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Desperate Creatures Requirements & Quick Guide

IntermediateMembersThe Elder God Wars seriesReleased 21 September 2020

Everything you need before starting Desperate Creatures 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.

Desperate Creatures itself

No skill requirements for Desperate Creatures itself.

Including every prerequisite quest

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

SkillLevelNeeded for
AgilityAgility50Desperate Measures
ArchaeologyArchaeology50Desperate Measures
DivinationDivination50Desperate Times
MiningMining50Desperate Times
SmithingSmithing50Desperate Times

Quest requirements

1 direct prerequisite, 6 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Quick guide: order to unlock Desperate Creatures

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

  1. Anachronia base camp tutorial
  2. The Needle Skips
  3. There's No Place Like Home...
  4. You Are It
  5. Desperate Times
  6. Desperate Measures
  7. Desperate Creatures

Quests that need Desperate Creatures

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

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