Giant ent

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Giant ent
Release		15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level		78
Duration (mins)		48
Points cost		80
Familiar size		2x2
Race		Ent
Abilities		Forager - oak logs Nature link - converts pure essence into nature or earth runes Increased yield (50%) when harvesting fruit trees, berry bushes, cave nightshade, and cacti
Special moves		Acorn Missile
Combat level		93
Examine		He ent such a bad guy.
Combat stats
Life points		Max hit
8,800		1022
Attack	Defence	Ranged	Magic
71	63	71	71
Immune to poison		Yes
Attack style		Melee
Attack speed		Unknown edit
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Giant ents are combat level 93 Summoning familiars. They are foragers that have a random chance to forage for oak logs, have the ability to convert pure essence into either an earth rune or a nature rune, and increase yields by 50% when harvesting fruit trees, berry bushes, cave nightshade, and cacti. Giant ents are useful in the Farming skill.

Giant ent pouch

Giant ent pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	124 ( 3,100)	36.8 coins		Willow branch
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	136.8	1.6	1,409	2,114	2,443 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	5,040	87 (2,175)		82
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	Examine text
	I can summon a giant ent familiar with this.

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A Giant ent pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on an obelisk with 124 spirit shards, a Green charm and a willow branch in the inventory and level 78 Summoning. Making the pouch earns 136.8 Summoning experience. Using the pouch to summon a Giant ent gains 1.6 Summoning experience and costs 80 Summoning points.

Giant Ent scroll (Acorn Missile)

A player activating the scroll.

Giant Ent scroll (Acorn Missile)

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	1.6	1.6	6
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	140	211	228 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	6 (150)	82
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a giant ent familiar.

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Giant Ent scroll (Acorn Missile) enables the use of the Acorn Missile special move for a Giant ent. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates ten scrolls.

Acorn Missile

Acorn Missile is a special move for giant ents. The ent attacks the opponent with magic for up to 1,022 damage.

Nature link

If a piece of pure essence is used on the Giant ent, it will turn it into either an earth rune or a nature rune. However, experience is not gained from doing this. It is also required to use each pure essence individually on the Giant ent, which can be very tedious.

A good method is to mine pure essence and give it directly to the ent to convert. This can yield upwards of 400 earth runes and 500 nature runes an hour if the player is proficient at clicking.

Farming

Giant ents have a 50% chance to double yield when harvesting fruit from fruit trees, berry bushes, cave nightshade, and cacti. However, the bonus yield will not award experience. For example, on average, a fruit tree will give 9 pieces of fruit instead of 6, but experience will only be awarded for harvesting the 6. A similar effect can be obtained from the Wolpertinger that only applies to berry bushes.

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 14 November 2022 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Ent familiars from working with Cacti patches.

• patch 16 September 2019 (Update):
  • The giant ent familiar now correctly gives a 50% chance to gather an extra item when harvesting trees and patches.
  • The giant ent familiar ability now triggers when using patch bombs or the farming skillcape perk.
  • The giant ent familiar now states how many extra resources were obtained when using patch bombs or the Farming skillcape perk.

• patch 22 January 2018 (Update):
  • The Giant Ent bonus to harvesting fruit trees now works correctly in combination with the Farming skillcape perk or a patch bomb.

• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • Increased frequency of oak log generation by Giant Ent familiars slightly.

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

Trivia

• In The Lord of the Rings, an ent named Treebeard says "Don't be hasty." Ents in the Lord of the Rings converse notoriously slowly. The dialogue of the giant ent may be a parody of this.
• Even though the giant ent's tertiary ingredient is willow branches, its special move is acorn missile, implying it would be made of oak.
• As with many other creatures and objects, the giant ent's examine is a pun.
• In the Funorb game Armies of Gielinor, the Titan Ent uses the giant ent's image.
• Currently both the ent's foraging ability and ability to spawn acorns with a scroll are broken. The special move also used to be able to hit multiple enemies.
• If talking to Quercus with the giant ent, extra dialogue can be heard.
  • Oddly enough, this dialogue can be understood without the normal 10 Level Requirement, despite not being able to understand the familiar any other time without it.
  • Unlike when a player speaks to it directly, the giant ent is able to communicate with Quercus in full, normal sentences, rather than slow, one-worded spurts.
• Despite what the in-game pouch tooltip may indicate, giant ent's do indeed increase the yield of berry bushes with the game message: You pick some poison ivy berries, including a bonus one from your ent familiar.