Method Description, Instructions and Tips for Success

General Description

Swamp lizards are another item used by high level Summoners that can be supplied by low level hunters. They are in a remote location so few player hunt them, making them lucrative for those who do.

Swamp lizards can be caught even at low levels, but they are fairly slow at level 30 Hunter, and getting to their area is a nuisance until you can use the fairy rings. At higher levels you gain substantial benefit from better beast of burden familiars.

Specific Method Details

Even at level 50 Hunter, swamp lizards are pretty quick to catch, giving good money and XP rewards. Note that in my tests, using guam tar bait was of little benefit.

At this level you can use the fairy rings, which makes life much easier, assuming you've also done In Search of the Myreque. We will also use a faster hunting spot, even though it means dealing with ghasts.

First, make sure you are on as empty a world as possible -- yes, the opposite of what I usually advise! Full or empty world doesn't matter for swamp lizards, and there's an advantage to an empty world that we'll see soon.

Equip yourself with boots of lightness, amulet of glory, spotted cape, Varrock armor 1 or better (to provide protection while keeping weight low), dramen or lunar staff, and a weapon such as a rune scimitar. Also withdraw a spirit terrorbird pouch, around 40 or so Tireless Run scrolls, 3 small fishing nets and 3 ropes, and your druid pouch from Nature Spirit (10 or so items in the pouch will do.)

Teleport to Edgeville using the amulet of glory and run northeast, over the bridge and south to the fairy ring. Go to code "D L S", which leaves you in the Myreque tunnels. Exit to the main tunnel, run southest and open the doors to the swamp. Now run a bit south, then go east towards the hunting area. Skip the first spot with three hunting trees and head for another location just beyond it, where the three trees are much closer together. Summon your spirit terrorbird.

The ghast in the area will almost immediately be made visible by your druid pouch -- ignore it for now and set up your pouch. While waiting for the traps to be filled, kill the ghast -- this will then give you some peace and quiet for a while (and is why I said to choose an empty world, as the ghast takes longer to respawn.) You also get 30 Prayer XP for this and once in a blue moon a good drop like a grimy ranarr.

Hunt until your inventory is full, put 12 lizards in the terrorbird and continue. Use scrolls to restore run energy as needed, and when your inventory is nearly full, temporarily drop your weapon and druid pouches to make room for more lizards (be sure not to forget to pick them back up when you drop the last rope and net!) When done, use your amulet of glory to teleport to Edgeville, bank and repeat.

You can get about 205 swamp lizards per hour, plus whatever decent drops the ghasts provide.