Living rock protector

Living rock protectors can be found throughout the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. They attack with melee and are surprisingly inaccurate for their combat level; a player with good armour and a decent Defence level will not find these monsters to be too big of a problem. In addition, they are aggressive, but the player actually has to be right next to them in order to be targeted. Thus, if enough care is taken, a player could navigate around the living rock protectors without being attacked at all. They are given as slayer tasks by the Slayer Master Kuradal.

Upon death they turn into Living rock remains which may be mined for Living minerals. The minerals are used as bait for fishing rocktails.

Strategies
Although the living rock creatures are all high-levelled, many players can kill them fairly easily, as they have low max hit, accuracy, and attack speed.

One of the main strategies for low levelled players is to run out, use the puncture special attack of the dragon dagger and then run to a safe spot. This can be done easily but with slow progress. In addition, living rocks are immune to the effects of poison, which further slows down this strategy.

The more popular method is to tank them with a runite-dragon set (dragon platelegs, dragon med helm, rune platebody, dragon longsword/dragon scimitar) to a full set of higher level armour, such as full dragon armour, or Bandos armour. A set of guthan's armour is very effective here as a player can stay the whole task with a good defence level.

One way to stay here for very long is to bring a bunyip familiar and lots of swallow whole scrolls and fish either cavefish or rocktail and eat them with the scrolls. However, this requires 85 or 90 Fishing respectively.

Many players fight these for their average drops, but players with high Mining and Fishing kill these creatures to obtain bait for rocktail, which is one of the best pieces of food in Runescape.

While doing a slayer task it's advised to kill strikers instead of protectors as they are only a bit stronger, but provide 91 more xp per kill.

Some players training Ranged and Slayer may wish to fight these using safe spots. Living rock protectors do not have a Ranged attack so they cannot fight back. One method of doing this involves attacking them when they are across the water. Another method involves attacking them and then running behind a rock to safe spot them. The northwest area of the cave is a good place for this.

Occasionally there will be a glitch where a previously mined living rock creature's remains will appear again after being mined. This will act like normal living rock remains and can be mined. It is thought of as a bonus because of the extra mineral gain.

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Trivia

 * Despite the rocky appearance of these creatures, Turmoil receives no boost to defence while fighting them, indicating a fairly low defence level.

Living rock protector