Sorceress's Garden

The Sorceress's Garden is a Thieving/Farming minigame located in Al Kharid which may be accessed after the completion of Prince Ali Rescue. In it, players attempt to sneak past guards in order to steal sq'irk fruit to make sq'irkjuice, or herbs from the garden.

Sq'irkjuice can be exchanged with Osman or Selim for Thieving experience or be used to temporarily boost your Thieving level and restore run energy.

• Amulet of glory teleport to Al Kharid inside the palace, on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] in the southern room. This brings you close to both Osman and the mini-game, as well as a bank.
• Members that have completed Prince Ali Rescue can use the Sorceress's Garden Minigame Teleport after asking Osman (Selim after completion of Beneath Cursed Sands) if he needs any help.
• Gnome glider to travel to and from Al Kharid (after completing The Grand Tree quest).
• From Lumbridge, use the toll gate, which is free if the required quest Prince Ali Rescue quest is completed.
• Ring of dueling teleport to the Emir's Arena, just north-east of Al Kharid.

If you talk to Osman after completing the Prince Ali Rescue quest (or Selim after completing Beneath Cursed Sands), you will find out that he wants to get sq'irkjuice, but the sorceress with whom he normally deals now refuses to give it to him. To this end, he will enlist you to steal sq'irk fruit from her garden. You can get to the garden from the apprentice who works in the house near the Shantay Pass. After completing the following steps once, you can immediately right-click Teleport at the Apprentice the next time.

Step-by-step:

The garden is divided into five areas. You appear in the central garden with a fountain and Del-Monty the cat. Drinking from the fountain will teleport you back to the Sorceress's house. Del-Monty will tell you about the garden and the minigame if you speak to him while wearing a catspeak amulet or have completed Dragon Slayer II to the point of being enchanted (after which the player can speak to cats without the amulet).

Surrounding the central garden are four seasonal gardens, each of which has a Sq'irk tree:

• The Winter garden has a tree with withered fruits.
• The Spring garden has a tree with nearly-ripe fruits.
• The Autumn garden has a tree with over-ripe fruits.
• The Summer garden has a tree with perfectly ripe fruits.

You can only enter a seasonal garden if your current Thieving level matches or exceeds the garden's required level. Fruits gained from a garden can be crushed into an empty beer glass using a pestle and mortar to make sq'irkjuice. Beer glasses needed for this minigame can be obtained for free by searching the shelves in the Sorceress's house.

You can only pick one fruit per trip, or if you pick herbs instead, you will always get two clean herbs at once before you are teleported out of the garden. The types of herbs will vary, but picking them will always yield 50 Farming experience, or 25 experience per herb, regardless of which garden is chosen. You may enter the seasonal gardens again for more resources. Crushing sq'irks always gives 5 Cooking experience, regardless of the season.

To leave the garden, simply drink from the fountain located in the central garden. Alternatively, use an amulet of glory or ring of dueling to teleport to Al Kharid, which gets you close to Osman to hand him the sq'irkjuice.

The herbs obtainable within the gardens are listed below.

The following drop rates are provided by Jagex, unless otherwise specified.^[1]

Getting through a garden is much easier with run toggled on. Low weight and a decent Agility level helps significantly extend the length of time you can run. Wear weight-reducing gear and use stamina or super energy potions if possible. Main articles linked below include strategies and recommended inventory setup.

Doing Sorceress's Garden in masses is not popular anymore so it is usually not possible to find a world where there are enough players to do this.

In worlds with many players running at the same time, the chance that any one player is individually caught is very low, which allows them to almost always reach the sq'irk tree with minimal clicks and attention. This strategy works on any of the four gardens, however it requires very large amounts of players to work. As such, the lower level gardens will generally only work during peak times, with the summer garden being populated enough more often.

Compared with the One-click Summer Garden Method, mass worlds offer the benefit of not requiring the complex set-up, but its viability depends on having a very large number of fellow thieves running together. To execute this method, you must find a world in which there are a lot of players. The official world for this activity is World 471. When inside the garden, click on the tree. Due to the large amount of players, you will normally not get caught.

In some cases, it appears that the same player is targeted multiple times by the elemental and teleported out of the game. The elementals target players based on a poorly understood order of priority comparable to PID. If you find yourself being targeted by the elementals in the mass world method, using a VPN, a different network or resetting your router will usually offer a solution.

• The ideal inventory setup has just enough empty inventory slots to hold the required amount of sq'irk for making the juice, one pestle and mortar, optional potions/boosters and the remaining space as beer glasses.
• Beer glasses can be made using the Crafting skill or obtained by searching the shelves in the house that the apprentice and Aadeela the Sorceress are in.
• It is possible to get into the gardens by using Thieving boosts, such as those from the juices themselves.
• The elementals can only 'see' and teleport the player when there are two or fewer squares between them and the player.

• According to former Jagex developer Mod James, Sorceress's Garden was originally planned as part of a subquest of Recipe For Disaster, but was repurposed due to being finished after said quest.^[2]
• During part of 2023, the Sorceress's Garden saw a surge in popularity from mass amounts of players rushing through the summer garden all at once, similar to a one-click method, but with no regards to hiding from the elementals (see above section about mass worlds). Since the elementals could only catch one player at a time and could not eject anyone else during the catching animations, this fad grew to be popular, and became colloquially known as "sq'irkin'". The method became so popular that Jagex added a duo of themed worlds, but soon after the release of Leagues IV, the method died down in popularity and the themed worlds were removed.