Living rock patriarch

Living rock patriarchs are huge creatures that randomly spawn in the Living Rock Caverns. When a patriarch appears, any player around the area can attack it, but since the cavern is a single-combat area only one player can fight it. As with all Living rock creatures, this monster is weak to crush attacks and immune to the effects of poison. Protect from Melee is recommended, but they are not very powerful for their combat level and a high-levelled player with good armour can easily kill it without any food or prayer. When slain, the patriarch always drops its entire drop table (which consists of four unique items in various quantities) at once. This drop is quite valuable, so whenever a player sees one, he or she should attack it as quickly as possible.

Despite common belief, their spawn is not triggered by killing living rock creatures, but rather the amount of people in the world. They spawn erratically every 2 hours, tending to appear in the south-west, south-east, and north-east corners of the cavern.

Tips
Being a non-aggressive monster it can be difficult to actually engage the Patriarch in combat, since it is often surrounded by aggressive Living rock protectors and Living rock strikers. If players accidentally engage in combat with a Striker, it can be very difficult to shake them off because of their far reaching range attacks and tendency to follow players for a fair distance. Players will normally have to either kill the striker, run to the opposite side of the cave to lose them, or get the striker stuck behind the many obstacles, but in this time another player may attack the Patriarch. In order to avoid this, players can take enough air runes to cast wind rush. This allows the player to quickly engage the Patriarch from a distance. Players should take note that even though they are firing spells at the Patriarch, other enemies can still attack them up close (spells take time to travel, and the monster is only considered under attack when the spell reaches it); this technique is simply used to stop other players from attacking the Patriarch. Since Air runes are so cheap, players need so few and they only take up one slot it is advisable to bring them instead of an Air staff, this way players won't need to worry about switching weapons around.

100% drops

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Trivia

 * The word 'patriarch' means 'father-ruler'.
 * The 100% drops from this monster are worth 0 coins.
 * They appear to have several Rock critters on their bodies, which some players speculate might mean that the critters are newborn Living Rock Creatures, pets, or just a sort of 'cleaning' symbiote.
 * They appear to have crowns on their heads, as is befitting of a patriarch.

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