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Demonic spade

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Demonic spade

Demonic spade
Type Item
Videos 1 (first 2025-03-24, latest 2025-03-24)
Main source PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS)

Demonic spade is an item topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-03-24. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Gnomonkey calculates that instantly harvesting snape grass (82 XP each, average yield up to about 50) would give an instant 4k XP, better than a maple tree, and notes there are about 17 allotment patches.1
  • Gnomonkey also calculates watermelons (54 XP each) at about 2,800 XP and torstols (225 XP at an average yield of 9.5) at about 2k XP for an instant harvest.2

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey thinks the nerf was fair, since instant harvesting would also have been crazy for Chambers of Xeric prep with an instant full inventory of herbs.3
  • Gnomonkey thinks the double-harvest spade is still really good, harvesting about four herbs every other tick, while understanding the XP disruption concern from 4k XP off allotment patches.4

Events

  • The demonic digger from the earlier blog is renamed the demonic spade, which Gnomonkey says is a better name.5
  • Jagex changed the spade from instantly processing farming harvesting actions to double harvesting speed, fearing instant harvest would make crops such as snape grass and watermelons more efficient for XP than trees and kill tree runs.5
  • Jagex said the spade will be useful for farming harvesting actions that need a spade, including herbs, hops, allotments, clearing dead plants and tree roots, and that it will be equipable.6
  • The spade will not work on seaweed since seaweed does not use a spade, and it can be used on the patch at the Chambers of Xeric.6

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-03-24 PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS) Page created: 8 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 9:30 ↩

  2. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 9:58 ↩

  3. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 10:29 ↩

  4. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 11:25 ↩

  5. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 9:01 ↩↩

  6. PERFECT REWARDS - Mokha Delve Boss (OSRS), 2025-03-24. ▶ 10:59 ↩↩

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