The thieving skill is used for a number of different activities. The main uses are pickpocketing, lock picking, trap disarming and stealing from market stalls. First you have to start this skill by pickpocketing men.
Pickpocketing
To start this skill, you first need to find a man and right click on it and select the pickpocket option. There is a chance that the man you are stealing from will notice and will attack you. As your thieving level increases, you will get noticed less often. You can not pickpocket from players, only certain npcs.
|
Character |
Location |
Level
Required |
Exp |
Loot |
|
Man |
|
0 |
8 |
8 coins |
|
Farmer |
|
10 |
14.5 |
12 Coins |
|
Warrior |
Al Kharid |
25 |
26 |
18 coins |
|
Rogue (Lv. 21) |
north east corner of the new wilderness at lvl 54 |
32 |
35.5 |
8 air runes (common), lockpick (for the locked house further west containing 3 chests and enough animated axes to make it nearly impossible to move) (more uncommon), wine (uncommon), poisoned iron dagger (rare), coins(25gp or 40gp) (most of the time)
|
|
Guard |
City |
40 |
46.5 |
30 coins |
|
Knight |
city Ardougne |
55 |
84.5 |
50 coins |
|
Paladin |
city Ardougne |
70 |
152 |
1 chaos rune and 100 coins |
|
Hero |
city Ardougne |
80 |
274 |
200 coins most of time or 100gp, 300gp,fire orb, cut diamond, goldnugget, 2 deathrunes, bloodrune or wine |
Stealing from market stalls
To steal from market stalls, you have to go to Ardougne. You will find several types of stalls to steal from. When you try to steal from these stalls , you could be caught be the stall holders or certain Npcs, like Guards. Best thing I found to do is wait until the npcs are distracted or dead.
To steal from a market stall right click on it and then select the *steal from* option.
|
Stall |
Level Required |
Exp |
Loot |
|
Cake Stall |
5 |
16 |
1cake |
|
Silk Stall |
20 |
24 |
1 silk |
|
Fur Stall |
35 |
36 |
1grey wolf fur |
|
Silver Stall |
50 |
54 |
1 silver nugget |
|
Spices Stall |
65 |
81 |
1 Pot of Spice |
|
Gems Stall |
75 |
? |
Any gem Uncut saphs, emeralds, rubies and diamonds being the rarest of course. |
Lockpicking
Some doors in Runescape you have to pick their locks to open them. To pick the door right click on it and select the picklock option. As your lvl increases in pickpocking, you be able to access places you couldn't before. Respawn time ?. Rumor I heared that you can get lv. of lock by doing examine door or chest.
|
Door Location |
Level Required |
Exp |
|
1 story houses |
7 |
4 (?) |
|
Door to Nature rune chest
- Ardougne |
16 |
15 |
|
2 story houses |
21 |
(?) |
|
- The Door Of The House Next To The Bakery Stall
- In the Mansion The Door That Leads To Stairs
- The Locked Door Just Past The Church |
|
15 |
|
The Seweres Underneath Mansion The Door TO Get To Mining Rocks
- Ardougne mine |
? |
25 |
|
Door to blood rune chest
- Ardougne |
46 |
37 |
|
Door to paladine building
- Ardougne |
61 |
50 |
|
Chest Location |
Level Required |
Exp |
Loot |
|
Nature rune Chest 2nd Floor
- Ardougne |
25 |
25 |
Nature rune + 20 gold |
|
Disarm Chest |
18 |
8 |
10 Gold ? |
|
Blood rune Chest
- Ardougne |
59 |
250 |
2 Blood rune |
|
Chest paladine building
- Ardougne |
72 |
500 |
1 shark 1 adam ore and 1 uncut sapp
+ 1.000 Gold |
|
Wilderness 3 chests in axe house |
?? |
?? |
|
In the wilderness there are some places you cant access. You need to kill Rogues (in wilderness) to get a item called Lockpick 
Right click on the doors and select picklock. If you are higher enough in your pickpocketing skills , you be allowed to enter.
Trap Disarming
Certain objects such as chests and stairs have traps on them. To find a trap right click on the chest and see if there's a option"search for traps". If you don't disarm trap then you receive damage or possible other penalties. If you have higher enough thieving level then you will be able to disarm them. Do remember that traps do reset again later.
