Phoenix feather

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This article is about the Herblore item. For the Summoning-related item, see Phoenix quill.

Phoenix feather
Release																				11 April 2005 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				The Golem
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0.002 kg
Examine
A long feather patterned like a flame.
Advanced data
Item ID																				4621
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Phoenix feathers can be obtained from the forge phoenix or divine forge phoenix familiar or by plucking feathers from the desert phoenix. The desert phoenix is located along the north-western bank of the River Elid, in the gorge north of the bridge. The player may fail, in which case the phoenix stuns the player and does 16 - 300 life points of damage, depending on how many life points the player has left. When a feather is successfully plucked the player earns 26 Thieving experience.

A phoenix feather is used in The Golem quest, where it is used on black mushroom ink to turn it into a phoenix quill pen. It is also an ingredient used in combination with an antifire (3) potion to create a super antifire (3) potion at level 85 Herblore. This potion renders the user completely immune to dragonfire for 6 minutes. It is also a necessary material in the restoration of the Ceremonial plume (damaged) artefact, requiring 81 Archaeology.

Plucking feathers from the desert phoenix is the most reliable way to obtain large amounts of feathers. The Golem quest must be completed to be able to obtain additional phoenix feathers. Completion of the elite Desert achievements allows you to steal two feathers at once. Phoenix feathers can be stored in Beast of Burden familiars and can also be banked using the signs of the porter or noted using magic notepaper (although the feathers must be used on the notepaper, not vice versa). The Thieving cape perk works on phoenix feathers; and other Thieving boosts will increase your success rate while gathering feathers. The Sticky Fingers relic does not work on the desert phoenix. If you have low Thieving and/or Constitution levels you may need to bring food to heal damage dealt by unsuccessful Thieving attempts. Protection from the desert heat is also needed in the area where the desert phoenix is located unless you have completed the Crocodile Tears quest.

Products

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Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Ceremonial plume	81	1 × Ceremonial plume (damaged) 38 × Armadylean yellow 34 × Goldrune 1 × Phoenix feather	N/A
Super antifire (3)	85	1 × Antifire (3) 1 × Phoenix feather	14,685

Drop sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Desert Phoenix		1; 2	Always
Fire spirit (item) phoenix	N/A	1	2695/10004
Fire spirit (item) divine forge phoenix	N/A	1	Common

Disassembly

Phoenix feather
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% 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 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

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!

• update 7 November 2022 (Update):
  • Automatically picking phoenix feathers from the Desert Phoenix will no longer require the completion of Hard Desert achievements.

• patch 20 January 2020 (Update):
  • Can now continue to pick Phoenix feathers with the Thieving cape perk active whilst having a noted feather and no remaining free inventory slots.

• ninja 15 September 2014 (Update):
  • The phoenix feather's inventory icon has been flipped so the number is not on top of its yellow tip.

• ninja 27 January 2014 (Update):
  • The sign of the porter will now bank phoenix feathers.

• patch 9 November 2009 (Update):
  • Added messages to the spam filter when trying to gather phoenix feathers.

• update 11 April 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• When the player's inventory is full, they will receive a message that says "You don't have space to hold the phoenix feather." This differs from the normal 'full inventory' message.