Volcanic ash

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Volcanic ash
Release																				19 October 2020 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				This can be screened at the Archaeology campus.
Values
Value																				200 coins
High alch																				120 coins
Low alch																				80 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1,660 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.05 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,660 coins (info)
Buy limit																				5,000
Volume																				27,785
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Advanced data
Item ID																				50696
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Volcanic ash is soil found by excavating at Daemonheim Dig Site and Orthen Dig Site which requires level 73 and 90 Archaeology respectively.

It can be screened at level 73 Archaeology to obtain materials and rarely artefacts from it at the screening station at the Archaeology Campus.

Loot

For details on what you can get at your Archaeology level, see the calculator below. For more detail on soil screening mechanics, see Soil#Mechanics.

When successfully screening soil, an excavation spot that the player is able to excavate from is randomly selected, and the material/artefact obtained is selected from those available at that excavation, based on the relative chances of each material at that excavation.

The success chance of screening soil depends on the player's Archaeology level in two ways: a stat_random call is performed, and the high value of that call depends on the Archaeology level. Wearing the master archaeologist's outfit increases the stat_random value multiplicatively by 1.07. A player wearing the outfit will be approximately 95.7% successful at level 120. If the stat_random roll is not successful, then nothing is obtained. Otherwise, a 1/1000 roll for an artefact is performed; if the 1/1000 roll is not successful, then the player receives a material instead.

It is believed boosts above level 120 will continue to increase the success rate, but this has not been extensively tested. This would mean that boosting to level 127 or above will yield a 100% success rate, although this is currently only achievable with advanced pulse cores.

Materials

	Item	Level	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Dragon metal	73	1	Varies	4,183	150
	Goldrune	73	1	Varies	3,452	150
	Orgone	73	1	Varies	8,152	150
	Orthenglass	73	1	Varies	3,389	150
	Soapstone	87	1	Varies	3,590	150
	Compass rose	77	1	Varies	3,477	150
	Carbon black	78	1	Varies	3,567	150
	Felt	78	1	Varies	4,266	150

Artefacts

When successfully screening soil, an excavation spot that the player is able to excavate from is randomly selected. There is a 1/1,000 chance to obtain an artefact from that excavation instead of a material.

	Item	Level	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Castle gatestone (damaged)	73	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Engraved ring of kinship (damaged)	73	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Exploratory totem (damaged)	77	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Excavator portal mine (damaged)	77	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Storage totem (damaged)	78	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Plant seed satchel (damaged)	78	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Snuff box (damaged)	78	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Spent summoning charm (damaged)	87	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	'Friendship bracelet' (damaged)	87	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Homely totem (damaged)	87	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Ritual bell (damaged)	90	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Pasaha (damaged)	90	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Kilaya (damaged)	96	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Vazara (damaged)	96	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Death mask (damaged)	99	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Dragonkin calendar (damaged)	99	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Dragonkin staff (damaged)	99	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Dragon scalpel (damaged)	101	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Protective goggles (damaged)	101	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Dragon burner (damaged)	102	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Orthenglass flask (damaged)	102	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Meditation pipe (damaged)	106	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Singing bowl (damaged)	106	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Personal totem (damaged)	106	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Lingam stone (damaged)	108	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Master control (damaged)	108	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Xolo pickaxe (damaged)	113	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Xolo hard hat (damaged)	113	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Xolo spear (damaged)	119	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Xolo shield (damaged)	119	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	Gold dish (damaged)	120	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A
	'Raksha' idol (damaged)	120	1	Varies	Not sold	N/A

Calculator

module = Archaeology soil calculator modulefunc = main form = soilcalc-form result = soilcalc-result name=Soil screening calculator param = level|Archaeology level|120|int|1-128|| param = outfit|Master archaeologist outfit worn?|false|check|true,false|| param = soil|Soil|Volcanic ash|hidden||| param = numsoil|Amount of soil|5000|int|1-|| param = siftsoilspell|Using Sift Soil spell?|false|check|true,false|| param = combinedartefacts|Combine artefacts in display|false|check|true,false||Collapses all the artefacts in the output to a single row instead

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Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Archaeology potion (3)		78	175	1 × Avantoe potion (unf) 5 × Volcanic ash	9,303

Sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Aughra remains	106	1	3/20
Autopsy table	101	1	3/20
Botanical reserve	78	1	Unknown
Castle hall rubble	73	1	3/20
Communal space	87	1	Unknown
Dragonkin coffin	99	1	3/20
Dragonkin reliquary	96	1	3/20
Experiment workbench	102	1	3/20
Material cache (Eye of Dagon)	36	1	3/20
Material cache (carbon black)	78	1	3/20
Material cache (chaotic brimstone)	29	1	3/20
Material cache (compass rose)	77	1	3/20
Material cache (dragon metal)	73	1	3/20
Material cache (felt)	78	1	3/20
Material cache (orgone)	73	1	3/20
Moksha device	108	1	3/20
Projection space	103	1	Common
Saurthen debris	120	1	3/20
Security booth	107	1	Unknown
Traveller's station	113	1	Common
Tunnelling equipment repository	77	1	Unknown
Varanusaur remains	90	1	3/20
Xolo mine	113	1	3/20
Xolo remains	119	1	3/20

Money making guide

The following money making guides are available for Volcanic ash:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills	Other requirements
Screening volcanic ash	8,097,151	110  68  (99  recommended) 50  (5% increase to materials)	None
Screening soil using Sift Soil (Volcanic ash)	12,078,923	99  (120  recommended) 91  50  recommended	Lunar spells activated Guildmaster qualification at the Archaeology Guild  Lunar Diplomacy

Disassembly

Volcanic ash
Disassembly category	Default
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

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 17 June 2024 (Update):
  • Lowered the requirements to screen Volcanic ash to 73 Archaeology to match the lowest level spot that Volcanic ash can be obtained from an excavation spot.

• patch 17 May 2021 (Update):
  • Using soils from the Archaeology skill on one another no longer opens a Herblore UI.

• patch 2 November 2020 (Update):
  • Screening volcanic ash will now progress appropriate Yak Track tasks.

• patch 26 October 2020 (Update):
  • Artefacts from 'Desperate Measures' will no longer appear when screening soil.

• update 19 October 2020 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Volcanic ash shares the name of an item in Old School Runescape. The Old School Runescape volcanic ash is a mineable resource only found on Fossil Island and used to improve compost.