Cave nightshade





Nightshade is used in Herblore to make Super strong weapon poison along with poison ivy berries and coconut milk. This requires level 82 Herblore. It is nontradeable but there are two slow spawns in caves in the ogre city Gu'Tanoth south of Yanille. Nightshade may also be grown at Draynor Manor, and requires gloves or gauntlets in order to pick it - otherwise the player won't be able to pick the nightshade, as well as suffering a one-time 2 poison damage. The seed grown to get nightshade is a belladonna seed. The location of the cave nightshade spawns in Gu'Tanoth are indicated in the map, you will need a skavid map and a light source of some kind to access these spawns.

Tips for power nightshade gathering:


 * Using the map below, go to the southern (mad skavid) cave, if you will be killing rats;
 * use the northern cave for bone respawns (explained below).


 * Do wear a Ring of Duelling for fast banking, a pair of gloves is not needed, though you cannot pick Nightshade, raised with the farming skill, without gloves equipped.


 * Nightshade respawns in 50 seconds.


 * You can not trade Nightshade to anyone, even a familiar - "but" an imp-in-a box can transport them to the bank. Filling your inventory with imp boxes and a skavid map will net 81 nightshades per trip, but will cost 60750 in imp boxes, if the boxes are left behind. It is possible to transport empty imp boxes as regular cargo, using a live imp-in-a-box. With each transaction of 2 items (consisting of an empty box and a night shade) each trip will cost 750 gp per trip, with one box left behind, and will net 54 nightshades. This is far faster than growing them.


 * Wearing a Mining helmet saves 2 spaces in your inventory, (though you will be reminded you have no tinderbox, it is entirely safe not to carry one) but a skavid map must be held while in the cave.


 * Bring something to occupy your time whilst waiting for respawns. High-Alching & Runescape wiki editing are among the most popular methods. The southern cave is a good place to run to seed a 1/10 crystal bow on the very fast re-spawning rate. The northern cave has 4 bone respawns, for exceedingly slow prayer levelling.

Nightshade also features in the Watchtower quest, which is why it is nontradeable.

WARNING: Eating nightshade will deal 15 points of damage, a while ago it was used in a popular scam, which is another reason why it was made nontradeable.

Trivia
Old image of the nightshade.

During the Dream Mentor quest, If a Cave nightshade is used on Cyrisus, the following message will appear: "How evil! Are you trying to kill him?"