OSRS Big Chompy Bird Hunting Quest Guide

Big Chompy Bird Hunting is a quest where you help Rantz the ogre hunt a chompy bird to feed his hungry children, learning how to craft ogre arrows and use a special ballista in the process.

Difficulty: medium

Length: short

General Questing recommendations

• Enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section. 
• Hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog.

Skill Requirements for Big Chompy Bird Hunting

• 5 Fletching (boostable, not required to start)
• 30 Cooking (boostable, not required to start)
• 30 Ranged (not boostable, not required to start)

You’ll also need the ability to defend against level 64 wolves and level 53 ogres.

Items Required for Big Chompy Bird Hunting

• Any axe that you can use (Blessed axe does not work)
• 100 Feathers (to be safe; coloured feathers from Hunter do not work)  Bringing 50 coins to buy 25 feathers from Fycie also work
• Knife (or 10 coins to buy a knife and chisel from Bugs)
•  Chisel (or 10 coins to buy a knife and chisel from Bugs)
•  4 Wolf bones (can be obtained from level 64 wolves during the quest or level 14 wolves in the Stronghold of Security)
• Cabbage (can be obtained during the quest; Draynor cabbage will not work)
•  Tomato (can be obtained during the quest)
• Onion (can be obtained during the quest)
• Potato (can be obtained during the quest)
• Equa leaves (can be obtained during the quest)
• Doogle leaves (can be obtained during the quest)
  
  

Recommendations for Big Chompy Bird Hunting

• 25 Combat level
• Armour and weapons (Avoid gear that reduces your chance to hit with Ranged, as it may cause you to miss the chompy bird)
• Stamina or energy potions and some food
• Feldip Hills teleport or Fairy Rings to a•k•s, Gnome Glider after completing One Small Favour, ring of dueling to castle wars then run south.
  
  

Enemies to defeat

• Chompy bird (level 6)
• Wolves (level 64) — optional

Walkthrough of Big Chompy Bird Hunting

• Bring the following items: Any axe, 1 Knife 100 Feathers, Chisel, 1 Hammer, 4 Wolf bones
• Talk to Rantz in the east of Feldip Hills. Reply 1.

• Get some achey tree logs near Rantz. Cut 3 Achey logs to be safe.

• Use your knife on the achey logs to make arrow shafts.
• Use the feathers on the arrow shafts.
• Use a chisel on some wolf bones.
• Add the bone arrow tips to the flighted ogre arrows.
• Use at least 6 Ogre arrows on Rantz. Reply 1, 
• Ask Rantz all the available questions.
• Enter Rantz's cave.
• Open the chest in the cave for some ogre bellows.

• Leave the cave.
• Fill the bellows on swamp in the image above. Watch out for the Wolves and Ogres in the area.

• Inflate 3 toads near the swamp.
• Bring the toads to Rantz
• Drop the bloated toad in the clearing south of Rantz.

• Wait for a chompy to spawn. If the frog despawns, you'll need to place another one in the clearing south of Rantz.
• Talk to Rantz again for an ogre bow. Reply 2, 1
• Drop another bloated toad in the clearing south of Rantz, and wait for a chompy to come.
• Kill the chompy. You can only hurt it with an ogre bow + ogre arrows. You can pick up the arrows that drop on the floor if you run out.
• Talk to Rantz in the east of Feldip Hills.

Cooking Chompy

• Enter Rantz's cave. Take note of the ingredient Rantz and his children will request.
• Talk to Bugs.
• Talk to Fycie.
• Leave the cave.
• Collect the ingredients Rantz and his children want for the chompy.

Here are the ingredients that can be requested, along with their locations. Turn on the ground items plugin on RuneLite to easily find them.

• Cook the chompy on Rantz's spit-roast north of him.

• Bring Rantz the seasoned chompy to finish the quest.

Rewards of Big Chompy Bird Hunting

• 2 Quest Points
• 1,470 Cooking XP
• 735 Ranged XP
• 262 Fletching XP
• An Ogre Bow
• Ability to make Ogre Arrows