Bunyip

The Bunyip is a Summoning familiar which requires a Summoning level of 68. It is summoned using a Bunyip pouch. It is typically summoned during combat for its player-healing ability.

Bunyip pouch
A Bunyip pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 110 spirit shards, a Green charm and a raw shark in the player's inventory.

Swallow whole scroll
The Swallow whole scroll enables the use of the Swallow whole special ability for a Bunyip. Using a Bunyip pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates ten Swallow whole scrolls.

Swallow whole
Swallow whole is the special move of the Bunyip activated by using a Swallow whole scroll. It allows players to eat an uncooked fish (and gain the correct number of life points corresponding to the fish eaten) if they have the cooking level to cook the fish. For example, using the scroll on a raw shark will heal 200 life points as long as the player has a cooking level of 80 or higher. Each use of a scroll requires three special move points.

Players killing Waterfiends find this scroll useful as they drop Raw Lobsters, Swordfish, and Sharks occasionally, thus prolonging players' stay there. A player killing either Aquanites or Dagannoths will find a Bunyip very useful as well, because they mainly drop raw fish

Note that using the scroll does NOT count as eating. A fast clicker can use Swallow Whole on a fish without skipping an attack in combat.

You will not get Cooking xp for using the Swallow Whole scroll.

Healing
The Bunyip will automatically heal 20 Life Points approximately every 15 seconds up to a player's maximum. Note that the healing ability still works even if a player does not have any remaining Summoning points. The healing effect makes the Bunyip useful in single combat environments as it can restore up to 3520 Life Points over its summoning duration of 44 minutes. This is roughly equivalent to a full inventory of lobsters or 17 cooked sharks. Raw fish drops can provide additional healing, see "Swallow whole" above for detail.

Currently, the price of a Bunyip pouch is coins. If a single bunyip is used to heal 3520 Life Points, the cost of replenishing 10 Life Points is about coins.

Sometimes food cannot be replaced with a bunyip, if opponents deal damage faster than the bunyip can heal. It can be used as additional healing, though.

Special ability
Players can use raw fish on a bunyip to get a random number of water runes. The maximum amount you can get from them depends on the fish you feed them - the maximum amount it can give is the same as the health the cooked version of the fish that it transmutes. For example, feeding the bunyip raw shrimp will create 1-3 water runes, while feeding it raw sharks makes 1-20. Therefore, feeding it fish that doesn't heal much and doesn't sell well is a good idea, to get Water Runes which can be sold or used. It can also make powerfishing a bit more profitable. Also you cannot use this feature with the leaping trout, leaping salmon or leaping sturgeon. Power fishing trout and salmon while having a Bunyip out can produce some decent income. Trout gives about 4x profit giving to bunyip to make into water runes while Salmon gives about 2x profit. As of 3-04-2010 Trout now produces 1-8 water runes per trout. (Hidden Update by Jagex.)

Fighting
The Bunyip uses melee to attack and can hit up to 80. It gives attack experience when it inflicts damage, and it is immune to poison. However, it has a very low hitpoints level and will only fight to defend itself. The player must also have auto-retaliate on.

Mythology
A bunyip, in aboriginal Australian mythology, was a monster that inhabited swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes. It was said that at night, their cries could be heard as they devoured any unfortunate animal that came near their abode. Bunyips are described as slimy and smelly creatures.

Trivia

 * When using the special feature of a Bunyip where a person can feed it some raw fish, The player will throw the Bunyip what looks to be a clownfish, yet these are unobtainable throughout RuneScape.
 * When talking to the Bunyip whilst a player has a Summoning level of at least 78, the Bunyip will appear to use an Australian accent which may be a relation to the mythology of the Bunyip.
 * At some small areas, the Bunyip may not appear right next to the player. When that happens, the Bunyip doesn't exist, but its effect will still occur. The Bunyip will spawn next to the player if the player moves to a larger area.
 * At the time of the new constitution update for approximately 3 days after the update giving the bunyip fish also gave you 10x the amount of water runes you originally would have gotten. Players doing this could make 100k every 2 minutes off of raw rocktails. This has now been fixed.
 * The bunyip saying the player ruins the fish by cooking them might be a reference to The Lord of the Rings, when gollum is upset at Sam when he offers to cook gollum fish.