Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf
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To save the dwarf, you will need a special dwarven rock cake. Only his father in the tunnel under White Wolf Mountain knows how to make one.
Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Special. 7 of the items and monsters involved exist as OSRS TCG cards, including Bucket of milk, Pot of flour 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 • Consumable
There is flour in this pot.
Resource
A nice fresh egg.
Resource • Consumable
It's a bowl of water.
Resource • Consumable
Probably the finest ale in Asgarnia.
Resource • Clue • Barrows
Lovely money!
- Glovesany one
- Leather gloves
- orHardleather gloves
- orBronze gloves
- orIron gloves
- orSteel gloves
- orBlack gloves
- orMithril gloves
- orAdamant gloves
- orRune gloves
- orBarrows gloves
Ice gloves are best; most gloves work. If not using gloves, bring runes for the Telekinetic Grab spell instead.
Used: Handling the hot rock cake (or telegrab it instead).
Monsters you'll fight
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 dwarf in the Lumbridge Castle dining room to start the subquest, then go to the Rising Sun Inn in Falador and ask a barmaid about dwarves and ale.
- 2
Pay her (cheaper with a ring of Charos, plain pizza or chocolate bar) for the Asgoldian ale recipe, then buy four Asgarnian ales and add a gold coin to each to make Asgoldian ale.
- Coins
- Asgarnian ale
- 3
Take the ale and cake ingredients to Rohak under White Wolf Mountain; hand over milk, flour, egg and a bowl of water to bake the dwarven rock cake.
- Bucket of milk
- Pot of flour
- Egg
- Bowl of water
- 4
Collect the hot rock cake using gloves (or Telekinetic Grab) and give it to the frozen dwarf to free him.
- Gloves
Open exchanges for these cards
Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf cards — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf?
- 7 catalogue cards map to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf: Bucket of milk, Pot of flour, Egg, Bowl of water, Asgarnian ale, Coins and Icefiend. 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 Mountain Dwarf members only?
- Yes, Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf is a members quest. It is rated Special.
- What is the rarest card from Recipe for Disaster/Freeing the Mountain Dwarf?
- Bucket of milk 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 Mountain Dwarf 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 Mountain Dwarf?
- 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 Mountain Dwarfbut that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.

Resource • Consumable
A cheese and tomato pizza.
Only reduces the barmaid's price; a convenience, not a requirement.

Resource • Armour
An enchanted necklace.
A teleport convenience mentioned for travel, not a quest requirement.