Bolas

Bolas are made using items gained from the Jadinko Lair. They can be made from 2 excrescence and a mutated vines, requiring 87 Fletching and giving 50 experience. They require a Ranged level of 76 to use.

Bolas can restrain their target. The effectiveness of this restraint depends on the target. They are very effective against mutated jadinko creatures. On another player, Bolas can be blocked and will hold the other player for 20 seconds. If the other player is using Protect or Deflect Missiles, the time is halved. If the player is wielding a slash weapon or have a knife in their inventory, the time would also be halved, and the two effects stacks, cutting down the bind time to a minimum of 5 seconds. On NPCs across Gielinor, the Bolas generally hold them in place for only 10 seconds, but are highly accurate. Bolas are consumable weapons and are rarely retrievable; they cannot be picked up by Ava's Device. Due to their +0 ranged strength, Bolas will deal no damage to an enemy; they only restrain them.

Among other places, Bolas can be used in Barrows in conjunction with Salamanders to allow one to do Barrows runs effectively even when on the Lunar Spellbook.

Bolas can also be used in the God Wars Dungeon, especially on Commander Zilyana for smoother kills.

Bolas can be very useful to rangers, being the only ranged weapon to be able to hold a target. The high accuracy means that a player with high ranged could use it on another player using melee in PvP activities, then step away and safely range them.

Trivia

 * These are based on the real world throwing weapon of the same name. Similar to the bolas ability to restrain a target, the real world bolas are designed to entangle an animal's legs.
 * On the day of the release when making bolas using the Assist system, the player making the bolas will receive the experience instead of the one assisting. This has been fixed with the update discussed below.
 * After a semi-recent update, if you try to make Bolas through the Assist system, you will not be able to, even though fletching is an assistable skill. The message: "You cannot use the Assist System for this part of the fletching skill." will show.
 * On death all Bolas disappear and is not retrievable after death. This is most likely a glitch, and has yet to be fixed.
 * Bolas is Spanish and Portugese for balls.
 * Despite the fact that you are able to do damage fighting unarmed with 0 strength bonus, bolas are unable to do damage. This is also unlike most bows and crossbows, which cannot attack at all without ammo providing the ranged strength bonus.