Raw lobster



A Raw lobster is a type of fish that can be caught with level 40 fishing. They are popular on free-to-play servers because they are easy to acquire, give quite a bit of Cooking experience, and many people buy them after they are cooked. Raw lobsters can be cooked with a Cooking level of 40 or higher, granting 120 Cooking experience. Players may accidentally burn lobsters while cooking until they reach a Cooking level of 74 (or 68 while wearing Cooking gauntlets). They are one of the most common way for players to train Cooking.

Acquiring Raw lobsters
Fishing is by far the most popular way to acquire raw lobsters. Players with level 40 or higher in the Fishing skill can fish for lobsters with a lobster pot. Doing so yields 90 experience for each lobster fished.

Players can thieve raw lobsters from the fish stalls in Relekka and possibly bank them with Peer the Seer if the player is wearing Fremennik Sea Boots. This method requires 42 thieving.

Though it is an inefficient way to acquire a large number of raw lobsters (500+), some monsters also drop them.


 * Dagannoth
 * Giant rock crab
 * Brine rat
 * Waterfiends

Raw lobsters may also be obtained as a reward from the Temple Trekking/Burgh De Rot Rumble minigames in amounts depending on the reward token color.

Fishing locations

 * Free-to-play players can fish for lobsters on Karamja or in the north eastern corner of the Wilderness.
 * Pay-to-play players also have the option of fishing lobster in Catherby, Relleka, Jatizso, and Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Players with level 68 or higher (65 or higher with a fishing potion or 63 or higher with an admiral pie) may also fish for lobsters in the Fishing Guild.

Uses
The only uses for raw lobsters are to sell them, cook them, or feed them to a kitten on members' servers. Players with level 40 or higher in the Cooking skill can cook raw lobsters to turn it into a lobster and gain 120 Cooking experience. If the player is unsuccessful, they will create a burnt lobster instead, and gain no Cooking experience. The higher the player's Cooking level, the lower the chance of them burning them up until level 74 when the player stops burning them completely. Using a range or wearing cooking gauntlets are other ways of decreasing the odds of burning lobsters. When wearing cooking gauntlets, a player only needs 68 cooking to stop burning the lobsters.

Trivia

 * Lobsters are a very good way of medium to low leveled players to make money. However, the price of both raw and cooked lobsters have been nosediving due to high supply (lots of people fish them for money) and low demand (not many people want to buy).
 * The price of lobsters, as well as many other fish and to a greater extent, everything, is rumored to skyrocket during the summer, especially in July.
 * Lobsters are the only free-to-play fishing catch other than Crayfish that are never caught with any other fish. (ie. Anchovies are caught with Shrimps.)
 * With the introduction of Stiles on 21 April, free-to-play players can fish bank lobsters between 3 and 4 times faster than before. This has led to a drastic increase in the sale of raw lobsters and therefore a drastic decrease in their price.

2010 Price Crash
Lobsters experienced a large price crash in the weeks and months following the update of 21 April, which made banking lobsters much easier than before for F2P players. In the ten weeks after the update, Raw Lobsters nearly halved in price, from around 450gp each a few days before the update, to around 260gp by the end of June. While the F2P community welcomed the update, it was met with very hostile reception from members (especially skillers), and protests have been held on the forums as well as at popular P2P fishing locations such as the Fishing Guild and Catherby.

The price of Raw Sharks was also affected, as many members switched from lobsters to sharks in the weeks following the crash. Prices for Raw Sharks plummeted from 1750gp before the update to around 1000gp by the end of June.