Self-injury

Players will sometimes deplete their lifepoints for the purpose of either intentionally dying or increasing the effect of Dharok's special. The most obvious way of depleting one's health is fighting monsters; however, many players use safer, controlled, faster, and more effective methods of depleting health, most of which can be done anywhere on RuneScape.

These methods include:


 * Eating a rock cake *


 * Lighting a Strange object (from The Fremennik Trials) *


 * Drinking a zamorak brew *


 * Dropping nitroglycerin *


 * Dropping a chemical compound *


 * Going into a dark cave without a lit light source


 * Eating nightshade (from the Watchtower quest) *


 * Continually picking nettles without protective gloves


 * Grabbing honey from the beehives in Catherby without using insect repellent


 * Drinking a poison chalice from Stankers


 * Repetitively clicking a Kharidian scorpion
 * Repetitively clicking the wine of zamorak.


 * Repetitively clicking a Sea slug on the Fishing Platform


 * Becoming poisoned by poisonous monsters such as Cave crawlers.


 * Simply turning off auto retaliate and attacking a high-level NPC (most convenient method and accessible to all players)
 * Repetitively clicking the rat trap.

Some items (*) can no longer kill you after the update from 21 April 2009.

Suicide
Sometimes players commit "suicide" as a way to regain lowered stats or get rid of disease, such as those that might occur during Zogre Flesh Eaters. One effective way of doing so for members with at least 57 Woodcutting is to use the free teleport to Lumbridge, put everything in the bank except an axe, cut a Waka and ride it to the Wilderness, and go north-west to attack a Green dragon, which should provide a quick death. Alternatively, dying in a safe activity or in the dungeon of one's player-owned house has the same effect.