Living rock striker

Living rock strikers can be found throughout the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. They have very high hitpoints, decent drops, and are fairly easy to kill; despite looking threatening and defensive, players with 75+ Attack will find a whip very suitable. A person with 80+ Defence, with rune or better armour, could easily kill one of these without taking much damage. A player with 80+ Defence may instead choose to use a Bunyip with the weaker Fighter torso. They will only use their ranged attack if you move a distance from it, which hits much more frequently and consistently harder than their melee attack, if the player attacks them and is not in melee range. As with all other living rock creatures, the strikers are immune to the effects of poison. In addition, they are aggressive, but the player must be right next to them to be targeted. A player with good clicking skills could navigate the cavern without being attacked at all.

Their remains can be mined to receive living minerals and 25 Mining experience. A Mining level of at least 73 is required. The minerals serve as bait for fishing rocktails at level 90 Fishing.

One way to stay here for very long is to bring a bunyip familiar and lots of swallow whole scrolls and fish either rocktail or cavefish and eat them with the swallow whole scrolls. However, this requires high fishing and cooking levels.

Another effective method is to bring full guthans to stay for long periods of time. You can switch to full slayer helm and/or a better weapon such as a godsword or barrelchest anchor for the better crush stats, and then switch back to guthans to heal when needed. If swapping weapons, make sure to change attack style to crush each time you switch.

Lower levels can use Protect from Melee or Protect from Range depending on combat style, as the strikers do not react to protection prayers.

For a miner, the Striker can be annoying with its damaging range attack, one trick to erase its memory is to run to a safe place (bank deposit, behind rocks) then quickly log out and log back in.

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Trivia

 * When Living Rock Strikers stand still, at a set amount of time they would either scratch their left chest, or pluck a rock from itself, and take a short look at it before putting it back.
 * On certain Worlds such as World 84, players attacking Living Rock Strikers may not be seen, making the Living Rock Striker look like it's hitting nothing. In other times, a player may look like they're floating. This is probably due to the immense number of people fishing and/or mining, causing lag.
 * If the mouse pointer is scrolled over a Living rock striker in the distance(with the black 'sky' behind it), the top 'right click' option of the Living rock striker can been seen, instead of 'Walk here.'
 * When a Living Rock Striker drops a Starved Ancient Effigy, the Effigy appears directly below the remains, while the drop appears to the side.
 * When a Living Rock Striker attacks with its ranged attack, it appears to pull the rock out of its chest, where the heart would be. This may mean the Living Rock Striker is physically throwing its "heart" at the player.

Living rock striker