Hill giant

A Hill giant is a type of giant found in several locations in RuneScape, most highly concentrated in the far southern end of the Edgeville Dungeon.They also appear to be wielding one of the Torag's hammer, but only one of them, not two. This dungeon can be accessed through the entrance located in the house north-east of the Barbarian Village and west of the Cooking Guild. The Edgeville Dungeon area is usually quite crowded, as players like to gather Big bones and either bury them for Prayer experience, or sell them to the Grand Exchange or to other players. At the Wilderness, very few people (usually players around 40-60 combat) go there because of the dangerous revenants in the area. However, with food and proper armour, a lower level player (30-40) could fight these giants without dying. The closest bank is Bounty Hunter, or Fist of Guthix.

If given as a Slayer assignment players may kill cyclopes instead.

Hill giants can hit up to four damage, only attack with Melee, and have very low Defence which makes them great for level 30-50 training.

Locations



 * Deep Wilderness Dungeon (m)
 * Edgeville Dungeon (12) - This location is popular especially on F2P worlds as it hosts some safespots for rangers and mages
 * South-west of Gnome Stronghold (6) (m)
 * Lava Maze, Level 33 Wilderness
 * North of the Observatory. (m)
 * Taverley Dungeon,(5) past the Magic axes and Poison Scorpions (m)
 * Tree Gnome Village (2) (m)
 * Wilderness level 18, south-east of Clan Wars, near the Hunter area.

Champions' Challenge
Hill giants are one of the 'races' who have lesser champions in the Champions' Challenge minigame. To fight the Giant Champion, the player must kill hill giants until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop. (The minigame just uses the term 'giant', but the only type of giant that drops the scroll is the hill giant.)

100% Drop

 * Big bones

Other drops

 * Coins (around 8-88 gp, may get 300 gp) (most common)
 * Long bone (fairly rare) (m)
 * Curved bone (rare) (m)
 * Limpwurt root (common)
 * Limpwurt seed (rare) (m)
 * Beer (very common)
 * Giant champion scroll (extremely rare) - used in the Champion's Challenge minigame. (m)
 * Loop half of a key (fairly rare) (m)
 * Tooth half of a key (fairly rare) (m)
 * Shoulder bone (Fur'n'seek wish list item)(m)

Runes

 * 3 Mind runes (uncommon)
 * 7 Water runes (common)
 * 15 Fire runes (common)
 * 2 Cosmic runes (common)
 * 2 Chaos runes (rare)
 * 6 Nature runes (rare)
 * 2 Law runes (uncommon)
 * 2 Death runes (rare)
 * Body talisman (common)
 * Chaos talisman (rare) (m)
 * Nature talisman (rare) (m)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire
 * Uncut emerald (fairly common for a gem)
 * Uncut ruby (rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Weapons and Armour

 * 3 Iron arrows (common)
 * 10-15 Steel arrows (semi-common)
 * Iron dagger (common)
 * Iron full helmet (very common)


 * Iron kiteshield (common)
 * Iron 2h Sword (very rare)
 * 5 Rune javelin (very rare) (m) (Almost never)
 * Steel longsword (common)
 * Rune Spear (very rare) (m)
 * Mithril Arrow (uncommon)

Herbs (Members only)

 * Grimy guam (common)
 * Grimy marrentill (common)
 * Grimy tarromin (common 1 in 15-50 kills)
 * Grimy ranarr (semi rare)
 * Grimy harralander (semi rare)
 * Grimy irit leaf (rare)
 * Grimy avantoe (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm (semi rare)
 * Grimy cadantine (very rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed(rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme (very rare)

Trivia

 * They were once just called 'Giants', but this was later changed by Jagex to avoid confusion between other giants.
 * There are only three kinds of giants available for the free players who drop big bones: Moss giants, Hill giants, and Ice giants.
 * It is recommended that those who want to fight Hill giants with Melee in Edgeville Dungeon to bring along shortbows and arrows, so one can use shortbow to first attack the Hill giant before anybody does (because shortbows are as fast as a scimitar),and then switch back to a Melee weapon. Players can also use Crossbows as they can be used with a Shield.
 * Because of the high concentration of players, it is beneficial to memorise the general spawn point for these giants. Once one has been killed off, keep your mouse over the point and click it immediately when the Hill giant spawns. Scimitars and arrows are both faster than Magic.
 * Hill giants are often used to train on by mid leveled players as they give 144 exp for strength, defence, or attack if not using a controlled (shared exp) attack.
 * Hill giants are often shortened to 'hillys' or 'hillies' by players.
 * Some hill giants appear to be wielding cleavers, the weapons from Recipe for Disaster.