Totem

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Totem ritual locations

Totems are items craftable by combining totem tops, middles, and bottoms, found on Anachronia. They can be placed to grant various passive bonuses to the player. Totem pieces can be stored in a totem bag. Totem pieces dropped by slayer monsters but not picked up may be sent to the totem bag even if the bag is unclaimed so be sure to check.

After assembling a totem, it can be placed at one of three locations on Anachronia. It must then be activated in order to benefit from its effect. To activate it, the player has to interact with and charge the individual totem, or interact with a Remototem placed at the Anachronia base camp. Whilst the totem is being charged, temporal instabilities can appear which can be closed. Charging the totem and closing the instabilities awards Divination experience. The experience scales with the player's Divination level and increases the closer the totem is to full charge. At level 99 Divination the totems are charged for 20 times 152.8 experience, followed by five times 305.6 experience, followed by five times 458.4 experience, followed by six times 611.2 experience, and then followed by single gains of 916.8, 1,069.6, 1,222.4, and 1,528 experience for a total of 15,280 experience.

Once placed, the totem cannot be removed until the next weekly reset. The player must recharge the totems with every weekly reset to retain their bonuses.[1]

Obtaining all totem pieces completes the Jurassic Perk achievement. Showing a complete totem to Alpheus or Eliza is also a requirement to recruit them into your research team.

This repeatable content has a hard reset.
The next period's content will become available immediately, regardless of whether a player has logged out.

List of totems[edit | edit source]

Totem Effect How to obtain
Totem of Treasure.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of TreasureTreasure Reduces the number of steps required to complete a clue scroll by one.
Totem of Treasure top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Treasure topTop: Obtained randomly while doing Big Game Hunter.
Totem of Treasure middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Treasure middleMiddle: Obtained randomly while on Anachronia Agility Course.
Totem of Treasure base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Treasure baseBase: Obtained by pulling up 20 ancient zygomites.
Totem of Navigation.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of NavigationNavigation Reduces the duration of voyages from player-owned port by 15%.
Totem of Navigation top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Navigation topTop: Found in rubble east of Laniakea (on the south-eastern peninsula).
Totem of Navigation middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Navigation middleMiddle: Obtained by pulling up 40 ancient zygomites.
Totem of Navigation base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Navigation baseBase: Found by completing the clearing of an overgrown idol on Anachronia.
Totem of Crystal.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of CrystalCrystal Reduces elven clan lock-out period while pickpocketing by 25%.
Totem of Crystal top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Crystal topTop: Obtained randomly on Anachronia Agility Course.
Totem of Crystal middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Crystal middleMiddle: Found in rubble in ruins north-east of base camp, south of Feral Dinosaurs.
Totem of Crystal base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Crystal baseBase: Bought from Herby Werby reward shop for 200 spirit points.
Totem of the Abyss.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of the AbyssAbyss Allows teleportation to itself when placed via Anachronia Teleport.
Totem of the Abyss top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of the Abyss topTop: Bought from Herby Werby reward shop for 200 spirit points.
Totem of the Abyss middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of the Abyss middleMiddle: Obtained randomly while doing Big Game Hunter.
Totem of the Abyss base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of the Abyss baseBase: Found by searching rubble (see map below) near the northern building at the southern ruins on Anachronia north of the yellow salamanders.
Totem of Intimidation.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of IntimidationIntimidation Allows skipping the kill count requirement to access God Wars Dungeon generals (excluding Nex).
Totem of Intimidation top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Intimidation topTop: Found by searching rubble slightly north of the ruins on the north-eastern part of Anachronia.
Totem of Intimidation middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Intimidation middleMiddle: Rewarded by Laniakea upon completing the Helping Laniakea miniquest.
Totem of Intimidation base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Intimidation baseBase: Obtained randomly while killing slayer monsters on the island (can be off-task).
Totem of Summoning.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of SummoningSummoning Increases the duration of summoned familiars by 16 minutes.
Totem of Summoning top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Summoning topTop: Obtained randomly while on Anachronia Agility Course.
Totem of Summoning middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Summoning middleMiddle: Obtained randomly while killing slayer monsters on the island (can be off-task).
Totem of Summoning base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Summoning baseBase: Obtained randomly while doing Big Game Hunter.
Totem of Auras.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of AurasAuras Reduces the cooldown of auras by 15%.
Totem of Auras top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Auras topTop: Found by pulling up all 60 ancient zygomites.
Totem of Auras middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Auras middleMiddle: Obtained randomly while killing slayer monsters on the island (can be off-task).
Totem of Auras base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Totem of Auras baseBase: Obtained randomly while on Anachronia Agility Course.
Remototem.png: RS3 Inventory image of RemototemRemototem Remotely charge all other totems from the base camp
Remototem top.png: RS3 Inventory image of Remototem topTop: Obtained randomly when selling animals at Ranch out of Time.
Remototem middle.png: RS3 Inventory image of Remototem middleMiddle: Obtained randomly while mining on Anachronia.
Remototem base.png: RS3 Inventory image of Remototem baseBase: Obtained by completing the Desperate Measures quest.

Locations[edit | edit source]

The totems can be erected and activated in the following locations. Once activated, the totem will confer its benefits and cannot be removed until the next weekly reset.

Location Getting There
  • Run west out of Base camp to Arcane apoterrasaur. south west out of arcane apoterrasaur arena and follow track north west.
  • Take Orthen teleportation device to Crypt and run south to arcane apoterrasaurs and then west.
  • Slayer cape to Laniakea or Orthen teleportation device to Xolo City and northwest across the waterfall. Then around and to the southeast of the Asciatops arena.
  • Agility course anticlockwise to the Asciatops arena and go to the southeast of it.
  • Ancient seed to Herby Werby and run south.

Rubble map[edit | edit source]

A map of searchable rubble indicated by the icon of the totem piece that is obtained from them.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Achievements[edit | edit source]

  • Jurassic Perk (RuneScore.png 30) – Discover all the totem pieces on Anachronia.
  • Remotely Possible (RuneScore.png 5) – Build the Remote Totem Charging Point in the base camp on Anachronia.
  • Stacks on Stacks (RuneScore.png 5) – Complete the ritual to activate a totem on Anachronia.

Update history[edit | edit source]

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 23 September 2019 (Update):
    • Totem bases are now correctly centred in your inventory slot.
  • patch 22 July 2019 (Update):
    • Totem pieces will now correctly be added to your inventory if you have one space, as opposed to requiring two free spaces before.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ^ Jagex. JagexShauny's Twitter account. 10 July 2019. (Archived from the original on 28 October 2019.) JagexShauny: "PSA: The totems from Anachronia reset on the "weekly reset" trigger. This means they reset every Wednesday. Just a heads up for those confused and think they reset daily."