Guthan's Warspear

Yes, I can hardly believe it myself!! When I first got this in the crypt, I thought "Wait, did I forget to bank the leaf bladed spear from my turoth task??" On closer examination, I realized that I had just gotten the most valuable possible drop from the barrows minigame!!

But now I had a problem. I had forgotten to bring a means of teleportation out of the crypts, and I wasn't exactly full on health, as you may (or may not) see from my screenie. I dashed out of the crypt hoping like hell I wouldn't get killed by the bloodworms and skeletons and got to the ladder with just 23 HP left.

I finally dared to believe my good luck when I had time to take a close look at it. The first thing I did was dash straight to the Grand Exchange to put it up for sale along side the 110 bolt racks I got as well. It made for a whopping instantaneous 5.8 Million gp, bringing my total gold up to 12 Million.

I cannot believe my luck. It was just a casual trip, one trip only, just for fun, a break from my cooking, and I struck the motherload, the jackpot!!

In other news, Jagex has made modifications to the Bounty Hunter Minigame to stop clan piling in it, as well as adding cash rewards to it and reducing the requirements for the Bounty Locate spell to just 32 Magic. A welcome relief to all those pkers who turned to it since the loss of the Wilderness!!

Farming has finally received updates as well, with updates to the amulet of Nature, the most noticeable change being the fact that it now has a face. It gives a farming bonus too, as well as being able to teleport you to the patch its bound to if it gets diseased.

The biggest update however, is still the addition of a new Farming minigame. Called Vinesweeper, its an obvious parody of the game Minesweeper, and runs on the same concept. Arriving there via the Tool Leprechauns, it runs on the same concept as its namesake. You have to try and find seeds that are hidden in the ground (Mines) and to do so, you have to dig the area with a spade, and digging a patch without seeds in it will result in a number popping up to show how many patches contain seeds in the surrouding 8 squares around it, like Minesweeper.

When you come across a patch which you think has seeds in it, you place a flag on it, and a farmer will come and dig it up, and if you guessed right, all around him will get points which can be swapped for rewards like seeds and Farming exp.

Of course, guess wrong, and the farmer won't return your flag. At 1k a flag, its pretty pricey.



Excavating seeds will result in loss of points as well. There are also rabbits which run around looking for flags, which means seeds and food to them, and will munch on any patch you put a flag on, which means no reward for you!!

Slow and Steady Is The Way To Go

I bought all the fish I'll need for 98 Cooking yesterday of the Grand Exchange. My bank account screams in agony (Just 6 million left), but all the fish was bought instantaneously, so there was no time to change my mind.

This will be the largest grinding job I've ever done so far, with 70k+ fishes to cook before I hit 98 Cooking, then just 2.5k monkfish to 99. Its going to take a LONG while, even if I keep my constant rate of cooking 800-900 fish an hour, I have my reasons. Its easy to multi-task while cooking, which I'll need to do if I'm going to study and sustain my A1's in both my maths and sciences since my school exams are in a week's time.

Cooked about 3k of them so far, I can see why Matman got bored so easily while cooking for his 99. Course, he didn't have to worry much about costs, since Tim donated 40k raw lobsters to him... Finally levelled up after the first 2k



Levelled up my Construction AGAIN using only genie lamps and knowledge books




Note to self, genie lamps and knowledge books have the most effect on stats around 40 or so.

Summoning, And Why It was Never Released For F2P

I was on my way to the Grand Exchange when my friend Gitabug tipped me off about a J Mod in Lumbridge in world 68. Seeing one is a rare occasion indeed, so I hauled myself to Lumbridge ASAP. She suggested I ask him any question concerning the recent updates or future ones, since the answer would be pretty accurate coming from a J Mod. The question of why Summoning was a no-show for F2P came into my mind. This is his reply.



If the picture isn't clear, just click on it for a larger one. Jagex's reason for not releasing the skill to F2P players is because they felt they had too many updates for them already, like Bounty Hunter and the Grand Exchange. Rather tired at the moment, so I won't say much more of this post, aside from the fact that I think their reason isn't exactly fair.