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| 1s | it's early 2012 and one of the runescape |
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| 4s | developers is fixing a bug related to |
| 6s | the smithing house in yanil work like |
| 8s | this can be compared to cleaning a box |
| 10s | you take all items out of it fix |
| 12s | whatever the problem is then put all the |
| 14s | items back inside however in this |
| 16s | situation the developer left behind the |
| 19s | tree that was standing behind the |
| 20s | building when the update went live the |
| 23s | tree was gone |
| 24s | if you've been playing runescape for a |
| 26s | while like me you'll know everything in |
| 29s | the game is sacred |
| 30s | especially if it's got some sort of an |
| 33s | issue use the tree for example worked |
| 35s | like a marker on where to dig when doing |
| 37s | a very specific clue scroll now that it |
| 40s | was gone the community went into a state |
| 42s | of panic probably not having any idea |
| 45s | where to dig and made a forum post |
| 47s | asking nicely to have the tree returned |
| 50s | meanwhile in the jagex offices community |
| 52s | manager mod emily got an inside joke |
| 55s | going on with content developer mod |
| 57s | timbo emily kept teasing timbo with the |
| 59s | recent updates and blamed every bugger |
| 61s | mistake on him she walks up to him in |
| 64s | the office and tells him that he did it |
| 65s | again and this time he removed a3 |
| 68s | without giving it a second thought and |
| 70s | despite not being the developer behind |
| 72s | this kidnapping timbo goes |
| 73s | full-heartedly into it and immediately |
| 76s | claimed responsibility on the forums |
| 78s | apologizing for accidentally removing it |
| 80s | and promised to add it back in and thus |
| 82s | began the meme of the famous timbo |
| 86s | when the tree was replaced on the 20th |
| 88s | of march 2012 it was added as a dead |
| 90s | tree with examine text never let mother |
| 92s | timbo never think of beauty if you cut |
| 95s | it down the examine text would say to mo |
| 98s | as a nice easter egg the tree was left |
| 101s | alone for now and jagex's developers had |
| 103s | learned never to mess with a tree ever |
| 105s | again that is until the 12th of october |
| 108s | 2015 when also a tree in varrock was |
| 110s | removed the tree was commonly used |
| 112s | together with the jack of trades aura |
| 114s | meaning it didn't take long for the |
| 116s | missing tree to get noticed aware of |
| 118s | timbo's reputation fingers were |
| 120s | appointed and timbo yet again took |
| 122s | responsibility shielding the anonymous |
| 125s | j-mod who had actually committed this |
| 127s | crime the player yogxol stood up as the |
| 130s | protector of trees and challenged timbo |
| 132s | to a one-on-one battle to the death this |
| 135s | turned into something of a community |
| 136s | event garnering the attention of their |
| 138s | reddit and twitter communities they all |
| 140s | turned up to the fight with end |
| 142s | familiars to play on the joke of the |
| 144s | tree killer himself but this show of |
| 146s | force wasn't enough to beat timbo who |
| 148s | won pretty easily on the 9th of november |
| 151s | 2015 the varrock tree was replaced with |
| 154s | a tree sapling holding the examine text |
| 156s | protected by the order of king rowald |
| 158s | over the next week the tree went through |
| 161s | a new stage with every game update going |
| 163s | from tree to deceased and eventually |
| 166s | dead the king of varrock even had some |
| 168s | dialogue referencing the tree when it |
| 170s | finally was fully grown on the 22nd of |
| 172s | february 2016 it still took another |
| 175s | month until the fence around it was |
| 177s | removed and the examine text changed to |
| 179s | you can faintly make out some words |
| 181s | engraved in the trunk timbo was here |
| 185s | ever since then mod timbo has been |
| 187s | notoriously blamed for any tree-related |
| 189s | opted and bug from trees combining with |
| 191s | each other to timbo joking about the |
| 193s | entire ordeal some people are even |
| 196s | specifically calling out timbo to update |
| 198s | the tree graphics or even remove trees |
| 200s | that are in the way during the 2016 |
| 202s | special event charity auction a player |
| 205s | donated |
| 206s | 143 to have a tree planted by timbo |
| 209s | named after themselves in the jagex |
| 211s | office just showing how far this joke |
| 213s | went in 2021 a double tree was spotted |
| 217s | in relation to the easter event south |
| 218s | east of varrock this one was never |
| 221s | removed now that jagex finally learned |
| 223s | their lesson and decided not to touch |
| 225s | the growing wildlife on gulenore's |
| 227s | surface |