Dragon bones

The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:Dragon bonesThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:Dragon Bones

"Dragon bone" redirects here. For the ornament kit, see Dragonbone upgrade kit.

For the variant encountered in Daemonheim, see Dragon bones (Dungeoneering).

Dragon bones
Release	23 October 2002 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Bury
Values
Value	1 coin Cash out: 200 coins
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	1 coin
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 309 Sacrifice: 1,236
Weight	1.5 kg
Examine
These would feed a dog for months.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	2,062 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	536
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Dragon bones are associated with the Prayer skill, and are dropped by most adult dragons. Dragon bones give 72 Prayer experience when buried (144 when wearing the Dragon Rider amulet), 180 Prayer experience when cremated, 252 experience when offered at the Chaos Altar (Prayer), 288 Prayer experience when offered at the Ectofuntus, or 252 Prayer experience when offered at a gilded altar with 2 burners lit. The relative ease of collecting dragon bones, combined with the amount of experience earned from them, makes them widely viewed as a fast, cost-effective way to train Prayer.

Members can also get dragon bones as a reward from the Soul Wars minigame by selecting the 'Gamble' option when choosing rewards. If a player gets dragon bones, they will likely be noted in quantities of 11 or 22.

Cost and XP analysis

	Bury	with the Dragon Rider amulet	Gilded altar, Chaos Temple or burying with powder of burials	Ectofuntus	Cremation
XP	72	144	252	288	324 (Total)	180 (Prayer) + 144 (FM)
GP/XP	−28.6	−14.3	−8.2	−7.2	−6.4 (Total)	−11.5 (Prayer) or −14.3 (FM)

Tips

• Green and Blue dragons are the weakest types of dragons, resulting in dragon bones mostly being accumulated by killing them.
• Green dragons are the lowest level dragons in the game. They can be found in various places in the Wilderness, as well as in two locations in the Chaos Tunnels. Green dragons in the Chaos Tunnels are grouped together with Baby black dragons, while players may be attacked by Player Killers while fighting green dragons in the Wilderness locations.
• The high value of dragons' drops (bones plus hides every kill for chromatic dragons) makes dragon-hunting a highly profitable combat activity. Players can make 120K to over 1M coins per hour fighting green dragons, depending on how fast they can kill the dragons and bank the loot. About 35K to 100K can be made per run on dragons (depending on inventory space /B.O.Bs), and more if more valuable items are brought back as well.
• Baby dragons do not drop dragon bones. Instead, they drop Baby dragon bones.
• Burying dragon bones is not recommended; for members, dragon bones are best used on a Gilded altar or the altar in the Chaos Temple (Wilderness), which gives the same experience and doesn't require 75 Construction. For free-to-play, cremation gives the most XP.
• Airut bones, Dagannoth bones, Ourg bones, Hardened dragon bones, Dinosaur bones , Reinforced dragon bones, and Frost dragon bones are faster ways to train Prayer than Dragon bones, but cost much more per Prayer experience point.
• While gilded altars give the fastest experience, some prefer to use the Ectofuntus due to the fact that gilded altars give 36 less XP per bone. Although it's slower, the Ectofuntus gives more experience per bone, decreasing costs, and eliminates the need to obtain marrentill and/or find a house party offering an altar.

Drop sources

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For all sources of this item, see here (include RDT). For help, see the FAQ.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Bag of lost items	N/A	2	Unknown	N/A
Barbarian Assault/Rewards	N/A	27 (noted)	Common	N/A
Barbarian Assault/Rewards	N/A	8 (noted)	Unknown	N/A
Black dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	108	1	Always
Black dragon	100	1	Always
Blue dragon	74	1	Always	N/A
Bronze dragon	86	1	Always
Brutal green dragon	105	1	Always
Celestial dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	114	1	Always
Celestial dragon	127	1	Always
Chaos Elemental P2P	?	1	Uncommon	N/A
Dragon impling jar	N/A	52–100 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Dragon impling	83	50–100 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Ghost treat	N/A	15 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Green dragon	63	1	Always
Hefin worker	96	1	Uncommon	N/A
Holy scarab	N/A	1	18/710	N/A
Iron dragon	98	1	Always
King Black Dragon	276	1	Always
Mithril dragon	112	1	Always
Queen Black Dragon	900	8	Always	N/A
Rare drop table	?	180–220 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Red dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	105	1	Always
Red dragon	84	1	Always
Soul Wars/Rewards	N/A	11	Unknown	N/A
Steel dragon	100	1	Always
Vindicta	1000	1	Always	N/A
Vindicta	1000	1	Always	N/A
Vindicta	1000	150–250 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Vindicta	1000	150–300 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Zombie (random event)	14; 29; 49; 79; 120; 159; 170	1–3	Rare	N/A
Zombie impling jar	N/A	3	Uncommon	N/A
Zombie impling	87	3	Uncommon	N/A

Disassembly

Dragon bones
Disassembly category	Bones and remains
Disassembly XP	0.8
Item quantity required	1
Material count	2
Base junk chance	?  69.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 69.2% 1 34 68.6 2 49 67.2 3 64 65.8 4 69 64.4 5 78 63.0 6 83 60.9 7 91 59.6 8 95 57.5 9 105 55.4
Common materials
Organic parts	98/100
Rare materials
Pious components	2/100

Achievement

• Bury All ( 20) – Manually bury or scatter each of the listed bones and ashes.

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 9 October 2017 (Update):
  • Free players can now bury dragon bones for Prayer XP.

• hidden 29 March 2004 (Update):
  • The examine text of various bones were changed.

• update 23 October 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Dragon bones became available to free-to-play players on 29 February 2016 but could not be buried until 9 October 2017.
• A player choosing to use dragon bones all the way from 1-99 Prayer, using a gilded altar with lit burners and no other experience boosts, would spend 106,654,749 coins if all bones were bought at the current price on the Grand Exchange.
  • Using the ectofuntus would cost 93,322,906 coins, but would take far longer to do. Simply burying the bones would cost 373,291,622 coins.