Goblin



Goblins are generally weak monsters, useful for combat training at low combat levels. The goblins are green-skinned, hunch-backed, and with elongated ears and teeth. Goblins are very important to the game, as they appear in many quests.

Following the commandments of Bandos, who they refer to as "Big High War God", most goblins try to follow his commandments to live an unthinking life of fighting, wars and bloodshed. They are simple minded, warlike and easily controlled, and they have been used as basic foot soldiers by many different entities throughout the game's history. The exception is the Dorgeshuun tribe, also known as the cave goblins, who are educated, civil and peace loving.

Historical background
Originally, the goblins were a gentle and moderately intelligent race of farmers living in Yu'biusk, a green and fertile place in an alternate dimension from Gielinor. However, Bandos arrived looking for soldiers to fight in his army in the God Wars, became the goblins' official deity, and sent them to fight for him in Gielinor. Later visitors to Yu'biusk have found the place to be dead and devastated and have blamed Bandos for this, although the actual events that occurred in Yu'biusk are not known for sure.

The goblins were gullible and followed Bandos to fight in his wars. Since the banishment of Bandos at the end of the God Wars and the dominance of humans, the influence and military might of goblins has lessened and over time the goblins (other than the cave goblins, who hid underground) became less and less intelligent, with few magical or technological abilities, other than forging weapons and armour. Nowadays most goblins live in peace and harmony with humans, but are still violent, rude and stupid, often having delusions of grandeur and that they are the "chosen race" of Bandos the "Big High War God".

Locations
Goblins can be found in various places, including:
 * Lumbridge
 * Goblin Village
 * Port Sarim
 * Around the Digsite
 * Stronghold Of Security
 * Underground Pass
 * Goblin Cave
 * Coal Trucks
 * Holes in Myreque Hideout in Mort Myre
 * God Wars Dungeon
 * Cave near observatory
 * Near the Dwarven coal mine North-West of Seers' Village
 * In the classroom of Mr. Mordaut's Random event.
 * East of Barbarian Village, south of Grand Exchange

Champions' Challenge
Goblins are one of the 'races' that have champions in the Champions' Challenge minigame. To fight the Goblin Champion, the player must kill goblins until one drops a Champion scroll, which is a very rare drop.

Defence level
We know the attack level of level 2 goblins which is 2. Having a defence level of 10 and wearing armour will prevent almost all damage. When a level 2 goblin hits the player there is one change out of three it will deal damage reqardless of the defense level, otherwise it will hit 0, as if it missed. This has been tested: the goblin hit roughly 22.5% of the time to 1 defense and no armour player (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 1)) = 2/9 = 22.2% which's about correct). For 2 defense player without armour it hit roughly 17.5% (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 2)) = 1/6 = 16.67%). For 3 defense player again without armour it did roughly 12% (1 / 3 * (2 / (2 + 3)) = 2/15 = 13.33%)

Drops
Note: The labels 'rare' and 'extremely rare' are very overused in this section. Most items are very common compared to a truly rare item such as a Shield left half. 'Rarity' also depend on which goblin is killed. For instance, level 2 goblins (around Lumbridge) are more prone to drop bronze bolts, cabbage and chef's hats, compared to the Goblin Village goblins (level 5).

100% drop

 * Bones

Weapons and armour

 * Bronze arrows (Common)
 * Bronze bolts 8 (common)
 * Bronze hatchet (extremely rare)
 * Bronze javelin 5 (m) (very rare)
 * Bronze kiteshield (extremely rare)
 * Bronze Medium Helm (common)
 * Bronze scimitar (rare)
 * Bronze spear (m)
 * Bronze square shield
 * Bronze Full Helm (rare)
 * Cape (red)
 * Iron Arrows 3-6 (rare)
 * Iron dagger (common)
 * Iron full helm (rare)
 * Iron Spear "(m)" (extremely rare)

Runes

 * Air rune (rare)
 * Blood Rune (rare)
 * Body rune 7 (common)
 * Chaos rune (rare)
 * Earth rune 4 (common)
 * Mind rune (rare)
 * Nature rune (extremely rare)
 * Water rune 6 (common)

Herbs (members only)

 * Grimy avantoe (rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (rare)
 * Grimy guam (rare)
 * Grimy irit (rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme (rare)
 * Grimy marrentill
 * Grimy ranarr (rare)
 * Grimy tarromin
 * Grimy kwuarm (rare)
 * Grimy Cadantine (uncommon)

Other items

 * Air talisman (rare)
 * Beer (Common)
 * Brass necklace (rare)
 * Bread dough (common; from lvl 2)
 * Cabbage (common; from lvl 2)
 * Champion scroll (m) (extremely rare)
 * Chef's hat (common)
 * Clue scroll Level 1 (m) (rare)
 * Coins 5, 9, 10, 15, 20 or 25 (common)
 * Cornucopia (extremely rare) Used to store food.
 * Goblin mail (common; from lvl 2)
 * Goblin skull (m) (after the first part of the Rag and Bone Man quest)
 * Grapes 1 or 3 (common; from lvl 2)
 * Green goblin mail (Dropped by green dressed Goblin village goblins)
 * Goblin Book (m) (common, roughly one per 25 goblins killed.)
 * Knife (rare)
 * Mind talisman (rare)
 * Red goblin mail (Dropped by red dressed Goblin village goblins)
 * Ring mould (rare)
 * Sapphire (rare)
 * Tin ore (rare)

Note: (m) denotes Members' only

Notable Goblins

 * General Wartface and General Bentnoze - Goblin generals prone to disagreeing with each other. Both are found in Goblin Village or the Land of Snow in the 2009 Christmas event.
 * Grubfoot - A low ranking worker in Goblin Village.
 * Mudknuckles - Inventor of fast food. Currently in Goblin Village.
 * Wormbrain - A thief. Currently in Port Sarim prison.
 * Mistag - Overseer of the Dorgeshuun Mines (members only).
 * Kazgar - Shows players through the Dorgeshuun tunnels, allowing easy access to the mines and Dorgesh-Kaan (members only).
 * Zanik - A Dorgeshuun adventurer who plays a pivotal role in the four quests Death To The Dorgeshuun, Another Slice of H.A.M, The Chosen Commander, and Land of the Goblins ,(Members only).
 * Ur-Tag - The Dorgeshuun headman. Hangs out in the Dorgesh-Kaan council chamber in the northern upper level of the city.
 * Sergeant Strongstack, Sergeant Steelwill, and Sergeant Grimspike - Three incredibly strong goblins who assist General Graardor in the God Wars Dungeon.
 * Clothears
 * Goblin high priests Snothead, Snailfeet, Mosschin, Redeyes and Strongbones.
 * Hopespear - A Goblin prophet. He tells a story about goblin wars, Battle of Plain of Mud and his vision.
 * Players become goblins after drinking goblin potion from the Land of the Goblins quest. This is a temporary transformation and will be reverted by fighting, entering a sunlit area or wearing unsuitable clothing for a goblin.

Goblin tribes


The goblins are often presented as siding with enemy gods and nations, however, many became allies with humans after the human hero Arrav united them. Despite this, Goblins still try to cause trouble to Human settlements when possible, although they are generally not a threat. The goblin tribes can follow any god, and whilst most still are friendly with humans or too weak to attack them, there are some which will always be loyal to Bandos, and kill humans freely. Some also follow Zamorak. It is believed that the tribe of Saragorgak was sold by Bandos to Saradomin, since in the book it is said they are "Footsoldiers of Holy Wrath" and also have the name Saragorgak.

Goblin language
Goblins have (or at least have had) a language of their own, though they do use the language of humans widely in the present day. Goblins seem to call them selves either shuun or huun, in which most of their tribes names end to.

Known words

 * Dorges - Strong Spears
 * Drogokis - Fierce Blades
 * Ekeles - East
 * Garagors - the Sea
 * Horogothgar - Eaters of human flesh, (which is not cannibalism, as there are different species)
 * Huun - Goblins, goblins of something
 * Huzamogaarb - Live-Flesh Eaters of the Chaos God.
 * Naragos - West
 * Rekes - North
 * Saragorgak - Footsoldiers of the Holy Wrath
 * Thorobs - Hills
 * Yurkolgokh - The ones with flatulence, The Flatulent

Trivia

 * Goblins are one of the few monsters that drop chef's hats.
 * The goblins in Goblin Village sometimes attack each other, but are not aggressive towards players.
 * Goblins are one of the oldest creatures in RuneScape, and are often a players first training creature.
 * Prior to a graphical update some goblins were red.
 * They are possibly a relative of the Ork race, and the Hobgoblin race may have arisen from crossbreeding of goblins and orks.