Bones


 * For experience burying bones see Prayer.
 * ''For the bones acquired in Soul Wars, see Bones (Soul Wars)



Bones
Bones are items used in the Prayer skill. They are dropped by almost all                         monsters around RuneScape. Bones give 4.5 Prayer experience when buried; you can also find them from gravemarkers. Players may also use the spell Bones to Bananas or the spell Bones to Peaches to turn bones to edible fruit, i.e. bananas or peaches.

Bones areas
Areas with enemies that spawn quickly after death, such as the goblin area in Lumbridge, are great places to collect bones easily without much hassle. This gives players the chance to level up their prayer fast. Another area where bones can be easily found and collected is outside Lumbridge Castle and the Chaos Temples on PVP worlds.

Although many players do not bury bones and leave them on the ground, it is recommended that players do bury the bones a monster drops, as they will get some experience in the Prayer skill.

Players can sometimes receive Bones as a reward from the Soul Wars minigame,by selecting the 'Gamble' option,doing this might award a player with 290 bones,or another item.

Training
The best place to train prayer fast is the Chaos Temple.

Another good area is the chicken coop and cow field in ne Lumbridge, as many players tend to pick up the valuable cowhide, or feathers and leave the bones lying on the ground

Trading
Trading for bones is not recommended (although when sold in groups of 24 at the Grand Exchange, they can sell for about 2k), as bones are extremely common and can be found at almost every location - players can either find them on the ground (left behind by players who have killed creatures and did not bother to pick up the bones), or they can kill NPCs and collect the bones.

Unlike the prices of many other raw materials, bones have steadily increased in price on the Grand Exchange: starting at 26 coins and currently at. This is most likely due to the discrepancy in price and experience between bones and big bones, with big bones priced at coins each while yielding only three times the Prayer experience. However it is unlikely that bones will climb past 100 coins, as the experience-to-cost ratio advantage would disappear.

Trivia

 * In RuneScape Classic the examine text for bones is "Ew, it's a pile of bones." This still applies to Big Bones, but without the comma.
 * And for some strange reason, in Grand Exchange, instead of showing the original examining text "bones are for burying", it will show the big bones examining text "ew, it's a pile of bones.
 * During the minigame Soul Wars there is no drop option for bones but a destroy one. If you press destroy then it will say you can get more from killing opposing team members.
 * From level 1 to level 99, a player would have to bury 2,896,541 bones at coins per bone that comes to a staggering 0 coins.
 * From level 1 to level 99, the most expensive way (may be fastest but not confirmed) is 23,276 ourg bones used in the ectofungus, which is an estimated 356,122,800gp (as of 29 April 2009)
 * Bones are one of the items that are dropped 100% of the time from most monsters.
 * Supposedly, the bones that aren't buried vanish and go to the Mage Training Arena and are used in the Creature Graveyard game.
 * Surprisingly, rats in the Stronghold of Security drop bones,while rats everywhere else in RuneScape do not. It is unknown if Jagex meant for this to happen or if this is a glitch.