Clue scroll (medium)
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| Clue scroll (medium) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Released | 5 May 2004 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Members | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quest item | No | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tradeable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Equipable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stackable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Noteable | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Options | Read, Check steps, Drop | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examine |
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| Values | |||||||||||||||||||
| Value | 20 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| High alch | 12 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| Low alch | 8 coins | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 0.02 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Item ID | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||
| Link | MOID | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 can be between 3 and 5 steps long.
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 bring you to the Wilderness.
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.
Completion of Medium Combat Achievements gives a 5% increased chance to receive a medium clue scroll from all sources, excluding implings.
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.
For playing wishing to quickly obtain Medium clue scrolls, one of the best non-combat methods is thieving Aldarin Villa chests. While the clue drop rate from this chest is 1/90, the chest can be opened about 400 times per hour, yielding an average obtaining rate of one medium clue every 14 minutes or so, as well as ~80,000 Thieving experience per hour.
Mechanics
[edit | edit source]Dying with a scroll
[edit | edit source]Unless the clue scroll is an item kept on death or it is protected by a clue box, dying beyond level 20 Wilderness will cause the clue scroll to be destroyed, regardless of the cause of death. Players may find it beneficial to carry a Wilderness sword to cut webs, royal seed pod/teleport crystal, and/or an explorer's ring, as clue scrolls are always kept above these items; these will be lost upon death, but replacements are easily and freely obtainable. In the typical case of death, the unprotected clue will stay on the ground for up to 1 hour, including PvP deaths below level 20 Wilderness; the same rules apply for reward caskets. The only exception is in the case of death to a monster in the Wilderness below level 20, the clue will always be protected.
Multiple clues
[edit | edit source]As with all tiers of clue scrolls, only one medium clue scroll can be held, kept in Death's Office, or stored in a bank at one time; attempting to open a scroll box (medium) while holding a medium clue scroll gives the message However, it is possible to drop clues on the floor, where they'll stay for one hour, allowing players to have multiple clues at once. Dropping prior clue scrolls while having done some of their steps does NOT retain the steps of the dropped clue when starting a new one.
Types of clues
[edit | edit source]Please note that it is possible to receive the same clue more than once.
Requirements
[edit | edit source]Skill requirements
[edit | edit source]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 |
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 35 [boostable]
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Required to enter the Barbarian Agility Arena. |
 30 [not boostable]
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Required to wield adamant weaponry. |
 40 [not boostable]
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Required to wear green or blue d'hide body. |
 45 [boostable]
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Required to enter the Farming Guild. |
 40 [not boostable]
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Required to wear mystic robes. |
 50 [not boostable]
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Required to wear blue dragonhide armour. |
 30 [not boostable]
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Required to wield adamant warhammer. |
 45 [not boostable]
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Required to reach The Summer Shore. |
Additional requirements for ironmen
[edit | edit source]Players playing in the ironman mode may find it more difficult to obtain certain items required for emote clues. Possible challenges are listed below.
| Skill level | Details |
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 45 [boostable] OR  74 [boostable]
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To obtain snakeskin boots. |
| 71 [boostable] OR The ability to kill brutal blue dragons. |
To obtain blue d'hide body. |
 87 [not boostable] OR 66 [boostable] OR 83 [boostable] OR The ability to kill Scorpia, Vet'ion, Callisto, or Corporeal Beast. |
To obtain mystic robe bottoms. |
| 66 [boostable] OR 65 [boostable]
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To obtain mystic gloves. |
| 52 [boostable]
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To obtain mithril boots. |
| 51 [boostable]
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To obtain snakeskin chaps. |
Note that a clue step requiring adamant boots is blocked for ironmen.[1]
Quest requirements
[edit | edit source]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 |
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| Biohazard | Gives access to the Combat Training Camp. |
| Bone Voyage | Gives access to Fossil Island. |
| Children of the Sun | Gives access to Varlamore. |
| The Corsair Curse | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Corsair Cove. |
| Creature of Fenkenstrain | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Mausoleum. |
| Dragon Slayer I | Gives access to green d'hide body and Crandor. |
| The Fremennik Trials | Gives access to Miscellania. |
| Horror from the Deep | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Lighthouse. |
| Jungle Potion | Gives access to Gabooty in Tai Bwo Wannai. |
| Lost City | Gives access to the song Faerie. |
| Mountain Daughter | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the song Cave of Beasts. |
| Nature Spirit | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Mort Myre Swamp. |
| Priest in Peril | Gives access to Morytania. |
| 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. |
| Ironman: Regicide | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Quartermaster store to buy an adamant halberd. |
| Ironman: The Lost Tribe | Gives access to Nardok's Bone Weapons to buy a bone dagger. |
| Sea Slug | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to Fishing Platform. |
| The Tourist Trap | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Desert Mining Camp. |
| Troubled Tortugans | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to The Great Conch. |
| Waterfall Quest | (Completion of quest not necessary) Gives access to the Baxtorian Falls. |
Music requirements
[edit | edit source]| Music Track | Unlock location | Notes |
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| Catch Me If You Can | Ardougne Rat Pits | Requires partial completion of Ratcatchers. |
| Cave of Beasts | The Kendal's cave | Requires partial completion [up to boss fight] of Mountain Daughter. |
| Devils May Care | Smoke Devil Dungeon | If you quickly enter and then exit the dungeon right away, then a facemask or slayer helmet is not necessary. |
| Faerie | Zanaris | Requires completion of Lost City. |
| Forgotten | Ruins of Uzer | N/A |
| Karamja Jam | Brimhaven Dungeon | Access to the dungeon requires a fee from either Saniboch or Banisoch. |
Item requirements
[edit | edit source]'Minimum level requirements' indicates the level required to equip all items on the list in order to complete their respective clue steps.
Any quantities below indicate how many of each item is required to fill all available medium STASH units.
Possible rewards
[edit | edit source]The average loot roll of a medium clue is worth 30,902.00. If ranger boots are excluded, the expected value of each loot roll is worth 7,137.00.
On average, medium clues are worth 123,608.00, or 28,550.00 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).
Item sources
[edit | edit source]A one-time medium clue scroll can be rarely obtained (1/256 chance[2]) from feeding a monkey bananas. When this happens, a message appears in the player's chat box saying "The monkey chews on the banana and spits out a clue!".
Shop locations
[edit | edit source]| Seller | Location | Number in stock | Restock time | Price sold at | Price bought at | Change Per | Members | League region |
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| Honest Jimmy | Trouble Brewing | ∞ | N/A |  5,000 | N/A | 0.0% |  |  |
Changes
[edit | edit source]| Date | Changes |
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| 6 March 2024 (Update) |
Clue Scrolls dropped by a player now last one hour on the ground rather than two minutes. This does not change existing behaviour for Clue Scrolls dropped by NPCs or other entities. Additionally, you are now told if you would have gotten a clue but didn't because you already have one. |
| 11 April 2019 (Update) |
The item was graphically updated. |
| 4 January 2018 (Update) |
The medium clue answer regarding the number of gravestones in Lumbridge now includes the Jarvis gravestone for those who let him die during the Halloween event. |
| 9 March 2017 (Update) |
The item's value was increased from 1 to 20. |
| 21 April 2016 (Update | poll) |
Medium clue scrolls have been added to earth, essence, and eclectic impling drop tables. |
| 8 October 2015 (Update) |
Increased the zone check for an emote clue at the Observatory. |
| 2 July 2015 (Update | poll) |
All clue scrolls now have a right-click 'Check steps' option that will allow you to see exactly how many steps you have completed so far. |
| 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) |
The item was renamed from "Clue scroll" to "Clue scroll (medium)". |
| 14 March 2005 (Update) |
A medium level clue which sent you into the Wilderness was changed to send you elsewhere. |
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| 5 May 2004 – 11 April 2019 |
11 April 2019 – present |
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