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: 109 Sacrifice: 436
Weight	0.4 kg
Examine
A tasty fish.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	733 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 successfully cooked and then consumed.

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 heals slightly more than monkfish, and is significantly cheaper.

Creation

Monkfish

Level	XP
62	150 (165)	4 (2.4s)		733
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	1,253	1,253
Profit					-520

Products

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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	5,037

Drop sources

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

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

Disassembly

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
Possible materials
Often
Organic parts	89/100
Sometimes
Crafted parts	8/100
Rarely
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

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.

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.

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

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