Requirements
- 43 Quest
- 49 Firemaking (boostable)
- 20 Crafting (boostable)
- 20 Mining (boostable)
QUEST 79 · MEMBERS
Tears of Guthix
Deep in the caves in the Lumbridge Swamp is an enchanted place where the tears shed by Guthix when it saw the destruction Saradomin and Zamorak had caused with their wars flow from the very walls. These tears are said to have magical properties to help players gain deeper understanding of the world. However, the cave is guarded by a loyal serpent named Juna who blocks passage from everyone. However, she has grown bored from three thousand years of sitting in the dark cave and wishes to hear stor
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Very Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 4 May 2005
Talk to Juna, deep inside the Lumbridge Swamp Caves.
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
- Lit sapphire lantern or the materials to make one
- Bullseye lantern or bullseye lantern (unf) (filled with lamp oil at the chemist in Rimmington or the lamp still in Dorgesh-Kaan)
- Cut sapphire
- Tinderbox
- Chisel
- Pickaxe
- Rope (if you have not yet entered the Lumbridge Swamp Caves)
Recommended
- Spiny helmet/Slayer helmet to prevent damage from wall beasts, if you have not progressed far enough through The Lost Tribe to access the caves from the Lumbridge Castle cellar.
Enemies to defeat
None listed.
Ironman notes
- A bullseye lantern (to create the required sapphire lantern), obtainable through one of the following:
- Purchase from Miltog for 600 gp (after Quest Death to the Dorgeshuun)
- 49 Smithing (boostable) to create a bullseye lantern (unf)
- 35 Crafting To complete Quest Haunted Mine to kill Skeleton in Tarn's Lair
- 36 Thieving (boostable) for pickpocketing cave goblins (after Quest Death to the Dorgeshuun) for a bullseye lantern.
- 35 Slayer (boostable) to kill wall beasts for a bullseye lantern (unf)
- Item spawn in Darkmeyer (after Quest Sins of the Father)
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Getting started
- 01
Note: If you've already completed The Lost Tribe, you can get to Juna via the Lumbridge Castle cave. This negates the need for the Spiny helmet or Slayer helmet. Having a lit Sapphire lantern with oil saves time as well.
- ↳
Simply squeeze through the hole, run south past Kazgar, use your pickaxe on the hole to clear it and climb through. Run straight south and jump across the stepping stones. Enter the south tunnel.
- 02
Talk to Juna in the Lumbridge Swamp Caves. Dialogue: Okay...
The Bowl of Stone
- 01
Use a cut Sapphire on a Bullseye lantern frame.
- 02
Light the Sapphire lantern with a tinderbox.
- 03
Climb back up the rock to the north and then use the lantern on one of the Light creatures above the chasm.
- 04
Mine a rock, use a chisel on it and climb down the rocks to the east.
- 05
Talk to Juna.
- 06
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,000 Crafting Crafting experience
- Ability to play the Tears of Guthix minigame once a week
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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- Tears of Guthix ↗full guide · revision 15292296
- Tears of Guthix/Quick guide ↗quick guide · revision 14458274