Pawya

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Pawya
Release date	22 January 2008 (Update)
Race	Pawya
Members	Yes
Quest NPC	No
Location(s)	Isafdar Pawya portal Gorajo resource dungeon Anachronia
Gender	? (edit)
Actions	Examine
Examine	What a strange little creature.
Advanced data
NPC ID	7012
Links	MRND7012
Infobox • Talk page

Pawya? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)AliveDead22 January 2008 (Update)? (edit)YesNo

• Isafdar
• Pawya portal
• Gorajo resource dungeon
• Anachronia

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SMW Subobject for AliveNPC location:

• Isafdar
• Pawya portal
• Gorajo resource dungeon
• Anachronia

NPC ID: 7012Examine: What a strange little creature.Release date: 22 January 2008Is members only: trueActions: ExamineIs variant of: Pawya

SMW Subobject for DeadNPC location:

• Isafdar
• Pawya portal
• Gorajo resource dungeon
• Anachronia

NPC ID: 7014Examine: Something has attacked this.Release date: 22 January 2008Is members only: trueActions: ExamineIs variant of: Pawya

Pawya are small burrowing creatures that can be captured by players with a Hunter level of 66, gaining 400 experience per pawya, or 500 if using protean traps. They can be found in Isafdar and Anachronia, or the Gorajo resource dungeon with 95 Dungeoneering and access to Prifddinas. The bait, a papaya, is required in order to catch these creatures in a box trap, but using protean traps bypasses this requirement.

When caught, the pawya will yield raw pawya meat and bones. The papaya bait will be consumed when a trap fails to catch a pawya, but it can rarely be recovered on a successful catch. A papaya seed can occasionally be gained from catching these creatures. The message "As you empty the trap a papaya seed rolls out. You put it in your inventory." appears in the chatbox when obtaining a seed. No loot is obtained when using protean traps.

Due to the magical influence of Isafdar, pawya are not fooled by the use of camouflage gear.

Hunter info

Pawya
Level required					66
Hunter XP					400 xp
Bait					Papaya fruit
Retaliation					No
Trap					Box trap

Strategy

Plant a papaya fruit tree in Lletya so when you need papaya fruits they are available for free. Players with 69 summoning or above may also use a Fruit bat familiar with fruitfall scrolls to produce papayas. Alternatively, you can buy papaya from the Grand Exchange.

Because they ignore camouflage and require bait, effective catch rates require as much help as possible. Lay as many box traps as you can in a line, smoke all of them, and bait all of them. Afterward, run about 5 squares away so you are the recommended distance the Hunting expert recommends. Once all the traps have collapsed in some form, collect them all and repeat.

It is more convenient to hunt pawyas near the magic trees as there are no grenwalls there to kill the pawyas, thus you won't have to wait for a dead pawya to respawn unless you trap one.

Loot

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Raw pawya meat	1	Always	1,489	300
	Bones	1	Always	441	1
	Papaya tree seed	1	Rare	204	69
	Compacted hides	1	Uncommon	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Reinforced dinosaur pelt	1	1/1000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Dinosaur rib bone	1	1/1000	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Gallery

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  A pawya digging a hole to hide from a player.

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  A hole dug by a pawya.

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 15 August 2016 (Update):
  • The bonecrusher now works correctly when hunting pawyas.

• update 22 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Pawyas occasionally dig holes and hide underground before emerging. Additionaly, in areas where they are found next to Grenwalls, the Grenwalls attack them from a distance with a strange hissing sound. They then lie dead on the ground for a while until they disappear.
• Examining a pawya hole used to not give an examine text. This has since been fixed, now reading "I wonder what's hiding in there."
• There was a glitch on the first few days after the release of the pawya. A free-to-play character could see it on the Grand Exchange, but when free-to-play players tried to purchase it, the message "This item cannot be bought on the Grand Exchange." appeared.