The wishing well fruit is produced after depositing a certain amount of coins to a wishing well bush plant when it's fully grown. Opening it will yield items that could surpass the value of the amount of coins deposited, although there is a chance that they won't. In order to open the fruit, 9 free inventory spaces are needed. The fruit cannot be banked. After opening the fruit, the player will receive the message "You open the fruit and receive bounteous goods."
When opening a wishing well fruit, you also have a chance of receiving a Crystal triskelion fragment. When you do, the chat box reads: "In addition, you receive a part of a crystal key." Estimation based on a data sample of 503 harvests has shown this chance to be around 0.6%.
On average, harvesting wishing well bushes will result in a loss. See the value analysis section for details.
Value[]
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Analysis[]
A fully grown wishing well bush
The total value of the items received from opening a wishing well fruit is based on the amount of coins paid to harvest the fruit. The value is expressed as a percentage of this input, where a percentage of 100% implies breaking even. The Jagex wiki lists that the value returned will be random between 25% and 300%. The remainder of this section is based on the data of 503 wishing well bush harvests, and does not take into account the cost of obtaining the seeds.
The return percentage is one of 7 possible percentages, albeit with a minor variation of up to ±2000 coins. These percentages, and the probability with which they are received, can be found in the following table:
| 25% | 55% | 80% | 100% | 110% | 140% | 300% |
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| 3.38% | 16.3% | 21.67% | 32.01% | 15.31% | 7.36% | 3.98% |
This data allows us to calculate the expected return percentage on average over time, which is 98.23%.
On average, harvesting wishing well bushes will result in a loss.
Potential drops[]
Bottom rewards[]
 Cowhide
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 Soft clay
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 Maple logs
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 Feather
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 Big bones
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 Flax
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 Fire rune
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 Air rune
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 Water rune
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 Earth rune
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 Pure essence
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 Uncut sapphire
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 Uncut emerald
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 Coal
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 Iron ore
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 Mithril ore
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 Raw salmon
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 Raw lobster
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 Supercompost
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Medium rewards[]
High rewards[]
 Dwarf weed seed
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 Lantadyme seed
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 Yew seed
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 Magic seed
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 Papaya tree seed
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 Palm tree seed
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 Calquat tree seed
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 Wishing well bush seed
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 Runite ore
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 Rune bar
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 Uncut dragonstone
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 Dragon bones
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Trivia[]
Concept art of the wishing well fruit
- At one point, harvesting wishing well fruit was extremely profitable due to the reward being based on the Grand Exchange price of items. The fruit would sometimes reward player with over 200,000 seeds, such as barberry and prickly pear seeds, as their Grand Exchange price was only 1 coin. However, these seeds could be sold for up to 75 coins each in general stores, allowing players to gain millions of coins per fruit until a patch on 27 April 2015 lowered the yield.
Farming produce | |
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| Allotment produce | |
| Flower produce |
 Marigolds Rosemary Nasturtiums Woad leaf Limpwurt root Ruby harvest |
| Hops |
 Barley Hammerstone hops Asgarnian hops Jute fibre Yanillian hops Krandorian hops Wildblood hops Toad egg sac Grapes of Saradomin Grapes of Guthix Grapes of Zamorak |
| Bush produce |
 Redberries Cadava berries Dwellberries Jangerberries White berries Poison ivy berries Wishing well fruit |
| Tree produce |
 Leaves Oak leaves Willow leaves Maple leaves Yew leaves Magic leaves Willow branch Oak roots Willow roots Maple roots Yew roots Magic roots |
| Fruit tree produce |
 Cooking apple Banana Orange Curry leaf Pineapple Papaya fruit Coconut |
| Special produce |
 Evil turnip Bittercap mushroom Cactus spine Cave nightshade Calquat fruit Morchella mushroom Potato cactus |
