This article has a strategy guide here.

Mithril Dragons are found in the Ancient Cavern, which may be accessed by starting the Pyre ship section of Firemaking in Barbarian Training. These dragons have extremely high defence, but since they are made of metal, are relatively weak to magic, with earth spells being their primary weakness. Mithril dragons are often killed for their possible drops, which includes the Dragon full helm, Draconic visage, Chewed bones and Elite clue scroll.

Mithril dragons are an excellent source of charms, as they drop four of them at a time. They are also a good source of rune weaponry.

Mithril dragons are currently the second strongest dragons, behind the Queen Black Dragon. Their release shattered the King Black Dragon's long standing record as being the strongest dragon in RuneScape.

Contents 1 Habitat 2 Strategies 3 Drops 3.1 100% drop 3.2 Weapons and Armour 3.3 Runes 3.4 Charms 3.5 Potions 3.6 Other 3.7 Rare drop table drops 4 Trivia

Habitat

Mithril dragons can only be found on the top level of the Ancient Cavern. Please note that dwarf multicannons are not allowed here. There are three ways to reach them:

1. Enter the cavern by jumping into the whirlpool near Otto Godblessed's cabin. Go down the stairs, run east past Brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs to the mithril dragons. Partial completion of Barbarian Training is required to use this entrance.
2. Use Fairy ring BJQ to teleport inside the cavern. Run east past the Waterfiends and the brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs. Partial completion of Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen and initial repairs of ring BJQ are required before the ring can be used.
3. Use a Ferocious ring to teleport to Kuradal, run north, go down the stairs, run north-east past barbarian spirits and brutal green dragons, and climb the stairs. A ferocious ring can only be obtained in Kuradal's Dungeon and only when on a Slayer task assigned by Kuradal.

To use the ancient cavern, one must have completed the first part of barbarian firemaking training, and then talked to Otto about pyre ships. After the conversation is over, the player can now go in the whirlpool. Note that upon entering, one must climb down stairs from the safespot reached. Activate Protect Magic/Deflect Magic prayer, then run south to a set of stairs leading to the mithril dragons. It is advised to not walk around the Cavern because it is littered with several brutal green dragons. If the player is unlucky he/she might get attacked by a waterfiend. It is advised to use protect/deflect mage because the path to the mithril dragons is within the range of 2 brutal green dragons.

The whirlpool entrance is closer to the stairs and only involves running past brutal green dragons. However, its drawback is that players cannot have a familiar summoned when jumping into the whirlpool, which wastes an inventory space for the pouch. It is also very far from a bank. Many players therefore prefer using the fairy ring or a ferocious ring. Using the fairy ring can be dangerous, since its location is right near waterfiends and you need to use prayer longer because of the brutal green dragons between the stairs and ring. The whirlpool method can take some time, due to that you run and jump into the whirlpool, and it is dark for about 5 seconds.

Strategies

Main article: Mithril dragon/Strategies

Drops

100% drop

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Dragon bones	1	1 Always	2,187
	Mithril bar	3	1 Always	4,476

Weapons and Armour

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Rune battleaxe	1	2 Common	24,667
	Rune dart	14	2 Common	1,372
	Rune javelin	8	2 Common	2,040
	Rune mace	1	3 Uncommon	8,185
	Runite bolts	10–27	3 Uncommon	3,780–10,206
	Rune knife	8–18	3 Uncommon	912–2,052
	Rune arrow	8–42	3 Uncommon	1,560–8,190
	Rune full helm	1	3 Uncommon	20,611
	Rune spear	1	3 Uncommon	11,844
	Dragon full helm	1	5 Very rare [1]	3,498,206

Runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Blood rune	27	2 Common	4,482
	Soul rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,230
	Law rune	4	4 Rare	716

Charms

Charm drop percentages

No charms
7–8%	19–20%	49–51%	18–20%	3–4%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 8,671 kills.
4 charms are dropped at a time.

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

Potions

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Super attack mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	220
	Super strength mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	686
	Super defence mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	35
	Prayer mix (2)	1	3 Uncommon	1,191

Other

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	283–8,441	2 Common	Not sold
	Shark	1–6	3 Uncommon [2]	849–5,094
	Ancient page	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Mithril dragon tail-bone	1	3 Uncommon [3]	Not sold
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Chewed bones	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Rune bar	2,	4 Rare	26,012–13,006
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare [4]	1,230,658

1. ^ Estimated at 1/32,873 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.
2. ^ Also dropped in unison with other drops.
3. ^ Only during the Fur 'n' Seek wish list
4. ^ Estimated at 1/9,819 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.

Rare drop table drops

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.

	Show/hide rare drop table
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 1,121 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,741 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,649 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 7,954 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,275 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,396 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,574 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,556 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,219 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,667 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,275 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 980 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 11,844 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 37,094 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 860,950 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,349 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,262 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,709 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,200 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,250–195 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,296,300 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,666,200 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,340,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,424,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 133,474 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,796 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,625–27,475 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 47,475–66,465 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 251 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 255 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 43,000–1,290,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,264–8,624 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,460 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,300 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 36,375–291 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 245,500–491,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 66,150–220,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 40,800–2,040,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 218,850–1,167,200 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 11,000 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,242,000–22,694,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,046,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,006–1,950,900 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 73,359 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,225–952,250 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 110,070–440,280 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 108,710–1,087,100 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 156,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,889 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 67,826–3,391,300 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 164,198–985,188 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,156,740 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,360 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 70,221–2,176,851 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 1,018 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 54,500–10,900,000

Trivia

• In order to receive a Dragonkin key, you must take the strange key loop and strange key teeth (both obtained from While Guthix Sleeps) to the mithril dragons, and use one of the halves on a dragon. It will animate as if it's breathing fire at you, but does not do any damage. Afterwards it's temporarily tolerant to you, giving you time to run away. During the fusing of the key, the Mithril dragon will temporarily appear as level 57.
• Mithril dragons are one of only two types of dragons that cannot be poisoned, the other being the Brutal green dragon.
  • Despite their immunity to poison, mithril dragons can still be poisoned with Gale spells from the Ancient Magicks spellbook. This may be a glitch.
• In a Postbag from the hedge, Oziach pointed out that there are bronze dragons, iron dragons, steel dragons, and mithril dragons when he was chatting with Evil Dave. Oziach deduced that there will be adamant dragons, rune dragons, and even Dragon dragons.
• When they cast their dragonfire, it looks like the close-ranged dragonfire attack from its lesser counterparts and chromatic dragons in melee range. This also seems to apply to Brutal green dragons, and has not been fixed.
• Despite being much higher in combat level then a Frost dragon, the Frost dragon's attacks are near or higher than the Mithril dragon's attacks.
• Before the Evoution of Combat, it was believed that they were only assigned as Slayer tasks for players with a combat level of 120 or above. This has been proven untrue, as players can get a mithril dragon task even at only 100 combat, though it is much more common for players to receive this assignment with a combat level over 120.
• After the Evolution of Combat was released, Mithril dragons became bottable. Jagex countered this by having a hidden update which increased the defense on most dragons, which then made them unbottable.
• When killed, it says on the Adventurer's Log: I killed [number] of mithril dragons. If you killed 1, it would be "I killed a mithril dragon." Killing more than 100 in a single trip results in the Adventurer's Log reading: "I have killed many Mithril Dragons."
• Mithril dragons are currently the only non-boss dragon that resides in one place only.
• Interestingly, their examine text indicates that metallic dragons, or at least mithril ones, may be the result of unnatural experimentation, of course, this may also refer to how they were created by the Dragonkin.
• Mithril dragons used to be the strongest non-boss monster to reside in a single way combat area.
• Mithril dragons, along with Frost dragons are the only dragons to use all three types of melee combat against players.
• Before the Evolution of Combat there was a glitch where when the Mithril dragon attacks you, the message "You are already under attack" will appear. This glitch may continue for 2-3 more attacks from the dragon.

v • d • e Dragons and dragon-like races
Chromatic dragons	Green dragon (Brutal) (Daemonheim) • Blue dragon (baby) • Red dragon (baby) (Daemonheim) • Black dragon (baby) (Daemonheim) • Pet dragon • King Black Dragon • Queen Black Dragon
Metal dragons	Bronze dragon • Iron dragon (Daemonheim) • Steel dragon • Mithril dragon
Other	Frost dragon (Daemonheim) • Skeletal Wyvern • Revenant dragon • Elvarg • Mr. Mordaut • K'klik • Tutorial dragon • Three-headed dragon • White dragon
Dragonkin	Dragonkin (NPC) • Sakirth • Sithaph • Strisath • Kerapac • Taraket