Red dragon



Red dragons are powerful monsters that can breathe dragonfire. As with all adult dragons, an anti-dragon shield or antifire potion is essential when fighting them as they can reduce the maximum hit of the dragonfire to about 100. It is an underrated monster as the red dragonhides and dragon bones are worth large amounts of money, and they can be safely maged or ranged from a safespot.

If assigned Red dragons as a slayer task, Baby Red Dragons may be killed as an alternative.

Locations

 * Red Dragon Isle in level 37 to 42 Wilderness (4 spawns, still only 3 Red Dragons are used to kill)
 * Brimhaven Dungeon (6 spawns, 5 spawns before update)

Strengths and weaknesses


Like all dragons, Red dragons have high defence, though they are less defended against stab and ranged attacks. Nevertheless, players with under 60 Ranged should not attempt to kill red dragons, as it is difficult to kill one with less than that. As with all dragons, an anti-dragon shield with possibly an anti-fire potion, a Super antifire, or a Dragonfire shield is essential when fighting them.

The Red Dragon Isle is recommended for players willing to risk death, because the Wilderness Volcano provides a relatively close banking area but unfortunately is extremely dangerous as players in that area can be a target for revenants. The Brimhaven Dungeon location is a safer place to combat Red Dragons. If you are fighting them here, remember to bring 875 coins (or Karamja gloves 3 for free entrance and possibly a teleport) for the entrance fee and a hatchet. There are a few safe spots in the South West corner and north of the Red Dragon area of the dungeon. The biggest issue is the interrupts from Wild dogs, though this can be countered by having a combat level of 127 or higher. It can be useful to bring Bones to Peaches tablets, so when you get low health you can kill a few dogs and then use the spell to produce food. After some time monsters stop being aggressive, so longer sessions at the dragons have fewer such interruptions and make it a lot safer to collect the drops as long as a player stays within a fairly limited area. If you are ranging, bring some food for the initial aggressive period and an Emergency teleport.

These dragons do not drop draconic visages. Also, these dragons are generally left alone unless the player is on a Slayer task, as they are too far from a bank and hard to kill to be efficient to kill for money. This is why, for a long time, black dragonhide was, and is, worth less than red dragonhide.

It should also be noted that an efficient money making trick for low to mid levelled players is to collect the white berries that respawn every 3 seconds in the southern part of Red Dragon Isle. Be aware that you may be subject to revenant attacks in this area, as they commonly patrol there.

A good tactic when fighting Red dragons is to hide in a safe spot and use a weapon such as a crossbow, a regular bow, a halberd, magic attacks, darts, knifes, or thrownaxe.

100% drop

 * Red dragonhide
 * Dragon bones

Armour and weapons

 * Adamant platebody (rare)
 * 4 Rune arrows (rare)
 * 8 Rune darts (rare)
 * Dragon medium helmet (very rare)
 * Rune longsword (rare)
 * Mithril 2h sword (rare)
 * Mithril hatchet
 * Mithril battleaxe
 * 20 Mithril javelins
 * 5 Rune javelins (rare)
 * Mithril kiteshield

Runes

 * 4 Law runes
 * 5 Death runes
 * 2 Blood runes

Charms
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 * Crimson charm (common)
 * Gold charm
 * Green charm (most common charm)
 * Blue charm (rare)

Other

 * Level 3 Clue scroll
 * Gems
 * 3 Chocolate cakes
 * Adamantite bar
 * Red dragon egg (99 Summoning required) (uncommon)
 * Coins (common)
 * Herb
 * Half of a key
 * Chaos talisman
 * Red dragon tail-bone (for the miniquest after Fur 'n' Seek)
 * Starved ancient effigy
 * Perfect red dragon scale (only when on a special slayer challenge from Vannaka)

Trivia

 * Red dragons are the second playable dragon in the Funorb game, Armies of Gielinor.
 * There was rumour that the Red Dragon on Red Dragon Isle drops a Rune Chainbody instead of an Adamant Platebody because it may only be killed with Range, Magic, or a Halberd, and since its appearance is slightly different. However, Mod Frantic said that "It's only a rumour and whatever the monster's location, its drops stay the same." The same has been said for the Red dragon in Brimhaven.
 * Red dragons have been graphically updated with the release of the quest Love Story.
 * Oddly Red dragons looks more orange rather than red when the new dragon's graphical update was in effect.

Some red dragons have the same design as the tutorial dragon.