Black Knight

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This article is about the common monster. For other uses, see Black Knight (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Dark warrior.

Black Knight
Release																				4 January 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Actions																				Attack, Examine
Race																				Human
Examine																				A dark-hearted knight.
Combat info
Combat level																				30
Life points																				1,100
Aggressive
Poisonous
Combat experience
XP																				48.9
XP																				16.1
XP (2H/MH/OH)																				2 / 1 / 0
Offensive
Max hit
110															0															0															0
Style																														Rate
																														5 ticks (3.0s)
Combat levels
22																				1																				1
Accuracy
341																				0																				0
Defensive
Armour																				Weakness															Susceptible
341										22
Base hit chance
90															55															45															65
Immunities
Not immune															Not immune															Not immune															Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID															? (edit)
Links															bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

Black Knights are medium level humans found mainly in and around their fortress. They are some of the oldest non-player characters in RuneScape. When the game was first released, Black Knights were the strongest foes in RuneScape at level 46. There were only three Black Knights in RuneScape at that time.

They can be killed to increase a player's White knight rank after completing the Wanted! quest. This allows greater access to the White Knight Master Armoury run by Sir Vyvin. The Black Knight location within Taverley Dungeon is ideal for gaining these kills.

An easy method of killing them in F2P and P2P is to kill them near the Black Knights' Fortress, using a fast and high-hitting weapon, and good melee armour, or use magic and take cover at one of the safespots. When at low life points, you can go to the Monastery and be healed by the monks, then go back. If you have 43 prayer you can also use protect from melee when at low life points, and heal and recharge at the Monastery.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Black Knights' Base	30		41	Maplink
Taverley Dungeon	30		2	Maplink
Black Knights' Fortress ground floor[UK]1st floor[US]	30		10	Maplink
Black Knights' Fortress 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US]	30		2	Maplink
Black Knights' Fortress roof	30		14	Maplink
North of Varrock	30		2	Maplink
Jolly Boar Inn	30		1	Maplink
Draynor Village	30		1	Maplink

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 26,757 kills from the Drop Log Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average Black Knight kill is worth 1,319 coins.

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Bones	1	Always	483	1

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
94%	3%	1%	0.6–0.8%	0.6–0.8%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 16,186 kills. 1 item is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Coins	1; 6; 12; 35; 58; 80	53/128	1–80	1–80
	Earth rune	10	3/128	260	30
	Mind rune	2; 9	1/256	40–180	6–27
	Body rune	9	3/128	306	27
	Cosmic rune	7	1/128	2,303	322
	Chaos rune	4; 6	4/128	524–786	112–168
	Law rune	3; 4	2/128	801–1,068	225–300
	Death rune	2	2/128	692	124
	Mithril arrow	3	4/128	69	135
	Black sword	1	2/128	4,509	374
	Off-hand black sword	1	1/128	2,766	374
	Black 2h sword	1	2/128	4,320	1,152
	Black full helm	1	2/128	1,963	823
	Black platebody	1	2/128	3,804	2,304
	Black platelegs	1	2/128	6,567	1,152
	Black gauntlets	1	1/128	8,293	1,200
	Tiny spiky iron salvage	1	4/128	350	65
	Small plated iron salvage	1	2/128	1,115	130
	Tiny blunt steel salvage	1	1/128	1,046	240
	Tin stone spirit	1	1/128	1,191	Not alchemisable
	Coal stone spirit	1	6/128	13	Not alchemisable
	Pot of flour	1	1/128	379	8
	Bread	1	1/128	732	14
	Undercooked mystery meat	1	Uncommon	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Potato seed (m)	4	6/128	1,472	16
	Onion seed (m)	4	5/128	1,244	24
	Cabbage seed (m)	4	3/128	1,308	60
	Tomato seed (m)	3	2/128	768	6
	Sweetcorn seed (m)	3	1/128	846	12
	Strawberry seed (m)	2; 3	1/256	632–948	20–30
	Watermelon seed (m)	2	1/512	1,862	66
	Grimy guam	1	2/128	412	18
	Grimy tarromin	1	1/128	248	1
	Grimy marrentill	1	2/128	1,406	1
	Grimy harralander (m)	1	1/128	1,168	1
	Grimy ranarr (m)	1	1/256	4,015	1
	Grimy irit (m)	1	1/256	513	1
	Grimy avantoe (m)	1	1/256	870	1
	Grimy kwuarm (m)	1	1/512	2,333	1
	Grimy cadantine (m)	1	1/512	1,878	1
	Grimy lantadyme (m)	1	1/512	4,068	1
	Grimy dwarf weed (m)	1	1/512	4,697	1
	Rare drop table	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Bloodstained note	1	1/25	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spirit sapphire (m)	1	5/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spirit emerald (m)	1	3/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spirit ruby (m)	1	2/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Starved ancient effigy (m)	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable

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 516 15 Uncut emerald 1 Common 342 30 Uncut ruby 1 Common 390 60 Uncut diamond 1 Common 901 120 Uncut diamond 45–55 (noted) Rare 40,545–49,555 5,400–6,600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 1 Uncommon 5,946 600 Uncut dragonstone (m) 45–55 (noted) Rare 267,570–327,030 27,000–33,000 Loop half of a key (m) 1 Common 9,044 1 Tooth half of a key (m) 1 Common 9,073 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 57,386 60,000 Off-hand dragon longsword (m) 1 Common 57,262 60,000 Dragon spear (m) 1 Rare 35,793 37,440 Battlestaff (m) 180–220 (noted) Rare 708,480–865,920 756,000–924,000 Rune javelin 5 Rare 930 1,870 Huge plated rune salvage 1 Uncommon 38,277 40,000 Huge plated rune salvage 18–22 (noted) Rare 688,986–842,094 720,000–880,000 Shield left half (m) 1 Rare 76,344 66,000 Dragon helm (m) 1 Uncommon 58,078 60,000 Rune arrowheads 113–137 Common 23,730–28,770 678–822 Onyx bolts (m) 135–165 Very rare 833,490–1,018,710 1,104,165–1,349,535 Water talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 51,612–62,238 136–164 Earth talisman 68–82 (noted) Rare 13,396–16,154 136–164 Raw lobster 135–165 (noted) Common 52,920–64,680 22,950–28,050 Raw shark (m) 225–275 (noted) Uncommon 181,800–222,200 40,500–49,500 Big bones 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 31,008–37,392 68–82 Dragon bones 180–220 (noted) Rare 620,100–757,900 180–220 Drakolith stone spirit 25–35 Uncommon 6,125–8,575 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 2 Common 574 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 25–30 Uncommon 6,425–7,710 Not alchemisable Phasmatite stone spirit 2 Common 514 Not alchemisable Necrite stone spirit 25–30 Rare 7,175–8,610 Not alchemisable Runite stone spirit 3 Common 3,021 Not alchemisable Orichalcite stone spirit 25–35 Rare 5,575–7,805 Not alchemisable Lantadyme seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 12,922–14,768 532–608 Dwarf weed seed (m) 14–16 Uncommon 52,136–59,584 532–608 Magic seed (m) 4 Uncommon 163,452 1,012 Palm tree seed (m) 10 Rare 33,780 1,520 Grimy torstol (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 256,770–313,830 90–110 Grimy snapdragon (m) 90–110 (noted) Uncommon 115,920–141,680 90–110 Super restore (4) (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 149,895–183,205 8,100–9,900 Prayer potion (4) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 394,920–482,680 5,130–6,270 Flax 450–550 (noted) Common 44,100–53,900 1,350–1,650 Molten glass (m) 45–55 (noted) Common 44,820–54,780 45–55 Soft clay 450–550 (noted) Uncommon 893,700–1,092,300 450–550 Yew logs 68–82 (noted) Uncommon 26,724–32,226 6,528–7,872 Yew logs 675–825 (noted) Rare 265,275–324,225 64,800–79,200 Teak plank (m) 45–55 (noted) Uncommon 34,785–42,515 13,500–16,500 Mahogany plank (m) 270–330 (noted) Rare 518,130–633,270 243,000–297,000 Vecna skull (m) 1 Very rare 807,072 6,000 Cheese+tom batta (m) 1 Very rare 608 1 Blurberry Special (m) 1 Very rare 16,701 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 and skilling action 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	77,254	Not alchemisable

Graphical updates

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  Black Knight after Unknown date (edit)

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  Black Knight after Unknown date (edit)

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 20 October 2009 (Update):
  • Some code for dark knights has been made more efficient.

• patch 7 October 2009 (Update):
  • Black Knights' swords no longer look white.

• patch 1 April 2009 (Update):
  • All black knights will now correctly update the Falador Achievement Diary task (It's Nothing Personal).

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Ironically in Armies Of Gielinor they appear on Zaros' side as some of his units, this suggests the black knights may have once served Zaros and split up. Some remaining loyal to Zaros and some joining Zamorak.
• It was once possible to imitate a Black Knight by equipping a set of black armour, substituting the helmet with a heraldic helmet, the boots with mime boots or vyrewatch shoes, and using black gloves, black gauntlets or gloves of silence.
• In RuneScape, Black Knights use black longswords and have red plumes. However, in the RuneScape-based FunOrb game 'Armies of Gielinor', they wield black two handed swords and have different coloured plumes. In Armies of Gielinor, their boots seem to be black snakeskin boots.
• Black Knights used to drop a pile of flour on the ground. This could only be picked up if a player had a pot in their inventory, resulting in the usual Pot of Flour.
• The longsword graphic update has changed the colouring on their swords to look like the new Black Longswords.
• Black Knights are among the few NPCs to have more than one capital letter in their name. If Jagex had followed their common name structure, "Black Knight" would look like "Black knight".
• The Black Knight in Port Sarim jail has a lowercased k in 'knight.' He is also the only black knight not wielding a sword.
• It is said that in the RuneScape Official Handbook, Black Knights weigh over 300 pounds and also says that the 300 pounds is almost all muscle. This is most likely hyperbole.
• All Black Knights and Elite Black Knights received a graphical update when the quest "The Death of Chivalry" was released.
• Along with the aforementioned update, Black Knights use the updated animations that were released with the Evolution of Combat, including entering a combat stance when under attack. They still use the pre-EoC (and current Legacy) death animation, however.
• After the graphical update, there are now male and female black knights.