Runescape: Dragonwilds Progression Guide

Prologue: Temple Woods

The prologue acts as your tutorial. It is technically optional, but skipping it means missing out on crucial starter items and mechanics.

• 1. Speak to the Wise Old Man: Initiate the tutorial. Find him inside the main temple to begin your journey.
• 2. Complete 'Getting Started': Locate Doric just outside the temple. This quest teaches you the absolute basics of movement and interaction.
• 3. Complete 'Ratcatcher': Speak to Vannaka to learn basic combat mechanics.
• 4. Complete 'Rune Mysteries': Talk to Zanik to wrap up the prologue and unlock your path to the first major zone.

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Chapter 1: Bramblemead Valley

This chapter is where most new players get confused by crafting dependencies. You must process raw materials into components before you can make weapons.

• 1. Rendezvous with the Wise Old Man: Quest: The First Steps. Meet him in Bramblemead Valley to advance the main story.
• 2. Establish a Base: Survival basic. Construct a shelter with at least a roof and place a bed roll to set your spawn point.
• 3. Build a Spinning Wheel: Prerequisite for all early weapons and armor.

• 4. Craft an Ash Shortbow: Requires Coarse Thread. Now that you have Coarse Threads, combine them with Ash wood to craft the Shortbow and arrows. Use this to hunt deer safely from a distance.
• 5. Craft Basic Melee Gear: Craft a Wooden Shield and a Bone Dagger for close-quarters combat.
• 6. Read the Dragon Slayer Lore Book: Locate this book inside the goblin castle to progress the main questline.
• 7. Gather Hide and Bone: Hunt deer and cows in the valley to stockpile Animal Hide and Animal Bone.
• 8. Build a Tannery: Prerequisite for armor. You cannot use raw hide for armor. Build a Tannery at your base to process the Animal Hide into Leather.
• 9. Craft the Reinforced Armor Set: Requires Leather. Using the Leather you just tanned, craft the Reinforced Armor Set, a Leather Shield, and a Bone Club.
• 10. Raid the South Temple Woods Vault: Use your Bone Club here. Head south of Bramblemead Village. The vault guardians are weak to blunt damage (Bone Club). Loot the vault to obtain at least one Vault Core.
• 11. Build a Lodestone: Requires the Vault Core. Place a Lodestone near your base to enable fast travel before moving on.

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Chapter 2: Whispering Swamp

• 1. Raid the Whispering Swamp Vault: Dragon Slayer Questline. Find Spitfoot inside the vault.

• 2. Obtain a Second Vault Core: For the next zone. Gather another Vault Core while you are here, and build a Lodestone outside the swamp vault to link it to your base.
• 3. Build a Kiln: Prerequisite for advanced materials. Gather Clay from the swamp's water edges. Build a Kiln at your base. This unlocks the ability to create Adhesive, Charcoal, Clay Vessels, and Wild Anima.
• 4. Build a Furnace: Requires Kiln materials. Use the materials generated by your Kiln to construct a Furnace, setting you up for metal gear.
• 5. Forage Swamp Botanicals: Prerequisite for Antipoison. Before leaving, stockpile Harralander, Bittercap Mushrooms, and Swamp Tar. You will need these to survive the poison mechanics in Chapter 4.

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Chapter 3: Fractured Plains

This is where the old guide breaks. With the Smithing Anvil removed, you now use the updated crafting benches to process your metals.

• 1. Establish a Foothold: Scout the plains for Copper and Tin deposits, and build a Lodestone nearby.
• 2. Smelt Bronze Bars: The Smithing Anvil replacement step. Use your Furnace to smelt Bronze Bars. Instead of a Smithing Anvil, use these bars to construct/upgrade your primary Metalworking Station/Workbench to unlock bronze-tier recipes.
• 3. Farm Anima Infused Bark: Harvest this from the Anima Trees located near the center of the Fractured Plains.
• 4. Complete 'Heart Strings': Requires Opal and Soft Fur. Farm Opal from the Copper/Tin deposits and gather Soft Animal Fur/Fleece from plains enemies. Complete the side quest to craft the Crystal Bow.
• 5. Speak to Cathan's Ghost: Challenge Horn Recipe. Head to Velgar's Rise (the large central tower) and speak to the ghost to learn how to craft the Challenge Horn.
• 6. Build a Tanner's Kit & Sawmill: Prerequisites for tool upgrades. Expand your base with a Tanner's Kit (to process Hard Leather) and a Sawmill (to process Ash and Oak Planks).
• 7. Craft Bronze Tools: Requires Hard Leather and Planks. Craft the Bronze Logging Axe and Bronze Pickaxe to significantly speed up your gathering rates.
• 8. Raid the Fractured Plains Vault: Clear the vault to stockpile Vault Shards and Vault Cores for later.

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Chapter 4: Bloodblight Swamp

• 1. Brew Weak Antipoison Potions: Requires Chapter 2 forage. Combine Harralander, Bittercap Mushrooms, and Clay Vessels to create Antipoison. Do not enter the deep swamp without this.
• 2. Craft the Anti-Dragon Shield: Requires 12 Blightwood. Set up a Lodestone. Harvest at least 12 Blightwood from the local trees to craft the shield using the recipe you unlocked in Chapter 2.

• 3. Hunt the Abyssal Demon: Defeat it to obtain an Abyssal Spine.
• 4. Gather Snapdragon: Harvest this herb to unlock and brew stronger Healing Potions.
• 5. Harvest Bloodwood Sap: For the Challenge Horn. Head southeast, clear the Garou camp, and extract Bloodwood Sap from the massive tree in the center of the camp.
• 6. Raid the Bloodblight Swamp Vault: Clear the vault for more Vault Shards and Vault Cores.

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Chapter 5: Stormtouched Highlands

• 1. Establish the Final Outpost: Navigate to the Highlands and build a Lodestone near the Iron Ore deposits.
• 2. Build the Loom Harness: Prerequisite for Iron Armor. Mine Iron Ore, smelt Iron Bars, and use them to construct the Loom Harness upgrade at your camp.
• 3. Craft the Iron Armor Set: Requires the Loom Harness. Combine 20 Iron Bars, 6 Padded Cloth, 14 Hard Leather (from the Tanner's Kit), and 6 Vault Shards to craft your endgame armor.
• 4. Craft the Abyssal Whip: The ultimate melee weapon. Combine 12 Vault Shards, 1 Vault Core, 8 Hard Leather, your Abyssal Spine (from Chapter 4), and 4 Ram Horns (hunted from Rams in the Highlands).
• 5. Upgrade to Iron Tools: Craft the Iron Pickaxe and Iron Logging Axe.
• 6. Brew Attack Potions: Requires Granite. Mine Granite in the Highlands to brew at least 10 Attack Potions for the final boss.
• 7. Mine the Dragon Tooth: For the Challenge Horn. Head to the southwestern part of the Highlands and mine the giant dragon skull to extract a Dragon Tooth.

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Finale: General Velgar

• 1. Final Preparations: Empty your inventory of unnecessary tools. Stockpile food, clean water, Healing Potions, and your Weak Antipoison Potions.
• 2. Craft the Challenge Horn: The second Anvil replacement step. Using your upgraded crafting station (instead of the old Smithing Anvil), combine 5 Bronze Bars, the Dragon Tooth, and the Bloodwood Sap to assemble the horn.

• 3. Summon General Velgar: Initiate the final battle.
• 4. Defeat General Velgar: Because you drank the Antipoison, his poison mechanics will deal zero damage. Dodge his homing earth attacks. Attack from range with your Crystal Bow, or close the gap using the Abyssal Whip.
• 5. Claim Victory: Loot Velgar's corpse and return to the Wise Old Man in Temple Woods to complete the campaign.

Primary Quests

Primary quests tell the main narrative and unlock new regions. Each quest requires the previous one to be completed first.

Tutorial — Temple Woods

• First Steps — Temple Woods — Automatically started with new character.
• Getting Started — Temple Woods — Speak to Doric just outside of the temple.
• Ratcatcher — Temple Woods — Speak to Vannaka near the old windmill.
• Rune Mysteries — Temple Woods — Speak to Zanik on the path leading to Bramblemead Valley.

Primary — Brynmoor / Ghornfell

• Dragon Slayer — Brynmoor / Ghornfell — Speak to the Wise Old Man in Bramblemead Village.

Primary — Fellhollow

• Withering Heights — Fellhollow — Speak to the Wise Old Man near Ashien's Watch.

Primary — Dowdun Reach

• Black Knight's Fortress — Dowdun Reach — Speak to Death in the Forgotten Temple.

Primary — Umbral Sands

• Icthlarin's Little Helper — Umbral Sands — Interact with the door to the Umbral Sands.

Primary — Scorned Wilderness

• Regicide — Scorned Wilderness — Interact with the Dragon Gate north-west of Velgar's Rise.

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Secondary Quests

Secondary quests tell side stories, unlock new mechanics, or grant recipes. Some become available only after completing a region's primary quest.

Tutorial — Brynmoor

• Growing Pains — Brynmoor — Speak to the Wise Old Man in Bramblemead Village.
• Shrimp Catcher — Brynmoor — Speak to the Wise Old Man in Bramblemead Village.

Secondary — Brynmoor

• Restless Ghosts — Brynmoor — Interact with the crumbling well in Bramblemead Village.
• Goblin Diplomacy — Brynmoor — Speak to Zanik in Bramblemead Valley.
• Highlighting the Problem — Brynmoor — Interact with the statue of a wizard in the Runecrafting Guild in Bramblemead Valley.

Secondary — Ghornfell

• Granite Mauled — Ghornfell — Speak to Doric in the Fractured Plains.
• Heartstrings — Ghornfell — Interact with the memorial on top of the hill in the Fractured Plains.
• Dog Days — Ghornfell — Speak to Vannaka at the centre of the Stormtouched Highlands.
• Cook's Assistant — Ghornfell — Speak with Slopfinger at the southern border between Stormtouched Highlands and Fractured Plains.
• Animal Magnetism — Ghornfell — Speak to Manktongue at the southern border between Stormtouched Highlands and Fractured Plains.
• A Room With A Garou — Ghornfell — Speak to Caratacus in the Fractured Plains.
• A Melody Remembered — Ghornfell — Repair a broken music box found in a desk within the Stormtouched Highlands.
• The Great Body Robbery — Ghornfell (Bloodblight Swamp) — Speak to Doctor Fenkenstrain in the Bloodblight Swamp.

Secondary — Fellhollow

• Even More Restless Ghosts — Fellhollow — Speak to Zanik in Fellhollow.
• The Wild Hunt — Fellhollow — Speak to Vannaka in Bleaksfield Valley.
• Things That Go Boom In The Night — Fellhollow — Speak to Vannaka in Bleaksfield Valley.
• Seeking Salvation — Fellhollow — Speak to Doric east of the Lake of Lost Souls, inside a cave.
• Doric's Quest — Fellhollow — Speak to Doric east of the Lake of Lost Souls, inside a cave.
• Letters for the Dead — Fellhollow — Speak to Postie Pete in the Forgotten Temple.
• What Remains is Written — Fellhollow — Speak to Abraxus The Eternal in Coalridge Pass.
• Mirror, Mirror — Fellhollow — Interact with the mirror west of the Guthix shrine near Emberwood.

Secondary — Dowdun Reach

• Biohazard — Dowdun Reach — Attack and pick up the lootdrop of the corrupted raven in The Courtyard.
• Wanted! — Dowdun Reach — Speak to Vannaka in The Courtyard.
• What's Theirs is Mine! — Dowdun Reach — Speak to Doric next to the Dreaming Stone in The Nexus.

Secondary — Umbral Sands

• Contact! — Umbral Sands — Speak to Avisk Crystal in Dunes of Uzzer.
• Brink of Extinction — Umbral Sands — Speak to Zi at The Burning Spire, south of the Sinking Pyramid.
• Mapping The Sands I — Umbral Sands — Speak to Anamcara in Alcarrid Camp.
• Mapping The Sands II — Umbral Sands — Speak to Anamcara in Alcarrid Camp.

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