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A Hill Giant is a type of giant found in several locations around RuneScape, most highly concentrated in the far southern end of the Edgeville Dungeon. These dungeons may be accessed through the entrance located in the house north-east of Barbarian Village and west of the Cooking Guild if the player has a Brass Key. The Edgeville Dungeon area is usually very crowded in free-to-play worlds, as players like to gather Big bones to bury them for Prayer experience. Members worlds usually are much less crowded due to the better money making options for members. There are two hill giants present in level 17-18 Wilderness; however, very few people go there because of the dangerous player killers in the area and its far distance from any bank. The closest bank for most hill giants in the Wilderness is in Edgeville. They are aggressive to players below combat level 57.
They have relatively low Defence for their level, which makes them quite good for experience from level 30 to level 50.
The hill giant is one of the creatures that could potentially drop a Champion's Scroll, making it a desirable monster both to train on for experience, due to its relatively high hitpoints but low defence, and for its respective scroll.
Killing a hill giant grants 140 experience in the attack style that the player is training, as well as 46.6 Hitpoints experience.
Locations
- Deep Wilderness Dungeon
- Edgeville Dungeon (13)
- South-West of Tree Gnome Stronghold (slightly North-West of the well) (6)
- Lava Maze, Level 43 Wilderness (4)
- North of the Observatory (6)
- Taverley Dungeon (5), past the Magic axe and Poison Scorpion
- Tree Gnome Village (2)
- Wilderness Level 17 and 18 (2), southeast of Bone Yard, near the Black salamander Hunter area
Money making
For low-levelled players, hill giants can be a great way to make money, as they always drop Big bones, which bring in around 200 gp each. They also frequently drop limpwurt roots, a secondary herblore ingredient. The major and most noticeable drawback to money making with hill giants however, is that the Edgeville Dungeon is often crowded.
In order to save weight whilst training on these giants, only equip dragonhide armour; if you are at least level 65 defence, you will not get hit frequently. This will reduce your weight, thereby allowing you to run further. Only equip a rune scimitar or rune 2h. This will save one inventory spot for big bones or limpwurt roots for strength potion brewing.
Drops
100% drop
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price 
Big bones 1 Always 262
Weapons/Armour
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Iron arrow 3 Common 15
Iron dagger 1 Common 23
Iron full helm 1 Common 34
Steel arrow 10–15 Uncommon 320–480
Iron kiteshield 1 Uncommon 31
Steel longsword 1 Uncommon 100
Iron 2h sword 1 Rare 50
Mithril arrow 3 Rare 57
Steel dagger 1 Rare 29
Steel platebody 1 Very rare 901
Adamant arrow 1–5 Very rare 57–285
Note: All rare and very rare weapons/armour drops are members-only.
Runes
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Water rune 7 Common 28
Fire rune 15 Common 75
Cosmic rune 2 Uncommon 286
Law rune 2–3 Uncommon 332–498
Nature rune 6 Uncommon 1,302
Mind rune 3 Uncommon 9
Death rune 2–3 Rare 406–609
Chaos rune 2 Rare 178
Herbs
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Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Guam leaf 1 Common 26
Marrentill 1 Common 24
Tarromin 1 Common 153
Harralander 1 Uncommon 706
Ranarr weed 1 Uncommon 7,682
Irit leaf 1 Uncommon 789
Avantoe 1 Uncommon 1,848
Kwuarm 1 Rare 1,195
Cadantine 1 Rare 1,339
Lantadyme 1 Rare 1,419
Dwarf weed 1 Very rare 427
Seeds
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Tomato seed 1–3 Common 1–3
Potato seed 1–4 Common 1–4
Onion seed 4; 8 Common 4–8
Strawberry seed 2 Common 10
Cabbage seed 4 Common 4
Limpwurt seed 1 Rare 30
Watermelon seed 1–4 Rare 71–284
Sweetcorn seed 3 Rare 6
Other
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Coins 8–493 Common Error
Limpwurt root 1 Uncommon 918
Beer 1 Uncommon 37
Body talisman 1 Uncommon 1,028
chaos talisman 1 Rare (1/400) 505
Long bone 1 Rare (1/400) Error
Curved bone 1 Very rare (1/5,000) Error File:Champion's scroll (giant).png Champion's scroll (giant) 1 Very rare (1/5,000) Error
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
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Trivia
- They were once just called 'Giants', but this was later changed by Jagex to avoid confusion between other giants.
- They are one of three kinds of giants available in free-to-play worlds, the other two being Moss giants and Ice giants.
- Some hill giants appear to be wielding cleavers, weapons from the Recipe for Disaster quest.
- Despite being called "hill giants", the majority of the giants are found in dungeons. The reason for the naming was revealed in a Postbag from the Hedge; they are called "hill giants" because their muscles on their arms resemble hills.
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