Hill giant

A hill giant is a type of giant found in several locations around RuneScape, most highly concentrated in the far southern end of the Edgeville Dungeon and the resource dungeon of the same location. These dungeons may be accessed through the entrance located in the house north-east of Gunnarsgrunn and west of the Cooking Guild if the player has a Brass Key. The Edgeville Dungeon area is usually very crowded in free-to-play 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 at the Wilderness Volcano or Fist of Guthix.

If these are given as a Slayer assignment, players may NOT kill cyclopes instead.

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

Hill giants are fought for massive prayer experience as one big bone, which they always drop, gives 15 Prayer experience, which is quite a lot for players with levels 1-43 Prayer. Although most members would rather use dragon bones.

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 17, south-east of Clan Wars, near the Hunter area.
 * Edgeville dungeon resource dungeon, level 20 Dungeoneering required.

Champions' Challenge
Hill giants are one of the 'races' who have a lesser champion in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Giant Champion, the player must kill hill giants until one drops a Champion's scroll, 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

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Other drops

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Herbs (members only)

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Seeds (members only)

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Money Making
For F2P players, Hill Giants can be a great way to make money, as they always drop Big bones, which bring in coins each at the GE. They also frequently drop a Limpwurt root. The close proximity to the Grand Exchange, and their low combat level, makes them a great way to earn coins and gain combat experience. Be wary, though, because this place usually has lots of players.

In order to save weight and if you are at least level 65+ so you won't get hit as often, when you are training on these giants, equip just dragonhide armour while collecting items. This will reduce your weight allowing you to run further. Equip just a rune scimitar or rune 2h. This will save one inventory spot for bones or limpwurt root for strength potion brewing. Reserve one inventory spot for coins and most players leave their coin drops and you can get over 2k from one trip just picking up everybody's coin drops. At least 20 spots should be reserved for big bones and the rest could be roots as they are very popular and are worth more than big bones. It is also a good idea to bring a bonecrusher if you want to gain prayer experience without spending the time to pick up your bone drops.

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.
 * Hill giants are often used to train on by mid levelled players as they give 140 exp for range, 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.


 * The two bold hill giants in Edgeville Dungeon are slightly redder in colour.
 * If you receive a slayer task to kill Hill giants, it is possible to kill cyclopes as a substitute. However, the reverse is not true: if you receive a slayer task to kill cyclopes, killing hill giants does not count toward the task.
 * They seem to be wearing one of Torag's hammers. This probably isn't a error, and probably is a normal warhammer.