Crazy Archaeologist
Combat level 204 · 225 hitpoints
The Wilderness counterpart to the Deranged Archaeologist. Drops Odium/Malediction shard 2 and sits at level 23 Wilderness, so it is above the level 20 line where an unlocked lockable untradeable is destroyed rather than broken.
Requirements
- Level 23 Wilderness (Ruins near Bandit Camp)
- No requirements
Pointers
- Protect from Missiles. His primary attack is ranged, not magic (unlike the Deranged version).
- "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts!" = an AoE lands on your tile. Step one square off.
- Safespottable behind the ruins with ranged.
- Low Wilderness level means a fast escape, but also more PKer traffic. Risk nothing.
What the sim brings here
Every worn slot and every inventory row below is the combat simulation's own output, at the style it ranks fastest for each account tier. Each line carries the channel that chose it: sim means the model solved it, and inherited means the value came through from the hand-authored loadout the solver starts from. Riding through a generator does not make a value derived, so those are marked rather than presented as the model's answer. A line marked unattributed carries a channel the model's own vocabulary no longer declares, so no word is put on it at all rather than one being read off the channel's spelling. Where the model has not answered a row, its own refusal is printed instead; where it has answered a row it doubts, the answer is printed with the doubt attached rather than withheld.
max tier, melee (Melee is fastest)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Torva full helm sim
- Cape: Infernal cape sim
- Neck: Amulet of rancour sim
- Ammo: nothing sim
- Weapon: Ursine chainmace sim
- Body: Torva platebody sim
- Shield: Avernic defender sim
- Legs: Torva platelegs sim
- Hands: Ferocious gloves sim
- Feet: Avernic treads (max) sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (ranked without a risk term): this is Wilderness content and the gear search ranks on dps then kills per trip, neither of which prices the chance of LOSING the loadout. So this answer is best-in-slot at exactly the encounters where players deliberately bring a rag set, and it is very likely wrong about what you should actually carry. It is shown rather than withheld because a blank row tells you nothing you can act on. Closed by the carried-value ceiling Shane ruled on 2026-09-02, a player-set bound on pvpLoss(loadout).total that lets the search rank under a risk constraint without inventing a death probability. THE WIRE FOR IT EXISTS AS OF 2026-09-08 and this run did not set one: the per-tier default ceilings are Shane's to choose and he has not been asked, so absence here means no opinion rather than a number nobody ruled.
Inventory: 7 of 8 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Halibut sim
- Super combat potion(4) x2 sim
- Super restore(4) x7 sim
- Saradomin brew(4) x3 sim
- Zamorak brew(4) sim
- Cooked moonlight antelope x9 sim
- Max cape ruled
- Dareeyak teleport (tablet) sim
Spellbook: Lunar. Grants Vengeance.
Trip: about 77.18 kills in 22 minutes, limited by prayer.
mid tier, melee (Melee is fastest)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Torva full helm sim
- Cape: Infernal cape sim
- Neck: Amulet of torture sim
- Ammo: Ancient blessing sim
- Weapon: Ursine chainmace sim
- Body: Torva platebody sim
- Shield: Avernic defender sim
- Legs: Torva platelegs sim
- Hands: Ferocious gloves sim
- Feet: Avernic treads (max) sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (ranked without a risk term): this is Wilderness content and the gear search ranks on dps then kills per trip, neither of which prices the chance of LOSING the loadout. So this answer is best-in-slot at exactly the encounters where players deliberately bring a rag set, and it is very likely wrong about what you should actually carry. It is shown rather than withheld because a blank row tells you nothing you can act on. Closed by the carried-value ceiling Shane ruled on 2026-09-02, a player-set bound on pvpLoss(loadout).total that lets the search rank under a risk constraint without inventing a death probability. THE WIRE FOR IT EXISTS AS OF 2026-09-08 and this run did not set one: the per-tier default ceilings are Shane's to choose and he has not been asked, so absence here means no opinion rather than a number nobody ruled.
Inventory: 6 of 7 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Super combat potion(4) sim
- Saradomin brew(4) x3 sim
- Super restore(4) x6 sim
- Zamorak brew(4) x2 sim
- Cooked moonlight antelope x11 sim
- Teleport to house (tablet) ruled
- Dareeyak teleport (tablet) sim
Spellbook: Lunar. Grants Vengeance.
Trip: about 47.38 kills in 18 minutes, limited by food.
budget tier, melee (Melee and Magic are too close to call)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Torva full helm sim
- Cape: Ardougne cloak 3 sim
- Neck: Amulet of glory sim
- Ammo: nothing sim
- Weapon: Ursine chainmace sim
- Body: Torva platebody sim
- Shield: Antler guard sim
- Legs: Torva platelegs sim
- Hands: Barrows gloves sim
- Feet: Avernic treads sim
- Ring: Ultor ring sim
The model doubts this gear (ranked without a risk term): this is Wilderness content and the gear search ranks on dps then kills per trip, neither of which prices the chance of LOSING the loadout. So this answer is best-in-slot at exactly the encounters where players deliberately bring a rag set, and it is very likely wrong about what you should actually carry. It is shown rather than withheld because a blank row tells you nothing you can act on. Closed by the carried-value ceiling Shane ruled on 2026-09-02, a player-set bound on pvpLoss(loadout).total that lets the search rank under a risk constraint without inventing a death probability. THE WIRE FOR IT EXISTS AS OF 2026-09-08 and this run did not set one: the per-tier default ceilings are Shane's to choose and he has not been asked, so absence here means no opinion rather than a number nobody ruled.
Inventory: 6 of 7 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Super combat potion(4) sim
- Saradomin brew(4) x3 sim
- Super restore(4) x5 sim
- Zamorak brew(4) x2 sim
- Cooked moonlight antelope x12 sim
- Ring of dueling(8) ruled
- Dareeyak teleport (tablet) sim
Spellbook: Lunar. Grants Vengeance.
Trip: about 42.14 kills in 18 minutes, limited by food.
budget tier, magic (Melee and Magic are too close to call)
Worn gear: 11 of 11 slots chosen by the sim.
- Head: Virtus mask sim
- Cape: Ardougne cloak 3 sim
- Neck: Occult necklace sim
- Ammo: Rada's blessing 2 sim
- Weapon: Accursed sceptre (a) sim
- Body: Virtus robe top sim
- Shield: Arcane spirit shield sim
- Legs: Virtus robe bottom sim
- Hands: Tormented bracelet sim
- Feet: Avernic treads sim
- Ring: Magus ring sim
The model doubts this gear (ranked without a risk term): this is Wilderness content and the gear search ranks on dps then kills per trip, neither of which prices the chance of LOSING the loadout. So this answer is best-in-slot at exactly the encounters where players deliberately bring a rag set, and it is very likely wrong about what you should actually carry. It is shown rather than withheld because a blank row tells you nothing you can act on. Closed by the carried-value ceiling Shane ruled on 2026-09-02, a player-set bound on pvpLoss(loadout).total that lets the search rank under a risk constraint without inventing a death probability. THE WIRE FOR IT EXISTS AS OF 2026-09-08 and this run did not set one: the per-tier default ceilings are Shane's to choose and he has not been asked, so absence here means no opinion rather than a number nobody ruled.
Inventory: 4 of 5 rows chosen by the sim, 1 carrying no channel at all.
- Ancient brew(4) x3 sim
- Super restore(4) x19 sim
- Rune pouch sim
- Ring of dueling(8) ruled
- Dareeyak teleport (tablet) sim
Spellbook: Ancient, committed by Ice Blitz. Cannot cast Resurrect Greater Ghost, Vengeance. Resurrect Greater Ghost, Vengeance are on Arceuus/Lunar but this build is committed to Ancient: not castable without Spellbook Swap.
Trip: about 134.97 kills in 61 minutes, limited by prayer.
What each of those badges means
- derived:ascent (sim): an accepted coordinate-ascent move: betterThan() preferred this candidate over the incumbent under the row objective and band. The weapon+ammo+shield pairing and the crystal set arrive here too, because both are offered to the same acceptance test.
- derived:cheapestEqual (sim): cheapestOfEquals(): at budget, an exactly-tied cheaper item replaced the one in this slot. It changes the price and, by construction, not the score.
- derived:composed (sim): balanceInventory() sized this row from the derived supply menu. The menu enumerates CONSUMABLES and narrows by style, tier and price; it is not the authored bag.
- derived:empty (sim): the finished loadout leaves this slot EMPTY, and that is an ANSWER rather than a gap: a two-handed weapon forfeits the shield and a weapon that stores its own ammunition frees the ammo slot. Recorded so a null slot is never read as unprovenanced.
- derived:obtainable (sim): canonicaliseObtainable(): the finished loadout named a variant the model cannot state a route to, and this pass swapped it for the obtainable equal.
- derived:pouch (sim): derivePouchInto(): the rune pouch and its loose overflow, from the spell the build actually casts and the pouch slot criterion. Not from a pouch a human typed.
- derived:seedWeapon (sim): the weapon the ascent BEGAN from, taken off the dps-ranked weapon shortlist, or the forced weapon of a multi-start seed. Never off a start loadout.
- derived:travel (sim): travelPlan(): the way IN, ranked out of the derived transport graph against this account's own unlocks, rather than copied from whatever a human typed. The way OUT is a separate channel (`ruled:escape`) because it is a typed choice, not a ranking.
- ruled:escape (ruled): escapeLeg(): the way OUT, taken from the typed per-tier table ESCAPE_PLAN and judged against the account, with nothing substituted and no fallback ladder. The ACCOUNT CHECK is a derivation; the CHOICE of item is not, so this is not a `derived:` channel. ESCAPE_PLAN carries no attributedTo field (PROVENANCE_BACKLOG: silent-and-unattributed), so this channel does not claim one either.