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Bringing Home the Bacon is a quest released in July 2013. It features pigs, and is a quest that Mod Mark has been wanting to do for years[1].

Official description

Eli Bacon has discovered the secret of bacon following an accident involving his prized wrestling pig and a fire, and needs help ensuring there are enough pigs to sustain the expected popularity of his products. The rewards will include pig based foods such as bacon, pork pie, and a bacon-based alcoholic beverage, which have better healing capabilities than current foods of its level, and a summoning familiar that levels up with the player and has a range of abilities such as being able to fight with the player in combat, being a beast of burden, or being able to restore prayer points.

Walkthrough

Start pointQuest map icon Speak to Eli Bacon in his pig pen, by his farm, north of Port Sarim.
Member requirementP2P icon Members only
Official difficultyNovice Novice
Official lengthShort (15 minutes)
RequirementsSkill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable.
Items requiredItems from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added.
  • 5 Wheat
  • 5 Onion (Note: These must be picked from a field (not an allotment), and only when asked to do so during the quest (not beforehand) or they will not be accepted. Also, any onions not obtained via picking, such as those bought or received as monster drops, will not count.)

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Enemies to defeat
  • None

Falador Farm

Eli Bacon chathead

To start, talk to Eli Bacon at the Falador Farm north of Port Sarim. The Explorer's ring 3 will allow you to Cabbage port to the Falador cabbage patch slightly east of it.

Eli will introduce bacon to you by giving you a sample of it. Eat the bacon and give your opinion of it. Eli wants to advertise pigs and how they are no longer useless animals, but serve delicious meat. A cutscene occurs, explaining the plan to you.

Bacon addicts appear

A group of Bacon addicts come to the farm in search of Bacon.

Multiple locals have come to the farm in order to taste more bacon. Eli explains how he gave a few a taste and now they are addicted. They open the gate and begin to lay butter on the pigs. Eli orders you to make decoys for the addicts.

You're given a Bacon heap and 9 planks (If you don't have space in your inventory you can ask him later when you have more space). Build decoy pigs at the hotspots in the centre of the field. First build it up with the planks, then add the bacon. Do it for all three decoys. You will need to continually add bacon to the decoys until Eli leads all the pigs out of the field.

After Eli has led all the pigs away from the addicts, you will be taken to the cellar of the house. Talk to Eli and he will explain that he wants to train pigs to gather people's attention. Answer based on which pet you would like. Then go to Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village.

Draynor Village

Talk to Martin and ask to take one of Pigzilla's piglets. However, he will explain that he has been pickpocketed and wants you to give the culprit a good "beating".

Head north west and talk to each character. They will each say who each other was with. The person who was not mentioned by anyone is the culprit who pickpocketed Martin. Accuse him and then a cutscene will occur.  The culprit is different for each player.

File:A piglet and a Kitten.png

Oh look! A piglet and a kitten!

Martin orders you to punch the culprit, and you do so. However, they both complain that it was not enough, so the camera view directs you to a kitten and a pig, while you can hear your character savagely bashing the culprit. After the beating, Martin will give you the piglet.

Training the Piglet

Head back to Eli in the cellar and hand over the piglet to him. Eli will then ask you to create a machine to train the Pigzilla piglet up into a fully grown pig. Go into the northern room and click to build the machine. Eli will supply you with all the supplies needed. Head back to the machine and click to upgrade it. Finally, Eli will ask you to get him 5 wheat. There is a wheat field north east of Draynor Village you can go to.

Head back to Eli with 5 wheat. He will then explain that he wants to make the addicts fall asleep. Go back outside and put some bacon on the fake pig decoys. Then drug the bacon. However, after the addicts eat the bacon, they do not fall asleep. Return to Eli and he will explain that the potion takes some time to work. He will then ask you to get him 5 fresh picked onions. You have to pick the onions from a field, and only after he asks you to do so, otherwise he will not accept them. Also, Eli will not accept onions obtained via other means, such as buying, monster drops, or even from allotment patches. The closest onion patch is south of Draynor Village bank. Alternatively, you can use a Clan vexillum teleport and run a bit south-west to the onion patch north of Rimmington.

Making a Beast of Burden

The Pig emerges from the machine.

When returning to Eli, you will discover that the addicts have disappeared and that the pig is fully grown. You will hand over 5 onions to him. Now click on the machine to train the pig. A cutscene will occur where the pig enters the machine. The pig will exit wearing equipment relevant to the type of machine you made: a knapsack for a beast of burden, pots and a knife for combat, or a really small altar for prayer. This can be changed later.

Visiting Cities

Convincing villagers

Convincing villagers of the benefits of pigs.

Eli will then ask you to take the pig to the Lumbridge Castle courtyard, the Varrock Marketplace, the Ardougne Marketplace, and near the north Falador gate (they are all near the relative lodestones). He will give you a Pig display list to help you keep track. The cities may be visited in any order.

Teleport to the Lumbridge lodestone and go into the castle's courtyard. Walk the pig and a cutscene will occur where characters will gather around you wondering why you are carrying a pig. You will explain how useful the pig is as it can carry items around such as sharks and farming tools, which appeals to the Lumbridge audience.

Teleport to the Varrock lodestone and walk north to the centre of Varrock. Yet again more people will come to your attention and favour pigs. Now go to the Falador lodestone and walk south to the centre of Falador. The characters will again cheer for you and the idea of raising pigs. Finally, teleport to the Ardougne lodestone and walk south east to the Ardougne marketplace. Once again, more characters will surround you and idolise pigs.

The order in which you visit the cities doesn't matter. You do have to wait for your character to cross the city off the list, or you will have to go back.

After going to all four cities, return to Eli and he will say that the plan was a success.

Congratulations! Quest Complete!

Reward

Bringing Home the Bacon reward

Upgrading the machine

After the quest, you can upgrade the pig creation machine using Construction, giving you access to stronger pig familiars.

Boosts may not be used to upgrade machines.

  • Upgrading to tier 2 requires 44 Construction, Crafting, and Summoning and 3 oak planks, 2 steel bars and at least 3 nails. Gives 200 Construction experience.
  • Upgrading to tier 3 requires 84 Construction, Crafting, and Summoning and 3 teak planks, 2 mithril bars, and at least 3 nails. Gives 2,000 Construction experience.

Music unlocked

Gallery

Trivia

  • There is a reference to the lack of horses in RuneScape when Eli says "Just look at those useless no-horned unicorns that were all over the place a few years ago. When people worked out they tasted good they were wiped right out!".
  • Upon completion of the quest, the adventurer's log states: I learned the true value of a pig. Both in terms of friendship and in how much valuable, tasty bacon one can produce.

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