OSRS Hunter Rumours Calculator

Guild hunters and rumour tiers

Rumours are given out in the Burrow under the Hunter Guild in Varlamore, which needs 46 Hunter and Children of the Sun. The level for each tier cannot be boosted, and master rumours also need At First Light. Handing a rumour in pays your Hunter level plus 5, times the tier's figure, on top of the experience from the catches, and gives a loot sack of that tier.

Every rumour and who gives it

Huntmaster Gilman can give every rumour; each of the other five has a list of their own. You need the creature's Hunter level and anything listed beside it. A rumour held by one guild hunter is never given by another, which is how a block list works: let the others hold the slow rumours and do your rumours for the one left with the quickest list.

Rare parts and how many catches a rumour takes

Every catch on a rumour has the chance below of giving the rare part, and the part is certain once you reach the count. The full guild hunter outfit raises the chance by 5% and lowers the count. Only one rare part can be carried at a time.

Guild hunter outfit

Each piece adds to your catch rate and to the rare part chance, and wearing any piece with all four owned adds the set bonus. Pieces come from adept, expert and master loot sacks at 1 in 50, always in the order headwear, top, legs, boots. Once you have the set, a spare piece can be handed to Guild Scribe Verity for a supply loot sack.

Hunters' loot sacks

A basic sack rolls 5 times, an adept sack 7, an expert sack 9 and a master sack 11, each roll picking one line of its table. One line gives 4 logs, better ones with a higher Woodcutting level, and from adept up another gives 4 grimy herbs, better with a higher Herblore level. Adept, expert and master sacks each have a 1 in 50 chance of an outfit piece, of the huntsman's kit and of an enhanced quetzal whistle blueprint. Expert and master sacks add a 1 in 50 chance of a perfected blueprint once you have had an enhanced one, and a 1 in 1,000 chance of Quetzin, the pet, which is likely 15 times as common at 200M Hunter experience. A supply sack from Verity rolls the master table without the rare rewards.

Milestones

Some rewards come with the number of rumours you have done, whatever the sacks give:

Quetzal whistles and their charges

A quetzal whistle takes you to any built quetzal landing site. Soar Leader Pitri, at the top of the guild's tree, gives the basic blueprint after 10 rumours and sells another for 500 coins. The enhanced and perfected blueprints come from loot sacks, or torn copies at 100 and 250 rumours if you have not had one, and each is crafted onto the whistle before it. Pitri charges a whistle from quetzal feed and raw hunter meat, and once you have a perfected whistle, 10,000 charges of raw meat buy one with unlimited charges; another after that costs 50,000 coins.

Pitri takes these for charges, from your inventory and not as notes:

Ironmen, Hardcore Worlds and Deadman

Ironmen and group ironmen get the same rumours and sacks, but only the coins in a sack are counted as value here, and spare outfit pieces and blueprints go to Verity for supply sacks instead of being sold. Hardcore Worlds give the same experience and drops with their own separate economy, so sack values here are the main game's prices. On the permanent Deadman world, 345, every experience drop is multiplied by the world's rate for your level, the catches and the hand-in alike: 20 times at level 1 down to 10 times from 50 while protected, and half that once protection ends. Once unprotected, an accumulation charm triples the experience from chinchompas. The loot sacks are unchanged there.

Hunters' Rumours questions

Which guild hunter should I use? The one the plan above picks for your level: from 72 an expert with a block list, and from 91 Wolf or Aco. Aco gives slightly more rumours an hour, Teco gives herbiboar and goat rumours, and Wolf gives master sacks.

How do I set up a block list? Start with Gilman, who can give anything, and take rumours from the other guild hunters until each holds one of the rumours in your block list above, then leave those undone. Choosing a brand-new rumour from Gilman resets every guild hunter's rumour, and a rumour rerolled by switching to another guild hunter does not count as a block.

Should I turn on back-to-back rumours? Turning them on after a quick rumour and off after a slow one, at Guild Scribe Verity, gets you a few more quick rumours. Leaving them on all the time changes nothing on average.

What else trains Hunter? The Hunter calculator sets rumours against every creature and method, and the birdhouse run calculator plans bird houses between them.