Method Description, Instructions and Tips for Success

General Description

Traditionally, snake hides have been used to make snakeskin armor, used by mid-level players for ranging. This armor has never been very valuable, and so neither were snake skins. Summoning changed everything when it came out, bringing with it an important leveling familiar that uses snake skins as a secondary ingredient. The skins are now quite valuable, due to high demand and the difficulty in getting them. The only practical way to obtain them is on the island of Mos Le' Harmless, and even there, getting them is far from convenient. They are spread out over a wide area and there are aggressive jungle horrors that make attacking just the snakes impossible.

However, there is one place that works well for killing snakes -- near the entrance to the minigame Trouble Brewing. There is a bank deposit box here, and two snakes that respawn just northwest and northeast of it, without jungle horrors. You need to complete the quest Cabin Fever to access Mos Le' Harmless, and I assume that this requires at least mid level skills to do so.

Snakes are mildly poisonous; I use super antipoisons at mid levels (when they hit more frequently) and regular antipoisons at higher levels since they cost less.

Specific Method Details

Get to Mos Le' Harmless by right-clicking Bill Teach on his ship in Port Phasmatys, or using the charter ships.

At the bank in Mos Le' Harmless, put on standard melee gear, except use Varrock armour 3 for your body armor and nothing on your legs. At this level you don't need full armor when fighting these critters, and the extra weight just slows you down.

You also don't really need healing food or run energy restoration, so summon a magpie for its extra foraging, and take several regular antipoison potions, and a few extra magpie pouches, depending on how long you want to stay. Exit the bank and go out of town to the north. Run east for quite a ways, through the jungle horrors, then veer northeast around the Trouble Brewing area until you see the red star that marks the entrance to the minigame.

Start fighting; at this level you should be able to kill the snakes very fast, so your limiting factor may well be respawn speed.

Periodically put the snake skins you collect into the deposit box. Return to the bank when you need more supplies, adjusting what you take with based on what you ran out of first.