Note (October 2026): This guide has been corrected. The last refining step uses the polishing wheel, not a sandstone, and the ring of dueling teleport now goes to Emir’s Arena, which replaced the Duel Arena in July 2022.
Sleeping Giants is a very short, members-only Old School RuneScape quest released on 8 June 2022. It requires level 15 Smithing (boosts do not count). You start it by talking to Kovac on the Giants’ Plateau east of Al Kharid, repair three foundry machines, and forge one giant sword. The reward is 1 quest point, 6,000 Smithing XP and access to the Giants’ Foundry minigame.
Key Takeaways
- Requirement: level 15 Smithing, which cannot be boosted. No other quests are needed.
- Bring 3 oak logs, 1 wool (not a ball of wool), 10 nails, a hammer, a chisel, and a bucket of water or ice gloves.
- The fastest route is the Minigame Teleport to Giants’ Foundry, which has a 20-minute cooldown.
- Refining order: trip hammer (hot), grindstone (medium), polishing wheel (cold), using the lava pool and waterfall to adjust the temperature.
- Rewards: 1 quest point, 6,000 Smithing XP and access to the Giants’ Foundry and its reward shop.
If you’ve ever wanted to complete the Sleeping Giants quest from Old School RuneScape, we’ve got you covered.
Sleeping Giants is a members’ quest in OSRS, released on 8 June 2022 together with the Giants’ Foundry. You must finish it to enter that Smithing minigame, where Kovac pays coins for every finished sword. That payment offsets part of the cost of the bars, so you spend less OSRS gold when training: the Giants’ Foundry.
Here, you’ll be able to obtain the untradeable double ammo mold, the Smithing outfit, a Colossal Blade, Ore Packs, Smithing Catalyst, and a Consumable Boost (Kovac’s Grog). The minigame trains Smithing in a different way from anvil work. According to the Old School RuneScape Wiki, the coin reward for each sword is twice its experience reward, so forging can cost less GP per XP than other methods and can even turn a profit with steel bars or a steel and mithril mix.
Requirements to Fulfill
Before starting the quest, you will need a non-boostable Smithing level 15 and a few inexpensive OSRS items. You will need three oak logs, one piece of wool, ten nails, a hammer, a chisel, and a bucket of water or ice gloves.
Every item on this list is cheap on the Grand Exchange (GE), where a regular account can buy everything in seconds. Ironman accounts have to gather the items themselves, and Ultimate Ironmen also need 20 empty inventory spaces to search a crate during the quest. Gathering the items yourself on a regular account works too, but it saves very little GP.
Make sure you haven’t used your minigame teleport in the last 20 minutes, and let’s begin!
A Walkthrough of Sleeping Giants
Go to the grouping tab (it’s in the same menu as the clan chat) and select the Giants’ Foundry mini game teleport to go to Kovac quickly. If you’ve already used your minigame teleport and don’t want to wait, you can use a ring of dueling to teleport to Emir’s Arena (the former Duel Arena) or an amulet of glory to teleport to Al Kharid and run east from there.
Left-click on Kovac or right-click strike to start the dialogue with him. He will ask you not to fight and tell you he needs your help. You can skip through the dialogue safely by keeping the space bar pressed. After the dialogue, select option yes to start the quest.
A cutscene will start, and you’ll be taken to the Giants’ Foundry location, where you’ll have to continue your dialogue with Kovac. If you accidentally log out during this, you’ll be taken outside where you initially teleported. Simply enter the cave to restart the cutscene. Hold the space bar to skip through the dialogue.
You now have to repair certain facilities within the Giants’ Foundry to make everything usable again. Click to repair the broken polishing wheel, hold the space bar to skip through the dialogue, and select option ‘yes’ to proceed and repair it.
Wait for the repair animation to end, and you’ll be prompted with another dialogue that will confirm you have successfully repaired it. If you log out at this point, you won’t lose the progress on the repaired facilities.
Walk to the north and repair the broken grindstone. Skip through the dialogue, select option yes, wait for the animation to end, and receive the confirmation dialogue box. Continue to walk a few tiles to the north and repeat the same process with the broken trip hammer.
Speak to Kovac to exit the instanced quest location. You will now be in the non-instanced Giants’ Foundry, where the Smithing activity occurs. Speak to Kovac again here, and then search the crate just south of Kovac and select option ‘yes’ to take the OSRS items from the crate.
Go to the crucible, a few tiles south from the bank chest. The bank chest is a few tiles east from Kovac. You can click on the crucible to add the bars, but you will need to right-click and select use on the weapons and armors to add them-select option three to add all of the same weapon or armor types at the same time.
Talk to Kovac again, and then click on the mold just north of him. The mold setup interface should appear. Select your molds and then click set mold on the top right corner of the interface.
Speak to Kovac again and skip or read the dialogue as you wish. You won’t lose your progress if you log out now. Return to the crucible and pour the metal into the mold.
Remove anything from your weapon and shield slot, like emptying your hands when making Tears of Guthix, and equip your ice gloves if you have them. Take the Giant Sword pre-form and use the Trip Hammer while its temperature is on red, and once the temperature goes down, head to the lava, dunk the sword to heat it back up, and then return to the trip hammer.
Pay attention that the sword is not too hot; otherwise, you will damage it. Next, cool the preform at the waterfall until the temperature is almost green, then use the grindstone until the progress bar reaches the green section. Using the grindstone will increase the temperature of the preform.
Finally, cool the preform at the waterfall until it is high in the green range and use the polishing wheel until the sword is complete. The polishing wheel decreases the temperature of the sword, so keep an eye on the heat bar. If you do anything to damage the sword, Kovac will interfere and tell you to stop and give tips on what you’re doing wrong.
Rewards for the Sleeping Giants Quest
After you complete the sword, go and speak to Kovac once more to complete the quest. You will receive one quest point, 6k Smithing XP, and access to the Giants’ Foundry, the Smithing minigame where each finished sword also pays out coins.
You can also buy the double ammo mould from Kovac’s reward shop for 2,000 Foundry Reputation once you have completed the Dwarf Cannon quest. It makes 8 cannonballs per action instead of 4, which speeds up smithing cannonballs, one of the most AFK ways to make OSRS GP.
Sleeping Giants at a Glance
The table below summarizes the quest details listed on the Old School RuneScape Wiki, checked in October 2026.
| Detail | Sleeping Giants |
|---|---|
| Release date | 8 June 2022 (Giants’ Foundry update) |
| Membership | Members only |
| Official difficulty | Intermediate |
| Official length | Very Short |
| Start point | Kovac, a Hill Giant with a “Strike” option, on the Giants’ Plateau east of Al Kharid |
| Skill requirement | 15 Smithing (not boostable) |
| Quest requirements | None |
| Rewards | 1 quest point, 6,000 Smithing XP, access to the Giants’ Foundry |
What Items Do You Need for Sleeping Giants?
The Sleeping Giants items are used to repair three machines in the foundry. If you forget something, a big chest in the workshop gives access to your bank.
| Machine | Items used to repair it |
|---|---|
| Trip hammer | 1 oak log and 5 nails |
| Grindstone | Chisel |
| Polishing wheel | 2 oak logs, 5 nails and 1 wool |
- Wool, not a ball of wool: the wiki notes that a ball of wool will not work.
- Hammer: a normal hammer or an Imcando hammer works; other hammer types do not.
- Bucket of water or ice gloves: you need one of them to pick up the hot preform. An empty bucket can be taken from a pile next to the polishing wheel and filled at the waterfall.
How Do You Get to the Giants’ Foundry?
The Giants’ Foundry is in a cave beneath the Giants’ Plateau, east of Al Kharid. The Old School RuneScape Wiki lists these routes:
- Minigame Teleport to Giants’ Foundry, from the spellbook or the Grouping tab. It is free but has a 20-minute cooldown.
- Amulet of glory teleport to Al Kharid Palace, then walk east.
- Ring of dueling teleport to Emir’s Arena.
- Necklace of passage teleport to Eagle’s Eyrie, then climb the rocks to the west (needs 54 Agility).
- Gnome glider flight to Kar-Hewo.
- The toll gate from Lumbridge into Al Kharid.
How Does Sword Refining Work?
Refining is the part of Sleeping Giants that doubles as a tutorial for the Giants’ Foundry. Each machine needs the preform at a specific temperature, shown on the on-screen HUD, and each one changes that temperature as you use it.
| Tool | Required temperature | Effect on heat |
|---|---|---|
| Trip hammer | Hot (red) | Cools the preform |
| Grindstone | Medium | Heats the preform |
| Polishing wheel | Cold (green) | Cools the preform |
| Lava pool | Any | Heats it: “Heat-preform” is slow, “Dunk-preform” is fast |
| Waterfall | Any | Cools it: “Cool-preform” is slow, “Quench-preform” is fast |
Using the wrong tool, or the right tool at the wrong temperature, lowers the quality of the sword. For the quest, Kovac accepts a sword of any quality, although he will comment if it is not up to standard. A gold border around the HUD marks a short “sweet spot” window: clicking the machine once during it gives extra progress.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Dropping items in the instance: the first workshop room is an instance, so pick up anything you dropped before talking to Kovac or it will be lost.
- Wearing a weapon or shield: both slots must be empty to refine the preform.
- Bringing a ball of wool: the polishing wheel repair needs plain wool.
- Teleporting on cooldown: the Minigame Teleport can only be used once every 20 minutes, so plan another route if you used it recently.
- Leaving the temperature unchecked: follow the HUD and move between the lava pool and the waterfall before the heat leaves the required range.
What Does the Giants’ Foundry Offer After the Quest?
After Sleeping Giants, the Giants’ Foundry becomes a repeatable Smithing minigame. Kovac commissions swords, you fill the crucible with 28 bars’ worth of bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant or rune bars or smithed equipment, and you refine the result. Each finished sword gives Smithing XP, coins and Foundry Reputation based on its quality.
Foundry Reputation is spent in Kovac’s reward shop. The costs below come from the Old School RuneScape Wiki, checked in October 2026.
| Reward | Foundry Reputation | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Smithing catalyst | 15 | Halves the coal needed per bar and doubles smelting XP for that bar |
| Ore pack | 200 | 30 noted ores, mostly coal |
| Kovac’s grog | 300 | Boosts Smithing by 4 levels and lowers Attack, Ranged and Magic by 2 |
| Double ammo mould | 2,000 | Makes 8 cannonballs per action instead of 4 (needs Dwarf Cannon) |
| Smiths’ Uniform (4 pieces) | 3,500 to 4,000 each; 15,000 for the set | Each piece gives a 20% chance of faster anvil Smithing and extra Foundry progress |
| Colossal blade | 5,000 | Two-handed sword that needs 60 Attack |
The smiths gloves can also be combined with ice gloves to make smiths gloves (i), which do the job of both.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What level do you need for Sleeping Giants in OSRS?
Sleeping Giants requires level 15 Smithing, and the level cannot be boosted. The quest has no other skill or quest requirements, but it is members only.
Where do you start the Sleeping Giants quest?
The Sleeping Giants quest starts with Kovac, a Hill Giant on the Giants’ Plateau east of Al Kharid. He has a “Strike” option instead of “Attack”; trying to strike him starts the dialogue.
How long does Sleeping Giants take?
The official length of Sleeping Giants is Very Short. Most of the time goes into repairing three machines and refining one sword, which Kovac accepts at any quality.
What are the rewards for Sleeping Giants?
Sleeping Giants rewards 1 quest point, 6,000 Smithing experience and access to the Giants’ Foundry minigame and its reward shop.
Can you do Sleeping Giants as an Ironman?
Yes. Ironman accounts must gather the oak logs, wool, nails and tools themselves. Ultimate Ironmen need 20 empty inventory spaces for up to 20 seconds to search the crate and use its items on the crucible.
Do you need ice gloves for Sleeping Giants?
No. Ice gloves are optional; a bucket of water also lets you pick up the preform, and an empty bucket can be filled at the foundry waterfall.
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