Urn (Pyramid Plunder)

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Urn

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Release								17 July 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Quest								No
Location								Jalsavrah Pyramid
Options								Search, Check for snakes, Examine
Examine								An ornate looking urn.

Map

Advanced data

Object ID								95726
Links								MROD95726

Urns are scenery found within the Jalsavrah Pyramid as part of the Pyramid Plunder minigame. They can be searched to receive artefacts and Thieving experience. The Menaphyrite gem may be obtained rarely while looting urns. Urns in higher-numbered rooms grant more experience and better quality loot. Each room inside Jalsavrah has 13 urns, with the exception of room 3 which only has 12 urns.

Unless charmed, the player may be bitten by snakes within the urns, poisoning them. The chance of being bitten increases in higher-numbered rooms, but decreases with higher Thieving levels. Players can opt to check the urns for snakes. On successful checks, player will find a snake inside the urn. They can then charm the snakes using a snake charm to ensure that they will have higher chance of not getting bitten.

Searching and checking urns rewards the player with Thieving experience, but charming snakes does not. If charming snakes, experience awarded from successfully looting an artefact will be reduced by 33%.

Thieving info

Room 1 (check)Room 2 (check)Room 3 (check)Room 4 (check)Room 5 (check)Room 6 (check)Room 7 (check)Room 8 (check)
Tomb door

Level required					21
Thieving XP					20 xp
Type					Trap

Room 1 (search)Room 2 (search)Room 3 (search)Room 4 (search)Room 5 (search)Room 6 (search)Room 7 (search)Room 8 (search)
Tomb door

Level required					21
Thieving XP^{[i 1]}					60 xp
Type					Chest

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ The experience gained with charming is only about 2/3rds the experience if charming is not used.

Charming snakes

When searching an urn, a snake can appear that will attack the player. Players can use a snake charm to reduce this possibility:

Choose the "Check for snakes" option on the closed urn.
Choose the "Charm snake" option.
Search the urn while the snake is charmed.

Due to the high failure rate of the urns at lower levels, charming the snakes is on average faster than searching the urn. However after roughly level 50 it becomes faster to search the urns without checking for snakes.

Loot

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Reason: missing artefact drop tables and rates
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Room 1

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Ivory comb	1	Unknown	5,542	6
Stone seal	1	Unknown	832	12
Stone scarab	1	Unknown	632	12
Stone statuette	1	Unknown	659	12
Gold seal	1	Unknown	22,330	18
Golden scarab	1	Unknown	17,360	18
Golden statuette	1	Unknown	26,359	18

Tertiary

Item	Level	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Black ibis mask	78	1	1/800–1/100^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Black ibis body	78	1	1/800–1/100^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Black ibis legs	78	1	1/800–1/100^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Black ibis boots	78	1	1/800–1/100^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Menaphyrite	21	1	Very rare	Not sold	N/A

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chance is improved by 1/100 for each room, reaching 1/100 in the eighth and final room. An equipped sceptre of the gods will double these chances to 1/400–1/50.

Gallery

The urns in the room

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!

update 16 February 2026 (Update):
- Black ibis outfit drop rate improved from 1/2,300 to 1/800.
  - Each subsequent room improves the chance by 100, so room 2 is 1/700 and the final room is 1/100.
- Removed the level 78 Thieving requirement to roll for the outfit.
- Removed the increased chance from the camouflage outfit - the tooltip has been updated.
- Removed the 2-tick delay when opening urns.
- Removed the ability to interact with urns again once they have been opened.

update 17 July 2006 (Update):
- Added to game.

Trivia

The examine text "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?" is a reference to the line spoken by Indiana Jones in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[half-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ The experience gained with charming is only about 2/3rds the experience if charming is not used.

[buff-2] Chance is improved by 1/100 for each room, reaching 1/100 in the eighth and final room. An equipped sceptre of the gods will double these chances to 1/400–1/50.

[i 1]

[d 1]