Main page/Guides/Ironman & Hardcore/Skilling Guides/ Thieving

This is the Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman Thieving Guide, the guide for regular players is 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 and for Hardcore Ironmen it is one of the only ways to get cash all though the amount of gp gained will be severely reduced.

Experience Tables

Stalls

You can find a majority of the Stalls in Grinderscape in Ardounge.

Stall	Stall Picture	Location	Level Needed	Reward
Baker Stall		Ardougne	1	14k GP, Bread, Cake, Chocolate Cake Slice
Silk Stall		Ardougne	25	20k GP, Silk
Seed Stall		Draynor	27	All types of Seeds, Plant Pots
Fur Stall		Ardougne	50	24k GP, Fur
Spice Stall		Ardougne	75	30k GP, Spice
Gem Stall		Ardougne & Donator Zone 2	80	36k GP, Uncut Gems
Silver Stall		Ardougne & Donator Zone 2	90	Random GP, Silver Ore

Stall Experience

Stall	Stall Picture	Ironman Xp	With Brawlers	Hardcore Iroman	With Brawlers
Baker Stall		500XP	1000XP	214XP	428XP
Silk Stall		1500XP	3000XP	642Xp	1284XP
Seed Stall		1250XP	2500XP	535XP	1070XP
Fur Stall		3000XP	6000XP	1285XP	2570XP
Spice Stall		5000XP	10000XP	2142XP	4284XP
Gem Stall		5550XP	11100XP	2378XP	4756XP
Silver Stall		8500XP	17000XP	3642XP	7284XP

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	NPC Picture	Location	Level Needed	Reward
Man		Edgeville	1	Random GP
Al Kharid Warrior		Al Kharid	25	Random GP
Guard		Falador	40	Random GP
Paladin		Ardougne	70	Random GP
Hero		Ardougne	90	Random GP

Pickpocketing Experience

NPC	NPC Picture	Location	Ironman XP	With Brawlers	Hardcore XP	With Brawlers
Man		Edgeville	400XP	800XP	171XP	342XP
Al Kharid Warrior		Al Kharid	1300XP	2600XP	557XP	1114XP
Guard		Falador	2350XP	4700XP	1007XP	2014XP
Paladin		Ardougne	7600XP	15200XP	3257XP	6514XP
Hero		Ardougne	13650XP	27300XP	5850XP	11700XP

Chief Theif Robin Training (Fastest Experience)

The fastest way to get to 99 theiving 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 Edgville you may notice an NPC named "Chief Theif Robin" if you talk to him he tells you he's looking for a talented theif. 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 theive 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 5%.

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

Stall	Statuette to Upgrade	Reward
Bakery Stall	Stone Statuette	7.5k GP, Cake, Chocolate Cake
Crafting Stall	Pottery Statuette	15k GP, All kinds of Hides, Black D'hide Body
Clothes Stall	Golden Statuette	30k GP, Silks, Villager Outfit, Ham Clothing, Elidnis Robes, Druidic Robes, Shoes, Torn Robes
Silver Stall	Jewelled Golden Statuette	40k GP, Silver Ore, Holy Symbol, Unholy Symbol, Dragon Pickaxe (Rare)
Gem Stall	Jewelled Diamond Statuette	50k GP, Uncut Gems (from Opal - Onyx)
Crossbow Stall	N/A	60k GP, Crossbow String, (Bronze - Rune)Crossbows, Dragon Bolts (e), Onyx Bolts (e)

Chief Thief Robin Stall Experience

Stall	Ironman XP	With Brawlers	Hardcore XP	With Brawlers
Bakery Stall	1250XP	2500XP	535XP	1070XP
Crafting Stall	2000XP	4000XP	857XP	1714XP
Clothes Stall	4000XP	8000XP	1714XP	3428XP
Silver Stall	8000XP	16000XP	3428XP	6856XP
Gem Stall	9000XP	18000XP	3857XP	7714XP
Crossbow Stall	10000XP	20000XP	4285	8570

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Totem	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem(Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in everyday grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp.
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. Recieved as a Voting Sortition Reward.
	Double Eyepatches	Improves cash reward from thieving by 5%.	Completing the 'Master Theif' task

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 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Thieving cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m 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 cape costs 2.5m Gp.