• 1.0 - Introduction
• 2.0 - Lock Picking
• 3.0 - Chest Looting
• 4.0 - Stall Thieving
• 5.0 - Pick Pocketing
• 6.0 - Training Methods
• 7.0 - Other Information
• 8.0 - Quests for Experience

Dictionary: To take (something) by theft or commit theft.

In RuneScape, thieving is a very diverse skill. You can pick locks, loot chests, steal from stalls, and even pick pocket certain people. All these acts can be very rewarding; however, they are still dangerous since there are always characters on the lookout for annoying thieves. A level 99 thief wrote this guide, providing all the best locations and strategies to help you level faster.

Throughout the RuneScape world, you will find that you are unable to open certain doors. If you are lucky, the door you are trying to pass through can be pick locked. To pick a lock, simply right click on the door and select "Pick Lock." If you are successful the door will open you will automatically walk through. If you fail, you will have to try again.

Successfully opening some locked doors requires you to have a lockpick in your inventory in order to pick their locks. You can obtain lock picks from other players, or pick pocketed from bandits and rogues. Martin Thwait in the Rogue's Den also sells lock picks.

Unlike doors, the chests you are able to thieve from in RuneScape are not safe. If you do not take care when thieving from chest, the traps hidden in them will hurt you. To find a trap on a chest, right click on it and select "Search for Traps." Your character will automatically find the trap and disarm it if your thieving level is high enough.

To add onto the danger of thieving from chests, you have a chance of getting a poison cloud any time you search for a trap. The cloud doesn't poison you, but it can do a little bit of damage so be sure to take along some food if you plan on thieving from these chests.

Please note that when you loot the Paladin and Blood Rune chests, you will be teleported outside their containing buildings. For the most part, chests do not give very good experience. The only chest that is really worth thieving is the Blood Rune Chest since it produces a fair amount of profit on top of the experience given.

In the past, you could only thieve stalls in the city of Ardougne, however recently there have been many stall-thieving additions to the game. Stealing from stalls is a lot like chest looting; however, there are no traps on the stall. Instead, certain in game characters will be on the lookout for thieves like you and will fight you or knock you out if they catch you.

To thieve from a stall, right click and select "Steal from." If nobody catches you in the act, you will take the items from the stall and they will appear in your inventory.

You may be caught by the stall owner or any guard type NPC surrounding the stall. To avoid this, try to stay out of their lines of sight.

When training the skill of thieving, the stall that require a high thieving level to steal from are not very useful because of their slow rates of respawn. I would recommend thieving from the Vegetable, Baker's, Tea, Silk, Seed and Fur stalls for the best experience.

Pick pocketing is one of the major aspects of thieving since there are so many characters to pick pocket around RuneScape. To pick the pocket of a NPC, right click on it and select "Pickpocket."

If you are successful, you will have gained some loot and thieving experience. If you fail, the NPC will stun you. When you are stunned, you will be unable to move.

Remember the higher the thieving level you have, the lower the chance that you will fail.

Pick pocketing will usually bring the best experience for thieving enthusiasts. The best NPC's to thieve from for the most efficient training would be Men/Women, Warrior women, Warriors, Rogues, Master Farmers, Guards, Desert bandits, Knights of Ardougne, Yanille Watchmen and Paladins.

The following steps are a guide to help level you thieving stat as fast as possible. Remember that they are just guidelines.

When you first start out thieving, there is no choice of what to thieve. You must start out thieving men and women because they are the only thing you can thieve at levels 1-4. Once you have reached level 5 make your way to the Baker's stall.

After reaching level 5 thieving you can now thieve items from the Baker's stall, which is the best experience at your level for a while. I recommend thieving from the Baker's stall until about 25 thieving. Then you can take your shot at warriors.

Finally, you can thieve more things around the RuneScape world. You should start thieving warriors to get your level up then when you reach 32 you can try rouges in the wilderness. They are good experience, but you should probably keep going with warriors.

You should be 42 thieving now and stealing from guards. Yes, the guards catch you a lot and use food, but they are good for your level. Thieving the guards in Ardougne would be the best recommended location. You could thieve some lighter food from the Bakers Stall whenever your health starts to get low. If you do wish to take a break from guards try the master farmers, easy left click theiving and they should catch you less than the guards.

You can thieve without having to waste your own food! You should head down to the Yanille Watch tower or teleport over there if you have completed the Watch tower Quest and begin. If you escape detection every time you steal from a Yanille Watchman, they will give you some bread and GP. Although that sounds like a good deal you should probably bring 10 units of food until you steal from a few Yanille Watchmen or are a higher level.

Should you have done the The Feud quest, you can thieve Menaphites, provided you have access to the Menaphos desert city, using a blackjack at level 65. This can get you up to 150k xp an hour, depending on your thieving level.

You can now thieve Paladins at 70 thieving, but you have two options here:

1. If you want to make a lot of money, you should thieve paladins to whatever level you wish.
2. If you want to make less money and get the best experience then you should go find a knight and begin thieving.

Whatever you choose it only gets easier from here to thieve things with every level.

The best and also the fastest way to train your thieving at this level is to use Pyramid Plunder. You can get up to 150,000 experience per hour at level 71 and the experience gets better by every new room you can access.

There are only three random events for thieving. These are watchmen, poison gas clouds and the pillory.
Watchmen: These can appear while doing any type of thieving activity. They attack you and your current combat level determines their level combat level.
Poison Gas Cloud: This random event only appears while thieving chests. Any time you thieve a chest you have a chance of getting a poison cloud. This deals a small amount of damage, but will not poison you.; much like the Undead Ones in Shilo Village.
Pillory: This random event gets you sent to the pillory where the game locks you in a cage and you have to unlock it to get out. While you are in the cage, a NPC will throw tomatoes at you, also other players can throw you while you are caged.

When pick pocketing NPC's always try to corner them into a building. Thus, they will stand still while you thieve from so you are not chasing them.

You should make sure that you let them wander around every few minutes, or they reset to their spawning point. In addition, if you attack your NPC by mistake just go up some near by stairs and come back down and it will stop attacking you. Another method to use that will ensure that you don't attack your NPC is by equipping any type of bow, without equipping arrows. This will prevent you from accidentally attacking them.

When thieving, click to theive someone as fast as possible to get the best experience. If you get stunned start clicking pickpocket again a second before the stun wears off due to the fact it takes a second to register the command in game.

If you are thieving in Ardougne Center, do not bother to bring your own food. Just buy cakes from the baker on the server with the most cakes or just thieve.

If you are thieving from a stall try and lock the shop owner or nearby guards into a building so they catch you less often. However, it does not always help, most of the time it does.

Jagex introduced items called blackjacks during The Feud quest. These are very handy in pick pocketing, because depending on the type of blackjack, it can stun your opponent for a certain period, allowing you to pickpocket them successfully, without them stunning you. Though you can only use them on the NPC's in the quest city of Pollnivneach.

Jagex introduced a mini game to train and test your thieving skills. Check out the guide on Rogue's Den.

Osman from the Sorceress's Garden minigame gives very generous thieving experience in exchange for Sq'irk juice.

Pryamid plunder is currently the best way to train your thieving. The fast experience appeals to a lot of master thieves. For more information on this mini game check out our guide.

Here is a list of the quests that give Thieving experience as a reward upon completion.

• Fairy Tale Part II, A: 2,500 XP
• Biohazard: 1,250 XP
• Contact!: 7,000 XP
• Creature of Fenkenstrain: 1,000 XP
• The Path Of Glouphrie: 5,000 XP
• The Feud: 15,000 XP
• Fight Arena: 2,175 XP
• The Fremennik Trials: 2,800 XP
• The Giant Dwarf: 1,500 XP
• The Golem: 1,000 XP
• Grim Tales: 6,000 XP
• The Hand in the Sand: 1,000 XP
• Hazeel Cult: 1,500 XP
• Icthlarin's Little Helper: 4,500 XP
• Mourning's Ends Part I: 25,000 XP
• Rat Catchers: 4,500 XP
• Slug Menace: 3,500 XP
• Spirits of the Elid: 1,000 XP
• Tower of Life: 500 XP
• Tribal Totem: 1,775 XP
• The Tourist Trap: Thieving Experience depending on your level

• A Fairy Tale Part II: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 30.
• Great Brain Robbery, The: 5,000 XP for any skill you choose over level 30.
• Legends Quest: 7,650-30,600 XP (7,650 is given to 4 skills from a list of skills)
• One Small Favour: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• Recipe for Disaster: 20,000 XP (A Lamp to grant 20,000xp in a skill of your choice over level 50)
• The Tourist Trap: 4,650-9,300 XP (4,650 x2 given to either Agility, Fletching, Smithing or Thieving)