Flax

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For the item used during Back to the Freezer, see Flax (Back to the Freezer).

For the NPC that calls himself "Flax", see Geoffrey.

Flax
Release																				25 March 2002 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				5 coins
High alch																				3 coins
Low alch																				2 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.453 kg
Examine
I should use this with a spinning wheel.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				102 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				1779
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Flax is a plant picked from a flax field, used to create bowstring. Picking one grants 1 Farming experience when picked. Each plant can yield from 1 to 15 pieces of flax, although lower yield is far more common. Each piece must be picked manually.

A player picking flax

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Bowstring	1	1 × Flax	368
Bowstring × 5	81	5 × Flax 5 × Air rune 1 × Astral rune 2 × Nature rune	1,840
Unfinished net	52	5 × Flax	N/A

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Baby impling jar		1	1/100
Baby impling	17	1	1/100
Crwys worker		1 (noted)	Common
Elder Trove (Bik, T1)	N/A	200 (noted)	13/132
Elder Trove (Ful, T1)	N/A	200 (noted)	5/93
Elder Trove (Jas, T1)	N/A	200 (noted)	5/88
Elder Trove (Wen, T1)	N/A	200 (noted)	12/189
Flax (scenery)	1	1	Always
Ganodermic beast	112	40 (noted)	14/256
Ganodermic runt	112	20 (noted)	Uncommon
Grotworm	63	15–50 (noted)	4/110
Kurask	78	50 (noted)	14/128
Mature grotworm	98	50–100 (noted)	5/128
Rare drop table		450–550 (noted)	4/64
TzHaar-Hur	86; 98	4–12 (noted)	Uncommon
Young grotworm	28	4 (noted)	Uncommon
Zombie (New Varrock)		1–2	Unknown
Zombie (New Varrock)	1	1–5	1/1024

Locations

Plants

Location	Members	Spawns	Map
Taverley		35	Maplink
Tree Gnome Stronghold		66
Rellekka		20	Maplink
Seers' Village		48	Maplink
Sorcerer's Tower		3	Maplink
Lunar Isle		11	Maplink
Lletya		10	Maplink
Prifddinas (Cadarn district)		9	Maplink

Strategies

• Arguably, the best place to pick flax would be in Lletya, because the flax field is very close to the bank. The only downside is that the player has to begin Mourning's End Part I first to enter Lletya.
• Flax field in Taverley is reasonably close to the bank in Burthorpe; there is also a spinning wheel on the way to the bank.
• The field south-east of Seers' Village contains a spinning wheel on the way to the bank. This allows players to turn their flax into bowstrings for crafting experience and even more money. However, the wheel is on the first floor of a house with a door, which greatly increases travel time.
• The flax in Tree Gnome Stronghold is another option. While the flax plants are more spread apart, the bank is fairly close.
• Flax can also be obtained through Managing Miscellania. The quest Throne of Miscellania is needed, however.
• The best place to spin flax into bowstrings is at Neitiznot. The wheel is one click away from the bank and the door is always open.

The flax field in Lletya

• If the player completes the Seers' Village achievements, they can receive 30, 60, 120, or 200 free flax daily from Geoffrey upon completion of the corresponding sets of achievements. Wearing the Seer's headband 2 or higher allows for faster flax spinning at the Seers' Village spinning wheel, making it faster overall than Neitiznot.
• After completing the Carnillean Rising quest, players can speak to Claus the chef to kill the Cave Wolf Matriarch and obtain her skull. You can choose 3,500 flax as a possible reward for this.
• The player's avatar picks flax faster than the picking animation.
• The key to fast flax picking involves timing; Try to find 5 flax plants in a plus-shaped position and stand in the middle of it, then start picking the flax in a circular motion by clicking a plant and then, when you're about to hear the "pop", click the next plant. Your avatar will show the picking motion once while actually picking 2 flax. Eventually a plant will run out, that's when the centre plant right below you comes into play. Use this plant as a substitute until the other plant(s) respawn. This way you can pick 28 flax in about 30 to 35 seconds.
  • Alternatively, watch the experience points (+1) appear as the player's character picks flax. After the first pick, +experience will appear. That is when the player should click again, and it will appear so that two flax are picked by the end of the animation. This minimises the amount of clicking necessary.

Disassembly

Flax
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• ninja 9 October 2017 (Update):
  • Free players can now pick and spin flax into bowstrings.

• ninja 13 October 2014 (Update):
  • Flax models throughout the game have been updated.

• update 25 March 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Flax received a graphical update on 13 October 2014.
• There seems to be three different models for flax plants, a small one with white flowers, a slightly taller one with blue flowers, and a very small one with blue flowers.