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The giant snail (Achatina Acidia Giganteus) is a large snail that can be encountered during the Temple Trekking minigame. Wearing a snelm will significantly reduce the amount of damage taken, but this does not affect the accuracy of the snail's attack, although this should not be necessary for high level players. Protect from/Deflect Missiles may be preferable to using a snelm if multiple snails are attacking, especially for low level players. Despite the 280 max hit on hard route as stated by Monster Examine, they don't seem to hit over 100 (although they hit harder on followers) and they are one of the easiest combat events in the minigame.

These monsters will shift their aggression to the player if they are attacked while engaging the player's escort. However, if the escort is fighting a snail and the player stops attacking that snail, it will shift its aggression back towards the escort until the player begins attacking it again.

Giant snails will always drop a snail shell when killed, which can be sold to Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan for 600 coins. When the escorted NPC delivers the finishing blow (make sure to deal some damage), the snail will instead drop a perfect snail shell; this can be sold to Barlak for 1,000 coins and 500 Crafting experience. There is also a small chance the perfect shell would be dropped instead even if the follower did not fight the snail.

Snail display

The display of the Giant snail in the Varrock Museum basement

Drops[]

100% drops[]

Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Snail shellSnail shell1AlwaysNot sold
Perfect snail shellPerfect snail shell1AlwaysNot sold

Main drops[]

Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Congealed bloodCongealed blood4; 7UncommonNot sold


Universal drops[]

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.
These drops are dropped alongside main drops.
Item Quantity Rarity GE price
Key tokenKey token1RareNot sold
Mimic kill tokenMimic kill token1Very rare5,575

Trivia[]

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