Back to My Roots

Members Only:
Yes
Quest Difficulty:
Intermediate
Quest Length:
Medium
Skill Requirements:
  • 75 Woodcutting
  • 53 Farming
  • 59 Slayer
  • 55 Agility

Quest Requirements:

Other Requirements:
  • Soft clay
  • Pot
  • Plant pot
  • Machete
  • Axe
  • Gardening trowel
  • Secateurs
  • Spade
  • Item Suggestions

  • Charged Glory Amulet
  • Teleports to Ardougne
  • Money for Karamja trips
  • Food
  • Antipoison

Instructions:
  • Talk to Horacio in the garden of the mansion in East Ardougne.
  • Horacio

  • Ask Horacio who he is and then ask if he needs help.
  • Are you willing to help?

  • He will then present you with your challenge: get a Jade Vine from Karamja.
  • Jade Vine

  • Horacio will send you to talk to Wizard Cromperty. He is in Northeast Ardougne.
  • Wizard Croperty

  • Wizard Cromperty will tell you his invention to preserve the Jade Vine is at the R.P.D.T. depot. Go to the R.P.D.T. depot and talk to one of the workers.
  • You will be told there is a parcel which is stinking up the R.P.D.T. depot and so they cannot deliver. You will be asked to open the parcel. In it, you will find a hand. You will need it if you want to do the Wizard Burial Mini Quest.
  • Parcel hand

  • Return to Wizard Cromperty. He will open the parcel and you will find out that his magical device is, in fact, a pot lid. It is, however, broken and he will ask you to make a new one.
  • Wizard Croperty opening the parcel

  • Go to the Potter's wheel in East Ardougne (it's West of the river) and make a pot lid. Fire it in the oven there. Making a pot lid beforehand does not work!
  • Take the boat from Ardougne to Brimhaven and talk to Garth (he is the gardener that takes care of the plant tree patch). He will tell you where to cut the vine and the items you will need.
  • Tools

  • Walk Southeast of the Nature Altar to the vines.
  • Jade Vine location map

  • Follow these directions closely:

    1. Climb up the vine.
    2. Vine

    3. Go East and climb-up vine vine.
    4. Go East, South, East, South then climb down the vine.
    5. Go West, North, West and climb down the vine.
    6. Go South then cut and crawl through the vines.
    7. Go South then squeeze through the vines.
    8. Go South, West then climb up the vine.
    9. Go South then climb up the vine.
    10. Go South then climb up the vine.
    11. Go East then climb down the vine.
    12. Look Northeast and swing on the vine.
    13. Go North then climb down the vine.
    14. Go East, South then climb down the vine.
    15. Go South then cut and crawl through the vines.
    16. Go South then squeeze through the vines.
    17. Go South then climb up the vine.
    18. Go East then climb up the vine.
    19. Go East then cross the vine.
    20. Go East then climb down the vine.
    21. Go North, East, South then climb down the vine.
    22. Go South then cut and crawl through the vines.
    23. Go East then climb up the vine.
    24. Go South, West then climb up the vine.
    25. Go West then climb down the vine.
    26. Go North then climb up vine.
    27. Go West then cross the vine.
    28. Go West, South, East then climb down the vine.
    29. Go East, South, West then climb down the vine.

  • Dig one of the soils around the roots. Cut the roots with your secateurs and plant them in the plant pot. Repeat this step if your root fails at growing. When you get a rooted root, use it with the pot and it will be sealed.
  • Go back to Horacio with your Axe equipped and talk to him.
  • Use your Sealed Pot with the Jade Vine patch that does not have weeds.
  • You will watch a cutscene and be attacked by a Wild Jade Vine (level 167). The Jade Vine has a poison that hits for 7. It is reccomended to use a Super Antipoison and Protect from Melee here. You must kill the vine with your axe!
  • Jade Vine

  • After the fight is finished, click the stump to finish it off.
  • Stump

  • Talk to Horacio to finish the quest.
  • Rewards:
  • 1 Quest Point
  • 24,000 Farming Experience
  • 40,000 Woodcutting Experience
  • 23,000 Slayer Experience
  • 15,000 Agility Experience
  • New farming patch
  • Jade Vine Seed
  • Jade Vine minigame
  • Credits:
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