Changes: Pack yak

Pack yak
Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level	96
Duration (mins)	58
Points cost	10
Race	Yak
Abilities	Beast of burden - 30 slots
Special moves	Winter Storage
Combat level	114
Examine	Bulk haulage never smelled so bad.
Combat stats
45000	180
Immune to poison	Yes
Attack style	Melee

Revision as of 21:18, 18 June 2016

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Pack yaks are level 96 Summoning familiars with the second largest inventory capacity among all the Beasts of Burden (behind baby mammoths). They have the capability of holding up to 30 items for a player, whose value can be no more than 5,000,000 gp each (30,000,000 gp in total). Pack yaks also have a special move called Winter Storage, which allows for instant banking, making it a popular familiar to take to most areas. Similar to the unicorn stallion and bunyip, a pack yak will fight only when attacked.

Pack yak pouch

**Pack yak pouch**
Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
211 ( 5,275)	13.7 coins		Yak-hide
422.4	4.8	2,279	3,419	4,061 (info)
GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
Look up price	5,788	148 (3,700)		97
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I can summon a pack yak familiar with this.

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A pack yak pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 211 spirit shards, a crimson charm and a yak-hide in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 422.4 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a pack yak gains 4.8 experience points, and costs 10 Summoning points. Each pouch summons a pack yak which stays alive for 58 minutes before needing to be re-summoned.

Winter storage scroll

**Winter storage scroll**
Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
4.8	4.8	12
227	341	297 (info)
GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
Look up price	11 (275)	97
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A scroll for a pack yak familiar.

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Winter storage scroll enables the use of the Winter Storage special move for a Pack yak. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls.

Winter Storage

Winter Storage is the special move for the pack yak, which when used on an item in the player's inventory, instantly banks it without the need for visiting a bank in person. This allows players to remotely bank items while remaining in a certain area for extended periods of time. When using the scroll on noted items only one item will be banked per scroll. The special move is also used while player killing because the special move can bank the gear of the player, thus not risking the items should they die. As of June 13 2016 update Winter Storage scrolls banking ability can no longer be used above level 30 Wilderness.

As the familiar lasts for 58 minutes, summoning the pack yak with a full special moves bar provides 1800 special move points over the course of its lifespan, allowing you to potentially use the Winter storage scroll 150 times. In cases where one will acquire more than 150 drops within that one hour, alternative methods such as Magic notepaper may be necessary for banking in addition to the Pack yak.

Casting the spell Make Leather and crafting dragonhide bodies will allow the yak's inventory to hold 90 dragonhides' worth of dragonhide bodies, and so players wishing to train at Green or blue dragons may wish to use this method to bank all of the dragon bones and dragonhides that the dragons will drop. To maximise efficiency, players should use Winter storage to bank the bones immediately, cast Make Leather 3 times when 15 dragonhides are acquired, craft 5 dragonhide bodies and store them in the yak, then repeat the process.

In the Wilderness, Winter Storage only works up to level 30 Wilderness. Players should be aware of this if they need to bank items and are deeper inside.

Winter Storage cannot be used to bank winter storage scrolls.

Trivia

In the original update, pack yaks could only hold 10 items, however the items would stack.
After an update, you can no longer use winter storage scrolls to bank items in the Crucible, giving a message saying, "You cannot use that spell whilst in the Crucible."
Prior to the patch notes of 13 June 2016, Winter Storage could be used at any level of the Wilderness.

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 ==Winter Storage==
 [[File:Winter Storage.gif|frame|A player activating the pack yak's special, Winter Storage]]
-'''Winter Storage''' is the [[Special moves|special move]] for the pack yak, which when used on an item in the player's [[inventory]], instantly banks it without the need for visiting a bank in person. This allows players to remotely bank items while remaining in a certain area for extended periods of time. When using the scroll on noted items only one item will be banked per scroll. The [[Special moves|special move]] is also used while [[player killing]] because the special move can bank the gear of the player, thus not risking the items should they die. As the familiar lasts for 58 minutes, summoning the pack yak with a full special moves bar provides 1800 special move points over the course of its lifespan, allowing you to potentially use the Winter storage scroll 150 times. In cases where one will acquire more than 150 drops within that one hour, alternative methods such as [[Magic notepaper]] may be necessary for banking in addition to the Pack yak.
+'''Winter Storage''' is the [[Special moves|special move]] for the pack yak, which when used on an item in the player's [[inventory]], instantly banks it without the need for visiting a bank in person. This allows players to remotely bank items while remaining in a certain area for extended periods of time. When using the scroll on noted items only one item will be banked per scroll. The [[Special moves|special move]] is also used while [[player killing]] because the special move can bank the gear of the player, thus not risking the items should they die. As of June 13 2016 update Winter Storage scrolls  banking ability can no longer be used above level 30 Wilderness.
+As the familiar lasts for 58 minutes, summoning the pack yak with a full special moves bar provides 1800 special move points over the course of its lifespan, allowing you to potentially use the Winter storage scroll 150 times. In cases where one will acquire more than 150 drops within that one hour, alternative methods such as [[Magic notepaper]] may be necessary for banking in addition to the Pack yak.
 Casting the spell [[Make Leather]] and crafting dragonhide bodies will allow the yak's inventory to hold 90 dragonhides' worth of dragonhide bodies, and so players wishing to train at [[Green dragon|Green]] or [[blue dragon]]s may wish to use this method to bank all of the [[dragon bones]] and [[dragonhide]]s that the dragons will drop. To maximise efficiency, players should use Winter storage to bank the bones immediately, cast Make Leather 3 times when 15 dragonhides are acquired, craft 5 dragonhide bodies and store them in the yak, then repeat the process.