Chompy bird/Strategies

Inventory
Players should try to carry the least amount of weight they can. Energy potions are optional if players have low Agility, but they will not last very long. Food is also optional as you might be hurt from the exploding toads. Steel arrows are not required, but will be gathered if wielding Ava's accumulator. Only one ogre bellows is needed. You may also want to bring a hatchet, knife, chisel, and your best weapon if you plan to restock on ogre arrows.

Hunting grounds
You may hunt at almost any location near a swamp. You cannot hunt near Rantz's cave. You will know if you are able to hunt in a certain area, as you will not be able to drop your swamp toad if you are not allowed to hunt in that area.

Players are recommended to use the hunting grounds at the very west. This is mainly because there are no monsters to attack you. Additionally, there are several spots to choose from. Also, a mostly unknown but good area for this is south of Castle Wars; if one follows the south wall they will soon find a swamp area that is great for hunting, in which a bank is very close due to the fairy ring just south of it. The fairy ring code for this is B-K-P.

Strategy
After finding their preferred hunting spot, players should inflate their bellows. Then players should gather three toads and inflate them with the bellows. Dropping the toads in the hunting area will set them as bait. While waiting for the chompy birds to come, inflate your bellows again and gather toads. When a chompy bird is seen, they do not have to be attacked straight away, as they actually stay for quite a while. Players can choose to pluck them after they die.

Raw chompies weigh 10 kg each, so they will add a considerable amount to a player's weight. Decent money can be made by selling raw chompy on the Grand Exchange. Some players also choose to bring unfinished wild pies, and add the chompies to them. This reduces the chompies' weight to almost nothing. Players may wish to wear weight reducing clothing. You may also use brutal ogre arrows to kill chompys and it will help because you don't have to kill the level 64 wolves to get the tips. If you try to melee a chompy, you will receive the text "the bird is too fast to strike".


 * 1) Chop achey trees, use a knife on the logs to make arrow shafts, then add feathers to the shafts to create some flighted ogre arrows.
 * 2) After doing so, or beforehand, kill some nearby wolves and use a chisel on their bones to get arrowtips to attach to the shafts that you just made in order to make ogre arrows.
 * 3) Use the ogre bellows on some swamp bubbles at the hunting area of your choosing, then use the bellows on the nearby swamp toads to get bloated toads to be used as bait.
 * 4) Drop the bloated toads in the location where you you would like to hunt, then wait for a chompy. It is not uncommon for bait to not always attract your prey, just keep trying.
 * 5) Once the chompy is in your sights, kill it. Pluck the bird's corpse for feathers, and some raw chompy meat.

Optionally, Rantz's home is nearby if you would like to cook the meat on the fire, though if you will be here for an extended period of time, it is advised to drop the meat if you have no interest in selling it, or needing it as food. Keeping the feathers over a period of time can result in quite a few thousand which can be sold for a profit in its own right.

Hunter's notes

 * Chompies may sometimes give Cornucopias through killing, plucking or cooking them if you do not otherwise have one. (If received through killing, it will appear in your inventory as soon as you make a notch.)
 * If the chompies are not slain with ogre bows, you will not get the necessary notches to receive the hat rewards.

Trivia

 * The bird has a similar look to a Dodo.
 * It cannot be monster examined.
 * When you kill it, it will still be a yellow dot on the minimap until you pluck it.
 * Toad bait will "pop" after awhile, disappearing.