Ancient Awakening Requirements & Quick Guide
Everything you need before starting Ancient Awakening in RuneScape 3: skill levels, the full chain of quests to finish first, and what completing it opens up. Check your own stats against it below.
Requirements from the RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), snapshot 2026-09-28.
Skill requirements
Ancient Awakening itself
| Skill | Level |
|---|---|
| 50 |
Including every prerequisite quest
The highest level of each skill you need across Ancient Awakening and all the quests you must finish first.
| Skill | Level | Needed for |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | Unwelcome Guests | |
| 50 | Ancient Awakening | |
| 10 | Unwelcome Guests |
Quest requirements
1 direct prerequisite, 4 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.
Quick guide: order to unlock Ancient Awakening
One valid order: every quest comes after its own prerequisites. Skip any you have already done.
- New Foundations
- Murder on the Border
- Unwelcome Guests
- Dead and Buried
- Ancient Awakening
XP rewards
Skills Ancient Awakening gives guaranteed XP in (fixed XP or a skill-locked lamp; choice lamps not listed). See the wiki for exact amounts.
Necromancy
Quests that need Ancient Awakening
Full walkthrough, items needed and exact rewards: Ancient Awakening on the RuneScape Wiki . Requirement data is adapted from the wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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