Mithril dragon

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Mithril dragon

Release date	3 July 2007 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	304
Life points	2,540
Experience for killing	1016 (339 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	273 (With dragon slayer gloves: 313.9)
Assigned by	Duradel or Lapalok, Kuradal
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	Partially, can only be poisoned with Smoke spells
Attack style	Melee, Magic, Ranged, Dragonfire
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	Melee- 289, Magic- 182, Ranged- 182
Weakness	[[]], stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, stabmagic, [[]]magic, stabmagic, stabMagic, Stab
Always drops	Dragon bones and 3 mithril bars
Examine text	Experimenting with mithril gone bad!

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Mithril Dragons are found in the Ancient Cavern, which may be accessed by starting the Pyre ship section of Firemaking in Barbarian Training. These dragons have extremely high defence, but since they are made of metal, are relatively weak to magic. Mithril dragons are often killed for their possible drops, which include the Dragon full helm, Draconic visage, Chewed bones and Elite clue scroll.

Mithril dragons are an excellent source of charms, as they drop four of them at a time. They are also a good source of rune weaponry.

Mithril dragons are currently the second strongest dragons, behind the Queen Black Dragon. Their release shattered the King Black Dragon's long standing record as being the strongest dragon in RuneScape.

Habitat

Mithril dragons can only be found on the top level of the Ancient Cavern. Please note that dwarf multicannons are not allowed here. There are three ways to reach them:

1. Enter the cavern by jumping into the whirlpool near Otto Godblessed's cabin. Go down the stairs, run east past Brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs to the mithril dragons. Partial completion of Barbarian Training is required to use this entrance.
2. Use Fairy ring BJQ to teleport inside the cavern. Run east past the Waterfiends and the brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs. Partial completion of Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen and initial repairs of ring BJQ are required before the ring can be used.
3. Use a Ferocious ring to teleport to Kuradal, run north, go down the stairs, run north-east past barbarian spirits and brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs. A ferocious ring can only be obtained in Kuradal's Dungeon and only when on a Slayer task assigned by Kuradal. As soon as you go in the cavern entrance, activate protect magic to prevent magic attacks by brutal green dragons. One is right near the stairs so stay away from the dragon. An ice arrow may be shot at the player from nearby waterfiends. The dragon's magic attack is like a water wave attack. Both can hit for significant damage, but protection prayers should be used to block the attack style you are weakest to.

To use the ancient cavern, one must have completed the first part of barbarian firemaking training, and then talked to Otto about pyre ships. After the conversation is over, the player can now go in the whirlpool. Note that upon entering, one must climb down stairs from the safespot reached. Activate Protect Magic/Deflect Magic prayer, then run south to a set of stairs leading to the mithril dragons. It is advised to not walk around the Cavern because it is littered with several brutal green dragons. If the player is unlucky he/she might get attacked by a waterfiend. It is advised to use protect/deflect mage because the path to the mithril dragons is within the range of 2 brutal green dragons.

The whirlpool entrance is closer to the stairs and only involves running past brutal green dragons. However, its drawback is that players cannot have a familiar summoned when jumping into the whirlpool, which wastes an inventory space for the pouch. It is also very far from a bank. Many players therefore prefer using the fairy ring or a ferocious ring. Using the fairy ring can be dangerous, since its location is right near waterfiends and you need to use prayer longer because of the brutal green dragons between the stairs and ring. The whirlpool method can take some time, due to that you run and jump into the whirlpool, and it is dark for about 5 seconds.

Drops

 

100% drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Dragon bones	1	1 Always	2,104
	Mithril bar	3	1 Always	4,578

Weapons and Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Rune battleaxe	1	2 Common	24,735
Exchange:Rune dart (p)	Rune dart (p)	14	2 Common
	Rune javelin	8	2 Common	2,056
	Rune mace	1	3 Uncommon	8,420
	Runite bolts	10–27	3 Uncommon	6,790–18,333
	Rune knife	8–18	3 Uncommon	7,632–17,172
	Rune arrow	8–42	3 Uncommon	1,520–7,980
	Rune full helm	1	3 Uncommon	20,861
	Rune spear	1	3 Uncommon	12,130
Exchange:Adamant dart (p)	Adamant dart (p)	20	4 Rare
	Dragon full helm	1	5 Very rare <ref>Estimated at 1/32,873 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.</ref>	32,714,089
	Rune sq shield	1	5 Very rare	22,884
	Rune longsword	1	5 Very rare	18,916
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	38,245

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Blood rune	27	2 Common	5,265
	Soul rune	10	3 Uncommon	3,180
	Law rune	4, 45	4 Rare	596–6,705
	Death rune	45, 50	4 Rare	8,325–9,250

Potions

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Super attack mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	274
	Super strength mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	760
	Super defence mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	34
	Prayer mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	1,406

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	283–8441	2 Common	Not sold
	Shark	1–6	3 Uncommon <ref>Also dropped in unison with other drops.</ref>	525–3,150
File:Ancient page A.png	Ancient page <ref>Can be added to My notes.</ref>	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Mithril dragon tail-bone	1	3 Uncommon <ref>Only during the Fur 'n' Seek wish list</ref>	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Chewed bones	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Rune bar	2, 3	4 Rare	26,058–39,087
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare <ref>Estimated at 1/9,819 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.</ref>	4,299,605

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Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

Trivia

• Mithril dragons are the only Slayer task that Duradel, Lapalok, and Kuradal do not give advice for; "You are a battlemaster; test your skills."
• In order to receive a Dragonkin key, you must take the Strange key loop and Strange key teeth (both obtained from While Guthix Sleeps) to the mithril dragons, and use one of the halves on a dragon. It will animate as if it's breathing fire at you, but does not do any damage. Afterwards it's temporarily tolerant to you, giving you time to run away. During the fusing of the key, the Mithril dragon will temporarily appear as level 57.
• Mithril dragons are one of only two types of dragons that cannot be poisoned, the other being the Brutal green dragon.
  • Despite their immunity to poison, mithril dragons can still be poisoned with Smoke spells from the Ancient Magicks spellbook. This may be a glitch.
• In a Postbag from the hedge, Oziach pointed out that there are bronze dragons, iron dragons, steel dragons, and mithril dragons when he was chatting with Evil Dave. Oziach deduced that there will be adamant dragons, rune dragons, and even Dragon dragons.
• When they cast their dragonfire, it looks like the close-ranged dragonfire attack from its lesser counterparts and chromatic dragons in melee range. This also seems to apply to Brutal green dragons, and has not been fixed.
• Despite being much more higher in combat level then a Frost dragon, the Frost dragon's attacks are near or higher then the Mithril dragon's attacks.
• It was believed that they were only assigned as Slayer tasks for players with a combat level of 120 or above. This has been proven untrue, as players can get a mithril dragon task even at only 100 combat, though it is much more common for players to receive this assignment with a combat level over 120.
• When killed, it says on the Adventurer's Log: I killed [number] of mithril dragons. If you killed 1, it would be "I killed a mithril dragon." Killing more than 100 in a single trip results in the Adventures Log reading: "I have killed many Mithril Dragons."
• Interestingly, their examine text indicates that metallic dragons, or at least mithril ones, may be the result of unnatural experimentation, of course, this may also refer to how they were created by the Dragonkin.
• Mithril dragons are the strongest non-boss monster to reside in a single way combat area.
• There is currently a glitch where when the Mithril dragon attacks you, the message "You are already under attack" will appear. This glitch may continue for 2-3 more attacks from the dragon.