Hill giant


 * This article is about Hill giants found in various locations across Gielinor. For the giants found under Daemonheim, see Hill giant (Daemonheim).

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. This dungeon can be accessed through the entrance located in the house north-east of the Barbarian Village and west of the Cooking Guild if you have a Brass Key. The Edgeville Dungeon area is usually quite crowded in F2P worlds, 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. Members worlds usually are much less crowded due to the better money making options for members. In 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) can fight these giants without dying. The closest bank is Bounty Hunter or Fist of Guthix.

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

Hill giants can hit up to 44 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, just south of Ourania Cave (6)(m)
 * Taverley Dungeon,(5) past the Magic axes and Poison Scorpions (m)
 * Tree Gnome Village (2) (m)
 * Wilderness level 28, 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 activity. To fight the Giant Champion, the player must kill hill giants until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop. (The activity 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 (8-88 rarely, 300 ) (most common drop)
 * Long bone (rare) (m)
 * Curved bone (rare) (m)
 * Limpwurt root (fairly common)
 * Limpwurt seed (rare) (m)
 * Beer (common)
 * Giant champion scroll (extremely rare) - used in the Champion's Challenge activity. (m)
 * Loop half of a key (rare) (m)
 * Tooth half of a key (rare) (m)
 * Shoulder bone (Fur'n'seek wish list item) (m)
 * Watermelon seeds (m)
 * Clue scroll (level 1)(m)
 * Court Summons (rare) (m)

Runes

 * 3 Mind runes
 * 7,13 Water runes (common)
 * 15 Fire runes (common)
 * 2 Cosmic runes (common)
 * 2 Chaos runes (rare)
 * 2,6 Nature runes (rare)
 * 2 Law runes(rare)
 * 2 Death runes (rare)
 * Body talisman (common)
 * Chaos talisman (very rare) (m)
 * Nature talisman (rare) (m)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire
 * Uncut emerald (common)
 * Uncut ruby (rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Weapons and armour

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


 * Iron kiteshield
 * Iron 2h sword
 * 5 Rune javelin (very rare) (m)
 * Steel longsword (common)
 * Rune Spear (very rare) (m)
 * Mithril arrow (rare)

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy guam (common)
 * Grimy marrentill (common)
 * Grimy tarromin (common)
 * Grimy ranarr (rare)
 * Grimy harralander (rare)
 * Grimy irit leaf (rare)
 * Grimy avantoe (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm (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 levelled players as they give 140 exp for strength, defence, or attack if not using a controlled (shared exp) attack.
 * Hill giants are often referred to as 'hillys' or 'hillies' by players.
 * Some hill giants appear to be wielding cleavers, the weapons from Recipe for Disaster.
 * Hill Giants are often used to gain easy money by lower levelled players. After lowering the giant's life points to half, they let another player kill the giant and obtain the drop.
 * These are one of the monsters known for dropping court summons for the Court Cases Distraction & Diversion.