Managing Miscellania


 * For a calculator helping you with determining profits from kingdom management, see Calculators/Miscellania with live data from the Grand Exchange Market Watch.

Managing Miscellania is a quest reward from Throne of Miscellania in which the player is the regent of the nation of Miscellania, and as the regent is in charge of running the island. You can decide what resources your subjects obtain for you, but you must have money in the coffers and your popularity with your citizens must be reasonably high. To adjust what resource your subjects obtain for you, speak to Advisor Ghrim in Miscellania castle. You can also speak to him via the Lunar Magicks spell NPC Contact without having to visit Miscellania.

Popularity
You gain popularity by "helping" out your subjects in various tasks.
 * Mining coal rocks (1% / 1.28 coal mined) - Any gems found while mining also count and get given to Miner Magnus.
 * Cutting maple trees (1% / 3 wood chopped) (Spirit Beavers cannot use multichop on them)
 * Weeding herb or flax patches (1% / 1.28 weed weeded)
 * Fishing tuna, swordfish and lobster

Once you have completed the Royal Trouble quest, you can also gather resources on the Etceteria side of the island.
 * Cut teak and mahogany trees(Spirit Beavers cannot use multichop on them)
 * Compost, water, and weed a farming patch.

These activities only give you a fraction of a single experience point, so it is not recommended that players use them as a way of getting experience.

Once your popularity is at 100%, your subjects will tell you that you have done enough work. Mining appears to be the fastest way to improve your popularity, but of course, this may depend on your Mining level. If you are just 'topping up' your popularity, cutting maples or weeding are good ways because they are on the route to visiting Ghrim. If you need to gain popularity, but have no items with you, fishing can be an option if you have finished Barbarian Training through the fishing methods, since you can harpoon fish bare-handed. You can also buy a rake from Gardener Gunnhild for 15gp. The Fremennik Sea Boots 2 or higher greatly increase the speed of improving your approval rating, and are recommended to speed up your trips to Miscellania.

Your popularity is reduced if you steal from stalls (-1% per theft) or kill the citizens of the islands (-5% per death). Note that attacking is the default left click for many citizens, so a little care must be taken to avoid attacking them. Since many citizens are very low level, high level players can often kill them in one hit, compounding the problem of accidental clicks. One may wish to wield a bow without arrows, or a snowball while visiting the kingdom to prevent these casualties (you will be unable to attack). The best way to avoid losing popularity is not to risk attacking at all, and use the minimap to click where to go.

You can find out your popularity level by talking to Advisor Ghrim or various citizens.

Coffers
Every day, the citizens take 10% of the money in the treasury at a maximum of 75k, (or 50k if you have only completed Throne of Miscellania and not Royal Trouble) and convert it into materials for you to collect. The rewards can be extremely good if you have both high popularity and high amounts of cash in the treasury. For example, with just over half a million invested (around 50k deducted from treasury), a day you might expect to receive 370 coal and 20 herbs if you set mining to maximum and herbs as high as it will go. See image below. All herbs are tarromin or higher, making this a very good return on your investment.

The completion of the Throne of Miscellania quest allows you to put a maximum of 5 million coins into the treasury. This increases to 7.5 million with the completion of Royal Trouble.

Workers
After completing the Royal Trouble quest, there are 15 available workers. There is a maximum of 10 workers on any task. The approval rating in the Kingdom will also only drop 1 percent per day after both quests are complete, while if you have only completed Throne of Miscellania then approval will drop 3% a day. For this reason, it is recommended not to further invest in your coffers until both quests are complete.

Experiments from players seem to suggest that only the money taken from the coffers and the popularity rating is recorded. This means that just before claiming the rewards, players can switch the worker distribution which will then apply to the entire period.

Best Items/Ways To Collect
Due to the recent herblore update most herbs are now worth over 1k. It is advised that players set 10 workers on herbs, and then set the remaining workers on Farming, you are given a wide variety of seeds, some worth much more than others, it is advised to sell the more expensive ones and use the cheaper ones as junk, or to get your farming level up. You should collect from your workers every day for maximum profit, although this may be tedious for some people. At the time you collect your rewards from "Managing Miscellania" it is best to refill the Kingdom Coffers with a minimum of 750k so you can get the maximum rewards from this minigame.

Rewards


The table below indicates the maximum rewards - 75k deducted from treasury a day, with popularity at 100%, and the selected item at maximum.