Tool leprechaun

Tool leprechauns are non-player characters found wandering near Farming patches around Gielinor. They provide three basic functions: store Farming tools, exchange harvested items into banknotes, and are portals to the Vinesweeper activity.

They will store many of the tools that players use for Farming, but they will not store seeds, crops, or plant cures. The tool leprechaun does not accept noted tools. The tools stored are available to all the leprechauns. Leprechaun Larry (found on Troll Stronghold) sells an assortment of Farming-related items.

All Tool leprechauns can carry various Farming tools for you and you can retrieve them from any leperchaun:
 * Farming rake - for removing weeds.
 * Seed dibber - to plant any seed except trees.
 * Watering can - to water vegetables, flowers, and hops as well as tree seedlings.
 * After Fairytale III - Battle at Orks Rift quest, Tool leprechauns can store a Fairy watering can, which basically is a watering can with an unlimited supply of water, thereby it does not have to be constantly refilled.
 * All-purpose spade - for harvesting or clearing patches. Used to remove dead plants.
 * Gardening trowel - for filling a plant pot with soil and putting a tree seed into a plant pot.
 * Secateurs - for pruning diseased trees or removing Willow branches.
 * After Fairytale I - Growing Pains quest, they can be upgraded to Magic secateurs, when wielded increases yields by 10% from allotments, herb and hop patches.
 * Empty buckets (up to 31)
 * Normal compost (up to 255)
 * Supercompost (up to 255)
 * Scarecrows (up to 4)

A very useful feature of the tool leprechaun is that he will swap harvested crops for banknotes if the player uses the item on him—this includes clean herbs. The one exception to this is the leprechaun at Draynor allotment, who will refuse to exchange cabbages, claiming that the whole farm stinks of them. Leprechauns will NOT note nighshades. This is because nighshades were made untradeable, and untradeable items cannot be noted.

Leprechauns, except for the Leprechaun on Harmony Island and Leprechaun Larry, can also teleport players to the Vinesweeper activity. To do this, players can right-click on him and select 'teleport'. He will then say "Avach nimporto!", and the player will arrive at the activity. There is a portal north-east of the farmhouse to return to the patch.



Trivia

 * When the player attempts to exchange cabbages into a note with the tool leprechaun at the Falador allotment patch, she will decline and say, "...this whole farm stinks of the things!" and to get them exchanged elsewhere. The tool leprechaun at the nearby spirit tree patch in Port Sarim will exchange cabbages.
 * When the player attempts to exchange a non-notable item the leprechaun will say "Nay, I've got no banknotes to exchange for that item" or if it cannot be a note "Nay, I can't turn that into a banknote."
 * Also, when the player attempts to exchange a banknote, the leprechaun will say "That IS a banknote!"
 * Prior to 27 May 2009, all Leprechauns looked alike. Now there are several different models for leprechauns, including Leprechauns seated in wheelbarrows, without hats, wearing desert or Karamja clothes, wielding magic wands and even female Leprechauns were introduced.
 * While you are doing the Lost City Quest, if you talk to a tool leprechaun they will mention someone knocking Shamus out of his tree.
 * Tool leprechauns’ references to bucket was made consistent on 9 November 2009.
 * At least one of the unnamed leprechauns is named Patrick, as revealed in Postbag from the Hedge 38.
 * Strangly, they don't have eyes, even after the update. This may be because they are not human.
 * If a system update occurs while cutting an evil tree, you can claim your rewards from a tool leprechaun because the evil tree will be gone.