Desert achievements

The Desert Tasks are the tasks relating to Kharidian Desert and its surrounding area, added on 21 January 2013. To complete all of the tasks, players will need the stats shown to the right. These members tasks, like all other members' task sets, have four difficulties ranging from easy to elite. Please note you must do the easy tasks first in order to claim rewards from medium, hard or elite. Two higher level requirements for the elite tasks include 91 Thieving and 89 Crafting. Some of the tasks include riding a magic carpet, mining granite and looting the engraved sarcophagus in Pyramid Plunder. They also include tasks from the Agility Pyramid and the Mage Training Arena.

The rewards include a Desert amulet, hefty experience rewards, new daily rewards and rerolls for the Dominion Tower. The amulet also provides some useful benefits for Mining, Crafting and Herblore and unlimited teleports to Nardah.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Use a ring of duelling to reach the Duel Arena. View the scoreboard.
 * 2) Go north to the Mage Training Arena. Earn some pizazz points if necessary and spend them.
 * 3) Go out of the Duel Arena main gate and slightly north. Enter the fire altar and craft some fire runes.
 * 4) Run south, or use the lodestone, and go through the east gate, go past the strykewyrms and do the troubadour dance near the Citharede Abbey musicians.
 * 5) Use the Al Kharid lodestone to return to the city. Go the the emir's palace, speak to Khoochak in the palace.
 * 6) Ascend to the roof, slide by rope to the banks, then jump (or Go east and north to the start point of the roof course (crafting shop) and follow it round to the hay cart).
 * 7) Go south to the Shantay Pass. Purchase and equip some desert clothing. Also purchase an empty water skin.
 * 8) Take the carpet to Uzer.
 * 9) Fill the waterskin from a cactus.
 * 10) Run west and use a bird snare to catch a golden warbler.
 * 11) Run west to the Dominion Tower and attempt to spectate a match inside.
 * 12) Run across the river and south to Pollnivneach. Take the south carpet to Sophanem. Get five artefacts from Pyramid Plunder, exit the city and take them to Simon Templeton, near the Agility Pyramid to the east.

Rewards
Speak to Hassan in Al Kharid Palace to receive the easy rewards.
 * Desert amulet 1
 * Antique lamp (2,000 xp in any skill over lvl 29)
 * Mage Training Arena prices lowered by 2%.
 * Sparkly dung kalphites drop double loot.
 * Speak to any rug merchant daily to receive a bag of lost items.
 * Double water from cacti when wearing the amulet.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Use the Book of char to go to Eagle's Peak. Take the desert eagle to the desert.
 * 2) Home teleport to Lumbridge. Run south through the graveyard and cross the river.
 * 3) Run east and do an easy runedoku at Ali Morissane.
 * 4) Home teleport to the Bandit Camp and run south to the quarry. Mine some granite.
 * 5) Home teleport to Yanille and run north to the fairy ring. Go to B-I-Q. Enter the kalphite lair and run round to get a potato cactus for later.
 * 6) Go out of the lair and take the fairy ring to D-L-Q. Go East through the Uzer Mastaba and pray at Amascut's altar.
 * 7) Exit the mastaba and go N.E. to the teak trees on the shorline of the Ruins of Uzer and attempt to cut a log.
 * 8) Run south to Nardah. Pray at the Elidinis statue.
 * 9) Get a goat horn. Do not crush it yet. Go to the fountain and do all the steps there.
 * 10) Run west from Nardah to the summoning obelisk. Make the kalphite pouch.
 * 11) Go to the Agility Pyramid and traverse its edges to get the gold top.

Rewards
Speak to Zahur in the potion shop in Nardah for a Desert amulet 2 and an Experience lamp, giving 8,000 experience in the skill of your choice.
 * When worn:
 * Reduced failure rate at the Agility Pyramid.
 * 50 Molten glass per day (Make Glass Desert Amulet option - soda ash is required).
 * At all times:
 * A second Teak tree near Uzer.
 * Unlimited teleports to Nardah.
 * Goats have a chance to drop noted Desert goat horns.
 * 5% cheaper items at the pizazz store.
 * 20 noted potato cacti from the Weird Old Man once a day.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Activate Lunar spells, get several Water runes, Death runes, a Fire rune and an Astral rune, and buy 2 empty waterskins and some feathers. A Steam battlestaff would help greatly!
 * 2) Buy an onion, tomato, empty bowl, pot of flour, and bucket of water.
 * 3) Home teleport to Al-Kharid.
 * 4) Talk to Al the Camel by the bank with a full-featured Cramulet on.
 * 5) Harvest spines from your cactus, and enter the Al-kharid resource dungeon.
 * 6) Home teleport to the Bandit Camp.
 * 7) Equip a charged Enchanted water tiara.
 * 8) Use a waterskin on the fountain in Enakhra's Temple, exit, and cast Humidify on the other waterskin.
 * 9) Get Ancient Magicks and head to Smoke Dungeon while killing a Ugthanki camel with Ice Burst en route.
 * 10) Kill a Dust devil inside said dungeon. Don't forget to wear a Face mask or Slayer Helm!
 * 11) Go to Sumona's house in Pollnivneach, and fletch some Broad bolts or Broad arrows, which can be bought unfinished from her.
 * 12) Take a Magic carpet ride or walk to Nardah, and make the Ugthanki kebab there.
 * 13) Take a magic carpet or walk to Sophanem, gear up with the Keris dagger, and kill a Scarab mage or Locust rider in the Sophanem Dungeon below.
 * 14) Play Pyramid Plunder and open the sarcophagus in the level 61 room (#5).
 * 15) Gear up with some Dreadnips for the Kalphite Queen, teleport to the Bandit Camp lodestone and deposit something in the Bedabin Camp deposit box.
 * 16) Deploy a dreadnip on the Kalphite Queen.

Rewards
Speak to Ali the Mayor in Pollnivneach for a Desert amulet 3 and an Experience lamp giving 20,000 experience in the skill of your choice.
 * When worn:
 * Goats have a chance to drop noted Desert goat horns.
 * Reduced failure rate at the Agility Pyramid.
 * Operate
 * Unlimited teleports to Nardah.
 * 100 Molten glass, once per day
 * At all times:
 * The cactus patch in Al Kharid will be protected from disease and always provides double spines.
 * Double charges on the Pharaoh's sceptre and the Sceptre of the gods.
 * Reduced chance of Mummies and Scarabs spawning in Pyramid Plunder.
 * Keris has a greater chance of scoring a vicious blow.
 * 10% cheaper items at the pizazz store.
 * 30 noted potato cacti from the Weird Old man a day.

Rewards
Talk to the Clay golem to receive Desert amulet 4 and  Experience lamps - total of 160,000 experience - 2 lamps of 30k xp and 2 lamps of 50k xp, the latter which requires 93 in the desired skill to be used - in the skills of your choice (boosts cannot be used).


 * When worn
 * 150 Molten glass per day.
 * Opportunity to re-roll your Dominion Tower chest rewards.
 * At all times:
 * Two feathers at once from pickpocketing the Desert Phoenix.
 * 20% Chance to create 4-dose Super antifire potions instead of 3-dose.
 * The Ancient staff can be enhanced upon request from the Clay golem, which adds a +2 prayer bonus, along with a small cosmetic effect. This however wasn't intentional according to mod stating it's stats being bugged and getting buffed in next game update.
 * A new sandstone rock on the Sophanem coast of which holds up to 25 red sandstone per day.
 * Aligra Nite in the Desert Quarry will buy granite from you (price depends on rock size) for 20% Grand Exchange value, that can be counter to mine/drop ores.
 * 40 noted potato cacti from the Weird Old Man.

Cultural references

 * The easy task "Assassin's Feed" is a pun on the video game "Assassin's Creed." The task involves doing an "eagle jump", which is also done in the game.
 * The easy task "Don't You Dare Close Your Eyes" refers to the lyrics from "A Whole New World", featured in Disney's animated film Aladdin.
 * The easy task "Kookookachat" is a reference to The Beatles song "I am the Walrus". Kookookachat is a play on words of the lyric "Goo, Goo, G'joob", which is often missheard as being pronounced Koo, Koo, Ka'choo.
 * The easy task "Seems Legit" is a reference to the internet meme "Seems Legit."
 * The easy task "Fire at Will" refers to the military order that means soldiers should fire at their own pace, rather than waiting for orders from an officers.
 * The easy task "Memento Mori" refers to the ancient motto that means "remember to die", referring to the catholic belief that your life in the afterlife depends on you live now.
 * The medium task "Away with the Kalphites" is a play on the phrase "away with the fairies".
 * The medium task "Faster Than A Speeding Bullet" is either a reference to the Desert Eagle handgun or Superman.
 * The medium task "Heathen Idle" is a play on the word "Idol", a religious statue where in some religions people pray at.
 * The medium task "A Bridge Not Far" is a reference to A Bridge Too Far.
 * The medium task "An Teak" is a play on the word "antique".
 * The medium task "Taken for Granite" is a play on the phrase "taken for granted".
 * The medium task "Unbeetleable" is a play on the word "unbeatable".
 * The medium task "So Su Me" is a play on the phrase "so sue me".
 * The hard task "Nipped in the bug" is a play on the saying "to nip something in the bud", meaning to stop something before it gets bigger.
 * The hard task "1001 Kharidian Spikes" is a pun on the famous book "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights."
 * The hard task "Ludikeris" is a pun on the word "Ludicrous".
 * The hard task "Enaqua" is a pun on the name of Enakhra, and Aqua, meaning water.
 * The hard task "Open Sesame" is a reference to the tale of Ali Baba and the 40 bandits, one of the tales from 1001 Arabian Nights.
 * The elite task "I'm Super" is likely a reference to the song "I'm Super (Thanks for Asking)" from the South.

Trivia

 * The reward pendants colors align with the basic 4 gems:
 * Easy = blue (sapphire)
 * Medium = green (emerald)
 * Hard = red (ruby)
 * Elite = white (diamond)
 * The jingles are renditions of music tracks relating to the task area, as usual. The easy jingle is a rendition of Violinsanity, hard of Breaking In and elite of Final Showdown.