Cow

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The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:CowThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:CowWikipedia also has an article on: wikipedia:Cow

This article is about the cows that players can attack. For other uses, see Cow (disambiguation).

For the elite version, see Super Cow.

StandardZanaris variant Taverley/Burthorpe
Cow
Release			4 January 2001 (Update)
Members			No
Examine
• Converts grass to beef. • Where beef comes from. • You're sure you've seen herbivore.
Combat info
Level			LP			XP			XP
4			150			25.5			8.4
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
1 / 1 / 0
Aggressive						Poisonous
Slayer
Level			XP			Category
1			3.3			Cows
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
12			0			0			0
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
3				1				1
Accuracy
130				0				0
Abilities used
None
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
130		3
Affinities
80			60			50			70
Immunities
Not immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				20967
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

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4 ticks (2.4s)

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A cow-powered mill at Zanaris.

Cows are a bovine monster that is often killed for their hide, and new players may find useful to train on. They are one of the first monsters new players can encounter around Burthorpe. Cows in the Burthorpe field will grant 7 experience while the regular cows located everywhere else grant 35 experience when killed in combat. Along with cows, players can also find cow calves and non-attackable dairy cows.

In the cow field located north-east of Lumbridge Castle or the field in Taverley, players can easily make money. At current Grand Exchange rates, players can make 3,046 coins per cow, providing that they sell the Raw Beef, Cowhide, and Bones from a cow, so they would make 27,414 coins per inventory from all drops.

When a cow dies, it drops raw beef (which gives Cooking experience when cooked), a cowhide (which players can turn into leather items for Crafting experience) and bones (which players can bury for Prayer experience), and rarely anything else.

Zanaris, the moon of Gielinor, is the only place with talking cows. The cows of Zanaris seem to dislike the sheep as well as other players, and are apparently unaware of their ability to talk. There is also a windmill that is powered by a cow in lieu of the wind, which technically makes it a "cowmill". Also, when walking around or being attacked, the cow will often say "Moo" as if it had been typed by a player. A cow is also one of the possible NPCs players can talk to using the NPC Contact spell.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Zanaris	1		3	Maplink
Yanille	4		4	Maplink
Sinclair Mansion	4		1	Maplink
Crafting Guild	4		10	Maplink
Taverley	1		7	Maplink
Falador Farm	4		7	Maplink
Mill Lane Mill	4		12	Maplink
Lumbridge	4		15	Maplink

Drops

100%

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Bones		1	Always	713	0
	Cowhide		1	Always	1,679	0
	Raw beef		1	Always	654	35

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
95%	0.8–0.9%	4%	0.2–0.3%	0–0.1%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 69,952 kills. 1 item is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Chargebow		1	Uncommon	1,003	Not alchemisable
	Staff of air		1	Uncommon	1,981	900

Tertiary drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	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

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	7,887	Not alchemisable

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 16 September 2019 (Update):
  • We've slightly increased the death animation of cows so that they now fade out once dying.

• patch 6 May 2014 (Update):
  • The cow in the Ashdale cow wheel had a coloured polygon on its rear end fixed.

• patch 22 April 2014 (Update):
  • Some variations to auto-attack animations have been added for short swords, staves and bows.

• patch 2 October 2012 (Update):
  • Crows will no longer get stuck when wandering around Draynor Market.

• patch 25 May 2011 (Update):
  • Cows no longer lean bizarrely when on a slope.

• patch 11 January 2010 (Update):
  • Cows have been given lessons so they can moo properly.

• patch 20 October 2009 (Update):
  • Unicorns and cows tilted excessively on slopes.

• patch 7 October 2009 (Update):
  • Cows and calves have a death animation once more.

• patch 10 August 2009 (Update):
  • Combat sounds updated for broodoo victims and cows.

Trivia

• When the cow says "Moo", the sound of a moo can usually be heard from the speakers.
• If you attempt to talk to a cow in Zanaris, it will prompt the message: "Hmm, interesting, there appears to be a human trying to talk to me. Is it aware that cows can't talk I wonder? Maybe if I just ignore it, it might go away."
• If you use an item on a cow or calf a message will appear saying "The cow doesn't want that."
• There is a signpost outside of the Lumbridge cow pen that says the number of cows killed in the world the player is in.
• On 28 August 2018, cows outside of Zanaris were temporarily replaced with strawberry, vanilla and chocolate cows as a teaser for the upcoming Player-owned farm update. The standard cows returned to their spots when the player-owned farm was released on 3 September 2018.
• Some cows previously had the examine text of "Beefy."
• Since the release of the Master slayer cape, it has been bugged in that you are unable to use this to force a cow slayer task on a member world. Instead, you must go to a F2P world to force pick a cow task.