Cockatrice


 * For information on the summoning familiar, see Spirit cockatrice.
 * For information on the familiar used during the 2008 Easter event, see Chocatrice.

Cockatrice are Slayer monsters that require level 25 Slayer to kill. They frequently drop limpwurt roots used in the Herblore skill. Mirror shields are necessary when fighting these.

In the quest Fur 'n' Seek, cockatrice skin must be collected and cleaned for the Odd Old Man.

Locations

 * Fremennik Slayer Dungeon

Strengths and weaknesses
A mirror shield must be used when fighting these. If a regular shield (or no shield at all) is equipped, then the cockatrice will shoot out beams from its eyes quickly reducing stats to dangerously low levels (1/4 of the player's original levels e.g. 15/60) and causes rapid damage for up to 110 life points per hit (it does more damage with higher levels). They have few life points and do not hit substantially when mirror shields are equipped. Their attack speed is the same as a scimitar. The slash, stab, and crush attack styles seem to be accurate against them. It also appears they have very little defence against magic attacks.

100% drop

 * Bones

Weapons/Armour
Runes:
 * Iron sword (common)
 * Steel dagger (common)
 * Steel platelegs (rare)
 * Steel longsword (common)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Dragon Spear (very rare)
 * 5 Iron javelins (uncommon)
 * 5 Rune Javelins (very rare)
 * Iron boots (uncommon)
 * White Mystic boots (very rare)
 * Rune med helm (very rare)
 * 2 Water runes (common)
 * 7 Fire runes (common)
 * 2, 4, or 6 Nature runes (common)
 * 2-3 Law runes (common)

Grimy herbs

 * Guam (common)
 * Marrentill (common)
 * Harralander (common)
 * Tarromin (common)
 * Irit (rare)
 * Avantoe (common)
 * Kwuarm (rare)
 * Dwarf weed (very rare)
 * Ranarr (rare)
 * Lantadyme (rare)
 * Cadantine (rare)

Seeds

 * Potato
 * Onion
 * Cabbage
 * Strawberry
 * Ranarr

Other

 * Coins: 1, 5, 15, 28, or 62 (common)
 * Level 2 clue scroll
 * Limpwurt root (common)
 * Cockatrice egg (common)
 * Cockatrice head (very rare)
 * Mithril ore (rare)
 * Uncut gems, up to diamond (rare)
 * Half of a key (very rare)
 * Chaos talisman (very rare)
 * Starved ancient effigy

Trivia

 * The cockatrice appears to be a hybrid of a bird and a snake. This is further supported by its examine info, "The winged reptile" and all of its modified summoning counterparts, (such as the spirit zamatrice), which are all cockatrice versions of birds hatched from eggs obtained from a bird's nest. (With the exception of a penguin egg, which can be obtained from the penguin keeper in Ardougne zoo with 30 Summoning).
 * This creature was based on the mythical Cockatrice.
 * The Cockatrice is similar to the real-life, now extinct, Archeopteryx.
 * Cockatrices can be a good source of money. Their high drop rate of limpwurt roots and high drop rate of herbs and easy kills add up to a good amount of coins per hour.