Kurask are large, green, bull-like monsters that can be found in the second to last chamber of the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon and on the lower level of the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon. They require 70 Slayer to kill.

Kurask, like turoth, must be killed with either a leaf-bladed sword, leaf-bladed spear, and/or slayer's staff/Slayer Dart spell (which also requires a Magic level of 50), or broad arrows/broad-tipped bolts, or else the player's attacks are ineffective. Kurask are assigned by Sumona and Chaeldar.

Contents 1 Biology and nature 1.1 Language 2 Locations 3 Strengths and weaknesses 4 Fighting tips 5 Magic strategy 6 Ranged strategy 7 Melee strategy 8 Drops 8.1 100% drop 8.2 Charms 8.3 Runes 8.4 Weapons 8.5 Armour 8.6 Herblore ingredients 8.7 Herbs 8.8 Seeds 8.9 Food 8.10 Other 8.11 Rare drop table drops 9 References

Biology and natureEdit

Kurask are somewhat similar to gorillas, although they share some traits with other animals such as their large horns which are similar to a bull's. They are grey to pale green in colour and have rows of hooked horns protruding from their back. They have three stomachs, the third of which has a special stomach lining that prevents food from being digested. Within the stomach a ceremonial fruit is stored for the duration of the kurask's life. Their lifespan is of an unknown length, but surpasses that of humans. They ideally come of age at 80 years. There is also evidence that they can breathe underwater.

It was revealed in issue 23 of Postbag from the Hedge that kurask are somewhat intelligent, and have their own rites of passage and language^[1]. Kurask society dictates that individuals should not come in contact with other races unless they are hunting. Those that disobey this are generally shunned or even banished.

At age 80 kurask partake in a coming-of-age ritual called Kurisk. This generally kills one-third of those that attempt it. The kurask are sent "over a plain" and then "under the sea" to retrieve a fruit from the human lands (this is thought to mean through northern Kandarin, under the Southern Sea, and onto Karamja). Those that return are treated as adults.

“	To become a kuraski, at the age of 80, a kura must leave the cave and complete the rite of Kurisk [...] a kura must then pluck a fruit from a tree and bring it back to Kuriskia. Then they become kuraski and the fruit is ingested whole, held in a third stomach until death and preserved by our stomach lining. You did not, by any chance, eat it, did you?	”
	— Skuhavi[1]

Since the discovery of the Slayer Dungeon beneath the Kharidian settlement Pollnivneach, kurask society's origins and schisms have been called into greater question. The nature of the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon is still largely unknown, although its workings are obviously artificial; it possesses constructed portals to the Fremennik caves, amongst other slayer-related locations. It is unknown whether kurask originated in the Kharidian Desert or Fremennik Province, if either.

The idea of living in solitude and isolation that governs kurask society is very similar in nature to that of the scabarite race which follows Scabaras's ideologies. If the kurask race originated in the Kharidian Desert, it is possible that they were influenced by the scabarites, who were very active (although at the time probably all humans) during the Third Age, roughly when the dungeon is believed to have been created and active.

LanguageEdit

Kurask possess a basic language. Little is known of it, and only a few words have been translated; most by Skuhavi, a kurask banished for his interest in humans. Below is a list of known words in the kurask language^[1].

• Skutask - Interest.
• Shallask - Alas, or an expression of anger/regret.
• Skarooom - Dooom!
• Kuraski - A kurask that has completed Kurisk, an adult. Must be at least 80 years old.
• Kura - A child, or one who has not completed Kurisk.
• Kurisk - Rite performed by Kura. Named after a legendary kurask hero that first performed the travel to Karamja.
• Kuriskia - A kurask city, most likely their part of the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon.

LocationsEdit

• Fremennik Slayer Dungeon (near fairy ring code A-J-R; a ring of slaying has a teleport to the dungeon).
• Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (again, a ring of slaying has a teleport close to the dungeon) multi-combat area.

Strengths and weaknessesEdit

Players must use a leaf-bladed weapon, broad arrows, broad-tipped bolts or the Slayer Dart spell when fighting these. Using any other weapon is completely ineffective. The dwarf multicannon does not work, and the deflect curses will reflect damage although not much. (familiars do work)

After the Evolution of Combat, the best way to kill these is with the Slayer Dart. It is possible to kill them in 2 or 3 hits with this method.

Fighting tipsEdit

Killing them can be slow work. In the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon, safe spot in the northeast corner make Slayer Dart one of the faster options. In this dungeon, it is also safe to range or mage them standing in the small entrance to the area. A good place to safe-spot kurask is from the entrance of the kurask cave in the Fremmenik Slayer Dungeon, as the kurask cannot reach you if you stand in the right place, as they are too large to move through the passage.

Magic strategyEdit

• Helm: Slayer helm (if task or in Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon) Ganodermic visor > Hood of subjugation > Grifolic visor > Batwing hood
• Amulet: Arcane stream necklace > Amulet of fury > Amulet of glory > Amulet of power
• Weapon: Staff of light > Slayer staff
• Spell: Slayer Dart
• Body: Ganodermic Poncho > Garb of subjugation > Grifolic poncho > Batwing robe top
• Legs: Ganodermic leggings > Gown of subjugation > Grifolic leggings > Batwing legs
• Gloves:Ganodermic gloves > Culinaromancer's gloves 10 > Grifolic gloves > Batwing gloves
• Boots: Ragefire boots > Ganodermic boots > Boots of subjugation
• Cape: Completionist cape > Max cape > Cape of Accomplishment > God capes > Obsidian cape

Magic is the best approach for killing Kurask, as the spell Slayer Dart conveniently takes care of their weakness to air spells. On the flip side, Slayer Dart requires either a Slayer staff or a Staff of light to cast, with the latter being the better and preferred option. Both dungeons have multiple safespots that can be utilised. However, the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon is highly recommended because there are more safespots. The kurask aren't spread out, unlike the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon, where there are no Kurask behind you (just aquanites/turoths). The kurask room in the Fremennik dungeon is larger and there are only 5 or 6 spawns of kurask in there, compared to the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon where there are around 20 kurask spawns. Players can use the room connectors in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon to safespot kurask.

The Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon has many semi-safespots and four safespots. The semi-safespots are the rubble and crystals scattered all over the room. These safespots are the cavern connectors, a crystal rubble near the portal, some rocks near the cavern portal, and one a near the opposite side of the portal on the corner. Players will always get 3-5 aggressive kurask in each safespot.

If your combat strategy includes using food to heal, bring a knife to cut up the pineapples frequently dropped by them. You can either eat the pineapple rings to heal a total of 800 life points or add them to the plain pizza drops to make pineapple pizzas (level 65 Cooking required). This adds more life points to the healing effect of the pizza. Note that you will need 3 empty inventory spaces to slice a pineapple. Much more frequently they drop noted pineapples and one banana which only heal 200 life points.

Another, more versatile way of healing is to bring bones to peaches tablets made in player-owned houses. They are used to transform normal or big bones into peaches that heal 80 life points. It is also recommended to bring some nature runes and fire runes, as they commonly drop adamant platebodies, which can be converted to 9,984 coins by using the High Level Alchemy spell.

Ranged strategyEdit

• Helm: Slayer helm (if task or in Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon) > Armadyl helmet > Helm of neitiznot
• Amulet: Amulet of ranging > Amulet of fury > Amulet of glory > Amulet of power
• Weapon: Royal crossbow > Chaotic crossbow (and off-hand) > Armadyl crossbow > Dragon 2h crossbow > Dragon crossbow (and off-hand) > Dark bow > Seercull > Rune 2h crossbow
• Ammo: Broad-tipped bolts or broad arrows
• Body: Armadyl chestplate > Royal d'hide body > Black d'hide body
• Chaps: Armadyl chainskirt > Royal d'hide chaps > Black d'hide chaps
• Vambraces: Culinaromancer's gloves 10 > Royal d'hide vambraces > Black d'hide vambraces
• Boots: Glaiven boots > Armadyl boots > Snakeskin boots
• Cape: Ava's device or completionist cape > Obsidian cape

Ranged is not recommended without a substantial (level 60 or higher) ranged weapon, as kurask are naturally resistant to ranged attacks, and the only usable ammunition on them, broad arrows and broad-tipped bolts, are relatively weak (although the arrows are slightly stronger). On the other hand, a skilled ranger can get a decent kill rate by using a level 70 or higher weapon with careful ability rotation.

Melee strategyEdit

• Helm: Slayer helm (on task or Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon) > Dragon full helm > Helm of neitiznot > Dragon helm
• Cape: Completionist cape > Max cape > Ardougne cloak 3 or 4 > Fire cape > Obsidian cape
• Amulet: Amulet of Fury > Amulet of glory
• Ring: Ring of wealth / TokKul-Zo (charged)
• Weapon: Leaf bladed spear > Leaf-bladed sword
• Shield: Dragon defender > Dragonfire shield > Dragon sq shield > Rune defender > Rune kiteshield
• Torso: Bandos chestplate > Torag's platebody > Dragon platebody > Dragon chainbody > Rune platebody
• Leggings: Bandos tassets > Torag's platelegs > Dragon platelegs or Dragon plateskirt > Rune platelegs or rune plateskirt
• Boots: Steadfast boots > Dragon boots > Rune boots
• Gloves: RFD Gloves 10 > RFD Gloves 9

Using melee against kurask (leaf bladed spear OR sword) will not hit as frequently as with Slayer Dart, but is a feasible alternative if the player is not willing to spend money on runes. The spear is recommended over the sword as it will hit for more damage per hit and grants access to more abilites. Kurask will hit a player for occasional hits into the low 200s. A player with a combat level 100+ can slay over 100 of these in a single trip if they bring an inventory of food and make use of healing abilities such as Rejuvenate. It is also recommended to use super attack potions and super strength potions for faster kills. The leaf-bladed melee weapons do not have as high an attack bonus as other weapons players would normally use.

DropsEdit

100% dropEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	83

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
56–57%	8–9%	26–27%	6–7%	1–2%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 18,699 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Nature rune	5–30	3 Uncommon	555–3,330
	Death rune	1–6	3 Uncommon	93–558
	Mind rune	4–16	3 Uncommon	16–64

WeaponsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Broad-tipped bolts	1–10	2 Common	38–380
	Unfinished broad bolts	21–60	2 Common	672–1,920
	Broad arrowheads	21–60	2 Common	1,848–5,280
	Adamant bolts	5–19	3 Uncommon	435–1,653
	Mithril hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	186
	Broad arrow	1–10	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Rune longsword	1	4 Rare	18,488
	Off-hand leaf-bladed sword	1	5 Very rare	1,035,852
	Leaf-bladed sword	1	5 Very rare [2]	39,393

ArmourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant platebody	1	3 Uncommon	9,748
	Mithril kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	1,017
	Mystic robe top (light)	1	5 Very rare	71,609

Herblore ingredientsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	White berries	1	2 Common	872
	Limpwurt root	2	2 Common	2,256

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	539
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	44
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	249
	Grimy harralander	1	2 Common	652
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,743
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	4,171
	Grimy kwuarm	1	3 Uncommon	2,471
	Grimy cadantine	1	3 Uncommon	2,507
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	3 Uncommon	8,019
	Grimy ranarr	1	4 Rare	2,160
	Grimy lantadyme	1	4 Rare	7,733

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Irit seed	1	3 Uncommon	74
	Cactus seed	1	3 Uncommon	26
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	702
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Avantoe seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,890
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	363
	Cadantine seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,354
	Belladonna seed	1	3 Uncommon	33
	Lantadyme seed	1	3 Uncommon	34,922
	Morchella mushroom spore	4	3 Uncommon	1,176
	Fellstalk seed	1	3 Uncommon	466
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,196
	Dwarf weed seed	1	4 Rare	38,269
	Torstol seed	1	5 Very rare	78,509

FoodEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Banana [3]	1–2	2 Common	144–288
	Pineapple [4]	2–8 (noted)	2 Common	50–200
	Plain pizza	1	3 Uncommon	181

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	22–748	2 Common	Not sold
	Flax	20–30 (noted)	2 Common	440–660
	Super strength (1)	1	2 Common	318
	Super ranging potion (1)	1	3 Uncommon	2,177
	Bones	1,2	3 Uncommon	83–166
	Big bones	1,2	3 Uncommon	449–898
	Anagogic ort	20, 40	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Clue scroll (Hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Kurask head	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 1,143 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,783 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,576 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,548 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,668 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,160 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,935 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,966 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,221 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,627 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,270 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,048 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,856 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 861,050 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,145 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,188 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,636 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,850–199 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,303,050 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,665,400 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,418,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 133,474 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,721 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,825–27,755 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 50,450–70,630 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 227 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 270 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 42,500–1,275,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,420 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,150 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,250–298 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 246,500–493,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 67,350–224,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 41,700–2,085,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 227,700–1,214,400 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,500 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,168,000–22,176,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,041,900 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,002–1,950,300 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 74,448 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,050–950,500 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 106,530–426,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 118,420–1,184,200 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 172,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,030 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 71,385–3,569,250 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 160,602–963,612 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,064,590 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,196 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 78,509–2,433,779 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 932 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 56,100–11,220,000

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Fremennik Slayer Dungeon	Cave crawler • Rockslug • Cockatrice • Pyrefiend • Basilisk • Jelly • Turoth • Kurask • Aquanite
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Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon	Banshee (Mighty) • Cave crawler (Monstrous) • Basilisk (boss) • Turoth (Mightiest and Swarming turoth) • Kurask (overlord) • Aberrant spectre
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Specials	Bork • Skeletal horror • Phoenix • Jade vine(wild)
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