OSRS Fairytale I - Growing Pains Quest Guide: Flinch Tanglefoot

Fairytale I – Growing Pains is the follow-up to Lost City and takes you straight into Zanaris, the fairies’ realm and Gielinor’s moon. The quest is all about helping the Fairy Queen deal with a pesky tanglefoot and figuring out why the Fairy Godfather shows up in her place. It’s also a really nice way for newer players to get started with Farming thanks to the XP bonus you get.

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.

Quest Requirements for Fairytale I - Growing Pains

• Lost City
• Nature Spirit

Quest Completion Time

Fairytale I – Growing Pains took me about 15 minutes to complete. It can take longer if it’s your first time or you struggle with Tanglefoot.

Item Requirements for Fairytale – Growing Pains

• Secateurs: Available on Grand Exchange
• Spade: Available on Grand Exchange
• Ghostspeak amulet (From the Restless Ghost quest)
• Dramen or Lunar staff (from Lost City quest)
• Draynor skull (you’ll need to get this yourself)
    

Getting the items as an Ironman

• Secateurs: Buy from a farming shop, the closest is in Falador
• Spade: Also from a farming shop
• Ghostspeak amulet: From the Restless Ghost quest
• Dramen staff: From the Lost City quest
• Draynor skull: Dig up the grave north of Draynor Manor to get it

Recommendations for Fairytale - Growing Pains

• Varrock teleport.
• Chronicle
• Amulet of glory
• Falador teleport.
• Lumbridge teleport.
• Teleport to Morytania: Like the Salve graveyard teleport.
• Food.

For Combat:

• Food: bring extra if you don’t plan to flinch Tanglefoot—flinching is safer but slower
• 50+ combat level: recommended to have at least 50 in all combat stats, or use boosting potions to reach that level for the Tanglefoot fight

Enemies to defeat

Tanglefoot (level 111)

Walkthrough of Fairytale i - Growing Pains

Recommended: Amulet of glory

• Teleport with the amulet of glory to Draynor Village or run there then talk to Martin shown below and pick dialogue options 2, 1, 1 to start the quest. Heads up—you don’t want to pickpocket Martin during the quest, or you won’t be able to chat with him for 10 minutes in-game.

Talking to the farmers

Next, you’ll need to talk to 5 farmers to gather information and then head back to Martin in Draynor Village to tell him what you got. Here’s a list of the closest ones I recommend:

• Frizzy in Port Sarim – reply 1 (check image above)
• Elstan northwest of Draynor – reply 1 (check image above)
• Heskel in Falador Park – teleport to Falador to get there faster (check image below)

• Treznor south of Varrock Castle. shown below Use Varrock teleport to get here quicker. Reply 1.

• Dreven south of Varrock, next to the Champions' Guild shown below). Use Chronicle to get here quickly.

• Teleport back to Draynor village with the amulet of glory and return to Martin in the Draynor Market and select 2 during the dialogue.

Entering Zanaris

Bring: Lunar or Dramen staff

Recommended: Falador teleport

• Equip the Dramen staff and open the shed south of Lumbridge to travel to Zanaris.

• Talk to Zandar in the Dark Wizards' Tower west of Falador. Climb up the stairs twice to get to him.

• Talk to Malignius Mortifer west of Port Sarim with Draynor skull in your inventory. Reply 2. Take note of the items Mortifier tells you get. Check OSRS wiki to find the best ways to obtain any of the possible items he requests.

Blessing the Secateur 

Bring: 1 Ghostspeak amulet, 1 secateurs, and the 3 items Mortifier told you to get 

Recommended: Salve graveyard and some food to prevent damage from Ghasts.

• Enter the Grotto in the south of Mort Myre shown below. Use the Salve graveyard to get closer to this location.

• Wear the Ghostspeak amulet and talk to the Nature Spirit. He will bless your Secateurs, which will then glow green and turn into the magic secateurs.

Fighting Tanglefoot

Bring: 1 Dramen staff and 1 Magic secateurs (this is the only weapon that can damage Tanglefoot). 

Recommended: If you don’t plan to flinch the Tanglefoot, I recommend wearing full adamant armor or better to help tank hits with lots of food or just use Protect from melee. The fight would take a while since the Secateur is not a great weapon. If you plan to flinch him instead, you can get away with lighter armor, bring less food, and focus more on offensive gear like an Amulet of Glory or Fury and a Combat Bracelet.

• Travel to Zanaris by entering the shed south of Lumbridge with your Dramen staff equipped, then get ready for the fight with the west bank if you have not done that.
• Run through the south tunnel to get to Tanglefoot. Inside the tunnel, you’ll run into a few baby tanglefoot (level 45). Keep going to the end of the tunnel to face the level 111 Tanglefoot in the location shown below.
• If you don’t want to flinch, just attack him and eat or use Protect from melee.

How to Flinch the Tanglefoot

To Flinch the Tanglefoot, attack and lure it to the exact spot shown below, making sure you’re standing in the position shown as well. Hit it once, then step back to that spot and wait for its health bar to disappear before attacking again—otherwise, it’ll hit you back and deal damage. Continue till it is dead. This method will take longer than taking him head on.

• After defeating Tanglefoot, he’ll drop the Queen Secateur. Pick it up, then talk to the Fairy Godfather while carrying them to finish the quest.

Rewards from Fairytale I - Growing Pains

• 2 Quest Points
• 3,500 farming XP
• 2,000 attack XP
• 1,000 magic XP
• Magic Secateurs.

This quest doesn’t just give you Farming XP—it also unlocks the magic secateurs, which can boost crop yields while farming. Because of that, completing it is one of the best and most efficient ways to get started with Farming. For what to do next, check out our OSRS Farming guide for efficient follow-up methods.