Body control

Body control is a characteristic that helps with accuracy and stealthing, and determines the mounts a player can ride.

The best method to gain body control is by fighting but smithing and carpentry both offer decent skill gain.

Chopping trees with a longsword also offers fantastic Body Control gains.

Archery on an archery target is excellent until about skill level 30.

Body control levels

Body control required	Action/Mount
20.01	Cow
20.5	Steal
21	Horse
23	Bull
23	Brown Bear
26	Unicorn
>/= 28	Crocodile
29	Scorpion (dominated or zombie)
31	Hell horse
??	Dragon (dominated only)

The body control required to ride a cow has been slightly increased to over 20 [tested and able to ride at 20.000436 body control], hence you must now be premium to ride a cow. Free players can not ride any animal at the moment.

List of skills that raise Body control

• Archery
  • Short Bow
  • Medium Bow
  • Long Bow
• Carpentry
  • Bowyery
  • Fletching
  • Fine Carpentry
  • Ship Building
  • Toy Making
• Climbing
• Fighting
  • Aggressive Fighting
  • Defensive Fighting
  • Normal Fighting
  • Shield Bashing
  • Taunting
  • Weaponless Fighting
• Knives
  • Butchering Knife
  • Carving Knife
• Smithing
  • Armour Smithing
  • Blacksmithing
  • Weapon Smithing
  • Locksmithing
• Swords
  • Longsword
  • Shortsword
  • Two Handed Sword
• Tailoring
  • Cloth Tailoring
  • Leatherworking
• Thievery
  • Lockpicking
  • Stealing
  • Traps

For a list of more characteristic-based skill gain, look here.

Messages

You now feel confident enough to steal things. 

When body control rises to 20.5