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What Lies Below Requirements & Quick Guide

IntermediateMembers1 QPReleased 27 March 2007

Everything you need before starting What Lies Below 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.

What Lies Below itself

SkillLevel
RunecraftingRunecrafting35

Quest requirements

No quests need to be completed before What Lies Below.

Ironman notes

Worth doing early (5/10 in our Ironman ranking).

See where it fits in the Ironman Quest Cape order.

XP rewards

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

  • DefenceDefence
  • RunecraftingRunecrafting

Quests that need What Lies Below

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

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