Port Sarim

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Port Sarim
Release						6 April 2001 (Update)
Members						No
Location						Asgarnia
Teleports						Port Sarim lodestone
Music						Sea Shanty II
Features
1, 1, 6
Map

Symbol of Port Sarim

Port Sarim is a town in south-eastern Asgarnia. It is noted for its fishing store and port. It is often used for its port as players can travel to different islands using the charter ships.

City information

Port Sarim
Inhabitants	Humans
Features	1 (in player-owned port), 1, 1

Getting there

Ships docked in Port Sarim

• Players can teleport to Port Sarim using the Home Teleport spell once they have activated Port Sarim lodestone.
• Port Sarim can be entered by land from Falador to the north/north-west, Draynor Village to the east, Rimmington to the west, or Thurgo's Peninsula to the south.
• If a player has the explorer's ring 3 or 4 equipped or in their inventory, they can teleport to the Falador cabbage patch north of the area and walk south.
• Players with a clan vexillum can also teleport to the Clan Camp and walk south-east.
• Players can also travel by ship from Karamja, Crandor, or Entrana, arriving at the dock.
• Players can also travel to Port Sarim jail directly from Al Kharid by telling Shantay that they are outlaws. If they disagree to his terms, he will teleport them to Port Sarim jail. They can then pick the lock (both F2P and P2P) in their cell to get out.
• Fairy ring (code AIQ) travels to Mudskipper Point, the southern extent of Thurgo's Peninsula, south of Port Sarim.
• Using the teleport option on the Arc Journal obtained from Sharkborne. Requires completion of Impressing the Locals.

Quests

Quests started in Port Sarim

• Pirate's Treasure - Port Sarim's sole quest; may be started by talking to Redbeard Frank south of the bar.
• Impressing the Locals - Miniquest to unlock access to The Arc
• A Shadow over Ashdale - Can be started by speaking to Gudrik east of Gerrant's Fishy Business.

Quests involving Port Sarim

• Pirate's Treasure
• Dragon Slayer
• Catapult Construction
• One Small Favour
• Swept Away
• Rat Catchers
• A Void Dance
• Rocking Out
• Purple Cat (miniquest)

Monsters

• 

  Thief, level 14

• 

  Seagull, level 1

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  Man, level 4

• 

  Woman, level 4

• 

  Rat, level 1

• 

  Goblin, level 2 and 4

Features

Port Sarim jail

Main article: Port Sarim jail

The jail is at the south-west point of the port. It is home to Wormbrain, a goblin who is involved in the Dragon Slayer quest as well as two notable NPCs and former random event characters, Cap'n Hand and Rick Turpentine.

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  The Jail

Farm

Located between Port Sarim and Falador, the farm has chickens, cows, and a cabbage field. Two eggs can be found in the chicken coop and a sink can be found on the east side of the farm. Members can access a farming shop here and use the loom in the south-east room. There are pigs and piglets on the farm, though they can not be attacked. In the north-eastern field of the northern farm are several allotment patches, notably for beginning farmers. This farm is often referred to as 'Falador Farm'.

• 

  The Rimmington mine

Rimmington mine

Main article: Rimmington mining site

The Rimmington mine can be found west of the port. There are 2 tin, 3 copper, 4 adamantite and 3 gold rocks which can be mined.

Spirit tree patch

East of The Rusty Anchor, in the north-eastern corner of Port Sarim, there is a patch to plant a spirit tree. Having this spirit tree fully grown with the rest of the spirit trees is one of the requirements for the completionist cape.

Church altar

An altar can be found by walking south-west from the jail and by entering the church. A mini summoning obelisk is also located north of the church. This church is a branch of the Church of Saradomin. Next to the church there is a graveyard with several gravestones. The graveyard consists of some characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, such as Ophelia, Horatio, and a deceased resident named Yorick. Along with the other gravestones, another reads, "...let last P..nce of..." which could be interpreted as "Hamlet last Prince of Denmark".

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  The church south of Port Sarim

Thurgo's Peninsula & Mudskipper Point

Thurgo's Peninsula, and Mudskipper Point, can be found by walking south from the port. Here players can find:

• One of the last known Imcando dwarves, Thurgo, in his hut
• The entrance to the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon
• A members only fairy ring (code AIQ)
• The spot for slaying mogres

Banking

There is a useful bank deposit box at the Monks of Entrana on the docks.

Attempting to travel to Entrana with restricted items will open a full bank interface.

Also, once a player has advanced far enough in the player-owned port minigame, there is bank access within their port.

Player-owned ports

Main article: Player-owned port

The portal to access one's player-owned port can be found between Brian's Battleaxe Bazaar and The Rusty Anchor Inn, all of which are in the northern part of Port Sarim.

Stores

Betty's Magic Emporium

Main article: Betty's Magic Emporium

Betty's Magic Emporium can be found on the north-western part of the port. Betty runs the store and sells magic items. Players can purchase runes, eyes of newt, and blue and black wizard hats.

In recent times, running wizard hats has become popular, because they are worth nearly 100 times as much at the Grand Exchange as they are here.

Grum's Gold Exchange

Main article: Grum's Gold Exchange

Grum's Gold Exchange is located directly south of Betty's Magic Emporium. Grum runs the store and sells various jewellery. Players can purchase rings, necklaces, and strung amulets. The store is stocked only by other players selling their jewellery.

Brian's Battleaxe Bazaar

Main article: Brian's Battleaxe Bazaar

Brian's Battleaxe Bazaar is located east of Grum's Gold Exchange. Brian runs the store and sells battleaxes.

Players can purchase battleaxes from bronze to adamant, including the rare black.

Gerrant's Fishy Business

Main article: Gerrant's Fishy Business

Gerrant's Fishy Business can be found just south of Grum's Gold Exchange. Gerrant runs the store and sells raw fish and fishing equipment.

Players can purchase all free-to-play fishing equipment here: fishing bait, feathers, and raw fish from shrimps all the way to swordfish.

On the north wall of the store respawns a white apron. Fishing poles and Lobster traps are also common occurrences.

Wydin's Food Store

Main article: Wydin's Food Store

Wydin's Food Store is located directly south of Gerrant's Fishy Business. The store is owned by Wydin and sells various items of fresh food.

The store plays an important part in the Pirate's Treasure quest. Players can also be hired as a worker for Wydin once they reach a certain point on the quest. Once they are hired, they can receive free food. If you ask him what he recommends he will tell you about bananas.

The Rusty Anchor Inn

Main article: The Rusty Anchor

The Rusty Anchor Inn is located east of Brian's Battleaxe Bazaar. The inn is owned by the bartender, and sells beer for 2 coins. Due to an update, the musician located in the bar is just like regular musicians (except for the bug, described below in the trivia section). The Inn also plays a small part in the A Void Dance quest, whereby several patrons, and even the barkeep are under the draining effect of the strange goo, located in the basement of the inn.

The port

Port Sarim ships

• 
  Musa Point
• 
  Entrana
• 
  Void Knights' Outpost
• 
  The Arc
• 
  Charter ship
• 
  Crandor

North dock

Members can travel to Entrana from here. The monks will not allow player to carry weapons or armour, though it is possible to import materials to fletch a bow and arrows or to craft leather armour. Runes are also allowed.

West dock

All players can travel to Karamja from this dock, for a price of 30 coins. There is a right-click option on any of the sailors, to "Pay fare" and travel without any additional dialogue. This price will be reduced if wearing Karamja gloves, or the trip will be free after asking, while wearing the ring of charos (a). Both items are members only.

Centre dock

• The Lady Lumbridge, a ship in need of repair, is moored here. She features in the Dragon Slayer quest. After the quest the original owner reclaims it and paints over the name with paint, denying that it was once the player's.
• The Void Knights dock can be found on the centre pier. Talk to the squire to go to the Void Knights' Outpost where members can play the minigames Pest Control or Conquest.

South dock

Trader Stan and crew are here. They have many things to trade with any adventurer, including the tyras helm. They will also allow members to use the charter ships to travel to many other ports.

Submarine

One of the submarines can be found on Port Sarim. It is one of the teasers of the quest, Hunt for Red Raktuber.

Music

Main article: List of music

In the city

• Sea Folk
• Sea Hear
• Sea Shanty II
• Sea You Late Oar
• Shanty Instrumental
• Stick Your Oar In

Inside the Rusty Anchor

• Honkytonky Harmony
• Honkytonky Newbie Melody
• Honkytonky Parade
• Honkytonky Sea Shanty

Inside Surula's tavern

• Stick Your Ale In

Graphical updates

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  Port Sarim chapel after Unknown date (edit)

• 

  Port Sarim chapel after 9 May 2023 (update)

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 24 February 2025 (Update):
  • Point lights added to buildings.

• update 9 May 2023 (Update):
  • Port Sarim graphically updated.

• hidden 3 April 2023 (Update):
  • Ground textures in Port Sarim have been graphically updated.

• patch 5 October 2020 (Update):
  • The lantern in the Port Sarim jewellery store has been moved away from the window.

• patch 21 May 2018 (Update):
  • Objects dropped beneath a canopy on the Port Sarim docks no longer appear on top of it.

• patch 9 April 2018 (Update):
  • The south docks of Port Sarim will now correctly play music

• patch 22 January 2018 (Update):
  • The southernmost ship in Port Sarim now reflects correctly on the water.

• patch 12 December 2016 (Update):
  • Players will no longer float while standing on specific spots in Port Sarim.

• patch 17 October 2016 (Update):
  • The audio around Port Sarim once again plays correctly.

• patch 1 August 2016 (Update):
  • Removed cannon fire audio from Port Sarim.

• patch 25 April 2016 (Update):
  • Removed the Port Sarim's Rat Pit entrance.

• patch 9 November 2015 (Update):
  • A graphical issue with an oak tree in Port Sarim has been fixed.

• patch 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • A force-walk tile west of Port Sarim's lodestone has been removed.

• patch 2 October 2013 (Update):
  • Several tiles south of Port Sarim no longer force players off them.

• patch 22 November 2011 (Update):
  • A building in Port Sarim now looks connected to its wooden supports.

• patch 28 March 2011 (Update):
  • Sailors’ feet no longer clip with a gangplank in Port Sarim.

• patch 20 December 2010 (Update):
  • A floating roof in Port Sarim has been fixed.

• patch 6 October 2010 (Update):
  • Fixed the ship windows in Port Sarim.

• patch 5 July 2010 (Update):
  • Corrected some z-bias issues around Port Sarim docks.

• patch 9 November 2009 (Update):
  • Fixed a see-through wall between Draynor Village and Port Sarim.
  • Flattened the pier flooring in Port Sarim.

• patch 7 October 2009 (Update):
  • Fixed some height mapping in Port Sarim near the docks.

• update 12 June 2001 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug where the food shop in port sarim didn't work after completing the pirate's treasure quest.

• update 6 April 2001 (Update):
  • The fishing docks of Port Sarim are added to the game, along with the Ice giant dungeon.

Trivia

• If you look in Gerrant's Fishy Business and the axe shop, you can see one tile that is not like the others. Another tile like it floats above it. This is yet to have been fixed. This is only present in Minimum - Low detail.
• Port Sarim has been in Gielinor since DeviousMUD.
• When using the home teleport spell to Port Sarim, a bug used to occur when the loading screen gets stuck on "Loading - Please wait. (50%)" forcing the player to have to restart RuneScape. This has since been fixed.
• After the update that made "Listen to" the default option of musicians, Jagex forgot to change the text on the musician in the Rusty Anchor Inn. Clicking "Talk to" will result in your character sitting down and listening, while "Listen to" will begin talking to the character you clicked "Talk to". This has since been fixed.
• The cemetery outside Port Sarim refers to several of Shakespeare's works, Including references to Ophelia, Horatio from Hamlet, etc.
• Port Sarim was founded on roughly the same area that Port Lina, a settlement from the Fourth Age, had previously existed on.