Pawya
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| Level | 66 |
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| Experience | 400 |
| Location | Isafdar |
| Trap | Box trap |
| Preferred bait | Papaya - Required |
| Retaliation | No |
| Loot | Raw pawya meat, sometimes papaya tree seed |
| Examine | What a strange little creature. |
Pawya are small burrowing creatures that can be captured by players with a Hunter level of 66, gaining 400 experience per Pawya. You can find them in Isafdar. The bait, a papaya, is required in order to catch these creatures in a box trap. When caught, the Pawya will yield raw pawya meat and bones (Pawya meat being the bait required for trapping Grenwalls). Pawyas occasionally will steal bait from the traps without being caught. Also 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 you get a seed.
Jagex has stated that due to the magical influence of Isafdar, Pawya are not fooled by the use of camouflage gear. It may be a better idea to wear weight-reducing clothing when hunting them because of this.
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, if your Farming and summoning level are low, you can also buy Papaya from the Grand Exchange. This is not recommended because it severely limits your hunting time and therefore experience and profit.
Because they are immune to 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.
Trivia
- 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.
- When a pawya was attacked by a grenwall, it would be hit at a distance along with a strange hissing sound. The pawya would lie, probably dead, on the ground until the Grenwall would come up and eat it, and when examined it was stated the creature was attacked.
- Examining a Pawya hole does not give an examine text, this has been fixed, now reading "I wonder what's hiding in there."
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A pawya struck dead by a grenwall attack.
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A pawya digging a hole to hide from a player.
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A hole dug by a pawya.
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The location to hunt pawyas.
