Deadly red spider

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Deadly red spider
Release																				5 February 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Options																				Attack, Examine
Race																				Spider
Examine																				I think this spider has been magically modified.
Combat info
Combat level																				95
Life points																				6,150
Aggressive
Poisonous
Combat experience
XP																				307.5
XP																				103.6
XP																				101.4
XP (2H/MH/OH)																				27 / 13 / 13
Slayer info
Level																				1
Assignment																				Spiders
Master
Offensive
Max hit
272												1,360												0												? (edit)												0
Style																														Rate
																														4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
1															68															1															? (edit)
Accuracy
1,409															1,309															0															? (edit)
Defensive
Armour																				Weakness															Susceptible
1,409										68
Base hit chance
90															65															55															45
Immunities
Not immune															Not immune															Not immune															Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID															63
Links															bestiary • MRND

Deadly red spiders are spiders found in several locations in RuneScape, especially in the Wilderness, Varrock sewers, and Karamja. Their ranged attacks hit hard with a speed of 4 game ticks (equivalent to scimitar/mace/dagger speed). Deadly red spiders count towards a Slayer task of spiders.

Deadly red spiders are a very effective training method, giving around 200,000 experience per hour, with high combat members getting over 300,000 experience per hour. As a result, deadly red spiders are usually crowded in free-to-play worlds.

Deadly red spiders in the Chaos Tunnels

As far as training in free-to-play areas is concerned, a free player who is not concerned with raising Prayer through monster drops and has at least 40 Fishing and Cooking would do well to train melee in the Karamja Dungeon due west of the Karamja volcano entrance. This particular training spot is almost never crowded, and there is relatively close fishing spot to catch lobsters at Musa Point, located on the northern end of the island's surface. Players may obtain logs from the tree near the end of the docks or via dead trees on the volcano to make fires and subsequently cook the fish they catch. These possibilities mean a self-sufficient player could potentially remain on Karamja and train on the spiders indefinitely.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Arandar	95		7	Maplink
Crandor and Karamja Dungeon	95		5	Maplink
Spirit Realm	95		11	Maplink
Edgeville Dungeon (level 4-6 Wilderness)	95		9	Maplink
Varrock Sewers	95		9	Maplink
Abandoned Farm (level 35-38 Wilderness)	95		11	Maplink
Chaos Tunnels	95		10	Maplink
Myreque Hideout	95		2	Maplink

Strategies

Main article: /Strategies

Deadly red spiders can provide excellent combat experience for mid-level players, especially for free players.

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 2,896 kills from the Drop Log Project, unless otherwise cited.

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
72–73%	24–26%	0.8–1.1%	1–2%	0.1–0.2%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 15,453 kills. 1 item is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

This drop table may not have accurate data due to a low kill count. You can submit your data to the RuneMetrics project or edit this page to improve it.

	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	1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Spider egg (unchecked)	1	Very rare	129,322	Not alchemisable

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	84,685	Not alchemisable

Graphical updates

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  Deadly red spider after 5 December 2006 (update)

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  Deadly red spider after 12 May 2014 (update)

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 13 August 2013 (Update):
  • The combat overlay on deadly red spiders no longer obscures the hitsplats.

• patch 18 March 2013 (Update):
  • Grotworms, moss giants, banshees, jungle spiders, shadow spiders, spiders, giant spiders, deadly red spiders, ice spiders, scorpions, poison scorpions and pit scorpion will no longer hit for 1 hit point worth of damage.
  • Deadly red spiders now have ranged accuracy.

• update 5 February 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.
    • A new area at the end of the Varrock sewers was opened, filled with deadly red spiders to obtain red spider eggs.

Trivia

• The examine used to say, "I think this spider has been genetically modified."
• Some Deadly red spiders in the Wilderness use melee instead of ranged.
• Deadly red spiders have the highest combat level of any non-unique, non-event free-to-play monster. After the 2023 changes to monster combat stats, their max hit was massively increased and they may now have the highest max hit from regular attacks.