Monkfish

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This article is about cooked monkfish. For other uses, see Monkfish (disambiguation).

This article is about the cooked version. For the raw version, see Raw monkfish.

Monkfish
Release																				2 May 2006 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Edible																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Actions
Backpack																				Eat
Values
Value																				230 coins
High alch																				138 coins
Low alch																				92 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.4 kg
Examine
A tasty fish.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				267 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				7946
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Monkfish are members-only food that heal 1,600 life points when consumed by players with level 64 Constitution or higher.

During the Swan Song quest, players must fish fresh monkfish, a non-tradeable quest item that heals 200 Life Points when cooked and then eaten.

Members with at least level 62 Fishing can catch raw monkfish, gaining 120 Fishing experience points per fish. Monkfish can only be caught in the Piscatoris Fishing Colony with a small fishing net; accessing the colony requires players to have completed Swan Song.

The minimum Constitution level to receive the full amount of healing from this food is 64.

Calculator

Enter your Constitution level	name=skillstat_Constitution_level|type=int|value=1|range=9,99|size=4|sublist=calchealing
name=healing|type=output

variables=skillstat_Constitution_level

calchealing|

let(minLevel, 64) let(healAmount, 0) let(healAmountOutOfCombat, 0) let(healOverTimeAmount, 0) let(healOverTimeDuration, 0) let(constitutionLevel, skillstat_Constitution_level) let(itemName, "This")

let(pointsPerLevel, 25) if(healAmount){

 let(pointsPerLevel, healAmount / minLevel)

}

if(constitutionLevel < minLevel){

 let(heal, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevel)

}{

 let(heal, minLevel * pointsPerLevel)

}

let(heal, floor(heal + 0.000001)) let(healing, itemName + " will heal " + heal + " life points at level " + constitutionLevel + " while in combat.")

if(healOverTimeAmount){

 let(healing, healing + " It will heal an additional " + healOverTimeAmount + " life points over " + healOverTimeDuration + " seconds.")

}

if(healAmountOutOfCombat){

 let(pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat, healAmountOutOfCombat / minLevel)
 if (constitutionLevel < minLevel){
   let(healOutOfCombat, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
 }{
   let(healOutOfCombat, minLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
 }
 let(healOutOfCombat, floor(healOutOfCombat + 0.000001))
 let(healing, healing + " It will heal " + healOutOfCombat + " life points while out of combat.")

}

Members can cook the raw monkfish if they have at least level 62 Cooking, and gain 150 experience if they are successful in doing so. Note that it is not necessary to do the quest for purchasing or trading, or for cooking monkfish. At level 65 Divination members can weave 45 vibrant energy with one monkfish to create a portent of restoration VII or an attuned portent of restoration VII at 67 Divination, which heal 1,200 or 1,600 life points respectively.

Beltfish heal for slightly more than monkfish and are significantly cheaper.

Burn rates

Failure to cook the raw monkfish will produce burnt monkfish instead.

Burning monkfish on a range becomes impossible at level 90 Cooking. You could use the range on Neitiznot, which is closer to a bank and does not require any climbing. Catherby is also an ideal place, since the range is located right next to the bank.

Cooking gauntlets aid both in the cooking success rate of monkfish and the level at which you stop burning them. If using Cooking gauntlets and cooking on a range, it is exceedingly rare to burn a monkfish after level 86 cooking, and impossible to burn them on a fire while wearing Cooking gauntlets beginning at level 90.

Creation

Monkfish

Level	XP
62	150 (165)	4 (2.4s)		267
Servings	1		LP	1600
Requirements
Burn level		90	Gauntlets		87
Burn level (fire)		92	Gauntlets (f)		90
Members only
Requires a range or a fire
Ingredients
Item			Quantity	Price	Total
	Raw monkfish		1	1,901	1,901
Profit					−1,634

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Attuned portent of restoration VII	67	45 × Vibrant energy 1 × Monkfish	N/A
Calorie bomb (monkfish)	60	1 × Empty pot 75 × Cover parts 25 × Organic parts 5 × Monkfish	N/A
Portent of restoration VII	65	45 × Vibrant energy 1 × Monkfish	7,947

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Harold	98	6	Uncommon
Ravenous ghoul	105	1	Common
Starlight	102	3	Uncommon

Disassembly

Monkfish
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	1.9
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  29.6% 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 29.6% 1 34 29.4 2 49 28.8 3 64 28.2 4 69 27.6 5 78 27.0 6 83 26.1 7 91 25.5 8 95 24.6 9 105 23.7
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Achievement

• Fishy Dishes ( 30) – Sample all of the listed fish dishes.

Graphical updates

Inventory

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  Monkfish after 2 May 2006 (update)

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  Monkfish after 24 July 2007 (update)

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  Monkfish after Unknown date (edit)

Detailed

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  Monkfish after 2 May 2006 (update)

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  Monkfish after 24 July 2007 (update)

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  Monkfish after Unknown date (edit)

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 9 December 2019 (Update):
  • Monkfish now counts towards the cooking task on the Yak Track.

• update 2 May 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Lophius piscatorius is the scientific name for monkfish. This is related to the Latin stem pisces, meaning fish, and the Piscatoris Fishing Colony (which is where monkfish are caught) probably got its name for these reasons. The other reason, as shown on the Piscatoris Fishing Colony page is that in Latin it means fisherman, so it could mean Fishing Colony of Fishermen.