Pawya
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| Level | 66 |
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| Experience | 400 |
| Location | Isafdar |
| Trap | Box trap |
| Preferred bait | Papaya - Required |
| Retaliation | Unknown |
| Loot | Raw pawya meat, sometimes papaya tree seed |
| Examine | What a strange little creature. |
Pawya are small burrowing creatures that can be captured by players with a Hunter level of 66, gaining 400 experience per Pawya. You can find them in Isafdar. The bait, a papaya, is required in order to catch these creatures in a box trap. When caught, the Pawya will yield raw pawya meat and bones (Pawya meat being the bait required for trapping Grenwalls). Pawyas occasionally will steal bait from the traps without being caught. Also a Papaya seed can occasionally be gained from catching these creatures.
Jagex has stated that due to the magical influence of Isafdar, Pawya are not fooled by the ruse of camouflage gear.
[edit] Strategy
Plant a papaya fruit tree in Lleyta so when you need papaya fruits they are available for free. Once you've picked enough fruit, follow the map on the left to find the Pawya hunting grounds. You can also use a Fruit bat familiar with fruitfall scrolls to produce papayas.
Alternatively, if your Farming level is low, you can also buy Papaya from the Grand Exchange.
Many players also find a Fruit Bat helps while hunting, because it can create Papayas.
Because they are immune to camouflage, and require bait, your best bet is to drop the max amount of traps you can 5 spaces apart with 5 papaya ready, then lay them one by one, set the bait, and run to the next. After setting traps, run a distance away and wait 1 minute before going back.
[edit] Trivia
- There was a glitch on the first few days after the release of the Pawya. A free-to-play character could see it on the Grand Exchange, but when free-to-play players tried to purchase it, the message "This item cannot be bought on the Grand Exchange." appeared.
- When a pawya was attacked by a grenwall, it would be hit at a distance along with a strange hissing sound. The pawya would lie, probably dead, on the ground until the Grenwall would come up and eat it, and when examined it was stated the creature was attacked.
