This OSRS Ardougne Diary Guide contains the most efficient order in which to do the EASY, MEDIUM, HARD, and ELITE tasks of the Ardougne Achievement diary.
Ardougne Easy Diary Guide
Requirements
Skill Requirements
- 5 Thieving
Quest Requirements
Item Requirements
These are the items you need for the Ardougne Easy Diary:
- Silk
- Some cash: 200GP+
- Rusty sword (guide: how to get rusty sword)
Easy Diary Steps
| 1 | Trade Aleck in the hunter store in Yanille | Get here: Yanille Teleport, Nightmare Zone teleport, or Dueling ring |
| Teleport to Port Khazard (Fishing Trawler Minigame Teleport) | ||
| 2 | Get the Tindel Merchant in Port Khazard to inspect a Rusty Sword. Check out our guide on how to obtain a rusty sword  | Items needed: rusty sword Get here: Teleport to Port Khazard via the Fishing Trawler minigame teleport (requires 15 Fishing)  |
| 3 | While in Port Khazard, Play a game of Fishing Trawler | Speak with Murphy first then hop on the boat. You can just log out to skip the minigame. |
| Teleport to Ardougne | ||
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| 4 | Sell 1 silk to the silk trader in the Ardougne market for 60GP (DON’T STEAL IT) | Items needed: silk |
| 5 | Steal from the baker stall in Ardougne market | Stand underneath the baker to avoid getting caught |
| 6 | Right-click check Probita in the Ardougne Pet store | |
| 7 | Pray at the altar in the Ardougne church | |
| 8 | Use the lever to teleport to the wilderness | BANK ALL YOUR ITEMS. PKers are always hogging this spot. Pull the lever again to get back to Ardougne |
| 9 | Teleport to the essence mine via Wizard Comperty in Ardougne | |
Easy Diary Rewards
The main reward is of course the Ardougne Cloak 1 which offers unlimited teleports to the Ardougne Monastery.
Here are all the rewards from the Ardougne Easy Diary:
- Ardougne Cloak 1
- EXP lamp for 2,500 experience in a skill above 30
- You get 200 death runes when trading cats with civilians in West Ardougne
- 10% increased pickpocketing chance when pickpocketing stalls in Ardougne
- Noted drops at Tower of Life for the following monsters:
- Jubster
- Frogeel
Ardougne Medium Diary Guide
Requirements
Skill Requirements
- 38 Strength
- 25 Ranged
- 51 Magic
- 10 Construction
- 39 Agility
- 38 Thieving
- 49 Crafting
- 50 Firemaking
- 36 Woodcutting
- 31 Farming
Quest Requirements
You must have completed the following quests:
- Enlightened Journey
- Underground Pass
- The hand in the Sand
- Tower of Life
- Watchtower Quest (or complete until you get access to Skavid Caves)
You also must have started the following quests:
- Fairy tale part 2 (access to Fairy Rings)
- Sea Slug
Item Requirements
These are the items you need for the Ardougne Medium Diary:
- Dramen staff
- Crossbow + mithril grapple
- Ardougne teleport runes
- 3 Strawberry seeds + rake, seed dibber & spade + basket of apples
- 11 Yew logs and 1 regular log
- Raw chicken and Raw Swordfish
- Skavid map + light source
- Iban’s staff + 200K GP
- Small fishing net
Medium Diary Steps
| Diary Steps | Details | |
| 1 | Teleport to Ardougne for a diary step | Items needed: Teleport runes to Ardougne Note: If you can’t teleport, it’s because you haven’t read the scroll which you receive as a reward from the Plague City quest. If you lost the Scroll, ask Edmond in Ardougne for another one. |
| 2 | While you are here, plant some strawberries in the farm patch | Items needed: rake, 3 strawberry seeds, seed dibber, and spade + basket of apples to pay the gardener |
| 3 | While you are here, pickpocket a master farmer | Master farmers roam around the narrow street that leads to the farm patch. |
| 4 | Travel to Castle Wars using the Hot Air Balloon | To figure out how to use the Hot Air Baloon, follow this guide, or use Runelite. Items needed: 11 yew logs, one log |
| 5 | From castle wars, run down and Collect Cave Nightshade from the Northern Cavid Cave | Items needed: Skavid map, light source, tinderbox You need a Skavid map which you can retrieve from the Ogre Guards if you lost it. Here’s a guide on how to retrieve the Skavid map. |
| 6 | Grapple over the Yanille wall | Items needed: crossbow, mithril grapple |
| 7 | While in Yanille, claim buckets of Sand from Bert | Bert’s house is located next to the Yanille P-O-H portal |
| Teleport to Monastery with Ardougne Cloak 1 | ||
| 8 | Kill a Swordchick in the tower of life | Items needed: raw swordfish, raw chicken |
| 9 | Now use the Fairy ring next to the tower of life to teleport to code B-I-S. This unlocks the Unicorn step | Items needed: Dramen staff |
| 10 | Now teleport to fairy ring A-I-R. This unlocks the necromancer tower step. | Items needed: Dramen staff |
| Teleport to Ardougne | ||
| 11 | Take the boat to the Fishing Platform by speaking with Jeb. Here, catch a fish.  | Items needed: Small fishing net |
| 12 | Harvest Strawberries in Ardougne | Items needed: rake, 3 strawberry seeds, seed dibber, and spade + basket of apples to pay the gardener |
| 13 | Run to West Ardougne and upgrade your Iban’s Staff for 200k by speaking with the Dark Mage at the Underground Pass. Once upgraded, equip it to finish the diary step. | Items needed: Iban Staff and 200K GP If you don’t have an Iban staff, speak with Koftik to get a broken one and then pay the Dark Mage 200k to repair it. Meaning you will need 400k in total for this step if you don’t have the staff in your bank. |
Medium Diary Rewards
The main reward is of course the Ardougne Cloak 2 which offers unlimited teleports to the Ardougne Monastery & three daily teleports to the Ardougne Farm patch.
Here are the rewards from the Ardougne Medium Diary:
- Ardougne Cloak 2
- EXP lamp for 7,500 experience in a skill above 40
- 100 free daily noted essence when speaking with Wizard Cromperty
- Ability to change Ring of Life teleport to Ardougne
- Receive more runes while doing ZMI runecrafting
- You can now hold up to 56 coin pouches while training thieving
- Tower of life noted drops for the following monsters:
- Unicow
- Newtroost
- Spidine
Ardougne Hard Diary Guide
Requirements
Quest Requirements
- Legends’ Quest
- Monkey Madness
- Mournings end Part II
- Watchtower
Additional Requirements
Item Requirements
These are the items you need for the Ardougne Hard Diary:
- Poison Ivy seed, palm tree sapling, seed dibber, rake, spade + 15 papaya fruit
- Rope and small fishing net
- 25K GP
- Teleportation runes: Watchtower, Ardougne
- Karamjan Monkey Greegree
- Picklock
- Shield Left Half, Shield Right Half, hammer (to smith dragon shield)
- 5 Mithril bars, hammer (to smith mithril platebody)
- Pickaxe & pure essence (to craft death runes)
- Uncharged Skills Necklace or Combat bracelet
Hard Diary Steps
| Diary Steps | Details | |
| 1 | Teleport to the Monastery using Ardougne Cloak to plant some Poison Ivy Berries on the patch near the Monastery NOTE: You will have to come back later to pick them for the diary step. | Items needed: Poison Ivy seed, seed dibber, rake, spade |
| 2 | Then, teleport to the Tree Gnome Village via Spirit tree to plant a Palm Tree just in the Tree Spot just outside the maze. NOTE: You will have to come back later to check its health for the diary step. | Items needed: Rake, Spade, Palm tree sapling, 15 papaya fruit for protection |
| 3 | From Tree Gnome Village, run North across the battlefield and then East to catch 1 Red Salamander. | Items needed: Rope and a small fishing net |
| 4 | Visit any Estate Agent (Ardougne, Falador or Varrock) and relocate your house to Yanille. Then, teleport to your house. Exit the portal and re-enter from Yanille for the Hard diary step. | Items needed: 25K GP |
| 5 | Now head over to the Mage Guild in Yanille and enter the Mage Guild for another hard diary step. | |
| 6 | Teleport to the Watchtower using your magic spellbook | Items needed: teleport runes |
| Teleport to Ardougne | ||
| 7 | Run to the Ardougne Zoo and use the Karamjan Monkey Greegree to turn yourself into a monkey. Then speak with a Zookeeper inside the Ardougne Zoo to get put inside a cage. Remove the greegree and talk to a zookeeper to exit. | Items needed: Karamjan Monkey Greegree |
| 8 | Go to the Ardougne Castle and steal from the chest upstairs. | Items needed: Picklock |
| Teleport to Ardougne and run to WEST Ardougne | ||
| 9 | Inside WEST Ardougne, smith your Shield Left Half with Shield Right Half on the only anvil IT HAS TO BE THIS ANVIL!!!!!  | Items needed: Shield Left half, Shield Right Half, Hammer |
| 10 | At the same anvil, smith a Mithril platebody as well. | Items needed: hammer, 5 mithrils bars |
| Teleport to Edgeville (glory) | ||
| 11 | Run to the Abyss to Runecraft some Death Runes using the Abyss. | Bank all your stuff since you have to go to level 9 Wildernesss Items needed: Pure Essence, pickaxe |
| Teleport to the Legends Guild (Fairy ring B-L-R) | ||
| 12 | Use a Skills Necklace or Combat bracelet (that isn’t fully charged!!) on the totem inside the Legends Guild to recharge it. | Items needed: skills necklace or combat bracelet |
| 13 | Finally, don’t forget to check on your farming patches from earlier: – Check health on your Palm Tree in Tree Gnome Village – Pick some poison ivy berries at the Monastery | |
Hard Diary Rewards
The main reward is of course the Ardougne Cloak 3 which offers unlimited teleports to the Ardougne Monastery & five daily teleports to the Ardougne Farm patch.
Here are the rewards from the Ardougne Hard Diary:
- Ardougne Cloak 3
- EXP lamp for 15,000 Experience in a skill above 50
- 150 daily essence when visiting Wizard Cromperty
- Ability to change Watchtower teleport to Yanille
- 10% increased chance at successfully pickpocketing when training thieving anywhere in Gielinor
- You can now hold up to 84 coin pouches while thieving
Ardougne Elite Diary Guide
Requirements
Quest Requirements
- Desert Treasure
- Haunted Mine
Additional Requirements
- 800,000 Nightmare Zone points OR imbued Salve Amulet (imbued at NMZ)
Item Requirements
These are the items you will need for the Ardougne Elite Diary:
- Torstol seed, rake, seed dibber, ultracompost
- Sinew, yew log, runite bar, hammer, and knife (to make rune crossbow)
- Runes for ice barrage
- Lock pick
- 800K NMZ points + Salve Amulet
Elite Diary Steps
| Diary Steps | Details | |
| Teleport to Ardougne Farm Patch using your Ardougne Cloak 3 | ||
| 1 | Plant some Torstol. NOTE: You will have to come back later to pick them for the diary step. | Items needed: Torstol seed, rake, seed dibber, ultracompost |
| Grouping Teleport to Fishing Trawler | ||
| 2 | Play the Fishing Trawler minigame until you get Manta Ray from the rewards net. Cook the Manta Ray in Port Khazard. You cannot buy a Manta Ray from the Grand Exchange, that doesn’t work. | |
| Teleport to Ardougne | ||
| 3 | Pickpocket a Hero in Ardougne | |
| 4 | Do a lap of the Ardougne Rooftop Agility course | |
| – | Run to Witchaven and use the spinning wheel to turn your sinew into a crossbow string (step one in making a Rune Crossbow from scratch) | Items needed: sinew |
| Teleport to Castle Wars using Dueling Ring | ||
| 5 | Play a game of Castle Wars and Ice Barrage another player | Items needed: Runes for Ice Barrage |
| Teleport to Yanille or run here from Castle Wars. | ||
| 6 | While in Yanille, and finish making a rune crossbow from scratch – Use the Yanille anvil to smith runite bar into Runite limbs – Now use your knife on the yew log to make a crossbow stock – Use the limbs on the stock – Use the crossbow string on the unfinished crossbow | Items needed: knife, hammer, yew logs, runite bar, and crossbow string (spun in Witchaven) |
| 7 | Next, pick-lock the door to the Yanille Agility Dungeon (go down the staircase in the house next to the Yanille anvil) | Items needed: lock pick |
| 8 | Go to the Nightmare Zone and imbue a Salve Amulet and equip it. | Items needed: 800,000 Nightmare Zone points, Salve Amulet Check out: OSRS Nightmare Zone Guide |
| 9 | Teleport back to the Farm Patch and check on your planted Torstol. | |
Elite Diary Rewards
The main reward is the Ardougne Cloak 4 which offers unlimited teleports to the Ardougne Monastery & unlimited teleports to the Ardougne Farm patch.
Here are all the rewards from the Ardougne Elite Diary:
- Ardougne Cloak 3
- EXP lamp for 50,000 experience in a skill above 70
- 250 free noted essence daily if the player visits Wizard Cromperty
- 50% more fish when playing the Fishing Trawler Minigame
- 25% more Marks of Grace when doing the Ardougne Rooftop Agility Course
- Bert automatically deposits 84 buckets of sand every day you log into your osrs account
- You can now hold a total of 140 coin pouches while thieving
