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.

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 all over Gielinor, making the skill readily available for new players.

Pickpocket

Pickpocketing can be done by simply right-clicking on a specific NPC and choosing the "pickpocket" option. If the pickpocket is successful, the player will gain some loot along with 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. While pickpocketing you should bring food with you unless you have a high defence level, because you will be attacked if pickpocketing fails.

Theaving — Someone pickpocketing a warrior.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Loot	Location
	Man	1	8	3	Lumbridge Varrock Edgeville and most other towns and cities
	Farmer	10	14.5	9	Ardougne windmill North east of Lumbridge 2nd floor of a building in Hemenster
File:Al kharid warrior.png	Warrior	25	26	18	Al Kharid Palace
	Workman	25	0	Specimen brush 10 Spade Rope Rock sample Bucket	Digsite
	Rogue	32	35.5	8 Air-Rune Lockpick jug of wine poisoned iron dagger 25 40	Rogues' House in the north-eastern Wilderness Wilderness rogue mine
File:Varrock guard.png	Guard	40	46.5	30	Black Knights' Fortress Varrock Falador Ardougne market
	Knight	55	84.5	50	Ardougne market
	Watchman	65	137.5	60 Bread	Yanille Watchtower
File:Ardougne Paladin.png	Paladin	70	152	80 Chaos-Rune	Ardougne market and Ardougne Castle
	Gnome	75	198	Gold ore File:Goldore.PNG Earth-rune 200-400 Swamp toad King worm	Gnome Stronghold
	Hero	80	274	100, 200 or 300 Fire orb Diamond Gold ore File:Goldore.PNG 2 Death-runes Blood-rune Jug of wine	Ardougne

Stalls

Throughout Gielinor are many stalls that allow players to steal from. The most common location for stealing from stalls is Ardougne. 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 stall is stolen from, it will take several seconds for it the items to respawn in the stalls. 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.

Stall	Level	Experience	Loot
Bakers Stall	5	16	Cake
Rock Cake stall	15	16	Rock Cake
Silk Stall	20	24	Silk
Fur Stall	35	36	Grey wolf fur Fur
Silver stall	50	54	Silver
Spice stall	65	81	Spice
Gem stall	75	160	Uncut sapphire Uncut emerald Uncut ruby Uncut diamond

Chests

Some chests throughout RuneScape Classic require thieving in order to unlock.

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
File:Nature Chest1.png	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	250 seconds
	Ardougne Paladin Castle Upstairs	Paladin Chest	72	500	1000 , Raw Shark , Adamantite ore , Uncut sapphire	500 seconds

* Chest requires lockpick

Doors

Some locked doors can be lock-picked with high enough thieving. Having a a lockpick in inventory increases the success rate of lock-picking.

Location	Level	Experience
One-storey houses, Ardougne	7	4
Nature-Rune Chest house, Ardougne	16	15
House next to Baker stall, 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
Underground Pass Railings	50	0
Legends Cavern, Ancient Wooden Doors	50*	25
Paladin House, Ardougne	61	50
Yanille agility dungeon	82*	50

* Door requires lockpick

Training

For more detailed information on training, see Thieving training

The most efficient way to train thieving is by pickpocketing as there is only a small delay between pickpockets. It is advisable to have food and armour to be prepared for any combat. Once level 5 is reached, new players should begin stealing from Cake stalls in order to have a ready supply of food after combat. Ardougne is the preferred area to train the skill as many of the resources are located in and around this area. Higher levelled players can sell their loot back to the stall owners, but only after a certain period of time with exception of the baker.

Quest rewards

Biohazard - $XP = (Level) \times 50 + 500$
Fight Arena - $XP = (Level) \times 200 + 175$
The Hazeel Cult - $XP=(Level)\times 57+205$
Tribal Totem - $XP = (Level) \times 75 + 200$
Tourist Trap - A choice of two $XP = (Level + 1) \times 150$

Trivia

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