Earn Farming XP with Vinesweeper

Do you hate farming but need farming experience? Are you easily amused, even by the games that come standard with Windows? Then you are sure to enjoy Vinesweeper.

Vinesweeper is an amusing mini game within Runescape that is basically a Runeized version of the classic puzzle game, Minesweeper. I have never been a big fan a Minesweeper, but I know people who swear it is the greatest puzzle game of all time. I have even heard that JK Rowling, the writer of the Harry Potter series of books, when needing a break from writing, would turn to Minesweeper. Being a simple game and yet having such a large following made it a logical choice for a Jagex twist. Vinesweeper provides a pleasant distraction and a nice way to earn some otherwise tedious farming experience.

To get to the Vinesweeper game is very simple. Just ask any farming tool leprechaun to transport you. This makes Vinesweeper one of the most easily accessible mini games in the world of Runescape. But before you go finding a leprechaun, get a spade and a bunch of money out of your bank account. I prefer to bring 20k with me, but this is often overkill. The better a player is at this game, the less gp you will need to spend. Once you’re ready, find a tool leprechaun and have him teleport you to Farmer Blinkin’s farm. I like to use the leprechaun by the farming patch in the court yard of Varrock Castle, but any farming patch will do.

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Welcome To The Jungle

I am introducing a new topic category to my blog. I am calling it diversions and the topics of this type will deal with aspects of Runescape that focus on the mini games as opposed to the typical monster killing and questing. My first diversion is Jungle Clean Up.

Jungle Clean Up isn’t the most fun of Runescape mini games. It isn’t the most interesting either. But it is something to do that isn’t the same-old same-old and it provides some decent opportunities for earning money.

In a nutshell, the object of Jungle Clean Up is to kiss the collective asses of the people of Tai Bwo Wannai Village. And there are a lot asses to kiss. Once you start your career as a sycophant, the villagers will repay your efforts with trading sticks, which are only valuable in the village itself. Your efforts, of course, involve doing things for the community like killing threatening spiders, snakes, mosquitoes and other nastys. You can also gain brown nosing points by hacking the nearby jungle with a machete (I recommend red topaz), which sounds to me like cutting down the rain forest, but lets not get into a political correctness debate here. The thatches of wood you receive from hacking the jungle can be used to repair the village fence, and thus earn even more boot licking points.

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