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Gout tuber

Released							9 August 2005 (Update)
Members							Yes
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Edible							Yes
Options							Eat, Drop
Examine							Plant this in a herb patch to grow Goutweed.
Values
Value							200 coins
High alch							120 coins
Low alch							80 coins
Weight							0.2 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							415,323 coins (info)
Buy limit							5
Daily volume							83
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Advanced data
Item ID							6311
Link							MOID

Gout tubers are a rare seed and food obtained from Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup. It can be planted in a herb patch requiring 29 Farming and completion of Eadgar's Ruse to grow goutweeds. Due to its rarity, it is often only used for the medium Karamja Diary task of trading Safta Doc a gout tuber, 3 specific unnoted gems, and trading sticks for a gem machete. It cannot be planted at the disease-free Troll Stronghold herb patch, nor the patch at Weiss. Although gout tubers may be planted, they cannot be stored in the Seed vault or a Seed box. As with other herbs, it is not possible to pay a nearby gardener to watch over goutweed plants, nor will a fully-grown white lily plant protect them from disease.

Goutweed can be traded to Sanfew in Taverley, for a random herb per goutweed. Growing goutweed to trade with Sanfew is not recommended. The herbs received from Sanfew are random and gout tubers are very costly compared to standard herb seeds. If goutweed itself is needed, players should obtain it from the cellar at the Troll Stronghold due to the tuber's rarity and high trade value for its use in the medium Karamja Diary.

Gout tubers are edible. When eaten, a gout tuber heals 12 Hitpoints and restores 50 run energy. Eating one results in the message "You eat the tuber. Hmmm, peculiar taste! It heals some run energy. It heals some health anyway."

Gout tubers will be turned to rotten food if you are attacked by a Ghast in the Mort Myre swamp.

Obtaining

A gout tuber before it is dug out of the ground.

A gout tuber can only be obtained while hacking jungle during Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, and receiving an event (see Light Jungle § Events). When an event is rolled, the chance for it to be a gout tuber scales with the player's Woodcutting level, scaling from a 1/100 chance at level 10 Woodcutting, up to a maximum of 1/33 at level 99.^[1] The odds of receiving a gout tuber event do not depend on the type of jungle that is cut, nor the type of machete being used.^[2] Rolling a gout tuber event will yield the message: You hack away at the remaining bush to reveal an unusual plant.

The overall average time to receive an event is around 64 ticks with constant jungle interaction and with slight variation between Woodcutting levels. In practice the time will be slower due to interruptions from jungle depletion and events. A player with moderate concentration can expect a tuber on average close to 1 hour 15 minutes. It should be noted that this is an overall average, and due to the low frequency of expected rolls some players may have much longer times to receive a tuber.

Players will need to use a spade on the plant to dig up the gout tuber. Gout tubers will despawn after 10 minutes if not dug up. Gout tubers are locked to the player that found them for the duration that the player is logged in. Attempting to dig up someone else's gout tuber results in the message: "It's not yours to dig." As soon as the original owner of the tuber logs out, any player is able to dig up the tuber. The tuber will not re-lock to the original owner if the player logs back in. As soon as a player begins to dig up the tuber, it becomes locked to them and no one else is able to dig it up.

Farming info

Gout tuber
Level required				29
Patch				Herb
Seeds per				1
Payment				No
Growth time				80 min (4x20 min)
Yield				3+ (varies)
Regrow				No
Navigation
Seed				Gout tuber
Plant				Goutweed (plant)
Crop				Goutweed
Experience
Planting XP^{[F 1]}				105 xp
Checking XP				No
Harvesting XP				45 xp

^ The planting experience is awarded upon checking the health or fully harvesting the patch, or upon clearing the patch if it died before becoming fully grown.

Average harvest yield

Goutweed has a minimum of 3 harvest lives, increasing by 1 for each tier of compost used (for a maximum of 6 when using ultracompost). While harvesting goutweed, there is a chance to not consume a harvest life dependent on the player's Farming level. This chance scales from 15.6% at level 1 to 31.6% at level 99, interpolating linearly in between.

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Products

	Skills	XP	Materials
Jade machete	None	None	600 × Trading sticks 3 × Uncut jade 1 × Gout tuber
Jade machete	None	None	600 × Trading sticks 3 × Jade 1 × Gout tuber
Opal machete	None	None	300 × Trading sticks 3 × Uncut opal 1 × Gout tuber
Opal machete	None	None	300 × Trading sticks 3 × Opal 1 × Gout tuber
Red topaz machete	None	None	1,200 × Trading sticks 3 × Red topaz 1 × Gout tuber
Red topaz machete	None	None	1,200 × Trading sticks 3 × Uncut red topaz 1 × Gout tuber

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	Change Per	Members
Gabooty's Tai Bwo Wannai Cooperative.	Tai Bwo Wannai	0	9s	240	120	2.0%
Gabooty's Tai Bwo Wannai Cooperative. (Karamja gloves)	Tai Bwo Wannai	0	9s	200	160	2.0%

Changes

Date	Changes
4 June 2025 (Update \| poll)	The chance of receiving a Gout Tuber now increases with higher Woodcutting levels
9 January 2020 (Update \| poll)	Players can now dig up healthy herb patches before they're fully grown. To prevent players from gaining experience repeatedly by planting and digging up herb seeds, the experience usually gained from planting them are now given when harvesting them, alongside the usual harvesting experience.
30 March 2017 (Update)	When you find a gout tuber, it's now locked to you for longer to discourage theft.
23 March 2017 (Update)	The "Eat" option was made right-click.
14 – 22 November 2005	The item's examine was changed from "Plant this is^[sic] in a herb patch to grow Goutweed." to "Plant this in a herb patch to grow Goutweed."

Trivia

A similar item to a Gout tuber identified as a Goutweedy lump appears in My Arm's Big Adventure when a human was boiled into a stew along with a lump of Gout tuber he possessed, the man was eaten but lumpy remnants of the tuber can be found in the Cooking Pot at Death Plateau.
Gout tubers cannot be stored in a seed box or the seed vault, despite being usable as a seed.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash on Discord. Screenshot. 19 June 2025. Archived from the original on 7 March 2026. Mod Ash: "1/100 at level 10 WCing (which is what it was before) scaling to 1/33 at level 99. Interpolate between those. Loot modifiers in situations like Leagues can be empowered to modify this."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 23 March 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019. Mod Ash: "[@JagexAsh Whats the spawn rate of a gout tuber. Does it matter which jungle I hack at?] 1% from any type."