Living rock patriarch

Living rock patriarchs are huge creatures that randomly spawn in the Living Rock Caverns. They were released along with the Living Rock Caverns on 17 September 2009. When a patriarch appears, any player around the area can attack it, but since the cavern is a single-combat area only one player can fight it. Protect from Melee is recommended, but they are not very powerful for their combat level and a high-levelled player with good armour can easily kill it without any food or prayer. When slain, the patriarch drops its entire drop table (which consists of four items) at once.

Despite common belief, their spawn is not triggered by killing living rock creatures, but rather the amount of people in the world. They spawn randomly every hour or so, tending to appear in the south-west, south-east, and north-east corners of the cavern.

100% Drops

 * Living Minerals (Mined)
 * 3 Runite ores (noted)
 * 8 Uncut diamonds (noted)
 * 125 Blood runes
 * 125 Mud runes

Tips
It can be difficult to actually engage the Patriarch in combat, since it is often standing right next to, or is surrounded by Living rock protector's and Living rock striker's. If you accidently engage in combat with a striker it can be very difficult to shake them off, with their far reaching range attacks and tendency to follow players for a fair distance. Players will normally have to either kill the Striker, or run to the oppisite side of the cave to lose them, in this time another player may attack the Patriarch. In order to avoid this, players can take enough runes to cast a spell such as wind bolt, this way, players may quickly engage the Patriarch from a distance in a safe spot. It is advised the players continue casting the spell until the Patriarch approaches them, as it still possible from Protectors or Strikers to enage the player in combat while they are maging the Patriarch.

Trivia

 * The word 'patriarch' means 'father-ruler.'
 * A single, 100% chance drop from these monsters is worth coins.
 * They appear to have several Rock critters on their bodies, if this means that Rock Critters are newborn Living Rock Beings or just a sort of 'cleaning' animal is up for speculation.

Living rock patriarch