Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete

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Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete
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Release date								15 March 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Voice Over								No
Official series								None
Subquest of								Recipe for Disaster
Age								Fifth Age
Timeline								Legendary
Start area								Lumbridge
Combat[?]								NPC combat level 30–39
Advanced data
Quest ID								301
Quest create ID								239
Official difficulty								Intermediate
Links								Quests

Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete is a subquest of Recipe for Disaster.

Overview

Start point	Inspect Pirate Pete in the banquet hall in Lumbridge Castle.	2006#9
Members	Members only
Length as displayed in-game	Short
Requirements	Quests: Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete Recipe for Disaster: Another Cook's Quest Cook's Assistant 31 Cooking Ironmen: 42 Crafting (if glassblowing your own fishbowl) Can also be obtained as a drop from mogres 23 Fishing (if catching your own raw cod)
Required items	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Raw cod Bread An empty fishbowl Needle (Only a normal needle will work. Tool belt will not work.) 3 bronze wires
Combat	5 Mudskipper (Level 33/35) Crab (Level 29/30)

Arrrg

Nung and other Mogre guards swim near the crab pen.

Inspect Pirate Pete in the banquet hall in Lumbridge Castle. Aris says that to immunise Pirate Pete from the Culinaromancer's attack, you will need to feed him fishcakes. She suggests you talk to the cook.

Talk to the cook in the kitchen outside the banquet hall. He will tell you the fishcake recipe calls for ground cod, breadcrumbs, ground crab meat, and ground kelp. If you are below level 62 Cooking, you may burn the fishcakes required to finish the subquest, so you might want to bring extra ingredients. He will say that Murphy in Port Khazard will help you get the crab meat and kelp. Make sure you ask the cook about the crab meat before going to Port Khazard, or Murphy won't talk to you about crab cakes.

Take a dive

Make sure you are not carrying more than 27 kg of equipment, bank any pets or summoning pouches you have on you, (you won't be able to dive carrying any animal or summoning pouch, something to do with animal cruelty...) and head over to the docks of Port Khazard. There are a number of ways to get there, including:

• Running east through Yanille from the Yanille lodestone and then north-east.
• Taking a charter ship from a port such as Catherby or Port Sarim.
• Running south-east after casting Kandarin monastery teleport.
• Fairy ring DJP to Tower of Life and run south.

Find Murphy and ask him about giant crabs. He will tell you he can create breathing gear if you have a fishbowl. He can then take you diving for crab and kelp.

A mudskipper.

With a fishbowl in your inventory, talk to Murphy again to receive the diving apparatus and fishbowl helmet. Put them on, and then ask to go diving. Your weight must be under 27 kilograms (diving apparatus and fishbowl helmet weigh 5 kg together, leaving 12 kg for your items) (there's a bank deposit box near Murphy), but keep your needle and bronze wire. Boots of lightness from the Temple of Ikov Quest may be used to lower your weight further, along with Wicked robes top and legs. Spotted and Spottier capes cannot be equipped as the diving apparatus must be worn.

For lower-levelled players, food and a weapon are essential, as the mudskippers hit fairly hard for their level. Capes and helmets cannot be equipped underwater.

When you are ready, tell Murphy you are ready to go diving.

There appears to be a glitch where if you have an aura activated when you enter and it depletes while you are swimming, you will start to walk/run rather than swim.

Once you're underwater, find a tall green plant—kelp—and pick it. Then swim north to a crab pen. Once, there, you will see Mogre Guards. Talk to the one named Nung. Tell him you want one of the big crabs, and he will tell you to get him five mudskipper hides.

Swim west to the entrance to the Mudskippers' cave, on the western wall of the underwater area. Pick up five rocks near the underwater cavern entrance, and then enter the cavern. While in the cavern (and the crab pen thereafter), players will be able to wield weapons as normal, as you will be standing upright. Kill five mudskippers (level 33 and 35) to get hides.

Exit the cavern, and take the hides back to Nung. Talk to him, give him the needle and three bronze wires, and then open the pen door. Kill a crab to get the Crab meat. (Be sure to bring the needle and the wire with you: It is not possible to take the mudskipper hides above the surface of the water!) Players may also want to get extra meat because you may burn the food when prepared later.

Leave the pen, swim south, and climb up the anchor (look for the little anchor). You may teleport from inside the crab pen if you prefer; however, should you choose to exit the crab pen, you should exit the area via the nearby Anchor. Teleporting out may not advance the quest.

Make the fishcakes

Return to the kitchen in Lumbridge Castle. Prepare your ingredients:

• Do NOT cook the crab meat before you mix the ingredients.
• Grind the kelp and crab meat to get ground kelp and ground crab meat.
• Right-click to grind raw cod into ground cod. Talk to the cook first, if you haven't already, or else the option to grind cod will be locked in the cooking menu.
• Use your knife to slice your bread to get breadcrumbs. Talk to the cook first, if you haven't already, or else the option to slice bread will be locked in the cooking menu.

Now talk to the cook again. Make your way through the conversation to the Protecting the Pirate option. The cook will tell you he now knows how to make fishcakes.

Use the ingredients on each other to create a raw fishcake, and cook it to get a cooked fishcake. Enter the banquet hall, and give (do not eat it!) the fishcake to Pirate Pete in the dining room for your reward.

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 1,000 experience
• 1,000 experience
• 1,000 experience
• 1,000 experience
• The ability to go diving and fight crabs (you need your diving apparatus) at Mogre Camp
• The ability to cook crab meat (heals 100 life points in five bites)
• The ability to kill crabs to get their shells and claws, which can be made into a helmet and gloves with a chisel.
• Ability to dive underwater and trade crunchy claw tokens for giant crab pets.
• (Further) access to the Culinaromancer's chest

Achievements

• Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete ( 0) – Complete this quest.

Required for completing

Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Recipe for Disaster: Defeating the Culinaromancer
• The Great Brain Robbery

It is therefore an indirect requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• A Clockwork Syringe
• Pieces of Hate
• Rocking Out

It is therefore an indirect comprehension requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• Aftermath
• Azzanadra's Quest
• Battle of the Monolith
• City of Senntisten
• Curse of the Black Stone (full comprehension)
• Desperate Creatures
• Desperate Measures
• Desperate Times (full comprehension)
• Extinction
• Eye of Het I
• Eye of Het II
• Sins of the Father
• Twilight of the Gods

Transcript

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Update history

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• update 23 March 2026 (Update):
  • Two lines in quest rewards were removed:
    • Ability to cook crab meat
    • Access to crab shells and claws, which can be made into a helmet and gloves

• patch 5 August 2019 (Update):
  • Unfiltered a message in Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete.

• update 15 March 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.