Gnomeball

This article is about the item. For the minigame, see Gnome Ball.

For the music track, see Gnomeball (music track).

For the large variant, see large gnomeball.

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Gnomeball
Release																				28 January 2003 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A common gnomeball, obtained by playing gnomeball.
Options
Backpack																				Hold, Use, Drop, Examine
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.5 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				751
Links																				MRID • recipe

A player throwing a gnomeball to another player

Gnomeballs are sports equipment received from the Gnome Ball and Gnome Restaurant minigames. With the item in the backpack, the player can choose the Use option on another player. If the player has both of their hands empty, they will catch the ball, and it will end up in their main hand slot. It is not advised that it is thrown to a random unknown player, as they could very easily walk away with it.

A gnomeball can be received as a rare reward when completing a delivery in Gnome Restaurant. One can also be obtained at a time when scoring 5 points in Gnome Ball.

Combat stats

Requirements None Class None Slot Tier None Offensive attributes   Tooltip Ability Damage 0.0 - Accuracy 0 Style - Range 1 Speed 4 ticks (2.4s) Style attributes   Damage 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Accuracy 0 0 0 0 Defensive attributes  Armour 0.0 Reduction  LP 0 PvM 0%  Prayer 0 PvP 0%

Drop sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	1	Rare
Wingstone	N/A	1	Rare
Professor Onglewip	N/A	1	Rare
Gnome ball referee	N/A	1	Always
Kennel (Fort Forinthry)	N/A	1	~20/549

Disassembly

Gnomeball
Disassembly category					Clothing
Disassembly XP					0.3
Item quantity required					1
Material chance
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%
Material count					1
Cover parts					35/100
Simple parts					35/100
Padded parts					29/100
Variable components					1/100
Advanced data
Raw category					clothing
Item level (for junk chance)					1

Achievements

• From Across the Keramos ( 10) – Swish a sweet hoop at Everlight.
• Little Leaguer ( 10) – Score a goal in Gnome Ball.

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!

• patch 19 July 2021 (Update):
  • The Gnome ball referee has had a stern talking to about stealing players' personal Gnomeballs and will now correctly return them after they leave the pitch.

• patch 5 August 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed a typo in the Gnomeball's kick counter

• ninja 20 June 2016 (Update):
  • The Fremennik are sick of stray gnomeballs hitting their tents. As such, gnomeballs are now banned from the Daemonheim staging area.

• patch 8 October 2013 (Update):
  • Players can no longer pass a gnomeball to players who are converting memories at a Divination crater.

• patch 19 July 2010 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue with black dragonhide chaps and gnomeballs.

• update 28 January 2003 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Using a gnomeball on a siege engine will cause the next shot from the engine to be a gnomeball. This will not use up the player's gnomeball.
• This item was once used in a scam in which the scammer would find a player with an item with a very high market value, but a very low High Level Alchemy value. Such items include blue, green, and red hallowe'en masks, partyhats, and Santa hats. The scammer would ask the victim to come to the Wilderness or dangerous Clan Wars with their valuable item, and to activate Protect Item to make them feel safe. The scammer and victim would then fight, and once the victim was low on health, the scammer would throw a gnomeball at the victim, who would catch it and automatically wield it. This was possible even when Accept Aid was turned off. Because the gnomeball's alchemy value would be higher than the victim's expensive item, the victim would keep the gnomeball on death and lose the valuable item. An update on 19 April 2011 changed the system by which items are kept on death, making this scam obsolete.
• If you try to teleport a gnomeball with an Imp-in-a-box, a message box will appear with the imp in the box saying: "I'm not touching a gnomeball; that's a vicious game! I might die!"
• Tossing a gnomeball to suspected botters worked well to stop people from botting Dungeoneering, since you can't bring anything into Daemonheim. However, it was also used to annoy legitimate players and was thus banned from the Daemonheim staging area on 20 June 2016.
• According to the Gnome Coach, gnomeballs are made of Swamp toad skin stretched over sand.
• As of 18 October 2022, 907k gnomeballs were owned by active players.
• If you attempt to hold a gnomeball on the gnomeball pitch, you will receive the following message: "You feel it would be cheating to hold anything other than a gnomeball on the gnomeball pitch."