Clue scroll (medium)

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Clue scroll (medium)
Released							5 May 2004 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Destroy							Drop
Examine							*"A set of instructions to be followed" "A clue!" "A piece of the world map,but where?" "Perhaps someone at the observatory can teach me to navigate?" "It points to great treasure!"
Values
Value							20 coins
High alch							12 coins
Low alch							8 coins
Weight							0.02 kg
Advanced data
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Twisted League							Yes

A clue scroll (medium) is a valuable random drop from a large variety of mid-levelled monsters. Clue scrolls are the start of a Treasure Trail - a treasure hunt that sends players hunting all around Gielinor. At the end of the hunt players receive a reward of items randomly selected from a specific list, possibly including very rare and very valuable items. For a guide on how to complete a clue scroll, see: Treasure Trails Guide. Medium clue scrolls are mostly easy to obtain and complete, and offer average rewards in return. The rewards can range from mithril armour to ranger boots.

Medium clue scrolls offer coordinate clues along with more complex puzzles than easy clues, and occasionally a monster ranging from a chicken to a Market Guard may be fought. However, there are no clue steps that brings you to the wilderness.

They can take between 3 and 5 steps to complete.

Completion of medium clues will give a casket (medium) containing the final reward for the trail. After completing 400 medium clues, the player will be awarded a clueless scroll.

If a player dies in the Wilderness with a clue scroll above level 20, it will disappear whether it's a PvP death or not, unless it is an item kept on death, or if that player has a clue box. Players will find that the clue scroll will be gone upon returning to their loot otherwise. In lower level Wilderness, unprotected clue scrolls will stay on the ground for an hour if killed by another player, or remain in the inventory if killed by a monster.

A one-time medium clue scroll can be rarely obtained (1/256 chance) from feeding a monkey bananas. When this happens, a message appears in the player's chatbox saying "The monkey chews on the banana and spits out a clue!".

A medium clue scroll can be given to Watson along with an easy, hard and elite clue scrolls in order to receive a master clue scroll.

Types of clues

Please note that it is possible to receive the same clue more than once.

• Anagrams
• Challenge scrolls
• Cryptic clues
• Emote clues
• Coordinates
• Maps
• Cipher
• Music

Requirements

Skill requirements

Certain clues will require items that need a certain skill requirement in order to wear, wield or access. The table below shows the highest skill requirement, in order to complete every medium clue. Quest skill requirements are not noted in this table.

Skill level	Details
30	Required to wield adamant weaponry.
15	Required to wield adamant halberd.
40	Required to wear green or blue d'hide body.
50	Required to wear blue dragonhide armour.
40	Required to wear mystic robes.
35	Required to enter the Barbarian Agility Arena.
45	Required to enter the Farming guild. 60% Hosidius favour required.

Additional requirements for ironmen

Players playing in the ironman mode may find it more difficult to obtain certain items required for emote clues. Possible challenges are listed below.

66 , 55 or 83	To obtain mystic robe bottom
45 or 74	To obtain snakeskin boots.
71 or ability to kill brutal blue dragons.	To obtain blue d'hide body.
52	To obtain mithril boots.

Furthermore, obtaining an adamant sq shield may prove challenging, see item page for possibilities. Note, that a clue step requiring adamant boots is blocked for ironmen.

Quest requirements

Some clues require access to areas which may require quests. Some only require to start the quest in order to access the area.

Quest	Details
Dragon Slayer I	Gives access to green d'hide body and Crandor.
Horror from the Deep	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Lighthouse.
Biohazard	Gives access to the Combat Training Camp.
The Tourist Trap	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Desert Mining Camp.
Sea Slug	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Fishing Platform.
The Fremennik Trials	Gives access to Miscellania.
Jungle Potion	Gives access to Gabooty in Tai Bwo Wannai.
Creature of Fenkenstrain	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Mausoleum.
Priest in Peril	Gives access to Morytania.
Mountain Daughter	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the song Cave of Beasts.
Ironman: Regicide	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Quartermaster store to buy an adamant halberd.
Ratcatchers	(Completion of quest not necessary, must complete part 1 "Jimmy Dazzler" to access Ardougne rat pit.) Gives access to the song Catch Me If You Can.
Lost City	Gives access to the song Faerie.
Bone Voyage	Gives access to Fossil Island.
Nature Spirit	Gives access to Mort Myre Swamp.
The Corsair Curse	(Completion of quest not necessary) Gives acess to Corsair Cove.

Other requirements

Requirement	Details
60% Hosidius favour	To enter the Farming Guild.
Unlock Music	Karamja Jam

Possible rewards

Main article: Reward casket (medium)

The average loot roll of a medium clue is worth 42,687. If ranger boots are excluded, the expected value of each loot roll is worth 8,853.

On average, medium clues are worth 170,751, or 35,415 when the ranger boots are excluded.

As well as the unique Treasure Trails rewards shown below, players may also receive a variety of other items. A more detailed overview of all possible rewards can be found at reward casket (medium).

Image	Name
	Mithril trimmed armour
	Mithril gold-trimmed armour
	Adamant trimmed armour
	Adamant gold-trimmed armour
	Climbing boots (g)
	Spiked manacles
	Ranger boots
	Holy sandals
	Wizard boots
	Headbands (Black, Red, Brown, Pink, Green, Blue, White, Gold)
	Boaters (Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Black, Pink, Purple, White)
	Trimmed green dragonhide armour
	Gold-trimmed green dragonhide armour
	Adamant heraldic armour (h1 to h5)
	Black/white elegant clothing
	Purple elegant clothing
	Pink elegant clothing
	Gold elegant clothing
	Wolf cloak and Wolf mask
	Amulet of strength (t)
	Adamant cane
	Vestment mitres and cloaks (Guthix, Saradomin, Zamorak, Zaros, Bandos, and Armadyl)
	Vestment stoles and croziers (Ancient, Armadyl, and Bandos)
	Cat mask
	Penguin mask
	Gnomish firelighter
	Crier hat
	Crier bell
	Crier coat
	Leprechaun hat
	Black leprechaun hat
	Black unicorn mask
	White unicorn mask
	Great Kourend city banners
	Cabbage round shield
	Clueless scroll

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Abyssal guardian	59	1	1/256
Abyssal leech	41	1	1/256
Abyssal walker	81	1	1/256
Ancient Zygomite	109	1	1/128
Angry barbarian spirit	166	1	1/128
Berserk barbarian spirit	166	1	1/128
Black Guard Berserker	66	1	1/128
Black Guard	25; 48	1	1/128
Black Heather (m)	34	1	1/128
Black key black	N/A	1	Rare
Black key brown	N/A	1	Rare
Black key crimson	N/A	1	Rare
Black key purple	N/A	1	Rare
Black key red	N/A	1	Rare
Brine rat	70	1	1/128
Catablepon (m)	49; 64; 68	1	1/101
Cockathrice	89	1	10/128
Cockatrice	37	1	1/128
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island) Level 90	90	1	1/128
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island) Level 88	88	1	1/128
Dagannoth	74; 92	1	1/128
Donny the lad (m)	34	1	1/128
Earth impling jar	N/A	1	1/100
Eclectic impling jar	N/A	1	1/25
Enraged barbarian spirit	166	1	1/128
Essence impling jar	N/A	1	1/50
Feral Vampyre	61–130	1	1/128
Flaming pyrelord	97	1	10/128
Former Vampyre	N/A	1	Rare
Giant Rock Crab	137	1	1/128
Giant Sea Snake	149	1	1/128
Giant skeleton (Shadow Dungeon)	80	1	Rare
Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair)	100	1	1/128
Guard (Burthorpe)	37	1	Rare
Guard (m)	19; 20; 21; 22	1	1/128
Harpie Bug Swarm	46	1	1/128
Ice warrior (m)	57	1	1/128
Infernal pyrelord	134	1	10/104
Jogre	53; 58	1	1/129
Jungle horror	70	1	1/128
King Sand Crab	107	1	1/128
Kourend guard	21	1	1/128
Kourend head guard	84	1	1/128
Magic axe	42	1	1/256
Magic axe	42	1	1/256
Mammoth	80	1	1/128
Market Guard	48	1	Rare
Mummy Level 96	96; 103	1	1/513
Mummy Level 103	96; 103	1	1/513
Mystery box Members	N/A	1	6/150
Paladin	49; 62; 121	1	1/128
Possessed pickaxe Catacombs of Kourend		1	1/256
Pyrefiend	43; 48	1	1/128
Pyrelord	60	1	1/104
Rock lobster	127	1	1/128
Sea Snake Hatchling	62	1	1/128
Sea Snake Young	90	1	1/128
Sir Carl	62	1	1/128
Sir Harry	62	1	1/128
Sir Jerro	62	1	1/128
Skeletal miner	42	1	1/128
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Level 40	40	1	1/128
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Level 81	81	1	1/128
Skeleton (The Restless Ghost) (m)	13	1	1/128
Skeleton (mage)	94	1	1/128
Skeleton Mage Level 83	83	1	1/128
Skeleton brute	132	1	1/128
Skeleton heavy	132	1	1/128
Skeleton hero	149	1	1/128
Skeleton thug	132	1	1/128
Skeleton warlord	132	1	1/128
Speedy Keith (m)	34	1	1/128
Steel key black	N/A	1	Rare
Steel key brown	N/A	1	Rare
Steel key crimson	N/A	1	Rare
Steel key purple	N/A	1	Rare
Steel key red	N/A	1	Rare
Stone chest		1	1/100
Sulphur Lizard	50	1	1/128
Town Guard (Hosidius)	19; 22	1	1/128
Tribesman	32	1	1/138
Vampyre Juvinate	N/A	1	Rare
Wall beast	49	1	Rare
Wallasalki	98	1	1/128
Werewolf	88; 93	1	1/512

Shop locations

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Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members?
Honest Jimmy's House of Stuff.	Trouble Brewing	∞	N/A	5,000	N/A

Changes

Date	Changes
18 June 2015 (update | poll)	You will now be able to have up to one clue scroll of each tier and will be able to complete clue scrolls of different tiers simultaneously.
14 May 2015 (update)	Clue scroll stages no longer increase when bouncing different clue scrolls.
23 April 2015 (update)	The drop rate of medium clue scrolls from guards in Falador is now increased by 20% if you have completed the Falador Medium Diary.
6 March 2014 (update | poll)	Clue scrolls and caskets now state the levels in their names.

Trivia

• After the update of 18 June 2015 it is now possible to have one clue scroll of each tier at a time, while previously the player could not get any clue scroll at all until completing or dropping the current one in order to receive a new one of the same difficulty.