Jadinko Lair

The Jadinko Lair is a members activity that was released on 12 July 2011. It can be accessed north of the Herblore Habitat activity in a dungeon entrance near Dotmatrix and Maverick. Here players can help the Jadinko Queen rid her lair of mutated jadinkos or cut down jade vines to create ranged weapons.

Requirements
The lowest requirements to participate in various activities of the Jadinko Lair are 83 Fletching, 83 Firemaking, 83 Woodcutting, and 80 Slayer. The attackable mutated jadinkos within the lair range from levels 90 to 201.

Activity requirements * These items can be fletched outside of the Jadinko Lair, but require items that are collected or made in the lair.

Getting there
Players can most easily reach the Jadinko Lair by teleporting to the Herblore Habitat with a Juju teleport spiritbag or Witchdoctor mask, crossing the vine, and running west to jump over the waterfall. The entrance to the Lair is northeast of the stepping stones over the waterfall. Another way to get there would be to quickly travel to Shilo Village either by the Shilo Village cart system or Karamja gloves 3, crossing over the broken cart in the southeastern side of the village, and walking east towards the Lair entrance.

Another fast method is Karamja's gnome glider. The landing point is just northeast of the entrance to the Lair, near the Ship Yard, which is also an easy transportation method.

Just west of the Jadinko Queen is a large jade vine root covered by small roots. Chop these roots away (Requires Woodcutting level 40.) to open up a permanent two-way entrance, the other end being in the southern point at the Herblore Habitat (by the deposit box).

Once there, speak to Dotmatrix to be able to enter the Lair.

Inhabitants
The Jadinko Queen and various jadinko workers live in the main chamber of the Lair. They protect the Queen from the mutated jadinkos, which spawn randomly from her roots without her control. If players help the Queen by defeating the mutated jadinkos and doing the various skilling activities within the Lair, they are rewarded with favour which can be used on jadinko fruit or seeds, which the normal jadinkos bring down from Herblore Habitat area and place on the offering stone.

Mutated jadinkos
Mutated jadinkos are Slayer monsters assigned by Sumona, Duradel or Lapalok and Kuradal. There are 3 types of mutated jadinkos - requiring 80, 86 and 91 Slayer respectively. However, players may kill them without having them assigned.

Recommended items
Mutated jadinkos attack with melee and magic. However, they will only use magic attacks if you have Protect/Deflect Melee on or they cannot reach you. Therefore, it is recommended to use high melee-defence or magic-defence armour if fighting mutated jadinkos with melee. Mutated jadinko babies have the lowest combat level and thus will need less protection than Mutated jadinko males. Wearing anything from Barrows equipment to Bandos armour to Rune equipment will suffice for Mutated jadinko babies. Since Mutated jadinko males frequently use their magic attack, Barrows equipment would be wise for players using melee, as would Protection prayers or Curses such as Protect from Magic and Soul Split. Healing familiars or Beasts of burden would also be an advantage.

Players wishing to Range should wear high ranged attack bonus and magic-defence armour such as Armadyl armour or dragonhide armour. Protection prayers, curses, and familiars will also be helpful as it is with players using melee.

Drops
Mutated jadinkos drop many noted items in addition to special items that can only be obtained within the Lair. Mutated vines can be used with excrescence or sagaie shafts to create bolas and sagaies, respectively. Excrescence is only dropped by mutated jadinkos and cannot be created. Both these ranged weapons have an increased attack bonus when fighting mutated jadinkos. Jadinko fruits each have a special combat and skilling-enhancing abilities that can only be used in the Lair for short amounts of time. If the fruits are taken out of the Lair, they become Common fruit, which does nothing but heal players 150 life points. Mutated jadinko guards and males drop whip vines which can be attached to an abyssal whip to form an abyssal vine whip which has increased bonuses and a different special attack.

Straight and curly
Jade roots hang in every room of the Lair but can only be chopped for Woodcutting experience (80.5 for cutting and 80.5 for collecting) in the rooms with the mutated jadinkos. There are two kinds of jade roots in the mutated jadinkos' rooms: straight and curly. Players can chop and collect roots from both kinds, though they yield different kinds of roots. There is chance to receive strange rocks from all 3 skills used. Straight roots can be burned on a fire pit within the Lair to form a Hardened straight root, which can used with a knife to make sagaie shafts. If a mutated vine is used on a sagaie shaft, it will create sagaie, a special ranged weapon that is effective against mutated jadinkos.

Curly roots can be used on the dry patches between rooms with a tinderbox to form a fire pit. After the fire is formed, it can be refueled by either using another curly root on it, or clicking the fire pit and selecting "Burn all". This is the only method of firemaking experience that has a "Burn all" option. Each root burned earns 378.5 Firemaking xp, adds 30 seconds of duration to the fire and earns 2 points of favor with the jadinkos.

Healthy and mutated
Healthy and mutated jade roots hang near the Jadinko Queen. They change states frequently, and chopping a healthy root may result in damage from the Queen. Mutated roots can be chopped to receive mutated vines. Mutated vines are used to make bolas and sagaie.

Rewards
Players are rewarded with a choice of either jadinko fruits, seeds, or a combination of the two on the offering stone in the Jadinko Queen's chamber. Doing more activities within the lair will add to your favour, therefore increasing the rewards. You can only have 2000 favor points at a time before they stop accumulating and you need to collect your rewards. Cutting a mutated vine near the Jadinko Queen will give you two favour points, but cutting a healthy vine by mistake will take away one favour point.