OSRS Fairy Ring Codes

How to use a fairy ring

Fairy rings are a members' network of 54 rings across Gielinor and the other realms. Stand in any ring, set the three dials to a code and you arrive at the ring that code names. Each dial has four letters, so there are 64 codes, and 55 of them work: one for each ring and DIQ, which takes you to the ring in your own house. The dials turn either way, so no letter is more than two turns from another.

To use the network you need Fairytale I - Growing Pains completed and Fairytale II - Cure a Queen started far enough that the Fairy Godfather gives you permission. You do not have to finish Fairytale II. You must wield a dramen staff or a lunar staff, unless you have completed the elite Lumbridge & Draynor Diary, after which no staff is needed. A lunar staff needs 65 Magic and 40 Defence to wield. Without either the ring tells you “The fairy rings only work for those who wield fairy magic.” Some rings also need a quest or a visit first; the table lists them, and the achievement diaries calculator lists every task the elite Lumbridge & Draynor Diary asks for.

A code that has no ring, or names the ring you are standing in, leaves you where you are with “Wow, fairy magic sure is useful, I hardly moved at all!” The right-click options on a ring are Zanaris, Configure, Last-destination and Favourites. Favourites lists up to 10 codes and appears once you have marked one.

To compare a fairy ring with every other way to a place, spirit trees, teleport spells and jewellery included, use the teleport calculator. Its fairy ring rows are the ones this page ranks, so tick only “Fairy ring” there and the two lists match.

Zanaris

BKS is the ring in Zanaris, the fairies' city. Zanaris also has two small rings that each go to one place only. They are its exits, and they need no code and no Fairytale II. If you trap yourself somewhere only the rings reach, the ring there still takes you to Zanaris with no dramen or lunar staff, and from Zanaris you can go on to the Lumbridge Swamp.

The Fairy Queen's hideout

Dial these four codes in order to reach the Fairy Queen's hideout, during Fairytale II - Cure a Queen and after it. The codes are AIR, DLR, DJQ and AJS, dialled one after another. DJQ on its own goes nowhere.

A fairy ring in your house

A fairy ring in your superior garden lets you dial out from home, and DIQ brings you back to it from any other ring. The garden needs 65 Construction, and the ring 85 Construction (a boost works, but not the crystal saw) and a fairy enchantment, which you can only use once Fairytale II is completed. The spirit tree & fairy ring takes 95 Construction and 83 Farming and gives you both in one space, though it has no Favourites option. DIQ only works if your house has a ring.

Closest banks, altars and leprechauns

The rings with the shortest walk to each of these, for the account and settings above. The walk is the one the nearest rings use, so a ring you cannot use yet, or a shortcut you lack, changes the answer.

• A bank: Shown once the walking map loads. With a spirit tree and a fairy ring both in your house, the Farming Guild is a quicker way to a bank. You need 85 Construction, 85 Farming and a spirit tree planted in the guild.
• A Prayer altar: Shown once the walking map loads. If your garden has a fairy ring, DIQ takes you home to your own chapel or pool. AJP, open after Children of the Sun, leads to the altar in Outer Fortis. With 50 Agility, the shortcut by BIP leads to the Nature Grotto, whose altar raises your Prayer to 2 points above your level.
• A sand pit: Shown once the walking map loads.
• A tool leprechaun: Shown once the walking map loads.

Deadman Mode and Hardcore Worlds

In Deadman Mode a fairy ring is a teleport like any other. A skulled player waits through the 7 second teleport timer, and an unskulled player can only go if no player or monster has attacked them in the last 7 seconds. The trinket of fairies, a Deadman Mode item, opens any ring you could use from wherever you are, up to level 30 Wilderness. Hardcore Worlds are members' worlds, and the rings work there as they do in the main game.