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My discussions of mith dragon requirements and combat abilities might have mostly scared off potential mith dragon slayers, what with all my talk of expensive equipment, food and potions, and the strong attacks and high defence of the monsters. But never fear, there are ways to conquer all of that! And now, I’m going to dangle a plum in front of you by describing some of the goodies you can expect to get when you kill these beasties.

The next three subsections list the very common and common drops of mith dragons, the uncommon and rare drops, and the special ones as well. Hopefully this will whet your appetite. J Note that I consider common drops to be ones you are likely to see at least once after 20 or so kills; uncommon drops are seen perhaps 1 in 50 kills, and rare drops are those I have seen less than 1 time in 100 kills (sometimes a lot less.) A special drop is a rare drop that is unique to the monster or to a small set of monsters of which this is one.

All mithril dragons drop three mithril bars and dragon bones when they die. I always keep the bars and try to keep the bones, burying them on the spot only if out of inventory space. Saving and banking the bars is key to fighting mith dragons without losing millions on supplies, since the bars currently represent around 5,000 worth of drops per kill, which is a big percentage of the potion/food/bolt cost of fighting them. See Figure 336 for some examples of typical drops from a couple of trips to the mith dragons.

In Table 67 I have listed the very common and common drops of mith dragons, listed roughly in order of increasing value. Those values are based roughly on current market prices, or alch values for items a high-level normally wouldn’t bother to sell (for example, the dozens of rune battleaxes, spears and maces I have received from killing miths). I have added comments where appropriate.

Again, mithril dragons will fairly often give a “bonus shark” in addition to a regular drop. This can be quite handy if you are running low on food while fighting them!

Table 68 lists some of the less common and truly rare drops of the mithril dragons. It is sorted roughly in increasing value order, like Table 67, and again I have added comments as appropriate.

Some of the items listed in this table are based on reports from other players or websites, and represent drops I have not obtained myself. They are noted accordingly; if you have definitely had any of the rare drops that I am unsure about, please let me know. I have also listed the special drops here, which are discussed in more detail in the next subsection.

The mithril dragons have four drops that I consider special, because they are either unique to the mithril dragons, or the miths are one of the few ways to get them. Here’s a bit more about the four:

• Ancient Pages: These pages go into the special journal that Otto Godblessed gives you during Barbarian Training. They provide part of the back story of the Ancient Cavern, though the journal has no other specific use at this time. Clicking on a page will transcribe it to your journal; it then disappears. These pages can only be obtained as random mith dragon drops or by searching the corpses in the cavern (a very slow and tedious process.)
  
  Oddly—though quite conveniently—you can even do this while in the cavern, even if the journal is back in your bank. Be sure to take advantage of this to save on inventory space.
  
  
• Chewed Bones: These bones are the key item in the Barbarian Training pyre boat minigame, and are only obtainable as mith dragon drops. Bring one or more sets of these bones, a tinderbox, woodcutting hatchet and logs to one of the pyre sites around Otto’s lake and you can burn the bones. You receive a random item reward, which can in theory be as good as a dragon full helm but often is a rather low-value item (and may be complete junk like 5 silver bolts). You are also “blessed” in your future prayer training, which means you get triple the normal prayer XP for burying bones. You also get some Crafting and Firemaking XP for your trouble. See Figure 337 if you want to know what burning a pyre boat looks like.
  
  I recommend using at least mahogany or yew logs for pyring chewed bones, as this gives you the prayer boost for 4 bones. (Magic logs give 5 but they are more valuable and require very high levels.) This bonus “stacks”—for example, if you do it ten times with yew logs your next 40 bone buryings are triple XP. Don’t waste this in a bank on bones you could take to a gilded altar; take advantage of it in a place like the iron/steel dragon lair where you normally bury bones.
  

  Figure 337: Burning Chewed Bones in a Barbarian Pyre Boat

  To make and burn a pyre boat you need chewed bones, a woodcutting axe, logs and a tinderbox (or bow). In the first frame here you can see me building the pyre boat from the logs (which is automatic). In the second, the “barbarian spirit” rises to his “afterlife” and I am given 20 addy knives as a reward.

  
  
  
  
• Draconic Visage: The core component of the very useful dragonfire shield, the draconic visage is dropped by mithril, steel, iron and black dragons, plus the King Black Dragon. In theory, miths should drop them more frequently than the others since they are the toughest dragon in the game, but you sure wouldn’t know it from my luck! J
  
  
• Dragon Full Helmet: The “signature” drop of the mithril dragon, this item is very rare and still very expensive a month after it came out. Like most drops, it comes down to luck; some people get one after a few dozen kills, others don’t even after several thousand!

Note that mith dragons are also frequent clue scroll droppers (level 3). These scrolls appear in addition to another drop. Also, as mentioned before, sometimes miths will toss in a “bonus shark” on top of another drop.

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