Ivy



Ivy, referred to in the skill guide and its members examine text as Choking ivy, is a vine which grows upon several walls throughout Gielinor and may be chopped down by members for woodcutting experience. It was released along with the Woodcutting Rebalance update update on 23 September 2009. Level 68 Woodcutting is required to chop this vine, and no items are directly obtained through chopping the vine. When an ivy vine is chopped down the remains will be an ivy stump. The respawn rate is 36 seconds and chopping grants 332.5 Woodcutting experience, which is the most Woodcutting experience of any tree currently available. If ivy were a collectable item, then a full inventory of ivy would provide 9310 experience.

The ivy was designed to give fast experience without any monetary rewards apart from bird's nests, which are known to contain seeds and rings that can be worth up to 300k or more. Therefore, many players choose to wear a Strung rabbit foot while cutting to increase the number of bird's nests received. This "tree" does not require any trips to the bank (except to bank birds nests). However, woodcutting urns of all types do not collect any scraps when cutting ivy.

The Sacred clay hatchet grants additional experience amounts, which totals to 665 experience per vine cut with the original experience added on. With a fully charged hatchet, a player will average about 34,000 experience in 18–20 minutes before it dissolves, which works out to roughly 102,000 experience per hour; however, 3 hatchets will be needed, as every piece cut will cause the hatchet to lose 2% of its charge. Lumberjack clothing and Sacred clay hatchet combined provides a more significant experience boost.

Despite being only the third fastest woodcutting experience in the game, with hourly experience rates behind those that can be gained cutting Teaks or at the Sawmill, ivy is by far the most popular means of training woodcutting at higher levels because it requires very little input from the player to cut.

Respawn Locations



 * North wall of Varrock Palace, near the Yew trees. (4 Ivy spots)
 * South-east outer wall of Varrock Palace, next to tree Farming patch. (5 Ivy spots)
 * North side of the north wall of Falador, a little west from Standing stones location. (7 Ivy spots) Usually busy.
 * South side of the south wall of Falador, a little north of the allotment patch. (7 Ivy spots)
 * South-east of Taverley, near the Hot air balloon. (5 Ivy spots)
 * East wall of East Ardougne church, just west of Handelmort's Mansion. (5 Ivy spots)
 * North side of the north wall of Yanille, south-east of Yanille Dungeon. (6 Ivy) This one is probably the best because it is out of the way and generally un-crouded.
 * South wall of Castle Wars, south of the Saradomin base. (7 Ivy spots) Usually very crouded, even on less-populated worlds.

Trivia

 * On 31 December 2009, the cutting animation of ivy was accelerated.
 * There is currently a glitch where if you are wearing a clan cape while chopping ivy part of the collar of the cape will stick, performing the commonly known "stetchy glitch". (Please add picture)

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