Impetuous Impulses

Impetuous Impulses
Released								11 June 2007 (Update)
Type								Minigame
Members								Yes
Location								Puro-Puro
League region								General✓
Participants								1
Skills								Hunter
Reward currency								None
Tutorial								No
Music								Impetuous, Impulses
Map

Impetuous Impulses is a minigame based around the Hunter skill where players capture implings, which are flying imp-like creatures, that can be caught to obtain trinkets and treasures that they have been stealing from all over Gielinor. This activity takes place in an area called Puro-Puro.

If players wish to make use of the permanent portal to Puro-Puro found on Zanaris, completion of Lost City will be required. Having partial completion of Fairytale II - Cure a Queen is recommended in order to gain access to fairy rings. No quest is required however to gain passage to Puro-Puro through one of the crop circles that roam the surface of Gielinor.

A player will need at least level 17 Hunter to enter the minigame area as well as to catch the lowest tiered impling. Higher Hunter levels will be needed to catch higher tiered implings.

Having a high Strength level is also recommended, as this will assist the player in pushing through the rows of magical wheat that form the maze's wall. A high Magic level can be beneficial when casting spells such as entangle or dark lure on implings.

A butterfly net and impling jars are needed to catch implings. Once in Puro-Puro, players can speak to the Elnock Inquisitor who will give the player a rundown of the game, the maze, and the implings. He will also give the player a butterfly net, 7 impling jars, and an impling scroll which shows the number of implings of each type that the player has caught. Afterwards, more jars can be obtained from the inquisitor by trading in jarred implings (see Elnock's Exchange), or alternatively by purchasing up to ten jars on offer each day in exchange for gold coins.

Note: Players will still need to bring impling jars with them when catching implings barehanded in Puro-Puro, and implings caught that way will not be instantly looted (see the section on catch mechanics).

A magic butterfly net gives a higher chance at catching implings than the normal version, and can likewise be procured from the Elnock Inquisitor.

Players may choose to bring weight-reducing clothing for the purpose of sustaining the chase for longer, and optionally mix in pieces of magic armour for a greater chance at successfully binding or luring implings using magical means. If available, other performance-enhancing items such as a ring of endurance or stamina potions also come recommended.

The following money making guide is available for Impetuous Impulses:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills
Hunting implings	909,290	83+ Decent and recommended 50+ (optional for casting Snare or Dark Lure)

The minigame is located in Puro-Puro. To access Puro-Puro, the player can go through the main crop circle in Zanaris (located in the middle of a wheat field, east of the fairy ring). There are also other crop circles that randomly appear in wheat fields around Gielinor. The current location of the migratory crop circle can be found by talking to the wandering impling who loiters inside the wheat field of Zanaris (players may evade the small talk by selecting the right-click "Check-gates" option).

The Farmer's Affinity bonus allows faster movement through wheat for 30 minutes. The effect this bonus has is to speed up pushing through magical wheat by exactly 3 ticks compared to the normal push time. This means that the fastest push will now take 3 ticks (1.8 seconds), compared to the normal fastest push of 6 ticks (3.6 seconds). The slowest push will now take 7 ticks (4.2 seconds), instead of the normal 10 ticks (6 seconds).

To receive the bonus, players must enter Puro-Puro via a crop circle in a specific wheat field on Gielinor, the location of which is revealed by the aforementioned wandering impling. The timer continues to run after leaving Puro-Puro, so it is possible to enter a crop circle to get the bonus, leave, then re-enter via the Zanaris wheat field and benefit from whatever bonus time remains.

The area in which the minigame takes place in is a maze. The walls are made of magical wheat and to travel between different layers of the maze, the player needs to right-click the "Push-through" option. Players will be able to push through the wheat more efficiently with the aforementioned Farmer's Affinity bonus, in addition to possessing a higher Strength level.

If desired, the player can choose to enable receiving Strength XP by asking Elnock for more information about the wheat. The minimap, due to the magical nature of Puro-Puro, will not display anything while engaged in this activity.

Parts of the maze's walls will randomly lower and then grow back. This allows the player to run around the maze without needing to push through the wheat. These sections are shown in the map below:

Almost all of the implings that players can catch using the Hunter skill can be encountered within the wheat maze while participating in Impetuous Impulses. The sole exception is the crystal impling, which may only be caught within the walls of Prifddinas.

Name		level (barehanded)	GE Price (jar)	Average Loot Value[d 1]
						Baby impling	17 (27)	1,636	71.73
	Young impling	22 (32)	2,630	175.76
	Gourmet impling	28 (38)	3,880	220.84
	Earth impling	36 (46)	1,734	657.08
	Essence impling	42 (52)	2,437	435.81
	Eclectic impling	50 (60)	4,518	719.40
	Nature impling	58 (68)	4,726	1,099.80
	Magpie impling	65 (75)	20,724	12,576.90
	Ninja impling	74 (84)	46,914	11,912.32
	Dragon impling	83 (93)	468,598	117,046.95
	Lucky impling	89 (99)	N/A	46,201.11

On Puro-Puro, there are 35 spawn points that produce an invisible NPC which roams for two minutes before manifesting, and respawn immediately upon capture. The tier of these invisible NPC's determines which specific implings can appear after the two minute invisibility window fades (for the tables of possible implings that are rolled by each of the three tiers of spawn, see the main article). Of these 35 spawn points, there are 21 low-tier spawns, 12 mid-tier spawns, and 2 high-tier spawns:

Legend

Icon	Type	Respawn
	Low-tier spawn	2 min.
	Mid-tier spawn	2 min.
	High-tier spawn	2 min.

In addition, there are 51 fixed spawns of specific low-tier implings found throughout Puro-Puro. These spawn directly as implings rather than first spending a brief time invisible, and have a set respawn time of 50 ticks for the earth and essence implings, and of 7 ticks for all other varieties:

Legend

Icon	Type	Respawn
	Baby impling	7 ticks
	Young impling	7 ticks
	Gourmet impling	7 ticks
	Earth impling	50 ticks
	Essence impling	50 ticks
	Eclectic impling	7 ticks

The best method to find the rarest and most valuable implings is to force-spawn them.

In Puro-Puro, higher tier implings (nature implings and above) can be found much more commonly than on Gielinor. This is because, as seen above, Puro-Puro has two specific points which only spawn high-tier implings.

As an example, to maximise the amount of dragon implings spawning, a player will want to catch all rare implings (nature, magpie, ninja) as these will have spawned from the higher tier spawn tiles, giving them a chance for a dragon impling to spawn. This is best done at either the north-west or south-east corners of Puro-Puro, and it is advised to hop between multiple worlds because of the 2 minute "respawn"-timer for these higher tier implings.

Players must wield a butterfly net or magic butterfly net and have an empty impling jar in their inventory to be able to catch implings, the impling caught will be placed into the jar which can then be opened or sold on the Grand Exchange. Players can also catch implings barehanded and without an impling jar if they are 10 levels above the requirement for catching that impling (for example, ninja implings barehanded requires level 84 Hunter instead of the normal 74). Implings caught barehanded will be looted immediately if the player is on the surface of Gielinor. Barehanded catching will only work in Puro-Puro if the player has a jar in their inventory, in which case it will be stuffed into the jar rather than immediately looted. Grabbing an impling with your bare hands has the same success rate as attempting to catch one with a magic butterfly net.^[1]

Spells such as Bind, Snare, or Entangle can be used to freeze an impling in place, making it significantly easier to catch them. Dark Lure can likewise be used to draw an impling to the player. After tagging an impling successfully with one of these spells, players have a few seconds of grace during which other players cannot attempt to catch the tagged impling.

Imp defenders are located throughout the maze and are supposed to free their captured brethren as they feel some kinship towards the implings. Bringing along some imp repellent decreases their chances of freeing an impling.

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Bug:

Testing in game reveals that imp defenders permanently stop being aggressive after freeing only one captured impling, only resetting their behaviour upon a server restart. Trapping them to force respawn has no effect on aggression, nor does time elapsed since a server restart, despite statements by Jagex Moderators.^[2][3][4]

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Players can trade in specific combinations of impling jars to Elnock Inquisitor in exchange for items that are helpful for capturing implings.

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