Introduction
There are six levels of clue scrolls; beginner is the lowest difficulty, and master is the highest.
This guide is for beginner clue scrolls and aims to maximize your scrolls per hour. You can substitute some high-level items (primarily for transportation) if you lack some things.
Items
Before leaving the Grand Exchange and setting out to complete the beginner clues, you should gather or buy specific items to increase your efficiency. Having all of these prepared in your inventory or bank is what will save you the most time. The list of items you need is as follows:
For emote clues, you will need
- a Gold Ring,
- a Gold Necklace
- a Chefs hat
- a red cape
- a bronze axe
- Leather Boots
To make the hidey-holes you will also need
- 6 wooden planks
- 30 steel nails
- saw
- Hammer.
For Charlie the tramp it is recommended to have a fair amount of the following items prepared in your bank:
- Raw Pike and Raw Trout
- Tinderbox
- Logs
- Hammer
- Iron Bars
- Fly Fishing Rod
- Feathers Fishing Rod
- Fishing Bait
- Needle
- Leather
Equipment:
- Kandarin Headgear (Easy)
- Amulet of Eternal
- Glory
- Mist Staff
- Kharedst’s memoirs – Port Piscarilius Teleport Unlocked (Easy)
- Graceful Top
- Graceful Bottom
- Graceful Boots
- Graceful Gloves
- Ring of Dueling
Recommended inventory setup:
- Draynor Manor Teleports
- Lassar Teleports
- Master Scroll Book or Lumberyard Teleports (Easy Only)
- Rune Pouch (Mist/Lava/Law Runes)
- Explorers Ring (Easy Only)
- Strange Device Pickaxe
- Skull Sceptre (imbued)
- Easy Bank Teleport or Crafting Cape
- Construction Cape or House Teleports + Redirection Scrolls
Skill requirements
You will need the following skill levels for the Charlie the tramp challenges.
In addition to the skill level requirements for the challenges, you will need skill level 12 of construction to make the Hidey-Holes.
Acquiring Beginner Clue Scrolls
Now that you have gathered all the times listed and achieved the necessary skill levels, you are ready to acquire the Beginner Clue scrolls.
The most efficient way of obtaining the beginner clues scrolls is through Young Impling Jars.
Another way to get the beginner clue scrolls is through killing Minotaurs in the Stronghold of Security or Goblins. Killing minotaurs over Goblins also has the bonus of enabling you to use your Skull Sceptre (i) more because it drops right skull half pieces that you can use to recharge the sceptre with.
Clue Scroll Steps
Charlie the tramp – Efficient Charlie Method
With the prepared items in your bank and teleportation items, you can now complete the tasks that Charlie the tramp gives you easily and quickly.
For Cooking, Crafting, and Smithing tasks
- Teleport to the nearest bank
- Withdraw items needed
- Teleport back to Varrock
- Cook, Craft or Smith the items
- For Smithing steps, there is an anvil located North East of the Varrock Teleportation location.
For mining iron ore
- Run South West
- Iron ore is located close to the Champions Guild, so no teleportation is needed.
For Fishing tasks
- Trout
- Teleport to the Barbarian Village using your Skull Sceptre (i)
- Run East towards the fishing spot
- Flyfish for a trout
- Herring
- Use a Karamja teleport on a glory amulet
- Run towards the lobster
- Use the bait fishing spot till you catch the Herring.
Efficient Hot and Cold Method
For first-time clue runners, you will need a hot and cold orb from Reldo in the Varrock Library. This orb will let you know if you are close or far from the clue spot. The first step is to teleport to the Al-Kharid Duel Arena and use the orbs. It is important to pay attention to the chatbox since it will tell you one of four messages:
- Hot
- You got the one located in Al-Kharid
- Warm
- You got the one located in the Cow Pen in Lumby Mill
- Cold
- You got the one located in a wheatfield in Draynor. Use the glory teleporter to get there.
- Very cold
- You will need to get to Draynor and once again use the orb.
- Warm
- It is the Draynor manor one
- Very Cold
- It is the Ice Mountain one
