Chase the Monkey

Chase the Monkey was discontinued from RuneScape after an update.

Chase the Monkey was part of Jagex's Wild Weekends running from Saturday, 26 May to Monday, 28 May. Players could hunt for ten monkeys across RuneScape in a way which resembled Penguin Hide and Seek. Instead of earning points, players could obtain a monkey cape once they had found all ten monkeys. Players did not need to talk to anyone to start the hunt. They simply needed to find the monkeys. There was no way to keep track of the number of monkeys found, but the monkey cape would appear in players' inventories once they had found all ten.

Unlike penguins, monkeys spawned at different locations and in different disguises from world to world. However, they were still technically the same ten monkeys. It was possible to spy a monkey on one world in one disguise, but get the message "You have already caught that monkey" when attempting to spy a monkey on another world in a different location and in a different disguise. It was not possible to spy more than ten monkeys under any circumstances.

Should players lose or destroy their monkey capes, they may re-obtain them from Diango in Draynor Market or, if they have one, the Toy box in their Player-owned house.

Approximate last known locations of monkeys are shown below.

Worlds 76 and 60 were the unofficial worlds for this event. Warning: Either world may be laggy because of all the people looking for the monkeys. It may take a while to get to all the monkey locations, due to slow response time. It may also be advisable to leave the world if you've found all the monkeys, allowing another player to enter the world in your place.

Locations On World 76

No.	General Spawn Area	Type	Location last seen on world 76	Commonly called
1	McGrubor's Wood	Bush	Inside the fence (in the north-west corner)	Seers Village
2	McGrubor's Wood	Bush	Inside the fence (right by south fence)	Seers Village
3	Yannile/Oo'glog	Rock	South of Mobilising Armies complex.	Oo'glog
4	Lumbridge	Bush	Just north of Chicken farm (east of river), trapped between cart and hay bales	Varrock
5	East Ardougne	Barrel	Trapped in church.	Ardy
6	Kharidian Desert	Cactus	Extreme south-east of the desert just east of the Sophanem wall.	Desert
7	Yanille	Bush	On Gu'Tanoth by Bogrog the shards trader.	Yanille
8	Tree Gnome Stronghold	Bush	North of Gnome Ball, in tortoise pen.	Gnome
9	Outpost / Making History quest start point	Bush	Inside the outpost (North west of ardougne)	Outpost
10	Outpost / Making History quest start point	Bush	Inside the outpost (North west of ardougne)	Outpost

Locations On World 60

No.	General Spawn Area	Type	Location last seen on world 60	Commonly called
1	Al Kharid	Cactus	Al-Kharid Palace	Desert
2	Lumbridge	Crate	H.A.M Entrance	Lumby
3	Falador	Rock	Behind the furnace in Falador (next to river)	Fally
4	Varrock	Rock	Outlaw Camp (South east of Edgeville, South west of Grand Exchange)	Varrock
5	McGrubor's Wood	Bush	Inside the Fence South of entrance	Seers Village
6	Ardougne	Bush	Ardougne Church	Ardougne
7	Port Khazard	Barrel	House Inside Port Khazard	Port Khazard
8	Observatory	Bush	West of ZMI altar, wooded area	Observatory
9	Feldip Hills	Rock	Inside Yanille south wall	Yanille
10	Karamja	Bush	Directly east of Shilo Village	Brimhaven, Musa Point

The Monkeys

Monkeys in disguises
Barrel	Bush	Cactus	Rock	Crate	Mushroom

Trivia

• Upon examining the cactus monkey, the game chat read "This ain't no brass monkey". This may have been a reference to the song "Brass Monkey" by the Beastie Boys in a tribute to Adam Yauch (MCA) who passed on 4 May 2012.
• The rock monkey's examine text, "The nature of monkey was irrepressible!", was a reference to the cult Japanese TV series Saiyūki, the dubbed version of which is also known as Monkey or Monkey Magic.
• Chase the Monkey was initially only released on world 76, most likely as a hotfix to the same technical issue that caused its release to be delayed by around 6 hours. Approximately 12 hours later, it was released on all worlds. For possibly the same reasons, monkeys remained on world 76 for about an hour after they had been removed from all other worlds.
• The monkey's spy option said "Spy on" instead of "Spy-on" like the penguins option.