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.

Approval Rating


Players gain approval rating by helping the subjects in various tasks, if they have the skill level for the tasks.
 * Mining coal (1% / 1.28 coal mined)
 * Woodcutting Maple logs (1% / 3 logs chopped) (Spirit Beavers cannot multichop them.)
 * Weeding herb or flax patches (1% / 1.28 weed)
 * Fishing tuna, swordfish, and lobster

Once players have completed Royal Trouble, they can also gain approval on the Etceteria side of the island.
 * Cut teak and mahogany trees (Spirit Beavers cannot multichop them.)
 * Compost, water, and weed a farming patch.

These activities yield negligible experience, so it is not recommended that players use them to train skills. Players can find out their approval rating by talking to Advisor Ghrim or various citizens. Once a player's approval rating is at 100%, the subjects stop the player from doing any more work.

Players lose approval rating, also.
 * Automatically, the approval rating drops 1% per day after both quests are complete (3% per day if only Throne of Miscellania has been completed)
 * Stealing from stalls, the approval rating drops 1% per theft
 * Killing citizens, the approval rating drops 3% per death

Since attacking is the default left-click for many citizens, care must be taken to avoid attacking them. High-level players can kill them in one hit, compounding the problem of accidental clicks. Players may wish to make themselves unable to attack by wielding a bow without arrows or by wielding a snowball while visiting the kingdom. Alternatively, players can use the minimap to click where to go.

Mining appears to be the fastest way to improve the approval rating, but, of course, this may depend on the player's Mining level. If players are just 'topping up' their approval rating, cutting maples or weeding are good ways, because they are on the route to visiting Ghrim. Many players also use fairy rings to access Ghrim (code CIP) as then they can mine coal on the way back to the ring or on the way to the castle. Players who need to gain approval rating, but have no items with them, can use Barbarian fishing to fish bare-handed. Players can also buy a rake from Gardener Gunnhild for 15 gp. Fremennik sea boots 2 (or higher) increase the speed of gaining approval and also speed up trips to Miscellania.

Coffers
The completion of the Throne of Miscellania allows a maximum of 5 million coins in the treasury. This amount increases to 7.5 million coins after the completion of Royal Trouble.

Every day, the citizens deduct 10% of the balance (up to a maximum of 50,000 or 75,000 coins, depending on which quests are completed) and convert it into resources. The rewards can be extremely good if players have both a high approval rating and high amounts of cash in the treasury. For example, with just over 500k coins invested (around 50k coins deducted from treasury), each day players could expect to receive 370 coal and 20 herbs by setting mining to maximum and herbs to as high as it will go. All herbs are tarromin or better, making this option a good return on investment.

Players need 500,000 coins (750,000 coins after Royal Trouble) in the coffers to get the maximum deduction for one day. To go seven days without collecting resources, players would need 850k coins (1.275M after Royal Trouble) in the coffers to get the maximum amount of resources.

If a player has completed only Throne of Miscellania, it is sometimes recommended not to deposit into the coffers until both quests are complete. Waiting until both quests are complete limits possible ill effects of not topping off approval when approval drops 3% per day.

Workers
After completing the Royal Trouble quest, there are 15 available workers. There is a maximum of 10 workers on any task.

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
There are several different combination's of items to collect to yield profitable and useful rewards.

Due to the recent herblore updates, the vast majority of herbs are now worth over 1,000gp. Therefore this is widely known as the best way to profit from your kingdom and no matter the resources you require you are best off placing 10 workers on herbs.

With the remaining 5 workers you have several good options to choose from and your decision should be based on your needs.

Maples are a good option if you are in need of tree seeds as even though you don't receive as much money for the logs the nests you gain for collecting a large amount of logs out weighs the difference and allows you to use or profit from the rewards in the nests.

Mining is also another good alternative. The value of the coal in its current state covers the cost of all the money spent in your kingdom and leaves the extra gems as more profit or resources for you. This is a good alternative to purchasing coal as the cost to collect it is far cheaper then the current Grand Exchange prices.

Raw Fish is another commonly chosen option as it is very close to covering all costs in the fish alone. The extra gems/caskets you receive after are then profit for you. Currently, Raw Fish offers the best profit on selling resources to the Grand Exchange.

The final decent option is farming, this is currently open to speculation as to the value of it as you do gain a rather large number of lower level seeds. However you can find several decent herb seeds and other useful items. At any given time the value of using farming changes drastically.

The other option of "fancy" wood is often considered rather inferior. You receive far less supplies from this option and you then have to cut into the profit of your herbs. Even if you need the logs it is advised that you choose a different option and use the surplus money from those to purchase logs as it will cost you less.


 * As a special note: Based on the number of workers placed on each task the time interval you should wait before collecting can vary a fair bit, however for most 10/5 combinations collecting once every seven days often leads to the highest yield of 'bonus' items. It is advised that you increase your reputation each day but if you miss out on it the loss is not very much.

Rewards


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