Beekeeper (random event)

Beekeeper
Released								4 July 2006 (Update)
Type								Random event
Members								No
Location								N/A
League region								General✓
Music								Horizon
Map

The Beekeeper is a random event in which the Bee keeper teleports players to a field of beehives and requests help to repair a broken beehive. Players have to assemble the beehive from its four main parts by dragging them into their places marked in the centre of the screen. After all the pieces are placed, they have to click the 'build' button at the bottom of the screen to finally assemble the hive. The player is allowed six attempts to complete this (formerly only a few).

If the hive is successfully repaired, the player receives a reward and will be returned to their original location; successfully completing this random event will always yield an experience lamp. Because flax is members only, free-to-play players will instead receive coins equivalent to the current Grand Exchange price of the items. If they fail, however, a cutscene plays in which the bees escape from their hive and start attacking the player, and Beekeeper teleports the player back to their original location with no rewards or losses.

The event can be left before completion by talking with the beekeeper, this however grants no rewards.

The average Beekeeper event reward is worth 212.5.

• In a prior version of Old School RuneScape, upon failure, the player ran away from their original location, to a location near a river to escape the bees, which drained the player's run energy.
• Prior to the Grand Exchange being released in Runescape 2, flax had notable value. The standard going rate was 100,000 coins per 1,000 flax. This means that receiving 1-27 flax would have had the same value that receiving a random gem does in OSRS.
• Before the 30 September 2020 update to this event, players needed to click on each piece of the bee house and use the arrow keys to move it to the appropriate position. This was very difficult to do, however, as the bee house pieces often spawned on top of each other and the proper position was often pinpoint accurate, resulting in failure if the player was even slightly off in their positioning.
• Before the 9 March 2022 update to this event, there was a 50% chance of receiving a piece of the outfit if the player did not already have the full set.^[1]
• There are two swarms of bees that bounce around the beehive interface. If they bounce into each other or if they are hovered over with the mouse, they will make a buzz sound.
• If a player enters the random event instance with overhead prayers active, the prayer will remain active but the overhead icon will disappear and prayer drain will cease. Upon leaving the instance, prayer will resume as if there were no interruption.

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