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Kourend & Kebos Diary
Released 10 January 2019 (Update)
Area(s) Great Kourend, Kebos Lowlands
Members Yes
Item reward Blessing
Taskmaster(s) Elise
Elise's location

The Kourend & Kebos Diary is an Achievement Diary whose tasks revolve around areas in Great Kourend as well as the Kebos Lowlands.

Several skill, quest, and item requirements are needed to complete all tasks. Unless stated otherwise, temporary skill boosts can be used to meet the skill requirements.

Rewards can be claimed from Elise, south-east of the statue of King Rada I in the courtyard of the Kourend Castle. Tasks may be done in any order, but the previous tiers of a diary must be completed to claim rewards of the next tier.

Overview

Skill requirements
Attack
Hitpoints
Mining
15
Strength
Agility
Smithing
Defence
Herblore
12
Fishing
20
Ranged
Thieving
25
Cooking
Prayer
Crafting
Firemaking
Magic
Fletching
Woodcutting
Runecraft
Slayer
Farming
Construction
25[nb]
Hunter
Sailing
Combat level
Total level
124+
Quest requirements
Druidic Ritual

Skill requirements
Attack
Hitpoints
Mining
42
Strength
16
Agility
49
Smithing
Defence
Herblore
12
Fishing
43
Ranged
Thieving
25
Cooking
Prayer
Crafting
31
Firemaking
50
Magic
Fletching
Woodcutting
50
Runecraft
Slayer
Farming
45
Construction
30
Hunter
53
Sailing
Combat level
Total level
466+
Additional requirements
Started Fairytale II - Cure a Queen
Partial completion of Eagles' Peak

Skill requirements
Attack
Hitpoints
Mining
65
Strength
16
Agility
49
Smithing
70
Defence
40
Herblore
31
Fishing
43
Ranged
Thieving
49
Cooking
Prayer
Crafting
61[nb]
Firemaking
50
Magic
66
Fletching
25
Woodcutting
60
Runecraft
Slayer
62
Farming
74
Construction
30
Hunter
53
Sailing
Combat level
85
Total level
859+
Additional requirements
Started Fairytale II - Cure a Queen
Partial completion of Eagles' Peak
Defeat a Lizardman Shaman in the Lizardman Temple

Skill requirements
Attack
Hitpoints
Mining
65
Strength
16
Agility
49
Smithing
70
Defence
40
Herblore
31
Fishing
82
Ranged
Thieving
49
Cooking
84
Prayer
Crafting
61[nb]
Firemaking
50
Magic
90
Fletching
40
Woodcutting
90
Runecraft
77
Slayer
95
Farming
85
Construction
30
Hunter
53
Sailing
Combat level
85
Total level
1170+
Additional requirements
Started Fairytale II - Cure a Queen
Partial completion of Eagles' Peak
Completion of the Chambers of Xeric
Defeat a Hydra in the Karuulm Slayer Dungeon
Defeat a Lizardman Shaman in the Lizardman Temple
Defeat Skotizo

Easy

Task Requirements
1. Mine some Iron at the Mount Karuulm mine.
2. Kill a Sandcrab[sic]. None
3. Hand in a book at the Arceuus Library. None
4. Steal from a Hosidius Food Stall.
5. Browse the Warrens General Store. None
6. Take a boat to Land's End.

Note: You have to travel with Veos or Cabin Boy Herbert from Port Sarim or Port Piscarilius.

None
7. Pray at the Altar in Kourend Castle

Note: This altar is found on the top floor of the castle.

None
8. Dig up some Saltpetre.
9. Enter your Player Owned House from Hosidius.
10. Do a lap of either tier of the Shayzien Agility Course. None
11. Create a Strength potion in the Lovakengj Pub.
12. Fish a Trout from the River Molch.

Note: The fishing spot is found south-east of the Farming Guild.

Rewards

  • Rada's blessing 1:
    • Three daily teleports to the Kourend Woodland
    • 2% chance to catch two fish at once anywhere when equipped, excluding at Tempoross' Cove (no additional experience granted)
  • Antique lamp worth 2,500 experience in any skill of at least level 30
  • Entrance fee for the Crabclaw Isle lowered to 5,000 coins, down from 10,000 coins
  • Doubled chance at receiving a Xeric's talisman from lizardmen, lizardman brutes, and lizardman shamans (1/125, up from 1/250)
  • 20% discount on Eodan's tanning services
  • Access to the cooking ranges in the Hosidius Kitchen, which have an additive 5% increased success rate over other ranges
  • The farming patches in Hosidius, south of the church, will never get diseased

Medium

Task Requirements
1. Travel to the Fairy Ring south of Mount Karuulm.
2. Kill a Lizardman.
3. Use Kharedst's memoirs to teleport to all five cities in Great Kourend.
4. Mine some Volcanic Sulphur.
5. Enter the Farming Guild.

Note: You have to walk through the guild's main entrance.

6. Switch to the Necromancy Spellbook at Tyss.[sic] None
7. Repair a Piscarilius crane.
8. Deliver some intelligence to Captain Ginea.
9. Catch a Bluegill on Molch Island.
10. Use the boulder leap shortcut in the Arceuus essence mine.
11. Subdue the Wintertodt

Note: You must earn at least 500 points.

12. Catch a Chinchompa in the Kourend Woodland.
13. Chop some Mahogany logs north of the Farming Guild.

Rewards

  • Rada's blessing 2:
    • Five daily teleports to the Kourend Woodland
    • 4% chance to catch two fish at once anywhere when equipped, excluding at Tempoross' Cove (no additional experience granted)
    • Has a Prayer bonus of +1 when equipped, similar to the god blessings
  • Antique lamp worth 7,500 experience in any skill of at least level 40
  • Free access to Crabclaw Isle, down from a fee of 5,000 coins
  • 40% discount on Eodan's tanning services, up from 20%
  • 5% chance to mine two dense essence blocks at once
  • Thirus offers you 20 dynamite for free every day, worth a total of 3,620 coins on the Grand Exchange

Hard

Task Requirements
1. Enter the Woodcutting Guild.
2. Smelt an Adamantite bar in The Forsaken Tower.

Note: Using the Superheat Item spell does not count.

3. Kill a Lizardman Shaman in the Lizardman Temple.
  • See the strategy guide
4. Mine some Lovakite.
5. Plant some Logavano seeds at the Tithe Farm.
6. Kill a Zombie in the Shayzien Crypts.
7. Teleport to Xeric's Heart using Xeric's Talisman.
8. Deliver an artefact to Captain Khaled.
9. Kill a Wyrm in the Karuulm Slayer Dungeon.
10. Cast Monster Examine on a Troll south of Mount Quidamortem.
  • Quest points Completion of Dream Mentor
  • Magic 66 Magic
  • Lunar spellbook selected
  • Means to cast Monster Examine ( 1Astral 1Cosmic 1Mind )

Rewards

  • Rada's blessing 3:
  • Ash sanctifier, claimable from Tyss
    • An additional item that, when carried, causes demonic ashes dropped from killed monsters to be automatically scattered, granting half the Prayer experience that would have been granted for scattering them normally
    • This item is charged with death runes
  • Antique lamp worth 15,000 experience in any skill of at least level 50
  • Any slayer helmet can be used in place of a Shayzien helm (5) for its protection against lizardman shamans, after talking to Captain Cleive (requires having the helm in your collection log)
  • 60% discount on Eodan's tanning services, up from 40%
  • 5% increased chance to save a "harvest life" at the herb patches in Hosidius and the Farming Guild, slightly increasing your harvest yield
  • Thirus offers you 40 dynamite for free every day, worth a total of 7,240 coins on the Grand Exchange

Elite

Task Requirements
1. Craft one or more Blood runes from Dark essence.

Note: This requires mining a dark essence block and breaking it down into fragments, then using those fragments on the Kourend Blood Altar.

2. Chop some Redwood logs.
3. Defeat Skotizo in the Catacombs of Kourend.
  • Dark totem
  • See the strategy guide
4. Catch an Anglerfish and cook it whilst in Great Kourend.
5. Kill a Hydra in the Karuulm Slayer Dungeon.

Note: Either variant may be killed to fulfill this requirement. Only the Alchemical Hydra requires a slayer task to kill.

6. Create an Ape Atoll teleport tablet.
7. Complete a Raid in the Chambers of Xeric.
  • See the strategy guide
8. Create your own Battlestaff from scratch within the Farming Guild.

Rewards

  • Rada's blessing 4:
    • Unlimited teleports to the top of Mount Karuulm
    • 8% chance to catch two fish at once anywhere when equipped, excluding at Tempoross' Cove (no additional experience granted)
    • Has a Prayer bonus of +2, up from +1, the highest of any item in the ammunition slot
  • Antique lamp worth 50,000 experience in any skill of at least level 70
  • Roughly 11% more slayer reward points from Konar quo Maten's tasks, including milestone tasks
  • 10% additive success rate when using the cooking ranges in the Hosidius Kitchen, up from 5%
  • Permanent protection from the burning effect in the Karuulm Slayer Dungeon without the need for protective footwear
  • Ashes scattered via the Ash sanctifier now grant full Prayer experience
  • 80% discount on Eodan's tanning service, up from 60%
  • 10% additional blood runes from the false blood altar (no additional experience granted)
  • 10% increased chance of obtaining higher-tier ores in the Blast mine
  • Thirus offers you 80 dynamite for free every day, worth a total of 14,480 coins on the Grand Exchange

Changes

Date Changes
10 January 2024
(Update | poll)

The easy task to heal a wounded Shayzien soldier has been replaced with completing a lap of the Shayzien Agility Course.

14 April 2021
(Update)

All diary tasks to craft runes were changed to clarify they only can be completed with essence.

4 July 2019
(Update | poll)

Addition of Eodan tanning price reduction benefit.

Trivia

  • Certain tasks that can be tracked, such as finishing a raid in Chambers of Xeric, were automatically marked as done if the player had completed it before the diary was released.[1]

References

  1. ^ Jagex. Mod Kieren's Twitter account. 2 January 2019. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020. Mod Kieren: "They will autocomplete!"

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