Overview[]
The Cave Of Ordeals is a multi-floor dungeon located on Crandor.
Completion of the Dragon Slayer quest is required to access Crandor.
Take the boat from Port Sarim to Crandor for 500x 
Coins. (-807 / 65 / 157)
Scale the mountain and take the ladders down to the entrance to the cave, you need 18 quest points to enter.
Each floor spawns a wave of enemies that you must defeat to progress, with each floor becoming progressively more difficult and rewarding more coins upon completion.
The mobs in the dungeon are ordeals versions of regular mobs, with a better drop table.
Some mobs drop food like bananas and tuna amongst others, and potions like defense and power, helping to prolong your run.
You can attempt the caves as many times as you want, if you die you will be teleported outside the cave with all of your gear and items, plus health and prayer fully restored.
| Floor | Mob | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 coins | |
| 2 | 100 coins | |
| 3 | 100 coins | |
| 4 | 100 coins | |
| 5 | 100 coins | |
| 6 | 100 coins | |
| 7 | 100 coins | |
| 8 | 100 coins | |
| 9 | 100 coins | |
| 10 | 100 coins | |
| 11 | Bank deposit box | |
| 12 | 600 coins | |
| 13 | 650 coins | |
| 14 | 700 coins | |
| 15 | 750 coins | |
| 16 | 800 coins | |
| 17 | 850 coins | |
| 18 | 900 coins | |
| 19 | 950 coins | |
| 20 | 1000 coins | |
| 21 | 1050 coins | |
| 22 | Bank deposit box | |
| 23 | 1150 coins | |
| 24 | 1200 coins | |
| 25 | 1250 coins | |
| 26 | 1300 coins | |
| 27 | 1350 coins | |
| 28 | 1400 coins | |
| 29 | 1450 coins | |
| 30 | 1500 coins | |
| 31 | 1550 coins | |
| 32 | 1600 coins | |
| 33 | Bank deposit box | |
| 34 | 1700 coins | |
| 35 | 1750 coins | |
| 36 | 1800 coins | |
| 37 | 1850 coins. | |
| 38 | 1900 coins | |
| 39 | 1950 coins | |
| 40 | 2000 coins | |
| 41 | 2050 coins | |
| 42 | 2100 coins | |
| 43 | 2150 coins | |
| 44 | Bank deposit box | |
| 45 | 2250 coins | |
| 46 | 2300 coins | |
| 47 | 2400 coins | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | ||
| 50 | ||
| 51 | ||
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| 53 | ||
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| 55 | Final stage - no mobs |
Beginners Guide[]
There are two ways to do ordeals: you can try to beat it or farm it for gold. I will list a few setups below for either style including a medium tier setup and a high tier set up. Disclaimer: [I do not claim to have the best strat or the fastest times, I will merely show you a way to make some gp. This is also not a strat for min maxing or prayer flicking. I like to make my money the old fashion way, the lazy way. I started doing ordeals at 94 atk 90 def 88 str 101 ranged, and 66 prayer with full Karils and switched to Guthans or sometimes full Veracs. You will get roughly 50k combat xp give or take some.]
Here is what I made in roughly 37 hours spent:
7 Dragon Picks, 3 Dragon Kites, 4 dragon swords 4 dragon maces
I did not count any of this towards the gold totals of the runs besides the logs:
115,681 fire runes - 8,009 chaos runes - 3,564 death runes - 9,488 earth runes - 6,541 law runes - 15,804 water runes - 24,015 mind runes - 21,567 air runes - 11,975 nature runes - 11,816 iron arrows - 1,028 steel arrows(lost around 6k?)
1186 Magic logs - 1128 Baobab logs - 128 Elder logs - 66 Sakura logs.
Ordeals is a very laid back but time-consuming gauntlet. A single completion can take me anywhere from 50-90 minutes depending on how much attention I'm paying. With that being said, I believe that it is one of the best money makers in the game and in my opinion one of the easiest ways to gain levels without trying. Some of the most notable drops that are fairly frequent are the Dragon Pickaxe, Dragon Shield, Dragon Swords, and Dragon Maces. You also have drop chances at all the loot from Ordeals: Hyflames, Green Dragons, Black Dragons, Abyssal Demons, Fire Giants(minus d legs), Molten Rocks, Doomed, and many more.
If you are going for completion I would recommend 90+ stats if not 95+ attack and def.
Two setups to try for a complete run.[]
High Tier[]
Weapons: Any two melee Barrows weapon (veracs flail, guthans spear, torag hammers, dh axe) recommended to have one fast and one slow weapon
Inventory: 7 god potions, 10 Extreme Prayers, 3 Salads, a Backpack, and a Golden Prayer Scepter. (If you wish to speed up the run a bit you can pregame with your choice of speed pot and normal power potions - you won't need better for the first thirty mins or so that they will last because mobs have such low hp additional option bringing a whip and defender)
Medium Tier[]
Weapon: Whip+ Rune Defender (d kite highly recommended)
Inventory: 8 Dark Pots or better, 15-20 Extreme Prayers, 3 Salads, and a Backpack, (if you have a scepter take it) Pregame with super power pots to make the early floors as close to 1 hittable as possible, also pregame with speed potions to help go faster but not 100% needed
For either setup fill your inventory the rest of the way as you see fit
Note: Assuming you have > 50 prayer for rapid heal you get 1,100 hp per Extreme Prayer Potion
If you're going for completion you can still have 5-10 slots open for loot as there are options to use a bank deposit box. I recommend at least starting to loot when you hit the Ents on floor 29 and again on 32 because it usually adds up to around 65k or so in logs for 3-4 inventory slots and will cover a good portion of your starting supplies.
The Run[]
Now 47, this is where your real money starts as well as your real monsters, stay calm and you got this!
----EAT A SALAD AND DRINK YOUR POT RIGHT BEFORE JUMPING DOWN----
From here until we finish you will remain potted up and full of salad.
From 47-50 is not particularly hard and probably still only need the rapid heal unless you're lower stats then I would say maybe protect melee with tier 50 or tier 80 heal.
Floors 48 (Fire Giants) cake walk
----EAT A SALAD AND CHECK POTS----
Floor 50 (Tigers) cake walk with free food
----CHECK POTS----
I would recommend rapid heal full time and possibly protect melee if lower stats. It is up to your def/armor and your food/potions. Nothing crazy is going to happen just consistent damage and lots of misses.
Floors 52 (Ghoul)
Floor 53 (Hell Cow)
----EAT A SALAD AND CHECK POTS----
Floor 54 (Doomed) hardest floor. Just full time rapid heal and prot melee when low to heal back up to full. this is where your veracs comes into play a lot. it helps more then you would think even at max 99 melees. guthans is another option for the heal and i imagine someone will provide dharok info later.
------------------------------------CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON------------------------------------
FOR A MONEY MAKING GUIDE:[]
As far as money-making runs. I guess I should start off with what kinda cash you're looking at huh.....fine. in 37 short hours i made 46,715,500 gp in total or ~1,262,580gp/hour. Below is a breakdown of 34 runs. it has their times, the drops, what mob dropped it and how much I made off selling to people, not an estimated value. ordeals were not fixed when I started this and as of writing this it still freezes up on me so to be fair I have included the glitched runs as well so i cant be claimed of cherry-picking. as this is not the easiest way to read this info here is the basic breakdown:
STATS FOR MONEY MAKING: 90+ atk and def
high tier GEAR FOR MONEY MAKING: Full veracs, flail, Torag hammer, skill cape, backpack, prayer sceptre
INVENTORY: 7 gods, 10 extreme prayer and 3 salads, 6 ext speeds 1x of the following: air, earth, water, fire, chaos, death, nature, mind, and law runes. 1x steel arrows 1x iron arrow and 1x noted rune ess
medium tier: GEAR FOR MONEY MAKING: full rune no cape, whip and rune defender (any of the barrows weps help a ton but not 100% needed, same for their armor or d kite shields.)
INVENTORY: 7 dark pots, 12 extreme prayer and 2-3 salads, 3-7 ext speeds 1x of the following: air, earth, water, fire, chaos, death, nature, mind, and law runes. 1x steel arrows 1x iron arrow and 1x noted rune ess
FOR THE RUN: pregame speed pots and super power potions.
waves 1-32 YOU WILL LOOT EVERYTHING STACKABLE ON ALL FLOORS minus mith arrows. treat it just like a completionist run, so trying to 1 hit as many of the mobs as you can using flail/whip for as long as possible then switching to higher damage wep when needed to continue as fast as possible.
bank for the first time at wave 33 and only deposit the logs from ents.
waves 34-43 you will continue to loot everything you can paying special attention to the black armor on wave 36 and 37 as well as keeping an eye or for dragon maces off waves 40 and 43.
bank armor or maces at 44
----EAT A SALAD----At 45 you have a chance for whip from abby demons, 46 a dragon sword from kurask,
Floor 47 ----POT UP FROM HERE TILL YOU FINSH YOUR RUN---- you hit the third-highest money making floor of the run, green and black dragons. chance at dragon bow, dragon hatchet, dragon pick, dragon shield, and dragon battleaxe. your salad should still be good for this floor
Floor 48 is fire giants nothing major just dragon battleaxe.
----EAT A SALAD AND CHECK POTS---- Floor 49 is hyflames our second highest money-making floor. they drop the dragon sword and dragon shield as well as quite a few rune items make sure your salad is up! Floor 50 is a throw away floor literally no drops.
FLOOR 51 ----POT UP----molten rocks! the big kahuna. this is where you will make the majority of your cash. this is also the last floor low levels will do. when you finish it suicide to the next floor for stat reset or just telly to the city of your choice.
FLOOR 52 AND 53 make sure your god pot stays upa nd breeze through ghouls then hell cows and into the lat floor and alst chance at a good drop.
FLOOR 54 ----EAT A SALAD AND CHECK POTS---- doomed are tough but not rediculous. ive found full veracs to be the best set for this full run specifcially for this floor and molten rocks. they have high def and you will miss a good bit but the veracs passive is massive here i feel. guthans is another viable choice. watch for dragon picks as it is a rare drop so it won't broadcast.
****AN EDIT TO THIS PART OF THE GUIDE FOR CLARITY. THESE FOLLOWING 34 RUNS AND THIS GP SECTION OF THIS GUIDE WAS DONE WITOHUT DOING FLOORS 52 53 AND 54. I HAVE JUST RECENTLY NOTICED DRAGON PICK DROP FROM DOOMED AND IT ONLY ADDS 10-12 MINS TO THE RUN FOR AN ADDITIONAL CHANCE AT THE PICK. IF YOU STOP AT FLOOR 61 AFTER MOLTEN ROCKS THE FOLLOWING SECTION WILL BE AROUND YOUR RESULTS. ALSO YOU WILL ONLY NEED 4 GODS 7 EXT PRAYER AND 6 EXT SPEEDS IF YOU STOP AT 51 FOR HIGH-TIER.****
2,225mins spent in ordeals or roughly 37 hours.
46,715,500gp made or 1,262,580gp an hour average
7 dragon picks 3 dragon kites 4 dragon swords 4 dragon maces
1 floor 21 freeze 42.5k 13 mins
2 hyflame/rock - sw/p - floor 51? no freeze 4m 1 hr 15 mins
3 cyclops - m - floor 53? no freeze 700k 1 hour 21 mins
4 rock - p - floor 52 no freeze 4m 1 hour 15 mins
5 floor 43 freeze 300k 46 mins
6 floor 43 freeze 200k 52min with bank
7 floor 43 freeze 220k 42.5min
8 floor 43 freeze 210k 50.5 mins with bank
9 floor 41 freeze 160k 36 mins
10 floor 52? no freeze 520k 1 hour 20 mins
11 cyclops - m - floor 54? no freeze 710k 1 hour 30mins?
12 kurask/rock - sw/p - floor 53 no freeze 4m 1 hour 20 mins
13 floor 43 freeze, 200k 45
14 beaten no freeze 420k 1 hr 30 mins
15 floor 52 no freeze 450k 1 hr 15 mins
16 rock - p - floor 52 no freeze 3860k 1 hour 13 mins
17 floor 52 no freeze 458k 1 hour 15 mins
18 cyclops - m - floor 52 no freeze 700k 1 hour 20 mins
19 floor 21 freeze 60k 15 mins
20 kurask - sw - floor 52 no freeze 500k 1 hour 20 mins
21 floor 52 no freeze 400k 1 hour 15 mins
22 blk drg - sh - floor 52 no freeze 3850k 1 hour 15 mins
23 rock - p - floor 52 no freeze 3480k 1 hour 15 mins
24 cyclops/hyflame - m/sw - floor 52 no freeze 975k 1 hour 6 mins
25 floor 50 im a scrub 400k 55 mins
26 kurask/hyflame - sw/sh - floor 51 no freeze 3.9-4.4m 55mins
27 floor 50 learning new pot counts 475k 53 mins
28 floor 51 no freeze 530k 1 hr 4 mins
29 rock - p - floor 52 no freeze 3830k 1 hour 23 mins
30 floor 51 no freeze 450k 1 hour
31 floor 52 all whip 425k 1 hour 10 mins wasnt rushing
32 floor 52 all flail 390k 1 hour 10
33 hyflame - sh - floor 54 all flail 3400k 1 hour 20 mins
34 rock - p - floor 54 all flail 2500k sold pick 2.25 alch update
as far as minor items I received, I did not count any of this towards the gold totals of the runs besides the logs:
115,681 fire runes - 8009 chaos runes - 3564 death runes - 9488 earth runes - 6541 law runes - 15804 water runes - 24015 mind runes - 21567 air runes - 11975 nature runes - 11816 iron arrows - 1028 steel arrows(lost a stack of 6k?)
1186 magic logs - 1128 bab logs - 128 elder logs - 66 sakura logs