Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals
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The goblin generals need a food that they'll both eat. Find a chef in Goblin Village to learn how to make it.
Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Special. 4 of the items and monsters involved exist as OSRS TCG cards, including Bread, Orange slices and Fishing bait. This page pairs the quest with those cards and with the open player trades for them; the OSRS Wiki remains the authority on requirements and the walkthrough itself.
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Required items & monsters
Items you need to bring and the monsters you'll fight, paired with their OSRS TCG cards. See the wiki for the full requirement list.
Resource • Consumable
Nice crispy bread.
Resource • Consumable
Fresh orange slices.
Resource
For use with a fishing rod.
Resource • Consumable
It's a bucket of water.
- Blue, green or purple dyeany one
Any one works; black dye also works but has no catalogue card. Purple dye spawns east of the spirit tree at the Khazard Battlefield.
Used: Used to colour the orange slices so they aren't orange.
- Spice or gnome spiceany one
Either works; buyable or stealable around Ardougne, the Culinaromancer's Chest or the Tree Gnome Stronghold.
Used: Seasoning for the goblin food.
Also required (not collectible cards): Charcoal.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 1
Inspect the frozen goblin statues in the Lumbridge Castle dining room to start the subquest, then go to Goblin Village and climb down the ladder south of the generals to reach Mudknuckles the goblin cook.
- 2
Give Mudknuckles charcoal for his recipe; his cauldron explodes in a cutscene. He then explains the generals need oranges that aren't orange, maggots that aren't bland, and special bread.
- 3
Prepare orange slices (knife on an orange) and dye them, and add fishing bait, spice, bread and a bucket of water as the recipe directs.
- Orange slices
- Blue, green or purple dye
- Fishing bait
- Spice or gnome spice
- Bread
- Bucket of water
- 4
Give the finished food to Mudknuckles to free the goblin generals.
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Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals cards — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals?
- 4 catalogue cards map to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals: Bread, Orange slices, Fishing bait and Bucket of water. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG.
- Is Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals members only?
- Yes, Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals is a members quest. It is rated Special.
- What is the rarest card from Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals?
- Bread at Common, which packs in the TCG plugin land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals cards?
- Pull them from packs in the OSRS TCG RuneLite plugin, or trade for them. Open exchanges for this quest's cards are listed further down this page, and the trade itself happens in the plugin's own Trade window in game.
- Does this page tell me how to complete Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Goblin generals?
- It gives a brief walkthrough overview and maps the quest to its OSRS TCG cards — the items and monsters involved, and who is trading them. For the complete requirements, detailed steps and rewards, the OSRS Wiki link on this page is the authority.