 This is the regular Thieving guide, the guide for ironman / hardcore ironman players can be found here.

Thieving is a skill which allows players to obtain coins and items by stealing from market stalls or by pickpocketing NPC's. It is a great skill for starting off an account, as you will earn a lot of money very quickly.

Experience Tables

Stalls

You can find a majority of the Stalls in Etherum in Ardougne, Draynor and Donator Zone.

Stall	Location	Level Needed	Reward	XP
Baker Stall	Ardougne	1	700 GP, Bread, Cake, Chocolate Cake Slice	750
Market Stall	Draynor	10	262 GP	1.500
Seed Stall	Draynor	15	All types of Seeds, Plant Pots	1.875
Silk Stall	Ardougne	25	1.000 GP, Silk	2.250
Fur Stall	Ardougne	50	1.200 GP, Fur	4.500
Spice Stall	Ardougne	75	1.500 GP, Spice	7.500
Gem Stall	Ardougne & Donator Zone	80	1.800 GP, Uncut Gems	8.325
Silver Stall	Ardougne & Donator Zone	90	Random GP, Silver Ore	12.750

Note: When you reach level 99, xp will get reduced by half.

Pickpocketing

Pickpocketing is the act of stealing from anothers pocket. This results in little gold, but very high experience. The downside to Pickpocketing, is that you have a chance to get caught, which will cause the player to take damage and be stunned for a while. This puts Pickpocketing and stealing from Stalls at roughly the same experience per hour. Most NPCs can be found walking around in the Ardougne area, the others all around Runescape.

NPC	Location	Level Needed	Reward	XP
Man	Ardougne (South of the marketplace)	1	Random GP	600
Al Kharid Warrior	Al Kharid	25	Random GP	1.950
Guard	Falador	40	Random GP	3.525
Knight of Ardougne	Ardougne	55	Random GP	6.375
Paladin	Ardougne	70	Random GP	11.400
Hero	Ardougne	90	Random GP	20.475

Note: When you reach level 99, xp will get reduced by half.

Chief Thief Robin Training (Fastest Experience)

The fastest way to get to 99 thieving would be by stealing from the stall used in Chief Thief Robins Training. This will also gain you a lot of money at the same time.

At the Market Place at Edgeville you may notice an NPC named "Chief Thief Robin" if you talk to him he tells you he's looking for a talented thief. Then you have to pick-pocket him until you get a key. What this does is unlocks another stall for players to steal from. This stall is different to all other stalls, because it can be upgraded giving more experience as you go.

To upgrade the stalls all you need to do is thieve from it until you find a statuette, once you have one hand it over to Chief Thief Robin, and he will upgrade the stall for you.

Once you've upgraded the stall all the way to the Crossbow Stall, you will complete a task which gives you "Double Eyepatch" which improves cash rewards from thieving by 10%.

Below is a table which shows you information about the stalls.

Stall	Level Needed	Statuette to Upgrade	Reward	XP
Bakery Stall	1	Stone Statuette	375 GP, Cake, Chocolate Cake, Easy Clue Scroll	1.875
Crafting Stall	20	Pottery Statuette	750 GP, All kinds of Hides, Black D'hide Body, Easy Clue Scroll	3.000
Clothes Stall	30	Golden Statuette	1.500 GP, Silks, Villager Outfit, Ham Clothing, Elidnis Robes, Druidic Robes, Shoes, Torn Robes, Easy Clue Scroll	6.000
Silver Stall	50	Jewelled Golden Statuette	2.000 GP, Silver Ore, Holy Symbol, Unholy Symbol, Dragon Pickaxe (Rare), Medium Clue Scroll	12.000
Gem Stall	85	Jewelled Diamond Statuette	2.500 GP, Uncut Gems (from Opal - Onyx), Hard Clue Scroll	13.500
Crossbow Stall	99	Jewelled Diamond Statuette	3.000 GP, Crossbow String, (Bronze - Rune) Crossbows, Dragon Bolts (e), Onyx Bolts (e), Elite Clue Scroll	15.000

Note: When you reach level 99, xp will get reduced by half.

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
	Knowledge Effect	All experience gained will be increased by: 75% for 10 minutes for normal donators 100% for 20 minutes for super donators 110% for 40 minutes for extreme donators	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem (Knowledge effect).
	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in every day grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchase 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
	Brawling Gloves (Thieving)	Doubles all Thieving experience gained.	Dropped by all Revenants. Received as a Voting Sortition Reward. Bought from the skilling point store.
	Double Eyepatches	Improves cash reward from thieving by 10%.	Completing the 'Master Thief' task

Thieving Pet

You can get a thieving pet at random while thieving, there is no further known rate on getting the pet.

The thieving pet is called Rocky.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Thieving, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The skillcape costs 30 million coins and comes with a matching hood. Both the Thieving cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 200m experience in the Thieving skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Thieving Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This master skillcape costs 80 million coins.