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 173 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. 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. Any of these you don't have you can get from the tools container on the south wall.

To clean a find, take a Dig Site specimen rock from the pile on the floor 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 lamps which grant 1,000 experience points to a skill of your choice.

If you find jewellery and give 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 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: Note: this list is still incomplete
 * A Bowl (very common, worth coins)
 * Bronze Limbs (common)
 * Iron Throwing Knife (common)
 * Big Bones (common, worth coins)
 * Iron Dagger
 * Uncut Jade
 * Wooden Stock
 * Iron Ore (worth coins)
 * Mithril Ore
 * Iron Bolts
 * Empty Pot
 * 20 Iron Darts (worth coins)
 * Coins
 * Coal
 * Bronze bar
 * Iron arrowtips
 * Tin Ore
 * Copper Ore
 * Uncut Opal (worth coins)
 * Broken glass
 * Old Saradomin Symbol
 * Pottery
 * Broken arrow
 * Black med helm

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.

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.


 * This bug has reappeared after the release of Glorious Memories it is currently possible to get either combinations of 173/173 (correct amount), 178/173 (Bugged) or 178/178 (Bugged) for your maximum Kudos. This bug has yet to be fixed.

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