Musa Point

"Musa" redirects here. For the smith, see Musa the Smith.

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Musa Point
Release						11 June 2001 (Update)
Members						No
Location						Karamja
Teleports						Amulet of glory
Music						Jungle Island Sea Shanty
Features
1, 2
See features section below
Map

Musa Point is the northeast edge of Karamja, located west of Port Sarim. It hosts a dungeon, as well as the only spot to cage raw lobsters, and harpoon raw tuna and raw swordfish in free-to-play outside of the Wilderness.

Getting there

• Port Sarim lodestone teleport, then speak to the sailors just east of the lodestone to sail to Musa Point for 30 coins. This is the only method of access for Free-to-play players.
• Amulet of glory teleport to Karamja deposits players in the Banana plantation on Musa Point.
• TokKul-Zo teleport to the main plaza of TzHaar City. Run south and exit the city, then run east from the volcano to Musa Point.
• Dungeoneering cape teleport to Karamja Volcano resource dungeon. Exit the dungeon, then run east from the volcano.

Stores

Musa Point has only one store.

Karamja General Store

Karamja General Store is located west of the boat players arrive on in the F2P part, and is run by Shopkeeper Kofi. Since this part of Karamja is far away from a bank, players rarely sell anything to this store. However, fishers on the island will sometimes sell their fish to this general store. Players sometimes also sell burnt fish, although following an update in which burnt food became stackable, this is no longer a common practice. 4 Teak tree can found behind the general store.

Bars

Karamja has a few bars, though only one is available to non-members.

Karamja Wines, Spirits, and Beers

Karamja Wines, Spirits, and Beers is the bar east of the general store. The store is owned by a man named Zembo. Players can purchase beer, karamjan rum, and wine from Zembo.

Quests

• Pirate's Treasure - In the quest, players need to buy a Karamjan rum from Zembo's bar for Redbeard Frank, the pirate. It costs 30 coins and can only be transported off the island by being stashed in a crate along with Luthas' packed bananas.
• A Void Dance - This is one of the locations the player tracks the void leech to.

Features

There are quite a few things players can do on the island, mostly to do with the fishing docks and the volcano.

A player fishes for Tuna off the pier at Musa Point.

Fishing

The northeastern dock is the only place in the free-to-play world where players can fish for raw tuna, raw lobster, and raw swordfish (except for the Wilderness) making it the most popular fishing spot for non-members. It is a popular chatting place among fishing players as it is routinely crowded. Because the nearest bank is so far away, many players cut (or bring) logs to cook their fish right on the dock, or noting them at Stiles to the southwest.

Stiles

A man named Stiles on the southern part of Musa Point was added to the game in the Slayer Challenges update on 21 April 2010, and will exchange raw and cooked fish for banknotes. He appears to be sitting in a chair fixing a crayfish cage, and there are two barrels of fish next to him. He is located towards the south, almost directly south of the volcano entrance. He can only exchange lobsters, swordfish, and tuna, which are the main fish caught in this area. Although not technically a bank, he fulfils the primary demands of players, especially free players, training on the island. Prior to his release, players had to either travel off the island and bank their fish, sell them to the nearby general store, or simply drop them.

Luthas' banana plantation

Luthas' banana plantation is across from Zembo's bar, with 33 banana trees, each of which bears 5 bananas. Luthas' house can be found on the east side of the plantation and to the north of the house is a single air rune respawn.

Karamja Volcano

Karamja's volcano is in the western part of the island. On the rim of the volcano lie a multitude of dead trees. These trees can be cut for logs, which can subsequently be used to light fires; handy for high-level fishing and cooking at the docks. The volcano hosts a dungeon underneath it. The entrance has a few mid-level skeletons, while there are also lesser demons slightly to the west. After completing the Dragon Slayer quest, players can go through a hidden wall that leads to the crash site on Crandor.

• The entrance to TzHaar City is located on top of the volcano, just west of the dungeon entrance. Members can access this city for its bank, stores, sulphur vents for cooking, furnace and fairy ring.

Water sources

Players can obtain water from a well on the west side of Zembo's bar. This well is also one of the spots where the polar bear may be found for Penguin Hide and Seek.

Combat

The north-western area has a level 4 man, level 5 monkeys, level 8 snakes, level 14 scorpions, and level 21 jungle spiders. This is the only place where free players can find snakes and monkeys.

Grappling

A hidey-hole for a 2-way grapple shortcut from Musa Point to southern Karamja can be found west of the Karamja General Store along the shoreline. It appears as a "Convenient rock" near a "Strong tree" and is located where the shortcut is indicated on the minimap. The hidey-hole is a buildable storage spot to store a crossbow and grapple and eliminates the need to carry a crossbow and grapple to use the shortcut. To construct the hidey-hole, level 52 Construction is required as well as a saw and hammer (the tool belt works), 4 mahogany planks, a mithril crossbow and a mithril grapple. Level 53 Agility, 42 Ranged, and 21 Strength is required to use the shortcut.

Alternatively, making an enhanced grappling hook and putting it into the tool belt negates the need to construct the hidey-hole or storing the items there.

Christmas Event

The 2006 Christmas Event was started on Musa Point and set in the surrounding area, including the volcano.

Players talked to Shanty Claws on the north-eastern dock to start the event. Players who completed the event can still see the three children rescued during the event dancing around near the northern dock; players who did not complete the event cannot.

What to bring

Here are some things you may need while fishing:

• Coins (to get on and off the island), or a ring of charos (a) to travel for free; alternatively the Karamja lodestone or explorer's ring 3 could be used to teleport without using an inventory space.
• Noted food can be sold and then immediately bought from the general store. Doing this can save time when training in the volcano.

Following updates to the tool belt allowing (permanent) storage of a hatchet of any metal, players no longer need to bring a hatchet, as putting a rune hatchet on the tool belt is fairly inexpensive. The closest range is at Brimhaven, or the sulphur vents inside TzHaar City, but they are members-only.

If killing lesser demons inside the volcano, players can bring noted prayer urns, sell one urn to the general store and immediately buy it back. They can then add the air rune respawn to it to collect the demons' ashes.

Graphical updates

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  Musa Point shortcut after Unknown date (edit)

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  Musa Point shortcut after Unknown date (edit)

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 9 Dec 2024 (Update):
  • Added 4 teak tree behind the general store.

• patch 4 May 2021 (Update):
  • Fixed a minor issue with the animation on the Musa Point grapple shortcut.

• patch 12 September 2016 (Update):
  • Removed a man from the Karamja docks who had been loitering.

• patch 31 May 2016 (Update):
  • You can now pickpocket the man on the dock of Musa Point.

• patch 28 June 2011 (Update):
  • The banana plantation no longer has a completely flat section.

• update 21 April 2010 (Update):
  • A new bank NPC near Musa Point can now convert your fish into bank notes, which should prove quite useful.

• patch 1 April 2009 (Update):
  • Some of the water near the Musa Point docks has been updated to better fit in with the rest of the area.

• patch 25 February 2009 (Update):
  • The Musa Point pier popular with fishermen has had its posts lined up correctly with their bases.

• update 11 June 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

The "Ditch glitch"

• Musa is also a part of the scientific name(s) for bananas, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Banana trees dominate most of the free-to-play part of the island.
• When Stealing Creation was released, there was a ditch at the point where characters embark from Port Sarim. It was removed about 9 December.
• At one point, this part of Karamja wasn't even called Musa Point. The name "Musa Point" was added to the map in December 2006 to differentiate itself from the other parts of the island. This also gave a name to the only part of Karamja that is accessible to F2P players.
• Before the update which included Stiles, many players used to riot at the fishing dock about the lack of a bank or range. Rioting sometimes spread to the area around Luthas' house, and occasionally Port Sarim or even Falador. Ironically, with Stiles's appearance, the price of several fish types plummeted due the fact he is able to change collected fish into bank notes, resulting in another riot.
• The two trees at the port did not receive any graphical update unlike the trees on the mainland. They were later removed, which also removed the closest source of logs for players fishing at Musa Point.