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I was just casually sifting soil, while doing things on my hardcore, and I happened to notice that the artefacts from the Orthen digsite, that i got while sifting soil, were consistently giving me good exp. Then it hit me. Their tier range is pretty small, and simultaneously is very high level. In other words, you are GUARANTEED to get good exp out of those artefacts, and frankly, you get them more frequently than if you were digging.

Now I haven't done any actual testing with numbers, but i'm just leaving this out here, for any people interested to do the math!

P.S. I have the full master outfit and am using the sift soil spell.

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about 4 years ago - /u/JagexRowley - Direct link

Are you screening or using the new sift soil lunar spell?

Did you mean materials? The odds of getting artefacts from screening soil are very low at base.

about 4 years ago - /u/JagexRowley - Direct link

Originally posted by buck0384

another early bird bonus by the sounds of it

More likely just a run of good luck. Not everything has to be a spaghetti bug. The chance for an artefact is 1/1k, so that's just over 2x average. I don't know everything about Sift Soil, so it might boost artefact chance (doubt it, but it might). There'll be someone else out there going dry on artefacts for 5k soil. Regardless, we'll do our due diligence and check to be certain.