[OSRS] Desert Achievement Diary guide (Easy-Elite)
Desert Diary Guide OSRS
The 'Desert Diary' is a series of achievements and tasks available in the game 'Old School RuneScape' (OSRS) that centers around the vast and challenging region of the Desert. With its arid climate and sandy landscapes, the Desert is known to be a perilous yet rewarding place. Through a variety of tasks and achievements, players can explore this harsh land while facing unique challenges and gaining specific benefits tailored to the Desert. The diary provides an essential guide for daring adventurers seeking to tackle the challenges of the Desert and uncover its hidden secrets. In the following sections, we will provide an overview of the requirements and steps needed to complete each task within the Desert Diary. Each task presents its own set of prerequisites and challenges that must be met. We will guide you through the necessary actions and strategies to successfully complete these tasks and unlock the valuable rewards they offer. Whether you're a brave adventurer braving the perils of the Desert or a newcomer eager to conquer its unique challenges, this guide will help you navigate the requirements and steps, ensuring a fulfilling journey through this challenging and rewarding region.
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Easy Desert Diary
Items Required:
- 400 coins
- Shantay pass (can be purchased at the Shantay Pass Shop)
- Bird snare
- Any pickaxe
- 2 Ropes
- Knife or any slash weapon
- Desert shirt
- Desert robe
- Desert boots
- Any grimy herb
- Any Pyramid Plunder artefact
- Empty waterskin
- Weaponry, preferably Ranged or Magic
Skills Required:
- 5 Hunter
- 21 Thieving
Quests Required:
- Started Icthlarin's Little Helper
Tasks to complete:
- Capture a golden warbler.
- Extract five pieces of clay from the north-eastern part of the desert.
- Venture into the Kalphite Lair.
- Don desert robes while in the Desert.
- Eliminate a vulture within the Desert.
- Request Zahur to clean a herb for you in Nardah.
- Gather 5 potato cacti from the Kalphite Lair.
- Trade artefacts with Simon Templeton (must involve artefacts from Pyramid Plunder).
- Open the Sarcophagus in the first room of Pyramid Plunder.
- Slice open a cactus to fill a waterskin.
- Utilize the magic carpet to travel from Shantay Pass to Pollnivneach.
Rewards:
- Desert amulet 1
- Antique lamp worth 2,500 experience in any skill above 30
- Pharaoh's sceptre can hold up to 10 charges
- Goats will always drop noted desert goat horn
- Simon Templeton will now buy your noted artefacts too
Medium Desert Diary
Items Required:
- 200 coins
- Ice cooler
- Rope
- Small fishing net
- Any axe
- Any light source
- Scroll of redirection
- Teleport to house
- Harralander potion (unf)
- Goat horn dust
- Charged Camulet
Skills Required:
- 37 Ranged
- 50 Crafting
- 45 Firemaking
- 43 Prayer
- 39 Magic
- 37 Mining
- 30 Agility
- 22 Slayer
- 47 Hunter
- 37 Thieving
- 36 Herblore
- 35 Woodcutting
- 20 Construction
Quests Required:
- The Golem
- Enakhra's Lament
- Spirits of the Elid
- Eagles' Peak
Tasks to complete:
- Ascend the Agility Pyramid after conversing with Simon Templeton.
- Eliminate a Desert Lizard.
- Capture an orange salamander.
- Steal a Phoenix Feather from the Desert Phoenix.
- Utilize the magic carpet to journey to Uzer.
- Employ the Eagle transport system to reach the Desert.
- Offer a prayer to the Elidinis Statuette in Nardah.
- Combine a combat potion within the desert.
- Use a charged Camulet to teleport to Enakhra's Temple.
- Pay a visit to the Genie.
- Utilize a redirected teleport to house tablet to instantly teleport to Pollnivneach.
- Gather logs by chopping the Teak Tree in Uzer.
Rewards:
- Desert amulet 2
- One teleport to Nardah per day
- Antique lamp worth 7,500 experience in any skill above 40
- Pharaoh's sceptre can hold up to 25 charges
Hard Desert Diary
Items Required:
- Any blackjack
- Empty waterskin
- Means to cast Humidify (an astral rune, a fire rune and 3 water runes)
- Weaponry
- Slayer helmet
- Keris or Keris partisan
- 5 mithril bars
- Yew log
- Tinderbox
- Hammer
- Any pickaxe
- Any light source
Skills Required:
- 10 Fletching
- 40 Ranged
- 31 Herblore
- 85 Combat level
- 60 Mining
- 55 Woodcutting
- 70 Agility
- 68 Magic
- 65 Thieving
- 65 Slayer
- 61 Crafting
- 50 Attack
- 40 Defence
- 60 Firemaking
- 68 Smithing
Quests Required:
- Partial completion of The Feud
- Dream Mentor
- Lunar Diplomacy
- The Fremennik Trials
- Lost City
- Rune Mysteries
- Shilo Village
- Eadgar's Ruse
- Desert Treasure I
- Priest in Peril
- Waterfall Quest
- Temple of Ikov
- The Tourist Trap
- The Dig Site
- Troll Stronghold
- Partial completion of Contact!
- Prince Ali Rescue
- Icthlarin's Little Helper
Tasks to complete:
- Render a Menaphite Thug unconscious and pickpocket them using blackjacking.
- Extract Granite.
- Utilize humidify to replenish a waterskin within the desert.
- Eliminate the Kalphite Queen.
- Complete a lap of the Pollnivneach rooftop course.
- Vanquish a dust devil within the desert cave (while wearing a slayer helmet).
- Transition to the ancient spellbook within the Ancient Pyramid.
- Defeat a locust rider using a keris or keris partisan.
- Incinerate yew logs in Nardah on the Mayor's balcony.
- Forge a Mithril platebody within the desert city of Nardah.
Rewards:
- Desert amulet 3
- Antique lamp worth 15,000 experience in any skill above 50
- Pharaoh's sceptre can hold up to 50 charges
- Access to the big window shortcut in Al Kharid Palace that takes you to the south of the palace, just north of the Shantay Pass, requiring 70 Agility
- Unlocked the ability to toggle the Camulet teleport location between the inside and outside of Enakhra's Temple
- All carpet rides are free
- Zahur will create unfinished potions for 200 coins per potion from a vial of water and a clean herb. Items can be noted or unnoted
- Zahur will now clean noted grimy herbs for 200 coins each.
- Ropes placed at both the Kalphite Lair entrance and the Kalphite Queen tunnel entrance become permanent
Elite Desert Diary
Items Required:
- 15,000 coins if you don't yet have a Skill Hall in your house
- Raw wild pie
- Means to cast Ice Barrage (2 blood runes, 4 death runes and 6 water runes)
- Dragon dart tip
- Feather
- Stuffed kq head
- 2 mahogany planks
- 2 gold leaves
- Saw
- Hammer
Skills Required:
- 15 Agility
- 10 Herblore
- 50 Firemaking
- 40 Ranged
- 20 Smithing
- 78 Construction
- 85 Cooking
- 95 Fletching
- 94 Magic
- 85 Prayer
- 91 Thieving
Quests Required:
- Desert Treasure I
- Priest in Peril
- Waterfall Quest
- Temple of Ikov
- The Tourist Trap
- The Dig Site
- Troll Stronghold
- Started Icthlarin's Little Helper
Tasks to complete:
- Employ the clay oven in Nardah to bake a wild pie.
- Cast the Ice Barrage spell within the desert.
- Craft dragon darts at Bedabin Camp.
- Mount a Kalphite Queen head on the wall in your Player-Owned House and engage in conversation with it.
- Pilfer from the golden chest within Pyramid Plunder's final room.
- Restore 85 or more prayer points from the Altar in Sophanem.
Rewards:
- Desert amulet 4
- Unlimited teleports to Nardah and the Kalphite Cave
- The Nardah teleport now takes players directly inside the Elidinis shrine
- 100% protection against desert heat when worn
- Antique lamp worth 50,000 experience in any skill above 70
- Pharaoh's sceptre can hold up to 100 charges
- Free pass-through of the Shantay Pass and the Ruins of Unkah
- Access to a crevice shortcut, requiring 86 Agility, in the Kalphite Lair from the entrance to the antechamber before the Kalphite Queen boss room.