Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Thieving

This is the Regular Thieving Guide, the guide for Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman 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.

Experience Tables

Stalls

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

Stall	Stall Picture	Location	Level Needed	Reward	XP
Baker Stall		Ardougne	1	14k GP, Bread, Cake, Chocolate Cake Slice	1,500
Silk Stall		Ardougne	25	20k GP, Silk	4,500
Seed Stall		Draynor	27	All types of Seeds, Plant Pots	3,750
Fur Stall		Ardougne	50	24k GP, Fur	9,000
Spice Stall		Ardougne	75	30k GP, Spice	15,000
Gem Stall		Ardougne & Donator Zone	80	36k GP, Uncut Gems	16,650
Silver Stall		Ardougne & Donator Zone 2	90	Random GP, Silver Ore	25,500

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	XP
Man		Ardougne (South of the marketplace)	1	Random GP	1,200
Al Kharid Warrior		Al Kharid	25	Random GP	3,900
Guard		Falador	40	Random GP	7,050
Paladin		Ardougne	70	Random GP	22,800
Hero		Ardougne	90	Random GP	40,950

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	Statuette to Upgrade	Reward	XP
Bakery Stall	Stone Statuette	7.5k GP, Cake, Chocolate Cake	3,750
Crafting Stall	Pottery Statuette	15k GP, All kinds of Hides, Black D'hide Body	6,000
Clothes Stall	Golden Statuette	30k GP, Silks, Villager Outfit, Ham Clothing, Elidnis Robes, Druidic Robes, Shoes, Torn Robes	12,000
Silver Stall	Jewelled Golden Statuette	40k GP, Silver Ore, Holy Symbol, Unholy Symbol, Dragon Pickaxe (Rare)	24,000
Gem Stall	Jewelled Diamond Statuette	50k GP, Uncut Gems (from Opal - Onyx)	27,000
Crossbow Stall	N/A	60k GP, Crossbow String, (Bronze - Rune) Crossbows, Dragon Bolts (e), Onyx Bolts (e)	30,000

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).
N/A	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.
	Double Eyepatches	Improves cash reward from thieving by 10%.	Completing the 'Master Thief' 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.