You know, at some point you start to wonder if the old school RuneScape community isn't just making fun of you. Maybe they have a wheel of fortune somewhere they spin that spits out a collection of nouns, adjectives, and false justifications: “The player steals half a million NPCs to get nothing of value” or “The player spends 149 hours trying to kill a raccoon.” ” or even “The player catches a million terrible fish for the sake of inner peace.” Then they all agree to pretend that these acts of madness actually happened in order to intimidate newbies who might ruin their favorite game .
Anyway, this is Limpwurt. Limpwurt has just completed a 2,500-hour gardening project with maximum building skills and a kidnapped baby mole, having waged an almost non-stop Groundhog-style war against his parents while becoming the best landscaper in the world. Are you still with me? Great.
Discovered by GamesRadar, Limpwurt is a well-known and popular OSRS YouTuber who has taken on a gigantic, herculean, Brobdingnagian task (it's a real word; look it up). He's chunking, a type of challenge run in which OSRS players use a tool to divide the game's entire world into minesweeper-like pieces.
You start with a block and then roll dice to unlock adjacent blocks. You can check the current status Limpwurt's chunk map hereand the image below shows the status at the time of writing.
The highlight is that Limpwurt – like all great OSRS heroes – plays according to extremely strict, self-imposed rules. Before it can migrate out of a block, it has to suck up pretty much every drop of content in it.
This means getting every unique item, every unique mini-game reward, everything Success diary Quests and – most importantly for Limpwurt's recent challenges – you will receive all unique monster drops and skill cloaks (rewards given by area-specific NPCs for maxing out certain skills). He also played Ironman, which meant he wasn't allowed to trade with other players.
That was all fine for a while until the poor Limpwurt happened to roll into chunk #44: Falador. Succeeding in Falador meant getting a 1:3000 drop (a pet baby mole) from the area's giant mole boss and getting a skill cloak to build. This required 2,500 hours of playing time in eight months.
The baby mole mystery is easy to understand: the damn boss simply refused to ditch the pet even after Limpwurt murdered it 7,000 times in a row. Ideally, based on Baby Mole's drop rate of 1/3000, Limpwurt would have done twice as much at this point – and actually did it all other possibly a rare drop from the boss – but he had clearly offended the gods in some way.
When he finally does Get the drop—Time stamped in this video here– I'm pretty sure our hero jumps out of his skin: there's a crashing sound, followed by a pained “Aw, shit!” before he exclaims “Yes!” in a tone usually reserved for people who are told that her diagnosis is no longer fatal.
But all in all, this was probably the easier of the two challenges. Maximizing the building skill is hard work, even when not trapped in a “death chunk,” and requires resources that Limpwurt couldn't trade due to his Ironman limitations.
He decided on a plan: get enough packaged plants from Falador's Park to strike fear into God's heart, and then plant them all, accumulating construction XP little by little until he finally reached 99. It was damn hard work, but don't worry: it probably wasn't as bad as the effort of raising the millions of GP he needed to buy the plants in the first place.
But he did it. The legend actually did it. In a video uploaded to YouTube this week, Limpwurt announced that his 2,500-hour, eight-month Death Chunk grind was over. “In the last eight months I have killed 6,000 giant moles, opened over 20,000 bird nests and planted over 200,000 plants in bags [player-owned house]and have done a lot Tempoross Construction. This video is the result of eight months of work and 2,500 hours that we spent in the game to complete this part.”
With a baby mole in his arms and a skill cape on his back, Limpwurt finally emerged blinking into the day. Time for part #45.
