Heists

This article is about the Thieving training activity. For the minigame, see Heist (minigame). For other uses, see Heist.

Heists are a repeatable Thieving activity centred around sneaking into high-security locations in order to obtain loot. The first two heists were released on 24 November 2025 as part of the 120 Thieving update. The activity is meant to offer an active gameplay compared to more relaxed training methods and offer loot and experience proportionate to the player's performance. Each player progresses through the heist independently, but it is possible to observe other players and their performance. Heists require the player to avoid guards and traps, while also utilising core Thieving gameplay like pickpocketing, lockpicking, and looting chests to progress in the encounter. Various Thieving equipment contributes to the player's success chance. Additionally, new routes and loot sources are unlocked at higher levels, improving the runs.

Liara, a representative of the Thieves' Guild, provides the player with a stolen goods bag as the player enters a heist. Looting the chests and safes throughout the heists provides the player with points of loot with a cap of 500. Whenever the player is caught by a guard or triggers a trap, they lose a portion of their loot, but each heist can provide more than 500 points, so there is a margin of error. The amount of loot points determines the amount of coins and supplies received after a run. Rewards can be claimed from the heist storage chest outside. The final reward chest of each heist provides a significant amount of loot points, meaning that completing a run always rewards the player regardless of their overall performance.

Heists

Image	Name	Thieving requirement	Location	Unique rewards
	Vault of Hereditas	95(nb) Safes: 102(b)	Kharid-et Dig Site (Entrance location)	Gloomfire bow Legatus's Emberstaff Misalionar's death mask
	Asuran Arsenal	108(nb) Safes: 114(b)	East of Anachronia Swamp Fortress (Entrance location)	Varanus's Mercy Nodon spike harness

Vault of Hereditas

Main article: Vault of Hereditas

The Vault of Hereditas is located within a sealed wing of the Kharid-et Dig Site and requires level 95 Thieving to access. The area is protected by ghostly legionaries trapped inside when it was sealed. The player needs to avoid the patrols and pickpocket pylon batteries to progress further.

The unique rewards from the Vault of Hereditas include:

• Gloomfire bow, a tier 90 bow
• Legatus's Emberstaff, a tier 90 staff
• Misalionar's death mask, a tier 95 Necromancy head slot

Asuran Arsenal

Main article: Asuran Arsenal

The Asuran Aresenal is located in south-eastern Anachronia and requires level 108 Thieving to access. It is a dragonkin area that used to store the siege engines that Kerapac used in his assault on Senntisten. This heist focuses on timing, as the players have to navigate between machinery, cannons, and flamethrowers. The area is dangerous and players can suffer a regular death inside, making food or other healing methods an important factor.

The unique rewards in the Asuran Arsenal include:

• Varanus's Mercy, a tier 90 dagger
• Nodon spike harness, a tier 90 ammunition slot item which can be filled with armour spikes

Useful equipment

Item		Description
	Thieving master cape	Reduces loot lost from getting caught or hit by traps by 30%.
	Agility cape	Prevents you from scraping yourself on Agility obstacles, reducing damage taken.
	Support cape	Allows you to have both the Thieving master cape and Agility cape perks active.
	Camouflage outfit	Improves success rate when looting chests, picking locks, and rummaging.
	Lockpick or Hair clip	Improves success rate when unlocking chests by 3%.
	Master thief's lockpick	Improves success rate when unlocking chests by 7%.
	Stethoscope or master thief's stethoscope	Vastly improves safecracking rates.
	Mobile Shadow's Grace	Reduces the cooldown of Surge, Escape, and Dive by 50%.
	Tier-4 luck enhancer	Improves drop rates of unique items.
	Hazelmere's signet ring	Has a 1/1000 chance to duplicate any items received as rewards.
	Ring of Vitur	Improves Thieving success rate by 5%.

Vault of Heriditas only

Item		Description
	Mushroomy pickpocketing bag	+5% chance to increase rummaging speed by 0.6 seconds. Can be augmented.
	Crystal Mask	Reduces chance of disturbing ghosts when rummaging.
	Light Form	Further reduces chance of disturbing ghosts while Crystal Mask is active.
	Sticky Fingers	Increases the rate of rummaging by 50%. (1.2 seconds from 1.8 seconds. Alternatively can use tick manipulation)

Asuran Arsenal only

Item		Description
	Sign of life Portent of life	Prevents lethal damage and heals you.
	Constitution cape	Doubles base life point regeneration.
	Necklace of gluttony Expensive spices	Increases healing from eating food.
	Enhanced Excalibur	Can be activated to heal over time.
	Blessed spirit shield Defender	Reduces damage taken. Can be augmented.
	Warpriest of Armadyl armour Warpriest of Bandos armour	Has a 5, 15%, or 20% chance to reduce long ability cooldowns, based on pieces worn.
	Regen bracelet	Triples base life point regeneration.
	Ring of life	Teleports you out when your health is critically low, saving your loot.
	Ring of death	Allows you to cheat death for a short time, giving you a chance to teleport out to save your loot.
	Rapid Heal Rapid Renewal Fortitude	Increases base life point regeneration.
	Soul Link Heal Other Heal Group Intercept Shield Dome	Can be used to help other players mitigate damage.
	Brutish dinosaur	With a farm totem, increases each heal from Regenerate to 3% or 4% of your maximum life points.
	Hellhound	Absorbs 20% of damage taken.
	Beast of Burden	Can carry additional food for you.
	Void spinner Bunyip	Passively heals you.
	Unicorn stallion (Healing Aura)	Special move that heals you by 10% of your maximum life points.
	Lucky	Reduces soft typeless damage.
	Brief Respite	Reduces cooldown of Guthix's Blessing and Rejuvenate, but reduces the healing.
	Persistent Rage	Allows you to use abilities like Regenerate, Barricade, and Immortality to mitigate damage taken.
	Blessing of Het	Food and potions heal 10% more life points.

Development history

Heists were first announced on 23 September 2025 as a part of the Thieving update meant to raise the skill's level cap. Unlike the previous skill cap increases released since 2024, it was decided that the update should be primarily content-driven, with level cap increase facilitating new content rather than adding a new tier of existing training methods. Heists were intended to be high-risk, high-reward training method, inspired by the Big Game Hunter encounters and offer an alternative, active way to train the skill, as well as make it a viable money making method with unique rewards. A more detailed blog post with the lists of new training methods, levels, and rewards was published on 21 November 2025.

Gallery

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  Liara at the Vault of Hereditas' entrance
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  The Vault of Hereditas
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  The Vault of Hereditas
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  The Vault of Hereditas
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  The Vault of Hereditas
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  The Vault of Hereditas
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  The Asuran Arsenal's entrance on Anachronia
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  The Asuran Arsenal
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  The Asuran Arsenal
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  The Asuran Arsenal
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  The Asuran Arsenal
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  The Asuran Arsenal
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  Gloomfire bow
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  Legatus's Emberstaff
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  Visage of the First Necromancer
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  Varanus's Mercy
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  Varanus's mercy concept art

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 2 February 2026 (Update):
  • Resolved an issue where the safes found in heists were not completing the thieving daily challenge for safes.

• patch 8 December 2025 (Update):
  • Following feedback, the following changes have been made with 120 Thieving content:
    • Reduced the size of the hitbox of the Ghost Guards within the Vault of Hereditas heist to fix an issue that prevented players from using bladed dive.
  • Following feedback, the following changes have been made to 120 Thieving Heists:
    • Added the ability to automatically pass through doors when they are fully unlocked. Note: In instances where it may path you directly into a guard, the door will not auto move the player.
  • Added quickchats for each heist completed, alongside a players' quickest completion time.
  • Added a flavour quickchat which shows 'Let's go to this heist: "heist name"'.
  • Added in several missing entries from the 'Try thieving from: X' quickchat.

• hotfix 25 November 2025 (Update):
  • Increased end of Heist XP modifier
    • Vault of Hereditas: 300 XP -> 400 XP per 'loot'
    • Asuran Arsenal: 400 -> 450 XP per 'loot'
  • Resolved an issue with Hazelmere's signet ring not correctly doubling loot received via Heists
    • Previously, it destroyed items instead of doubling them.

• update 24 November 2025 (Update):
  • Added to game.