Bones


 * The article is about the item. For the NPC see Bones (kitten).

Bones are items associated with the Prayer skill. They are dropped by almost all monsters around RuneScape. Bones give 4.5 Prayer experience when buried. Players may also use the spell Bones to Bananas or the spell Bones to Peaches to turn bones to edible fruit, i.e. bananas or peaches.

Trading for bones is not recommended (although when sold in groups of 24 at the Grand Exchange, they can sell for about 2k), as bones are extremely common and can be found at almost every location - players can either find them on the ground (left behind by players who have killed creatures and did not bother to pick up the bones), or they can kill NPCs and collect the bones.

It is advised not to bury bones inside houses or places where doors can be closed - burying bones can risk a player to summoning a shade or a zombie (both are random events), and other players may take the opportunity to close the door and keep it closed to prevent the character from escaping.

Areas with enemies that spawn quickly after death, such as the goblin area in Lumbridge are great places to collect bones easily without much hassle. Areas like these, even though occupied, many do not pick up the bones at first. This gives you the chance to level up your prayer fast. Another area where bones can be easily found and collected is outside Lumbridge Castle on free to play worlds, and in Lumbridge in pvp worlds where bones can be collected in large numbers with ease, but with the risk of getting killed by another player, so it is reccomended to wear nothing while collecting bones on a pvp world.

Although many players do not bury bones and leave them on the ground, it is recommended that you do bury the bones a monster drops, as you will get some experience in the Prayer skill.

Unlike the prices of many other raw materials, bones have steadily increased in price on the Grand Exchange: starting at 26 coins and currently at. This is most likely due to the discrepancy in price and experience between bones and big bones, with big bones priced at coins each while yielding only three times the Prayer experience. However it is unlikely that bones will climb past 100 coins, as the experience-to-cost ratio advantage would disappear.

Supposedly, the bones that aren't buried vanish and go to the mage training arena and are used in the Creature Graveyard game.

Trivia

 * In RuneScape Classic the examine text for bones is "Ew, it's a pile of bones." This still applies to Big Bones, but without the comma.