Mutated zygomite

**Mutated zygomite**
Release date	7 March 2006 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	74/86
Life points	650/750
Experience for killing	260, 86
Slayer level	Level 57
Slayer XP	65/75
Assigned by	Chaeldar
Aggressive?	No
Poisonous?	No
Immune; to poison?	No
Attack style	Magical melee, Magical ranged
Attack speed	Unknown edit
Max hit	88 (Melee), 140 (Ranged)
Weakness	Slash
Always drops	Ashes
Examine text	A fun guy. No wait, that's awful. Plus it doesn't even make sense. (As Fungi); A bouncy fungus. (Level 74); A fun guy. No wait, that's awful.. (Level 86)

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Mutated zygomites are monsters that appear as Fungi until provoked (Pick Fungi) that require level 57 Slayer to kill. They resemble giant mushrooms, and are only found in Zanaris, near the Cosmic altar (level 86), or near the furnace (level 74). To kill one a player needs to reduce it to below 20 life points then players use fungicide spray on it to kill it, which is available from any slayer master. The fungicide spray must be reloaded every ten kills, and the reloads can be bought from the slayer master at the same time. Fungicide canisters fully reload the fungicide spray. Players cannot sell the spray or reloads back to the slayer master afterward, so only buy what is needed. Zygomites are usually only killed as slayer assignments, but some players may kill them for their fairly common drops of Strawberry seeds.

Zygomites can be occasionally assigned as an optional Slayer Challenge by Chaeldar. If you accept the challenge, she will tell you to use an experimental spray on them for tests, and you must bring back the results to her when you're finished. She will reward you with 10,000 Slayer experience and 25 Slayer Points.

Strengths and weaknesses

A Fungi

Zygomites mostly use magical melee attacks which consist of a headbutt that does up to 88 life points, but they occasionally use more powerful magical ranged attacks by shooting spores, with a max hit of around 140. Dragonhide armour is strongly recommended while fighting them, as the high Magic defence will reduce the chance of them hitting you. If praying against their attacks, Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles is recommended, as their ranged attacks are stronger and more accurate than their melee attacks.

When its remaining life points are around 10 to 20, use the fungicide spray on it in order to destroy it. If life points are not low enough and a player uses the fungicide spray, the zygomite will not be killed but one use of the fungicide spray will be expended.

Slayer Challenge

An enraged zygomite in its fungi form

After a player has performed several slayer tasks for Chaeldar, she will occasionally offer a special task in place of a regular slayer task. The player can decline to take the special task without penalty. If the player accepts the special task, completing the task:

Earns 10,000 extra slayer experience.
Earns 25 Slayer reward points, if the player has completed the Smoking Kills quest.
Counts as a task for the player's consecutive task count, which is used for slayer reward points.

Chaeldar's special task is for the player to test an experimental fungicide spray against ten Mutated zygomites and survive to return to her and tell her the results of the test. The player uses the spray in place of the normal Fungicide spray, when the zygomite the player is attacking has been reduced to 20 life points or less. When applied, the experimental spray will have one of the following effects, chosen randomly:

"The experimental spray has sent the zygomite into a furious rage!" The zygomite temporarily turns red, heals a bit, and attacks faster. It can be killed by reducing its life points to 0, without needing another application of the spray.
"The experimental spray has healed the zygomite!" The zygomite temporarily turns green and its hitpoints are restored to maximum. It can be killed by reducing its life points to 0, without needing another application of the spray.
"The experimental spray has killed the zygomite!" The zygomite is killed.

Note that the challenge is only complete when the player returns to Chaeldar and speaks to her; simply killing 10 zygomites with the experimental spray does not finish the task. The spray cannot be used to kill more than the required 10 zygomites.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Ashes	1	1 Always	276

Runes

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	2	3 Uncommon	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
	Law rune	10–50	3 Uncommon	1,490–7,450
	Earth rune	15	3 Uncommon	90

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Strawberry seed	Strawberry seed	1–6	2 Common	92–552
	Barley seed	1	3 Uncommon	1
	Asgarnian seed	3	3 Uncommon	6
Potato seed	Potato seed	4	3 Uncommon	4
Wildblood seed	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	7
Limpwurt seed	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	147
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	24
Jangerberry seed	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	2
Poison ivy seed	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	31
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	989
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,042
	Hammerstone seed	3	3 Uncommon	6
Morchella mushroom spore	Morchella mushroom spore	1–3	3 Uncommon	496–1,488
Onion seed	Onion seed	4	3 Uncommon	4
	Spirit weed seed	1	4 Rare	3,869
	Yanillian seed	1	4 Rare	29
	Jute seed	1	4 Rare	3
	Ranarr seed	1	4 Rare	2,935
	Watermelon seed	1–3	4 Rare	1,861–5,583
Marigold seed	Marigold seed	1	8	9
	Woad seed	1	8	1
Tomato seed	Tomato seed	3	8	3

Herbs

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Grimy guam	1	3 Uncommon	521
Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	2,877
Grimy marrentill	1	3 Uncommon	41
Grimy tarromin	1	3 Uncommon	56
Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,496
Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	3,508
Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	7,525
Grimy lantadyme	1	3 Uncommon	6,002
Grimy kwuarm	1	3 Uncommon	2,902
Grimy cadantine	1	3 Uncommon	1,336

Weapons and armour

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Steel hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	49
Steel 2h sword	1	3 Uncommon	476
Mithril full helm	1	4 Rare	753
Rune full helm	1	4 Rare	20,861

Other

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Fungicide	1	2 Common	Not sold
Anagogic ort	20	2 Common <ref>Only with RDT drops.</ref>	Not sold
Coins	44, 64, 102, 220, 302, 343, 400	3 Uncommon	Not sold
Supercompost	1–3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	779–2,337
Mort myre fungus	1–3	3 Uncommon	404–1,212
Clay	1	3 Uncommon	136
Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold

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	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".–Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
	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

The name Zygomite is probably based on the class of fungus Zygomycota, though these fungi do not produce mushrooms.
If players try and attack something else while you are still in combat, instead of the usual "I'm already under attack" message, the message box will display "There's a rather large mushroom monster trying to attack you at the moment. Maybe you should deal with it first."
If a frog or other Zanaris event happens during battle, the Zygomite will keep attacking you with a "thump" sound (melee attack) without any hitsplats, but will still be doing damage while you can't attack it until the event leaves. This may be a glitch.
Once a Zygomite's life points reach zero (before fungicide is used to kill it), its ranged attack will continue to inflict damage, but its melee attack will no longer inflict damage. This may be a glitch.
With the release of Fairy Tale III - Battle at Orks Rift a glitch occurred where the health bar and hit splats for a Zygomite appeared much higher in the air than they should, and a player couldn't see how much damage they dealt or how much health a Zygomite had left unless they changed to a high view. This glitch has been fixed.
If another player picks one of the fungi and runs away and another player is still there, the Zygomite will eventually turn around and start attacking the other player, shouting "I'm coming for you!"
Zygomites were originally called Mutated Zygomites before the Zanaris update. This was changed back on 21 February 2011.
If you're fighting a Zygomite and you run away while there are no other players around it, it will return to its original fungus form but will still move around so it looks like a little moving mushroom. This is a glitch, and has not been fixed yet.