Lava eel

This article is about the quest item. For other uses, see Eel.

Lava eel

Release date	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	Yes - Heroes' Quest
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	No
Edible?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	90 coins
Low Alch	60 coins
Value	150 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	Strange, it looks cooler now it's been cooked.
Weight	0.15 kg

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Lava eels are the result of using a raw lava eel on a fire or range, require level 53 fishing and is used in the Heroes' Quest, and a cooking level of 53 to cook, granting 30 cooking experience. When consumed, lava eels will restore 110 of a player's life points. Lava eels may be caught, using an oily fishing rod and bait, in the lava rivers found in Taverley Dungeon or in the Wilderness Lava Maze.

Players who wish to reside in the dungeon for extensive periods can bring equipment (logs, tinderbox, oily fishing rod and bait) to fish and cook the lava eels to produce food for combat. This is especially true for players given Black Demons or Blue Dragons as a slayer task.

During the Heroes Quest, guild-master Achetties will ask players to obtain a cooked lava eel to prove that they are worthy of membership to the Heroes' Guild. Players will then need to visit Gerrant in Port Sarim, to learn how to make an oily fishing rod, followed by either Taverley Dungeon or the Wilderness Lava Maze to catch an eel.

Lava eels are also used to get the fire keeper at Death Plateau to tend the fire in All Fired Up (minigame).

When cooking lava eel, it will never burn.

Trivia

• Oddly, you can cook the lava eel on fire. In real life, lava is much hotter than a simple campfire. This is also stated in the examine information. This might suggest that lava eel cooks on a campfire because it's dry heat unlike lava.
• There was a glitch making the fishing spots for fishing lava eels floating far above the actual lava. This has been fixed.