Requirements
- 31 Cooking (boostable)
- Completion of the following quests:
- Recipe for Disaster/Another Cook's Quest
- Cook's Assistant
- The ability to defeat 5 level 30 monsters.
RECIPE FOR DISASTER SUBGUIDE · MEMBERS
Freeing Pirate Pete
Pirate Pete needs a fishcake to be protected. Talk to the Lumbridge Cook to learn how to make one.
- Difficulty
- Special
- Length
- Medium
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 15 March 2006
Inspect Pirate Pete in the Lumbridge Castle dining room.
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
- A raw cod (It's highly recommended to get at least 3 of all the ingredients, as the Fishcake can burn)
- A pestle and mortar
- Bread (at least 3 recommended)
- A knife
- A fishbowl (empty)
- A needle (Costume needle does not work)
- 3 bronze wire
Recommended
No additional recommendations listed.
Enemies to defeat
- 5 Mudskippers (level 30/31)
- Crab (level 21/23)
Ironman notes
- 42 Crafting (boostable) (If crafting a fishbowl yourself or by completing Rum Deal)
- 4 Smithing (boostable) (To make the bronze wire.)
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 off
- 01
Inspect Pirate Pete.
- 02
Talk to the cook in the next room about protecting the pirate. Dialogue: Protecting the Pirate
- 03
Go through all 5 chat options. Dialogue: Where do I get Ground Cod? → Where do I get Ground Kelp? → Where do I get Ground Giant Crab Meat?3 → Where do I get Breadcrumbs? → What do I do with all of it? → Thanks!
- 04
Use your pestle and mortar on the raw cod.
- 05
Use your knife on the bread to make breadcrumbs.
- 06
Talk to Murphy in Port Khazard. Dialogue: Talk about Recipe for Disaster. (Fishing Trawler minigame teleport is the easiest way to get there - requires 15 Fishing)
- 07
Talk to Murphy again. Dialogue: Yes, Let's go diving.
Under the Sea
- 01
Equip your fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus, Bring the needle and three bronze wire. Agree to go diving.
- 02
Pick some kelp. (It's highly recommended to pick at least 3 kelp as the fishcake can burn).
- ↳
If you don't have at least 5 inventory spaces, skip this until leaving as you must gather 5 hide.
- 03
Go north and talk to Nung.
- 04
Go west and pick up 5 rocks, then enter the cave.
- 05
Kill 5 mudskippers (level 30/31) for 5 hides.
- ↳
You can give the hide in more than one trip
- 06
Talk to Nung twice.
- 07
Enter the crab pen, kill a crab and take its meat. (It's highly recommended to get at least 3 Crab meat as the fishcake can burn).
- 08
Grind the kelp and crab meat with a pestle and mortar.
- 09
Teleport away, or go south and climb the anchor
- 10
Talk to the Cook in Lumbridge about freeing the pirate again. Dialogue: Protecting the Pirate
- 11
Use the ingredients on each other then cook the fishcake.
- 12
Give the fishcake to Pirate Pete in Lumbridge.
- 13
Congratulations, section complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,000 Cooking Cooking experience
- 1,000 Crafting Crafting experience
- 1,000 Fishing Fishing experience
- 1,000 Smithing Smithing experience
- The ability to go diving and fight crabs (you need your diving apparatus)
- The ability to cook crab meat (heals 10 hitpoints in 5 bites)
- The ability to kill crabs to get their shells and claws, which can be made into a helmet and gloves with a chisel
- Further access to the Culinaromancer's Chest
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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- Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Pirate Pete ↗full guide · revision 15292338
- Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Pirate Pete/Quick guide ↗quick guide · revision 14818978