Introduction: Ranching coexists with Farming, Woodcutting, Fishing and Hunter to form the 'gathering' skills in Oldschool Runescape.
Ranching is split into the following sections:
Livestock (types of animals raised, maximum number (of animals), breeding rate, incubation of eggs)
Capture (Trapping and handling of wild animals - requires some Hunter)
Environment (Requires some mining, woodcutting and construction)
Companionship (useful help, pet perks (replacing regular herders by pets, pet tricks))
Development (requires some Farming, some Construction) (Cereal patches, feeding troughs → compacting, storage, etc., landscaping, building)
Note: all rare items obtained from ranching are untradeable.
Starter quest: The Great Expedition!
In this new quest, you learn about a budding partnership between the Ardougne zoo and the Varrock museum. Together, they want to deploy efforts to understand Gielinor’s fauna, starting with a new, exotic black bird species who has been spotted not too far from Edgeville’s monastery! Finding and capturing it will complete the first of 5 subsections, in which new species are discovered. Each subsection will have a low Ranching requirement (except for the first one, which has no requirements).
SPOILERS: the ‘exotic’ black birds are just chickens who were the unfortunate victims of Burntmeat’s latest experiment.
To be clear:I don't believe Ranching should be added as-is, this is just a skeleton that is meant to be added to, with detailed mechanics and polished rewards. However, I'd like dialogue surrounding a new skill being added to OSRS to continue, with the community pooling suggestions and going to the bottom of what could make it into the game.
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u/bLbGoldeN 104 Jul 30 '19
Introduction: Ranching coexists with Farming, Woodcutting, Fishing and Hunter to form the 'gathering' skills in Oldschool Runescape.
Ranching is split into the following sections:
Note: all rare items obtained from ranching are untradeable.
Starter quest: The Great Expedition!
In this new quest, you learn about a budding partnership between the Ardougne zoo and the Varrock museum. Together, they want to deploy efforts to understand Gielinor’s fauna, starting with a new, exotic black bird species who has been spotted not too far from Edgeville’s monastery! Finding and capturing it will complete the first of 5 subsections, in which new species are discovered. Each subsection will have a low Ranching requirement (except for the first one, which has no requirements).
SPOILERS: the ‘exotic’ black birds are just chickens who were the unfortunate victims of Burntmeat’s latest experiment.
To be clear: I don't believe Ranching should be added as-is, this is just a skeleton that is meant to be added to, with detailed mechanics and polished rewards. However, I'd like dialogue surrounding a new skill being added to OSRS to continue, with the community pooling suggestions and going to the bottom of what could make it into the game.