Spider



Spiders are found all over RuneScape, but most notably in the Stronghold of Security, where they can be found at combat level 24 and in large numbers. Level 24 spiders are aggressive and can hit up to 60 life points. Like rats, they usually do not appear on the minimap. It should be noted that they can drop charms. Low levels and some high levels fight Spiders because of their chance of dropping Earth Talismans. Earth Talismans are fairly expensive and can be used to make money. On the G.E. they cost around 3k.

Locations

 * Melzar's Maze every floor, including in the same room as Melzar and lesser demons
 * Al Kharid Desert (in witch's house)
 * Lumbridge castle basement, and in the broken house behind the castle
 * Stronghold of Security (3rd floor, level 24)
 * Ape Atoll temple - level 1 type, aggressive to all players and poisonous. They can poison through prayer, like all poisonous monsters. Like Cave slimes, they need not inflict damage to cause poison. Their poison hits 48 LP initially (approx).
 * Ogre Enclave scurrying under the thundering feet of the Ogre leaders and blue dragons. These spiders are visible on the minimap.
 * The Wilderness - all over the ground.

Related Species

 * Giant Spider
 * Corpse Spider
 * Shadow Spider
 * Jungle Spider
 * Deadly Red Spider
 * Poison Spider
 * Fever spider
 * Blessed spider
 * Crypt Spider
 * Giant Crypt Spider
 * Ice spider
 * Spirit spider
 * Eek
 * Spider (Easter)
 * Spider (Web of Shadows)

Training
Spiders have recently been discovered to be good for training Magic. Players typically do this by wearing a full melee set to get their magic attack bonus as low as possible in order to splash nearly every spell. This allows them to autocast for an extended period of time with minimal input. Players should not leave their keyboard while doing this, as it is against the rules and could result in offenses applied to their account.

The downside to this training method is that players only get the base level experience for casting the spell and none for causing damage, seeing as no damage is inflicted. This makes the experience more expensive in terms of runes to experience points.

Drops
Coins (2-10)

Earth talisman (common)

Bread dough (common)

Bronze med helm (common)

Fire rune (4-8)

Earth rune (4-6)

Green charm

Trivia

 * In the Haunted Woods west of Port Phasmatys there is a small Spider that has no Combat Level and cannot directly attack a player. However, it will chase after a player as if it were attacking them. Examining the spider results in the game stating, "Nasty little creature."...this spider seems to summon a higher level vampire to attack.
 * It was discovered during the 2009 Hallowe'en event that spiders come from the Spider Realm, a different realm to RuneScape.
 * The un-attackable spiders that you can only examine via right clicking in the Haunted Woods are spawn points for lvl 72 Vampires.
 * The spider at Ape Atoll Temple spawns every 2 seconds.