The Arc/Berries

Berries of the Arc is an activity in the Arc where players find and breed berries of various types. Berry bushes can be grown from seed in the planters on Tuai Leit. Players can check the status of these seeds on the first page of the Arc Journal, under the heading "Planters".

Eating berries provides temporary +2 boosts in one skill, drains 1 Defence level, and heals 1 life point, which can be used as a stackable food source if combined with expensive spices, increasing their healing to 51 life points each. All berries can be sold at Terri's Merry Berry Bar, found in the gnome encampment in south-western Tuai Leit, or at Sweet Goods on Cyclosis. Players can sell berry seeds to Ani's Seed Store by the Sea Shore, found in the gnome colony on Tuai Leit, or to Sinuman (food merchant) on Cyclosis for an extra chime on some seeds.

After growing all 16 varieties of berries, Ani rewards the player with a 50,000 Farming XP lamp, and he also agrees to tend to the player's berry bushes while they are away, granting 10% extra experience and berries. Greenfingers aura does not function on berries regardless of tier.

Cross-pollination

In order to obtain any berry besides rumberries and exuberries, players need to forage them from the bushes grown in the berry planter in the central Tuai Leit. While some of the bush seeds may be found elsewhere such as from Uncharted Isles, most of them must be obtained by cross-pollinating the bushes.

Players can plant two seeds to each of the adjacent spots in the berry planter in order to cross-pollinate and grow bushes. After approximately 42 hours of growth, bushes will mature and can be foraged for berries and seeds of the bush's type, and potentially a cross-pollinated seed, depending on the bush planted next to the foraged bush.

The bushes' growth stages can be checked from the Arc journal. The bushes can be harvested only when the state is "ready". The bushes change state on the start of the next growth stage cycle after the state has changed in the journal. The time thresholds between growth states are shown in the following table.

Time left (maximum)	Time left (minimum)	Growth stage in Arc journal
42 hours	31 hours and 31 minutes	Planted
31 hours and 30 minutes	10 hours and 31 minutes	Sprouted
10 hours and 30 minutes	1 minute	Growing
N/A	N/A	Ready

Unlike the seeds in the real world that only produce pollen after flowering, berry seeds will cross-pollinate if they are planted next to each other, even before any growth shows. Therefore, foraging from one bush and immediately planting a new seed - before foraging from the second bush - will ensure that each foraging may yield a new cross-pollinated seed along with the regular produce. The chance to obtain a cross-pollinated seed is 100% with a correct combination of seeds planted.

Players do not require 86 Farming to plant or forage berry bushes, only to obtain the rumberry and exuberry seeds initially from bushes. However, foraging berries without 86 Farming awards no Farming experience. Players may alternatively receive them from a foraging bakami, but catching one requires 90 Hunter.

Each bush is foraged separately in one action, destroying the foraged bush. The entire amount of berries and seeds are put into the player's backpack.

Berry	XP	Positive boost	Negative boost	Cross-pollination / source
Rumberry	2,000	+2 Attack	-1 Defence	Picked on Tuai Leit, looted from foraging bakami and orokami, and pickpocketed from cyclops
Exuberry	2,000	+2 Ranged	-1 Defence	Picked on Uncharted Isles and looted from foraging bakami and orokami
Fireberry	3,000	+2 Magic	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Exuberry seed
Blisterberry	5,000	+2 Strength	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Fireberry seed
Mournberry	5,000	+2 Hunter	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Fireberry seed
Stoneberry	3,000	+2 Mining	-1 Defence	Found in treasure chests on Uncharted Isles and obtained as a rare drop in the Temple of Aminishi
Stormberry	3,000	+2 Fishing	-1 Defence	Found in treasure chests on Uncharted Isles and obtained as a rare drop in the Temple of Aminishi
Rosaberry	5,000	+2 Woodcutting	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Stoneberry seed
Squiffberry	8,500	+2 Cooking	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Meloberry	8,500	+2 Divination	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Mournberry seed
Jitterberry	8,500	+2 Agility	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Cocoaberry	8,500	+2 Farming	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Mournberry seed
Smoulderberry	8,500	+2 Firemaking	-1 Defence	Fireberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Sourberry	8,500	+2 Thieving	-1 Defence	Fireberry seed	Mournberry seed
Gloomberry	8,500	+2 Herblore	-1 Defence	Blisterberry seed	Mournberry seed
Musaberry	5,000	+2 Summoning	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Stormberry seed

Recommended order

The most efficient order to cross-breed all seeds (excluding stoneberry, stormberry and their respective crosses) is as follows:

Be sure to harvest one bush, plant the seed, then harvest the second bush and plant that seed, otherwise the second crossbred seed will not be given.

Day	State of planter at start of day		Actions to take
0	N/A	N/A	Plant an exuberry seed and a rumberry seed in the Tuai Leit berry planter Farming patch.
2	Exuberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick the exuberry bush, producing a fireberry seed. Plant the fireberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the rumberry bush, producing a blisterberry seed. Plant an exuberry seed in the berry planter.
4	Fireberry bush	Exuberry bush	Pick the fireberry bush, producing a mournberry seed. Plant the mournberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the exuberry bush, producing a cocoaberry seed. Plant a rumberry seed in the berry planter.
6	Mournberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick the mournberry bush, producing a meloberry seed. Plant a blisterberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the rumberry bush, producing a squiffberry seed. Plant a mournberry seed in the berry planter.
8	Blisterberry bush	Mournberry bush	Pick the blisterberry bush, producing a gloomberry seed. Plant a fireberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the mournberry bush, producing a sourberry seed. Plant a blisterberry seed in the berry planter.
10	Fireberry bush	Blisterberry bush	Pick the fireberry bush, producing a smoulderberry seed. Plant an exuberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the blisterberry bush, producing a jitterberry seed.

Then, finishing up with the stormberry and stoneberry crosses can be done this way:

Day	State of planter at start of day		Actions to take
10	N/A	N/A	Plant an exuberry seed in one of the berry planters Plant a stormberry seed in the remaining berry planter.
12	Exuberry bush	Stormberry bush	Pick the exuberry bush, producing a musaberry seed. Plant a stoneberry seed in the berry planter. Pick the stormberry bush. Plant a rumberry seed in the berry planter.
14	Stoneberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick the rumberry bush first, producing a rosaberry seed as well as rumberry seeds. Do not plant anything and pick the remaining stoneberry bush, producing stoneberry seeds (eliminates the need to forage another stoneberry seed).

The various seeds still need to be planted, as the journal tracks berries harvested, not discovered seeds.

Achievements

• Berries of the Arc ( 25) – Discover all the Arc berries.

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 21 September 2020 (Update):
  • The Tuai Leit berry patches and Money tree patch have been added to the remote farm interface.

• patch 6 July 2020 (Update):
  • Arc berry bushes will now give 5% Farming reputation when harvested, in line with other bushes.

• patch 31 October 2016 (Update):
  • Players who have completed the Arc's berry collection can now speak to Ani (farming merchant) to claim their reward.