Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide
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Start: talk to Lumbridge Guide.
You need a cake of guidance to protect the Lumbridge Guide. Wizard Traiborn in the Wizards' Tower can teach you how to make one.
Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Special. 5 of the items and monsters involved exist as OSRS TCG cards, including Necklace of passage, Bucket of milk and Egg. 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.
Full quest guide on the OSRS Wiki →Beta:quest cards are matched to the best of our current knowledge and may include some mismatches — we're still working through the data. If something doesn't look right, please submit feedback.
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
It's a bucket of milk.
Resource
A nice fresh egg.
Resource • Consumable
There is flour in this pot.
Resource
Useful for baking cakes.
Resource • Armour
This necklace can really take you places.
Also required (not collectible cards): Minigame Teleport.
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 Lumbridge Guide in the Lumbridge Castle dining room to start the subquest, take the ingredients from the Culinaromancer's Chest if needed, then talk to Wizard Traiborn in the Wizards' Tower (fairy ring DIS).
- Bucket of milk
- Egg
- Pot of flour
- Necklace of passage
- 2
Pass the egg quiz (name an NPC from a required quest three times) to enchant the egg, and the milk quiz (three OSRS trivia questions) to enchant the milk.
- Egg
- Bucket of milk
- 3
Pass the flour memory test (identify items from groups you were shown) to enchant the flour.
- Pot of flour
- 4
Use any ingredient on the cake tin, cook it on the Lumbridge Castle range, and give the cake of guidance to the frozen guide.
- Cake tin
Open exchanges for these cards
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Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide cards — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide?
- 5 catalogue cards map to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide: Bucket of milk, Egg, Pot of flour, Cake tin and Necklace of passage. 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 Lumbridge Guide members only?
- Yes, Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide is a members quest. It is rated Special.
- What is the rarest card from Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide?
- Necklace of passage at Rare, which packs in the TCG plugin land on about 16% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guide 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 Lumbridge Guide?
- 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.
Related cards
Cards that come up around Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Lumbridge Guidebut that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.
Resource
A mysterious power emanates from the talisman...
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource • Consumable • Clue
Some nicely cooked trout.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource • Weapon
A nice sturdy bow made out of Maple.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource • Weapon
Short and magical, but still effective.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource • Weapon
A razor sharp longsword.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource
One of the 4 basic elemental Runes.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.
Resource
Logs cut from a magic tree.
Appears as an item in the Flour memory test; you memorise it, not bring it.