"Spores" redirects here. For the spores used to grow mushrooms, see
mushroom spore.
Seaweed spores are used in the Farming skill and require level 23 in the skill to grow them. They are planted at the seaweed patch in the underwater area of Fossil Island and provide giant seaweed when harvested. Players can pay Mernia to protect this patch by giving her 200 numulites.
Giant seaweed is often grown by players for Tangleroot due to the relatively high chance of obtaining it compared to the seaweed spore growth time, as well as by ironmen for its use in Crafting.
Seaweed spores can be obtained via the following methods:
- They may randomly appear when diving in shallow water within the underwater area beneath Fossil Island. 1-3 seaweed spores can spawn, and they will despawn in 30 seconds. Like marks of grace, they appear individually for each player. However, unlike marks of grace, if you log out, they will disappear instantly and they will not be there when you log back in. When they spawn, they release a cloud of bubbles, and all players whose spores spawn on that tick will spawn at the same tile.
- Spawns of seaweed spores seem to be based around the amount of time a player has been logged in. The moment of spawning always seems to be around a whole-minute amount of time since logging in. This is a similar mechanism to the 5-minute timer used by Farming cycles and random event spawn timers.
- They can be obtained from ammonite crabs, lobstrosities and Fossil Island Wyverns.
- They can be purchased from Mairin's Market in exchange for 20 mermaid's tears per spore.
- They can be pickpocketed from Master Farmers.
For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see
here.
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Base |
Compost |
Super |
Ultra
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23 |
8.26 |
11.01 |
13.76 |
16.52
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30 |
8.63 |
11.51 |
14.38 |
17.26
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40 |
9.25 |
12.34 |
15.42 |
18.51
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50 |
10.11 |
13.47 |
16.84 |
20.21
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60 |
10.97 |
14.63 |
18.29 |
21.94
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70 |
12.00 |
16.00 |
20.00 |
24.00
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80 |
13.24 |
17.66 |
22.07 |
26.48
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90 |
14.77 |
19.69 |
24.62 |
29.54
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99 |
16.70 |
22.26 |
27.83 |
33.39
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7 September 2017 – 21 March 2019
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21 March 2019 – present
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