Trouble Brewing

Trouble Brewing
Released	4 July 2006 (Update)
Type	Minigame
Members	Yes
Location	Mos Le'Harmless
League region	Morytania✓
Participants	2+
Skills	Cooking, Woodcutting, Firemaking, Crafting, Agility, Strength
Reward currency	Pieces of eight
Tutorial	No
Music	Distillery Hilarity, Trouble Brewing
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Trouble Brewing is a minigame that takes place on the east side of the pirate island of Mos Le'Harmless. It is a non-combat minigame. The main goal of the game is to make as much rum as you can as fast as possible. To do this, there are a number of tasks that must be done, from gathering ingredients to taking care of the boilers. A special interface helps determine what needs to be done, but to function effectively, it's helpful to discuss with team members what tasks each will do beforehand.

To play the game, you must have completed the Cabin Fever quest and have at least 40 Cooking. It is also recommended to bring weight-reducing clothing, m'speak amulet and a good woodcutting axe (though a bronze axe will be supplied).

Trouble Brewing can be easily accessed by using the Grouping teleport.

Completing a game of Trouble Brewing is a medium task for the Morytania achievement diary. You do not need to gain any pieces of eight to complete the task.

Official world

The following official world is assigned to Trouble Brewing:

World	Location	Members	Activity
304	Germany	1	Trouble Brewing

Joining a game

To join either team, you cannot have any followers, items in your inventory, or anything equipped in the head slot. Items can be deposited at the bank chest near Honest Jimmy. The official Trouble Brewing world is world 304.

Signing up

With all necessary items banked, you now need to talk to someone to enter a waiting room. There are three options: San Fan will sign you to the blue team, Fancy Dan will sign you to the red team, and Honest Jimmy will sign you to whichever team currently has fewest members. Only one player on each team is required to start a game. Each game is 20 minutes long with an interval of 3 minutes between games.

The method of joining a game partway through is different for each waiting room:

For the eastern (blue) waiting room, players will automatically join the game at the 10 minute mark.
For the western (red) waiting room, players are prompted to join via a dialogue box at regular intervals.

If a game is joined at precisely the 10 minute mark (via either waiting room) the player will receive only half the normal pieces of eight at the end of the game. Therefore, if wishing to join a game partway and receive full pieces of eight you should enter the red team's waiting room and select the dialogue prompt, but not at the 10 minute mark.

The interface

The interface has several different icons on it. Along the top is amounts of ingredients. The number will be green if there is enough for another batch of rum. The icons are as follows, from left to right:

The first three are the three boilers. They must each have at least 3 logs in them and must be lit to keep rum production going, and can fit 10 maximum.

Bitternut. Each bottle of rum requires 1 Bitternut.
Sweetgrubs. Each batch requires 1 Sweetgrubs.
Bucket of water. One bottle takes 5 buckets of normal water.
Bowl of blue water or bowl of red water depending on which team the player is in. For one bottle of rum, there must be 3 bowls of coloured water.
Scrapey bark. There must be 1 scrapey bark per bottle of rum.

Production status. When this is flashing green, there is a finished bottle of rum that must be placed in the crate before the arrival of the next bottle pushes it off and breaks it.

The left side has the repair status of your team's equipment. If this shows a number, it means that something has been sabotaged by the other team. From top to bottom, these show the status of the hoppers, the pipes between boilers, and the bridges between islands.

In the lower right of the screen is the scoreboard and time left in a match. Each bottle of rum is worth one point.

Your base

Ground floor

The ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] has the three boilers (where you put logs) and the pipes that can be sabotaged. A table nearby supplies you with any tools you might need to play the game. There is also the log store which starts off with a number of logs in it and can be added to, and next to it is a kettle that coloured flowers are put in to make bowls of coloured water. Just outside is a pump for water and a patch of coloured flowers of the other team.

Top floor

On the top floor are the hoppers. This is where all the ingredients are placed. In the image below, they are, labelled with the ingredient.

Tasks

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Coloured flowers/water

Producing coloured water is perhaps the most important task, as coloured water is necessary for both rum production and gathering bitternuts. To gather coloured water, the player must run all the way to the other team's base. A patch of the flowers grows just outside it. Flowers can be picked until the player has five in their inventory. A player can hold more than five flowers in their inventory by trading with teammates. Once the flowers have been gathered, they must be placed in the kettle located in the player's base.

After there are flowers in the kettle, you can use a bowl to get the coloured water back out. Put it in the hopper upstairs or use it for gathering bitternuts (see below).

Tending the boilers

There are three boilers on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] of your base. To light them, you must place one log in it, then use a tinderbox to light it. Once started, more wood can be added. There must be three logs in it to make rum, with a maximum of ten. Unlike the ingredients, the supply of wood in the boilers will continue to decline even when rum isn't being produced. Signs in front of the boilers identify what number it is.

Gathering water

The simplest job. To get water, simply go to the pump outside your base and fill your buckets, then take it upstairs and place it in the corresponding hopper. If the pump has been destroyed, you must either fix it or go to the pond on the middle island, but this one won't automatically fill all your buckets.

For those who just want pieces of eight, this is a fast and effective way of getting a lot of them, but it's also a very common task, so it will often have been done already and won't do much good for the team.

Cutting wood

A less needed task since the supply of logs in the store is pretty good to begin with, but should the supply dwindle, you can cut many of the jungle trees down and resupply the wood store.

Sweetgrubs

Around the area are mounds of dirt that sweet grubs live in. To lure them out, you have to use raw meat on the mound. You can get an unlimited supply from the table in your base. If you succeed, you'll get some sweetgrubs.

When attempting to draw out some sweetgrubs from a mound, there is a 1/5 chance that the mound will empty out and collapse.^[1] Players will have to find another mound or wait for it to fill again.

If the mound does not collapse after the player uses their meat on it, there is a further 1/5 chance that a swarm of sweetflies will be drawn out instead. The sweetflies will continue to attack the player until they run away, as they cannot be attacked in retaliation. No one can gather more sweetgrubs from the mound while there are still sweetflies present.

Scrapey bark

There are a number of scrapey trees around the area that can be cut down. They usually yield several logs before being felled. Once the logs are in your inventory, you must use a knife to cut the bark off, at which point you can put it in the corresponding hopper.

There is a low (1/50)^[2] chance while removing the bark from the scrapey logs that you will become diseased for 4 disease damage.

Fletching scrapey bark and cooking it in the hopper is both an excellent method of gaining Pieces of eight and excellent fletching & cooking xp. Players can expect fletching xp between 80-100k per hour and cooking xp between 160k-200k per hour. Competition for the scrapey trees on mass worlds can reduce xp rates, so duoing or using an alt is preferred.

XP rates do not scale with levels, so this method is particularly powerful for low to mid level accounts.

Bitternuts

The most complicated task. In order to gather Bitternuts, you must first get a few bowls of coloured water. Then, go to one of the islands and catch a monkey. Dye the monkey with the water to mark it as being on your team, then use it on the Bitternut tree. The monkey will skitter up the tree and, after a little while, will toss you a nut. If another monkey is in the tree already, they will first fight and the winning monkey will get the nut. You will only be able to carry 2 Bitternuts in your inventory and attempting to gather more will cause you to waste your coloured monkey. Attempting to drop a Bitternut, gather a 3rd Bitternut, and picking up the dropped Bitternut will result in a message not allowing you to pick it up.

If you have a monkeyspeak amulet, you can alter the strategy used. You can choose to either make the monkey angry by taunting it, or caution him. By making him angry, he'll be more inclined to get up the tree as fast as possible and start pelting you with bitternuts, speeding up the time before you get a nut. If you tell him to be careful, he'll take a little bit longer, but will be more aware of other monkeys and will be more likely to win in a confrontation.

Sabotage

Sabotage will destroy the other team's rum. While this will create a nuisance for the opposing team, it is an intended game mechanic. If you decide to sabotage the other team, you need a torch and a tinderbox. You can only carry one torch at a time.

With a lit torch, you can go to the other team's base and set things on fire. To do so, use the torch on what you want to sabotage. You'll either succeed or fail and, regardless of outcome, the torch has a 1/3 chance to be "burned up" and removed from your inventory.^[3] Successful sabotage will result in 50 Firemaking experience.

Some objects you can burn are:

Hoppers - Prevents the other team from adding ingredients or the ingredients to be added to the rum, though it won't damage anything already inside.
Pipes - Halts rum production.
Pump - Forces water gatherers to go to the middle island for water.
Trees - Prevents the tree from being cut down and makes players go farther for resources.
Bridges - Makes players go around or use the much slower jumping stones to get around. This is a double-edged sword, though, since it also makes it much harder for flower-gatherers on your team to get to the other team's base. You can only burn bridges on the opposing team's side.

The chance to successfully burn an object scales with your Firemaking level^[4]:

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Defence

Defence is truly important as, if your equipment is burned, you can't get anything done. If something is set on fire, the first thing you need to do is put it out using a bucket of water. If not, it will eventually burn itself out, but you'll need more supplies to fix it afterwards. Once the fire is out, you can use the appropriate repair item to fix it. Pipes and pumps need bamboo pipes. Hoppers take lumber patches. Bridges take bridge sections. Depending on how long they were allowed to burn, it takes anywhere from 1 to 3 items to fix the problem.

You can also use the pump near the boilers on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] to gather pressure in the boilers. To do this, you must have over 50% run energy, and takes 10% each pump. It can hold up to 10 pumps worth of pressure. The reason to do this is defensive. When someone is trying to sabotage your boilers, you can right click the pump and select the vent option. By doing this, a burst of steam will run through the pipes. This will put out any fires currently burning and cause damage to opposing team members standing near a damaged section of pipe. If they die, they will return to their base with no loss of items. There's a negative side effect to this method, though. While it does put the fires out, it will damage the broken pipes further, taking as many bamboo pipes as if you'd let the fire run its course.

Another defensive course is to resupply the repair items. You can do this by taking logs and using them on the workbench in your base. You can either use them yourself or use them on the table to resupply it.

Bottle packing

When everything has been completed, a bottle of 'Rum' will roll out the end of the line. This must be collected and placed in the crate, or it will be broken when the next bottle arrives. In order to collect the 'Rum', though, you must have contributed ingredients towards its production. For example, each Bitternut contributed will allow the player to collect one rum, and each 5 buckets of water contributed will allow the player to collect one rum. The time it takes in between packing the rum and the next one to start is about 20 seconds, taking a full minute per rum with all the necessary ingredients. Depositing any resource after a bottle arrives will immediately start production on the next bottle, skipping the cooldown. Players who haven't contributed enough won't be able to see or collect it. Once the bottle has been placed in the crate, your team will get 1 point.

Rewards

After each game, you will get an amount of experience from the tasks you performed and some pieces of eight based on how much work you did and how many bottles of rum were successfully made. Each bottle equals 10 pieces of eight, 100 Crafting experience, 250 Cooking experience, and 150 Firemaking experience. In addition, you gain 1 Piece of eight and some experience for every task you complete.

Each resource you deposit into a hopper counts for 1 pieces of eight at the end of a game. The maximum amount of Pieces of eight you can receive from a single game through gathering resources is 100. Resources applies to all the things you can deposit into the hoppers, including buckets of water which are the fastest resource to deposit and take around 3–4 minutes to reach the maximum point count per game.

A lesser known way of acquiring pieces of eight is by burning or repairing distillery items that can be burned or have been. Each piece repaired or burned acquires an extra pieces of eight, but does not reward pieces of eight after the maximum of 100 per game.

If entering at the half-way point in the game all pieces of eight earned will be halved.

Action	Exp. Reward
Buckets of water added	None
Coloured water added	320 Cooking
Sweetgrub obtained	160 Hunter
Sweetgrub added	320 Cooking
Scrapey tree bark obtained	160 Fletching
Scrapey tree bark added	320 Cooking
Bitternut obtained	160 Hunter
Bitternut added	640 Cooking
Log lighted in boiler	320 Firemaking
Equipment sabotaged	50 Firemaking
Repair item created	12.5 Crafting
Item repaired	12.5 Crafting
Burning object doused	50 Firemaking
Monkey captured	15 Agility, 15 Hunter
Boiler pressure increased	80 Strength

Honest Jimmy

You can also talk to Honest Jimmy to use your pieces of eight and get some unique items such as naval clothing, special pirate banners, the stuff (which increases the chance of getting a mature ale from personal brewing), rum (acts as a teleport to the Trouble Brewing area/fake death tool). Note that the rewards from this minigame cost 10x more PoE than they do in RuneScape 3.

Item		Price sold at
	Blue naval shirt
	Blue tricorn hat
	Blue navy slacks
	Green naval shirt
	Green tricorn hat
	Green navy slacks
	Red naval shirt
	Red tricorn hat
	Red navy slacks
	Brown naval shirt
	Brown tricorn hat
	Brown navy slacks
	Black naval shirt
	Black tricorn hat
	Black navy slacks
	Purple naval shirt
	Purple tricorn hat
	Purple navy slacks
	Grey naval shirt
	Grey tricorn hat
	Grey navy slacks
	Cutthroat flag
	Gilded smile flag
	Bronze fist flag
	Lucky shot flag
	Treasure flag
	Phasmatys flag
	The stuff
	Rum (red)
	Rum (blue)
	Clue scroll (medium)	File:Pieces of eight 3.png 5,000

Music

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:5 September 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:5 September 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:5 September 2024\| \|2}}]]	Hotfix Pieces of eight were restored back to 10 per bottle of rum while also hotfixing behaviour leading to excessive rum production.
[[{{#explode:4 September 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:4 September 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:4 September 2024\| \|2}}]] (update \| poll)	The amount of pieces of eight awarded per bottle of rum produced was temporarily increased from 2 to 10 and reverted shortly thereafter.
[[{{#explode:24 July 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:24 July 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:24 July 2024\| \|2}}]] (update)	Visiting the Trouble Brewing minigame no longer wipes the effect of the stuff from any fermenting vats.
[[{{#explode:23 May 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:23 May 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:23 May 2024\| \|2}}]] (update)	Various skilling actions in Trouble Brewing now provide experience for the associated skill: Capturing a monkey awards 15 Agility and 15 Hunter XP. Increasing the boiler pressure awards 80 Strength XP. Lighting logs in the boiler now awards 320 Firemaking XP, up from the 40 XP provided when adding logs to the boiler. Obtaining a bitternut awards 160 Hunter XP. Depositing a bitternut into the hopper awards 640 Cooking XP. Obtaining scrapey bark from logs awards 160 Fletching XP. Depositing scrapey bark into the hopper awards 320 Cooking XP. Obtaining sweetgrubs awards 160 Hunter XP. Depositing sweetgrubs into the hopper awards 320 Cooking XP. Adding your team's coloured water to the hopper awards 320 Cooking XP. The reward currency from Trouble Brewing, pieces of eight, have been converted into a variable stored on the player's account rather than a physical item.
[[{{#explode:21 February 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:21 February 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 February 2024\| \|2}}]] (update)	When pouring buckets of water into the hopper in Trouble Brewing, your character will now use all your buckets one by one without you needing to click repeatedly.
[[{{#explode:18 November 2020\| \|0}} {{#explode:18 November 2020\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:18 November 2020\| \|2}}]] (update)	A Bank chest has been added to the lobby area of Trouble Brewing.
[[{{#explode:12 August 2020\| \|0}} {{#explode:12 August 2020\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:12 August 2020\| \|2}}]] (update)	The Trouble Brewing overlay can no longer be removed by lighting a torch.
[[{{#explode:17 September 2015\| \|0}} {{#explode:17 September 2015\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:17 September 2015\| \|2}}]] (update)	It is no longer possible to smuggle the team hats from Trouble Brewing.
[[{{#explode:29 January 2015\| \|0}} {{#explode:29 January 2015\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:29 January 2015\| \|2}}]] (update \| poll)	In order to make it a touch easier to get into a game of Trouble Brewing minigame has been changed to only require 1 player on each crew.
[[{{#explode:10 July 2014\| \|0}} {{#explode:10 July 2014\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 July 2014\| \|2}}]] (update)	Trouble brewing crew counts now update correctly when you die in the lobby.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 May 2020. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Mod Ash: "1/5 for it depleting. If that doesn't happen, there's a separate 1/5 roll for getting flies."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "No, that's 1/50 flat rate."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "Did a quick survey of the minigame's code, and all the checks I saw involved a 1/3 chance of your torches being extinguished, regardless of skills."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "Unrelated to the torch going out, the chance of burning something appears to scale from 5% at level 1 to 44% at level 99 Firemaking."

[1] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 21 May 2020. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Mod Ash: "1/5 for it depleting. If that doesn't happen, there's a separate 1/5 roll for getting flies."

[2] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "No, that's 1/50 flat rate."

[3] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "Did a quick survey of the minigame's code, and all the checks I saw involved a 1/3 chance of your torches being extinguished, regardless of skills."

[4] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 3 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Mod Ash: "Unrelated to the torch going out, the chance of burning something appears to scale from 5% at level 1 to 44% at level 99 Firemaking."

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