Brand new rewards for your skilling efforts arrive in RuneScape this week in the form of nineteen new pets that can be earned by training a wide variety of skills.

Read on for more info on how to collect them, plus a link to the latest game patches and information on our upcoming live streams.

Requirements

Free-to-play players can unlock all pets except those that require training members’ only skills. RuneScape members, of course, can unlock all of them.

Unlock each pet as a random drop when training its specific skill in the ways listed below. The higher your level in a skill the higher your chances of getting its pet.

Your brand-new buddies can be used as familiar overrides, complete with their own unique animations for spawning, de-spawning, attacking, defending and special attacks.

Once you have unlocked five of these skilling pets you will also unlock the fabulous new title – “Jack of Trades”. Unlocking all these skilling pets will then get you the golden title – “Jack of All Trades”

Pets and How to Unlock Them

Below is a basic list of the training methods that unlock the skill pets. For further details and considerations, you could check out Mod Shauny’s reply to this post's forum thread.

Agility – "Dojo Mojo"

Completing any of the following agility courses:

Burthorpe course

Gnome stronghold

Advanced gnome stronghold

Agility pyramid

Penguin course

Barbarian outpost

Advanced barbarian outpost

Ape Atoll course

Wilderness course

Werewolf course

Bandos throne room

Hefin course

Dorgesh-kaan

Serenity Posts

Note - silverhawk boots are excluded

Construction – "Baby Yaga’s House"

Building furniture at a furniture hotspot

Assembling flatpacks

Cooking – "Ramsay"

Cooking food

Brewing

Crafting – "Gemi"

Crafting battlestaves

Glassblowing

Crafting jewellery

Crafting leather

Using a potter’s wheel

Using a spinning wheel

Divination – "Willow"

Gathering wisps

Converting memories

Note - any products made through Divination will not count, also gathering from Divine Locations will not work

Dungeoneering - "Gordie"

Complete dungeons

The dungeoneering pet chance is adjusted to take party size into account. Doing a floor quickly on your own has about the same chance of yielding a pet as completing a five-person floor quickly.



Resource Dungeons will not count



Other skills trained while in Dungeoneering will not give a chance to gain a Skilling Pet

Farming - "Brains"

Checking patches

Planting seeds on patches

Firemaking - "Bernie"

Herb burner

Bone burning

Burning log lines

Bonfires

Inferno Adze will work.

Fishing – "Bubbles"

Fishing!

Barbarian Fishing

Waterfall Fishing

Fletching – "Flo"

Fletching Bows

Stringing Bows

Feathering/tipping ammo

Fletching headless arrows

Herblore - "Herbert"

Mixing a potion

Cleaning herbs

Herb burning

Hunter – "Ace"

Tracking

Bird snaring

Butterfly netting

Impling netting (but not impulses)

Deadfall trapping

Box trapping

Rabbit snaring

Net trapping

Pitfall trapping

Falconry

Magic boxes

Charm sprites

Catching div chronicles

Invention – "Malcolm"

Disassembling

Siphoning

Discovering blueprints

Mining – "Rocky"

Mining rocks

Lava flow mine

Runecrafting – "Rue"

Using altars (both normal and ZMI)

Going to Runespan and siphoning creatures, nodes and/or the Runesphere

Slayer - "Crabbe"

Killing an enemy that counts towards your current Slayer task

Reaper assignments

Smithing – "Smithy"

Smelting bars

Smithing weapons/armour

Making the following items in the Artisan Workshop: burial armour, cannon repair, ceremonial swords, tracks

Thieving – "Ralph"

Regular pickpocket

Elf pickpocket

Stalls

Chests

Pyramid Plunder

Note - doors are excluded from this

Woodcutting – "Woody"

Tree cutting

Ivy

Log splitting

Note - machete cutting is excluded from this

Please note that when you unlock a pet, the game will try to add it to you inventory, then your bank. If both are full, it will be delivered as soon as you clear space in either of those places.

We hope you enjoy unlocking these fantastic new rewards, just remember – a skill pet is for life not just for Christmas (yeah, it’s summer, we know!)

The RuneScape Team

Patch Notes

For the patch notes detailing this week’s fixes and improvements, rock on over to the forum thread.

This Week’s Live Streams

Tuesday, August 23rd | 16:00 Game Time |Catherby & White Wolf Mountain Rework – Q&A

Join us on Twitch to check out more of the Catherby & White Wolf Mountain rework, coming next week!

Friday, August 26th | 20:00 Game Time | Update preview with Mod Shauny

Join Mod Shauny on Twitch for a look at what you can expect from Monday's update.

Sunday, August 28th | 19:00 Game Time | PvM with Mod Lee!

Mod Lee will be hosting some Community PvM goodness live at on Twitch.

In Other News

Mod Shauny – Happy Hours – The Beach

Hang out with Mod Shauny for Happy Hour on the Beach next week at the following times on Worlds 82 and 83: