WildyWyrm

This article is about in-game WildyWyrms. For how they appeared in 2011, see WildyWyrm (historical).

This article has a strategy guide. All information on mechanics, setups, and tactics is on the subpage.

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WildyWyrm
Release																				16 February 2015 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Options																				Attack, Examine
Race																				Strykewyrm
Examine																				It's made of pure fire.
Combat info
Combat level																				92
Life points																				1,000,000
Aggressive
Poisonous
Combat experience
XP																				5,000
XP																				16,462.6
XP																				1,650
XP (2H/MH/OH)																				450 / 225 / 225
Slayer info
Level																				1
Assignment																				Lava strykewyrms, Strykewyrms
Master
Offensive
Max hit
2,212												1,425.6												1,425.6												0												4,700
Style																														Rate
																														3 ticks (1.8s)
Combat levels
99															99															99															1
Accuracy
3,031															3,031															3,031															0
Defensive
Armour																				Weakness															Susceptible
1,924										80
Base hit chance
-															45															45															45
Immunities
Immune															Immune															Immune															Immune
Advanced data
NPC ID															3334
Links															bestiary • MRND

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Large mound
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Release								16 February 2015 (Update)
Race								Strykewyrm
Members								Yes
Quest								No
Location								Wilderness
Options								Investigate, Examine
Examine								I'm pretty sure there's something big under there.
Advanced data
NPC ID								20629
Links								MRND20629

The WildyWyrm is a boss variant of regular lava strykewyrms. They have a rare chance to spawn next to their lesser counterparts. If it spawns, a world announcement is made: News: The WildyWyrm has just spawned in the wilderness! The WildyWyrm can also be summoned and controlled by Jagex Moderators, and they are capable of choosing their attack style and increasing their attack and defence levels. They can additionally heal the WildyWyrms in order to prolong the fight and create a greater challenge for the players involved, although such occurences are extremely rare.

Location

The WildyWyrm initially spawns as a harmless large mound that is mobile but is not indicated on the minimap as a yellow dot. If the player has the WildyWyrm notification setting active, they will appear on the world map as (). No distinction is made between the mound or attackable forms. This icon does not appear on the minimap.

As a mound NPC, the WildyWyrm is capable of traversing the entire Wilderness. Investigating it (with a confirmation dialogue) causes it to burst out of the ground and become aggressive. Realistically, the WildyWyrm is almost always seen in the vicinity of the Lava Maze, as they cannot move past NPCs and have difficulty navigating tight areas - while it tries its best to get around them, if it cannot do so after some time, it will give up and turn around. Due to their large mound size, they will never be found in the "deep" section of the Wilderness.

With completion of the easy Wilderness achievements, the player will be awarded a Wilderness sword 1, which (alongside its higher variants) can be used to track the WildyWyrm with the "Locate WildyWyrm" option with several possible results:

• "The sword pulls towards [direction] Wilderness!" - WildyWyrm has spawned in the Wilderness, but no distinction is made whether it is in mound or attackable form. The direction given is not the the map quadrant the WildyWyrm is located, but rather its relative location to the player. It would say "central" if the player is standing right on top of the exact southwestern-most tile the large mound occupies.
• "The sword seems unresponsive." - No WildyWyrm currently in the Wilderness.
• "The sword seems unresponsive in this area." - Player currently not in Wilderness; the location option only works in the Wilderness.

As WildyWyrm can be found anywhere in the areas they can reach, caution is highly advised as they are almost always found above level 30 Wilderness, often with other dangerous aggressive monsters including glacors, hydrix dragons or Abyssal beasts. They also replenish depleted stats quickly, and coupled with their high health and stats means that they are better off killed in groups.

Combat

Like their lesser cousins, WildyWyrms use all three forms of combat, but with massively increased damage. Additionally, their ranged attacks shatter on all players within range of the projectile when it lands, while the magic attack bounces to a nearby player if they are in range. The "stomp" attack inflicted by WildyWyrms will also drain a single Attack, Strength, Magic and Ranged level for every stomp hit inflicted. They may use their lesser cousins' burrow attack, even if the player is not within range to be dragged. Unlike the rest of their brethren, WildyWyrms are continually aggressive and will never burrow back into the ground, meaning that the only way to remove one is by either killing it or through a game update if not killed by then.

A deathtouched dart can be used to instantly kill a WildyWyrm. Ironman players can only kill the WildyWyrm with a deathtouched dart. Even then, using a dart will only roll the 100% drops for ironmen players - they do not roll on the main drop. Ironmen can obtain loot from a WildyWyrm by killing it with Wrath, although this is most likely unintentional.

Drops

Drops are obtained as long as the person contributed towards its death. The WildyWyrm is 8 times more likely of dropping a unique attachment than killing a lava strykewyrm off-task, but it is limited to only one drop per kill regardless of how many people damaged it when it died.

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Searing ashes	10 (noted)	Always	698,710	10
	Fury shark	5 (noted)	Always	1,500	1,500

Main drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Wyrm spike	1	1/1536	5,288,590	72,000
	Wyrm heart	1	1/1536	13,557,783	72,000
	Wyrm scalp	1	1/1536	52,120,123	72,000
	Adamantite stone spirit	50	Common	1,350	Not alchemisable
	Water talisman	10 (noted)	Common	8,800	20
	Magic logs	100 (noted)	Common	74,500	19,200
	Black dragonhide	25 (noted)	Common	41,175	1,200
	Searing ashes	5; 50 (noted)	Common	349,355–3,493,550	5–50
	Onyx bolts (e)	25; 50	Common	159,325–318,650	225,000–450,000
	Runite stone spirit	20	Uncommon	16,200	Not alchemisable
	Battlestaff	15 (noted)	Uncommon	60,435	63,000
	Yew seed	5	Uncommon	6,285	425

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Starved ancient effigy	1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Crystal triskelion fragment 1 (m)	1	1/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Crystal triskelion fragment 2 (m)	1	1/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Crystal triskelion fragment 3 (m)	1	1/2000	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Transcript

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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 2 May 2023 (Update):
  • Demon Flash Mobs, Linza the Disgraced, Akrisae the Doomed and the WildyWyrm are no longer affected by the Guardhouse instakill buff.

• patch 6 March 2017 (Update):
  • News broadcasts for Jmods spawning Wildywyrms have been added.

• patch 20 February 2017 (Update):
  • The Wilderness Wyrm's drop table has been reworked.
  • The chance of the Wilderness Wyrm spawning has been lowered.

• patch 17 October 2016 (Update):
  • The Wilderness Sword can now consistently locate the WildyWyrm.

• ninja 3 October 2016 (Update):
  • The Wildywyrm now appears on the world map, if one has appeared.

• patch 7 March 2016 (Update):
  • The WildyWyrm will now always attack players.
  • The drop chances of the unique weapon components have been drastically improved for the WildyWyrm.

• ninja 30 March 2015 (Update):
  • The Wildywyrm now has an even greater chance of spawning.

• ninja 2 March 2015 (Update):
  • The Wildywyrm's chance of spawning has been greatly increased.

• update 21 February 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Only 17 players that dealt damage to the WildyWyrm will receive a main drop as well as 5 fury sharks & 10 searing ashes as a drop. Those players will receive the message "As you contributed heavily to the wyrm's death, it leaves fury sharks and searing ashes behind."
  • Everybody else who deal damage will only receive a main drop and 5 fury sharks, receiving the message "as you contributed to the wyrm's death, it leaves fury sharks behind."
  • The exact mechanism by which contribution is determined is unknown, but seems to be a combination of being the first 17 to deal damage and the amount of damage dealt. Neither by itself is sufficient for guaranteeing the main drop.
• Patch Notes on 2 March 2015, 30 March 2015 and 6 February 2017 greatly increased the chance of a WildyWyrm appearing.
  • Due to player feedback about how common it began to spawn (and caused searing ashes to plummet because of it), the chances of a WildyWyrm appearing were lowered with the Patch Notes of 20 February 2017.
• The WildyWyrm's level appears as both 92 (when right clicking) and 1337 (in the tool tip).
• Killing one displays the following on the Adventurer's Log: I killed a WildyWyrm. I killed a WildyWyrm in the Wilderness.
• The WildyWyrm's previous combat level is 1337, this is most likely a joke from the developers making fun of certain PvP players using "leet speak" often, as 1337 is one of the most commonly known words/numbers from that particular speech type.
• The WildyWyrm's combat level was changed to 92 in an unknown update; this is lower than that of an ordinary lava strykewyrm, despite the WildyWyrm being much more dangerous.
• There is a glitch where the WildyWyrm will not attack players despite being capable of doing so with its attacks. This may be due to its wander range, as monsters attacked outside of their wander range will attempt to retreat to lure the aggressor(s) in, which it is incapable of doing despite having more than enough range to attack. It also may be due to the multi-singles borders in the wilderness, a Wyrm popped along those lines will always stop attacking.
• They originally appeared as part of a small holiday event in 2011, possessing the same mechanics. Although, lava strykewyrms did not appear, and they were instead found in one of three locations around the Wilderness, which were marked by some burnt trees (some of which still remain in-game). They returned alongside lava strykewyrms in 2015.
• Unlike regular lava strykewyrms, the WildyWyrm does not require any Slayer level to harm or kill.