Demonic skull

Demonic skull
Release																				20 July 2015 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				No
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				This object will be destroyed if you drop it, if you lose it you will have to buy a new one.
Actions
Backpack																				Wield, Destroy
Values
Value																				550,000 coins
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Always lost
Weight																				0.001 kg
Examine
XP gain for Agility, Farming, Divination, Hunter and Slayer in the Wilderness, and Runecrafting in the Abyss is increased when worn. Allows anyone to kill you in the Wilderness.
Advanced data
Item ID																				35268
Links																				MRID • recipe

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The demonic skull can be purchased from the Mage of Zamorak in the Wilderness for 550,000 coins after the Enter the Abyss miniquest. When worn, it gives increased experience in certain skills while in the Wilderness. A demonic skull icon is shown above the player's head while it is equipped. It is always lost when killed in PvP situations and 500,000 coins drops in its place.

Having the skull equipped, or in the inventory, removes the usual Wilderness level rules and prompts the player via a warning interface that they are opted into PvP combat whenever they attempt to enter the Wilderness. The wearer can be attacked by any other player, regardless of combat level, making the skull extremely dangerous for some players. Vengeance, Retribution, and Wrath do not work while the demonic skull is equipped.

The skull cannot be banked with Pack Yak scroll (Winter Storage)s or an Imp-in-a-box, regardless of being in the Wilderness or not. Cape merchants are able to bank the skull, however.

Combat stats

Requirements
None
Class			Slot
None
Tier
None
		Auto		Ability
Damage		-		-
Accuracy		-
Style		-
Range		-
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

Effects

• Wilderness level restrictions are removed - wearers can be attacked by any other player, regardless of combat level.
  • The wearer cannot initiate combat with players with combat levels outside of the standard level restrictions, though they can still retaliate freely regardless of the other player's combat level.
  • After leaving the Wilderness, players will not automatically opt out of PvP; they have to do so manually by speaking with Vala in Edgeville.
• Vengeance, Retribution, and Wrath do not function for the wearer.
• Runecrafting experience from the Abyss will increase from 2.5 times the normal amount to 3.5 times the normal amount, and the chance of receiving magical thread is increased
• Agility experience gained from the Wilderness Agility Course is given a scaling increase starting at level 50; each level past 50 increases the experience by 4%. This means that at level 75 Agility, experience from the course is doubled, and at level 99 Agility experience is 296% the usual experience. Using agility boosting items such as a summer pie will not earn any additional experience.
• The following actions have their experience rewards increased by 20%:
  • Slayer experience from killing monsters for Slayer experience in the Wilderness. This is a multiplicative increase; that means killing monsters while on a Slayer contract (Wilderness) will give 44% more experience, not 40%.
  • Farming experience from the herb and flower patches in the Wilderness.
• The following actions have their experience rewards increased by 40%:
  • Hunter and Agility experience from hunting charming moths.

The demonic skull has no effect on Thieving experience from Rogue's Castle.

The demonic skull does not stack with brawling gloves; if both are used at the same time, the player will receive an experience boost from the demonic skull and no charges will be used from the brawling gloves.

The demonic skull stacks additively with Double XP. For instance, the experience to Runecrafting through the Abyss will increase from 3.5 times to 4.5 times the normal amount during Double XP with the skull. The Hunter and Agility experience from catching charming moths will be multiplied by 2.4, instead of 1.4 with the skull alone.

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Battle Runes	Wilderness	550,000	Coins	100

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!

• ninja 13 March 2023 (Update):
  • Charming Moths' Hunter and Agility XP have been reduced but the Demonic Skull bonus to Charming Moths have been increased from 20% to 40%.
  • The Demonic Skull now works from the Inventory.

• patch 20 July 2020 (Update):
  • The examine text for the demonic skull now includes a reference to Agility.

• patch 23 October 2017 (Update):
  • Players are now prompted with a warning message when equipping a demonic skull and when crossing the Wilderness wall with one in their backpack.

• patch 10 April 2017 (Update):
  • Players will now remain attackable after unequipping the demonic skull in the Wilderness.

• patch 27 March 2017 (Update):
  • You can no longer alch or drop the demonic skull while in combat.

• ninja 6 February 2017 (Update):
  • Prevented players from protecting demonic skulls in the Wilderness by noting them with magic notepaper.

• ninja 16 January 2017 (Update):
  • The demonic skull bonus effect can now also be activated by interacting with any of the activities it can give a bonus to. It must be equipped and in Lv20+ Wilderness.

• patch 17 October 2016 (Update):
  • The demonic skull is now always lost on death when dying in PvP situations

• ninja 3 August 2015 (Update):
  • Players carrying the demonic skull can now be attacked by (and retaliate against) any combat level PKers. Multi-way and single-way combat still functions as usual.

• ninja 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • Added to the Game.

• update 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• There was a bug where if the player left the Abyss to a Runecrafting altar, travelled back into the Abyss and then exited into an altar again in less than 60 seconds, the bonus experience did not refresh and the player only received the base experience if it expired before crafting the runes. This meant that it could be advantageous to wait until the message saying: "You no longer are eligible for extra runecrafting experience." appeared before exiting the Abyss. This was fixed on 7 September 2015.
• The skull resembles Zamorak's head, K'ril Tsutsaroth's helmet, and the head of concept art for Hostilius.
• On its release, the demonic skull only affected Runecrafting experience. Boosts for Agility, Slayer, Hunter, and Divination were added in an update on 8 August 2016.
• The demonic skull did not always drop on death between 8 August and 17 October 2016. It was treated like any other item.
• If the demonic skull is used alongside Agility brawling gloves, then the demonic skull bonus will take priority and the bonuses will not stack. However, the brawling gloves will still lose their charge.