Requirements
- 5 Fletching (boostable)
- 30 Cooking (boostable)
- 30 Ranged
- The ability to defend against level 64 wolves and level 53 ogres
QUEST 52 · MEMBERS
Big Chompy Bird Hunting
Rantz the Ogre needs to feed his demanding children, Fycie and Bugs, so he wants to go Big Chompy Bird hunting. Problem is, he's all fingers and thumbs when it comes to making ogre arrows. Could someone please give him a hand?
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Short
- Quest points
- 2
- Released
- 18 May 2004
Talk to Rantz by the eastern coast of Feldip Hills, east of fairy ring AKS.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
- Any axe that you can use (Blessed axe does not work)
- Feathers (100 to be safe; coloured feathers from Hunter work)
- Bringing 50 coins to buy 25 feathers from Fycie also works
- Knife (or 10 coins to buy a knife and chisel from Bugs)
- Chisel (or 10 coins to buy a knife and chisel from Bugs)
- 4 wolf bones (obtainable during the quest from level 65 wolves or from level 14 wolves in the Stronghold of Security)
- Cabbage (obtainable during the quest, Draynor cabbage will not work)
- Tomato (obtainable during the quest)
- Onion (obtainable during the quest)
- Potato (obtainable during the quest)
- Equa leaves (obtainable during the quest)
- Doogle leaves (obtainable during the quest)
Recommended
- 25 Combat
- Armour and weapons (but not gear that reduces your chance to hit with Ranged, as this can cause you not to hit the chompy bird)
- Stamina or energy potions and some food
- Feldip hills teleport or Fairy Rings to AKS (or gnome glider after completion of One Small Favour)
Enemies to defeat
- Chompy bird (level 6)
- Wolves (level 64) (optional)
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Getting started
- 01
Talk to Rantz East-north-east of Feldip Hills (fairy ring AKS). Dialogue: Yes.
Fletching some arrows
- 01
Note: You must make the arrows yourself to progress.
- 02
Chop down at least 3 achey trees immediately south-west of Rantz.
- 03
Use a knife on the logs to make ogre arrow shafts.
- 04
Use 100 feathers on the ogre arrow shafts.
- 05
Obtain 4 wolf bones (south-west from Rantz).
- 06
Use a chisel on the bones.
- 07
Use the wolfbone arrowtips on the flighted ogre arrows.
- 08
Use the ogre arrows on Rantz.
Bloated toads
- 01
Ask Rantz all possible questions. Dialogue: How do we make the chompies come? → What are 'fatsy toadies'? → Where do we put the fatsy toadies? → What do you mean 'sneaky..sneaky, stick da chompy?' → Ok, thanks.
- 02
Enter the cave north of Rantz.
- 03
Attempt to unlock the chest until it opens and search it to obtain ogre bellows.
- 04
At the nearby swamp (south-west), look for swamp bubbles and click on them to fill up the ogre bellow.
- 05
Use the ogre bellows on a swamp toad to obtain a "bloated toad".
- ↳
Collect 3 Bloated toads to save you a trip in future. You can only hold 3 at one time.
Hunting
- 01
Talk to Rantz.
- 02
Drop a bloated toad where the arrow points.
- ↳
It should be noted that it may take some time for the chompy bird to appear even after the arrow disappears, however the dropped toad will eventually burst. If this happens, simply drop another bloated toad in the clearing.
- 03
Talk to Rantz again and wait for the chompy bird to appear.
- 04
After Rantz fires his bow, talk to him to receive an ogre bow. Dialogue: Come on, let me have a go... → I'm actually quite strong...please let me try.
- 05
If you are fast enough, you can attempt to kill the chompy bird that Rantz tried to hunt. Otherwise, place another toad in the clearing.
- ↳
Kill the chompy bird that appears with the ogre bow.
- 06
Pluck the carcass and take the raw chompy.
Cooking the bird
- 01
Go back into the cave and talk to Fycie and Bugs.
- 02
Obtain the ingredients that they've asked for. The image on this page shows their location.
- 03
Use the raw chompy on the spit-roast north of Rantz (the fire outside of the cave).
- 04
Talk to Rantz.
- 05
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 262 Fletching experience
- 1,470 Cooking experience
- 735 Ranged experience
- An ogre bow
- The ability to fletch ogre arrows
- The ability to cook chompy birds and earn a bowman hat
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
Verify the guide after updates.
Facts and walkthrough actions are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
- Big Chompy Bird Hunting ↗full guide · revision 15292269
- Big Chompy Bird Hunting/Quick guide ↗quick guide · revision 15274013