Hallowed Sepulchre

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This is a dangerous activity with an Item Retrieval Service. On death, all unprotected items will be transferred to the IRS near the activity's entrance. Dying a second time will permanently delete all items left in the IRS (with the exception of safe deaths). All items left on the ground will be lost, and Hardcore Ironmen will lose their status.

Hallowed Sepulchre
Released		4 June 2020 (Update)
Type		Minigame
Members		Yes
Location		Darkmeyer
Participants		1
Skills		Agility, Thieving, Construction, Prayer, Magic
Reward currency		Hallowed mark
Tutorial		No
Music		Well Hallowed Air, Watch Your Step
Location

The Hallowed Sepulchre is an Agility activity set in an ancient Saradominist burial ground of the city Hallowvale located beneath Darkmeyer available to players with level 52 Agility. There are five floors available scaling with the player's Agility level. In order to receive hallowed marks, the coffins must be looted, with deeper floors providing more marks per looted coffin. Noticeboards are located next to the stairs on either side of the lobby, where players can check their personal statistics within the Sepulchre, as well as the global statistics.

History

During the Second Age and early Third Age, the land of Morytania was a Saradominist kingdom known as Hallowvale. The Hallowed Sepulchre served as the final resting place for many Hallowvale residents. Members of Saradominist religious orders were frequently buried there. Accordingly, looting coffins will sometimes yield a Holy symbol or Monk's robes.

As the God Wars progressed, the conquest of Hallowvale (and thus the sacking of the Sepulchre) became increasingly likely. A Justiciar of Saradomin eventually instructed the Archpriest of the Unicorn to begin securing the Sepulchre. The Archpriest and his followers got to work filling the Sepulchre with dangerous traps. They became more skilled at making the traps deadlier as construction moved down the floors. Down at the final level, the Archpriest sealed himself and his followers within their tombs, ensuring the secret of how to disarm the traps died with them. Despite the loss of Hallowvale to the Vampyres, the traps were very successful in their purpose: as of the Fifth Age, no Vampyres have been able to access the Sepulchre.

The entrance to the Hallowed Sepulchre.

Requirements

• Access to the city of Darkmeyer
  • Requires completion of Sins of the Father
• 52 Agility in order to enter the Sepulchre, with higher requirements to access the lower floors
  • The required agility levels for the floors are non-boostable
  • Floor 1: 52 Agility
  • Floor 2: 62 Agility
  • Floor 3: 72 Agility
  • Floor 4: 82 Agility
  • Floor 5: 92 Agility

• (Recommended) Reasonable Hitpoints when learning as you will most likely be taking some damage before you get familiar with the traps or acquire Hallowed ring.

To be able to loot the optional coffins for hallowed marks the following is required:

• 66 Thieving ^(boostable)
  • A Lockpick will increase the chance of success when opening coffins
  • A Strange Old Lockpick will speed up looting coffins (without using charges)
• 56 Construction to repair broken bridges, requiring a saw, hammer, and either:
  • 2 planks and 5 steel nails: awards 150 Construction experience or
  • 2 oak planks and 5 mithril nails: awards 300 Construction experience or
  • 2 teak planks and 5 adamantite nails: awards 450 Construction experience or
  • 2 mahogany planks and 5 rune nails: awards 700 Construction experience
• 54 Prayer to make a sacrifice at Saradomin Braziers, consuming two Vampyre dust (one if wearing a Hallowed symbol) and rewarding 200 experience
• At least 7 Magic to conjure portal frames using enchantment spells and rewarding 200 experience:
  • 7 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 1 Water rune
  • 27 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 3 Air runes
  • 49 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 5 Fire runes
  • 57 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 10 Earth runes
  • 68 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 15 Water runes, 15 Earth runes
  • 87 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 20 Earth runes, 20 Fire runes
  • 93 Magic: 1 Cosmic rune, 20 Blood runes, 20 Soul runes
• 62 Ranged with any crossbow and a mith grapple to grapple pillars

A Saradomin item is necessary to use the Magical Obelisks at the end of each floor that can restore the player's run energy and/or teleport them back to the lobby. This will not work if the player also has any god-affiliated item (such as an Armadyl crossbow) equipped.

Experience rates

Floor	Level Req.	Floor Exp	Cumulative Exp	Realistic XP/hour	No looting XP/hour	Jagex estimated XP/hour	Treasure Encounter XP (both ways)	Min. Cumulative time for Jagex XP/hour rates
1	52 Agility	575	575	TBD	46,000	36,000	100	58 seconds
2	62 Agility	925	1500	35,000	TBD	48,000	100	1 minute 57 seconds
3	72 Agility	1500	3000	45,000	65,000	55,000	150	3 minutes 32 seconds
4	82 Agility	2700	5700	60,000	68,000	66,000	150	5 minutes 44 seconds
5	92 Agility	6000	11700	75,000	95,000	75,000	160	10 minutes 22 seconds

Please note that experience rates will be higher if you ignore opportunities to loot coffins.

1. Note that 95,000 XP/hour is attainable by only looting the Grand Hallowed Coffin allowing for some mistakes.
2. The minimum cumulative time for Jagex XP/hr rates is the minimum time it should take to run to the end of a floor, starting with floor 1 and assuming no time spent waiting while the timer is paused. The actual minimum cumulative time would need to be approximately 10-20 seconds faster to account for paused time between floors.
3. Time saved on a floor gets carried over to the next one.

Rewards

Reward shop

Main article: Mysterious Hallowed Goods

While looting coffins the player will be rewarded with Hallowed Marks. These can be used in the reward shop in order to purchase the following:

Reward		Cost in	Description
	Hallowed crystal shard	1	Used to teleport to the Hallowed Sepulchre lobby. They can be purchased from the Mysterious Hallowed Goods shop.
	Hallowed token	10	This token, when consumed within the Hallowed Sepulchre, will add an extra minute to the remaining time.
	Hallowed grapple	100	This grapple, when equipped in the ammo slot, will always succeed grappling a Pillar. This grapple cannot be used anywhere outside of the crypt.
	Hallowed focus	100	This focus, when equipped in the off-hand slot, will guarantee the success of conjuring Portal Frames (regardless of the spell used and the player's Magic level) as well as speed up the process.
	Hallowed symbol	100	This symbol, when equipped in the necklace slot, will halve the number of sacrifices required to a Saradomin Brazier and speed up walking through prayer barriers.
	Hallowed hammer	100	This hammer will never break nails when repairing Broken Bridges. This hammer cannot be used anywhere outside of the crypt.
	Hallowed ring	250	This ring, when equipped in the ring slot, will prevent the user from taking damage and save a bit of time when failing an obstacle. It will "teleport them in the nick of time" and send them back to the start of the obstacle reducing the time penalty, and eliminating the need to bring food.
	Dark dye	300	This dye can be used on any piece of graceful armour to recolour it into a dark graceful piece of armour. Total of 6 Dark dyes are needed to recolour the full graceful set.
	Dark acorn	3,000	This acorn, when used on the Giant Squirrel pet, will turn it into a black and red version to match the dark graceful set. It is a permanent unlock and can be toggled back to its original colour at any time.
	Hallowed sack	100	When opened, hallowed sacks give loot found in coffins within the Hallowed Sepulchre. Each sack gives five rolls from the low-tier loot table, one roll from the mid-tier loot table, and two rolls from the high-tier loot table.

The equippable Hallowed items acquired from the shop count as a Saradomin item for the purposes of regaining run energy from the Magical Obelisks at the end of each floor, as well as in God Wars Dungeon.

Buying all items from the reward shop, including six dark dyes to recolour a full graceful set, costs 5,450 . This does not include the three consumable items: Hallowed tokens, Hallowed crystal shards, and Hallowed sacks.

Tomb raiding

A first floor coffin

Main article: Coffin (Hallowed Sepulchre)

Coffins are found on each floor of the Hallowed Sepulchre. Additionally, for those able to reach the heart of the Sepulchre, players will have the opportunity to loot the Grand Hallowed Coffin. Coffin looting (along with other activities required to reach them) will no longer be doable when the timer reaches zero.

Raiding these can result in the following unique rewards:

Reward		Description
	Ring of endurance	This ring requires 70 Agility to equip. You charge it with up to 1000 doses of stamina potion (1 dose = 1 charge). A charge is consumed when you drink a stamina potion, making the effects of the potion last twice as long. If the ring is removed while under the effects of a stamina potion, the remaining duration is cut in half. While the ring is charged with at least 500 charges, and you are not under the effect of a stamina potion, your run energy drain rate is reduced by 15%. The charged ring is untradeable, and reverting the ring to make it tradeable will lose any stored charges. This ring can only be obtained from the Grand Hallowed Coffin on floor 5.
	Strange old lockpick	This lockpick, when placed in your inventory, will allow you to bypass all Barrows doors. It is tradeable when it has its full 50 charges. A charge is consumed when you use the lockpick to open a door which was previously un-passable to you. Once a charge has been lost, it becomes untradeable. In addition, it will speed up looting coffins in the Hallowed Sepulchre and lower the chance of triggering the trap, without using any charges.
	Mysterious page	Obtained while looting coffins; 1 unique page is found in each floor of the Hallowed Sepulchre. These pages can be added to the strange hallowed tome, which is obtained by investigating the skeleton in the main lobby of the minigame.

Agility Pet

Upon returning to the Hallowed Sepulchre lobby via a magical obelisk, you have a chance to receive the Agility skilling pet. The chance of obtaining the pet depends on the difficulty of the floor completed and is as follows:

Floor	Agility	Probability
1	52	1/35,000
2	62	1/16,000
3	72	1/8,000
4	82	1/4,000
5	92	1/2,000

NPCs

There are a number of NPCs scattered throughout the Sepulchre. Some are meant to look like players either standing around or looting coffins. Some NPCs can be talked with and they will mention how the rogue outfit does not help when looting coffins or that the lockpick does help.

The NPCs found at coffins include:

• c4ssi4n
• c0lect0r890
• Jyn
• Darkmeyer Slave
• fishrunner82
• mad melvin96
• r2t2pnsh0Ty
• weast side49

There are also 5 Knight spirits that can be encountered while looting coffins, after which they will appear in the lobby if the player is wearing a Ring of visibility, and can be talked to while wearing a Ghostspeak amulet or equivalent.

• Knight of the Unicorn
• Knight of the Wolf
• Knight of the Lion
• Knight of the Owl
• Archpriest of the Unicorn

Changes

Date	Changes
3 June 2021 (update)	Inventory space checks are now performed correctly for coffin loot in the Hallowed Sepulchre, so that items only overflow onto the ground if they need to.
23 September 2020 (update | poll)	One of the loot rolls from the Grand Hallowed Coffin has been moved onto another coffin on the fifth level. The Mysterious Stranger now stores the player's hallowed tools, similar to Tool Leprechauns. The hallowed sack has been added to the Mysterious Hallowed Goods shop. The price of the dark acorn has been reduced from 5,000 Hallowed marks to 3,000. Players who have purchased one prior to this update will be refunded 2,000 Hallowed marks upon login.
16 July 2020 (update)	Players will now cast the lowest level enchantment spell they currently have runes for when the hallowed focus is equipped, since players will always succeed in conjuring portals with it equipped.
2 July 2020 (update)	The instance limit for all floors has been increased from 10 to 15 players. The animation for fixing bridges will now show the same hammer the player is using. The north path fire trap on Floor 4 will now have a slightly different pattern for its first two rotations in order to make it easier to figure out the current position in the cycle. The Agility XP gained from treasure encounters on Floor 5 has been reduced from 100 to 80.
25 June 2020 (update)	The experience was rebalanced to offer less for not looting the coffins and offer more for looting. The Thieving experience for looting coffins was also increased. The Hallowed Focus now offers a 100% success rate in conjuring portal frames and speeds up the conjuration process. The strange old lockpick now also speeds up looting the coffins. The XP rates for each floor of the Hallowed Sepulchre have been adjusted: Floor 1: 500 (unchanged), Floor 2: 850 (unchanged), Floor 3: 1425 (down from 1500), Floor 4: 2625 (down from 2700), Floor 5: 5850 (down from 6000) Completing a treasure encounter on a floor will now award the following amounts of XP: Floor 1: 100 (unchanged), Floor 2: 100 (unchanged), Floor 3: 150 (up from 100), Floor 4: 150 (up from 100), Floor 5: 200 (up from 100)
18 June 2020 (update)	The hallowed grapple and hammer now offer a 100% success rate on pillars and bridges respectively. The bridges are also traversed faster. Navigating through the prayer barrier whilst wearing a hallowed symbol has been sped up slightly and the Prayer experience for sacrificing vampyre dust has been increased from 60 to 200. The Magic experience for conjuring portal frames has been increased from 20 to 200 and the portals attempt to put the player in range when clicked from a distance. All treasure encounters will now award a small amount of Agility experience when completed. This will happen twice per encounter. Stationary sword traps will no longer hit from further away than they should and the fire trap animations will now appear at the same time players take damage from them. The fire trap on the north path of floor 4 has also been reverted back to its original rotation on release, and the south path on floor 4 will now load the entire section to prevent a loading screen while avoiding bolts. Players can no longer use barbarian training methods to light fires in the Hallowed Sepulchre. If a ghost spawns when looting the grand coffin it will now always be the Archpriest of the Unicorn instead of the knights.
12 June 2020 (update)	The bolt projectile is now larger and glows, and the glow on the ground cast by the bolt is no longer bolt shaped. The tier 3 bolt projectiles now have the same hitbox as tier 1 and 2 and all bolt traps are now more forgiving when trying to move two tiles perpendicular to them. Sword traps will stop appearing where they should not be and the timing of a sword trap on floor 3 is now a bit more forgiving. The statue animations for the fire traps should now be in-sync and the fire traps on floors 1 and 2 will turn on and off at the same rate as the fire traps on floors 3 and 4. Players can no longer make their way (e.g. by building a bridge) to a coffin when the time has run out as it could not be looted regardless. The timer will also disappear when time runs out. Ghosts will now spawn after the loot is collected to not interrupt the action. They will also stop stealing the player's loot when their dialogue is interrupted. Players will now receive slightly more hallowed marks on floors 1–3 and slightly fewer on floors 4 and 5 (including the Grand Coffin), and players can now loot multiple coffins on floors 3 and 4. The rarity of the strange old lockpick has been adjusted to account for the multiple chests available on each floor. Players can now enter the barrier leading to the Grand Coffin while stood on either side of it and instances where players would be stuck when descending to a new floor have been resolved. The price of hallowed tokens has been decreased from 15 hallowed marks to 10 and hallowed items can no longer be alchemised. The amount of experience gained after completing a floor has been decreased. On floor 2, some blue teleport pads have been added to the north, east and west paths, and the last fire trap on the east path now has a more reasonable respawn coordinate if players fail at the end of it. On floor 3, the first sword traps on the west and east path now wait five cycles between catching and throwing the sword so that they are slightly more forgiving, and the firing rate of the bolts on the final trap has been slowed down by one tick. On floor 4, a missing pad has been added to the sword trap at the end of the north path to indicate where the sword stops, the sword and fire trap combination on the south path now has two possible solutions to reduce the amount of wait time, the last two flames of the fire trap on the northern path are now active on every rotation, and the final bolt and teleport pad combination on the south path now has some blue teleport pads. On floor 5, the bolt statues for the final trap have been moved forward slightly so their animations can be seen more easily, and the first bolt and teleport pad combination trap now has a few more blue teleport tiles.
5 June 2020 (update)	Hotfix Experience gained for completing a floor is no longer scaled down depending on the time remaining. All treasure encounters are now enabled. Leaving the Hallowed Sepulchre using an obelisk will now restore run energy if players are wearing Saradomin items. The Grand Hallowed Coffin now awards 8–12 Hallowed marks instead of 4–7 and provides two rolls on the high-tier coffin loot table.
4 June 2020	Hotfix Fixed a bug where players could not properly enter Hallowed Sepulchre instances. Fixed a bug that caused players to teleport to the entrance when completing floors. Personal best times have been reset due to this fix. Crystal saws can now be used to build the bridge.

Trivia

The wolf statue, seen with a bowl of water and bones.

• On the southern path of the second floor, where the crossbowman statues are found, a wolf statue can be found behind them. Occasionally, a bowl of water and bones will spawn next to the statue.