The Fractured Archive

1. Stop 1

   Always

   • Archive Guardian

     Crush or heavy ranged; melee works once it's grounded

2. Stop 2

   Choose one

   • Ezekiel

     Crush melee; big special attacks help during its enrage

   • Bork and the Smorks

     Crush melee for Bork, heavy ranged for the Smorks

3. Stop 3

   Choose one

   • Moia

     Ranged or magic, since she stays out of melee reach

   • Dreadnoth the Jellied

     Bring a ranged option; ice spells help

4. Stop 4

   Choose one

   • Dagon'hai Elder and monks

     Bring all four elemental spell types

   • Xarth

     Bring a ranged option; water, ice or grasp spells help

5. Stop 5

   Always

   • Ocellus

     Crush strongly recommended, with ranged or magic for parts of the fight

Rules worth knowing

Scaling

Boss hitpoints scale with the number of players in the team.

Team wipes

At launch, a full wipe removes the team from the raid and leaves gravestones outside. Jagex's earlier previews discussed other wipe rules, so check the latest update post before relying on this.

Deaths are dangerous

Hardcore Ironmen and Hardcore Group Ironmen get no safe death here and lose their status or a life. Gravestone fees are cut by 75% until you have five completions.

Stat-drain caps

Defence reduction is capped at 60% on the Archive Guardian, Bork, Ezekiel, Moia, Xarth and Ocellus. Dreadnoth, the Smorks and the Dagon'hai trio have no cap. These numbers were hotfixed after launch and may move again.

Banking

The lobby has a bank. The Grouping Board is on its east side and the Strategy Board, used for spectating, is on the west.

Launch restrictions

World 345 (permanent Deadman) couldn't access the raid at release, and Ultimate Ironmen need to reclaim anything stored with Pete Kayer first.

Getting in

• Finish While Guthix Sleeps. It's the one requirement Jagex lists.
• Your first attempt to enter the lobby starts a short miniquest.
• To get there, use a games necklace to Tears of Guthix with a lit sapphire lantern, or a Guthixian temple teleport.
• Once you have an archivist's folio, charging it with ascension shards gives a teleport straight to the lobby.

Suggested levels

From the OSRS Wiki's strategy page. The game doesn't enforce any of these.

• 95+

  Hitpoints

• 90+

  Attack

• 95+

  Strength

• 75+

  Defence

• 95+

  Ranged

• 75+

  Magic

What to bring

Melee, crush first

Crush is the strongest damage type for most of the raid, and Ocellus is especially weak to it.

A ranged switch

Useful against bosses that keep their distance or have high Magic levels. Moia can't be reached with melee at all.

Magic and elemental spells

Mainly for elemental weaknesses and freezes. The Dagon'hai route asks for all four elements, and one player must be on the Standard spellbook.

Defence reduction

Elder maul, Tonalztics of Ralos and the Bandos godsword are the suggested options. Check the caps above, since they limit how far drains go on most bosses.

Supplies

Combat potions, Saradomin brews, super restores and sanfew serums, plus antipoison or a serpentine helm for the Archive Guardian's mushrooms and Moia's cough.

• Obligator

  Crush weapon, the raid's rarest drop

  The Archive's chase item, a crush-based megarare.

• Ascension crossbows

  Dual-wielded ranged weapon · Tradeable

  Jagex pitches them as a raid-tier upgrade to the toxic blowpipe.

• Zorya's tome

  Two-handed magic weapon · Tradeable

  A two-handed book for magic users.

• Rondache

  Shield · Tradeable

  Takes 2 damage off each melee, ranged or magic hit and stores it as charges for its Shield Bash.

• Horn of Bran (unlocks Zeal)

  Prayer unlock · Tradeable

  Unlocks Zeal, an upgrade to Piety that adds 5% Attack and Strength.

• Elemental fragments

  Whispering wind, deep water, living earth, burning fire · Untradeable

  Each adds 2 to base max hit for its element, with duplicate protection.

• Archivist's folio

  Teleport · Untradeable

  Teleports you to the Archive, charged with ascension shards.

• Ascension shards

  Stackable resource

  Used for folio charges, the Obligator and ascension bolts.

• Orion

  Pet

  The raid's pet.

• Living record

  Cosmetic capes

  Five tiers of raid cape, earned at 100, 500, 1,000, 1,500 and 2,000 completions.

Where it sits in your progression

Jagex calls this its toughest raid yet and the Wiki's suggested levels are high, so treat it as late-game. Most accounts will get more from the raids they can already clear until their stats and gear catch up.

Build a team first

Jagex recommends 3 to 5 players. Practice mode isn't out yet, so your first attempts are real runs with real gravestones: go in with people you can learn alongside.

Pick routes your team can actually do

The choices are worth the same contribution points, so choose by what your team brought. A team light on elemental magic has a clear reason to avoid the Dagon'hai.

Expect it to change

The raid is only weeks old. Stat caps were hotfixed within days of launch and Jagex is still gathering balance data, so check the dates on any guide you follow.

• The Fractured Archive - Out Today Jagex, official news
• Raids IV: Fractured Archive Jagex, official site
• Old School Roadmap (27 October 2026) Jagex, official news
• The Fractured Archive OSRS Wiki
• The Fractured Archive/Strategies OSRS Wiki (was being updated when checked)