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Sorceress's Garden

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Sorceress's Garden

Sorceress's Garden
Type Activity
Skill Thieving (65 for summer garden)1
Requirements Prince Ali Rescue2
Xp/hr Up to 140,000 Thieving and about 6k Farming3
Pet Sorceress's Garden pet, 1 in 8,700 at level 654
Location Al Kharid2
Videos 2 (first 2020-06-03, latest 2020-06-23)
Main source Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020

The Sorceress's Garden is a Thieving minigame that Gnomonkey calls a much underutilised training method and one of the few truly AFK thieving methods.3 Its summer garden gives up to 140,000 Thieving XP an hour with the one-click method, plus about 6k Farming XP, with no Farming requirement.35 It costs about 9 stamina potions an hour rather than making money.3 The one-click method clicks through the whole maze in a single click, giving about 40 seconds of AFK time.5

Gnomonkey compares it with Ardougne Knights at level 65, which give only about 80k Thieving XP an hour and which he calls significantly worse.35 Knights seem to overtake the garden's XP an hour at about level 80, so he recommends the garden from 65 to 75 or 80 Thieving if the player is doing Knights anyway.2

Contents

Requirements

Entering requires completing Prince Ali Rescue, then speaking to Osman in the middle of Al Kharid and then the apprentice in south-eastern Al Kharid.2 The garden has four seasons with different Thieving requirements; the summer garden is the best, and Gnomonkey could not find consistent one-click methods for the other three.2 The summer garden requires 65 Thieving, and he recommends having the full Graceful outfit before starting.1

The one-click method needs a consistent internet connection, because getting caught by the first elemental by running a tick early or late ruins the sync.6 His old Netgear router had about 0.5% packet loss, and twice a dropped packet made him run a tick late, costing 10 to 20 minutes of setup.6 He recommends running a packet loss test first and not bothering if the servers are struggling.7

Setup and inventory

Gnomonkey wears full Graceful, brings an explorer's ring for extra run energy and a charged glory for teleporting next to Osman. His inventory is a pestle and mortar, three stamina potions and 22 beer glasses, with two spaces open for fruit.1 Ironmen can search the shelves in the house for as many beer glasses as needed.8

The fastest way to the garden is a glory teleport and climbing out the back of the palace with the level 70 Agility shortcuts, or running around the palace to the apprentice in the south-east to be teleported in.8

The minigame

The player sneaks past the elementals to the tree in the middle and picks a fruit, at which point they are teleported to the start; being caught by an elemental also teleports the player to the start.9 The elementals can be exploited because they cannot catch the player when they turn, and getting caught pushes their cycle back by one tick, which Gnomonkey compares to brute forcing a lock with a lock pick.9

Syncing the elementals

  1. Setup takes about 10 to 20 minutes. Look at the first and third elementals only, which must bounce off their opposing walls at the same time for the player to sneak past; if they are not lined up, just get caught by the first elemental. They take up to five full cycles to line up.10
  2. Once synced, wait for the first elemental to pass the first wall and, when it is on a specific tile, click the tree. The player will most likely be caught by the second elemental, and repeats until getting through the whole garden.11
  3. After five to twenty failed attempts the player reaches the tree and can then do it consistently. It takes about 40 seconds to run to the tree, and running straight back in means waiting only one cycle for the next run.12 A player who is too late to start another run must wait another 40 seconds for the elementals to sync again.13

Leaving or logging out does not reset the elementals, so they should not desync unless another player on the world interferes; if the second elemental gets stuck following the player, logging out resets it unless it walks back on its own.11

Juice and XP

After obtaining two fruit, the player uses the pestle and mortar to grind them into juice; one dose of stamina tends to last about three runs.12 After filling all beer glasses, they are returned to Osman. Gnomonkey overfills with four extra fruit and takes two beer glasses from the shelf on the way for two extra juices per trip, giving 72,000 total XP per trip.13

He tried running to the herbs in the garden but did not find it worth it: a run gives two random clean herbs, a ranarr on average every six runs, and because the elementals must line up again it is not any faster.14

Pet

The Sorceress's Garden pet takes about 80 hours on average, at 1 in 8,700 at level 65, improving with Thieving level.4 Gnomonkey says its chance is much better than Ardougne Knights at lower levels and still about 10% faster at 99, so there are definitely worse options for getting the pet with decent XP.4

Revision history

Date Video Change
2020-06-23 1-99 Thieving Guide LOW INTENSITY (OSRS 2020) Added that the one-click setup gives about 40 seconds of AFK time and has a separate video; repeated 140k versus 80k Knights comparison.
2020-06-03 Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020 Page created: rates, requirements, setup, one-click method, packet loss warning and pet.
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References

  1. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 1:00 ↩↩↩

  2. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 0:29 ↩↩↩↩↩

  3. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 0:00 ↩↩↩↩↩

  4. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 5:25 ↩↩↩

  5. 1-99 Thieving Guide LOW INTENSITY (OSRS 2020), 2020-06-23. ▶ 7:20 ↩↩↩

  6. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 4:24 ↩↩

  7. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 4:56 ↩

  8. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 1:31 ↩↩

  9. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 1:59 ↩↩

  10. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 2:27 ↩

  11. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 2:55 ↩↩

  12. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 3:28 ↩↩

  13. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 3:59 ↩↩

  14. Sorceress's Garden 1-Click (140k Thieving XP/HR AFK) OSRS 2020, 2020-06-03. ▶ 5:05 ↩

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