Bloated toad

Bloated toad
Released							18 May 2004 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							Big Chompy Bird Hunting
Properties
Tradeable							No
Bankable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Drop, Release All, Release
Examine							An inflated toad.
Values
Value							1 coin
High alch							0 coins
Low alch							0 coins
Weight							0.75 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							2875

Bloated toads are used to catch chompy birds during and after the quest Big Chompy Bird Hunting. Their dyed variant, coloured toads, are used in the quest Mourning's End Part I. They cannot be banked. If a player attempts to bank them, this message appears: A magical force prevents you from banking this item!

Use an ogre bellows which has been filled with swamp gas on a swamp toad to get a bloated toad which is placed in the inventory. Only three toads may be obtained at one time. Attempting to get a fourth toad gives the message: One of your bloated toads manage to escape. You manage to catch the toad and inflate it with the swamp gas. Toads can be released from the inventory, which will cause the player character to exclaim Free the fatsy toady! as the freed toad scampers off, which is the same term that Rantz uses to refer to the creatures. Players may also opt to use the right-click "Release All" option in order to free all bloated toads in their inventory simultaneously.

Bloated toads may be dropped in the ogre area in Feldip hills (north of the hunter area). Players attempting to drop them elsewhere are told You won't attract a chompy bird this far away from the ogre area. Players cannot place multiple toads on the same tile. Doing so results in the following message: There is a bloated toad already placed at this location. Once dropped, they have a chance of causing a chompy bird to land. They will explode 1 minute after being placed and deal 1-2 damage in a 3x3 area centred on the toad.

Inflating a toad a second time by using a filled ogre bellows on a bloated toad will lead to the toad floating away in a comical manner if the player is not in the possession of a ball of wool and a suitable rock. If these materials are available however, a balloon toad will be created instead.

Spawn mechanics

When placed on the ground, the bloated toad will roll every 25 ticks (15 seconds) for a chance to spawn a chompy bird, and will continue doing so until it either bursts or successfully attracts a bird. There is a 1 in 5 chance that a bloated toad attracts a chompy bird each time a roll is made, and up to four rolls can be carried out before a toad bursts. Once a bloated toad has successfully attracted a chompy bird however, it will not attempt to spawn any additional ones. Therefore, a toad will fail to attract a chompy if it fails all four rolls, which works out to about a 41% failure rate. Conversely, players can expect a chompy bird to spawn in around 59% of cases.

Moment	Spawn chance
25th tick	20%
50th tick	16%
75th tick	12.8%
100th tick	10.24%
No spawn	40.96%

Each bloated toad rolls independently of any other toads that may be placed nearby, and the chance to call down a chompy is likewise not influenced in any way by the proximity of the player to the toad. If a bird is successfully lured in, it will land on a random empty tile somewhere between 3 and 10 tiles removed from the bloated toad, forming a 21x21 square spawn area. The landing tile must also have line-of-sight to the bloated toad.

Although no more than three toads can be held in the inventory, there is no limit to how many toads may be placed on the ground simultaneously. As chompy birds will only attempt to devour the toads that spawned them down, and no more rolls are performed by the corresponding toads, it makes no meaningful difference whether the player actively prevents spawned chompy birds from eating the bait or not.

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Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:28 February 2019| |0}} {{#explode:28 February 2019| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:28 February 2019| |2}}]] (update)	Damage is no longer taken from bloated swamp toads placed by other players.
[[{{#explode:25 February 2016| |0}} {{#explode:25 February 2016| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:25 February 2016| |2}}]] (update)	It is no longer possible to make bloated toads with ogre bellows in combat.