Fungal mage

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NormalWeakened
Fungal mage
Release			28 November 2011 (Update)
Members			Yes
Examine
A creature of animated earth, infested with fungus.
Combat info
Level			LP			XP			XP
81			2,900			244.8			80.7
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
14 / 9 / 4
Aggressive						Poisonous
Slayer
Level			XP			Category
1			63.6			Fungal magi
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
0			0			232			0
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
1				1				58
Accuracy
0				0				1070
Abilities used
None
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
1070		58
Affinities
90			45			65			55
Immunities
Immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				14690
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

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4 ticks (2.4s)

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The fungal mage is a monster found in the Polypore Dungeon. If players come within one square away from it, it will infect them, dealing fast hits of 15-17 life points. However, this can be prevented by using neem oil on it.

Fungal mages have the highest drop rate for fungal flakes, and are known for dropping large amounts of potato cacti quite frequently.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Polypore Dungeon	81		64	Maplink

Drops

100% drop

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Accursed ashes		1	Always	3,825	1
	Neem drupe (m)		1–3	Always	0	0

Charms

Nothing	1	1	1	1
79–80%	5%	12%	2%	1%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 36,455 kills. 1 item is dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Grimy guam		1	Common	471	18
	Grimy marrentill (m)		1	Common	8,450	0
	Grimy harralander (m)		1	Uncommon	814	0
	Grimy tarromin		1	Common	120	0
	Grimy ranarr (m)		1	Uncommon	3,035	0
	Grimy irit (m)		1	Uncommon	3,595	0
	Grimy avantoe (m)		1	Uncommon	1,100	0
	Grimy kwuarm (m)		1	Uncommon	10,220	0
	Grimy cadantine (m)		1	Uncommon	4,758	0
	Grimy lantadyme (m)		1	Uncommon	7,296	0
	Grimy dwarf weed (m)		1	Uncommon	10,468	0
	Marrentill seed (m)		1	Uncommon	501	3
	Tarromin seed (m)		1	Uncommon	268	4
	Harralander seed (m)		1	Uncommon	300	7
	Ranarr seed (m)		1	Uncommon	1,218	11
	Wildblood seed (m)		1	Uncommon	219	8
	Poison ivy seed (m)		1	Uncommon	361	99
	Spirit weed seed (m)		1	Uncommon	68,648	10
	Limpwurt seed (m)		1	Uncommon	4,336	7
	Cactus seed (m)		1	Uncommon	575	59
	Whiteberry seed (m)		1	Uncommon	266	79
	Strawberry seed (m)		1	Uncommon	501	10
	Jangerberry seed (m)		1	Uncommon	198	36
	Bittercap mushroom spore (m)		1	Uncommon	740	51
	Belladonna seed (m)		1	Uncommon	871	106
	Irit seed (m)		1	Uncommon	930	38
	Kwuarm seed (m)		1	Uncommon	5,986	38
	Toadflax seed (m)		1	Rare	2,326	20
	Avantoe seed (m)		1	Rare	544	38
	Snapdragon seed (m)		1	Rare	408	38
	Cadantine seed (m)		1	Rare	1,317	38
	Lantadyme seed (m)		1	Rare	284	38
	Dwarf weed seed (m)		1	Rare	1,867	38
	Watermelon seed (m)		1	Rare	2,398	33
	Torstol seed (m)		1	Rare	434	38
	Polypore spore (m)		1–100	Common	5-500	6-600
	Fungal flake (m)		1–90	Common	4-360	2-180
	Snape grass (m)		4 (noted)	Common	928	24
	Limpwurt root		1 (noted)	Common	4,214	4
	Gorajian mushroom (m)		1	Common	3,352	48
	Pure essence		15–25 (noted)	Common	780-1,300	30-50
	Potato cactus (m)		8 (noted)	Common	21,608	0

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	14,717	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 22 November 2012 (Update):
  • Fungal Mage now work correctly as Slayer Creatures, including giving the buffs from the Slayer Helm when on task.

• update 28 November 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• When the fungal mage is assigned as a Slayer task, when you block it you can also choose the option to block all monsters in the Polypore dungeon.
• As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for these monsters was 259,437 kills, shared with all polypore creatures.
  • This had increased to 351,360 by 6 May 2018.
• Before Solak's model was developed, a fungal mage was used as a placeholder model for testing Solak's mechanics.
• Fungal magi are the only Polypore creature that drops ashes as remains - all other creatures, barring the infested axe, drop bones as remains.