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.

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


 * Teleport to the monastery south of Ardougne
 * Better chance at successful thieving in Ardougne
 * Twice as many death runes when trading a cat to a citizen in West Ardougne
 * More drops in the Tower Of Life will become noted.
 * A boost of Prayer on entry to Castle Wars

In addition to the 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, in addition to Ardougne Cloak 1's bonuses, grants the following bonuses when worn:


 * Teleport to Ardougne Farm once per day.
 * Better chance at successful pickpocket in Ardougne.
 * Better chance at getting more runes at Ourania Alter.
 * Even more of the drops from the Tower of Life will be noted.
 * 100 Pure Essence per day from Wizard Cromperty.
 * Longer immunity from attack once teleporting to the wilderness from the Ardougne Lever.
 * Toggle Ring of life teleport to Ardougne.

In addition to the cloak, players will receive a 7,500 experience lamp.

The reward
The reward for the hard tasks is Ardougne Cloak 3, wich, in addition to Ardougne Cloak 2's bonuses, grants the following bonuses when worn:


 * Better chance at stealing and pickpocketing anywhere in RuneScape.
 * Magical traps on chests will teleport the player to Ardougne's North Bank, instead of a random location.
 * Even more drops from the creatures in the Tower of Life will be noted.
 * Wizard Cromperty will give 150 pure essence per day.
 * Ability to change the Watchtower teleport to take the player within Yanille's Walls

Elite tasks
After finishing the Hard tasks, talk to Aleck in Yanille to unlock the hidden Elite tasks:

The reward

 * Four XP lamps granting 50k XP each to any skill.
 * Unlimited teleports to the farm north of Ardougne, as opposed to only one per day for the previous capes.

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. Same case with collecting sand from Bert - people weren't able to do the medium diary if they collected sand anytime that day before accepting the diary.
 * 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, or by asking one of the three NPC's about the rewards to be told it was a cloak and some other secrets.
 * 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!"