Adamant dragon

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Adamant dragon
Release			15 June 2015 (Update)
Members			Yes
Actions			Attack, Examine
Race			Dragon
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, dragons
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
1,120			1,120			1,120			1,300
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
85				85				85
Accuracy
2,178				2,178				2,178
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
2,023		82
Affinities
90			55			45			65
Immunities
Immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				21135
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

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

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Dragonkin Lair	116		3	Maplink
Adamant dragon dungeon	116		24	Maplink

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.

Wearing a Kethsi ring provides a 4% damage boost when fighting adamant dragons.

Use of magic notepaper, metallic dragon trinkets and/or a pack yak with Pack Yak scroll (Winter Storage)s 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

Drop rates estimated based on 56,319 kills from the Drop Log Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Adamant dragon kill is worth 22,227 coins.

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Hardened dragon bones	1	Always	11,948	1
	Medium plated adamant salvage	1	Always	4,716	6,000

Charms

Nothing	4	4	4	4
23–26%	15–18%	36–40%	11–14%	8–10%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 1,684 kills. 4 items are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Huge plated adamant salvage	1	10/128	13,780	10,000
	Dragon helm	1	1/1024	58,127	60,000
	Dragon plateskirt	1	1/512	172,732	162,000
	Dragon platelegs	1	1/512	164,121	162,000
	Dragon full helm	1	1/16384	2,339,883	90,000
	Medium bladed adamant salvage	1	12/128	4,751	6,000
	Medium bladed rune salvage	1	3/128	22,485	24,000
	Dragon mace	1	3/256	28,198	30,000
	Off-hand dragon mace	1	3/256	27,632	30,000
	Adamantite stone spirit	3–4	30/128	90-120	Not alchemisable
	Runite stone spirit	2	7/128	3,368	Not alchemisable
	Yew logs	25 (noted)	3/512	7,375	2,400
	Uncut diamond	2	6/128	1,702	240
	Super defence (2)	1 (noted)	9/128	4,540	118
	Adamant bolts (unf)	24	13/128	4,608	144
	Super magic potion (2)	1	9/128	6,994	120
	Coins	11,000–14,000	3/256	11,000-14,000	11,000-14,000
	Inert adrenaline crystal	1 (noted)	Uncommon	1,280	2,400

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Court summons	1	Uncommon	1	1
	Sealed clue scroll (hard)	1	14/896	1	1
	Forcae's journal page	1	1/20	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sakirth's journal	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Strisath's journal	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Kalibath's journal	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Phalaks' experiment log	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Sealed clue scroll (elite)	1	2/896	1	1
	Draconic visage	1	1/5000	1,209,495	450,000

Rare drop table

This monster has access to the rare drop table.
Luck-enhancing items are not required to access the table, but they will increase the chance of accessing the rare drop table and may also improve the loot received from it.

Rare drop table:

Rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE price High alch value Coins 250–500 Common 250-500 250-500 Coins 50 Common 50 50 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 574 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 355 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 360 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 851 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 38,295-46,805 5,400-6,600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 5,991 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 269,595-329,505 27,000-33,000 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 11,176 1 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 11,257 1 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 Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,942 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,617 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 35,436 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 723,780-884,620 756,000-924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 935 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,906 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 700,308-855,932 720,000-880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 66,881 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,127 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 19,888-24,112 678-822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 963,630-1,177,770 1,104,165-1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 57,256-69,044 136-164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 10,404-12,546 136-164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 48,195-58,905 22,950-28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 239,175-292,325 40,500-49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 17,952-21,648 68-82 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 396,540-484,660 180-220 Drakolith stone spirit 25–35 Uncommon 6,300-8,820 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 2 Common 524 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 25–30 Uncommon 7,900-9,480 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 2 Common 632 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 25–30 Rare 6,550-7,860 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 5,052 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit 25–35 Rare 4,150-5,810 Not alchemisable Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 5,978-6,832 532-608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 28,980-33,120 532-608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 166,112 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 28,510 1,520 Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 1,084,500-1,325,500 90-110 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 122,670-149,930 90-110 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 134,775-164,725 8,100-9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 438,165-535,535 5,130-6,270 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 52,650-64,350 1,350-1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 29,520-36,080 45-55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 445,950-545,050 450-550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 20,060-24,190 6,528-7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 199,125-243,375 64,800-79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 28,260-34,540 13,500-16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 484,650-592,350 243,000-297,000 Brawling gloves (Melee) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Magic) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Ranged) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Agility) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Cooking) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (FM) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Fishing) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Hunter) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Mining) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Prayer) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Smithing) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (Thieving) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Brawling gloves (WC) (m) 1 Very rare 30,000 30,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Very rare 318,765 6,000 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 537 1 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 18,707 18 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 2,147,483,647 300,000

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	1/10000	35,201	Not alchemisable

Achievements

• Dragonkin Logs ( 20) – Find and read the adamant dragon journals.
• Forcae's Mettle ( 15) – Complete Forcae's journal. (X/10)
• Jungle Predator ( 0) – Obtained a collection of unique drops from Slayer monsters located within Karamja.
  • Dragon platelegs and plateskirt drops
• La Petite Mort ( 0) – Obtained a collection of unique drops from Slayer monsters located within Kandarin.
  • Dragon full helm drop

Gallery

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  The stairway into the Dragonkin laboratory

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  The lobby of the laboratory

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  Adamant dragon concept art

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  Steam trading card wallpaper

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - 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.

• update 15 June 2015 (Update):
  • Added to game.

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.