Wolf bones

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This article is about the drop from wolves. For the troll, see Wolf Bones (troll).

For the item used in Rag and Bone Man, see Wolf bone.

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Wolf bones
Release																				18 May 2004 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				Bones of a recently slain wolf. Used in Summoning (1).
Options
Backpack																				Bury, Craft
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1,670 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.5 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,670 coins (info)
Buy limit																				1,000
Volume																				6,806
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Advanced data
Item ID																				2859
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Wolf bones are an item obtained by killing a wolf or werewolf. Free players can obtain wolf bones from Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop in Taverley, or killing the wolves in Burthorpe. Players can also get wolf bones by selecting the 'gamble' option when purchasing rewards with Zeal points at the Soul Wars minigame. Doing so will reward the player a random amount of 22-49.

Wolf bones have various uses, including in skills (such as Prayer, Fletching, Crafting and Summoning) and in some quests. They do not work with any of the necklaces from Dungeoneering to yield 50 prayer point regeneration.

Wolf bones look virtually the exact same as regular bones except wolf bones are slightly more greyish in colour.

Prayer info

BuryingGilded/Chaos altarEctofuntusCremation

Wolf bones
Level required					1
Prayer XP					4.5 xp
Auto-sanctifier					15.7 xp
Facility					N/A
Type					Bones

Wolf bonesUses item? (edit)Bucket of slime? (edit)Bucket of slimeLocation? (edit)? (edit)Facility? (edit)N/AGilded altar, Wilderness chaos altarEctofuntusBonfire, Portable brazier? (edit)Gilded altar&&SPLITPOINT&&Chaos altar (Wilderness)EctofuntusBonfire&&SPLITPOINT&&Portable brazierTypeBonesRequired tool? (edit)? (edit)Respawn time? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)Damage? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)Prayer? (edit)1infobox-cell-shown4.5 xp15.7 xp18 xp11.2 xp4.515.71811.24.515.71811.2Prayer XP? (edit)Firemaking? (edit)? (edit)1infobox-cell-showninfobox-cell-hidden0 xp? (edit)15.7 xp11.2 xp−1 xp9 xp? (edit)15.711.2-19? (edit)15.711.2-19? (edit)Auto-sanctifierNo burners[PLACEHOLDER]Firemaking XP? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)infobox-cell-shown0 xp? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)infobox-cell-shown0 xp? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)infobox-cell-shown0 xp? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)tablePrayer,,,,Prayer,Firemaking,,,Prayer&&SPLITPOINT&&&&SPLITPOINT&&&&SPLITPOINT&&&&SPLITPOINT&&Prayer&&SPLITPOINT&&Firemaking&&SPLITPOINT&&&&SPLITPOINT&&&&SPLITPOINT&&table1 1 1 ? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)14.515.71811.2? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)1? (edit)9? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)? (edit)Versions: 4Default version: Burying

SMW Subobject for CremationUses facility: Bonfire, Portable brazierFiremaking level: 1Firemaking experience: 9Prayer experience: 11.2Prayer level: 1Uses skill: Prayer, Firemaking, , , Skilling node name: Wolf bonesIs variant of: Wolf bones

SMW Subobject for Gilded/Chaos altarUses facility: Gilded altar, Chaos altar (Wilderness)Prayer experience: 15.7Prayer level: 1Uses skill: Prayer, , , , Skilling node name: Wolf bonesIs variant of: Wolf bones

SMW Subobject for BuryingPrayer level: 1Prayer experience: 4.5Uses skill: Prayer, , , , Skilling node name: Wolf bonesIs variant of: Wolf bones

SMW Subobject for EctofuntusUses facility: EctofuntusPrayer level: 1Prayer experience: 18Uses material: Bucket of slimeUses skill: Prayer, , , , Skilling node name: Wolf bonesIs variant of: Wolf bones

Purposes

Prayer

Players can bury wolf bones to gain 4.5 Prayer experience each. This is the same as the experience gained for burying regular bones. As with most other types of bones, the amount of experience gained can be increased in various ways (e.g., using the bones on the altar in a POH).

	Bury	Gilded altar, Chaos Temple, or burying with powder of burials	Ectofuntus	Cremation
XP	4.5	15.75	18	20.25 (Total)	11.25 (Prayer) + 9 (FM)
GP/XP	−371.1	−106	−92.8	−82.5 (Total)	−148.4 (Prayer) or −185.6 (FM)

Fletching

Members can also use a chisel on wolf bones to produce wolf bone arrowheads, used in Fletching to tip ogre arrows. This produces 4 arrowhead, and grants 15 Crafting experience per pile of bones. Using the arrowheads to produce the ogre arrows gives 2.5 Fletching experience per arrowhead.

Economical value

Wolf Whistle and Summoning

Two sets of wolf bones are essential for the Wolf Whistle quest, which unlocks the Summoning skill. Players can find these by searching the dead body of Stikklebrix on White Wolf Mountain whilst doing the quest.

It is not necessary to kill any wolves or buy the bones (though it is also possible to use wolf bones that are obtained in these alternative ways). Despite this, wolf bone prices sky-rocketed after the release of Summoning, and nearby White Wolf Mountain was unusually full of players attempting to obtain wolf bones. Some players were offering up to 8,000 coins for them.

After completing Wolf Whistle, players use wolf bones in Summoning as the tertiary ingredient in infusing spirit wolf pouches, and as one of two tertiary ingredients used in infusing wolpertinger pouches (the other being raw rabbit).

As a First Resort

Prices of wolf bones again went up to around 700 coins with the release of the As a First Resort quest, as four wolf bones are needed.

Products

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

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials	GE price
	Spirit wolf pouch		1	4.8	1 × Pouch 7 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Wolf bones	852
	Unstrung comp bow		30	45.0	1 × Achey tree logs 1 × Wolf bones	882
	Wolf bone arrowheads × 4		5	2.5	1 × Wolf bones	212
	Wolf bonemeal		1	1	1 × Wolf bones	N/A
	Wolpertinger pouch		92	404.8	1 × Pouch 203 × Spirit shards 1 × Crimson charm 1 × Raw rabbit 1 × Wolf bones	3,803

Drop sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Adolescent White wolf	8	1	Always
Alexis	28	1	Always
Bag of lost items	N/A	2	Uncommon
Big Wolf	43	1	Always
Boris	28	1	Always
Desert wolf	15	1	Always
Dire Wolf	46	1	Always
Eduard	28	1	Always
Fenrir	84	1	Always
Fenris wolf (Sköll)	42	1	Always
Fenris wolf	49	1	Always
Galina	28	1	Always
Georgy	28	1	Always
Hati	84	1	Always
Holy scarab	N/A	1	~1088/23216
Ice wolf	71; 95	1	Always
Image of Hati	84	1	Always
Image of Sköll	98	1	Always
Imre	28	1	Always
Irina	28	1	Always
Jeroen	28	1	Always
Joseph	28	1	Always
Jungle Wolf	88	1	Always
Ksenia	28	1	Always
Lev	28	1	Always
Liliya	28	1	Always
Milla	28	1	Always
Nikita	28	1	Always
Nikolai	28	1	Always
Reward Shop (Soul Wars)	N/A	18–39	Uncommon
Sofiya	28	1	Always
Spirit impling jar	N/A	3 (noted)	Uncommon
Spirit impling	54	3 (noted)	Uncommon
Svetlana	28	1	Always
Vera	28	1	Always
Werewolf	63; 89	1	Always
White wolf	30	1	Always
Wolf (Heart of Gielinor)	108	1	Always
Wolf	16; 23; 42	1	Always
Yadviga	28	1	Always
Yuri	28	1	Always
Zamorakian werewolf	68	1	Always
Zoja	28	1	Always

Store locations

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Magestix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	1	Coins	0
Magestix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	1
Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	1	Coins	0
Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	1

Disassembly

Wolf bones
Disassembly category	Bones and remains
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	2
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
Organic parts	98/100
Rare materials
Pious components	2/100

Achievement

• Bury All ( 20) – Manually bury or scatter each of the listed bones and ashes.

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 November 2015 (Update):
  • Fletching now always produces four items instead of a random two to six items.

• update 18 May 2004 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Despite giving the exact same amount of Prayer experience as regular bones, wolf bones are higher in price. This is due to their higher demand for use in Spirit wolf pouches and Wolpertinger pouches, and lower supply than regular bones.
• If burying these bones with the Dungeoneering prayer necklaces, the bonus prayer will not activate. This might be a glitch.