Bert

This article is about the sand man in Yanille. For other instances of Bert, see Bert (disambiguation).

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Bert
Release								10 January 2006 (Update)
Members								Yes
Race								Human
Quest								The Hand in the Sand
Location								Yanille
Gender								Male
Options								Talk-to, Sand, Examine
Examine								Bert seems to be covered in sand from head to toe.
Map
Advanced data
NPC ID								3108, 16896, 16897
Links								MRND

Bert is a key figure in The Hand in the Sand quest and, after completing the quest, will gather 84 buckets of sand and deliver them to your bank account daily if you speak with him. This increases to 120 following completion of the Ardougne Elite Tasks. Players have to speak to him every day in order to get the sand; it is not automatically delivered. A sandpit can be found outside his cabin, north of the player-owned house portal.

He can be contacted using the NPC Contact spell in the Lunar spellbook.

This repeatable content has a soft reset.

The next period's content will become available only once a player has logged out and in.

Daily buckets of sand reward

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Bucket of sand	84; 120	Always	9,492–13,560	84–120

Achievements

• By the Bucketload ( 10) – Claim buckets of sand from Bert in Yanille.

Dialogue

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Bert speaks in:

• NPC Contact
• The Hand in the Sand

Graphical updates

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  Bert after Unknown date (edit)

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  Bert after Unknown date (edit)

Update history

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• patch 7 May 2024 (Update):
  • Changed collection of daily sand and daily flax from hard resets (which reset at 00:00 game time) to soft resets (which reset upon your first logout after 00:00 game time).

• patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • Right-click additions have been added to the following: collecting sand off of Bert, starting a delivery from Aluft Gianne Jr, and entering Keldagrim via the Dwarven Ferryman.

• patch 20 December 2010 (Update):
  • Bert has had a typo fixed after Hand in the Sand.

• patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
  • Bert will now give the correct amount of sand to players.

• update 10 January 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Bert will always greet you with "Mornin' [player name]", regardless of the actual time of day.
• Bert's image on the Contact spell interface is that of his old chathead, where he looks younger. However, when talking to him using Contact, the new chathead is displayed.
• Bert speaks with a Yorkshire accent.
• Despite the fact Bert mentions a wife during the quest The Hand in the Sand, he appears to be solitary in his cabin – which incidentally lacks a bed.
• On 10 February 2009, the minimum interval between sand collections was reduced to 23 hours and 40 minutes to enable people to collect sand at the same time every day. Prior to this, the time of collection would slowly creep forwards every day, because of the 24 hour minimum limit. On 29 September 2014, this changed to once daily after the daily reset at 00:00 (UTC).