Lost City

Quest details

Name: Lost City

Release date: 27 February 2002 (Update)

Pay-to-play: Yes

Start: Go to northwest Lumbridge Swamp and talk to an Adventurer there.

Difficulty: *****

Length: Short

Requirements: 31 Crafting 36 Woodcutting Ability to kill a level 95 tree spirit with limited armour or weapons

Items needed: Knife Bronze Axe (you need an axe when you're starting the quest and in the cave. You can't take an axe to Entrana as it's considered a weapon, but the zombies drop them)

Monsters to defeat: Dramen Tree Spirit (level 95) Greater Demons (level 87; avoid) Zombies (level 35)

Recommended: Combat runes (for defeating the tree spirit with Magic) Teleport runes (avoids escaping cave through Magic Door to Wilderness) Lobsters or better (if you're low-level or fighting with melee)

Walkthrough

Search for Leprechaun in a tree nearby.

Head to Lumbridge Swamp, just east of the Draynor Village bank. There you will find four adventurers: an Archer, a Cleric, a Warrior, and a Wizard.

1. Talk to the warrior
2. Ask him "Do you know of any good adevntures I can go on"
3. Say "I don't think you've found a good adventure at all"
4. Ask "What makes you think it's out here?"
5. Ask "If it's hidden how are you planning to find it"
6. Say "Looks like you don't know either if you're sitting around here"

Now, look for a tree north of the camp, it has a "Search" option that will cause a leprachaun to appear. Ask him about the Lost City. He will tell you to get a Dramen staff by carving a Dramen Branch from the Dramen tree in Entrana, which can be accessed from Port Sarim.

Obtaining the Dramen Staff

Entrance to the Entrana dungeon

Now, quickly bank your hatchet and any armour and weapons. Take out any food and equipment you want to use in the upcoming battle against a fairly difficult tree spirit (see below). Be sure to bring runes to teleport back to the mainland if your magic level is high enough. The only other way out leads to level 31 wilderness.

Go to Port Sarim and talk to the monk on the southern docks to sail to Entrana. Attempt to go down the ladder in the

Killing a zombie for an axe

north-west of Entrana and you will be warned by a monk of the caves danger in the north-west of Entrana.

Prayer will be drained upon entering the cave.

After hearing his warning, descend and begin killing zombies until one drops a bronze axe. Go past the Greater Demons to find the Dramen Tree. Attempt to cut the tree and a Tree Spirit will come out. (Level 36 woodcutting is required)

Fighting the Tree Spirit

Tree spirit

The battle against the tree spirit can be quite difficult without the use of weapons. Food will be most likely be needed even by high level players, and it is advised to you pay close attention to your remaining hits and give yourself time to run away and eat.

Here are several techniques to make the fight easier:

• When you chop the tree, move to the opposite side from the tree spirit and defeat it with Magic or Ranged.
• You can also hide behind another player to avoid being attacked by the tree spirit.
• Runes can be brought to Entrana, and used either at a distance or along with melee. Choose spells that you're not likely to cast unsuccessfully at your Magic level.
• Rangers can bring a bow string and fletch a bow on the island, then farm zombies for bronze arrows.
  • You can also bring dart tips and feathers to make throwing darts on Entrana.
• With proper timing and enough food such as lobsters, the spirit can be beaten solo on very low-level accounts.

After the fight

Entering the magic door

After the fight, cut multiple branches from the tree, just to be sure in case you die with one. You can now either teleport out or exit through the magic door east of the Greater demons. (Warning: The magic door leads to level 31 Wilderness north east of the Boneyard)

Finishing Up

Location of the shack

Use a knife on the Dramen Branch (level 31 Crafting is required) to get the Dramen Staff. Go to the small empty shack in the Lumbridge Swamp, located just east of Draynor Village bank and west of the Lumbridge Swamp Mine. Equip the Dramen Staff and enter the shack to be teleported to Zanaris, completing the quest. The player will receive the following messages:

The world starts to shimmer

You find yourself in different surroundings

Well done you have completed the Lost City of Zanaris quest

Rewards

• 3 Quest Points

  

• Access to Zanaris
• Ability to buy and wield Dragon sword

Trivia

• The full name of the quest is Lost City of Zanaris, as stated on quest completion.
• Prior to it being released, the wilderness door could be seen.