Living rock protector

Living rock protectors can be found throughout the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. They attack with melee and are surprisingly inaccurate for their combat level; a player with good armour and a decent Defence level will not find these monsters to be too big of a problem. In addition, they are aggressive, but the player actually has to be right next to them in order to be targeted. Thus, if enough care was taken, a player could navigate around the living rock protectors without being attacked at all.

Upon death they turn into Living rock remains which may be mined for Living minerals. The minerals are used as bait for fishing rocktails. They are given as slayer tasks by the Slayer Master Kuradal.

Strategies
Although the living rock creatures are all high-levelled, many players can kill them fairly easily, as they have low max hit, accuracy, and attack speed.

One of the main strategies for low levelled players is to run out, use the puncture special attack of the dragon dagger and then run to a safe spot. This can be done easily but with slow progress.

The more popular method is to tank them with a runite-dragon set (dragon platelegs, dragon med helm, rune platebody, dragon longsword/dragon scimitar) to a full set of higher level armour, such as full dragon armour, or Bandos armour.

One way to stay here for very long is to bring a bunyip familiar and lots of swallow whole scrolls and fish either rocktail or cavefish and eat them with the swallow whole scrolls. However, this requires high fishing and cooking levels.

Many players fight these for their average drops, but players with high Mining and Fishing kill these creatures to obtain bait for rocktail, which is one of the best pieces of food in Runescape.

While doing a slayer task it's advised to kill strikers instead of protectors as they are only a bit stronger, but provide 91 more xp per kill.

100% drop

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Runes

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Ores

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Other

 * 3 soft clay (noted) (uncommon)
 * Uncut sapphire (noted)
 * Uncut emerald (noted)
 * Uncut ruby (noted)
 * Uncut diamond (noted)
 * Adamant pickaxe
 * Mithril pickaxe
 * Starved ancient effigy

Charms
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