Rogues' Castle

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This article is about the wilderness fortress. For the location in Burthorpe, see Rogues' Den.

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Rogues' Castle
Release		8 May 2002 (Update)
Members		No
Location		Wilderness
Teleports		Obelisk (Wilderness) Obelisk shard Portable obelisk
Music		Regal
Features
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See features section below
Map

The Rogues' Castle is a castle located in levels 50-54 Wilderness. It is occupied by several rogues, enforcers and captains.

As the main door remains locked at all times, players must use a side entrance to get into the castle. The music track Regal is unlocked near the castle.

The castle can be quickly reached by using the Wilderness obelisk which is located just southeast of the building. It is surrounded by an outer wall and several spiked barricades.

Players should be wary when approaching the castle as while the occupiers are non-hostile, the Chaos Elemental, a tough boss, patrols the area.

By speaking to Vala near Edgeville you can choose to either Opt In or Out of PvP preventing player killers from attacking you. If you are Opted In a skull will appear above your head every time you enter the Wilderness.

This location almost has no use in free-to-play.

Getting there

• Use the Wilderness obelisk to teleport to level 50 Wilderness, just southeast of the castle.
• Teleport to Annakarl, run east to pass the wall, then north.
• Use the Slayer Skillcape to teleport to Mandrith. Run east to the castle.
• Pull the lever in Ardougne or Edgeville to teleport to the Deserted Keep. Run north, slash the spiderweb, then run southeast past the Chaos Elemental to the castle.

Features

The castle has four floors, with the upper two floors being towers.

The ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US], there is a range, three gold ore spawns, and four infinitely lootable chests containing death runes, blood runes, and coins(the rates are low). Rogues on ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] will become aggressive when you fail pickpocketing them.

The 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] has another gold ore, as well a bronze square shield spawn, three chests you can loot with the Thieving skill, and three safecracking safes that respawn after 10 minutes.

The 3^rd floor^[UK]4^th floor^[US] contains another gold ore and an iron dagger spawn.

There is a weak portal to the Spirit Realm, which when activated grants 15,000 Thieving experience during the first visit.

In the spirit version of the Rogues' Castle, players can lock the cell door, which unlocks it in the real version of the castle and allows players to talk to the trapped rogue inside.

Doing so will allow him to escape to Varrock and is a requirement for the master quest cape.

Miniquests and activities

The castle is one of the possible spawn points of Viggora during The Curse of Zaros miniquest.

Additionally, the rogues can be pickpocketed for flame fragments during the Lost Her Marbles miniquest. It is also the location of a Treasure Trails coordinate clue.

Surrounding area

There is a deposit of columnar basalt along the shore to the north of the castle. The only other known deposit is near the Lighthouse.

Monsters

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  Rogue, level 9

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  Rogue Enforcer, level 35

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  Rogue Captain, level 70

Music unlocked

• Regal

Gallery

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  The entrance to the Rogues' Castle

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  Inside the Rogues' Castle

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  The causeway

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!

• ninja 13 March 2023 (Update):
  • The safes found in the Rogue Castle have had the cooldown period increased from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.

• patch 13 March 2023 (Update):
  • Improved the lighting in the Rogue's Castle safecracking room.
  • Improved the colours of the Rogue Castle building when textures are turned off.

• patch 5 December 2022 (Update):
  • Winter is coming and Mod Blkwitch has been up to snow good in the frozen north of the deep wilderness.
    • Graphically updated with snowy environment.

• update 1 August 2022 (Update):
  • Graphically updated with the rest of the Wilderness.

• patch 5 October 2020 (Update):
  • The Dwarf Multicannon now fires when set up inside Rogues' Castle.

• patch 6 June 2016 (Update):
  • The stairs in the Rogue's Castle in the Wilderness no longer teleport players across the room.

• patch 23 February 2015 (Update):
  • Blocking has been added to all of the wooden supports for the fence surrounding the Rogue's Castle.

• patch 7 February 2012 (Update):
  • The Spirit realm version of the Rogues' Castle now functions correctly.

• update 8 May 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

The portal for players stuck in jail to use to escape

• When the Wilderness was updated, people got stuck in the jail cell, so a portal was placed to allow them to get out.
• The hexagonal blocks found north of the castle closely resemble the columnar basalt formations of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, which were formed through volcanic activity around 40 million years ago. The blocks ingame are positioned wrongly, however, as the hexagonal blocks stand in a square pattern with free space between them while the real basalt formations stand in a hexagonal pattern with no free space between them.