Lumbridge Catacombs

Lumbridge Catacombs
Release date	15 March 2010 (Update)
Kingdom	Misthalin
Members	No
Main music	The Pact
Levels	3
Strongest monster	Level 26 Dragith Nurn
Cannon allowed	Not allowed
Connected quests	The Blood Pact
Inhabitants	Undead and warped insects and animals
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The entrance to the Catacombs.

The experiments left by Dragith.

The Lumbridge Catacombs are a free-to-play dungeon that was released along with The Blood Pact quest. The catacombs have been the burial grounds of the Lumbridge church since approximately the 130th year of the Fifth Age. The dungeon is designed for low-level players and features unique monsters that drop parts of the Mask of Dragith Nurn.

The entrance to the catacombs is located in Lumbridge cemetery.

The Blood Pact must be completed in order to be able to access the lower level of the dungeon. The monsters are located at the bottom of the dungeon and can be accessed by the stairs in the room where Reese is defeated in "The Blood Pact" (revealed after the altar collapses).

Official Description

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Mourners who visit the graveyard at Lumbridge do so to pay their respects to loved ones and leave gifts for the departed. Little do they know that, underneath the graveyard, twisting catacombs teem with undead and mutilated beings. Long ago, the necromancer Dragith Nurn took it upon himself to experiment with life and death, defiling the bodies of creatures that he could find. His experiments with death and dark magic created hideously foul monstrosities. Corrupting the course of life and death eventually took its toll on Dragith Nurn. The realisation that he too would one day be doomed to rise from his grave when he died hit him hard. With the stark reality of his actions hitting home, he buried himself and his experiments alive beneath the graveyard, hoping to seal away his transgressions forever more, to forget what he had done… Only scattered references to the legend of Dragith Nurn remain. For decades, his catacombs lay dormant, undisturbed and disassociated from the land above, until three Zamorakian cultists arrived at Lumbridge, intent on breaking the magic seal that has kept Dragith Nurn locked away.

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Upper level

The upper levels of the dungeon are useful only for collecting the music track and in the quest, in order to kill (or spare) the cultists. A map is shown on the right to show where the cultists are. (Many players didn't know about the stairs going to the lower level at the beginning room on the upper level, to the east/left)

Lower level

The dungeon is large and has a single entrance/exit found in the yard of the Lumbridge church. It is made up of a series of rooms linked by short corridors. The first room contains warped cockroaches, which are level 1. As you progress through the dungeon the rooms contain monsters of increasing combat levels, ranging from 1 to 21, whilst the final room contains a single monster of level 26 combat. This makes the lower level an efficient and effective training location for new and low-level players, as the monsters found within are easy to kill, do not hit particularly high, and boast valuable drops relative to their combat level.

The final room contains Dragith Nurn. To summon Dragith Nurn, the player is required to touch the pedestal holding the Diamond demon statuette. Dragith Nurn will appear, and can then be fought. A flashing yellow arrow indicates which Dragith Nurn is required to be killed. There is no limit to how many times Dragith Nurn can be summoned or killed.

Statuettes

Six statuettes are found in the dungeon:

• Jade demon statuette - (100 coins)
• Topaz demon statuette - (200 coins)
• Sapphire demon statuette - (300 coins)
• Emerald demon statuette - (400 coins)
• Ruby demon statuette - (500 coins)
• Diamond demon statuette - (1000 coins)

Xenia will offer to buy the statuettes for a total of 2500 coins.

Monsters

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  Warped cockroach, level 1 (drops Mask part 1)

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  Corpse spider, level 4 (drops Mask part 2)

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  Warped fly, level 7 (drops Mask part 2)

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  Crawling corpse torso, level 9 (drops Mask part 3)

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  Warped rat, level 12 (drops Mask part 3)

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  Skeleton (Lumbridge Catacombs), level 15 (drops Mask part 3)

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  Warped bat, level 16 (drops Mask part 4)

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  Corpse archer, level 18 (drops Mask part 4)

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  Skoblin, level 19 (drops Mask part 4)

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  Corpse mage, level 21 (drops Mask part 4)

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  Dragith Nurn, level 26 (drops Mask part 5)

Mask of Dragith Nurn

Players can assemble the Mask of Dragith Nurn by using any one of the parts with another while all 5 parts are in their inventory. A common misconception is that the mask pieces are randomly dropped by every monster, but this is not true. You can use the table above to see what monsters drop which pieces. This mask is not tradeable and gives very little bonuses. Due to its low bonuses, most players simply wear it for aesthetic purposes. However, before EOC, the mask did have the highest melee attack bonuses for a head item in free to play.

Achievement

• Work for Idol Hands ( 10) – Hand in all the demon statuettes from the Lumbridge Catacombs.

Gallery

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  An overhead view of the first level of the dungeon.

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  The second level of the dungeon.

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 23 September 2019 (Update):
  • Pieces of the Mask of Dragith Nurn can now be dropped from catacomb creatures if they were previously destroyed, allowing players that require the drops for the Master quest cape requirement to obtain them again.

• patch 16 September 2019 (Update):
  • Corrected an issue where Xenia was blocking the doorway through Blood Pact if you left the catacombs earlier than intended.

• patch 22 January 2018 (Update):
  • Players now face the correct direction when using doors or stairs in the Lumbridge Catacombs.

• patch 23 February 2015 (Update):
  • Players can once again consistently use the shortcut to the lower levels in the Lumbridge Catacombs.

• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • The shortcut to the lower levels in the Lumbridge Catacombs is no longer closed after Heart of Stone is completed.

• patch 4 August 2014 (Update):
  • Skeletons and skoblins in the Lumbridge Catacombs have been graphically updated.
  • Catacomb skeletons now use a spawn animation.
  • Cockroach and corpse spider animations in the Lumbridge catacombs have been updated.
  • Colour grading in the Lumbridge Catacombs has been adjusted.

• patch 1 July 2014 (Update):
  • Torches in Lumbridge Catacombs are no longer sunk into the ground.

• patch 12 May 2014 (Update):
  • Colour grading has been added to the Lumbridge catacombs.

• patch 2 November 2010 (Update):
  • A hole in the Lumbridge Catacombs has been filled in.

• patch 15 September 2010 (Update):
  • Added the Advisor system while in the Lumbridge Catacombs.

• patch 5 July 2010 (Update):
  • Your head no longer disappears when winching the gates in Lumbridge Catacombs.
  • The new skeletons and goblins in the Lumbridge Catacombs can now also drop champion scrolls.

• update 15 March 2010 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Monsters in this dungeon respawn unusually fast.
• Trying to setup a dwarf multicannon gives the message "You don't need a cannon here."
• During the Battle of Lumbridge, the overflow of bodies was interred within the catacombs.