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Recipe for Disaster Requirements & Quick Guide

SpecialMembers10 QPReleased 15 March 2006

Everything you need before starting Recipe for Disaster in RuneScape 3: skill levels, the full chain of quests to finish first, and what completing it opens up. Check your own stats against it below.

Requirements from the RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), snapshot 2026-09-28.

Skill requirements

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Enter your RuneScape name to compare your hiscores levels with every requirement below. Unranked skills read as level 1.

Recipe for Disaster itself

SkillLevel
CookingCooking10

Including every prerequisite quest

The highest level of each skill you need across Recipe for Disaster and all the quests you must finish first.

SkillLevelNeeded for
ThievingThieving53Desert Treasure
FiremakingFiremaking50Desert Treasure
MagicMagic50Desert Treasure
WoodcuttingWoodcutting36Lost City
AgilityAgility35Horror from the Deep
CraftingCrafting31Lost City
CookingCooking30Big Chompy Bird Hunting
RangedRanged30Big Chompy Bird Hunting
FishingFishing10Fishing Contest
HerbloreHerblore10The Dig Site
SlayerSlayer10Desert Treasure
FletchingFletching5Big Chompy Bird Hunting

Quest requirements

10 direct prerequisites, 18 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Other requirements

Quick guide: order to unlock Recipe for Disaster

One valid order: every quest comes after its own prerequisites. Skip any you have already done.

  1. Big Chompy Bird Hunting
  2. Cook's Assistant
  3. The Dig Site
  4. Death Plateau
  5. Troll Stronghold
  6. Desert Treasure
  7. Fishing Contest
  8. Gertrude's Cat
  9. Goblin Diplomacy
  10. Bar Crawl (miniquest)
  11. Horror from the Deep
  12. Lost City
  13. The Grand Tree
  14. Tree Gnome Village
  15. Monkey Madness
  16. Demon Slayer
  17. The Golem
  18. Shadow of the Storm
  19. Recipe for Disaster

Ironman notes

High Ironman priority (8/10 in our Ironman ranking).

Why it matters: Culinaromancer's gloves 10 (Barrows gloves) at completion.

See where it fits in the Ironman Quest Cape order.

XP rewards

Skills Recipe for Disaster gives guaranteed XP in (fixed XP or a skill-locked lamp; choice lamps not listed). See the wiki for exact amounts.

  • AgilityAgility
  • ConstitutionConstitution
  • CookingCooking
  • CraftingCrafting
  • FarmingFarming
  • FishingFishing
  • MagicMagic
  • RangedRanged
  • SlayerSlayer
  • SmithingSmithing
  • WoodcuttingWoodcutting

Sub-quests

Quests that need Recipe for Disaster

No other quest lists Recipe for Disaster as a direct requirement.

Full walkthrough, items needed and exact rewards: Recipe for Disaster on the RuneScape Wiki . Requirement data is adapted from the wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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