2012 Easter event

The 2012 Easter Event: Chocatrice vs Evil Chicken was released on 2 April 2012. It's based on a typical Easter egg hunt but with a RuneScape twist. The player can join either the Chocotrice's team or the Evil Chicken's team and scavenge five eggs.

The Easter Bunny has fallen from White Wolf mountain and is unfit for duty. He has, however, already hidden 5 magic eggs around Gielinor (2 of which in members-only area). In Varrock Square, the Evil Chicken and Chocatrice (from the 2007 Easter event) are having a showdown. The Chocatrice wants to turn the chicks inside the eggs into chocolate while the Evil Chicken wants to turn them into drumsticks.

The player must help them by finding the eggs, then opening them and shooting the chick with the Eggsterminator Cannon. This cannon either turns them into drumsticks or chocolate treats. Both can be eaten or given to respectively the Evil Chicken or the Chocatrice.

If three treats are brought to the right creature (i.e. 3 chocolate treats to the Chocatrice or 3 drumsticks to the Evil Chicken), the player receives a Chocolate egg on face mask, which turns the head of the player into a chocolate egg with a ribbon around it when worn or a Egg on face mask, which covers the top of the head and has a fried-egg covering the player's right eye. The mask received depends on the side that is chosen. Players who help the Chocatrice receive the chocolate version while players who help the Evil Chicken receive the regular version.

Neither helmet has a special emote that can be used when worn but when shot by the Eggsterminator by another player, the masks reveal a secret emote where the player spins around as they are hit. Each emote varies depending on the mask being worn.

Every 2 hours or so new eggs will spawn in new places.

Players must speak to Evil Chicken or the Chocatrice at the start of each wave to take part. If they do not, the eggs won't appear in their places.

Wave 1 (OVER)
During the first wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * West of the eastern mine in the Lumbridge Swamp and south of Father Urhney's hut.
 * South of Gertrude's house in Varrock.
 * Wheat field in Taverley. (m)
 * Between the Dark Wizards' Tower and the witch's house in Taverley. (m)
 * West of the Gamers' Grotto.

Wave 2 (OVER)
During the second wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * Behind Daemonheim.
 * Between Falador and Draynor Manor. EV12HuntStart.png
 * Musa Point (In the Banana plantation).
 * North of the witch's house in Taverley. (m)
 * West of the Exam Centre. (m)

Wave 3 (OVER)
During the third wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * East of Draynor Manor (Old Gnomecopter location).
 * West of Exam Centre. (m)
 * Near the crossbow shortcut in Musa Point.
 * West of Digsite. (m)
 * At Mudskipper Point (by Fairy Ring Code: AIQ). Or walking south from Port Sarim.

Wave 4 (OVER)
During the fourth wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * Outside the Lumber Yard in Varrock.
 * Between the Clan Camp and the Crafting Guild.
 * West of the Exam Centre. (m)
 * North-east of Barbarian Village. (South of Edgeville)
 * Near the wheat field in Taverley. (m)

Wave 5 (OVER)
During the fifth wave, the eggs were located in the following places:


 * East side of Barbarian Village - near the unicorns
 * Musa Point - just inside the north entrance of the banana plantation
 * On top of Ice Mountain - by the ice fiends
 * Brimhaven - on the beach, east of the house portal (m)
 * Taverley mine - inside the mine, north of Taverley teleport spot (m)

Wave 6 (OVER)
During the sixth wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * East of Varrock - next to the path to the Lumberyard, near the Tunnel of Chaos/Altar entrance statue
 * South of Gertrude's house and west of Varrock, close to the River Lum
 * Taverley Mine (m)
 * North west part of the Beefy Bill cowfield in the old gnomecopter field.
 * In the Taverley Dungeon - just north of the entrance. (m)

Wave 7 (OVER)
During the seventh wave, the eggs were located in the following places:


 * South of Goblin Village near the Asgarnian Chaos Temple
 * South of the Taverley wheat field (m)
 * East of Varrock - west of the musician near the Chaos Tunnels/Altar entrance statue
 * West of the Grand Exchange - southwest of D-K-R fairy ring.
 * North of the Dark Wizards' Tower(m)

Wave 8 (IN PROGRESS)
During the eighth wave, the eggs were located in the following places:
 * Lumbridge Castle Grounds
 * Sheep Field east of Champion's Guild, south of Dark Wizards Circle by Varrock
 * North-west of the Dark Wizard's Tower (m)
 * Crossbow shortcut on Musa Point
 * Brimhaven (by fishing spot) (m)

Wave 9 (IN PROGRESS)
Starts at 12:00am UTC

Wave 10 (UPCOMING)
Starts at 2:00am UTC

Wave 11 (UPCOMING)
Starts at 4:00am UTC

Wave 12 (UPCOMING)
Starts at 6:00am UTC

Wave 13 (UPCOMING)
Starts at 8:00am UTC

Wave 14 (UPCOMING)
Starts at 10:00am UTC

All players

 * For giving either of the hosts 3 of their respective treats, one is awarded a mask:
 * Egg on face mask - By giving 3 evil drumsticks to the Evil Chicken.
 * Chocolate egg on face mask - By giving 3 chocotreats to the Chocatrice.

Note that it is possible to obtain both the Egg on face and Chocolate egg on face helmets. To do this, simply complete one of the egg hunts with the Chocatrice, and the other for the Evil Chicken. Not all 5 of each item must be brought to either NPC, as for each helmet, players only require 3.

Members only

 * For finding all five eggs in one hunt, the player will receive an Easter lamp, giving experience at the same value as a random event lamp.
 * For finding all five eggs in three different waves (for a total of 15 eggs), the player is able to keep the Eggsterminator.

Trivia

 * The 2012 Easter Event seems to be the first holiday event in many years which doesn't have an unlockable emote; if players don't have the emotes for Easter, it unlocks them.
 * Unlike past holiday events, The 2012 Easter Event cannot be seen on the in-game quest menu.
 * There was a glitch that when players used the splatter option with another player and then quickly used the emote Seal of Approval, the seal would stretch. This was patched within the last hour of Wave 4. Now if players try to do it, it will say 'You're already doing an emote'.
 * When targeting attackable NPCs it will say 'The Eggsterminator can only target cute little chicks and other players'.
 * It is impossible to get an Eggsterminator (permanent) in F2P because players need to get all 5 eggs in at least 3 waves. However, each wave there are at least 2 spots that are on member's area and thus f2p players are unable to complete it.