Kudos

Kudos are reward points for helping the staff in the Varrock Museum. You received experience points for various skills for accumulating certain amounts of kudos, as explained at Varrock Museum's rewards. Also, you will need 100 kudos to join a planned dig on an island north of Morytania, although the barge to go to the island has not been finished yet. Kudos also play a role in the Varrock Achievement Diary, where achieving 153 kudos is one of the Hard tasks.

You can earn a maximum of 183 Kudos in the Varrock Museum minigame. You can also earn additional kudos for completing some quests: Meeting History earns 5 kudos and Defender of Varrock also earns 5 kudos.

In common use kudos are tokens of recognition.

There are 3 different ways for earning kudos in the museum: by cleaning finds, by taking quizzes on museum exhibits, and by telling Historian Minas about certain quests that you have completed.

Cleaning finds
One way to earn kudos is by cleaning finds from the Digsite, found in the roped-off area of the museum, not the Digsite its self. In order to do this, you must have first completed The Dig Site quest. You must also be wearing leather gloves and leather boots, and have a trowel, a rock pick, and a specimen brush. All can be obtained from the tool rack on the south wall in the museum.

To clean a find, take a Dig Site specimen rock from the pile on the floor to the east just inside the roped-off area. Then Use the Uncleaned find on one of the unused specimen tables. Usually this will result in some sort of item in your inventory (once in a great while the rock simply crumbles into dust).

If you find pottery, ancient symbol, old symbol, ancient coin, or old coin, show it to one of the NPCs working on the other specimen tables, they will instruct you which display case it should go in (or see the table in "Uncleaned_find") and you will earn 10 museum kudos points. Notice that if you find more than one of each item, only the first instance goes in the display case and earns kudos; subsequent items can be placed in the storage crates. You will have to clean approximately 5 rocks to find 1 of the desired items.

Other artefacts such as old chipped vases and arrowheads can be traded for prizes in the storage crates. Most of these prizes have some gold value, one notable exception is the antique lamp which grants 500 or 1,000 experience points to a skill over level 20 of your choice.

If you find jewellery and give it to any archaeologist, you will receive 5 coins. However, since nearly everything you receive in trade from the storage crates is worth more than 5 coins, giving it to an archaeologist is not useful.

You can also find the cleaned necklace while cleanings finds for kudos, show this to one of the archaeologists and he will teach you how to enchant ruby necklaces to create digsite pendants.

These are the prizes you can get by placing items in the storage crates: Please note that this list is not finished yet.
 * A Bowl (very common, worth coins)
 * Bronze Limbs (common)
 * Iron Throwing Knife (common)
 * Big Bones (common. each are worth coins)
 * Iron Dagger
 * Uncut Jade
 * Wooden Stock
 * Iron Ore (each are worth coins)
 * Mithril Ore
 * Iron Bolts
 * Empty Pot
 * 20 Iron Darts (each are worth coins)
 * Coins
 * Coal
 * Bronze bar
 * Iron arrowtips (Common)
 * Tin Ore
 * Copper Ore
 * Uncut Opal (each are worth coins)
 * Broken glass
 * Old Saradomin Symbol
 * Pottery
 * Broken arrow
 * Black med helm
 * Antique lamp (500-1000xp)
 * Jewelry
 * Old Chipped Vase
 * Ancient Coin
 * Shiny Old Coin
 * Clue scroll (level 1)

Monster/Animal Exhibits
The easiest way to earn kudos is to go into the museum's lower floor, and answer the natural history quiz questions on various creatures in RuneScape. This can provide 2 kudos for each 3 questions if answered correctly for a total of 28 kudos.

Completing Quests
If you relate the tale of how you completed certain Quests to Historian Minas (found on the second floor) you will also earn Kudos (5 for each individual quest and 10 for completing the Ghostly robes (miniquest)) as well as Antique lamps which give 1,000 experience or 10,000 in the skill of your choice. Note that if you completed these quests before the Kudos system was in place, you can still speak to him and receive the full benefits. (Note - You receive 10 Kudos for bringing the Prophecy tablet from Glorious Memories to Historian Minas.)

An incomplete list of the quests for which you can earn kudos is:
 * Shield of Arrav
 * A Tail of Two Cats
 * Shadow of the Storm for a description of the sword Silverlight
 * Rune Mysteries
 * Merlin's Crystal
 * Glorious Memories
 * What Lies Below for the Dagon'hai history book (you need it in your inventory when you talk to him before he will add any information about it to the display. You can find a copy of the book in the Varrock library or in your POH's bookcases).
 * Demon Slayer
 * Temple of Ikov
 * The Grand Tree
 * Hazeel Cult
 * Priest in Peril
 * Ghostly robes (miniquest)
 * Observatory Quest
 * The Dig Site
 * Making History
 * Meeting History
 * In Aid of the Myreque
 * Defender of Varrock

Trivia

 * If you had max Kudos before Defender of Varrock and then went to max them once again after the release of Defender of Varrock you would get five extra kudos and a 1000 experience lamp.


 * If you offer one of the archeologists anything besides pottery, ancient symbol, old symbol, ancient coin, or old coin they say "Thank you, but I don't need that"
 * Very Rarely an experience lamp may give 10,000 experience.

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