Mithril ore

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 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

$4-{\frac {x}{1000}}$ 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.