Whomping Woods
Welcome to the Whomping Woods. RuneSaga's unique Woodcutting and Firemaking minigame, with awesome rewards that can buff the player to become even stronger. This minigame is in rotation with shooting stars, appearing every 3rd hour. To see what global event that is coming up next, check the account managment tab in game.
Getting there
The lobby can be found by using the fairy ring west of home or use the ::ww command. Before the minigame starts, go inside the cave entrance! Don't forget an axe and tinderbox.
You can not join the minigame after it starts, so be sure to enter the cave before the countdown reaches zero.
Spirit logs and Souls
Spirit logs
Cursed Spirit Trees
These trees can only be chopped after purchasing the Spellbound permit from Barlock, for 15k Trading sticks.
While chopping these trees, you will receive Cursed kindling with a 1/300 chance to receive a Cursed spirit log instead. The Cursed kindling you can use on Barlock to purify.
The Purified kindling is stackable, and you can use them as an afk Firemaking method, when used on the Eternal bonfire inside the Whomping Woods lobby.
Giant Troll
These spawn in while doing the minigame, 5 per minigame. These Giant Trolls drop Cursed spirit logs at a 1/113 rate.
Souls
Souls can be obtained by depositing a Soulshard into the Well of Souls or as a rare drop from a Giant Trolls 1/2k.
The Well of Souls will spit out one of these 5 souls, at random. You do not choose which soul you get
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Focused soul |
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Zealous soul |
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Heroic soul |
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Malevolent soul |
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Devout soul |
The strange machine
The strange machine is used to combine your Cursed spirit logs with the soul of your choosing. Each fused log will burn for 30 minutes when placed into the eternal bonfire and will grant you it's corresponding unique effect during that time. (You can stack multiple of the same log to increase the time)
Buffs
The minigame
Once a game has started, you will notice a progress bar at the top of your screen.Your first objective is to fill this bar by chopping & depositing logs from the Achey trees found around the map. Every minute, the tree will rotate to a new position - so keep an eye out.
During this process, at every 20% interval a Giant Troll will spawn and head towards the firepit. Players will need to equip their hatchets to kill it as soon as possible before he starts removing logs.
Do NOT move until you have received the reward from killing the Giant Troll or no reward will be given.
Once the firepit is full, you can begin lighting the logs - granting a large sum of firemaking experience and contributing towards completing the phase.
After the firepit is fully lit, the Whomping Willow will spawn. It will lean back and slam in the opposite direction, knocking back and damaging any players who fail to move out of the way. Avoid this and attack the Whomping Willow, using your axe, to defeat it.
Rewards
Trading sticks
For each achey tree log you deposit into the ceremonial firepit, you get 3 Trading sticks.
Each time you hit the Whomping Willow at the end of the minigame, you get X amount of Trading sticks, depending on which axe you have equipped. This does not mean you get more rolls on the unique table, just more trading sticks per swing.
NOTE: Axes are affected by the Swift Strike Perk.
 Level |
Req. to equip | Axes | Trading sticks per swing | |
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| 1 |  1
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Bronze axe | 
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| 1 | 1
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Iron axe | 
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| 6 | 5
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Steel axe | 
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| 21 | 20
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Mithril axe | 
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| 31 | 30
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Adamant axe | 
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| 41 | 40
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Rune axe | 
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| 61 | 60
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Dragon axe | 
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| 61 | 60
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Infernal axe | 
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| 81 | 1
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Crystal axe | 
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| 85 | 1
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Arcanium axe | 
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Arcane artifact
The Arcane artifact is used in the creation of the Arcanium axe. The Arcane artifact is only obtainable from hitting the Whomping Wollow at the end of the minigame. The droprate is 1/1500 and is rolled every time you hit the Whomping Willow with your axe.
| Item | Material | ||
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Arcanium axe | 
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Arcane artifact |
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Crystal axe | ||
Hedwig
Hedwig is the unique pet you can get from hitting the Whomping Willow at the end of the minigame. The droprate is 1/2500 and is rolled every time you hit the Whomping Willow with your axe.
Barlock
Trading sticks earned within the minigame, can be spent at Barlock, found in the Whomping Woods lobby.
Dreadbark set
The Dreadbark set increases the rate of which you gain Cursed spirit logs, by a set amount per piece. The increased rate of spirit logs, does NOT work if it is worn as a cosmetic override.
| Set piece | Effect | |
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Dreadbark helm | Increase the rate of Cursed spirit logs by 10. |
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Dreadbark body | Increase the rate of Cursed spirit logs by 25. |
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Dreadbark legs | Increase the rate of Cursed spirit logs by 15. |
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Dreadbark gloves | Increase the rate of Cursed spirit logs by 5. |
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Dreadbark boots | Increase the rate of Cursed spirit logs by 5. |
Unholy stone
The Unholy stone is used in the creation of Unholy incinerator, which is an upgrade to the Bonecrusher. It has a 25% chance of granting the player altar exp when incinerating bones.
If you do happen to have the Bonafide perk, the incinerator takes priority.
| Item | Material | ||
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Unholy incinerator |  |
Unholy stone |
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Bonecrusher | ||