Lava dragons reside in the Lava Dragon Isle in the Wilderness (between level 36 and 42 Wilderness). They were formerly red dragons, but have spent too long surrounded by lava and have been transformed. Lava dragons attack with Melee, as well as with dragonfire. They are particularly weak to Magic, thus making Fire Bolt a slow but profitable method of killing them.
Lava dragons can be safespotted both inside and outside their isle. The many piles of skeletons and edges at the isle allow for players to safespot them inside. Alternatively, players can camp some of the southern spawns outside the isle, although they should be careful as Vet'ion can walk to their safespot and attack the players. Having 74 Agility and the hard Wilderness Diary completed is recommended when killing them to use the stepping stones to escape potential player killers, as their habitat is a popular PK'ing spot.
Bringing a pestle and mortar is optional to grind the scales into shards, in addition to High Level Alchemy runes to alch their common adamant and rune equipment drops. If killing them from outside the isle, Telekinetic Grab will be needed to grab their drops. Players should remember that although they can stay as long as they want using this method, they should rebank every 10-20 minutes due to the risk of PK'ers.
Lava dragons are the only monsters to drop the lava dragon bones, which give 85 Prayer experience when buried. However, burying them on Lava Dragon Isle grants 340 Prayer experience instead.
Although they drop black dragonhide, they do not count as black dragons for a Slayer task.
Habitat
Reaching them
Drops
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Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Lava dragon bones 1 Always 4,720 Black dragonhide 1 Always 2,929 Lava scale 1 Always 3,770
Runes/Ammunition
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Rune dart 12 Common 13,608 Rune javelin 20 Common 3,500 Fire rune 75 Common 375 Lava rune 15–30 Common 60–120 Rune knife 8 Uncommon 2,504 Runite bolts 30 Uncommon 12,090 Death rune 20 Uncommon 4,060 Blood rune 20 Uncommon 7,340 Law rune 20 Uncommon 3,320 Onyx bolt tips 12 Uncommon 98,652 Dragon javelin heads 15 Uncommon 14,310
Weapons/Armour
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Adamant 2h sword 1 Uncommon 3,490 Rune longsword 1 Uncommon 18,606 Lava battlestaff 1 Uncommon 9,454 Rune axe 1 Uncommon 7,181 Adamant platebody 1 Uncommon 9,407 Rune kiteshield 1 Uncommon 32,015 Rune med helm 1 Uncommon 11,084 Rune full helm 1 Uncommon 20,588
Herbs
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Grimy guam leaf 1 Uncommon 15 Grimy marrentill 1 Uncommon 13 Grimy tarromin 1 Uncommon 132 Grimy harralander 1 Uncommon 674 Grimy ranarr weed 1 Uncommon 7,640 Grimy irit leaf 1 Uncommon 775 Grimy avantoe 1 Uncommon 1,814 Grimy kwuarm 1 Uncommon 1,165 Grimy cadantine 1 Rare 1,312 Grimy lantadyme 1 Rare 1,391 Grimy dwarf weed 1 Rare 448
Other
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Coins 66–3,000 Common Not sold Fire talisman 1 Uncommon 4,924 Fire orb 15 (noted) Uncommon 18,435 Chocolate cake 3 Uncommon 906 Looting bag 1 Uncommon (1/30) Not sold Adamantite bar 2 Uncommon 3,808 Draconic visage 1 Very rare (1/10,000) 4,940,340 Clue scroll (elite) 1 Rare (1/250) 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
Trivia
- Despite being a non-metallic dragon, lava dragons do not drop ensouled dragon heads. The same also applies for the King Black Dragon, although players can use a knife on his heads to get three ensouled dragon heads.
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Chromatic dragons |
Green (baby) (brutal) • Blue (baby) (brutal) • Red (baby) (brutal) • Black (baby) (brutal) | ||||||
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Slayer monsters |
Long-tailed Wyvern • Spitting Wyvern • Taloned Wyvern • Skeletal Wyvern • Brutal black • Ancient Wyvern | ||||||
Other |
Lava • Reanimated • Revenant
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Callisto • Chaos Elemental • Chaos Fanatic • Crazy archaeologist • King Black Dragon | ||||||||
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Elder Chaos druid • Ent • Green dragon • Lava dragon • Mammoth • Revenant • Runite Golem | ||||||||
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