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Hellfire bow detail

The hellfire bow is a powerful bow that players can wield at level 90 Ranged and does not require ammo. One Hellfire bow per world appears somewhere on the ground in the Wilderness, including the portion of the Edgeville Dungeon that is in the Wilderness, visible to all players and with a large golden loot beam on top of it. The beam's appearance is not affected by the player's loot beam settings. If the bow is taken a smaller loot beam may persist in its original location.

Whilst in the Wilderness, players can operate any of the Wilderness swords to locate the bow. This produces a message indicating the general area it has spawned in, for example: The sword pulls towards the north-east area of the Wilderness! (The northern Wilderness is considered to be level 25 or greater.)

When a player is holding the bow, using the locate function will only say that a player has the bow. Instead a message will periodically be broadcast to players on the same world who are also in the Wilderness. For instance, the following message could be a broadcast: Player has the Hellfire bow in level 47 north-east Wilderness! A red marker is also shown under the player carrying the bow. The person carrying it sees the message: Carrying the Hellfire bow has informed other players of your current Wilderness level!

As well as alerting all players who are on the same world and in the Wilderness to the player's location, carrying the bow will also override normal multi-combat and level restriction mechanics. Players of all levels will be able to attack the wielder of the bow without restriction based on Wilderness level and on top of this the wielder can be attacked by any number of players simultaneously, regardless of whether they are in a multi-combat area or not. These mechanics make the bow relatively dangerous to wield.

It disappears if you leave the Wilderness (it will disappear if you go into the safe strip just north of the Wilderness wall), and cannot be keepsaked. Imp-in-a-box would refuse to bank it, and Telekinetic Grab cannot be cast on it.

It cannot be obtained on a Bounty Hunter world.

As it is freely obtained, does not require ammo, and has extremely high stats, it is popular for combat within the Wilderness, such as player killing, Slayer assignments, killing the Chaos Elemental or the WildyWyrm.

Combat Stats
RequirementsHellfire bow equipped
90 Ranged
ClassSlot
Ranged Ranged2h slot
TierType
99Bow
WeaponsMainOff
Damage1819-
Accuracy3031-
StyleArrows
Range9
Speed
Fast (3.0s)
AttributesDamage reduction
DefenceArmour0PvM: 0%PvP: 0%
ConstitutionLife points0Style bonuses
PrayerPrayer0Strength0Ranged0Magic0
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Locations[]

Logging out or entering the lobby will force the player to drop the bow. Leaving the Wilderness makes the bow appear in one of the following locations. Note that players may also drop the bow, so it can also be found in other locations.

Wilderness area Wilderness level Directions
North 51 In the Deserted Keep.
North-east 27 West of the charming moths.
North-east 28 East of the ruins (east).
North-east 28 West of the ruins (east).
North-east 30 North-west of the ruins (east).
North-east 31 At the shoreline north of the charming moths.
North-east 33 West of the entrance to the caverns with Corporeal Beast.
North-east 35 South of Red Dragon Isle.
North-east 36 Near the shoreline and the Fishing spots.
North-east 38 East of the ghostly piper.
North-east 38 Near the shoreline north of the Fishing spots.
North-east 41 East of Red Dragon Isle.
North-east 44 North-west of Red Dragon Isle.
North-east 44 South of Demonic Ruins and across the lava moat.
North-east 45 North of Red Dragon Isle.
North-east 46 West of Demonic Ruins and north of the passage in the lava moat.
North-east 47 In the north-eastern part of Deep Wilderness Castle Ruins.
North-east 48 North of the eastern gate to the northern Wilderness.
North-east 48 North-east of Demonic Ruins.
North-east 50 South-west of Rogues' Castle.
North-east 52 Inside the castle walls of the Rogues' Castle.
North-east 49 North-east of the central gate to the northern Wilderness.
North-east 52 South of the central pool of lava on the Wilderness North Volcano.
North-east 54 North-east of Rogues' Castle.
North-east 54 South-west of the magic axe hut.
North-east 55 North of the Scorpion Pit.
North-east 55 North-eastern side of Wilderness North Volcano.
North-west 25 North of the ruins (west).
North-west 29 South-west of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano.
North-west 30 On the cliff south of the lava strykewyrms.
North-west 31 In The Forgotten Cemetery.
North-west 31 South-east of the bandit camp mining site.
North-west 32 North-east of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano.
North-west 33 North-west of the north-western passage to Wilderness Volcano.
North-west 35 East of lake south of the moss giants.
North-west 36 East of the bandit camp mining site.
North-west 38 South-east of Lava Maze.
North-west 40 South of Lava Maze.
North-west 43 South-west of the Wilderness obelisk.
North-west 44 South-west of the runite ore rocks north of Lava Maze.
North-west 46 North-east of the Wilderness obelisk.
North-west 46 North-west of Lava Maze.
North-west 47 North of Lava Maze.
North-west 47 Down the stone column, past the black dragons in the centre of the Lava Maze.
North-west 47 North-east of Lava Maze.
North-west 47 North-west of the runite ore rocks north of Lava Maze.
North-west 50 North-east of the bloodwood tree.
North-west 50 South-east of Mage Arena.
North-west 52 East of the beacon on the Frozen Waste Plateau.
North-west 53 At the Pirates' Hideout mining site.
North-west 54 West of Wilderness Agility Course.
North-west 55 On the northern side of Mage Arena.
South-east 2 North-west of Lumber Yard.
South-east 3 North-west of the northern gate of Varrock.
South-east 5 In the area with thugs.
South-east 7 South of switch A.
South-east 7 South-west of the gate to Daemonheim.
South-east 7 West of Slayer Tower.
South-east 9 South-west of the gate to Daemonheim.
South-east 10 South-east of Chaos Temple.
South-east 11 On the path between switch A and switch B.
South-east 12 East of Chaos Temple and across the lava moat.
South-east 12 South-east of the lodestone.
South-east 14 North-east of the Chaos Temple, across the lava moat.
South-east 15 East of switch B.
South-east 18 South-east of the south-eastern passage to Wilderness Volcano.
South-east 19 In the boneyard.
South-east 19 South-east of the green dragons.
South-east 23 North-east of the green dragons.
South-east 24 North-west of the green dragons.
South-east 22 In the north-western corner of Graveyard of Shadows.
South-west 2 North of Edgeville.
South-west 4 East of Black Knights' Fortress.
South-west 4 North of Grand Exchange.
South-west 4 West of the Black Knights' Fortress.
South-west 8 East of Obelisk of Air.
South-west 8 North-west of Black Knights' Fortress.
South-west 10 South-west of the lodestone.
South-west 11 North of Obelisk of Air.
South-west 11 South-west of Dark Warriors' Fortress.
South-west 13 South-east of Dark Warriors' Fortress.
South-west 15 In the middle of Dark Warriors' Fortress.
South-west 15 North-west of the green dragons.
South-west 16 North-east of the lodestone.
South-west 17 South-east of the south-western passage to Wilderness Volcano.
South-west 18 North of the lodestone.
South-west 19 South-east of ruins (west).
South-west 20 In the south-western passage to Wilderness Volcano.
South-west 22 Inside Bandit Camp.
South-west 24 Inside Bandit Camp's northern building.

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Trivia[]

  • This item was originally added with the Wilderness Tasks update. The bow's inventory icon was the same as of the original crystal bow. This was changed when it entered the game on 31 October 2016 and was made obtainable by players.
  • If the bow is dropped right in the centre tile of the Wilderness, the following message is seen when locating it: The sword pulls towards the spot you're standing on! area of the Wilderness!
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