Requirements
- 30 Crafting
- 26 Construction
QUEST 147 · MEMBERS
Getting Ahead
Gordon and Mary are two small-town farmers with a big problem – some heinous beastie keeps taking their livestock! Luckily they've hit upon a solution. They just need some brave adventurer to venture into the creature's lair and bring them back its head. We can't envisage any complications with such a routine matter, right?
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 25 November 2020
Talk to Gordon on his farm south of the Farming Guild.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
- Bear fur, grey wolf fur, or Fur (a Grizzly bear and bear cub spawn west of the farm and two black bears spawn east of the farm)
- Soft clay or a pickaxe you can use
- Clay rocks are found in the Kebos Lowlands mine passed during the quest;
- Gordon's house has a water source and a bucket spawn;
- There is a Bronze pickaxe spawn at the mine, stuck in some rocks.
- Hammer (obtainable near the cattle gate) or Imcando hammer
- Saw (obtainable in the shed north of the house) or Amy's saw
- 2 normal planks (obtainable near the cave entrance)
- At least 6 nails of any kind (iron nails can be found in the workbench north of the house, and more than 6 is recommended in case you bend a few)
- Knife (obtainable on the kitchen table in the house)
- Red dye (obtainable from the shelves in the house)
- Pot of flour (obtainable upstairs in the house)
- Needle (obtainable upstairs in the house) or Costume needle
- Thread (obtainable upstairs in the house) unless you're using the Costume needle
Recommended
- 45 Combat
- Fast travel to the Farming Guild (Skills necklace, Battlefront Teleport, Farming Cape, or Fairy Rings to CIR)
- Combat equipment to fight a level 82 beast.
- (optional) Various items to show Gordon for amusing dialogue.
- Nielan's journal (obtained by searching the skeleton in the Headless Beast's Lair)
- Big bones
- Ensouled bear head
- Bearhead
Enemies to defeat
- Headless Beast (level-82)
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Starting out
- 01
Speak to Gordon south of the Farming Guild. Dialogue: Need a hand with anything? → Yes.
- 02
Speak to Mary inside the main building west of Gordon.
Tracking down the beast
- 01
Use a pot of flour on the southern gate next to the cow pen east of Gordon.
- 02
Follow the trail of flour south past the bridge then west to the cave at the Kebos Lowlands mine.
- 03
Kill the Headless Beast.
- ↳
Optional: Mine some clay in the mine and pick up two planks just to the west while you're here.
- 04
Go back and speak to Gordon.
Making the fake head
- 01
Speak to Gordon.
- 02
Speak to Mary.
- 03
Make a clay head by using a knife on the soft clay. Dialogue: Yes.
- 04
Make a fur head by using bear fur or grey wolf fur on the head while having a needle and thread. Dialogue: Yes.
- 05
Speak to Gordon again.
- 06
Make a bloody head by using red dye on the head. Dialogue: Yes.
- 07
Mount the bloody head in the Mounted Head Space on the wall south of the stairs using two planks and six nails.
- 08
Speak to Gordon one more time.
- 09
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 3,000 coins — If not claimed at quest completion due to no available inventory space, talk to Gordon again after the quest for the reward
- 4,000 Crafting experience
- 3,200 Construction experience
- Access to a tannery in the Kebos Lowlands (speak to Mary to access tanning services)
- Headless Beast accessible in the Nightmare Zone
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
Verify the guide after updates.
Facts and walkthrough actions are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
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