Goblin



Goblins are generally weak monsters and useful for combat training at low combat levels. The goblins are green-skinned, hunch-backed, with elongated ears and teeth. Goblins are very important to the game since they appear in many quests.

Following the commandments of Bandos, whom they refer to as "Big High War God," most goblins try to live an unthinking life of fighting, wars, and bloodshed. They are simple-minded, warlike, easily controlled, and they have been used as basic foot soldiers by many different entities throughout the game's history. The exception is the Dorgeshuun tribe, also known as the cave goblins, who are educated, civil, and peace loving.

Historical background
Originally, the goblins were a gentle and moderately intelligent race of farmers living in Yu'biusk; a green and fertile place in an alternate dimension from Gielinor. However, Bandos arrived looking for soldiers to fight in his army in the God Wars, became the goblins' official deity, and then sent them to fight for him in Gielinor. Later visitors to Yu'biusk have found the place to be dead and devastated and have blamed Bandos for this, though although the actual events that occurred in Yu'biusk are not known for sure.

The goblins were gullible and followed Bandos to fight in his wars. Since the banishment of Bandos at the end of the God Wars and the dominance of humans, the influence and military might of goblins has lessened and over time goblins (other than the cave goblins, who hid underground) became less and less intelligent with few magical or technological abilities other than forging weapons and armour. Nowadays most goblins live in peace and harmony (sort of) with humans, but they are still violent, rude, stupid, and often have delusions of grandeur and think that goblins are the "chosen race" of Bandos the "Big High War God".

Locations
Goblins can be found in various places, including:
 * Lumbridge catacombs
 * Goblin Village
 * Port Sarim
 * Around the Digsite
 * Stronghold Of Security
 * Underground Pass
 * Goblin Cave
 * Coal Trucks
 * Holes in Myreque Hideout in Mort Myre
 * God Wars Dungeon
 * Cave near observatory
 * In the classroom of Mr. Mordaut's Random event.
 * East of Barbarian Village, south of Grand Exchange
 * Grand Exchange

Champions' Challenge
Goblins are one of the 'races' that have champions in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Goblin Champion, the player must kill goblins until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

Defence level
We know the attack level of level 2 goblins which is 2. Having a defence level of 10 and wearing armour will prevent almost all damage. When a level 2 goblin hits the player there is one chance out of three it will deal damage regardless of the defence level, otherwise it will hit 0, as if it missed. This has been tested: the goblin hit roughly 22.5% of the time to 1 defence and no armour player (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 1)) = 2/9 = 22.2% which's about correct). For 2 defence player without armour it hit roughly 17.5% (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 2)) = 1/6 = 16.67%). For 3 defence player again without armour it did roughly 12% (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 3)) = 2/15 = 13.33%)

Drops
Note: The labels 'rare' and 'very rare' are very overused in this section. Most items are very common compared to a truly rare item such as a Shield left half. 'Rarity' also depend on which goblin is killed. For instance, level 2 goblins (around Lumbridge) are more prone to drop bronze bolts, cabbage, chef's hats, and mind runes compared to the Goblin Village goblins (level 5).

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Weapons and armour

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Runes

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Herbs (members only)

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Other items

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Notable Goblins

 * General Wartface and General Bentnoze - Goblin generals prone to disagreeing with each other. Both are found in Goblin Village or the Land of Snow in the 2009 Christmas event.
 * Grubfoot - A low ranking worker in Goblin Village.
 * Sergeant Slimetoes and Sergeant Mossfists - Goblin sergeants from Goblin Village. Found only during Another Slice of H.A.M. quest.
 * Mudknuckles - Inventor of fast food. Currently in Goblin Village.
 * Wormbrain - A thief. Currently in Port Sarim prison.
 * Mistag - Overseer of the Dorgeshuun Mines (members only).
 * Kazgar - Shows players through the Dorgeshuun tunnels, allowing easy access to the mines and Dorgesh-Kaan (members only).
 * Zanik - A Dorgeshuun adventurer who plays a pivotal role in the four quests Death To The Dorgeshuun, Another Slice of H.A.M, The Chosen Commander, and Land of the Goblins ,(Members only).
 * Ur-Tag - The Dorgeshuun headman. Hangs out in the Dorgesh-Kaan council chamber in the northern upper level of the city.
 * Sergeant Strongstack, Sergeant Steelwill, and Sergeant Grimspike - Three incredibly strong goblins who assist General Graardor in the God Wars Dungeon.
 * Clothears
 * Goblin high priests Snothead, Snailfeet, Mosschin, Redeyes and Strongbones.
 * Hopespear - A Goblin prophet. He tells a story about goblin wars, Battle of Plain of Mud and his vision.
 * Players become goblins after drinking goblin potion from the Land of the Goblins quest. This is a temporary transformation and will be reverted by fighting, entering a sunlit area or wearing unsuitable clothing for a goblin.

Goblin tribes


The goblins are often presented as siding with enemy gods and nations, however, many became allies with humans after the human hero Arrav united them. Despite this, goblins still try to cause trouble to human settlements when possible, although they are generally not a threat. The goblin tribes can follow any god and most still are friendly with humans or too weak to attack them, but there are some which will always be loyal to Bandos and kill humans freely. Some also follow Zamorak, notably the Huzamogaarb tribe. It is believed that the tribe of Saragorgak was sold by Bandos to Saradomin since in the book it is said they are "Footsoldiers of Holy Wrath" and their name also begins with 'Sara'.

Goblin language
Goblins have (or at least have had) a language of their own though they do use the language of humans widely in the present day. Goblins seem to call them selves either shuun or huun, in which most of their tribes names end to.

Known words

 * Arrav - a curse, battle-cry
 * Dorges - Strong Spears
 * Drogokis - Fierce Blades
 * Ekeles - East
 * Garagors - the Sea
 * Horogothgar - Eaters of human flesh, (which is not cannibalism, as they are different species)
 * Huun - Goblins, goblins of something
 * Huzamogaarb - Live-Flesh Eaters of the Chaos God.
 * Idit - South
 * Naragos - West
 * Rekes - North
 * Saragorgak - Footsoldiers of the Holy Wrath
 * Thorobs - Hills
 * Yurkolgokh - The ones with flatulence, The Flatulent

Trivia

 * Goblins are one of the few monsters that drop chef's hats.
 * The goblins in Goblin Village sometimes attack each other, but are not aggressive towards players, unless talked to.
 * Goblins are one of the oldest creatures in RuneScape, and are often a player's first training creature.
 * The Level-2 goblins across the river from Lumbridge Castle can be a good source of gold charms since they exist in large numbers there and are easily killed.
 * The number of goblin tribes (12) may be based on the 12 tribes of Israel.
 * Prior to a graphical update some goblins wear red.
 * The goblin in Unstable Foundations may be affected by a glitch which will cause it to not move to the bag, and proceed to "search" in midair.
 * The goblin in Unstable Foundations has a notably higher attack speed than common level 2 goblins.
 * A goblin near the Lumbridge sheep farm uses a sword very similar to ones used by Orcs in the Lord of the Rings movie series.
 * According to the Goblin Courier in the 2010 Easter event, Goblins see Easter as the celebration of big battles. During this fest they use fireworks, red and green, and the same amount of each colour, otherwise there is big trouble.
 * In the God Wars Dungeon, some goblins are wearing banners with a Rekeshuun sign on it, meaning that the Rekeshuun Goblins fight in the God Wars Dungeon.
 * In the Plain of Mud, there is a single level 2 goblin that is aggressive, near one of the spear walls.
 * There are some goblins with the left-click option "talk to". when selected, it says that "the goblin has nothing interesting to say"