Desert strykewyrm

Desert strykewyrms are slayer monsters located east of Al Kharid, just east of the palace, over a stile. They can only be killed if the player is assigned to kill them by a slayer master (level 77 Slayer required).

They appear as mounds on the ground. To initiate battle with one, the player must investigate it, and the strykewyrm will burst out of the ground and attack the player.

The Desert strykewyrm has a special attack. It first disappears in the ground and then bursts out hitting 30 to players around it and knocking them back. This can be avoided by quickly running out the way. It is best to click on the ground itself instead of the minimap. If you run over the strykewyrm right after it bursts out of the ground you can be hit for 60 damage in the form of 30's.

The area is in the desert, so waterskins or an enchanted water tiara are needed here. The Lunar spell Humidify is useful to fill up waterskins. Players may bring a knife to refill their waterskins from nearby healthy cacti.

Be careful where you step! You can (and will) get hit 30 by running over another players monster when it goes to ground!

Drops

 * Coins (extremely common)

Runes

 * 15 Death runes (uncommon)
 * 100 Water runes (uncommon)
 * 15 Law runes (uncommon)

Weapons and armour

 * Focus sight
 * Rune hatchet (uncommon)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare)
 * 5 Rune javelins (very rare)
 * Mithril battleaxe (uncommon)

Seeds

 * Cadantine seed
 * Avantoe seed
 * Kwuarm seed
 * Toadflax seed
 * Irit seed
 * Watermelon seed
 * Poison ivy seed
 * Snapdragon seed
 * Maple seed
 * Yew seed
 * Magic seed
 * Cactus seed
 * Torstol seed

Herbs
All herbs are noted.
 * Grimy toadflax (1-15)
 * Grimy ranarr (1)
 * Grimy marrentill (2)
 * Grimy tarromin (2)
 * Grimy guam (1-2)
 * Grimy kwuarm (1)
 * Grimy lantadyme (2)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (1-2)

Other drops

 * 2 cooked Swordfish (rare)
 * 2 Waterskins (4) (common)
 * Super defence potion (2 doses) (common)
 * Uncut ruby (uncommon)
 * Uncut sapphire (common)
 * Uncut emerald (uncommon)
 * 10 Potato cactus (noted) (uncommon)
 * 10 Yew logs (noted) (uncommon)
 * 3 Adamant bars (noted) (uncommon)
 * Tooth half of a key (rare)
 * Air talisman (uncommon)
 * Mind talisman (rare)
 * Fire talisman (rare)
 * Chaos talisman (rare)
 * Nature talisman (uncommon)
 * Level 3 Clue scroll (extremely rare)
 * 120 Pure essence (noted) (common)

Trivia

 * The release of strykewyrms was hinted with the Twitter Clue "Three strykes and they're out" and the Chaos Elemental hint in the Postbag From the Hedge a few weeks earlier.