Giant rat

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For other uses, see Giant rat (disambiguation).

Level 7Level 3Level 9Level 14

Giant rat

Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Examine
Overgrown vermin.
Combat info
Level	LP	XP	XP
7	250	26.7	8.8
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
1 / 1 / 0
Aggressive		Poisonous
Offensive
Max hit
20	0	0	? (edit)
Style		Speed
		4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
5 1 1 Accuracy 150 0 0
Defensive
Armour		Weakness
150	5
Affinities
90	55	45	65
Immunities
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4 ticks (2.4s)

4 ticks (2.4s)

4 ticks (2.4s)

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Defined properties:

All Life points: 250 Life points1: 250 All Life points: 30 Life points2: 30 All Life points: 1,750 Life points3: 1,750 All Life points: 1,000 Life points4: 1,000 All Combat experience: 0 Combat experience: 0 All Combat experience: 26.7 Combat experience1: 26.7 All Combat experience: 12.4 Combat experience2: 12.4 All Combat experience: 84.6 Combat experience3: 84.6 All Combat experience: 48.1 Combat experience4: 48.1 All Release date: 4 January 2001 Release date1: 4 January 2001 All Release date: 4 July 2006 Release date2: 4 July 2006 All Release date: 4 January 2001 Release date3: 4 January 2001 All Release date: 4 July 2006 Release date4: 4 July 2006 All Combat level: 7 Combat level1: 7 All Combat level: 3 Combat level2: 3 All Combat level: 9 Combat level3: 9 All Combat level: 14 Combat level4: 14 All Is members only: false Is members only: false All NPC ID: 86 NPC ID1: 86 All NPC ID: 4943 NPC ID2: 4943 All NPC ID: 4944 NPC ID3: 4944 All NPC ID: 10481 NPC ID4: 10481

[FAQ] • [doc]

Giant rats are low level vermin. These are often fought by low level players because of their low combat level, accessibility, and their drops of bones and raw rat meat, which can be cooked over a fire and consumed to restore life points.

Locations

• Stronghold of Security (level 13 and 14)
• Behind the Dancing Donkey Inn (level 14) [2]
• Varrock sewers (level 10 and 14)
• South-west of Port Sarim (level 10) [2]
• Grand tree mine (level 10 and 14)
• Tree Gnome Maze (level 10 and 14)
• Behind Lumbridge Castle (level 10) [9]
• Lumbridge Swamp (level 7 and 9)
• On the path to the East Varrock Mine (level 14) [1]
• Wilderness Levels 1-5 north of Varrock castle (level 14) [6]
• In the pen south of Varrock (level 10) [13]
• Edgeville dungeon (level 10 and 14)
• Daemonheim (Dungeoneering only)

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Bones	1	Always	266
	Raw rat meat	1	Always	1,661

Tertiary drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price
	Giant rat bone(m)	1	Common	Not sold
	Rat's tail	1	Common	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

A pen full of giant rats, found south of varrock.

• Raw rat meat is not dropped inside of Daemonheim. Also, some giant rats in Lumbridge Swamp as well as the one on the path leading to East Varrock Mine only drop raw rat meat occasionally.
• Giant rats in the stronghold of security do not always drop raw rat meat.
• Giant rats behind Lumbridge Castle do not drop raw rat meat or bones.

Trivia

• Giant rats are one of the few RuneScape monsters that blink.
• Giant rats were graphically updated in 2006, 2011, and 2014
• On Tutorial Island, a player would have to kill a giant rat.
• Usually the low level giant rats have light fur while the higher levels have dark fur.
• Partly decomposed corpses of giant rats can be seen in some of the puddles in Lumbridge Swamp.