Rocktail



Rocktail are fish found in the Living Rock Caverns. Rocktail require a Fishing level of 90 or higher to fish and give 380 experience per catch. They require a Cooking level of 93 to cook and give 225 experience per fish. Evidence suggests that players burn Rocktails either extremely rarely or never at level 94 while wearing Cooking gauntlets, and receive around 270k experience per hour. Cooking one inventory of rocktail, as with any food cooked in the same way, takes about 80 seconds. They require a Fishing rod and living minerals as bait to catch.

Rocktail heal 230 life points and can heal players up to 100 life points higher than their maximum life points. This makes it the 6th best single-bite food in the game (outside of Daemonheim) behind Tiger sharks (250 with a life point boost) kebab (possibly 300, although this is very rare), baron shark (300), juju gumbo (320) and drinking a poison chalice (up to 490 may damage you up to 600). Eating raw rocktail using the Bunyip's Swallow Whole scroll currently does not boost life points above the maximum. The effect does not stack with Saradomin brews, or Tiger sharks.

The bait needed to catch rocktail is called living minerals, which can be obtained by killing and then mining (73 Mining required) living rock creatures within the Living Rock Caverns, from buying from the Grand Exchange, or from other players.

It is not very hard to fish these in the Living Rock Caverns, as a bank is fairly close and attacks from living rock creatures could be easily evaded. To reduce the chances of death; logging in on world 84 or the alternative worlds 77 or 114 would be a safe decision w114 is also a player made guild world in progress with constant bot watchers, since it is the unofficial Living Rock Caverns world and many people are also fishing and mining there which stops the monsters only targeting you on less populated worlds.

A test conducted at the Cooking Guild with cooking gauntlets equipped yielded a burn rate of 12 rocktails out of 1960, or 0.006%, at the minimum level required to cook them (93).

Trivia

 * Rocktail are very similar to the real-life Angler fish as they have a bio-luminescent esca (fleshy-like stem with a bulb that emits natural light) on their heads.
 * Rocktails' bio-luminescence is very similar to that of Aquanites.
 * The Shoal fishing spot for rocktail are 4 times Rocktailshoal.PNG‎r than any other fishing spot, making Rocktail shoals the biggest type of fishing spot at this time.
 * Unlike the prices of raw/cooked sharks, the high demand of rocktails used in PVP and dangerous situations has caused the price of cooked rocktails to be generally higher than the raw version of rocktails. Therefore, players who buy their raw rocktails that wish to train cooking may make some profit by cooking them.
 * Rocktail, along with Cavefish, are two of the few fish which provide more experience when fished than when cooked.


 * Rocktail are cheaper to buy than manta rays, even though the Rocktail heal more. This is because they are far easier to catch. They are also much easier to cook than manta rays.
 * Rocktail are also the fifth fastest fishing experience on Runescape at 45k/hr with fishing urns, behind Dungeoneering fishing method 100k, Barbarian heavy rod fishing at 65k, Fish Flingers at 55k and Shilo fly fishing at 50k.
 * During the Evil Bob random, if you have a cooked rocktail in your inventory and try to uncook it, it tells you that you need "50 uncooking level".

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