Fairytale I - Growing Pains/Quick guide

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Details

Start point	Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village.
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Description	Recently, farmers around RuneScape have been noticing some trouble with their farming patches. They just don't seem to have the same yields as before. What could be the source of this malady?
Official length	Medium
Requirements	Completion of the following quests: Lost City Nature Spirit The Restless Ghost Priest in Peril The ability to defeat a level 111 Tanglefoot with limited weaponry
Items required	Secateurs (obtainable in Sarah's Farming shop north-west of the quest start for 5 coins) Spade (obtainable multiple times during quest) Ghostspeak amulet Dramen staff A combination of three items picked for you at random, see list of potential items.
Recommended	50 Combat level 30 Farming Decent Strength and/or Farming levels for the fight with the Tanglefoot (a combined level of 40 is sufficient) Fast travel to Draynor Village and Draynor Manor (Amulet of glory or Draynor Manor teleport) Fast travel to any five farm patches around Asgarnia and Misthalin Falador cabbage patch (Amulet of glory) Falador park (Falador teleport) Rimmington (Rimmington teleport, Teleport to House if your house is there or Skills necklace to the Crafting Guild) Lumbridge (Lumbridge teleport) Champions' Guild (Chronicle, Combat bracelet or Varrock teleport) Varrock Palace (Varrock teleport) Taverley (Taverley teleport or Teleport to House if your house is there) Fast travel to the nature spirit (Mort'ton teleport) Druid pouches (to prevent food from getting rotten by ghasts)
Enemies to defeat	Tanglefoot (level 111)
Ironman concerns	Completion of Jungle Potion (to obtain proboscis if needed) Ironmen who do not have the necessary Herblore level to clean possible herbs required to bless the secateurs will need to visit the herblore shop in Nardah to clean the grimy herbs.

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Walkthrough

Starting out

Items needed: None.

• Talk to Martin the Master Gardener in Draynor Village. ( 2•1•1)…

  2	Quest.
  1	Anything I can help with?
  1	Now that I think about it, you're right!

• Talk to 5 Group of Advanced Gardeners members. They are any of the gardeners found near farming patches that tend to your crops. Any of them will work except for Ayesha in Al Kharid, and ones found on Great Kourend. Note: The following is A path you can take to speak to farmers quickly:
  • Run north-west and talk to Elstan Allotment/Flower/Herb patch. ( 1)…

    1	Are you a member of the Group of Advanced Gardeners?

    • If you do not have secateurs or a spade, buy them from the farm shop.
  • Run south and talk to Frizzy Skernip. ( 1)…

    1	Are you a member of the Group of Advanced Gardeners?

  • GE Spirit Tree teleport to Gnome Stronghold, run east and talk to Bolongo. ( 1)…

    1	Are you a member of the Group of Advanced Gardeners?

  • Run south-west and talk to Prissy Scilla at the tree patch. ( 1)…

    1	Are you a member of the Group of Advanced Gardeners?

  • Teleport to Falador, run east to the park and talk to Heskel at the tree patch. (Ring of Wealth's Falador teleport option takes you there directly). ( 1)…

    1	Are you a member of the Group of Advanced Gardeners?

• Return to the Draynor Village market and talk to Martin. ( 2)…

  2

  Quest.

Trouble in Zanaris

Items needed: dramen staff or Lunar staff, and one free inventory space.

• Travel to Zanaris (with your dramen staff or Lunar staff equipped, enter the small shack south of Lumbridge Castle in Lumbridge Swamp). (If you need to collect the spade, enter the shack without the staff equipped first and collect it).
• Run directly south to the throne room and Talk to the Fairy Godfather. ( 2)…

  2	Where's the Fairy Queen?

• Run north of the bank and talk to Fairy Nuff to get the symptoms list.
• Speak to Zandar Horfyre on the top floor of the Dark Wizards' Tower just north of the Makeover mage.

Getting the Magic Secateurs

Items needed: 3 assigned items (see link), secateurs, Ghostspeak amulet, Draynor skull (or spade to dig one)
Items recommended: Salve graveyard teleport, a filled druid pouch (so items that may be rotten by ghasts are protected)

• Speak to Malignius Mortifer, the necromancer north-west of Port Sarim's rune shop. ( 2)…

  2	I need help with fighting a Tanglefoot.

• If you do not have secateurs or a spade, buy them from the farm shop to the north-east.
• If you do not have the Draynor skull, travel to Draynor Manor and use a spade on the grave north of the building, but within the fence to receive the Draynor skull.
• Speak to Malignius Mortifer again to receive the list of three items. ( 2)…

  2	I was asking you about fighting a Tanglefoot...

• Collect the 3 randomly-picked items. Check the quest journal to see your list of items to collect.

Note: Take a filled druid pouch with you if you have to collect any items that may be rotten by ghasts or they may turn them into rotten food.

• Travel to the Nature Grotto in Mort Myre Swamp (use Shades of Mort'ton minigame teleport, go west, then follow the winding path north over the bridge), equip your Ghostspeak amulet and talk to the Nature Spirit inside to receive the Magic secateurs.

Battle the Tanglefoot

Items needed: dramen staff, magic secateurs, food, and armour.

This fight takes place in an instanced area.

On death, all unprotected items will be moved to a grave outside the instance. Any items left on the ground will be lost.

• Travel to Zanaris with your Magic secateurs and prepare for the Tanglefoot fight.
• Run south of the wheat fields to the Cosmic Altar and squeeze-through the gap in the western wall.
• Equip your Magic secateurs, run to the end of the tunnel and defeat Tanglefoot. (Turn on Protect from Melee if you have the level for it. You can also lure the Tanglefoot around the mushrooms to the east to be able to flinch it.)
• Pick up the Queen's secateurs.
• Talk to the Fairy Godfather.

Congratulations! Quest complete!

Rewards

• 2 Quest points
• Magic secateurs (increases crop harvests by 10% when Farming)
• 3,500 Farming experience
• 2,000 Attack experience
• 1,000 Magic experience