NovtumberFest

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This article is about the event. For the Treasure Hunter promotion, see Novtumber Festival.

NovtumberFest
Release date	9 October 2017 (Update)
End date	6 November (Update)
Rewards	Cosmetic overrides, animations, pets, titles, and more
Preceded by	Summer Beach Party (2017)
Succeeded by	Spring Fayre (2018)
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NovtumberFest was a seasonal event, similar to The Beach, that started on 9 October 2017 and was removed on 6 November. It took place in the Lumbridge Crater.

Logging in for the first time during the event prompted the message NovtumberFest has arrived! Pay a visit today to participate in various activities for XP and unlock unique new rewards!

Activities

Participating in the some activities was free for all players, and unlike previous events there was no cap on the amount of times a player could participate. Ironmen could participate in the event.

Barrel smithing

Lukas, located at the south entrance of the crater, provided an activity where players could manufacture barrels to house the festival's beer. Taking part in the activity allowed players to receive experience in Smithing.

Carousel _(m)

Players could ride a carousel in the centre of the crater to earn experience in Divination, or Invention instead if the player had unlocked the skill.

Crossbowman's Tent

Friedrich had set up three targets for players to practise their Ranged skills on. Each time that a player fired a shot at a target, they received Ranged experience. This activity did not require any combat equipment.

Gunther's carriage events

Gunther, who spawned at a different location in Gielinor every three hours, allowed players to take part in various different activities. The location for Gunther was different for each world, so switching between worlds may helped players find him quicker.

Spawn times appeared to be approximately 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00, and 23:00 game time.

When Gunther spawned, a message appeared in the chatbox to give his location. For example: A cart has spawned south of Barbarian Village. From the spawn point, Gunther and his cart would travel to a location and another message would appear. For example: An event has begun south-east of Varrock.. Messages would not appear unless all game messages were enabled. His location was shown by an orange holiday event icon on the minimap.

Gunther remained at each event location for 20 minutes and visited a total of three random locations before disappearing until another spawn time. An activity type could be visited multiple times during a tour.

Map	Location	Activity
	East of Falador	Keg theft
	North of Falador	Wolly?
	North of Lumbridge	Keg rolling
	Port Sarim	Wolly?
	South of Barbarian Village	Keg rolling
	South-east of Varrock	Wolly?

Keg rolling

During the keg rolling activity, he asked the player to roll a keg across a patch of grass. You had to make sure to time the keg so it didn't hit any of the NPCs crossing that patch. If an NPC was hit, the activity needed to be restarted. Taking part in this activity rewarded the player with Strength experience.

Keg theft

During the keg theft activity, he asked the player to return the kegs that an ogre stole from him. This activity was played the same as the real-world children's game statues (or "red light, green light"). Players needed to walk toward the ogre and the kegs while he was not looking at them, standing still when he was. If they failed, they had to go back to the beginning of the track. Taking part in this activity rewarded the player with Thieving experience.

Wolly?

During the Wolly? activity, he will provide a hint about where Wolly? is. Finding Wolly? and returning him to Gunther will provide the player with Hunter experience. The location for Wolly? is different per player.

Hint	Locations
Flowers	South-east of Varrock lodestone, south of the farm North-east of Falador lodestone (north of divination rift) South of Falador's southern gate
Honey	South-east of Varrock lodestone, inside the farm North of Falador, next to Voragos entrance South-east of Falador farm, near spirit tree patch
Mushrooms	East of Varrock lodestone East of Falador's northern gate East of Falador's southern gate
Rabbit hole	East of Champions' Guild West of Falador lodestone East of Malignius Mortifer

Hops gathering _(m)

In hops gathering, hops emerged all around the Lumbridge Crater, which could be interacted with to yield experience in Farming and Novtumber hops. After harvesting for a while, the hops depleted and required time to regenerate before players could gather them again. Neither gathering nor turning in hops filled farming urns.

The collected hops could be given to Marta, south of the glass-blowing furnace, for extra experience in Farming.

Kegger _(m)

Kegger was located near Jonas. There were patrons: dwarves, humans, and elves. These patrons emerged from three tents, waiting to be served drinks from three benches. To participate in the minigame, players had to slide drinks from the barrels in front of the benches, gaining Agility experience in the process.

Racetrack

Players could receive Constitution experience by going through the racetrack portal in the tent near Klara. The portal took players to a snowy racetrack.

To start running, players could right click the Racing Supervisor and select "start race." While racing, players could switch between lanes by using the interface or by clicking number 1, 2 and 3 on their keyboard. For the best experience, players neeeded to stay on the inside lane, only switching lanes to avoid obstacles. The inside lane gave 125% experience, compared to 100% in the middle lane and 75% on the outside lane. There were three types of obstacles:

• Pretzel: Boosts the player's experience gain.
• Stool: Trips players and lowers their experience gain.
• Keg: Kicks players off the track and lowers their experience gain.

Sausage grilling

At the north entrance of the Lumbridge Crater, a dwarven cook named Jakob had set up grills that players could use to grill sausages. By taking part in the activity, players received Cooking experience. Novtumberfest sausages were received by taking part in this activity, and it did not require any materials.

Stein crafting

Players could receive Crafting experience by creating steins at the glass-blowing furnace, which did not require any materials. No items were received by taking part in this activity.

Table dancing

Prayer experience could be earned by taking part in a table dancing activity near the carousel. Following Mila and Elias' moves would give experience, while performing the other moves would not give any experience.

Wolpertinger zapping _(m)

Wizard Deedit, located at the east entrance of the crater, was having trouble trying to send wolpertingers back to the spirit plane. Players could talk to him to open an interface, allowing them to slay or dismiss the wolpertingers in the wolpertinger zapping activity.

Choosing to slay a wolpertinger would grant Slayer experience for the player, while choosing to dismiss them would grant Summoning experience instead.

Distractions

Bar Crawl

Main article: Bar Crawl (NovtumberFest)

At the south entrance of the crater, Johanna provides bar crawl cards to players who want to take part in the festival's bar crawl. There are two different types of cards - standard and advanced.

By taking part in the bar crawl, players can receive experience lamps. One lamp is granted for each bar completed. For completing all of the cards, an additional two lamps are provided. Although one task becomes available every day, the bar crawl tasks can be completed retroactively. Because of this, players might want to wait until all of the bars are revealed before choosing which card to complete.

Standard

Main article: Bar Crawl (NovtumberFest) § Standard Bar Crawl

The standard bar crawl was the easiest version of the activity. It was available for all players and all of the bars were accessible to anyone. Completing a task would reward a small experience lamp, while completing the full card rewarded two medium experience lamps.

Advanced

Main article: Bar Crawl (NovtumberFest) § Advanced Bar Crawl

The advanced bar crawl was only available to members. Some of the bars in this card were locked behind quests. Completing a task rewarded a small experience lamp, while completing the full card will rewarded two large experience lamps.

Other

Players could collect Novtumberfest beer from the various tables within the crater. Drinking one granted a temporary skill boost for Strength (+2), healed the player by 50 life points and reduced the player's Attack level temporarily by 6 points.

Novtumberfest gingerbread and pretzels could be taken from the stalls in the north-eastern part of the crater, and Novtumberfest sausage could be cooked on the grills. Eating any of these healed the player by 200 life points.

Distraction and Diversion portals

Novtumberfest had the same Distractions and Diversions portals as previous seasonal events:

• Big Chinchompa portal
• Evil Tree portal
• Familiarisation portal
• Fish Flingers portal
• Guthixian Cache portal
• Sinkhole portal
• Shooting Star portal
• Waiko portal
• Menaphos portal

The Evil Tree portal and the Shooting Star portal were the only ones available for non-members. All other portals required being in a members world.

Happy Hour

During NovtumberFest, there were a series of "Happy Hours", where players (ironmen excluded) could gain double experience from all activities that they took part in. Happy Hours took place at 04:00, 10:00, 16:00, and 22:00 game time (UTC) each day on the following worlds:

• 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88 (English)
• 47, 94 (Portuguese)
• 55, 118 (French)
• 102, 122 (German)

The presence of a Happy Hour was indicated in the banner shown on the interface, and its beginning was announced with the message Happy Hour is starting at NovtumberFest! Gain increased XP whilst taking part in activities at the crater!

Token chances were not doubled during Happy hour.

Rewards

Rewards included a number of tokens that unlock cosmetic overrides and pets. As with previous events, tokens could be bought with RuneCoins from Linus' store or could be randomly obtained while taking part in the event.

Title

A title, [Name] the Party Animal, could be earned by talking to all NPCs involved in the event and taking part in all Free-to-Play accessible activities. This included buying at least one drink on a bar crawl card, as well as helping Gunther once. You could check your progress by right-clicking Johanna.

Tokens

Main article: NovtumberFest Item Shop

Cosmetics

Item		Number in stock	Price sold at	GE price	Resale value	Description
	NovtumberFest outfit token	∞	250	40,835,430	163,341.72/	A tradeable token to unlock the NovtumberFest Outfit cosmetic override.
	Gingerbread heart necklace token	∞	100	59,284	592.84/	A tradeable token to unlock the Gingerbread Heart Necklace override.
	Beer goggles token	∞	100	512,939	5,129.39/	A tradeable token to unlock the Beer Goggles override.
	Pretzel shield token	∞	80	98,748	1,234.35/	A tradeable token to unlock the Pretzel Shield override.
	Wieldable steins token	∞	80	109,833	1,372.91/	A tradeable token to unlock the stein overrides, for one main hand, off hand and dual-wield melee weapons.
	Lederhosen terrorbird mount token	∞	150	111,554	743.69/	A tradeable token to unlock the Lederhosen Terrorbird Mount override.

Pets

Item		Number in stock	Price sold at	GE price	Resale value	Description
	Keg pet token	∞	300	9,569,073	31,896.91/	A tradeable token to unlock the Keg companion pet.
	Wolpertinger pet token	∞	300	12,428,830	41,429.43/	A tradeable token to unlock the Wolpertinger companion pet.

Animations

Item		Number in stock	Price sold at	GE price	Resale value	Description
	Party fever walk token	∞	80	4,848,007	60,600.09/	A tradeable token to unlock the Party Fever walk animation.
	Carrying steins rest token	∞	80	228,515	2,856.44/	A tradeable token to unlock the Carrying Steins rest animation.
	NovtumberFest dancing emotes token	∞	80	157,274	1,965.93/	A tradeable token to unlock the NovtumberFest dancing emotes.

Music unlocked

• Novtumberfest

Gallery

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  An inactive portal to Big Chinchompa

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  An inactive portal to a Shooting Star

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 30 October 2017 (Update):
  • Free players can now take part in table dancing at NovtumberFest for Prayer XP.

• patch 23 October 2017 (Update):
  • The RuneMetrics interface is now visible during Kegger, Racing, Table dancing and Zapper minigames at the NovtumberFest event.

• patch 16 October 2017 (Update):
  • The hair colour for several NovtumberFest NPCs has been fixed.
  • The NovtumberFest host Johanna no longer shouts 'Thanks!' during cart events.
  • The NovtumberFest bar crawl dialogue no longer obstructs quest dialogue.

• hotfix 10 October 2017 (Update):
  • Players can no longer get trapped within the NovtumberFest ogre activity.
  • NovtumberFest random event messages have been added to the game spam filter.
  • All NovtumberFest activities now give charity tokens.
  • Wolly Wolpertingers no longer delete themselves when picked up.

• update 9 October 2017 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Novtumberfest was inspired by Oktoberfest, a large beer festival held in Germany.
• It was possible to obtain strange rocks while skilling at the festival but it was not possible to obtain skilling pets.
• It was possible for anagogic orts to drop while skilling at the festival.
• Wolly? is a reference to the Where's Wally? children’s puzzle books, published in the U.S. as Where's Waldo?.
• Kegger is a reference to the arcade game Tapper, right down to the gameplay.