The Umbral Sands in RuneScape Dragonwilds have some decent quests, such as a Reel Dower about cheering up a fish from sadness. The Rug Pull quest is a bit different; it’s a standard fetch quest that is typical in MMOs, but the details behind the objectives are blurry. The quest is about four brothers finding a chest and then losing it all. One of the frequent problems you will come across during the quest is the lack of definite answers; the journal entry will always give vague ideas of the next clue without any proper directional details. This sort of confusion stays with the quest until the end.
In this guide, I will give you complete directional information for each journal entry related to the quest, so you will get to the buried treasure chest at the end and grab the loot as your own.
Rug Pull Quest Overview
The quest is about four brothers finding an unusual treasure in a vault. All four of them perished one way or the other in the desert. Here, we come to play; our task is to find the remains of all four brothers by reading their journal entries, which will eventually lead us to the treasure they managed to steal, now buried in the sand.
The quest is linked to four brothers; grabbing the first journal starts the quest. Here are all the journals you will come across during the Rug Pull Quest:
- Journal of Brother Bearch (Starting Location)
- Journal of Brother Bran
- Journal of Brother Ferchar
- Journal of Brother Conchobar
- Journal of Ronnie Ruggs
I’ve marked each spot with a yellow circle on the map; just head to the location, and you will find the journal entry and the remains of the brother on the spot. The starting location doesn’t necessarily have to be from Journal of Brother Bearch; you can pick any four journals related to brothers in the area to start the Rug Pull quest. I picked the Journal of Brother Bearch as a starting location to help you follow the story more easily.
Journal of Brother Bearch
You must grab the Journal of Brother Bearch off the sand in the Manafem Plains to start the Rug Pull Quest in RuneScape Dragonwilds. Head to Manafem Plains in the Umbral Sands region. Now move a bit southeast from the area right under the run-down town. At the south of the town, at the marked spot on the map, you will find half of a stone building buried in the sand. Inside, you will find the “Journal of Brother Berach.”
The journal will tell a story about four brothers finding a treasure in a vault and losing it all. The second paragraph contains the clue that we need to know for the next objective. “Let the three of them chase each other across the Burning Spire if they wish; I’m staying here, where we made camp.”
Breaking down the clue, it clearly states that out of the four brothers, one decided to stay at the spot; the other three are now in the Burning Spire region of the Umbral Sands.
Journal of Brother Bran
Go to the small area east of the Burning Spire, and you will find the brother’s body west of the pond in the middle. Read the journal; we will get the next clue: “Keep walking! The desert will finish you as surely as it will finish me. Look at us, scattered across the desert with our fortune somewhere in the middle, and not one of you has the sense to see it!”
While the journal does give out lore, when it comes to the proper clue, it’s a bit vague. The only substance from the journal is the first sentence, where it talks about “scattered across the desert with our fortune somewhere in the middle.” Our next target is to look for the third brother in the desert, particularly “somewhere in the middle”.
Journal of Brother Ferchar
Now you need to head north of the Burning Spire, east of Alcarrid Oasis. Here, you will find the body of the third brother burned to a crisp next to the giant rock. Here we get the clue: “If our fortune is still out there, it can rot somewhere beyond those kalphite-infested sands.” The third clue points to a kalphite-infested sand region.
Journal of Brother Conchobar
The last and fourth brother is located southeast of the Dunes of Uzzer. Get to the marked spot to find the final remains of the fourth brother; you will find a journal that will talk about: “The fortune has taken to the sky! A floating treasure chest. Airborne doubloons!” In short, the fortune or treasure chest is being lifted by a magic carpet.
While the quest talks about four brothers, each time you find a brother, you will find a journal next to them. To complete the quest, you will need to find another journal entry. In total, there are five journal entries in the quest; the game only mentions four brothers, leading to more confusion about the quest.
Journal of Ronnie Ruggs
The fifth journal is located on the rocks west of the pyramids in the Dunes of Uzzer. Once you are in the spot, get to the top of the rocks, and you will find a green magic carpet with a journal next to it. Reading the journal completes the lore behind four brothers who stole an uncommon rug, thinking it was ordinary. Unlike most of the journal entries, here we get a definite clue for the treasure chest.
“I buried the chest while they scattered after me, somewhere none of them would think to look twice. A fine spot for my fortune, high on a mesa where I could watch those fools scour the desert below. The broken ridge lay beneath me; the sinking sand beyond was with Kalphites crawling amongst the gypsum.”
The final location to unearth the chest is located south of the Sanguine Urn, further south of Dunes of Uzzer. Get to the marked spot on the map, and on the sand you will see an unusual small patch with two skeleton hands aligned perfectly to form a cross.
Use the shovel to dig out the chest from the sand, and inside you will find a variety of items, but most importantly: Ancient Rug and Ancient Roundrung. Obtaining the item completes the Rug Pull quest in RuneScape Dragonwilds. Thanks to Primitive Nomad for figuring out most of the journal spots by painstakingly searching the desert.
