Ardougne achievements

The Ardougne Diary is part of the Achievement Diary relating to Ardougne and its surrounding area, and was released on 20 October 2009. Where to start the Ardougne Achievement Diary: Speak to Dr Orbon in the church, Ardougne’s town crier or Aleck in Yanille’s Hunter shop.

Easy tasks
{|class="wikitable" align="center" !Task !Quests Started / Required !Skill / Other Requirements Talk to a civilian in West Ardougne about selling a cat
 * Have Wizard Cromperty teleport you to the essence mine
 * Rune Mysteries
 * None
 * Attempt to steal from any stall in Ardougne Market, or from any guard
 * None
 * Level 5 Thieving
 * Sell silk to the silk trader in Ardougne for 60gp each
 * Start with 120 gp
 * None
 * None
 * Use the altar in West Ardougne's church
 * Plague City
 * None
 * Enter the Castle Wars waiting room
 * None
 * None
 * Go out fishing on the Fishing Trawler
 * None
 * Level 15 Fishing
 * Enter the Combat Training Camp north of Ardougne
 * Biohazard
 * None
 * Go out fishing on the Fishing Trawler
 * None
 * Level 15 Fishing
 * Enter the Combat Training Camp north of Ardougne
 * Biohazard
 * None
 * None


 * A kitten will not work work for this task*
 * Plague City

Attempt to picklock a certain door east of the gem stall in Ardougne's marketplace
 * Kill a unicow in the Tower of Life
 * To make an Unicow you need a cowhide and an unicorn horn.
 * Tower of Life
 * None
 * Get a civilian to throw a tomato at the army recruiter in West Ardougne
 * Plague City
 * None
 * Sail from East Ardougne to Karamja
 * This will cost 30 coins.
 * None
 * None
 * This will cost 30 coins.
 * None
 * None


 * It is the northern house west of the marketplace.
 * None
 * level 16 Thieving
 * Spend some Penguin Points with Larry (or Chuck) at Ardougne Zoo
 * None
 * None
 * Use the Summoning obelisk to the east of the Fight Arena
 * Wolf Whistle
 * level 3 Summoning
 * Pop a balloon in the monastery south of Ardougne
 * Talk to Monk Oman.
 * Monk's Friend
 * None
 * Buy a water-filled vial from the general store run by Aemad and Kortan
 * This will cost 5 coins.
 * None
 * None
 * Use the noticeboard near in the Observatory to gather information about shooting stars
 * None
 * None
 * Kill something on the Khazard Battlefield
 * Just kill something like a gnome archer.
 * None
 * None
 * Buy a skewered kebab from the Poison Arrow pub
 * This will cost 25 coins.
 * None
 * None
 * View the Hunter equipment in Aleck's shop
 * This is the hunter store in Yannile.
 * None
 * None
 * Talk to the head servant at the servants' guild to find out about servants for your house
 * None
 * None
 * View the Hunter equipment in Aleck's shop
 * This is the hunter store in Yannile.
 * None
 * None
 * Talk to the head servant at the servants' guild to find out about servants for your house
 * None
 * None
 * None
 * None


 * Use a ring of duelling to teleport to Castle Wars
 * None
 * None
 * None


 * Talk to Tindel Marchant about identifying swords
 * None
 * None
 * }
 * }

The reward
The Reward for the easy tasks is Ardougne Cloak 1, which grants the following bonuses when worn:

A teleport to the monastery south of Ardougne, Improved ability to steal from Ardougne stalls, the opportunity to receive twice as many death runes when trading a cat to a citizen in West Ardougne, more of the drops from tower of life creatures will be noted, and a prayer bonus will be received when entering castle wars.

In addition to this cloak, players will receive a 1,000 experience lamp.

Items needed

 * 1 Raw swordfish
 * 1 Raw chicken
 * 2 Earth runes or 1 Earth staff
 * 1 Lunar staff or Dramen staff
 * At least 1 pure essence
 * 2 Law runes
 * 1 Pickaxe of any kind
 * 1 spade
 * 1 seed dibber
 * 3 watermelon seeds
 * 1 Mithril grapple
 * 1 Mithril bolt
 * 1 Crossbow
 * 1 Small fishing net or 1 Rod

The reward
The Reward for the medium tasks is Ardougne Cloak 2, which grants the following bonuses when worn:

Trivia

 * Many players weren't able to complete the easy tasks on the first day because they had already spent all of their penguin points.
 * On the day of the release, a picture was found, named ardougne_ad, before the actual release. This picture turned out to be the picture used for the Diary's Recent News page.
 * Players could find out what the Achievement Diary item was immediately after the update using Quick Chat.
 * On the day of the release, clicking on the spoiler box on the RuneScape website for the rewards yielded the message: "Argh! Someone's pinched the rewards!"