MaxTheDragon

Aug 10 2005, 11:19 AM | Post #1

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Here's another great guide, for the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup Minigame!

Preparation

You need to be member to play this mini-game. Also, you need to have completed the Jungle Potion quest.

Items required and recommended

To play this mini-game, you need to bring some items to be able to do the mini-game, and to keep your character safe, while doing it.

Required:

- Machete, buy one in Jiminua's General Store.
- Anti-poison, 2 or 3 will do. You'll encounter a lot of poisonous monsters here.

Recommended:

- Armour and a weapon. To fight the monsters you encounter while hacking away jungle.
- Food.
- Decent woodcutting level. 35 will do.

Starting this mini-game



Talk to Murcaily, who is near the big doors of the tree area, west of Trufitus' house. Ask him if there is anything interesting to do around here. He tells you that he needs help with cutting away the local jungle vegetation. He tells you that if you're good with machetes, you can get thatching spears, to repair the run-down village fences. Ask him various other questions, and he will tell you about their local currency (trading sticks), and how to get them. He'll also tell you about where to find the jungle, and where to find the broken fences. Lastly, you can get some information about the villagers (10 in total), and what they can do for you. It is not required that you ask these questions. Once you get to the menu with the questions, you can select "Ok, thanks", and you'll be able to start the mini-game.

Villager info



Ask Murcaily for more info on the villagers locations.

Murcaily - He will answer various questions regarding this mini-game.
Jiminua - She has a General Store, north of Tai Bwo Wannai, where you can buy a normal machete. Wielding one, is required for this mini-game. Note that Jiminua is not one of the ten villagers Murcaily talks about. She will not give you trading sticks. In her General Store, you'll pay with gp's!
Gabooty - He can be found walking in the centre of the village enclosure. He sells better machetes, and the various tribal outfits. Remember that he accepts only trading sticks as payment. He also sells gnome cocktails.

Tip: Try selling your cut Opals, Jades and Red Topaz to Gabooty. This will also get you Trading sticks:

Opals: 80 sticks at zero stock, 10 sticks at high stock.
Jades: 100 sticks at zero stock, 20 sticks at high stock.
Red topaz 220 sticks at zero stock, 64 sticks at high stock.
Gnome Drinks: 18 sticks.

Sharimika - Normal Villager. He can be found upstairs in the center house of the three houses that form the village enclosure together with the fences. Sharimika is the father of Layleen.
Mamma Bufetta - Normal Villager. She can be found in the same house as Sharimika, but she's downstairs. Go to Sharimika, then climb down the ladder near him. Mamma Bufetta is the mother of Layleen.
Layleen - Normal Villager. Daughter of Mamma Bufetta and Sharimika. She can be found upstairs in the house west of Mamma Bufetta.

Note: To get upstairs in the three houses that forn the village enclosure, you can use the ladder near the northern end of the eastern fence.

**BUG WARNING** Do not go down the ladder, while standing on the northern side. Doing so, will cause you to get stuck between the potted plant and the ladder. If you're in this position, climb the ladder back up, then go stand either west or south of the ladder, and then climb down again. Now you'll be able to move, downstairs.

Safta Doc - He's in the house with the anvil, next to the farming patch. He will tell you about his "deal". He will allow you to make one of the three improved Machetes, in exchange for some items:

Opal Machete: 3 Opals (cut or uncut), 1 Gout tuber plant, 500 Trading sticks.
Jade Machete: 3 Jades (cut or uncut), 1 Gout tuber plant, 1500 Trading sticks.
Red Topaz Machete: 3 Red topaz (cut or uncut), 1 Gout tuber plant, 4000 Trading sticks.

The gout tuber plant can be found while hacking away jungle. You need to dig it up with a spade to get the plant. Be careful, as it has an eat option.

Please bear in mind, that Gabooty sells the same machetes:

Opal Machete: 600 Trading Sticks
Jade Machete: 1200 Trading Sticks
Red Topaz Machete: 2400 Trading Sticks

These prices are only valid when the stock is full (50 items).

Karaday - Normal Villager. He can be found walking south of the farming patch, and east of the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest starting point.
Rionasta - Normal Villager. He can be found walking in the house, near the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest starting point.
Fanellaman - Normal Villager. He can be found walking on the western beach. This beach is west of the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio Quest starting point.
Jagbakoba - Normal Villager. He can be found walking south of the Village enclosure. East of the scorched earth.

Hacking away Jungle

There are three jungle types you can hack away. It's not hard to find jungle. They're scattered around Tai Bwo wannai, and recognisable by their "Hack" option. Hacking away jungle has woodcutting requirements:

10 - Light Jungle - 32 Wodcutting exp per spar obtained.
20 - Medium Jungle - 55 Wodcutting exp per spar obtained.
35 - Dense Jungle - ?? Wodcutting exp per spar obtained.

These can also be found in-game, in the woodcutting info tab (click Woodcutting skill once).

Beware that during this hacking, various jungle monsters can appear, and they will attack you. The monster can be as high as level 60, and most of them are poisonous, so bring Anti-poison and food!

During this process you'll get 1 woodcutting exp about each three seconds and various monsters can appear, you'll also recieve non-stackable "Thatching spars" in your inventory. You will also notice the "Tai Bwo Favour" indicator, going up by about 0,5% each time you get a spear, or kill a monster. You'll also get Woodcutting exp. The indicator will remain on your screen during your visit to Tai Bwo wannai. It'll disappear once you leave. It works similar to Mort'ton's Rebuild Temple mini-game. Once the jungle is hacked away, you need to look for different jungle vegetation. The hacked away jungle will respawn again after a short while, similar to trees.

Killing the monsters

Killing the monsters gives you Tai Bwo favour points. You'll also receive various items such as Spider Carcass (from Jungle Spiders) and Proboscis (Mosquitos). You can even get Agility exp for defeating some agile monsters.

Repairing the fence

Once you have some thatching spars, you can repair/reinforce the fence. The fences are indicated by a long red line on the mini-map. Repairing/reinforcing the fence, will give both woodcutting exp and Tai Bwo Favour.

Reinforcing/repairing the fence gives woodcutting exp, depending on what spar type you use:

Thatching spar light - 28 exp per spar.
Thatching spar med - 42 exp per spar.
Thatching spar dense - ?? exp per spar.

You must keep hacking away jungle and reparing/reinforcing the fence, to gain a lot of Tai Bwo Favour.

Getting Trading Sticks

For the first time, you can exchange your Favour points for Trading sticks, if you talk to Murcaily, while having at least 1% Favour. He will take a random amount of favour points, and give you the tenfold back in trading sticks. For example, he took 3,2% favour points, and he gave me 32 trading sticks. He tells you to talk to other villagers to receive more trading sticks. The villagers will only hand out trading sticks once. To get trading sticks from the same person again, you must do some work again, even if you have sufficient favour points. You can see them holding trading sticks in their hand, if they're willing to give you trading sticks again.

Better Machetes

Better machetes allow you to hack away jungle with higher success rates. This means that you'll get spars faster, similar to getting logs faster from trees, when you use a better axe. Also, the equipment stats are improved with better machetes. There are four kinds of Machetes, in order of quality (worst to best):

Machete - Normal Machete, buy in Jiminua's shop for few gp.
Opal Machete - Good Machete, better stats and faster hacking. Buy in Gabooty's shop.
Jade Machete - Better Machete, better stats and even faster hacking. Buy in Gabooty's shop.
Red Topaz Machete - Best Machete, best stats and fastest hacking. Most expensive machete though. Buy in Gabooty's shop.

Hardwood Grove

When you get 100 trading sticks, you can exchange them for access to the Hardwood Grove. Here, you can cut Teak and Mahogany Trees, with a hatchet.
Remember that you have to pay the 100 sticks everytime you enter the grove. The grove doors can be found near Murcaily.

Broodoo Victims

[Picture will be added here later]

Broodoo Victims are new monsters with combat level 60, who can be found near Tai Bwo Wannai. Be warned however, as this monster is as tough as a lvl 140. As soon as you walk by, he'll cast a spell on your, damaging you, and reducing all combat stats by 2 - 3 lvls. The worst thing is that this spell is not limited. As soon as you get hit again, another 2 or 3 levels will be drained, similar to the Chaos Monks in Chaos Tower (the one with the Zamorak Wine). He keeps casting this spell during battle, which could easily leave you with lvl 40 combat stats, while you actually have lvl 70.

Secondly, he has a certain form of protection, which causes your attack to never hit higher than about 5 or 6. Beating him is not really hard, but watch your stats.

The Broodoo victims are weak to food items. Try using those on them.

If you kill him, you'll get a Broodoo mask. There is a green one, a grey/white one and an orange one.



This guide is not complete yet. I'm still expanding it with stuff.

This post has been edited by MaxTheDragon: Aug 13 2005, 11:27 AM

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Chrono

Aug 10 2005, 11:25 AM | Post #2

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not bad guide at all keep working on it

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Axis Of Evil

Aug 12 2005, 10:36 PM | Post #3

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Keep working on it, because the guide so far is pretty good.

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Seiferoth

Aug 12 2005, 11:04 PM | Post #4

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I hope you will complete this mini-guide soon. Good job.

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Lazyboy164

Aug 13 2005, 02:52 AM | Post #5

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I have heard that if you pay to get into the Hardwood grove, and then don't chop anything, you can leave and come back for free the next time.

Maybe check that? Waste of 100 sticks i suppose but its valid info.

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Deathbyape

Aug 13 2005, 03:14 AM | Post #6

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I know you said your not done yet, but here are a few things you might want to add if your not going to already:

-An "Items Required" thing at the top so that people can figure out what to bring without having to read the whole page.
-A map that points out where the people that give you sticks are located.
-How many sticks you get per selling (un)cut opals, jade, red topaz, and drinks. I do know that he pays 18 sticks per drink(this is true for all of the drinks).
-The effect of the new machete's and why they are better.

You've got a really nice guide going though, keep up the good work! I can't wait to see the complete guide

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Geo1988

Aug 13 2005, 03:37 AM | Post #7

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You do guides quite well my friend, bravo

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Corny Camel

Aug 13 2005, 11:06 AM | Post #8

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You can see if a villager is ready to give you trading sticks, because they then have a trading stick in their hand, which disappears when you have recieved your sticks.

Also, the broodoo victims seem to be of different rarity. In my experience you get the green one most often, then white and then yellow. therefore yellow mask and shield must be worth more than green, and so on.

Also, the better the food you use on the white broodoo victim, the bigger damage you cause. Lobbies cause about twice as much damage as cakes, for example

...and I just found out that you can eat the gout tuber, so be careful if you want to plant one . Apparently it heals some running energy, but I didn't see how much

This post has been edited by Corny Camel: Aug 13 2005, 11:13 AM

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MaxTheDragon

Aug 13 2005, 11:25 AM | Post #9

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Added all info, except for Lazyboy164's info. I'll have to try myself to confirm it.

Also, I'd appreciate it if someone could find out what those numbers mean on the broodoo shields. Thx.

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Deathbyape

Aug 14 2005, 12:25 AM | Post #10

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Guides looking really awesome. I've got a few more things too:

As far as the Broodoo dudes go, not all of them are week to food:
-Green are weak to anti-poison pots, you get herblore exp when you use it on them
-White/Grey are weak to food, not sure if the better the food the higher you'll hit, but I used Herring on them and was hidding upper teens-lower twenties, while I saw someone use a shark on one and hit a 29. This needs to be investigated. Also I don't know if you get any exp from doing this.
-Orange are weak to Recalims(sp) balm from ZFE. You have to have completed that quest to make it. Not sure if you get any exp from doing this aswell.


Maybe get the prices and pictures of the tribal outfits aswell.


Anyways, like I said, the guide is looking awesome

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Loggy

Aug 14 2005, 02:59 AM | Post #11

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Ha ha ha... Spider on a stick...

But I wish they could just use regular GP.

Nice guide.

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8o8thekiller

Aug 14 2005, 04:55 AM | Post #12

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guide is great!

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