Adamant dragon

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Adamant dragon
Release			15 June 2015 (Update)
Members			Yes
Examine
Its scales seem to be fused with adamant.
Combat info
Level			LP			XP			XP
116			32,812			1,405			463.6
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
84 / 56 / 28
Aggressive						Poisonous
Slayer
Level			XP			Category
1			655.6			Adamant dragons
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
1120			1120			1120			1300
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
85				85				85
Accuracy
2178				2178				2178
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
2023		82
Affinities
90			55			45			65
Immunities
Immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				21135
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

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4 ticks (2.4s)

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Adamant dragons are metal dragons found within the Dragonkin Lair and the adamant dragon dungeon inside Brimhaven Dungeon. They drop pages for Forcae's journal, the journal of the Dragonkin scientist who created them, along with being the only dragons besides mithril dragons to drop dragon full helms.

The dragons were first announced in the June 2015 BTS. They won the first RuneLabs poll, alongside rune dragons.

Locations

Adamant dragon dungeon inside Brimhaven Dungeon, accessible via a set of stairs in a room between the moss, fire giants and black demons. The dungeon contains multiple sections; the largest is accessible by anyone, but the smaller rooms are blocked by magical barriers that require 70, 80, or 90 Slayer to pass.

Dragonkin Lair near Kuradal - The dragons are featured in Hero's Welcome where one of them needs to be defeated, and can be found in the Dragonkin Lair post-quest. The one fought during the quest does not drop anything.

Strategy

Adamant dragons can use all three attack styles, as well as dragonfire. Super antifires are highly recommended, with some form of dragonfire protection being needed. While in melee range it will not use its Ranged attack, while outside of melee range it will be unable to use melee. For this reason, it is suggested that:

• If wearing Magic type armour, they should stay inside melee attack range (due to Magic armour being weak to Ranged type attacks)
• If wearing Ranged type armour with dragonbane ammunition, they should stay outside melee attack range.

On a side note, they will use Magic attacks in melee range.

Use of magic notepaper, metallic dragon trinkets and/or a pack yak with winter storage scrolls is highly recommended due to the large number of unstackable commodities dropped by adamant dragons, namely adamant salvage and hardened dragon bones. Prior to the 2019 Mining/Smithing update these always dropped adamant bars.

Drops

The average Adamant dragon kill is worth 20,341.47 coins.

100% drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Hardened dragon bones (m)		1	Always	11,466	0
	Medium plated adamant salvage		1	Always	4,454	6,000

Charms

No charm
22–26%	15–18%	36–40%	11–13%	8–10%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 1,634 kills. 4 charms are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Huge plated adamant salvage		1	10/128	8,893	10,000
	Dragon helm (m)		1	1/1024	58,357	60,000
	Dragon plateskirt (m)		1	1/512	160,883	162,000
	Dragon platelegs (m)		1	1/512	160,763	162,000
	Dragon full helm (m)		1	1/16384	1,274,961	90,000
	Medium bladed adamant salvage		1	12/128	5,831	6,000
	Medium bladed rune salvage		1	3/128	22,535	24,000
	Dragon mace (m)		1	3/256	27,008	30,000
	Off-hand dragon mace (m)		1	3/256	28,197	30,000
	Adamantite stone spirit		3–4	30/128	123-164	Not alchemisable
	Runite stone spirit		2	7/128	692	Not alchemisable
	Yew logs		25 (noted)	3/512	4,275	2,400
	Uncut diamond		2	6/128	9,112	240
	Super defence (2) (m)		1 (noted)	9/128	4,822	118
	Adamant bolts (unf)		24	13/128	3,288	144
	Super magic potion (2) (m)		1	9/128	7,379	120
	Coins		11,000–14,000	3/256	11,000-14,000	11,000-14,000
	Inert adrenaline crystal (m)		1 (noted)	Uncommon	30,754	2,400

Tertiary drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Court summons (m)		1	Uncommon	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sealed clue scroll (hard) (m)		1	14/896	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Forcae's journal page (m)		1	1/20	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sakirth's journal (m)		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Strisath's journal (m)		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Kalibath's journal (m)		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Phalaks' experiment log (m)		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sealed clue scroll (elite) (m)		1	2/896	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Draconic visage		1	1/5000	1,189,285	450,000

Rare drop table drops

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items such as a ring of Wealth or luck of the Dwarves are not required to access the table.

Rare drop table:

Rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE price High alch value Coins 250–500 Common 250-500 250-500 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 656 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 2,272 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 1,575 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 4,556 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 205,020-250,580 5,400-6,600 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 10,267 0 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 11,578 0 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 12,147 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 546,615-668,085 27,000-33,000 Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,047 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 35,629 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 543,780-664,620 756,000-924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 860 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,649 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 695,682-850,278 720,000-880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 64,135 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,357 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 14,238-17,262 678-822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 1,014,120-1,239,480 1,104,165-1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 177,412-213,938 136-164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 10,948-13,202 136-164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 46,845-57,255 22,950-28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 259,200-316,800 40,500-49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 12,852-15,498 0 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 397,440-485,760 0 Drakolith stone spirit (m) 25–35 Uncommon 24,950-34,930 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 11,298 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Uncommon 29,725-35,670 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 2,378 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Rare 141,225-169,470 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 1,038 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit (m) 25–35 Rare 16,950-23,730 Not alchemisable Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 455,040-556,160 0 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 151,110-184,690 0 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 118,575-144,925 8,100-9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 133,515-163,185 5,130-6,270 Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 11,074-12,656 532-608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 14,476-16,544 532-608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 251,192 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 386,610 1,520 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 45,900-56,100 1,350-1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 19,620-23,980 45-55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 174,150-212,850 450-550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 11,628-14,022 6,528-7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 115,425-141,075 64,800-79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 14,670-17,930 13,500-16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 271,350-331,650 243,000-297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Rare 107,312 6,000 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 11,631 18 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 426 1 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 1,504,171,691 300,000 Brawling gloves (Melee) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Magic) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Ranged) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Agility) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Cooking) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (FM) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Fishing) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Hunter) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Mining) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Prayer) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Smithing) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (Thieving) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Brawling gloves (WC) (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Crystal triskelion fragment 1 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Crystal triskelion fragment 2 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable Crystal triskelion fragment 3 (m) 1 Very rare Not sold Not alchemisable

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These items are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Key token		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Mimic kill token (m)		1	Very rare	4,816	Not alchemisable

Achievements

• Dragonkin Logs ( 20) – Find and read Sakirth, Strisath and Kalibath's journals, and Phalaks' experiment log from adamant dragons.
• Forcae's Mettle ( 15) – Complete Forcae's journal. (X/10)

Gallery

• 

  The stairway into the Dragonkin laboratory

• 

  The lobby of the laboratory

• 

  Adamant dragon concept art

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• patch 27 January 2020 (Update):
  • Adamant Dragons were incorrectly giving too many Inert adrenaline crystals. This has now been reduced to its intended amount.

• patch 24 April 2017 (Update):
  • Adamant dragons and Rune dragons now have the new luck system applied to them.

• ninja 27 March 2017 (Update):
  • Adamant dragons in the Brimhaven Dungeon now have the same chance to drop lore books as the adamant dragons in the Ancient Cavern.

• patch 6 March 2017 (Update):
  • We have added bad luck mitigation to some lore drops so that cumulative monster kills shift the drop rate towards 100% once a certain threshold has been reached. This affects drops which have a drop rate of 1/100 (or worse). The affected drops from Adamant dragons are the Dragonkin journals but not Forcae's journal

• patch 6 July 2015 (Update):
  • The early bird bonus for adamant and rune dragons has now ended.

• patch 22 June 2015 (Update):
  • The quantity of summoning charms dropped by adamant & rune dragons has been increased from 3 to 4, to be in line with the desired maximum from mithril dragons.
  • The number of adamant dragons assigned by a slayer master has been increased - 40-50 for Kuradal and 40-60 for Morvran.

Trivia

• As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for this monster was 12,652 kills.
  • This had increased to 13,497 by 6 May 2018.