Runescape Quest Guide :: Sheep Shearer

The Sheep Shearer quest is a great one to start with if you are new to the game. This Runescape quest guide is the first of several to be covered here in detail. Once you've finished these quests I'm sure you'll want to do more and if you get stuck Killer Guides has put together the most comprehensive Runescape quest guide around with over 100 pages of information.

Difficulty: Easy
Length: Short
Quest Starter: Fred the Farmer
Quest Points: 1
Gold Coins: 60
XP: Crafting (150)

Before You Start

To be able to complete this quest without too much running around, make sure you have 21 free inventory slots before you start, otherwise you’re going to have to do parts of the quest in two or more batches depending on how much room you have in your inventory.

Step 1: Talk to Fred the Farmer

From Lumbridge, head north along the road until you see a small chicken farm on your left. I’ve indicated the position on the map below.

Go inside the building and talk to Fred the Farmer:

He’ll start talking about his sheep:

If you probe him he’ll ask you to help shear them for him:

He’ll also talk about something called ‘The Thing’ which is supposedly some kind of sheep. I didn’t see it while I was doing the quest and I’ve not heard of anyone else who did so that might just be a bit of fun :-) Fred will tell you to pick up the shears

Step 2: Shear the Sheep

Before you leave the building, check the table against the wall. There are shears on there that you can pick up so you don’t need to buy them. You get to keep these after the quest is finished which is quite handy.

Once you’ve picked up the shears head out of the building and head back down the road. The sheep pen is right next to the building but you need to go a little ways back down the road to find the gate to get in. Now the fun starts!

Your mission is to run after the sheep trying to shear them but they’ll run away from you. Make sure you are running and not walking as that makes it much easier to chase the buggers down! I found that I could make them into a corner sometimes. In the picture below you can see that there are two types of sheep in the field.

The big fat fluffy ones are the ones that need shearing and the skinny looking ones have already been done. Also check what you click on because if you accidentally click on a Ram you’ll attack him instead of shearing! They are only level 2 but they just take ages to kill and don’t drop anything useful so it’s just a waste of time.

One last thing... some of those sheep have special bouncy legs and they spring up in the air to get away from you. Highly amusing :-) And don't bother chasing those ones because you won't catch them!

Successfully shearing a sheep will put one wool in your inventory:

Step 3: Spin the Wool

Once you have as much wool as you can carry, head back to the Lumbridge Castle where you started the game. Upstairs there is a spinning room:

Just click on that and it will bring up a panel showing you what you can spin. If this is your first quest then you’ll probably only have “Ball of Wool” available. Each wool spins into one Ball of Wool:

Step 4: Return the Wool to Fred the Farmer

Run back up the road to the farm and give Fred your balls of wool to complete the quest. Note that if you did not have enough room in your inventory for all 20 at once you can turn them in to Fred in batches. That’s it, quest complete!

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this Runescape quest guide and found it useful. Once you've finished Sheep Shearer you might want to try Cook's Assistant and after that there are still over 120 quests left to explore. I haven't written guides on all of those - there's no need because Killer Guides has already done a brilliant job of that with their ultimate Runescape Quest Guide which gives complete walkthroughs of all the best quests in the game.