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QUEST 113 · MEMBERS

My Arm's Big Adventure

Trolls love goutweed. They love it so much that they've picked it all, and now they can't get any more. However, in his smelly kitchen in the Troll Stronghold, Burntmeat the cook has heard a rumour that goutweed is growing once again, for anyone who's got the skill to farm it. Can you teach his young assistant - a simple troll known as My Arm - to grow the precious goutweed? Will you overcome My Arm's stubbornness and ignorance to earn yourself Burntmeat's reward? Dare you accompany My Arm on th

Difficulty
Experienced
Length
Medium
Quest points
1
Released
23 October 2006
START POINT

Talk to Burntmeat in the Troll Stronghold kitchen.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK

Preparation

Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.

Requirements

  • 29 Farming (boostable)
  • 10 Woodcutting
  • Completion of the following quests:
  • Eadgar's Ruse
  • Druidic Ritual
  • Troll Stronghold
  • Death Plateau
  • The Feud
  • Jungle Potion
  • At least 60% favour in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame before starting this quest - this will be subtracted from the total favour
  • Acquiring 100% Tai Bwo Favour rating is a requirement for the Medium Karamja Diary. If completion of the medium diary is desired, it is recommended to get 100% prior to starting this quest

Items required

  • Bucket (can be obtained during the quest, south of the cooking pot on Death Plateau)
  • 3 Ugthanki dung, or the following materials to gather it:
  • Red hot sauce (obtainable in Pollnivneach) or the Camulet (from Enakhra's Lament quest)
  • Spade
  • 3 additional buckets
  • Several farming supplies, which can be stored by any Tool Leprechaun and withdrawn from the Trollheim Tool Leprechaun. He sells all of these except for supercompost:
  • 7 Supercompost (must be supercompost; one extra can be used instead of plant cure, making 8 total) Note: Bottomless compost bucket will not work, even one that is containing supercompost.
  • Spade (To give to My Arm temporarily; he will return it near the end of the quest)
  • Rake (To give to My Arm temporarily; he will return it near the end of the quest)
  • Seed dibber (To give to My Arm temporarily; he will return it near the end of the quest. This is still needed even if Barbarian Training is completed)
  • Plant cure (disease can be avoided with an additional supercompost but the plant can get diseased during a cutscene right after planting so plant cure is still recommended)
  • Climbing boots (can be bought from Tenzing for 12 coins)

Recommended

  • 55 Combat
  • 43 Prayer for Protection prayers
  • 61 Magic (boostable) for Trollheim Teleport
  • Fast travel to Al Kharid (ring of dueling or amulet of glory) or Pollnivneach (Pollnivneach Teleport or coins to use the magic carpet system) to obtain Ugthanki Dung
  • Fast travel to Death Plateau (games necklace to Burthorpe or combat bracelet to the Warriors' Guild)
  • Stamina or energy potions
  • Food, armour, and a weapon
  • A Machete if you have less than 60% favour in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame

Enemies to defeat

  • Baby Roc (level 75)
  • Giant Roc (level 172)

ACTION CHECKLIST

Walkthrough

Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.

The adventurer

  1. 01

    Go to the Troll Stronghold, head south then downstairs into the kitchen (fairycode AJR and enter from the back through the secret door where you freed the prisoners, or utilise a slayer ring and enter the mountain through the secret entrance, or Trollheim teleport and go west).

  2. 02

    Speak to Burntmeat. Dialogue: What do you want now? → Alright, I'll lend him a hand.

  3. 03

    Talk to My Arm, east of Burntmeat.

Getting the goutweed

  1. 01

    Reach the Death Plateau. (Games necklace or minigame teleport to Burthorpe). There will be thrower trolls on the way there and on the plateau itself; protect from ranged.

  2. 02

    Use a bucket on the cooking pot in the middle of the plateau with 1 free inventory space to get the goutweedy lump.

  3. A bucket spawns south of the cooking pot, if you forgot to bring one.

  4. 03

    Go back to the Troll Stronghold and talk to My Arm.

  5. 04

    After he brings you to a new area, talk to him again.

  6. 05

    After reading the book he gave you, talk to him again.

  7. 06

    Use three buckets of Ugthanki dung and seven buckets of supercompost on the soil patch.

  8. 07

    Talk to My Arm.

  9. 08

    Talk to Captain Barnaby. Dialogue: This is My Arm. We'd like to go to Karamja.

Getting the tubers

  1. 01

    Meet up with My Arm at Tai Bwo Wannai, east of the general store. Talk to him.

  2. 02

    Talk to Murcaily near the hardwood grove. Make sure you have at least 1 free inventory space. Dialogue: A troll called My Arm wants a favour...

  3. If Murcaily cannot be found, log out and log back in.

  4. If you don't have 60% favour, raise it to 60% at least and talk to him again (you can't start the quest if you don't have 60% favour).

  5. 03

    After the cutscene speak to My Arm, you will take the boat back to Ardougne where you can access the bank.

Teaching a troll to farm

  1. 01

    Prepare yourself for a level 75 fight and a level 172 fight.

  2. 02

    Go back to the roof of the Troll Stronghold by using ladder in the west room on the upper level where the Troll Generals are.

  3. Note: Obtain a spade from the Tool leprechaun if you do not already have one.

  4. 03

    Talk to My Arm.

  5. 04

    Give My Arm the tools he needs for farming in this order:

  6. Rake (if My Arm breaks the rake, pick up the pieces, reassemble it, and give it back to him)

  7. Supercompost/Ultracompost (Optional. If ultracompost/supercompost is not used, the patch may become diseased and will need to be cured. Regular compost has no effect.)

  8. Hardy gout tubers

  9. Seed dibber

  10. Plant cure (if patch becomes diseased)

  11. 05

    Defeat the two monsters.

  12. Note: It is possible to dodge the Giant Roc's attacks by moving back and forth between tiles, but it is not possible to dodge its stun attack.

The end

  1. 01

    Talk to My Arm.

  2. 02

    Give him a spade (if you don't have one, you can go back down and up the ladder to get the leprechaun to reappear).

  3. 03

    Go back to Burntmeat in the kitchen.

  4. 04

    Talk to My Arm on the roof.

  5. 05

    Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • 10,000 Herblore Herblore experience
  • 5,000 Farming Farming experience
  • 457 (315 total) additional Farming Farming experience while My Arm harvests his crop.
  • Access to a disease-free herb patch on top of the Troll Stronghold. This patch does not allow growing of regular Goutweed.
  • Ability to use the rocks Agility shortcut outside the Troll Stronghold.
  • 29 Burnt meat
  • Giant Roc accessible in the Nightmare Zone.

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