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(OSRS) How Many Bananas Can You Pick in 20 MINUTES?!
Date 2023-10-21
Type challenge
Video youtu.be/7N_K5rlrdBA

Summary

A viewer called Maverick challenged Gnomonkey to pick as many Karamja bananas as possible in 20 minutes at $1 each, with no teleports, baskets or satchels. He picked 27 per inventory, banked at Port Khazard, and finished with 378 bananas despite interference from other players.

Outline

  • 0:00 Starting the banana challenge and rules
  • 0:22 Early farming, other players picking the nearby bananas
  • 1:35 Optimizing the banking process and world hopping
  • 3:08 Unexpected interference from other players
  • 4:29 Final rush for bananas
  • 5:32 Last-minute harvesting, respawn issues
  • 7:54 Final result of 378 bananas and recap

Topics covered

Challenge: Karamja banana picking (20 minutes)

  • (0:00) Gnomonkey, as the Banana Man, was challenged by a viewer called Maverick to pick as many Karamja bananas as possible in 20 minutes, with every banana worth $1.
  • (0:00) The rules: no teleports, no baskets, no satchels, only inventory space, and no alts to help or hold the bananas, and no stamina potion sharing; he was allowed to wear things like Graceful, Explorer's ring 4 and Max cape boosts.
  • (0:00) Gnomonkey picked 27 bananas per inventory and ran to Port Khazard to deposit, which he found was the fastest route tick-wise to a bank, even faster than deposit boxes.
  • (0:22) Early in the run, the close Karamja bananas were already gone because other players or chatters had picked them, which Gnomonkey called being griefed; he held the Charter ship option as far away as possible and had 65 bananas in the bank.
  • (1:02) Gnomonkey hopped worlds when the close banana trees were gone, noting it took eleven ticks to the bank.
  • (3:08) On his world, a random ironman player was also picking bananas on Karamja, the only other person all day to pick a single banana there, and Gnomonkey says he lost about 20 bucks to that player and another.
  • (3:08) Per the description, the interference came from the challenger Maverick himself, to save his own wallet, and Twitch chatters Hoshi and Condor7000.
  • (4:29) Each banana trip, picking an inventory and banking, took about 1 minute 20 seconds.
  • (4:29) Banana trees on Karamja have roughly a four minute respawn, which Gnomonkey counted during the run.
  • (5:32) Near the end Gnomonkey says they had exhausted Karamja of its bananas on his world, and he hoped to pick up one more inventory before time ran out.
  • (7:54) Gnomonkey picked 378 bananas, worth $378, in the 20 minutes; Maverick thought he would only get around 250.

Gnomonkey

  • (0:00) Gnomonkey refers to himself as the Banana Man, and the video description calls this 'Banana man Mode content'.
  • (7:54) Per the description, the challenger Maverick also supports Gnomonkey's content with Gauntlet speed runs, Muspah and now Banana Man mode content, and Gnomonkey likes doing little challenges for the community tied to big donations.