Moss giant

Moss giants are fairly large creatures that live in the RuneScape world. They are weak to fire spells. Moss giants are popular for training, especially on free-to-play worlds. This is because they are one of the few creatures that drop big bones. They also have a fairly high amount of lifepoints (providing 240 xp for an attack style that focuses on one skill and 79 Constitution xp for the level 42 Moss Giants).

The Moss giant also once held the position of Strongest monster in RuneScape, but this was in RuneScape Classic, when they had a combat level of 62. They are sometimes given out by Vannaka as Slayer assignments. Food is highly recommended for lower levelled players. Moss giants respawn approximately every 30 seconds, depending on the server's population. Once players reach level 85, the level 42 Moss Giants will stop being aggressive, although if you stay close to them for more than 12 minutes they will stop being aggressive too.

Locations
Level 42 Moss giants may be found in the following locations:

Level 48 Moss giants may be found in the following locations:
 * Brimhaven Dungeon (Members only) (Be sure to bring a hatchet if you choose this location, as you will need it to cut down vines to enter the cave, after paying off Saniboch.)
 * Chaos Tunnels (Members only)
 * Crandor Isle (Only 3 moss giants)
 * West of Fishing Guild (Members only)
 * Moss Giant Island, west of Brimhaven, 10 Agility required (Members only) (This is an ideal location for slayer tasks, as it's usually desolate and allows the player to easily rack up the kills. There are five moss giants here also there are two respawns of Slice of Cake.)
 * The Wilderness, north of the pond above The Wilderness volcano, in the green area.
 * Varrock Sewers (Only 4 moss giants spawn here)

Level 84 Moss giants may be found in the following locations:
 * Pirate's Cove (Members only) (Ten moss giants) 
 * Chaos Tunnels (Members only)


 * Glarial's Tomb and may only be fought unarmed. Prayer is also forbidden in the tomb. They play a role in the Waterfall and Roving Elves quests.

100% drop

 * Big bones

Weapons

 * Dragon spear (m) (very rare)
 * 15 Iron arrows (common)
 * Magic staff (common)
 * Mithril spear (m) (common)
 * Mithril sword (common)
 * Rune javelin (m) (very rare)
 * Rune spear (m) (very rare)
 * 30 Steel Arrows (common)
 * Adamant sword (rare)

Armour

 * Black full helm (rare)
 * Black square shield (very common)
 * Steel full helm (rare)
 * Steel kiteshield (rare)
 * Shield left half (m) (very rare)
 * Steel medium helmet (common)
 * Steel platebody (rare)

Runes

 * 18 Air runes (common)
 * 1 Blood rune (m) (rare)
 * 7 Chaos Runes (rare)
 * 3 Cosmic runes(common)
 * 1-3 Death runes (rare)
 * 27 Earth runes (common)
 * 3-6 Law runes (rare)
 * 6 Nature runes (common)

Gems

 * Uncut diamond (very rare)
 * Uncut emerald (rare)
 * Uncut ruby (very rare)
 * Uncut sapphire (common)

Seeds (members only)

 * Avantoe seed (rare)
 * Belladonna seed
 * Cactus seed (rare)
 * Cadantine seed (rare)
 * Consecration seed (Roving Elves Quest) (level 84 only)
 * Dwarf weed seed (rare)
 * Harralander seed (common)
 * Irit seed (rare)
 * Jangerberry seed (common)
 * Kwuarm seed (rare)
 * Lantadyme seed (rare)
 * Limpwurt seed (uncommon)
 * Magic seed (extremely rare)
 * Marrentill seed (common)
 * Mushroom spore (rare)
 * Poison ivy seed (rare)
 * Ranarr seed (common)
 * Snapdragon seed (rare)
 * Spirit weed seed (common)
 * Strawberry seed (common)
 * Tarromin seed (common)
 * Toadflax seed (uncommon)
 * Torstol seed (rare)
 * Watermelon seed (rare)
 * Whiteberry seed
 * Wildblood seed (rare)

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy avantoe
 * Grimy cadantine (rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (rare)
 * Grimy guam
 * Grimy harralander (common)
 * Grimy irit (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm (rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme
 * Grimy marrentill
 * Grimy ranarr (rare)
 * Grimy tarromin (common)

Bones

 * Curved Bone (m) (rare)
 * Long Bone (m) (rare)
 * Moss giant bone (m) (very common) - only for Rag and Bone Man wish list

Other drops

 * Chaos talisman (m) (very rare)
 * Coal (rare)
 * Coins - 2 (most common), 5, 7, 10, 37,108, 119, 300 or 419 (rare)
 * Loop Half of a key (m) (most rare)
 * Nature talisman (m) (very rare)
 * Spinach roll (uncommon)
 * Steel bar (very common)
 * Tooth Half of a key (m) (very rare)
 * Court summons (very rare)
 * Starved ancient effigy

Trivia

 * A Moss giant bone, which differs from the usual big bones dropped by Moss giants, are rare drops after completion of the first part of the Rag and Bone Man quest. It is one of the items in the wish list for the second part of the quest. This bone cannot be buried.
 * There are 2 Slice of cake spawns on the moss giant island near Brimhaven, and on uncrowded worlds, this can often make extra food unnecessary.
 * There is a pipe that players can access at level 51 Agility right next to Vannaka for easy access to moss giants if they are given as a slayer assignment. Though they give only 60 experience in this area, it is still a popular place for players to train the Slayer skill.
 * Moss Giants are good for training especially for F2P players due to their low combat level and their high life points, making 240 experience for each moss giant.
 * When they're killed, they "melt" to the ground, similar to the Ice giant.
 * Even though they drop more items they are less popular than Hill giants.
 * If you look closely, their examination of the Moss Giant is true - you can see the Beard twitching and curling even when the Moss Giant itself isn't moving.
 * As referred to Armies of Gielinor, Moss Giants are followers of Guthix.
 * A Moss Giant has to be fought unarmed in the Roving Elves quest.