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Cold War Requirements & Quick Guide

IntermediateMembersPenguin seriesReleased 29 January 2007

Everything you need before starting Cold War 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

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Enter your RuneScape name to compare your hiscores levels with every requirement below. Unranked skills read as level 1.

Cold War itself

SkillLevel
ConstructionConstruction34
AgilityAgility30
CraftingCrafting30
ThievingThieving15
HunterHunter10

Quest requirements

No quests need to be completed before Cold War.

XP rewards

Skills Cold War gives guaranteed XP in (fixed XP or a skill-locked lamp; choice lamps not listed). See the wiki for exact amounts.

  • AgilityAgility
  • ConstructionConstruction
  • CraftingCrafting

Quests that need Cold War

Full walkthrough, items needed and exact rewards: Cold War on the RuneScape Wiki . Requirement data is adapted from the wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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