From Tiny Acorns (miniquest)

For the achievement, see From Tiny Acorns (miniquest) (achievement).

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From Tiny Acorns (miniquest)
Release date								28 April 2010 (Update)
Members								Yes
Voice Over								No
Official series								Thieves' Guild #2
Age								Ambiguous
Timeline								Adventurer
Start area								Lumbridge
Combat								None
Entity icon
Advanced data
Quest ID								413
Quest create ID								280
Official difficulty								Novice
Links								Quests

From Tiny Acorns (miniquest) is the first caper Guildmaster Darren Lightfinger will assign a player who has completed the Buyers and Cellars quest. Capers are tasks set by the Thieving guildmaster in order to slowly build and fund the Thieves' Guild.

This miniquest requires you to steal a toy dragon made of rubies. Talk to the Guildmaster (Darren) to start.

Official description

“

Complete another caper for the Lumbridge guild of thieves.

”

Overview

Start point	Speak to Darren Lightfinger in his cellar accessed through a trapdoor north of Lumbridge furnace. Show on map (via a location)	2010#6
Membership requirement	Members only
Official length[?]	Short
Requirements	Quests: From Tiny Acorns (miniquest) Buyers and Cellars 24 Thieving
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. None
Recommended	Activated Lumbridge and Varrock lodestone
Enemies to defeat	None

Details

After obtaining the caper from Darren, get to Varrock square. Talk to Urist Loric, who is standing by the crafting stall. Then speak to the nearby Market guard and ask him about the dwarf. The guard will tell you about the dwarf being obsessed with his talisman. Now pickpocket the dwarf. It is possible to fail, and is very likely if you are doing this quest at the minimum thieving level. If you do fail you will be hit for 30 damage and will be momentarily stunned.

Stand north of the dwarf, and use the talisman to put it on the ground a small distance away (you will automatically walk to do this). Speak to the dwarf, inform him that, "He must have dropped his talisman on the ground." He'll say something along the lines of, "I wondered how that got there!".

Continue and quickly run to the guard, when the dwarf walks to the talisman, distract the guard by choosing the option and you will tell him about Aris's sign giving him the evil eye. When both the guard and dwarf are distracted, quickly steal from the stall.

Now talk to the dwarf to get the Banker's note and return it to Darren. If Urist manages to get back to his stall before you finish distracting the guard you can pickpocket him again. Return to Darren to finish the quest.

Congratulations, miniquest complete!

Rewards

• 1,000 experience
• Ability to steal a craftsman's monocle
• Ability to purchase crafting equipment from Urist Loric
• Access to the advanced pickpocketing trainer and coshing volunteers in the Thieves' Guild
• Access to the practice chest area in the Thieves' Guild
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Music unlocked

• Thieves' Guild II - when entering the Thieves' Guild after completion

Achievements

• From Tiny Acorns (miniquest) ( 5) – Complete this miniquest.
• I've Got a Little List (of Miniquests) ( 0) – Complete all miniquests listed in the Quests interface. Does not include sagas.

Required for completing

From Tiny Acorns (miniquest) is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Lost Her Marbles (miniquest)

It is therefore an indirect requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• A Guild of Our Own (miniquest)

Transcript

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Credits

From Tiny Acorns (miniquest)
Developers
Developer				Mod Moltare

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 19 November 2018 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue that prevented certain players from obtaining the Toy baby dragon.

• patch 12 November 2018 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue with some 'From Tiny Acorns' quest items being unobtainable if lost through death. Talking to Urist after losing the dragon will now correctly reset the stall, allowing the player to steal it again.

• patch 10 September 2018 (Update):
  • Achievements for the Thieving Guild mini-quests will now correctly unlock after each mini-quest.

• update 28 April 2010 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Upon completion of the miniquest, the Adventurer's Log states: I completed another caper for the Lumbridge Thieves' Guild.
• The Twitter hint for this update was 'Ruby Dragon!'.
• The examination text of the Talisman is the exact description of a Legendary Artefact quality in the indie game Dwarf Fortress.
• The Guard that is supposed to watch the stall of the Craftsman Dwarf will explain that the dwarf "comes from some fortress or other." This too is a reference to the indie game Dwarf Fortress.
• If you use the Toy Baby Dragon on Urist, it will say "Why would you give this back to Urist?
• The name "Urist" itself is a homage to Dwarf Fortress, where the dwarf equivalent of "John" is Urist.
• The title of the quest 'From Tiny Acorns' is taken from the phrase 'from tiny acorns mighty oaks grow'.
• After completing the caper, Urist Loric sells crafting equipment. It is also possible to steal his craftsman's monocle by telling him that his talisman is on the ground.