Compost mound

For the Familiarisation NPC, see Compost mound (Familiarisation).

Compost mound
Release		15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level		28
Duration (mins)		32
Points cost		60
Familiar size		2x2
Race		Compost
Abilities		Farming 1 + 2% level boost Forager: Compost Supercompost Seeds
Special moves		Generate Compost
Combat level		34
Examine		I suppose it could smell worse, I just can't think how.
Combat stats
Life points		Max hit
3,800		374
Attack	Defence	Ranged	Magic
26	23	26	26
Immune to poison		Yes
Attack style		Melee
Attack speed		Unknown edit
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The compost mound is a level 28 Summoning familiar. It is summoned using a compost mound pouch, yielding 0.6 Summoning experience. The Compost mound is immune to poison damage.

• Through the interact menu, boosts your Farming level by 1 + 2% of your level.
• Occasionally it will generate supercompost, compost, a guam seed, sweetcorn seed, Nasturtium seed, wergali seed, limpwurt seed, or a redberry seed.
• A bucket can be used on the compost mound to fill the bucket with compost. This can work 190 times on one compost mound since it will be damaged for 20 life points every time a bucket is used on it; since it would slowly regenerate a small amount of health, you would be able to fill the 191th bucket of compost, which would kill it. However, this has to be done one by one and thus is click intensive.

You cannot store any items in it. It deposits the foraged compost in itself, but you can only extract from that inventory.

Compost mound pouch

Compost mound pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	47 ( 1,175)	27.8 coins		Compost
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	49.8	0.6	639	959	838 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	1,384	33 (825)		37
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	Examine text
	I can summon a compost mound familiar with this.

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A compost mound pouch can be made with 47 spirit shards, a green charm, and a bucket of compost.

Compost Mound scroll (Generate Compost)

A player activating the scroll.

Compost Mound scroll (Generate Compost)

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.6	2.5	12
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	63	95	55 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	2 (50)	37
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	A scroll for a compost mound familiar.

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Generate compost

The Compost Mound's special move is called Generate Compost, and is activated by using a Compost Mound scroll (Generate Compost). It fills a nearby compost bin with compost, with a ~10% chance of creating supercompost.

Training

Using the Compost Mound's special move, a player can train farming by buying buckets from a nearby General Store and filling a nearby compost bin. Each regular compost yields 4.5 experience per bucket or 67.5 experience for the entire compost bin. If you are lucky you get 8.5 experience per supercompost or 127.5 for the entire compost bin. This can be repeated many times while waiting for your crops to grow.

If making pouches in Taverley then compost can be stored with the nearby leprechaun and many pouches can be made quickly.

Dialogue

This article on a Summoning familiar has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging related to this familiar.

Update history

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• patch 9 September 2019 (Update):
  • An issue preventing you from interacting with the compost mound familiar has been fixed.

• patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
  • The compost mound special now correctly works for all compost bins.

• update 15 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• In an update, the compost received more life points totalling 3800 instead of 1400, nearly tripling the amount of compost from 71 to 190.
• The dialect of the compost mound is much like that of a stereotypical British farmer located in the southwestern region of England.
• The dialect "Oi've gotta braand new comboine 'aarvester!" is a reference to a lyric from the 1976 hit "Combine Harvester" by "The Wurzels".