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. 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 a player's stay there. Someone killing either Aquanites, Dagannoths or Mogres 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.

Also note, if the player has the exact level needed to cook a fish, it may be helpful just to bring only the raw version of it so that none are wasted by burning. Thus, using the Swallow whole may save money on that part. '''You will not get Cooking xp for using the Swallow Whole scroll. The Cooking level cannot be assisted.'''



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 28 cooked 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 using current Grand Exchange prices.

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 of the cooked version of the fish divided by ten, 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 85. It gives attack experience when it inflicts damage, and it is immune to poison. However, it has a very few life points and will only fight to defend itself. The player must also have auto-retaliate on.

Healing analysis
For an analysis of the healing abilities of bunyips, Titans, and Unicorn stallions, see this analysis.

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.
 * The Bunyip speaks with what appears to be an Australian accent. This is because the Bunyip is a creature from Australian folklore. A bunyip, in Australian Aboriginal 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.
 * 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 received. Players doing this could make 100k every 2 minutes off of raw rocktails. This is now fixed.
 * While completing a random event with a bunyip summoned, the summoning timer will be paused, however it will continue to heal you as normal.
 * When walking on the grand exchange, your bunyip will dissapear and its timer will be paused like all familiars. It is not known if this is a glitch or not, but your bunyip will still keep healing you.