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Herbiboars inhabit the Mushroom Forest on Fossil island where they can be hunted for herbs that grow on their back. Doing so requires level 80 Hunter to be tracked in addition to level 31 Herblore to harvest their herbs.

Since only the beginning step of tracking a herbiboar requires 80 Hunter, hunter potions and spicy stews can be used to temporarily boost from level 77 or level 75, respectively; however, doing so will grant less experience since it scales depending on the base Hunter level of the player.

The number of herbiboars the player has tracked is reported after harvesting its herbs, but players can also check by using the "check count" option on the rock, mushroom, or log used at the start of every tracking.

Tracking[]

To begin Tracking a herbiboar, inspect the rock, mushroom, or log next to the hunter icon on the minimap. Continue by inspecting seaweed, rocks, muddy patches, and mushrooms around the area to find more tracks until a tunnel containing a herbiboar is revealed. Note: A ring of pursuit cannot be used to track herbiboars. Additionally, the player has a chance to fail at tracking down the creature. When this occurs, a message will appear in the chatbox, stating: The creature has successfully confused you with its tracks, leading you round in circles. You'll need to start again.

Warning: The herbiboar will disappear if a new track is started before collecting its herbs.

Experience and harvesting[]

Harvesting herbiboar

A player harvests the herbs from a herbiboar.

Each inspection grants 50 experience and occasionally gives numulite or unidentified fossils. Once the player attacks the tunnel, herbs can be harvested from the herbiboar and experience is gained which scales depending on the Hunter level of the player. The base value granted is 1,950 xp with 30 additional experience gained per Hunter level above 80 until level 95. Afterwards, 19 additional experience is gained per level from 95 to 99 Hunter.[1]

Harvesting from the herbiboar earns the player experience, herbs, and a chance to obtain the pet Herbi. Herblore xp depends upon the amount of herbs collected which can be increased by using magic secateurs; however, the passive ability of the farming cape will not work when collecting herbs from the herbiboar.

Drops[]

Trail inspection (fossil drop table)[]

Expect to have an average of 2.56 trail inspection rolls per herbiboar.

Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Numulite Numulite 5–25 Common (24/25=96%) 100–500
Unidentified small fossil Unidentified small fossil 1 Uncommon (1/50=2%) Not sold
Unidentified medium fossil Unidentified medium fossil 1 Rare (1/100=1%) Not sold
Unidentified large fossil Unidentified large fossil 1 Rare (1/125=0.8%) Not sold
Unidentified rare fossil Unidentified rare fossil 1 Rare (1/500=0.2%) Not sold

Herbiboar[]

The quality of Herbs dropped by the Herbiboar are determined by your Herblore level. No in depth analysis exists yet.

Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Grimy guam leaf Grimy guam leaf 1–4 Varies 15–60
Grimy ranarr weed Grimy ranarr weed 1–4 Varies 7,640–30,560
Grimy irit leaf Grimy irit leaf 1–4 Varies 775–3,100
Grimy avantoe Grimy avantoe 1–4 Varies 1,814–7,256
Grimy kwuarm Grimy kwuarm 1–4 Varies 1,165–4,660
Grimy snapdragon Grimy snapdragon 1–4 Varies 8,405–33,620
Grimy cadantine Grimy cadantine 1–4 Varies 1,312–5,248
Grimy lantadyme Grimy lantadyme 1–4 Varies 1,391–5,564
Grimy dwarf weed Grimy dwarf weed 1–4 Varies 448–1,792
Grimy torstol Grimy torstol 1–4 Varies 8,341–33,364
Herbi Herbi 1 Very rare (1/6,500) Not sold

References[]

  1. Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 February 2018. Mod Ash: "Looking closer, that formula goes up to 95, At 95, it's 2385, then 2404, then 2423, etc. adding 19 per level up to 99. I don't know why."
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