Impling

Implings are Hunter creatures that are featured in the minigame Impetuous Impulses. They are mainly found in Puro-Puro, but they can be found commonly across Gielinor. Higher level requirement implings typically have more valuable loot.

Players must wield a butterfly net or magic butterfly net to be able to catch implings, but doing so with an empty impling jar in their inventory allows players to keep them (either to open later or sell at the Grand Exchange). Players can also catch implings barehanded, but this requires 10 Hunter levels above the requirement for catching that impling (for example, ninja implings barehanded requires level 84 Hunter instead of the normal 74). Implings caught without an impling jar will be looted immediately. An impling jar is required to catch implings in Puro-Puro. However, if you have a jar in your inventory, you can barehand the impling into the jar. Grabbing an impling with your bare hands has the same success rate as attempting to catch one with a magic butterfly net.

Three empty impling jars can be acquired from Elnock Inquisitor in Puro-Puro for any type of jarred impling. This can be a good use for young and baby implings, given their low value loot. They can also be generated with a jar generator (33 jars from a generator, one at a time).

Implings have the ability to fly over any body of water or lava, but not over obstacles that can be labelled with a line on the minimap. They can occasionally teleport to a nearby area which can cause complications when inside some thick walls, for example the wall east of Taverley. This can make them impossible to catch and can only be fixed if the impling either teleports out or despawns.

A wandering impling roams around the large wheat field in Zanaris. He cannot be caught, but he introduces players to the Impetuous Impulses minigame in an eccentric manner and will show players the location of the two other portals outside of Puro-Puro. Another visually identical impling, Immenizz, can be found near the centre of Puro-Puro. He will explain briefly why implings might be hiding what humans may want. Fairy Aeryka is found near the wandering impling, and she will also give her version of what implings are, and what is in Puro-Puro.

Unlike most other hunter creatures, players can use the spells Bind, Snare, and Entangle to keep an impling from moving further away, as well as Dark Lure to force them to approach the player. This can be useful when in Puro-Puro, or to keep an impling from flying over a body of water. After tagging an impling successfully with a Binding spell, players have a few seconds of grace during which other players cannot attempt to catch the tagged impling.

Types of implings

For a table of implings as a source of clue scrolls, see Treasure Trails/Strategies § Opening impling jars.

Name		level (barehanded)	Experience		GE price (jar)	Average loot value
			Puro-Puro	Gielinor
	Baby impling	17 (27)	18	20	1,437	64.57
	Young impling	22 (32)	20	22	1,626	148.46
	Gourmet impling	28 (38)	22	24	2,621	254.09
	Earth impling	36 (46)	25	27	1,388	369.47
	Essence impling	42 (52)	27	29	1,951	431.13
	Eclectic impling	50 (60)	30	32	3,644	738.58
	Nature impling	58 (68)	34	36	4,088	1,159.61
	Magpie impling	65 (75)	44	216	20,882	13,671.35
	Ninja impling	74 (84)	50	240	45,283	12,500.53
	Crystal impling	80 (90)	N/A	280	N/A	61,464.93
	Dragon impling	83 (93)	65	300	453,992	149,003.42
	Lucky impling	89 (99)	80	380	N/A	50,705.14

Tracker

Surface world impling tracker

Puro-Puro impling tracker

Players can right-click their butterfly net or magic butterfly net to open the impling tracker interface, which tracks how many implings they have caught inside Puro-Puro and on the surface world. It contains two tabs, one for implings caught on the surface world, and one for implings caught in Puro-Puro.

Implings that are caught barehanded are also tracked on this log. The tracker will still work without a butterfly net in the player's inventory or bank.

Money making

The following money making guide is available for Impling:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills
Hunting implings	853,739	83+ Decent and recommended 50+ (optional for casting Snare or Dark Lure)

Spawn mechanics

	A wild gourmet impling appeared!

Implings have a variety of methods in which they spawn. In most cases, they initially spawn as an invisible NPC, and "roam" invisibly for two minutes, during which they can move a considerable distance from their spawn point; implings can even roam over obstacles, such as bodies of water and magical wheat, a unique ability among NPCs.

Once implings become visible, a high-pitched "beckon whistle" sound plays with a subtle rattling. They will roam for approximately thirty minutes before disappearing. Implings will stay within a radius of a hundred tiles from their spawn point.

When an impling is captured, the invisible NPC will respawn immediately and once again roam for two minutes before becoming visible and determining the type of impling to spawn. If an impling is trapped between a player and scenery such that it can't move, after five minutes it teleports back to its spawn location but remains visible.

Types of spawn

There are four types of invisible spawns for implings: low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and another high-tier exclusive to Puro-Puro. These tiers determine the chances for certain types of implings to appear in place of the invisible NPC:

Low-tier

Impling		Chance
	Baby impling	20/100
	Young impling	20/100
	Gourmet impling	20/100
	Earth impling	20/100
	Essence impling	10/100
	Eclectic impling	10/100

Mid-tier

Impling		Chance
	Gourmet impling	10/100
	Earth impling	10/100
	Essence impling	20/100
	Eclectic impling	37/100
	Nature impling	20/100
	Magpie impling	2/100
	Ninja impling	1/100

High-tier

Impling		Chance
	Nature impling	10/101
	Magpie impling	50/101
	Ninja impling	30/101
	Dragon impling	10/101
	Lucky impling	1/101

High-tier (Puro-Puro)

Impling		Chance
	Nature impling	150/301
	Magpie impling	114/301
	Ninja impling	27/301
	Dragon impling	9/301
	Lucky impling	1/301

Gielinor

On Gielinor (the overworld), there are dozens of spawn points. The majority will spawn all types of implings; this occurs every thirty minutes from when the server boots up (usually Wednesday, ~11:30 UTC). This spawn timer is based on server ticks rather than time in real life, so the exact timing is not perfectly consistent.

Each thirty-minute cycle, any currently wandering implings will despawn. The game will then first roll to determine which invisible NPCs will spawn, and then pick a random spawn location from the points listed in the map below to determine where to place them. After two minutes, the invisible NPCs will become visible implings. This process happens in a few distinct steps:

1. First, four implings are picked from the high-tier overworld spawn table.
2. A random number $N$ is then generated with a value of between 5 and 10.
3. Next, the mid-tier spawn table is rolled $N$ times.
4. Finally, the game will roll the low-tier spawn table a total of $N*2$ times.
5. After each impling is picked, it is assigned to a random spawn point, where it will appear after two minutes.

Therefore, there is practically no upper limit to how many implings can spawn in a given spawn location, but the chances become exponentially more unlikely as the total number increases. As a result, any more than four implings per spawn is only very rarely observed.

Another 10 spawn points on the overworld, plus one within the Zanaris marketplace, will always spawn an impling from the low-tier table.

Prifddinas

Implings in Prifddinas follow the same timer as typical overworld implings; every 30 minutes, the currently wandering impling will despawn and exactly one of the potential spawn points mapped below is chosen within the city for an invisible NPC to spawn. The invisible NPC will always produce a crystal impling.

Puro-Puro

On Puro-Puro (the realm where the Impetuous Impulses minigame takes place), there are 35 spawn points that produce an invisible NPC which roams for two minutes before manifesting, and respawns immediately upon capture. Of these 35 spawn points, there are 21 low-tier spawns, 12 mid-tier spawns, and 2 high-tier spawns:

In addition, there are 51 fixed spawns of specific low-tier implings found throughout Puro-Puro. These spawn directly as implings rather than first spending a brief time invisible, and have a set respawn time of 50 ticks (30 seconds) for the earth and essence implings, and of 7 ticks (4.2 seconds) for all other varieties:

Force-spawning

The best method to find the rarest and most valuable implings is to force-spawn them.

In Puro-Puro, higher tier implings (nature implings and above) can be found much more commonly than on Gielinor. This is because, as seen above, Puro-Puro has two specific points which only spawn high-tier implings.

As an example, to maximise the amount of dragon implings spawning, a player will want to catch all rare implings (nature, magpie, ninja) as these will have spawned from the higher tier spawn tiles, giving them a chance for a dragon impling to spawn. This is best done at either the north-west or south-east corners of Puro-Puro, and it is advised to hop between multiple worlds because of the 2 minute "respawn"-timer for these higher tier implings.

Changes

Date	Changes
12 January 2022 (Update)	After tagging an impling successfully with a Binding spell, you now have a few seconds of grace during which other players cannot attempt to catch 'your' impling.
25 July 2019 (Update | poll)	Crystal implings were introduced with the quest, Song of the Elves.
11 April 2019 (Update | poll)	Beginner clue scrolls have been added to the drop tables of baby and young implings.
21 April 2016 (Update | poll)	It is now possible to catch implings without a net or jar. Clue scrolls have been added to the drop tables of implings.
4 April 2013 (Update)	Hunter implings can now only be caught by one person at a time.