Difficulty: *****
Length: Medium
Members only: Yes
Requirements:
* A Fairy Tale Part I
* Hand in the Sand
* One Small Favour
* Tribal Totem
* Level 55 Agility
* Level 53 Farming
* Level 59 Slayer
* Level 72 Woodcutting
* You cannot use boosts to meet these level requirements
* Must be able to defeat a level 167 foe.
Items needed:
* Anti-poison potion(or anything to cure poison)
* Food
* Any woodcutting hatchet
* A machete
* A plant pot with soil
* A spade
* A soft clay
* A pair of secateurs
* A pot
* A gardening trowel
* 30 coins or Ring of Charos or Karamja Gloves 3.
Monsters to kill:
* Jade vine (Level 167)
Walkthrough :
* Begin by talking to Horacio and offer to help him with his gardening. He'll want you to get a special vine that grows near Shilo Village. He cannot give too much information and he recommends visiting Wizard Cromperty in East Ardougne.
* Go to Cromperty and he will ask you to investigate the reason the RPDT is not delivering Cromperty's parcel.
* Next stop is the RPDT headquarters south of Ardougne bank. Talk to any of the RPDT employees. The employee will say that the package is delayed because the address is unreadable. The RPDT employee takes the subtle hint that a non RPDT employee can open the parcel, so locate the parcel on the table and open it. Inside there is a severed wizard's hand. It has no use during the course of the quest, but it is used in the Returning Clarence miniquest.
* Go back to Cromperty and talk to him. He opens the package and discovers that the item in the package appears to be broken. Make a new potlid out of soft clay. Make sure to 'use' the unfired potlid on the pottery oven. You can find a Potter's wheel west from the north bank. Note that a potlid made prior to talking to Cromperty will not work; Cromperty will say the lid is too small.
* Cromperty's next instructions are to talk to Garth, the farmer near the fruit tree patch in Brimhaven. A boat to Brimhaven can be found slightly east of the RPDT workers, for 30 coins. Garth will tell you how to get the jade vine to grow in Horacio's garden.
* You CAN NOT take a familiar with you into the maze.
* Bring a machete, a normal pot, Wizard Cromperty's pot lid, a plant pot with soil, a spade, hatchet, and a pair of secateurs. Given that the maze is loaded with aggressive monsters, take decent armour, food and anti-poison. A super defence potion is recommended as well. Alternative to food, armour and anti-poison would be a few prayer potions, equipment with prayer bonus and a Prayer book with Holy Symbol to cure from poison. With this method, protection from melee will nullify almost any damage, except failing obstacles and occasional poisoning.
The entrance to the maze northeast of Shilo Village.
* From the Shilo Village exit, go east and jump on the stepping stones. Go far north past the maze to a log, cross it, and go south again. An alternative path is to walk around Shilo and go east along the northern fence of Shilo. Try to find an endpoint of a vine to climb onto on the north-west corner of the maze. The 'climb-on' vine point forms the maze entry. As the maze is fairly close to the Nature runecrafting altar, all paths to the maze are fairly similar to the nature runecrafting trips. The Eagle transport system provides an alternative entrypoint (see step 3 below) further down the path through the maze. Unfortunately, that transport option is pretty isolated as well.
* Fairy ring code CKR Karamja: South of Tai Bwo Wannai Village Shilo Village, Fastest way to maze
Creatures
In the maze are many creatures, some aggressive, some poisonous. Players should bring anti-poison potions and food.
* Monkey lvl 3
* Jungle spider lvl 40
* Giant ant soldier lvl 58
* Giant ant worker lvl 40
* Tenacious toucan lvl 70
* Giant Wasp lvl 66
* Frog lvl 66 (poisonous)
* Pernicious parrot lvl 66
* Snake wrapped around tree. Not attackable but can poison player. Your Agility enables you to evade the snake strike.
Path through Maze
* The maze has a number of navigational options:
o enter a hole
o enter vine
o climb up/down vine
o cut/squeeze/crawl through vines hanging down
o swing-on vine
Tips: Scars on vine will help players to find their way.
1. Climb on, east, up, south-east, down, north-west, climb off.
2. (if you fail the river crossing, this is where the hole will take you) Walk south, cut vines, crawl-through, again south, squeeze through, south-west, climb on vine.
3. Climb up, climb up, meet the eagle and walk east across the net to the other side.
4. climb down, two or three steps north, swing-on vine to the east, north, down and climb off vine (east).
5. Crawl through vines (south), squeeze through vine (south), south-east to climb onto vine.
6. Go up (east) and cross vine (east). Note, you can fall down and need to find your way back to the vine crossing the river. Look for a hole that will take you into the maze.
7. On other side of river, down vine and climb off vine at north east. Cut vines (south) and crawl-through vines.
8. Climb back onto vines south east, south, west, climb up, west, climb down, climb up, cross vine across river back (can fail) to the west side of maze. Go a bit west, south, east, then climb down the vine and climb off.
* The end of the maze features the vine root that can be obtained by digging up loose soil. This exposes the root so it can be cut. Use the root cutting on the plant pot. With a bit of luck it will grow. Use plant pot on normal pot to end up with a sealed pot that contains the root.
* If the root does not grow in the pot. dig another root in a different loose soil spot.
* Do not teleport until the root has been sealed in the pot.
* If the sealed pot is lost, talk to Garth to get another.
Growing the Vine
* Talk to Horacio again in Ardougne and bring the root cutting sealed in the pot. The player must plant the vine in Horacio's vine patch, found northeast of Horacio with a gardening trowel. A tool leprechaun is nearby.
* After planting the vine, a cut scene appears where the jade vine has grown out of control. Horacio now insists that the vine needs to be killed. Fortunately, there is an opportunity to prepare for the battle.
The Battle
* The vine can only be damaged by a woodcutting hatchet. Protection prayers are only partially effective against the vine because it uses melee and magic attacks. Bring decent food, potions and optionally use prayer for additional offensive and defensive capabilities. The vine attack also will poison for 7 damage, so a dose of a super anti-poison potion can be used to defend against it.
* It is recommended that you do NOT use a Prayer book. It will drain your prayer each time you use it, and the vine poisons quite frequently, causing you to waste a lot of your much needed prayer points.
* Bring a teleport as a player will not be able to walk away from the battle area until the vine or player is killed. Horacio is bound by the vine at the exit of the garden preventing the player from exiting.
* After killing the vine, cut the last remainder of it using the secateurs.
* Talk one more time to Horacio to complete the quest.
* 1 quest point
* 24,000 Farming experience
* 40,000 Woodcutting experience
* 23,000 Slayer experience
* 15,000 Agility experience
* Vine Farming Patch in East Ardougne
* Jade Vine Seed
And access to:
* A new maze Jade vine maze, slightly larger than Draynor Manor
* 8 new creatures: Giant ant soldier level 58, Giant ant worker level 40, Tenacious toucan level 70, Giant Wasp level 66, Frog level 66, Pernicious parrot level 66, Wild jade vine level 167, Karamjan Jungle eagle
* Transportation between Eagle's Peak and Karamja
* Ability to slay the Jade Vine for extra Slayer and Farming experience everyday.
If you collect 6 body parts, and prove who murdered him, Clarence can be buried and you will be richly rewarded.
[edit] Reward
* 10,000 Magic experience
* 200 blood runes
* 100 law runes
A vine seed is part of the quest rewards. When lost, talk to Horacio to get a new one. Plant the seed in the west patch of the garden in front of the Handelmort mansion. Talk to Horacio and ask him to look after the vine patch. He'll want a payment of 10 wildblood hops. Those can be grown in any hops patch with 4 wildblood seeds, the payment is 1 nasturtium.
Growing a jade vine offers repeatable rewards, like the once per week Tears of Guthix minigame. When the vine is fully grown, checking its health yields 1500 Farming experience. After a short time, the vine will grow branches. Pruning these with secateurs will provide 30 Farming experience. Without pruning, the jade vine will grow wild. As in the quest, the wild jade vine can be killed using a woodcutting axe and secateurs. This gives 2500 Slayer experience and a new vine seed. Talk to Horacio about the wild vine and he'll offer to kill it for a payment of 5 coconuts and 5 watermelons. Paying Horacio gets rid of the wild vine but yields no experience reward in any skill. After clearing the patch repeat the cycle. If a player loses the vine seed, he may ask Horacio for a new one. If the jade vine dies, then after clearing the patch of the dead jade vine, the player may ask Horacio for a new seed. The vine growth is approximately 15 hours. The vine turns wild a few hours after checking its health. If you trim the vine regularly, Horacio will continue to keep it in good health. If you allow the vine to grow out of control, you must kill it, receive a new seed, replant it, and again pay Horacio 10 wildblood hops if you'd like him to look after it for you.
Killing a wild vine during repeatable rewards makes it possible for a player to abandon the battle without a teleport by simply using the gate exit.
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