Requirements
- 30 Smithing
- 12 Sailing
- Completion of the following quests:
- Pandemonium
- The Knight's Sword
- One open port task slot
QUEST 175 · MEMBERS
Prying Times
Help Steve Beanie recover some 'pirate treasure' and unlock the crowbar, a useful Sailing tool.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 19 November 2025
Talk to 'Squawking' Steve Beanie at The Pandemonium pub.
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
- Hammer or Imcando hammer (obtainable during quest)
- Steel bar
- Redberry pie
- Captain's log
Recommended
- 10 Combat
- 120 coins coins or Ring of Charos(a) for four trips via charter ship between The Pandemonium and Port Sarim
- Leave your boat docked at Port Sarim if using charter ships
Enemies to defeat
- Drink troll (level 14) - can be skipped
Ironman notes
- A method to obtain a redberry pie:
- 10 Cooking Cooking to cook one. A pie dish can be found in the Varrock Palace kitchen, and redberries can be picked just west of the South-east Varrock mine
- Purchased from Romily Weaklax in the Cooks' Guild with 32 Cooking and a chef's hat
- Partial completion of Perilous Moons to purchase a Redberry pie from Yarnio
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Crate of looty
- 01
With your Captain's log in your inventory and an open task slot, talk to 'Squawking' Steve Beanie in the Pandemonium Pub to accept the courier task. Dialogue: Got any work that needs doing here? → Yes.
- 02
Sail to Port Sarim, dock, and disembark.
- ↳
With both hands empty, take the crate of looty from the ledger table.
- 03
Board your vessel and deposit the crate into the cargo hold.
- 04
Sail back south to The Pandemonium.
- ↳
Dock your vessel, withdraw the crate from the cargo hold, and disembark.
- ↳
Deposit the crate at the ledger table on the docks.
- 05
Return to 'Squawking' Steve Beanie. Dialogue: I delivered that cargo for you.
- ↳
If needed, take a hammer from the crate next to Junior Jim before leaving The Pandemonium.
Crowbar
- 01
Talk to Thurgo at Mudskipper Point, south of Port Sarim. Dialogue: I need some help with a 'special key'. → Yes.
- ↳
If Below Ice Mountain has been completed, select option 4 instead of 3.
- ↳
The fairy ring AIQ is closest to Thurgo.
- ↳
With the hammer in your inventory, give him the steel bar and redberry pie to receive a crowbar.
- 02
Return to 'Squawking' Steve Beanie in the Pandemonium Pub. Dialogue: I made that 'special key' you needed.
- ↳
Captain Tobias can take you from Port Sarim to The Pandemonium for 30 coins.
- 03
Sail to the small island north-west of The Pandemonium and find the floating sealed crate.
- ↳
Withdraw the crowbar from your cargo hold and pry open the crate while aboard your vessel.
- 04
Drink the bottle of fish bladder stout. Dialogue: Yes.
- ↳
Defeat the drink troll that spawns, or disembark from your vessel to avoid the fight.
- 05
Sail back to The Pandemonium and talk to 'Squawking' Steve Beanie. Dialogue: About that crate...
- 06
Open the sealed crate behind Steve with the crowbar.
- 07
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,000 Smithing Smithing experience
- 800 Sailing Sailing experience
- Ability to chart forgotten drinks
- 25 sawmill coupon (oak plank)
- Unlimited crowbars from the crate of crowbars
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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- Prying Times ↗full guide · revision 15315235
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