Penance horn

The Penance horn can be obtained for free from Commander Connad at the Barbarian Assault activity (no Barbarian Assault points are required to acquire the horn which comes uncharged). The item gives double experience to Agility, Mining and Firemaking (burning logs). When receiving double experience from a skill task, the Penance Horn will lose some of its charge. The charges can be regained by fighting through all ten waves of Barbarian Assault several times. The player can click 'Check-potential' on the horn to see how many charges it has remaining. It can be upgraded to a Penance master horn, but the player needs to be level 5 in any Barbarian Assault role. Neither item confers any combat bonuses.

To begin charging the horn, the player should enter any waiting room and rotate the statue located in the northern part of the room. After rotating, the horn will gain charges as the player plays the activity, but no honour points will be earned. Thus, the player cannot charge the horn and gain honour points at the same time. If the player dies with the horn, Commander Connad will give it back for free and with the same amount of charges it had before it was lost. The horn does not need to be taken in to the activity to obtain charges.

Agility
The XP reward can be spent by completing agility courses, excluding the Werewolf Skullball, Agility Pyramid and the Penguin agility courses. When doing the Dorgesh-Kaan agility course, the horn only affects the experience gained from the obstacles, not the bonus from Turgall. Around 1,000,000 experience will be gained from a full horn.

Firemaking
Players will receive double experience for lighting logs while using the penance horn. The experience gained from lighting beacons is not affected. The experience from burning pyre logs in the Shades of Mort'ton activity is also not doubled. The Ring of fire or Flame gloves bonus does apply to the extra XP given by the horn. In other words, the total experience rate is x2.02 or x2.05 with one or both (of the ring of fire/flame gloves) equipped, respectively.

Without the Ring of fire or Flame gloves bonus around 3,500,000 experience will be gained from a full horn, but with the Ring of fire or Flame gloves bonus around 3,560,000 experience will be gained from a full horn.

Mining
Mining ores gives double XP with the horn equipped. When used with a Sacred clay pickaxe, players will receive 3x the xp from the ore—neither will degrade any quicker.

Example:
 * Mining iron without either the Sacred clay pickaxe or the horn earns you 35 XP.
 * Mining with either the Sacred clay pickaxe or the horn earns 70 XP.
 * Mining with both the Sacred clay pickaxe and the horn earns 105 XP.

Note: The experience bonus does not work with a Shooting Star, or when mining the living mineral remains to obtain living minerals.

Stages
The completion of any wave fills your horn by exp based on the point total for that round, averaging around 100 waves, or 10 rounds of all 10 waves, for a full horn.


 * Your horn is empty
 * Your horn is almost empty
 * Your horn has only a little potential remaining
 * Your horn is less than a quarter full
 * Your horn is around a quarter full
 * Your horn is nearly a third full
 * Your horn is around a third full
 * Your horn is almost half full
 * Your horn is around half full
 * Your horn is nearly two thirds full
 * Your horn is around two thirds full
 * Your horn is less than three quarters full
 * Your horn is around three quarters full
 * Your horn is more than three quarters full
 * Your horn is almost full
 * Your horn is full

Trivia

 * When looking on the Show Items on Death screen, it shows the penance horn is valued at one coin.