Bone Voyage
Opens Fossil Island, home to the fastest Woodcutting and the birdhouse Hunter method.
Before you start
Intermediate · short · 1 quest point1 thing to clear first, and it needs membership. Work through the list below before you travel.
- Quest firstThe Dig Site
About this quest
The Varrock Museum has spotted an island north of Morytania and wants an expedition sent. The quest itself is short and involves no combat; the difficulty is entirely in what you have to do before you can start it.
One hundred kudos is the real gate. Kudos come from museum displays and the natural history quiz, and gathering them is an hour or two of work that has nothing to do with this quest at all.
Why do it: Fossil Island, which holds the birdhouse run, herbiboar hunting, volcanic ash and the Wyvern cave — a cluster of genuinely good money makers and training methods.
Walkthrough
01An island nobody can reach
Bone Voyage is an errand quest with no combat in it at all. What it unlocks — Fossil Island, and with it herbiboar and birdhouse runs — is out of all proportion to how hard it is.
- 1
Talk to Curator Haig Halen in the Varrock Museum and ask what is new. The museum has found an island north of Morytania and wants it surveyed.
- 2
Agree to help, then make your way to the Digsite. The barge is on the canal north of it.
- 3
Speak to the barge foreman. The barge needs stronger wood than anything local, which means redwood, which means a trip to Kourend.
02The paperwork
The middle of this quest is a delivery run between three sawmill staff. It is entirely walking, so it is worth doing with teleports rather than on foot.
- 1
Go to the Lumber Yard north-west of the barge and talk to the sawmill operator. He has an arrangement with the Woodcutting Guild and gives you a proposal to carry.
- 2
Take the proposal to the Woodcutting Guild sawmill operator in Hosidius. A skills necklace or Xeric's talisman puts you close.
You do not need the Woodcutting level to enter. If you cannot get in, try the eastern gate and Berry will sign it for you.
- 3
Carry the signed agreement back to the Varrock sawmill operator, then return to the barge foreman.
03Sailing it
The crossing is a small steering minigame rather than a cutscene. It is forgiving, and failing it costs a retry rather than the quest.
- 1
Speak to the crew the foreman points you at, then board when the barge is ready.
- 2
Steer by watching the top arrow. When it leans left, tap the right arrow; when it leans right, tap the left. Centre the rudder when it points straight ahead.
- 3
Leave the sails fully up. The boat swings harder but travels faster, and the crossing can be made without ever lowering them.
- 4
Land on Fossil Island and report back to finish. The barge becomes your permanent route out there.
What to do next
Birdhouse runs are the first thing to set up. They take about five minutes, run on their own timer, and give Hunter experience and seeds for almost no attention.
Fossil Island is also where volcanic ash is mined and where herbiboar hunting happens, both of which are solid money makers, and the Wyvern cave is a decent Slayer destination.
Rewards
Everything else
- Access to Fossil Island
- Access to sulliuscep woodcutting and birdhouse runs
Quests that need this one
Completing Bone Voyage is a prerequisite for the following.
