The Freaky Forester is a random event in which players are teleported to a small clearing in a forest and asked to kill a pheasant with a certain number of tails. After successfully completing this random event by delivering any pheasant carcass to the Freaky Forester, players are rewarded with a piece of the Lederhosen set, or a lamp if they already own the set, and the player is taken back to the player's former location before the event (whenever possible). The event can be left at any time by using the portal, this however grants no rewards if the event is not completed.
Dealing damage to pheasants grants no experience. Attempting to attack another pheasant with one in the inventory results in the message You already have a pheasant carcass. You don't need to kill another. If the player kills two pheasants (so there are two carcasses on the ground) and picks one up, attempting to pick up the second one results in the message You already have a pheasant carcass in your inventory, you don't need to kill another.
An experience lamp is now rewarded upon the event completion in place of 500 coins when a player already has the full lederhosen outfit.
9 May 2013 – 16 December 2020
All pheasants now drop the same item, so any pheasant can be killed instead of just the one requested by the Freaky Forester. Formerly, upon failure to deliver the correct raw pheasant no reward be given and the player would be teleported off to a random spot on the map rather than returned back to their origin.[1]
^Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 17 December 2020. Mod Ash: "Yes. When it was made as an anti-bot event, the idea was that bots couldn't just keep giving him pheasants until they stumbled upon the correct one and claimed the reward. So he takes what he's given, but the reward is dependent on it being the correct one."
