Giant mole

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StandardHard Mode

Giant mole

Release	7 March 2006 (Update)
Members	No
Examine
Holy mole-y!
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
230	78,000	3,104	1,024.3
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
186 / 124 / 62
Aggressive		Poisonous
Offensive
Max hit
720	0	0	2800
Style		Speed
		4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
65 1 1 Accuracy 1299 0 0
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
732	45
Affinities
-	55	45	65
Immunities

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4 ticks (2.4s)

3 ticks (1.8s)

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Defined properties:

All Life points: 78,000 Life points: 78,000 All Combat experience: 3104 Combat experience: 3104 All Release date: 7 March 2006 Release date: 7 March 2006 All Combat level: 230 Combat level: 230 All Is members only: false Is members only: false All NPC ID: 3340 NPC ID1: 3340 All NPC ID: 18932 NPC ID2: 18932

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The giant mole (Talpidae wysonian) is a female mole found in the Falador Mole Lair, just under Falador Park. The giant mole's origin and creation are described as "a slight accident involving a bottle of Malignius-Mortifer's-Super-Ultra-Flora-Growth-Potion."

To get into its lair you have to crawl down the plant roots in the west of Falador Park, and create an instance or join an existing one. You have the option to fight the mole in hard mode, in which she will use her special attacks more frequently.

If a player is killed by the giant mole, their gravestone will appear outside her lair in Falador Park.

Obtaining all unique drops will unlock the [Name] of the Underground title.

The Fight

Main article: Giant Mole/Strategies

Concept art presented at RuneFest 3 for an updated Giant Mole.

Additional concept art for the giant mole

The mole is level 230 and has no weakness. Despite displaying a "None" weakness, magic is most effective in taking her down. She spawns in the north-central chamber of her lair, and will stay there until attacked. She only fights with standard melee attacks.

After her life points reach around 70,000, she will dig into the ground and retreat into a random room of her lair (as long as she hasn't previously gone there). In each room, she will have different abilities. Puffs of dirt will head in the direction of the room she went to, making them a good way to tell which room she's going to.

In each chamber of her lair she has different mechanics, which are:

• In the north-western chamber, she will periodically summon moles to aid her, which, in addition to attacking players, boost her damage reduction while present (and strength in hard mode). They are easy to defeat, only having 100 life points. If not attacked, they will die once the mole leaves or summons new ones.
• In the north-eastern chamber, she will occasionally become enraged, and will gain the ability to rapidly attack you with greater damage, but also loses her immunity to stun. Stunning her will pacify her, in addition to lowering her defence.
• In the south-eastern chamber, she will stun players and cause the ceiling to collapse. Players will have to use Freedom or Anticipation and move out of the way before it hits them.
• In the south-western chamber, she will sometimes dig into the ground and emerge at another spot in the room, causing rocks that damage players to appear around the spot she emerges.

In any phase, if she is unable to reach a player that is attacking her (safe-spotting or being too far from her), she will summon jagged rocks around them that damage the player, similar to those she summons during the digging phase.

Finally, after all previous phases have been completed she will return to the central chamber, and can use all of the previously mentioned abilities. After being killed, her drops will be distributed among all players who participated in the kill, with those who deal more damage receiving more drops. She will respawn quickly.

Hard mode

The giant mole can be fought in hard mode, in which it has a number of changes to make it more difficult, although the fight is largely the same, with a key change being that her specials are more frequent and enhanced.

Like in normal mode, the Giant mole's minions boost her damage reduction while they are present. In hard mode, they now have the added bonus of increasing her strength. In addition, her ceiling collapse attack encases the player, after which she will swipe at them if they are not freed by other players (Freedom does not work) for massive melee damage, in addition to the falling rocks from above.

In the final phase, the mole often tends to use two abilities at once (e.g. ceiling collapse and dig), causing a massive amount of damage on her target very quickly.

Finally, when killed, she has improved drops, including a drop exclusive to hard mode, the untradeable ultra-growth potion, which can advance the growth of tree patches by two stages.

Drops

You have defeated the giant mole.

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The drop mechanics for the mole function differently than they do normally when fought in a group, namely, all players to contribute to kill will receive big bones, the player to deal the most damage will always receive a mole claw, the three players to deal the most damage will receive mole skins, all players with Falador elite tasks complete will receive a mole nose and players doing the Fur 'n' Seek wishlist will sometimes, rarely receive long, sharp claws. Finally, if a rare drop is dropped, the remaining drops will be distributed among the players who didn't receive it. 

In hard mode, rare drops are more common, some items are dropped in larger quantities, and only one item is dropped at a time.

All of the mole's special drops (clingy moles, numbing roots, dragon 2h sword and ultra growth potions) are tertiary drops. Whenever someone receives a special drop from the mole, it will be announced in the game box.

After fighting the mole, it is decided if a rare item will be dropped, and what that item is, before attributing it to a player. This rare item is then distributed to one of the top three players, or to the single player if fighting the mole solo.

100% drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Big bones	1	Always	203
	Mole claw(m)	1	Always	6,361
	Mole skin	3	Always	20,538
	Mole nose(m)	1	Always	Not sold

Normal mode

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy irit(m)	3 (noted)	Common	15,024
	Coins	13,207–23,500	Uncommon	13,207–23,500
	Yew logs	15–30 (noted)	Uncommon	2,505–5,010
	Adamant bar	2–4 (noted)	Uncommon	3,522–7,044
	Red dragonhide	1–3 (noted)	Uncommon	2,864–8,592
	Pure essence	300; 600 (noted)	Uncommon	9,000–18,000
	Iron ore	40 (noted)	Uncommon	17,960
	Coal	40 (noted)	Unknown	4,480
	Nature rune	40–60	Uncommon	16,200–24,300
	Blood rune(m)	60	Uncommon	40,680
	Grimy ranarr(m)	3; 6 (noted)	Uncommon	5,580–11,160
	Mystic cloth	2–3 (noted)	Unknown	13,904–20,856
	Dragon 2h sword(m)	1	Rare	134,445

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Long, sharp claws(m)	1	Common	Not sold
	Numbing root	2–12	Uncommon	24,750–148,500
	Clingy mole	1–2	Rare	11,432–22,864
	Sealed clue scroll (hard)(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Sealed clue scroll (elite)(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Long bone(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Curved bone(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Rotten fang	1	Very rare	Not sold

Hard mode

Main drop

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Grimy irit(m)	9 (noted)	Uncommon	45,072
	Ultra-growth potion (1)(m)	1	Uncommon	Not sold
	Coins	17,435–31,000	Common	17,435–31,000
	Yew logs	40 (noted)	Uncommon	6,680
	Clingy mole	1–2	Rare	11,432–22,864
	Iron ore	60 (noted)	Uncommon	26,940
	Coal	60 (noted)	Uncommon	6,720
	Red dragonhide	6 (noted)	Uncommon	17,184
	Mystic cloth	3 (noted)	Rare	20,856
	Adamant bar	6 (noted)	Uncommon	10,566
	Pure essence	900 (noted)	Uncommon	27,000
	Grimy ranarr(m)	9 (noted)	Uncommon	16,740
	Dragon 2h sword(m)	1	Rare	134,445
	Numbing root	4–12	Rare	49,500–148,500
	Blood rune(m)	90	Uncommon	61,020

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Long, sharp claws(m)	1	Common	Not sold
	Sealed clue scroll (hard)(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Sealed clue scroll (elite)(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Long bone(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Curved bone(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy(m)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Rotten fang	1	Rare	Not 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 token	1	Rare	Not sold
	Mimic kill token	1	Very rare	5,575

Feats

• Can You Dig It? ( 0) - Obtained a collection of unique drops from the Giant Mole.
• Mole Removal ( 5) - Defeat the Giant Mole multiple times, depending on the tier.
• Whack a Mole ( 5) - Defeat the Giant Mole in hard mode multiple times, depending on the tier.

Trivia

• The Giant Mole received a graphical and mechanical update on 27 January 2014. The same update also reduced the cavern size by half. Details about the mole before her update can be found here.
• Sometimes, a glitch can occur where the giant mole may stay in one room for two phases rather than constantly moving around as her life points deplete. This only occurs when she first tunnels away to the first cavern.
• The giant mole was made available to free-to-play players on 29 February 2016. The same update also removed the shortcut areas in the cavern into gaps wide enough for players to run through.
• As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for this boss was 2,775 kills for normal mode and 2,670 for hard mode.
  • This had increased to 3,082 for normal mode and 3,000 for hard mode by 6 May 2018..