Cabin Fever/Quick guide (2025)

Cabin Fever/Quick guide (1)
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Contents

  • 1 Overview
  • 2 Setting sail
  • 3 Sabotage
  • 4 Fixing the leaks
  • 5 Pirate plunder
  • 6 Cannon
  • 7 Rewards
  • 8 Required for completing

Overview[edit | edit source]

Start pointCabin Fever/Quick guide (2) Talk to Bill Teach in the Port Phasmatys Inn, The Green Ghost. Show on map


2006

Member requirementCabin Fever/Quick guide (5) Members only
Official lengthMedium
Requirements
Cabin Fever/Quick guide (6) Quests:
  • Cabin Fever
    • Pirate's Treasure
    • Rum Deal
      • Ability to enter Morytania
  • 42 Agility
  • 45 Crafting
  • 40 Ranged
  • 50 Smithing
Items requiredItems from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added.
  • None
Recommended
  • If you have not completed Ghosts Ahoy, ecto-tokens and a ghostspeak amulet or some coins to charter a ship are needed.
  • If you have completed Ghosts Ahoy, an ectophial helps you to get to the Port Phasmatys faster.
  • 11 free inventory spaces
Enemies to defeat
  • None, but beware of level 26 pirates.

Setting sail[edit | edit source]

  • Travel to Port Phasmatys.
  • Talk to Bill Teach in the inn. (Cabin Fever/Quick guide (11) 1)
  • Run to the dock and cross the gangplank to board the eastern-most ship.
  • Talk to Bill Teach. (Cabin Fever/Quick guide (12) 1)

Sabotage[edit | edit source]

  • Search the repair locker, take 4 ropes.
  • Search the Gun Locker, take 1 fuse.
  • Climb-up the ship's ladder.
  • Climb the climbing net next to the main mast.
  • Use rope from the backpack on the hoisted sail.
    • The same actions of climbing and using the rope are used to change ships every time.
  • Add fuse on the powder barrel west side.
  • Light the fuse (you may fail and have to retry).
  • Climb the climbing net and use the rope on the hoisted sail as before.
  • Talk to Bill.

Fixing the leaks[edit | edit source]

  • Climb-down the ship's ladder.
  • Search the repair locker and take:
    • 30 tacks
    • 6 planks
    • 3 swamp paste
  • For each of the three leaks in the hull:
    • Fill the ship hull.
    • Waterproof the ship hull.
  • Climb-up the ship's ladder and talk to Bill.
    • Be sure to finish all the dialogue else you won't be able to proceed.

Pirate plunder[edit | edit source]

Needed: 2 ropes

  • Board the other ship (climb and use rope as before).
  • Climb-down their Ship's ladder.
  • Plunder the closed chest for 5 plunder.
  • Return to your ship.
  • Climb-down your ship's ladder.
  • Store-plunder on the plunder storage.
  • Return to and talk to Bill.

Cannon[edit | edit source]

  • Climb-down the ship's ladder.
  • Search the gun locker for a cannon barrel.
  • Repair the broken cannon on the top deck.
  • Talk to Bill.
  • Search the gun locker and take:
    • Ramrod.
    • Some fuses (take 3 in case of failure).
    • Some cannon canisters (take 3 in case of failure).
  • Climb-up the ship's ladder.
  • Prepare and fire the cannon. If you miss you will need to repeat these steps.
    • If you make a mistake, you can empty-out the cannon. You will still need to clean it with the ramrod (final instruction).
    • Take-powder from the powder barrel next to the cannon on the deck.
    • Use gunpowder on the cannon.
    • Then the ramrod.
    • Then a canister.
    • Then a fuse.
    • Fire! the cannon. Check your chat log to see if you hit or not.
    • Use the ramrod on the cannon again to clean it.
  • Talk to Bill.
  • Return to the gun locker and take:
    • At least 5 cannon balls.
    • At least 5 fuses.
    • 2 cannon barrel (the cannon may blow up).
  • Fire the cannon as before, substituting the canister for a cannon ball, until you put three holes in the enemy's ship.
  • Quest complete!
  • Talk to Bill to claim another reward.

Rewards[edit | edit source]

  • 2 quest points
  • 7,000 experience lamp
  • 7,000 experience lamp
  • 7,000 experience lamp
  • 10,000 coins (only if you speak to Bill Teach after the quest)
  • Access to Mos Le'Harmless
  • Access to kill cave horrors and unspeakable horrors
  • The ability to understand pirates on Mos Le'Harmless with the Little Book o' Piracy
  • Charter ship prices are halved
  • 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
Music unlocked
  • Cabin Fever
  • In the Brine

Required for completing[edit | edit source]

Cabin Fever is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

  • Ritual of the Mahjarrat
  • The Great Brain Robbery

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

  • A Clockwork Syringe
  • A New Age
  • Aftermath
  • Alpha vs Omega
  • Azzanadra's Quest
  • Battle of the Monolith
  • Children of Mah
  • City of Senntisten
  • Full comprehension of Curse of the Black Stone
  • Desperate Creatures
  • Desperate Measures
  • Full comprehension of Desperate Times
  • Dishonour among Thieves
  • Full comprehension of Evil Dave's Big Day Out
  • Extinction
  • Eye of Het I
  • Eye of Het II
  • Fate of the Gods
  • Full comprehension of Heart of Stone
  • Full comprehension of Hero's Welcome
  • Kindred Spirits
  • Koschei's Troubles (miniquest)
  • Mahjarrat Memories (miniquest)
  • Full comprehension of Missing, Presumed Death
  • Full comprehension of Nadir (saga)
  • Nomad's Elegy
  • Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Finale
  • Full comprehension of Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Fortunes
  • One of a Kind
  • Pieces of Hate
  • Rebuilding Edgeville (miniquest)
  • Remains of the Necrolord
  • Rocking Out
  • Sins of the Father
  • Sliske's Endgame
  • Tales of Nomad (miniquest)
  • The Light Within
  • The Mighty Fall
  • Full completion of The World Wakes
  • Full comprehension of The World Wakes
  • Twilight of the Gods

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Cabin Fever

Part 3 of the Pirate quest series
NPCs
  • Bill Teach
  • Pirate
  • Mama
Items
  • Fuse
  • Repair plank
  • Tacks
  • Plunder
  • Cannon barrel
  • Canister
  • Gunpowder
  • Cannon ball
  • Ramrod
  • Broken cannon
  • Little Book o' Piracy
Scenery
  • Barrel
  • Barrel (removed)
  • Gun Locker
  • Powder barrel
Rewards
  • Agility XP lamp
  • Crafting XP lamp
  • Smithing XP lamp
Locations
  • The Adventurous
Music
  • Cabin Fever
  • In the Brine
Miscellaneous

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