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

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.

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 18,225.43 coins.

100% drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Hardened dragon bones (m)		1	Always	7,669	0
	Medium plated adamant salvage		1	Always	5,086	6,000

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
22–26%	15–18%	36–40%	11–13%	8–10%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 1,634 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	9,867	10,000
	Dragon helm (m)		1	1/1024	58,626	60,000
	Dragon plateskirt (m)		1	1/512	160,648	162,000
	Dragon platelegs (m)		1	1/512	161,317	162,000
	Dragon full helm (m)		1	1/16384	1,310,230	90,000
	Medium bladed adamant salvage		1	12/128	5,850	6,000
	Medium bladed rune salvage		1	3/128	22,639	24,000
	Dragon mace (m)		1	3/256	28,780	30,000
	Off-hand dragon mace (m)		1	3/256	28,229	30,000
	Adamantite stone spirit		3–4	30/128	129-172	Not alchemisable
	Runite stone spirit		2	7/128	3,240	Not alchemisable
	Yew logs		25 (noted)	3/512	5,925	2,400
	Uncut diamond		2	6/128	8,506	240
	Super defence (2) (m)		1 (noted)	9/128	4,921	118
	Adamant bolts (unf)		24	13/128	3,960	144
	Super magic potion (2) (m)		1	9/128	5,823	120
	Coins		11,000–14,000	3/256	11,000-14,000	11,000-14,000
	Inert adrenaline crystal (m)		1 (noted)	Uncommon	41,508	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	1,181,972	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 Uncut sapphire 1 Common 779 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 2,092 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 1,682 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 4,253 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 191,385-233,915 5,400-6,600 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 13,078 0 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 12,980 0 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 9,953 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 447,885-547,415 27,000-33,000 Dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,813 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,086 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 35,708 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 531,540-649,660 756,000-924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 900 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,718 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 696,924-851,796 720,000-880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 65,369 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,626 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 15,142-18,358 678-822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 1,039,635-1,270,665 1,104,165-1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 297,228-358,422 136-164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 13,600-16,400 136-164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 46,710-57,090 22,950-28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 440,100-537,900 40,500-49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 16,320-19,680 0 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 295,560-361,240 0 Drakolith stone spirit (m) 25–35 Uncommon 9,000-12,600 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 4,378 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Uncommon 9,650-11,580 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit (m) 2 Common 772 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit (m) 25–30 Rare 54,725-65,670 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 4,860 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit (m) 25–35 Rare 9,750-13,650 Not alchemisable Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 478,260-584,540 0 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 133,200-162,800 0 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 278,640-340,560 8,100-9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 362,790-443,410 5,130-6,270 Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 4,690-5,360 532-608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 111,272-127,168 532-608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 87,312 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 227,200 1,520 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 80,100-97,900 1,350-1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 26,145-31,955 45-55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 414,900-507,100 450-550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 16,116-19,434 6,528-7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 159,975-195,525 64,800-79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 23,040-28,160 13,500-16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 503,820-615,780 243,000-297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Rare 391,853 6,000 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 13,568 18 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 467 1 Hazelmere's signet ring (m) 1 Very rare 2,145,643,223 300,000 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	20,046	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)
• 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

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.

• 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.