Treasure Trails/Guide/Coordinates

Coordinate clues
During a Treasure Trail, a coordinate clue is a clue scroll that contains a set of coordinates. Much like the real-world longitude &amp; latitude geographic coordinate system, coordinates in RuneScape indicate a precise point somewhere on the surface where the next clue scroll, or potentially the treasure casket, is buried. Coordinate clues will only appear in Treasure Trails of medium or hard difficulty. The coordinates are presented in the following format:

"00 degrees 00 minutes north/south 00 degrees 00 minutes east/west"

In RuneScape, one square of space is roughly equivalent to two minutes. As there are sixty minutes in a degree, each degree is roughly equivalent to thirty squares. (Note: The above location is the exact center of the Observatory and is not actually a coordinate clue location.)

After receiving a coordinate clue, players must locate the exact position (more precisely, the exact square) that the clue scroll indicates, using a chart, sextant and watch. On that point, the next clue, or the treasure casket if the Treasure Trail is complete, can be dug up with a spade. Coordinate clues may take players all over RuneScape, to nearly any geographic region in the game (including the deepest levels of the Wilderness), although coordinate clues will never point players underground or into dungeons or buildings.

Due to the current threat of pkers if the coordinates for your scroll is near level 36 wilderness you should use the waka canoe which requires 57 wood cutting which can take you to level 36 wilderness so pkers don't spot you going into the wilderness and kill you, plus the pkers won't know whether you went into the wilderness so you should go to a different canoe location,or a few, and then use the waka, this is because if the pker tries to go to the wildy they might try to follow you to kill you in the wilderness, hopefully getting themselves killed so you wont have to worry about it. It is also recommended to bring a Dragon dagger poisoned or not, to defend yourself. Now heres the tricky part, due to the removal of fist of guthix and stealing creation from the wilderness, you can't run there to be safe from pkers. However, the mage arena and the wilderness volcano bank are still open so, once you get a scroll box or casket run to the nearest bank immediatly. You can open the casket or scroll box once you get it, but do not wear expensive items for others to see. Get it to the Grand Exchange as soon as possible.

On hard Treasure Trails, digging on the correct spot will cause a Saradomin wizard to appear, which must be defeated before the next clue scroll or the treasure casket may be dug up. If the coordinates are located in the Wilderness, a weaker Zamorak wizard will appear instead. Saradomin wizards are poisonous and use both melee and the Magic spell Saradomin Strike, whereas Zamorak wizards use only the spell Flames of Zamorak. Players who use the special ability of meerkats to dig for the scroll or casket will receive it without triggering a Saradomin or Zamorak wizard.

The following map may be used to roughly determine the location of a given coordinate clue:



However, precise descriptions for each coordinate clue are listed below.

A high resolution RuneScape world map marked with treasure trail coordinates is also available here.

List of clues
Following is a list of all known coordinate clues and their corresponding locations. The list is organised into ascending numerical value (for example, 00:00 north first, then 00:05 south, then 00:13 north, continuing accordingly). Shorthand writing is used together with normal writing. An example: 09:34N; 25:12E = 09 degrees and 34 minutes north; 25 degrees and 12 minutes east.

Remember: You must have Chart, Sextant, and Watch in your inventory or nothing will happen when you dig.