Back to my Roots

Helping Horacio

 * Begin by talking to Horacio and offer to help him with his gardening. He'll want you to get a special vine that grows near Shilo Village. He cannot give too much information and he recommends visiting Wizard Cromperty in East Ardougne.


 * Go to Cromperty and he will ask you to investigate the reason the RPDT is not delivering Cromperty's parcel.


 * Next stop is the RPDT headquarters south of of Ardougne bank. Talk to any of the RPDT employees. The employee will say that the package is delayed because the address is unreadable. The RPDT employee takes the subtle hint that a non RPDT employee can open the parcel. So locate the parcel on the table and open it. Inside there is a severed wizard's hand, it has no use during the course of the quest.


 * Go back to Cromperty and talk to him. He opens the package and discovers that the item in the package appears to be broken. Make a new potlid out of soft clay. Make sure to 'use' the unfired potlid on the furnace. Note that a potlid made prior to talking to Cromperty will not work.


 * Cromperty's next instructions are to talk to Garth the farmer near the fruit tree patch in Brimhaven. A boat to Brimhaven can be found slightly east of the RPDT workers, for 30 coins. Garth will tell you how to get the jade vine to grow it in Horacio's garden.

Karamja Vine Maze

 * Bring a machete, a normal pot, Wizard Cromperty's pot lid, a plant pot with soil a spade, axe, and a pair of secateurs. Given that the maze is loaded with aggressive monsters, take decent armour, food and anti-poison. A super defence potion is recommended as well.
 * From the Shilo Village exit, go east and use the stepping stones east of it. Go far north past the maze to a log, cross it, and go south again. An alternative path is to walk around Shilo and go east along the northern fence of Shilo. Try to find an endpoint of a vine to climb onto on the north-west corner of the maze. The climb on vine point forms the maze entry. As the maze is fairly close to the Nature runecrafting altar, all paths to the maze are fairly similar to the nature runecrafting trips. The Eagle transport system provides an alternative entrypoint (see step 3 below) further down the path through the maze. Unfortunately, that transport option is pretty isolated as well.


 * The maze has a number of navigational options:
 * enter a hole
 * enter vine
 * climb up/down vine
 * cut/squeeze/crawl through vines hanging down
 * swing-on vine

Path through Maze

 * 1) Climb on, east, up, south-east, down, north-west, climb off.
 * 2) Walk south, cut vines, crawl-through, again south, squeeze through, south-west, climb on vine.
 * 3) Climb up, climb up, meet the eagle and walk east across the net to the other side.
 * 4) climb down, two or three steps north, swing-on vine to the east, north, down and climb off vine (east).
 * 5) Crawl through vines (south), squeeze through vine (south), south-east to climb onto vine.
 * 6) Go up (east) and cross vine (east). Note, you can fall down and need to find your way back to the vine crossing the river. Look for a hole that will take you into the maze.
 * 7) On other side of river, down vine and climb off vine at north east. Cut vines (south) and crawl-through vines.
 * 8) Climb back onto vines south east, south, west, climb up, west, climb down, climb up, cross vine across river back (can fail) to the west side of maze. Go a bit west, south, east, then climb down the vine and climb off.


 * The end of the maze features the vine root that can be obtained by digging up loose soil. This exposes the root so it can be cut. Use the root cutting on the plant pot. With a bit of luck it will grow. Use farm pot on normal pot to end up with an sealed pot that contains the root.

Growing the Vine

 * Talk to Horacio again in Ardougne and bring the root cutting sealed away in the pot, but he is too busy doing standard gardening chores. The player must plant the vine in Horacio's vine patch, found northeast of Horacio.


 * After planting the vine, a cut scene appears where the vine has grown out of control. Horacio now insists that the vine needs to be killed. Fortunately, there is an opportunity to prepare for the battle.

The Battle

 * The vine can only be killed with an axe. Protection prayers are ineffective against the vine, so bring decent food, potions and optionally use prayer for additional offensive and defensive capabilities. The vine attack also will poison for 7 damage, so a dose of a super anti-poison potion can be used to defend against it. After killing the vine, cut the last remainder of it.


 * Talk one more time to Horacio to complete the quest.

Reward

 * 1 quest point
 * 24 000 Farming experience
 * 40 000 Woodcutting experience
 * 23 000 Slayer experience
 * 15 000 Agility experience
 * Vine Farming Patch
 * Jade Vine Seed

And access to:


 * A new maze, slightly larger than Draynor Manor
 * 8 new creatures
 * Transportation between Eagle's Peak and Karamja
 * Tears of Guthix-style minigame for two skills
 * Papaya seeds as a monster drop

Returning Clarence
During the quest players get another hand of Clarence (see The Hand in the Sand). Go to the magic guild and ring the bell to make Zavistic Rarve come out. Talk to him to give him the hand.

Go back to the Vine Maze and kill the new creatures until the following items have been collected:
 * a left arm [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_left_arm.PNG]]
 * a right arm [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_right_arm.PNG]]
 * a left leg [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_left_leg.PNG]]
 * a right leg [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_right_leg.PNG]]
 * a foot [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_foot.PNG]]
 * a torso [[Image:Back_to_my_Roots_torso.PNG]]

Go back to the magic guild and give these items to Zavistic Rarve too.

He will then ask for more evidence of the murder and offers to teleport to Sandy's office. Search Sandy's Desk to get a locked diary. Unlock the diary and read it. Return to Zavistic Rarve with the diary.

Accept Zavistic Rarve's offer to attend the funeral and after the cutscene a reward of 10,000 magic xp, 200 blood runes, and 100 law runes is given.

Repeatable Rewards
A vine seed is part of the quest rewards. When lost, talk to Horacio to get a new one. Plant the seed in the west patch of the mansion (50 farming experience). You can pay Horacio to look after your crops.

During quest there is hints that trimming the vines on a regular basis, like the once per week Tears of Guthix minigame, provides experience rewards in farming and some other skills.

Trivia

 * On the first day of release if players clicked to see the spoilers they recieved the message, "Good quest spoilers need time to take root. Come back when they're in season."


 * This quest has 72 Woodcutting as a requirement, which makes it have the highest skill requirement in any quest, surpassing Grim Tales's requirement of 71 Woodcutting.


 * This quest also gives 40,000 Woodcutting experience as a reward, also breaking a record in quest experience given in a single skill as a reward. The previous record holder was Monkey Madness, which gave 35,000 experience in 2 combat skills of the player's choice.


 * Players must have required skill levels to start quest; temporary skill boosts will not help.