Warped tortoise

The Warped tortoise is found during the The Path of Glouphrie quest and can be fought during and after the quest.

About the creature
Before players can damage a warped tortoise they must have a Crystal chime in their inventory (The shell of a cleansed tortoise is darker than that of an uncleansed one.) These monsters are vulnerable to all attacks once cleansed with slash attacks being the most effective. The tortoises can hit up to 104.

Its habitat, the Poison Waste Slayer Dungeon, is multi-combat. A Dwarf Multicannon will damage cleansed tortoises but not uncleansed ones.

Despite living in a poisonous environment, warped tortoises can be poisoned.

The tortoises sometimes drop Tortoise shells, which are used to create War tortoise pouches in Summoning. They also can drop Perfect shells. These cannot be used for war tortoise pouches but instead can be sold to Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan in exchange for 500 Crafting experience and 600 coins.

In an update in early March 2010, Warped Tortoises will be automatically charmed when attacked, so clicking on the charm is no longer necessary, unless attempting to combat multiple tortoises at the same time (eg. Ancient Magicks, Cannon, etc).

Players with a high Defence or access to the Bunyip summoning familiar should bring little to no food to maximize the number of item drops they can pick up. Warped Tortoises also commonly drop Tangled toads' legs which heal 150 life points.

A bank is very easy to reach by use of the nearby Spirit Tree which can take players to the Grand Exchange or Mobilising Armies if they have a familiar out and thus cannot access the Grand Exchange. For players that use a familiar, they can teleport to the tree north of the Khazard Battlefield and use the obelisk there to recharge their summoning points. With the Bones to Peaches update, it now becomes a viable healing option. The player can pick up the big bones and, after turning them into peaches, use them to stay as nearly as long as they wish.

Players with a low defence can safely range them (or use a halberd) just South of the Gap in the very first room, they just need to make sure the tortoises are either above the Direct east view or just on it from the lowest square of it. The two Eastern corners are safe spots as well.

Players can now easily use prayer on these, such as piety, to boost their attacks or use Protect Melee Prayers without a need for prayer potions. This can be done by using an Ardougne Cloak (any level) to teleport to the Kandarin Monastery, recharge their prayer, and run to the Spirit Tree at Khazard Battlefield to quickly get back to the Poison Waste Dungeon.

Habitat

 * Poison Waste Slayer Dungeon

100%

 * Big bones

Armour

 * Mithril platebody (uncommon)

Weapons

 * Dragon spear
 * Rune spear (rare)
 * Rune warhammer (rare)
 * Rune pickaxe (rare)
 * Rune Javelin (5) (rare)


 * Adamant hatchet (very common)
 * Mithril warhammer

Ore

 * Adamantite ore
 * Mithril ore (noted) (3-9)
 * Coal (noted) (7-16)

Runes

 * Air runes (49)
 * Law runes (3-6)
 * Law talisman
 * Nature talisman

Raw materials

 * Swamp tar (1-32)
 * Tortoise shell (1-4)
 * Uncut gems

Special

 * Perfect shell (1-3)
 * Curved bone (rare)
 * Long bone
 * Humerus bone (Fur 'n' Seek )

Other

 * Coins (33 - 177)
 * Cabbage (noted) (2-54)
 * Tangled toad's legs (1-4)
 * Weapon poison
 * Sulphur
 * Half of a key
 * Shield left half

Trivia

 * At one time it was possible to heal using Guthan's set even when the tortoises were not made vulnerable by the Crystal Chimes. This was because at one point Guthan's set counted potential damage inflicted on foes even when actual damage was not possible due to prayer or other invulnerabilities. An update on 9 June 2009 fixed this bug.


 * When examining a Warped Tortoise, the message says "You don't think you can harm this creature.", but if you examine a Warped Terrorbird, the message says "You don't think you can harm this terrorbird.", referring specifically to the terrorbird.