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The Giant Mole (Talpidae wysonian) is a boss found in the Falador Mole Lair, just under Falador Park. The Giant Mole's origin and creation are described as "a slight accident involving a bottle of Malignius-Mortifer's-Super-Ultra-Flora-Growth-Potion".
The Giant Mole is located in the tunnels beneath Falador Park. A spade is required to enter its lair. A light source is also needed to be able to see in the dark tunnels. A bullseye lantern is highly recommended, as any light source that is not protected will extinguish. If you are using an unprotected light source such as a candle, you will need a tinderbox to reignite it.
When using the serpentine helm or other venomous weapons the mole will have a chance to be infected with regular poison. The Giant Mole cannot be infected with venom.
Its respawn time is 10 seconds.
The Fight
A map of the Falador Mole Lair, labelling spawn location and burrow locations of the Giant Mole.
The Giant Mole deals a decent amount of damage, and once it reaches 50% of its Hitpoints, every attack done to it has a 25% chance of causing it to flee by burrowing in the ground, requiring players to track down the mole. If the player has completed the Falador hard achievement diary they may find it helpful to use the Mole-Locator on their Falador Shield 3. The white points on the map indicate possible locations in which the mole will resurface.
When soloing the Giant Mole, it is recommended to find a free world, and fight with melee. However, if you want to range it, 70+ Ranged is recommended due to its high Defence. If you are fighting with melee, be sure to have a Prayer level of at least 43 in order to be able to use the Protect from Melee prayer, or otherwise its accurate high hits will likely be too much for the average player to handle. If you are not soloing, try to ensure that all players are present when attacking to maximize damage dealt before the Mole burrows again. Because the mole is not an aggressive boss, it may be advised to log out after every kill next to the mole spawn to save potion boosts for killing her again.
Melee
If you have done the hard part of the Falador achievement diary it may be a good idea to bring a poisonous weapon or a serpentine helm as you will get a mole locator, else it is not recommended to use weapons that are poisonous such as dragon dagger (p++) because the mole might burrow away from you when it is low health and die far from you. In order to minimise this risk, one can simply wait for the mole to slowly die from poison when she's low health, but this wastes a good amount of time. It is recommended to use Prayer boosting gear such as proselyte or initiate armour, and a dragon scimitar or above is most desirable. However, she still isn't that difficult to kill if you simply pray melee and find her throughout the dungeon. Each kill takes roughly 4–6 minutes, depending on how much she digs, and your combat levels. However, the most effective way to melee the giant mole is to utilise the passive set effect of Dharok's set. To do this, wear all four pieces of the set, while having low Hitpoints, and activate the Protect from Melee prayer as you could hit very high before she burrows away. Another method is to flick the Protect from Melee prayer, so you can safely melee the mole without having to use prayer potions or super restores. This is, however, quite dangerous for one inexperienced in prayer flicking, and typically not worth the risk associated.
Another strategy is to use a Verac's set, due to its prayer bonus and its chance to ignore the mole's Defence. You will not hit as high, however you have more chance of hitting, and you do not need to keep your health low.
Ranged
It is still a must to have Protect from Melee, as without it the mole will hit consistent 20's, regardless of your Defence level. Prayer gear isn't really a problem for you though because getting her in a safespot around a cavepart is quite simple. If you cannot get her into a safespot, then go ahead and activate Protect from Melee until she burrows again. It is recommended to have a Ranged level of at least 70 for black dragonhide armour, and a rune/Armadyl crossbow with mithril bolts or ruby bolts (e), when its health is at around 30% remaining using diamond bolts (e) is highly recommended.
Drops
100% drops
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price 
Big bones 1 Always 262
Mole claw 1 Always 6,794
Mole skin 1–3 Always 6,269–18,807
Runes and Ammunition
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Air rune 105 Common 525
Fire rune 105 Common 525
Blood rune 15 Common 5,505
Death rune 7 Common 1,421
Law rune 15 Uncommon 2,490
Iron arrow 690 Uncommon 3,450
Weapons
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Adamant longsword 1 Common 1,644
Mithril axe 1 Common 75
Mithril battleaxe 1 Common 743
Armour
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Mithril platebody 1 Common 2,685
Rune med helm 1 Uncommon 11,084
Amulet of strength 1 Common 1,208
Ores and bars
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Iron ore 100 (noted) Uncommon 17,300
Mithril bar 1 Rare 662
Other
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Shark 4 Uncommon 3,684
Yew logs 100 (noted) Uncommon 24,900
Oyster pearls 1 Rare 778
Long bone 1 Rare (1/400) Not sold
Clue scroll (elite) 1 Rare (1/500) Not sold
Baby mole 1 Very rare (1/3,000) Not sold
Curved bone 1 Very rare (1/5,000) Not sold
Rare drop table
In addition to the drops above, this monster also has access to the rare drop table.
Show/hide rare drop table Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Coins 3,000 Common Not sold
Loop half of key 1 Common 10,307
Tooth half of key 1 Common 10,840
Chaos talisman 1 Common 505
Uncut sapphire 1 Common 455
Uncut emerald 1 Uncommon 679
Uncut ruby 1 Uncommon 1,249
Nature talisman 1 Uncommon 744
Steel arrow 150 Uncommon 4,800
Rune arrow 42 Uncommon 2,940
Rune javelin 5 Uncommon 875
Adamant javelin 20 Uncommon 1,220
Runite bar 1 Uncommon 12,368
Nature rune 67 Uncommon 14,539
Law rune 45 Uncommon 7,470
Death rune 45 Uncommon 9,135
Rune battleaxe 1 Uncommon 24,487
Rune 2h sword 1 Uncommon 37,758
Rune sq shield 1 Uncommon 22,459
Silver ore 100 (noted) Uncommon 7,000
Dragonstone 1 Uncommon 11,932
Uncut diamond 1 Rare 2,627
Dragon med helm 1 Rare 58,488
Rune kiteshield 1 Rare 32,015
Rune spear 1 Rare 11,933
Shield left half 1 Rare 65,697
Dragon spear 1 Rare 37,226
