Dragon bones

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"Dragon bone" redirects here. For the ornament kit, see Dragonbone upgrade kit.

For the variant encountered in Daemonheim, see Dragon bones (Dungeoneering).

Dragon bones
Detailed
Release	23 October 2002 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
High Alchemy	0 coins
High Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	1
Reclaim	1
Sacrifice	4
Sacrifice	4
Exchange	2,136 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	1.5 kg
Examine	These would feed a dog for months.
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Dragon bones are associated with the Prayer skill, and are dropped by most adult dragons. Dragon bones give 72 Prayer experience when buried, 180 Prayer experience when cremated, 288 Prayer experience when offered at the Ectofuntus, or 252 Prayer experience when offered at a gilded altar with 2 burners lit. The relative ease of collecting dragon bones, combined with the amount of experience earned from them, makes them widely viewed as a fast, cost-effective way to train Prayer.

Members can also get dragon bones as a reward from the Soul Wars minigame by selecting the 'Gamble' option when choosing rewards. If a player gets dragon bones, they will likely be noted in quantities of 11 or 22.

Disassembly

Disassembly XP	0.8
Item quantity required	1
Material count	2
Base junk chance	?  69.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 69.2% 1 34 68.6% 2 49 67.2% 3 64 65.8% 4 69 64.4% 5 78 63.0% 6 83 60.9% 7 91 59.6% 8 95 57.5% 9 105 55.4%
Possible materials
Often
Organic parts	98%
Rarely
Pious components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 69.2 Junk chance: 69.2

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Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Black dragon	100	1	Always
Black dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	108	1	Always
Blue dragon	74	1	Always
Bronze dragon	86	1	Always
Brutal green dragon	105	1	Always
Celestial dragon	127	1	Always
Celestial dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	114	1	Always
Green dragon	63	1	Always
Iron dragon	98	1	Always
King Black Dragon	276	1	Always
Mithril dragon	112	1	Always
Queen Black Dragon	900	8	Always
Red dragon	84	1	Always
Red dragon (Dragonkin Laboratory)	105	1	Always
Steel dragon	100	1	Always
Vindicta	1000	1	Always
Barbarian Assault/Rewards	N/A	27	Common
Golden chinchompa (Squeal of Fortune)	N/A	10	Common
Vindicta	1000	150–250	Common
Zombie (random event)	N/A	1–3	Rare
Chaos Elemental	305	1	Uncommon
Dragon impling	N/A	52–100	Uncommon
Ghost treat	N/A	15	Uncommon
Hefin worker	N/A	1	Uncommon
Medium parcel	N/A	10	Uncommon
Rare drop table	N/A	180–220	Uncommon
Zombie impling	N/A	3	Uncommon
Zombie impling jar	N/A	3	Uncommon
Barbarian Assault/Rewards	N/A	8	Unknown
Falador resource bundle	N/A	1–3	Unknown

Cost and XP analysis

	Bury	Gilded altar or Chaos Temple	Ectofuntus	Cremation
Experience	72	252	288	324 (Total)	180 (Prayer) + 144 (FM)
Cost per XP	−29.7	−8.5	−7.4	−6.6 (Total)	−11.9 (Prayer) or −14.8 (FM)

• It is assumed that two burners are lit while using the gilded altar and does not include the cost of clean marrentill.

Tips

• Green and Blue dragons are the weakest types of dragons, resulting in dragon bones mostly being accumulated by killing them.
• Green dragons are the lowest level dragons in the game. They can be found in various places in the Wilderness, as well as in two locations in the Chaos Tunnels. Green dragons in the Chaos Tunnels are grouped together with Baby black dragons, while players may be attacked by Player Killers while fighting green dragons in the Wilderness locations.
• The high value of dragons' drops (bones plus hides every kill for chromatic dragons) makes dragon-hunting a highly profitable combat activity. Players can make 120K to over 1M coins per hour fighting green dragons, depending on how fast they can kill the dragons and bank the loot. About 35K to 100K can be made per run on dragons (depending on inventory space /B.O.Bs), and more if more valuable items are brought back as well.
• Baby dragons do not drop dragon bones. Instead, they drop Baby dragon bones.
• Burying dragon bones is not recommended; usually they are best used on a Gilded altar or the altar in the Chaos Temple (Wilderness), which gives the same experience and doesn't require 75 Construction.
• Airut bones, Dagannoth bones, Ourg bones, Hardened dragon bones, Reinforced dragon bones, and Frost dragon bones are faster ways to train Prayer than Dragon bones, but cost much more per Prayer experience point.
• While gilded altars give the fastest experience, some prefer to use the Ectofuntus due to the fact that gilded altars give 36 less XP per bone. Although it's slower, the Ectofuntus gives more experience per bone, decreasing costs, and eliminates the need to obtain marrentill and/or find a house party offering an altar.

Trivia

• Dragon bones became available to F2P on 29 February 2017, and buryable in F2P on 9 October 2017.
• A player choosing to use dragon bones all the way from 1-99 Prayer, using a gilded altar with lit burners and no other experience boosts, would, if all the bones were bought at the current medium price on the Grand Exchange, spend 110,482,320.
  • Additionally the first two bones would take them straight to level 6 Prayer.
  • Using the ectofuntus would cost 96,672,030, but would take far longer to do. Simply burying the bones would cost 386,688,120.