Meerkats
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 Level
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4 |
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| Duration (min) | 40 |
| Points cost | 1 |
| Abilities | Retrieve treasure trail caskets |
| Special moves | Fetch casket |
| Race | Meerkat |
| Combat level | Non-Combatant |
| Life Points | Non-Combatant |
| Immune to poison? | Non-Combatant |
| Attack Style | Non-Combatant |
| Maximum hit | Non-Combatant |
| Examine text | Two ancient meerkat familiars. |
Meerkats are level 4 Summoning familiars that were added on 4 August 2010 with the Elite treasure trail update, whose helping functions link in with Treasure Trails.
They possess a scroll ability 'Fetch Casket' which allows them to dig for caskets which would otherwise trigger a god mage to attack the player.
By interacting with them, 3 options appear: "chat", "get sextant coordinate" and "dig".
The "Fetch Casket" ability is necessary in order to avoid a god mage. The "Dig" option works exactly like a spade, and will dig where you are standing, this however, WILL trigger a god mage if the clue happens to include one.
One Summoning point is expended when summoning meerkats from a meerkat pouch. Afterwards, unlike other familiars, Summoning points are drained very slowly for having the meerkats summoned.
This pouch cannot be exchanged for shards from Bogrog.
Meerkats pouch
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Shards | Shard cost | Charm | Tertiary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Create XP | Use XP | Low Alch | Hi Alch | GE Price | ||
| N/A | 1 | 1,200 coins | 1,800 coins | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins (info) | ||
| GE Database | Cost to make | Bogrog shard return | Shard return level | |||
| Look up price | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Examine text | ||||||
| I can summon meerkat familiars with this. | ||||||
A Meerkats pouch is received as a reward from a Treasure Trail. Unlike other Summoning pouches, it cannot be made by players. When released, it was listed with a cost of 3,000 coins in the Grand Exchange. It can be obtained from completing a clue scroll of any level. It requires a Summoning level of 4 to summon.
Fetch Casket scroll
| Fetch casket | Create XP | Use XP | Special move points |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | 0 | 12 points to cast | |
| Low Alch | High Alch | GE Price | |
| 120 coins | 180 coins | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". coins (info) | |
| GE Database | Bogrog shard return | Shard return level | |
| Look up price | N/A | N/A | |
| Examine text | |||
| A scroll for meerkat familiars. | |||
A Fetch Casket scroll is also a reward item, note you cannot make these by using a meerkat pouch on an obelisk. The scroll allows use of the special move of the Meerkat, Fetch Casket. When used, it makes the meerkats dig for a co-ordinate clue without making a Zamorak wizard, Saradomin wizard or Guthix wizard appear.
Trivia
- They were the first (and at the time, only) Summoning familiars able to run. After the update on 15 March 2011, all familiars can run.
- This is the only pouch that summons more than one familiar at once.
- The only other item that can summon two followers are the squirrel ears, a reward from the 2010 Easter event.
- The Meerkats pouch is one of only two pouches that cannot be created by players. The other is the Ghast pouch.
- When you do the Dig action with the meerkats, they dig under you; meaning you cannot move, until the move is finished.
- If you look at the hole while the Meerkats do the digging animation, there is actually no hole, just the ground.
- There is a glitch which occurs where players cannot use the find coordinates ability with their meerkat.
- They cannot be used with the Duel Arena Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 02.46 North, 29.11 East, as you cannot enable both obstacles and summoning in a duel.
- Fetch Casket cannot be used with the Mort Myre Swamp Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 05.37 North, 31.15 East, because this is a summoning free area.
- Due to a glitch, Fetch Casket could not be used with the Rellekka Level 3 Coordinate Clue: 17.50 North, 08.30 East. It has since been fixed.
