Requirements
None listed.
QUEST 178 · FREE-TO-PLAY
The Ides of Milk
Lumbridge, the iconic city for all the fresh-faced arrivals and budding adventurers. Home to regular citizens of Gielinor, they chop the trees, work the fields, and tend to the animals of the realm, except there has been a disturbance in the nearby cow pen and the steaks have never been higher! Distress runs through the herd and while they have always feared adventurers claiming their lives, a new threat has entered their domain bringing the beef...
- Difficulty
- Novice
- Length
- Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 25 February 2026
Talk to Cassius by the Lumbridge pond.
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
None listed.
Recommended
- 15 Combat
Enemies to defeat
- A bull
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Walkthrough
- 01
Speak to Cassius by the Lumbridge pond, south of the windmill. Dialogue: Yes.
- 02
Speak to Gillie Groats in the Lumbridge cow field, just north of the entrance. Dialogue: Can you share what makes your cows so productive?
- 03
Speak to Seth Groats in the farmhouse by the chicken coop, north-west of the cow field.
- 04
Search the shelves on the southern wall for The groats principles.
- 05
Return the book to Cassius to receive a milk sample.
- 06
Drink the milk sample in front of Cassius, then speak to him again to receive another sample for Duke Horacio.
- 07
Speak to Duke Horacio upstairs in Lumbridge Castle about the permit.
- 08
Return to Gillie Groats and drink the milk sample when prompted.
- 09
Open the gate directly north-east of Gillie and defeat the bull.
- ↳
Its normal attacks cannot kill you during the quest, but its special attacks can hit up to 19 and cannot be prayed against.
- ↳
When it snorts, move two tiles to either side or one tile backwards.
- ↳
When it growls, move two tiles to either side.
- 10
Speak to Gillie Groats about the bull.
- 11
Return to Cassius and confront him.
- 12
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- Access to Brutus, the cow boss.
- Additional rewards from Gillie Groats:
- Cowbell amulet
- A magic lamp providing 1,000 experience in any combat skill, including Prayer.
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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- The Ides of Milk ↗full guide · revision 15246426
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