Wise Old Man/Tasks
NOTE: These tasks can only be offered BEFORE you become eligible to a receive a Quest cape
Description
The Wise Old Man in Draynor Village will assign various tasks on member worlds, and give small rewards in return.
Tasks
The tasks assigned fall into three categories.
Items
The most common tasks are to fetch between 3 and 15 of one of the following items (this list may not be exhaustive). They can be brought in more than one load. The Wise Old Man will not accept bank notes, asking what use they would be to him.
- Anchovies
- Ball of wool
- Beer glass
- Bones
- Bronze arrow
- Bronze bar
- Bronze dagger
- Bronze hatchet
- Bronze mace
- Bronze medium helm
- Bronze spear
- Bronze sword
- Bronze warhammer
- Bronze wire
- Beer
- Bow string
- Bread
- Cadava berries
- Cooked chicken
- Cooked meat
- Copper ore
- Cowhide
- Egg
- Feathers
- Grain
- Headless arrows
- Iron arrowtips
- Iron mace
- Iron ore
- Iron throwing knives
- Iron warhammer
- Leather boots
- Leather gloves
- Logs
- Molten glass
- Pot of flour
- Potatoes
- Raw anchovies
- Raw rat meat
- Rune essence (Pure essence is also accepted)
- Shrimp
- Silk
- Soft clay
- Soft leather
- Swamp paste
- Tin ore
- Unfired pie dish
- Unfired pot
Letter delivery
Some tasks require the player to deliver a letter to one of the following NPCs. In these cases the recipient will reward the player, rather than the Wise Old Man. The player can read the letter before delivering it.
- Abbot Langley in the Monastery
- Father Aereck of Lumbridge Church
- Father Lawrence in Varrock
- The High Priest of Entrana
- The Oracle on Ice Mountain.
- Reldo, librarian of Varrock
- Thurgo, south of Port Sarim
The thing under the bed
Finally the Wise Old Man will occasionally ask the player to investigate the thing under his bed; the player must then defeat it in combat.
Rewards
Upon completing an item or delivery task, the player will receive a random reward from the following list.
Upon completing the task of fighting the thing under the bed, the player will receive Constitution experience.
Trivia
- When prayer experience is rewarded, the player is told to click the flashing prayer icon in their stats tab, even though the icon does not flash unless the player levels up. This is most likely due to a glitch.
- He asks for "arrowheads", rather than the synonymous "arrowtips", which is what they are called in RuneScape.
- He refers to "bronze swords" as "bronze shortswords." This is what they were called before the ______________ update and also RuneScape Classic
- It was commonly believed that a Blue Partyhat would be the final reward from the seemingly never-ending tasks, as the tasks got longer.
- As stated above the Wise Old Man will not accept bank notes, asking what use they would be to him. This is likely connected to the security footage, in which the Wise Old Man breaks into the Draynor Bank.
- He gives runes as a reward, despite claiming to be low on runes.