Tool leprechaun
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| Release date | 5 December 2005 (Update) |
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| Race | Leprechaun |
| Members NPC? | Yes |
| Quest NPC? | No (Shamus and Larry only) |
| Location | Near any Farming patch. |
| Sells items? | Yes (Larry only) |
| Gender | Both male and female leprechauns. |
| Examine | Looks after your farming tools. |
| Notable features | Stores farming equipment, notes harvest, teleports to Vinesweeper minigame. |
Tool leprechauns are non-player characters found wandering near Farming patches around Gielinor. They provide three basic functions: store Farming tools, exchange harvested items into banknotes, and are portals to the Vinesweeper activity.
They will store many of the tools that players use for Farming, but they will not store seeds or crops. The tool leprechaun does not accept noted tools or buckets, including buckets of compost. The tools stored are available to all the leprechauns. Leprechaun Larry (found on Troll Stronghold) sells an assortment of Farming-related items.
All Tool leprechauns can carry various Farming tools for you and you can retrieve them from any leprechaun:
- Farming rake - for removing weeds.
- Seed dibber - to plant any seed except trees.
- Watering can - to water vegetables, flowers, and hops as well as tree seedlings.
- After Fairytale III - Battle at Orks Rift quest, Tool leprechauns can store a Fairy watering can, which basically is a watering can with an unlimited supply of water, thereby removing the need to be constantly refilled.
- All-purpose spade - for harvesting or clearing patches. Used to remove dead plants.
- Gardening trowel - for filling a plant pot with soil and putting a tree seed into a plant pot.
- Secateurs - for pruning diseased trees or removing Willow branches.
- After Fairytale I - Growing Pains quest, they can be upgraded to Magic secateurs, when wielded increases yields by 10% from allotments, herb and hop patches.
- Empty buckets (up to 255)
- Normal compost (up to 255)
- Supercompost (up to 255)
- Plant cure (up to 255)
- Scarecrows (up to 5)
A very useful feature of the tool leprechaun is that he will swap harvested crops for banknotes if the player uses the item on him—this includes clean herbs. The one exception to this is the leprechaun at South Falador allotment, who will refuse to exchange cabbages, claiming that the whole farm stinks of them. Leprechauns will NOT note nightshades. This is because nightshades were made untradeable, and untradeable items cannot be noted. Also, it is impossible to exchange logs of any sort into banknotes.
Leprechauns, except for the Leprechaun on Harmony Island and Leprechaun Larry, can also teleport players to the Vinesweeper activity. To do this, players can right-click on him and select 'teleport'. He will then say "Avach nimporto!", and the player will arrive at the activity. There is a portal north-east of the farmhouse to return to the patch.
Leprechauns
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Canifis (Mushroom patch) Ardougne (Jade Vine patch) |
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Lumbridge (Wood Tree patch) Catherby (Allotment) Ardougne (Allotment) Port Sarim (Spirit Tree patch) |
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Lumbridge (Hop patch) Seers' Village (Hop patch) |
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Draynor Manor (Belladonna patch) Yanille (Hop patch) Varrock (Wood Tree patch) |
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Taverley (Wood Tree patch) Ardougne (Bush patch) Entrana (Hop patch) |
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Al Kharid (Cactus patch) |  |
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Canifis (Allotment) |  |
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Falador Park (Wood Tree patch) Rimmington (Bush patch) |
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Draynor Village (Allotment) Etceteria (Bush patch) |
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Karamja (Calquat Tree patch) Harmony Island (Allotment) |
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Brimhaven (Fruit Tree patch) |  |
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Herblore Habitat (Fruit tree, vine bush, vine flower & vine herb patches |  |
 Teclyn |
An elf equivalent of a tool leprechaun. Located at the Lletya Fruit Tree patch. |
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 Goth leprechaun |
In the wilderness, at the western ruins. |  |
 Leprechaun Larry |
Near My Arm's disease-free herb patch. | 
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Trivia
- When the player attempts to exchange a non-notable item the leprechaun will say, "Nay, I've got no banknotes to exchange for that item" or if it cannot be a note, "Nay, I can't turn that into a banknote."
- Also, when the player attempts to exchange a banknote, the leprechaun will exclaim, "That IS a banknote!"
- Prior to 27 May 2009, all Leprechauns looked alike. Now there are several different models for leprechauns including Leprechauns seated in wheelbarrows, without hats, wearing desert or Karamja clothes, wielding magic wands, and even female Leprechauns were introduced.
- While doing the Lost City Quest talking to a tool leprechaun will result in them mentioning someone knocking Shamus out of his tree.
- At least one of the unnamed leprechauns is named Patrick as revealed in Postbag from the Hedge 38.
- If a system update occurs while cutting an evil tree the rewards can be claimed from a tool leprechaun because the evil tree will be gone.
- The Tool Leprechaun at the Farming patch just South of Falador's wall will not turn your cabbages into bank notes for you. Probably due to the fact there is a huge cabbage field south of the Farming patch.
- Sometime during March/April 2012, the Leprechauns in the Falador Park and Rimmington areas had their magic wands updated to have colourful particle effects instead of a trail of rainbows.
- Tool leprechauns appear to have a symbol on their chest when bloom is turned on.