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Deadliest Catch Requirements & Quick Guide

MasterMembersReleased 7 June 2011

Everything you need before starting Deadliest Catch 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.

Deadliest Catch itself

SkillLevel
FishingFishing70
ThievingThieving70
HunterHunter67
HerbloreHerblore3

Including every prerequisite quest

The highest level of each skill you need across Deadliest Catch and all the quests you must finish first.

SkillLevelNeeded for
FishingFishing70Deadliest Catch
ThievingThieving70Deadliest Catch
HunterHunter67Deadliest Catch
ConstructionConstruction10Tower of Life
HerbloreHerblore3Deadliest Catch

Quest requirements

1 direct prerequisite, 1 quest in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Quick guide: order to unlock Deadliest Catch

One valid order: every quest comes after its own prerequisites. Skip any you have already done.

  1. Tower of Life
  2. Deadliest Catch

XP rewards

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

  • FishingFishing
  • HunterHunter
  • ThievingThieving

Quests that need Deadliest Catch

No other quest lists Deadliest Catch as a direct requirement.

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

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