,"x":57},{"y":0.65234375,"x":58},{"y":0.66015625,"x":59},{"y":0.66796875,"x":60},{"y":0.67578125,"x":61},{"y":0.68359375,"x":62},{"y":0.6953125,"x":63},{"y":0.703125,"x":64},{"y":0.7109375,"x":65},{"y":0.71875,"x":66},{"y":0.7265625,"x":67},{"y":0.734375,"x":68},{"y":0.7421875,"x":69},{"y":0.75,"x":70},{"y":0.7578125,"x":71},{"y":0.765625,"x":72},{"y":0.7734375,"x":73},{"y":0.78125,"x":74},{"y":0.7890625,"x":75},{"y":0.796875,"x":76},{"y":0.8046875,"x":77},{"y":0.8125,"x":78},{"y":0.8203125,"x":79},{"y":0.828125,"x":80},{"y":0.8359375,"x":81},{"y":0.84375,"x":82},{"y":0.8515625,"x":83},{"y":0.859375,"x":84},{"y":0.8671875,"x":85},{"y":0.875,"x":86},{"y":0.88671875,"x":87},{"y":0.89453125,"x":88},{"y":0.90234375,"x":89},{"y":0.91015625,"x":90},{"y":0.91796875,"x":91},{"y":0.92578125,"x":92},{"y":0.93359375,"x":93},{"y":0.94140625,"x":94},{"y":0.94921875,"x":95},{"y":0.95703125,"x":96},{"y":0.96484375,"x":97},{"y":0.97265625,"x":98},{"y":0.98046875,"x":99}],"fill":false,"hoverBackgroundColor":"rgba(29,114,171,0.5)","backgroundColor":"rgba(31,120,180,0.3)","borderDash":[],"borderColor":"rgba(31,120,180,1)","hoverBorderColor":"rgba(29,114,171,1)","borderCapStyle":"round","clip":5,"baseColor":"brown"},{"borderCapStyle":"round","hoverBorderColor":"rgba(169,219,124,1)","showLine":true,"data":[{"y":0.98046875,"x":99}],"fill":false,"hoverBackgroundColor":"rgba(169,219,124,0.5)","borderDash":[],"borderColor":"rgba(178,223,138,1)","backgroundColor":"rgba(178,223,138,0.3)","pointRadius":5,"clip":5,"baseColor":"brown"}]}}

Drops

Item Quantity Rarity Price High Alch
Cave goblin wire.png: Wire machine drops Cave goblin wire with rarity Always in quantity 1-2Cave goblin wire1–2[d 1]Always1,550–3,10012–24
  1. ^ Two cave goblin wires are received at once after completion of the elite Lumbridge Diary.

Money making

The following money making guide is available for Wire machine:

MethodHourly profitSkills
Stealing cave goblin wire638,274 Thieving 44

Changes

Date Changes
8 May 2024
(Update)

Thieving success rates have been increased slightly, from 94.1% at level 99 to 98.0%.

Trivia

  • The examine text on the chimney is a reference to the 1994 movie The Mask.
  • The examine text on the machine's exhaust is a play on slogans used to discourage youth from smoking cigarettes.
Dorgesh-Kaan
Inhabitants
Council
Marketplace
Nursery
Features
Items
Food
Scenery
Interactive
Decorative
Related

Source

Content from the Old School RuneScape Wiki (operated by Weird Gloop), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Source siteOld School RuneScape Wiki
Canonical sourceWire machine
Content licenseCC BY-NC-SA 3.0
License statusdeclared
PictureWire machine · file details

Notices

  • Content has been reformatted for web display. Consult the canonical source URL for the authoritative version.
  • Created using intellectual property belonging to Jagex Limited under the terms of Jagex's Fan Content Policy. This content is not endorsed by or affiliated with Jagex.
  • This is an unofficial, non-commercial reference website. It is not endorsed by or affiliated with Jagex Limited or the Old School RuneScape Wiki / Weird Gloop.
  • Non-text media on the source wiki should not be assumed to be available under the same license as the text. Media licensing is recorded per file where known and is otherwise marked unknown.