Thieving

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The 2002 manual contains information related to this topic.

For information on training this skill, see Thieving training.

Thieving is a skill in RuneScape Classic which allows players to steal from non-player characters whether by pickpocketing or stealing from stalls and chests. Thieving proves to be quite profitable and is generally used to make money as coins and valuable items are obtained in the process. There are three ways to train the thieving skill: pickpocketing, looting chests, and looting stalls. The thieving skill was released on 30 April 2002 with East Ardougne and the Tribal Totem quest. East Ardougne is the area with the most thieving-related content in the game.

Getting started

In order to begin training the thieving skill, players must start by pickpocketing before they can steal from stalls. Pickpocketing men is the only option at level one thieving. Men can be found near the initial spawn point in Lumbridge, making the skill readily available for new players.

Pickpocket

A player caught picking the pocket of a Warrior.

Players can pickpocket specific non-player characters by right-clicking on them and choosing the "pickpocket" option. If the pickpocket is successful, the player will receive some loot and Thieving experience. If the pickpocket fails, then the NPC will engage in combat with the player. To continue pickpocketing, the player must run away, or kill the NPC and wait for it to respawn.

When pickpocketing, many players have food, and armour equipped, but no weapon, to avoid killing the NPC or taking too much damage.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Loot	Location
	Man	1	8	3	Lumbridge Varrock Edgeville Most other towns and cities.
	Farmer	10	14.5	9	Hemenster windmill North-east of Lumbridge Upstairs in a building in Hemenster
	Warrior	25	26	18	Al Kharid Palace Varrock Palace Ardougne Castle
	Workman	25	0	Specimen brush 10  Spade  Rope  Rock sample  Bucket  Leather Gloves	Digsite
	Rogue	32	36.5	8  Air-Rune  Lockpick  Wine  Poisoned Iron dagger 25 40	Rogues' House in the north-eastern Wilderness Wilderness rogue mine
	Guard	40	46.75	30	Black Knights' Fortress Varrock Falador East Ardougne market
	Knight	55	84.25	50	East Ardougne market
	Watchman	65	137.5	60  Bread	Yanille Watchtower
	Paladin	70	151.75	80  Chaos-Rune	East Ardougne market and castle
	Gnome	75	198.25	Gold  Earth-Rune 200-400  Swamp Toad  King worm	Gnome Stronghold
	Hero	80	273.25	100 200 300  Fire orb  Diamond  Gold  Death-Rune  Blood-Rune  Wine	East Ardougne market

Stalls

Throughout Gielinor are many stalls that players can steal from. The most common location for stealing from stalls is the East Ardougne market. Looting stalls is another alternative to pickpocketing and requires a higher thieving level to begin. To steal from a stall, find a stall that can be looted, right-click on it and select the option "steal from". Once a player steals from a stall, it will take several seconds for the items to re-spawn. If the player is unsuccessful, the player will be attacked by a guard, knight, paladin, or hero depending on the level required to steal from the stall.

Image	Stall	Level	Experience	Loot	Respawn Time
	Tea stall*	5	16	Cup of tea	5 seconds
	Bakers Stall	5	16	Cake	5 seconds
	Rock Cake counter	15	16	Rock cake	5 seconds
	Silk Stall	20	24	Silk	8 seconds
	Fur Stall	35	36	Grey wolf fur	15 seconds
	Silver stall	50	54	Silver	30 seconds
	Spice stall	65	81	Spice	80 seconds
	Gem stall	75	160	Uncut sapphire  Uncut emerald  Uncut ruby  Uncut diamond	180 seconds

* This stall is not practically used to train on since it has a higher fail rate compared to the other stalls.

Chests

The thieving skill can be used to unlock a number of chests throughout Gielinor, and receive the loot inside. This is done by right-clicking on the door and selecting 'picklock'.

Image	Location(s)	Name	Level	Experience	Loot	Respawn Time
	Ardougne Market House, Pirates' Hideout, Axe Hut	10 Coin Chest	13	7.5	10	10 seconds
	Ardougne Market House Second Floor, Pirates' Hideout	Nature-rune Chest	28	25	3 , Nature-Rune	25 seconds
	Ardougne Market House Second Floor, Axe House	50 Coin Chest	43	125	50	100 seconds
	Hemenster *	Hemenster Chest	47*	150	20 , 5 steel arrow heads	150 seconds
	Ardougne Chaos Druid Tower	Blood-rune Chest	59	250	2 blood-runes , 500	250 seconds
	Ardougne Castle - upstairs	Paladin Chest	72	500	1000 , Raw Shark , Adamantite ore , Uncut sapphire	500 seconds

* This chest requires a lockpick.

Doors

Some doors can only be unlocked through use of the thieving skill.

Location	Level	Experience
One-storey houses, East Ardougne(10 coin chest)	7	3.75
Yanille anvil hut	16	15
Nature-Rune Chest house, East Ardougne	16	15
House next to Baker stall, East Ardougne; Ardougne Mansion door	21	15
Ardougne sewer mine	31	25
Axe House, Wilderness level 54*	32	25
Pirates' Hideout, Wilderness level 54*	39	35
Chaos Druid Tower	46	37.5
Underground Pass Railings	50	0
Legends Cavern, Ancient Wooden Doors*	50	25
Paladin House, East Ardougne	61	50
Yanille agility dungeon*	82	50

* This door requires a lockpick.

Training

For detailed information on training, see Thieving training.

Boosts

Item	Boost	Visibility
Poison chalice*	1 level	Visible

* Only when the response from drinking the item is: You feel a lot better

Quests

Thieving is required to complete several quests:

• Level 15 to steal the rock cakes for Watchtower Quest
• Level 21 to find the traps during the Tourist Trap
• Level 25 to pick the Workmen during the Digsite Quest
• Level 42 to disarm the traps in the lever during the Temple of Ikov

Additionally:

• Level 50 greatly helps in the Underground Pass to pick a door that shortcuts the dungeon

The following quests give Thieving experience as a reward:

• Biohazard - $XP=(Level)\times 50+500$
• Fight Arena - $XP=(Level)\times 200+175$
• The Hazeel Cult - $XP=(Level)\times 50+500$
• Tribal Totem - $XP=(Level)\times 75+200$
• Tourist Trap - A choice of two $XP=(Level+1)\times 150$

Trivia

• The first player to achieve level 99 thieving was Swedemike.
• Drinking from the poison chalice has the possibility to temporarily increase the player's thieving level by 1.