Forestry Guild

The Forestry Guild (also known as the woodcutting guild or the firemaking guild) is located in the north of the bamboo forest. Entry requires 60 woodcututting and 60 firemaking.

Main Building
When you enter the guild you arrive in a small building.. There is a bank deposit box, a shop and access to a new minigame. The shop sells bronze to rune hatchets and also tinderboxes. Players can talk to the Master Forester to begin the Tree Spirit minigame. There is a door from this building leading to the courtyard.

Courtyard
The guild has large walled area with several diffrent types of trees. There are 20 willow trees, 15 maple trees and 5 yew trees. These are the only maple trees available on free worlds. In the centre of this area is a trapdoor leading to a members-only area. Standing by it is an Eastern Forester who will sell keys to the dungeon for 250 gold each. The keys are non-tradeable.

In this area there are also two of the new trees from the Eastern Realms - bamboo stalks and birch trees. Bamboo can be cut at level 42 woodcutting to get a bamboo staff. This can be then made into a bo or a variety of eastern spears. Birch trees can be cut at level 50 woodcutting. They produce logs which can then be burnt at level 50 firemaking. There are 25 bamboo stalks and 10 birch trees in this area.

Sacred Grove
This is a members-only underground area of the guild. There are two entrances - one in the guild courtyyard and another outside in the forests. Both entrances must be unlocked with a special key sold by the Eastern Forester - after this they remain unlocked.

Within this area there are 20 more birch trees, 10 more yew trees, 12 mahogany trees, 15 teak trees and 18 eucalyptus trees. In this area, there is also an altar where logs can be burnt for double firemaking xp and prayer xp. The prayer xp is equivalent to the firemaking experience you would normally gte from burning the logs.

There are also several other brand new trees in the grove. They are cypress, sakura, elder and cedar trees. The cypress tree can be cut down at level 70 woodcutting and produce logs that can be burnt at level 70 firemaking. Sakura trees can't be cut down with a hatchet but the blossom can be picked and used in herblore. Elder trees can be cut a level 80 woodcutting and their logs can also be burnt a level 80 firemaking. Cedar trees are the highest level trees in the whole of RuneScape requiring 90 woodcutting to chop down and 90 fireamking to burn the logs. There are 14 sakura trees, 8 cypress trees, 5 elder trees and 3 cedar tree

In this area there is also a portal to a new area of the Spirit Realm with 10 cursed magic trees in two lines leading to a statue of the Spirit Beast overgrown with vines. When you cut a cursed magic tree in the spirit realm, you cause a magic tree to spawn in the grove. The same is true if you then cut these magic trees - the corresponding cursed tree will respawn. However, this area is dangerous as there are several aggresive level 78 Ghostly Ents wandering around. This is the only portal to the spirit realm outside of the Wilderness.

Tree Spirit
Players can talk to the Master Forester in the guild hall to begin playing this minigame themed around woodcutting and firemaking. He explains the rules and teleports the player to the waiting room. '''Note: This is a safe minigame. If a player dies, they will not loose any of their items. However they may only take the items they are wearing into the waiting room.''

Upon being teleport to the waiting room, the player will find themselves in a grey square. Anyone standing in this square will not be part of the game when it starts. There are four other squares - red, green, blue and yellow. Players in the red square will be on the attacking side in the minigame while players standing in the green square will be defending. The yellow square will place you in a completely random team while the blue square puts you on the team with the least players. Each team can have 10 - 30 players and there may be 20 - 60 players in total. When each team has at least 10 players in their square, not the blue or yellow square, the game will begin. If the total amount of players in the room exceeds 60 or is below 20 the game will not begin. Also, a game will not begin if the attacking team aren't guaranteed to have a player with 80 firemaking on their side (for reasons explained later) When a game starts, players in the grey square will be teleported back to the guild hall. You may leave the waiting room at any time by activating the tree in the centre of the grey square.

Objectives
The rules of the game are quite simple: there are two teams - one must defend the giant tree while the other must chop it down and burn its logs. The way in which each team goes about doing this task can vary but teamwork is essential no matter what strategy is used. All players begin with a spiritual hatchet, a spiritual hammer, a spiritual tinderbox, a spiritual pickaxe, 5 bandages, 1000 elemental runes and 300 catalytic runes. The runes function exactly the same as the ones used in other minigames such as Fist of Guthix and Stealing Creation while the bandages heal 10% of the users's hitpoints, run energy, prayer points and summoning points. The spiritual hatchet is equal in all ways to a dragon hatchet except it has no special attack. The spiritual picakxe is equivalent in all ways to a rune pickaxe.

Defending players spawn around the tree they must protect in the north of the spiritual plane. Attacking players spawn in the south of the plane. In the attacker's camp is a spiritual saw. This is a huge saw which needs two players with at least 30 strength to wield it. Both players must use both hands to carry the saw. At 75 strength, two players are still needed but they can each hold the sword one-handed, allowing them to also use a sword, crossbow or staff. The attackers must carry the saw up the length of the plane to the giant tree. They must then chop down the tree. This takes around a minute and a half and the sawers can be attacked while this is going on. However, they amy fight back with 75+ strength. If the attackers succeed in cutting down the tree, they must take the giant logs up to the Tree Spirit Temple. 5 logs are produced and each can be wielded 2-handed by one player or 1-handed by two players. Both of these methods require 50 strength. All 5 giant logs must be then placed in a huge altar in the temple to the north of the giant tree along with 60 spirit logs from the spirit trees scattered around the area (not the same as spirit trees). A player with 80 firemaking must then light the pyre and the attackers will win. The defenders will win if all the attackers are killed (killed players can't rejoin the game and will return to the guild hall) or if tehy survive for 30 minutes without the giant tree being cut down. If the tree is cut down, the defenders can still win by eliminating all attackers. The attackers will not win automatically if all the defenders are dead but this will help greatly.

Resources
Scattered all over the area are spirit trees (not the same as spirit trees) which can only be cut down with the spiritual hatchet you are given. Players can also pull up the roots of the trees and spin on their camp's spinning wheel to make spirit sinew. There are also spirit rocks which can be mined with the spirit pickaxe given at the start of the game. Spirit ore can then be smelted in the spiritual furnaces in both camps into a pre-set group of items for use in the game. Spirit logs require 60 woodcutting to be cut, spirit ore requires 60 mining and spirit bars need 60 smithing. Feathers can be found lying around in the camps. They have a variety of uses in the minigame. They can be used to make diffrent types of barricades, as described in this table:

Barricades block off an area and are simliar to the ones found in Castle Wars. They are useful for slowing down the enmy, particularly for defenders as it is very difficult to manouver the great saw around them. Barricaes may destroyed and smaller ones have less health. Reinforced barricades are more difficult to destroy as the name suggests. Members may also make these resources into siege equipment. Each team may only have three pieces of siege equipment at a time. The details can be found below: