Sheep Shearer
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Start: talk to Fred the Farmer.
Fred the Farmer's sheep are getting mighty woolly. He will pay you to shear them.
Sheep Shearer is a free-to-play Old School RuneScape quest rated Novice. The OSRS TCG Sheep Shearer card list covers 2 of the items and monsters involved, including Ball of wool and Wool. 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.
- A way to source the balls of woolany one
Coins buy the balls ready-made (every shop purchase runs through the Coins card); Shears mean shearing Fred's sheep yourself — that route also needs the Wool card below, since fleeces are wool before they're spun.
Used: Buying from a shop, or shearing the pen east of Fred's house.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 1
Talk to Fred the Farmer at his sheep farm just north of Lumbridge Castle; he asks you to bring him 20 balls of wool.
- 2
Buying route: purchase 20 balls of wool ready-made — shop purchases need the Coins card.
- Coins
- 3
Shearing route: shear the sheep in the pen east of his house (Fred provides shears if you have none, but using them still needs the card; the horned rams cannot be sheared), then spin the wool into balls at the spinning wheel on the first floor of Lumbridge Castle.
- Shears
- Wool
- 4
Hand the 20 unnoted balls of wool to Fred to complete the quest.
- Ball of wool
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OSRS TCG Sheep Shearer — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Sheep Shearer?
- 2 catalogue cards map to Sheep Shearer: Ball of wool and Wool. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG. The mapping is maintained by OSRS Card Exchange; whether something is a card, and its rarity, come from the OSRS TCG catalogue.
- Is Sheep Shearer members only?
- No, Sheep Shearer is free-to-play. It is rated Novice.
- What is the rarest card from Sheep Shearer?
- Ball of wool at Common, which packs land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the OSRS TCG Sheep Shearer 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 Sheep Shearer?
- 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.