Rocktail

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

Rocktail
Release	17 September 2009 (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	600 coins Cash out: 100 coins
High alch	360 coins
Low alch	240 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 344 Sacrifice: 1,376
Weight	0.35 kg
Examine
Some nicely cooked rocktail.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	2,294 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	15272
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Rocktail is a type of fish that can be found in the Living Rock Caverns and the Deep Sea Fishing Hub. The Living Rock Caverns are located underneath the Dwarven Mine, which is located under Falador and extends to Ice Mountain. Players need level 90 Fishing to catch rocktail and level 93 Cooking to cook them. Rocktail are an ingredient in rocktail soup, portents, powerburst of vitality, and calorie bomb (rocktail).

Cooking

Raw rocktail can be cooked starting at level 93. They give 225 Cooking experience per fish, yielding roughly 315,000 experience per hour; with decorated cooking urns, this increases to 378,000 experience per hour.

Raw rocktails stop burning only if wearing cooking gauntlets at level 94 or using the Cooking cape perk.

A series of tests were conducted with cooking gauntlets equipped, at the minimum level to cook them (93), yielding a burn rate of:

• 27 rocktails out of 3,969 (0.68%)
• 18 rocktails out of 2,176 (0.83%)

Without cooking gauntlets, rocktail burn at high rates, even with a Cooking level boosted to 103 using a Chef's delight.

Healing

The minimum Constitution level to receive the full amount of healing from this food is 92.

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, 92) 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.")

}

Rocktail heal up to 2,300 life points, depending on the player's Constitution level; the optimum healing for rocktail starts at level 92. They can also boost a player's life points by 10% above the maximum.

Creation

Rocktail

Level	XP
93	225 (247.5)	4 (2.4s)		2,294
Servings	1		LP	2300
Requirements
Burn level		Never	Gauntlets		94
Members only
Requires a range or a fire
Ingredients
Item			Quantity	Price	Total
	Raw rocktail		1	2,385	2,385
Profit					−91

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 degradation III	98	60 × Elder energy 1 × Rocktail	N/A
Attuned portent of restoration X	98	60 × Incandescent energy 1 × Rocktail	N/A
Calorie bomb (rocktail)	60	1 × Empty pot 75 × Cover parts 25 × Organic parts 5 × Rocktail	N/A
Portent of degradation III	97	60 × Elder energy 1 × Rocktail	13,853
Portent of restoration X	97	60 × Incandescent energy 1 × Rocktail	16,613
Powerburst of vitality (4)	105	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 2 × Poison slime 1 × Saradomin brew (4) 1 × Rocktail	1,585
Powerburst of vitality (4) (Improved +1 recipe)	107	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 2 × Poison slime 1 × Saradomin brew (4) 1 × Rocktail	1,585
Powerburst of vitality (4) (Improved +2 recipe)	109	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 1 × Poison slime 1 × Saradomin brew (3) 1 × Rocktail	1,585
Rocktail soup	93	1 × Rocktail 1 × Spices	20,242

Drop sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Abomination	0	2	Uncommon
Araxxi	3000	8–11	4/15
Memory of Nomad		8	Common
Nex: Angel of Death	7000	23–55	1/14
Queen Black Dragon	900	4–10	Common
Rune dragon	127	2	7/128

Disassembly

Rocktail
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	2.7
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	0.0%
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

Price history

Following the release of Deep Sea Fishing in May 2018, rocktails were surpassed by sailfish as the single-click highest healing fish and the price crashed as a result. However, the price has recovered following the release of the Anachronia Dinosaur Farm as rocktails are used in the powerburst of vitality.

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 24 June 2013 (Update):
  • Rocktails and rocktail soup now work as intended with expensive spices.

• patch 6 October 2010 (Update):
  • Improved the rocktail inventory icon.

• update 17 September 2009 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Rocktails look similar to the real-life anglerfish, which have a luminescent organ in the middle of their heads to lure prey towards them. Anglerfish exist in Old School RuneScape.
• Rocktails, along with cavefish and sailfish, are some of the few fish which provide more experience when fished than when cooked.