Cow



A Cow is a monster new players may find useful to train on. They are one of the first monsters new players see around Lumbridge. New players can earn experience in combat by killing them. Along with cows, players can also find weaker cow calves and non-attackable dairy cows.

In the cow field located north-east of Lumbridge castle, players can easily make money. At current Grand Exchange rates, players can make 0 coins per cow, providing that they sell the Raw Beef, Cowhide, and Bones from a cow.

When a cow dies, it drops raw beef (which gives Cooking experience when cooked), a cowhide (which players can sell for profit or turn into leather items for Crafting experience) and bones (which players can bury for Prayer experience). The vast majority of cows drop nothing beyond bones, raw beef, and cowhide.

Zanaris, a different realm to RuneScape, is the only place with talking cows. The cows of Zanaris seem to dislike the sheep as well as other players, and are apparently unaware of their ability to talk. There is also a windmill that is powered by a cow in lieu of the wind, which technically makes it a "cowmill". Also, when walking around or being attacked, the cow will often say "Moo" as if it had been typed by a player. A cow is also one of the possible NPCs players can talk to using the NPC Contact spell.

Locations

 * Lumbridge farm
 * North of the windmill north-west of Lumbridge (around Beefy Bill)
 * Zanaris
 * Yanille
 * Sinclair Mansion
 * At the Crafting Guild, there is a farm at the west of the building. The required Crafting level to enter the guild is not required.
 * South of Falador at the cabbage patch. The closest bank is in Falador (run time 28 seconds) where you can deposit the drops. Although, if you have the explorer ring 3 and ring of kinship, you could teleport to Daemonheim and bank your drops (short run). Then teleport back to the cabbage patch and climb over the small stile directly to the cow field.
 * West of Legend's Guild

Drops

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It has been confirmed that you can only receive a Staff of Air or a Sling from a Cow while you do not already have one in your inventory. However, dropping a Staff of Air before killing a cow can lead to a second Staff drop. This can only be repeated five times per day, and then it is impossible to pick up a Staff of Air, and previously dropped Staves are lost on the ground. A message, "You may only collect five of these per day." is shown on an attempt. It is also possible that if a Sling drop was received from another monster, you cannot get a Sling drop from the cow.

Providing that these are all sold to the Grand Exchange, players can make 0 coins per cow.

However, this is not recommended because each cow's drops need 3 spots in your inventory. Instead, you can just pick up the cowhides and you will be making more money and getting more combat experience for killing them.

Charms


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Trivia

 * When the cow says "Moo", the sound of a moo can usually be heard from the speakers; the new sound update has amplified this "Moo".
 * The examine text changes depending on the colour of the cow.
 * There is a bug where, when a cow dies, a cow positioned next to it will appear as if it is standing on top of the dead cow.
 * If you look at an attackable cow closely, you will see that they have udders, yet players aren't able to milk them.
 * If you attempt to talk to a cow in Zanaris, it will bring up the message: "Hmm, interesting, there appears to be a human trying to talk to me. Is it aware that cows can't talk I wonder? Maybe if I just ignore it, it might go away."
 * Cows didn't always drop slings and air staves until Jagex introduced a new spell, Wind Rush, and the introduction of slings for lower-levelled players to train the ranged skill without much/any cost.
 * In Lumbridge, regardless if you poison a Cow or not, it will never take damage from the poison. It seems to be an unfixed glitch.

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