Barrows

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This article is about the minigame and location. For the set of armour and weapons, see Barrows equipment.

For its sequel, see Barrows - Rise of the Six.

For the Treasure Trails reward, see Barrows dye.

This article has a strategy guide. All information on mechanics, setups, and strategy are on the subpage.

This article has a money making guide here. Please add tips to the subpage, rather than the article below.

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The official world for Barrows is world 15 (P2P).

Barrows

Release date	9 May 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Location	Barrows Town
Participants	1
Skills involved	Combat
Reward currency	None
In spotlight rotation	No
Hiscores	No
Tutorial	No
Custodians	Strange Old Man
Music unlocked	Dangerous Way
Developers	• Original: Graham B • Update: Tim C

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The Barrows minigame is an area-based combat minigame. It is popular due to the decent amounts of money players can make by selling Barrows equipment, a possible reward; and runes from the minigame, as the runes obtained are the most common drops. It involves defeating six powerful spirits (seven after completing Ritual of the Mahjarrat), each with their own special strengths and weaknesses. Each brother has his own burial mound, except for Akrisae the Doomed, who shares a mound with Verac the Defiled.

History

Main article: Morytania Campaign

The entrance to the Barrows

The Barrows brothers were ancient warriors of Saradomin who established a reputation of near invincibility while fighting in the God Wars. They launched a massive attack to liberate Morytania from the clutches of Lord Lowerniel Vergidiyad Drakan and his vampyres, after he had established complete control over the continent as of the Fall of Hallowvale. As the brothers departed, a mysterious stranger, the Zarosian Mahjarrat Sliske, granted them superhuman power to battle Drakan's forces. It succeeded, for the brothers, who were in the front line, seemed invincible. They had not anticipated, however, that Sliske had ulterior motives for helping them.

As the brothers and their accompanying army progressed further into enemy territory in Morytania, Sliske followed them until the brothers became weakened. The brothers were grievously wounded in battle near the Great Vyrewall, and thus the army set up camp just west of Meiyerditch. Soon, the brothers died of their infectious wounds simultaneously in the army's camp. The army spent several days and nights holding off the attacking vampyres to construct burial mounds, the Barrows, to honour the fallen brothers. The army quickly retreated from Morytania, realising they could never succeed without their former leaders' prowess.

Dare you traverse the maze?

As the army began its return, Sliske cast a magical spell on the crypts, corrupting the bodies of the brothers, turning them into his newest wights, and binding them to guard a very powerful artefact. Sliske's ally Azzanadra had requested for this icon to be guarded before the latter's imprisonment in Jaldraocht Pyramid, so that it could later be used to re-establish contact with the banished Zaros. Sliske, instead of directly taking the Barrows Brothers, decided it would be fun to have them almost succeed in their goal before claiming them, a typical characteristic of the Mahjarrat.

In 169 of the Fifth Age, Azzanadra was released, and, with the help of an adventurer who manages to steal the Barrows Icon from the brothers, re-established communication with Zaros in time for the Mahjarrat Ritual of Rejuvenation. Shortly after said ritual, which the adventurer attends with several Temple Knight allies, Sliske attempted to claim them in a similar way. However, the Saradominist priest Akrisae Kolluym intercepted the spell, sacrificing himself and turning him into Akrisae the Doomed - the seventh wight. Akrisae joined the Barrows Brothers in their crypt, although, of course, he isn't a Barrows Brother himself.

A crumbling tome, obtained by searching the hut near the mounds or by talking to the Strange Old Man found digging the crypts, provides a detailed account of how the brothers came to be buried.

Graphical overhaul

After the release of the new website and interfaces on 22 November 2011, a screenshot was shown on the media page of a graphical update for the Barrows minigame. The January 2012 Behind the Scenes article confirmed that an update was coming to the minigame, which was introduced on the 4 January update.

The graphical update changed the looks of the area, added mist to the crypt, changed the Barrows brothers from purple ghosts to corporeal foes, and, for a week following the release, gave a 1 in 10 chance of doubling rewards. This extra reward chance ended on 11 January.

Objective

The objective of the Barrows minigame is to defeat the seven Barrows brothers: Ahrim the Blighted, Dharok the Wretched, Guthan the Infested, Karil the Tainted, Torag the Corrupted, Verac the Defiled and Akrisae the Doomed, though Akrisae is only available after Ritual of the Mahjarrat.

The Barrows brothers are very strong, each with very high defence. Each brother also has a different special ability, which is the same as the set effect of the corresponding armour set. Because of this, special consideration should be given to the methods with and order in which the brothers are eliminated.

Getting there

A map of the Barrows (click to view a larger version)

• Drakan's medallion - This is the fastest means of travel to the Barrows, having a teleport directly to their graves.
• Max Guild PvM portal - This option is just as fast as Drakan's medallion; however, it requires level 99 in every skill.
• Games necklace - After gaining enough points from Temple Trekking, a games necklace can be used to teleport directly to Burgh de Rott, which is only a short walk from the Barrows.
• From Canifis - The slowest method is walking through the swamps from Canifis; however, there are several shortcuts for this route:
• The fairy ring in Mort Myre Swamp can be accessed by code BKR. It's only a short distance from the ring to the swamp boat.
  • A Swamp Boat in the middle of the swamp can be taken for free to land on the bridge to the Barrows.
  • In Search of the Myreque unlocks access to the area under the bar in Canifis, which provides a faster route to the swamp boat.

Strategy

Main article: Barrows/Strategies

Rewards

Opening the chest

The chest that has your rewards in it

If the brother whose tomb was used to enter the tunnel is not killed yet, he will appear when the chest is looted.

The standard monsters in the tunnels may be killed to increase the chances of receiving rare, non-Barrows items; e.g. dragon helms. The threshold for increasing these chances appears to be 8 kills, with higher kill counts not contributing any further. Equipping a ring of wealth will increase the standard rewards; e.g. food and runes.

For every brother killed, there is a roll for the brother's item. This chance starts at 1/450 and decreases by 116 for every brother, capping at 1/44. Therefore, killing 4 brothers is required for the maximum chance per roll. Killing a brother will only add their items to the chest as a possible reward, so if a certain brother's items are undesired, he can be ignored without decreasing the chance for a desired item per roll (assuming at least 4 are killed); however, this would decrease the chance of obtaining an item overall. Killing additional brothers past 4 will not increase the odds per roll beyond 1/44; however, it will add an extra, independent roll, thus increasing the chance of obtaining any item. Each roll can produce any brother's equipment, and a brother can be rolled by multiple rolls. It is possible to obtain multiple pieces of Barrows equipment from a single chest, but it is not possible for those pieces to be the exact same item.

Killing all 6 of the original brothers is required to increase the beast tab kill count and thus also required to reap a soul when on an assignment.

Standard items

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Barrows icon	1	Always	Not sold
	Coins	1–5,306	Common	1–5,306
	Mind rune	60; 250–4,900	Common	1,140–93,100
	Chaos rune	115–1,890	Common	17,480–287,280
	Death rune	15; 70–1,190	Common	3,480–276,080
	Blood rune	35–630	Common	23,730–427,140
	Super defence (2)	1	Uncommon	4,780
	Prayer potion (2)	1	Uncommon	1,395
	Restore potion (2)	1	Uncommon	220
	Shark	4	Uncommon	7,732

Rare items

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bolt rack	35–280	Common	4,620–36,960
	Barrows totem	1–13	Uncommon	1,628–21,164
	Loop half of a key	1	Rare	11,053
	Tooth half of a key	1	Rare	11,538
	Dragon helm	1	Rare	58,601
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2	1	Very rare	Not sold
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3	1	Very rare	Not sold

Barrows equipment

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Corruption sigil	1	Common	Not sold
	Ahrim's hood	1	Rare	779,566
	Ahrim's robe top	1	Rare	2,534,956
	Ahrim's robe skirt	1	Rare	1,401,853
	Ahrim's staff	1	Rare	4,984,576
	Ahrim's wand	1	Rare	941,047
	Ahrim's book of magic	1	Rare	1,311,616
	Dharok's helm	1	Rare	427,343
	Dharok's platebody	1	Rare	1,816,430
	Dharok's platelegs	1	Rare	900,061
	Dharok's greataxe	1	Rare	533,975
	Torag's helm	1	Rare	379,723
	Torag's platebody	1	Rare	1,596,186
	Torag's platelegs	1	Rare	826,450
	Torag's hammer	1	Rare	402,105
	Verac's helm	1	Rare	372,869
	Verac's brassard	1	Rare	1,548,077
	Verac's plateskirt	1	Rare	808,201
	Verac's flail	1	Rare	395,825
	Guthan's helm	1	Rare	386,305
	Guthan's platebody	1	Rare	1,740,040
	Guthan's chainskirt	1	Rare	1,036,649
	Guthan's warspear	1	Rare	1,971,958
	Karil's coif	1	Rare	471,880
	Karil's top	1	Rare	2,557,831
	Karil's skirt	1	Rare	1,499,085
	Karil's crossbow	1	Rare	3,954,941
	Karil's pistol crossbow	1	Rare	638,454
	Karil's off-hand pistol crossbow	1	Rare	975,482
	Akrisae's hood	1	Rare	396,525
	Akrisae's robe top	1	Rare	1,096,334
	Akrisae's robe skirt	1	Rare	649,040
	Akrisae's war mace	1	Rare	387,083

Money making

High level Barrows

Profit	Skill requirements	Other requirements	Experience
4,100,000	110 recommended	The Branches of Darkmeyer highly recommended Hard Morytania achievements recommended	80,000 26,000

Rise of the Six

Barrows: Rise of the Six is a sequel to the Barrows minigame. Unlike in the standard minigame, you have to fight 6 greatly buffed brothers at once with three other players. Due to the increased difficulty, the rewards are much better than the standard minigame. The same update also added the Barrows totem, an item required to play Barrows - Rise of the Six, to the regular Barrows loot table, making it more popular amongst players.

Music unlocked

The following music tracks are unlocked here:

• Dance of the Undead - In the mound area
• Dangerous Way - In the crypts and tunnels

Trivia

• During the graphical update in January 2012, it was possible to get a draconic visage from the barrows chest, which only lasted a week.
• Barrows is another word for a tumulus, which is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave, called a crypt in the minigame, or graves, which is probably where the name of the minigame comes from. Tumulus is Latin for "mound" or "small hill".
• From 00:00 UTC 12 November 2011 to 23:59 UTC 14 November 2011, there was an event where players could gain double loot from several dungeons, including the Barrows minigame. This was part of Jagex's bot-busting celebration.
• It is possible for a brother to spawn again when you kill the first one, then rush quickly to a door nearby. Killing the brother that popped up again however, will cause it to count as a creature instead.
• If you attempt to enter with a familiar, you will be forced out with a message saying "You cannot enter this area with a familiar. You must leave this area and dismiss your familiar if you wish to enter."
  • If you use Surge or Escape to get into the mounds with a familiar, a message will say "You cannot enter this area with a familiar. You must leave this area and dismiss your familiar if you wish to enter. Your familiar is forced to leave as it cannot remain here." The familiar will be automatically dismissed, dropping everything it is carrying.