Every AFK Thieving Method in OSRS
- Theoatrix
- 1 hour ago
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What's going on guys, my name's Theoatrix and today I'm going to show you every AFK thieving method in Old School Runescape.
Guide Outline
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Varlamore House Keys & Houses
Probably the best real AFK method for thieving is stealing from houses in Varlamore. This requires 50 thieving; and you can effectively get over 100k XP per hour at higher levels.
The method involves stealing house keys from wealthy citizens, then using those keys to rob houses around the area.
Both stealing keys and robbing houses are both considerably more AFK than regular methods, although robbing houses tend to be the most AFK.
When thieving for keys, the wealthy citizens get distracted for around every 90 seconds, and they stay distracted for around 20 seconds. During this, you can click once to constantly pickpocket from them, and there are Runelite plugins which notify you when they're distracted, so you could AFK until you get notified.
Then actually stealing from houses, you can AFK for up to 60 seconds at a time, which is far longer than any other thieving method.
Sorceresses Garden
Although, the only thing comparable is the sorceresses garden, specifically one clicking the summer garden.
This is unlocked at level 65 thieving, and provides around 150k XP per hour at level 65. The AFK intervals are roughly 22 seconds, and there are Runelite plugins which help you time your runs.
Ardy Knights
But here's my opinion on the best AFK thieving method, and some of you wouldn't call this AFK, but let me explain.
If you use a wireless mouse, and cover the sensor on the bottom, you can do things around the house while spam clicking with one hand. This works best at Ardy knights, where on worlds with splashers, the knight doesn't move, and you can keep clicking, and every now and again, you come back to empty your coin pouches.
If you line up your coin pouches with the knight, you don't need to move the mouse when emptying, you just open your inventory with the hotkey, and click, and close the inventory with the hotkey.
Having more Ardy diaries completed increases the number of coin pouches you can get at once, so you should aim for the highest Ardy diary possible. You can get up to 140 coin pouches at once with the elite diary, which means you could AFK for a few minutes at a time.
Master Farmers
Now, this same method also works at master farmers. Particularly in places where the master farmer is stuck. This is amazing for ironmen, to passively get herb seeds and complete farming contracts.
Port Roberts
And lastly, Port Roberts stall thieving is a new method that isn't really AFK but is far more relaxed and less click intensive. Its possible to get up to 250k XP per hour here.
Anyway, those are the AFK thieving methods available in Old School Runescape. Overall, they aren't very AFK and sadly thieving just isn't the most afk skill out there.
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