Moss giant

Moss giants are fairly large creatures that live in the RuneScape world. They are weak to fire spells. Moss giants are popular for training, especially on free-to-play worlds. This is because they are one of the few creatures that drop big bones and they also have a fairly high amount of hitpoints (providing good combat experience).

The Moss giant also once held the position of Strongest monster in RuneScape, but this was in RuneScape Classic when they had a combat level of 62. They are sometimes given out by Vannaka as Slayer assignments. Food is highly recommended for lower levelled players. Moss giants respawn approximately every 30 seconds, or depending on the server's popularity. Once you reach level 85, the level 42 Moss Giants will stop being aggressive.

Locations
Level 42 Moss giants may be found in the following locations:


 * Crandor Isle
 * Varrock Sewers
 * The Wilderness, north of the pond above The Wilderness volcano.
 * Chaos Tunnels (Members only)
 * Brimhaven Dungeon (Members only)
 * West of Fishing Guild (Members only)
 * Moss Giant Island, west of Brimhaven, 10 Agility required (Members only)

In addition,


 * Level 84 giant moss giants can be found in Glarial's Tomb and may only be fought unarmed. Prayer is also forbidden in the tomb. They play a role in the Waterfall and Roving Elves quests. (Members only)
 * There are level 42 moss giants north of Ardougne. (Members only)
 * Ten level 48 moss giants can be found at Pirate's Cove. (Members only)


 * Level 48 moss giants can be found in the Chaos Tunnels. (Members only)

Drops
Over half of the drops are gold charms or coins.

100% drop

 * Big bones

Weapons

 * 15 or 30 Iron arrows (uncommon)
 * 30 Steel arrows (uncommon)
 * Mithril sword (uncommon)
 * Magic staff (uncommon)
 * Mithril spear (m) (semi-rare)
 * Rune javelin (m) (very rare)
 * Rune spear (m) (very rare)
 * Shield left half (m) (very rare)
 * Dragon spear (m) (very rare)

Armour

 * Black square shield (semi-common)
 * Black full helm (semi-rare)
 * Steel platebody (rare)
 * Steel medium helmet (common)
 * Steel kiteshield (uncommon)
 * Steel full helm (rare)

Runes

 * 27 Earth runes (rare)
 * 18 Air runes (semi-common)
 * 7 Chaos Runes (uncommon)
 * 6 Nature runes (m) (rare)
 * 3 Cosmic runes (m) (semi-common)
 * 3-4 Law runes (rare)
 * 1-3 Death runes (m) (very rare)
 * 1 Blood rune (m) (uncommon)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire (rare)
 * Uncut emerald (rare)
 * Uncut ruby (very rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Charms (members only)
(Moss giants do drop blue charms, but very rarely.)

Seeds (members only)
It is extremely rare to find 2 of the same seeds in one drop.
 * Tarromin seed (common)
 * Marrentil seed (common)
 * Harralander seed (common)
 * Limpwurt seed (semi-common)
 * Wildblood seed (uncommon)
 * Strawberry seed (common)
 * Spirit weed seed
 * Toadflax seed (semi-common)
 * Watermelon seed (uncommon)
 * Irit seed (rare)
 * Jangerberry seed (uncommon)
 * Mushroom spore (uncommon)
 * Cactus seed (rare)
 * Kwuarm seed (rare)
 * Whiteberry seed
 * Snapdragon seed (rare)
 * Belladonna seed
 * Poison ivy seed (uncommon)
 * Lantadyme seed (rare)
 * Cadantine seed (rare)
 * Avantoe seed (rare)
 * Dwarf weed seed (rare)
 * Torstol seed (very rare)
 * Consecration seed (Roving Elves Quest) (level 84 only)
 * Magic seed (extremely rare)
 * Ranarr seed (uncommon)

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy ranarr
 * Grimy lantadyme
 * Grimy harralander (rare)
 * Grimy cadantine
 * Grimy marrentill (rare)
 * Grimy irit
 * Grimy avantoe
 * Grimy dwarf weed (rare)
 * Grimy tarromin (rare)
 * Grimy guam (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm

Other drops

 * Coins - 2 (very common), 5, 7, 10, 37, 108, 119, 300 or 419 (rare)
 * Steel bar (common)
 * Coal (uncommon)
 * Spinach roll (very rare)
 * Loop Half of a key (m) (rare)
 * Tooth Half of a key (m) (very rare)
 * Long Bone (m) (rare)
 * Curved Bone (m) (rare)
 * Nature talisman (m) (very rare)
 * Chaos talisman (m) (very rare)
 * Moss giant bone (m) (common after the first part and used in the second part of the Rag and Bone Man quest) (very common)
 * Shoulder bone (m) (common after completed Fur 'n' Seek)

Trivia

 * A Moss giant bone, which differs from the usual big bones dropped by Moss giants, are rare drops after completion of the first part of the Rag and Bone Man quest. It is one of the items in the wish list for the second part of the quest. This bone cannot be buried.
 * There are 2 Slice of cake spawns on the moss giant island near Brimhaven, and on uncrowded worlds, this can often make extra food unnecessary. For some strange reason, when the Hitpoints level gets to around 30-40, the Moss Giants hits low or rarely.
 * There is a pipe that players can access at level 51 Agility right next to Vannaka for easy access to moss giants if they are given as a slayer assignment. Though they give only 60 experience in this area, it is still a popular place for players to train the Slayer skill.
 * Moss Giants are good for training especially for F2P players hence their low combat level and their high hitpoints, making 260 experience for each moss giant.
 * When their killed, they "melt" to the ground, similar to the Ice giant.