Monastery of Saradomin



The Monastery (also known as the Prayer Guild) is a two-story building north-east of Falador and west of Edgeville. A combat bracelet can be used to teleport inside the monastery, and is the fastest method to get there. Monks wander inside, both in the courtyard and inside the building. It is the only place with an Altar available in Bounty hunter.

The monastery and its monks were graphically updated on 7 May 2008.

Ground floor




The ground floor of the monastery contains various decorations, benches, fountains and a cabbage spawn in the north, along with some rose bushes and cabbages. It is also home to some monks, including Abbot Langley. He is a non-player character who makes sure that only players with a Prayer level of 31 can climb up to the first floor. He can also heal players upon request.

This is a very popular place for players for training on, as monks give good combat experience and heal players when they are hurt. Monks heal up to 16 Hitpoints each time the player asks, while Abbot Langley heals up to 12.

The monks at the monastery used to heal themselves during combat after they had taken a significant amount of damage. This made the monks on the ground floor a popular training spot for Defence pures, as the latter only has a maximum hit of 1. The monks would then continually heal themselves, making it incredibly hard for a Defence pure to kill a monk. However, this was changed in 2008 and monks no longer heal themselves during combat. This modification does not appear to have ever been publicly mentioned by Jagex. Fuck them.

There is a Musician just outside the Monastery.

First floor
Players need level 31 Prayer to go up to the first floor. The first floor contains various decorations, monks, Brother Jered, an altar, a Kharid scorpion, and the top and bottom pieces of the monk's robes set. Brother Jered does not heal players. The monks also apparently do not abide by the combat system of Jagex, because to get up to the first floor, 31 prayer is needed. The monks have 5 combat, so even if they had 1 in all combat skills, 15 in hitpoints, and 31 in prayer, their combat level should be 8.

Players should not pick up the Kharid scorpion, as doing so will deal them 3 damage for each time. The only way to get the scorpion is by using a scorpion cage on it during Scorpion Catcher.

Brother Jered can bless unblessed symbols into holy symbols. He can sell members with 99 Prayer the Prayer cape for 99,000 coins. In addition, he can make Blessed spirit shields if the player brings him a normal Spirit shield and a holy elixir.

Praying at the altar fully recharges a player's prayer points, in addition to giving a +2 bonus over the player's max prayer points. This +2 boost makes it the best altar available to free players.

Early on in RuneScape 2, the first floor of the Monastery was among the locations to which a player could be teleported if they did not respond to particular random events. This led to some non-members who had below 31 Prayer with two higher Prayer points than their maximum due to the effect of the altar located there. This meant, for example, that a level 3 non-member could have "3/1" Prayer (in other words, they would possess 3 prayer points out of a maximum 1 of point). However, teleportation to the first floor is now impossible, rendering non-members below 31 prayer with two extra prayer points highly unusual.

Quests
There are some quests that involve the Monastery:
 * The Great Brain Robbery - The Prayer book is found in the bookcase to the east.
 * Garden of Tranquility - Player must take seeds from rosebushes in the garden of the Monastery.
 * Perils of Ice Mountain - Player must bring letter to Brother Bordiss.
 * Scorpion Catcher - The Kharidian scorpion is on the 1st floor of the Monastery.

Trivia

 * When at full prayer points and try to recharge prayer a message will appear: "you boost your prayer points" instead of "you recharge your prayer points".
 * Taking the monk robes from the table on the first floor is an effective way of making money. Although, competition for the monk robes are sometimes extremely strong, the respawn time is relatively short, depending on the number of players online.
 * Brother Jered is sometimes described as the 'monk leader' of the Monastery.