Mithril ore

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Mithril ore
Release date 4 January 2001 (Update)
Members? No
Quest item? No
Tradeable? Yes
Equipable? No
Stacks? No
High Alch 97 coins
Low Alch 64 coins
Destroy Drop
Store price 243 coins
Examine This needs refining.
Weight 1.75 kg
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Mithril ore
Mithril ore

Mithril ore is a type of ore that can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape. It can be smelted with 4 heaps of coal through the Smithing skill at level 50 to form a mithril bar, which can then be smithed into various types of weapons and armour.

Mithril ore can be mined with a Mining level of 55 or higher, granting 80 Mining experience. After being mined, a mithril rock takes an average of 3 minutes to respawn.

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 49

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Archer (Burthorpe) 42 1 3Uncommon
Guard (Burthorpe) 37 1 3Uncommon
Rockslug 29 1 3Uncommon
Cockatrice 37 1 4Rare
Desert Lizard 24 1 4Rare
Lizard (Slayer) 42 1 4Rare
Small Lizard 12 1 4Rare

Levels 50 to 74

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Cockroach worker 56 2–3 (noted) 2Common
Goblin statue 50 2 2Common
Ice giant 53 1 3Uncommon
Ice warrior 57 1 4Rare
Ork statue 63 2 5Very rare

Levels 75 to 99

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Cockroach soldier 83 2–3 (noted) 2Common
Ankou 75, 82, 86 3–7 (noted) 3Uncommon
Ogre statue 75 3 3Uncommon
Warped tortoise 96 3–9 (noted) 3Uncommon

Levels 100 and above

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Living rock protector 120 3 (noted) 2Common
Living rock striker 140 3 2Common
Ourg statue 200 4 2Common
Lesser reborn warrior 100 1 2Common
Brutal green dragon 227 5 (noted) 3Uncommon
Dagannoth Rex 303 25 (noted) 3Uncommon
Mutated bloodveld 126, 146 3 3Uncommon
Waterfiend 115, 134 1–5 (noted) 3Uncommon

Respawn rate

Mithril ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 4 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 2 minutes. Thus the respawn rate of mithril ore is

minutes,

where x is the number of players in the world

A table of respawn rates is given below.

Players 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
Respawn time 4:00 3:48 3:36 3:24 3:12 3:00 2:48 2:36 2:24 2:12 2:00

A common way to overcome the slow respawn rate of mithril ore is world switching. This is done by mining the ore on a world until you have mined all the rocks and then logging out to the lobby and switching to a different world. Repeat until the player's inventory is full. This is NOT against the Jagex rules.

The 5 mithril rocks at the lumbridge swamp is good for world switching, however being a member is an enormous advantage because one will rarely find another player at the mine.

Trivia

  • When RuneScape was first released, smelting mithril bars required level 55 Smithing. Jagex later redefined the smithing table such that smelting mithril bars only required level 50 Smithing.
  • The metal Mithril features in many fantasy worlds, sometimes spelled mithral. It is found in both the novel and film series The Lord of The Rings, where it is white, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and World of Warcraft.
  • A great place to mine mithril is in the hidden resource chamber in the dwarven mine and the 6 rocks are next to a deposit box. This is recommended on highly populated servers as shown above.
  • Although dangerous, Crandor is also a very good place to mine mithril. Players may only return there after completing the Dragon Slayer quest, and dangerous creatures such as king scorpions and lesser demons inhabit it. Consequently, there is little competition over the eight mithril rocks and the ten coal rocks there.


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