Ent

''This article is about the random event. For the summoning familiar Giant Ent, click here''.



Ents are one of RuneScape's discontinued random events. When a player tried to chop a tree, the tree had a chance of becoming an ent, also known as "dancing tree" to some players. Like most random events, its purpose was to stop macro users. Since the Ent could appear for each player chopping the tree, the odds of it showing up increased when woodcutting with more players. However, once it had appeared, it would influence all players chopping that tree.

The player had to stop chopping wood, or the player would carry on cutting, attempting to chop the ent down. This would break the player's hatchet and render it useless. Once broken, a player could go to Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge to get the broken axe (now known as Hatchet after the random event update) fixed. Bob would fix bronze, iron, and steel hatchets free of charge, and other hatchet types for a small fee. The stronger the hatchet, the higher the repair cost. Alternately, the hatchet could be repaired in a player-owned house, reducing the cost.

Players would often yell "Ent!" to help keep other players from breaking their hatchets.

To warn players that that tree was an Ent, in the "Choose option" box for that tree, the "chop down - " would be in yellow instead of light blue which is the normal colour.

Another warning was that ents would appear as a yellow dot on the mini-map.

Legacy
A Giant ent is a level 78 Summoning familiar.

Also, the Evil Tree, part of Distractions and Diversions, has some similarities to the ent random event.

Trivia

 * When a player attempted to cut an Ent whilst using a hatchet obtained from Stealing Creation or the Inferno Adze, a message appears telling the player they are not wielding a hatchet they can use and prevents them from chopping the Ent.


 * While extremely rare, a tree could sometimes turn into an Ent more than once since the odds of one appearing is determined by individual players, which means the Ent random could be triggered several times if a lot of players were chopping down the same tree.


 * Although the Ents in Runescape are rooted to the ground, many, if not most stories or legends that include Ents show the Ent to be mobile, allowing it to walk. Ents have been in various legends, stories, and games, including The Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and in The Wizard of Oz, as an Ent is defined as a sentient tree. Oddly enough, the Giant ent familiar is mobile.


 * When a regular tree was affected by an ent it would have the old animation of regular trees with an ent instead of the new ones.
 * The Ent is also a unit in Jagex's Armies of Gielinor, it is mobile and appears as the Giant Ent used in summoning.