Mutated zygomites are monsters that appear as Fungi until provoked (Pick Fungi) that require level 57 Slayer to kill. They resemble giant mushrooms, and are only found in Zanaris, near the Cosmic altar (level 94), or near the furnace (level 84). To kill one a player needs to reduce it to below 20 life points then players use fungicide spray on it to kill it, which is available from any slayer master. The fungicide spray must be reloaded every ten kills, and the reloads can be bought from the slayer master at the same time. Fungicide canisters fully reload the fungicide spray. Players cannot sell the spray or reloads back to the slayer master afterward, so only buy what is needed. Zygomites are usually only killed as slayer assignments, but some players may kill them for their fairly common drops of Strawberry seeds.

Zygomites can be occasionally assigned as an optional Slayer Challenge by Chaeldar. If you accept the challenge, she will tell you to use an experimental spray on them for tests, and you must bring back the results to her when you're finished. She will reward you with 10,000 Slayer experience and 25 Slayer Points.

Contents 1 Strengths and weaknesses 2 Slayer Challenge 3 Drops 3.1 100% drops 3.2 Runes 3.3 Seeds 3.4 Herbs 3.5 Weapons and armour 3.6 Other 3.7 Rare drop table drops 4 Trivia

Strengths and weaknessesEdit

Zygomites mostly use magical melee attacks which consist of a headbutt that does up to 88 life points, but they occasionally use more powerful magical ranged attacks by shooting spores, with a max hit of around 140. Dragonhide armour is strongly recommended while fighting them, as the high Magic defence will reduce the chance of them hitting you. If praying against their attacks, Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles is recommended, as their ranged attacks are stronger and more accurate than their melee attacks.

When its remaining life points are around 10 to 20, use the fungicide spray on it in order to destroy it. If life points are not low enough and a player uses the fungicide spray, the zygomite will not be killed but one use of the fungicide spray will be expended.

Slayer ChallengeEdit

After a player has performed several slayer tasks for Chaeldar, she will occasionally offer a special task in place of a regular slayer task. The player can decline to take the special task without penalty. If the player accepts the special task, completing the task:

• Earns 10,000 extra slayer experience.
• Earns 25 Slayer reward points, if the player has completed the Smoking Kills quest.
• Counts as a task for the player's consecutive task count, which is used for slayer reward points.

Chaeldar's special task is for the player to test an experimental fungicide spray against ten Mutated zygomites and survive to return to her and tell her the results of the test. The player uses the spray in place of the normal Fungicide spray, when the zygomite the player is attacking has been reduced to 20 life points or less. When applied, the experimental spray will have one of the following effects, chosen randomly:

• "The experimental spray has sent the zygomite into a furious rage!" The zygomite temporarily turns red, heals a bit, and attacks faster. It can be killed by reducing its life points to 0, without needing another application of the spray.
• "The experimental spray has healed the zygomite!" The zygomite temporarily turns green and its hitpoints are restored to maximum. It can be killed by reducing its life points to 0, without needing another application of the spray.
• "The experimental spray has killed the zygomite!" The zygomite is killed.

Note that the challenge is only complete when the player returns to Chaeldar and speaks to her; simply killing 10 zygomites with the experimental spray does not finish the task. The spray cannot be used to kill more than the required 10 zygomites.

DropsEdit

100% dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Ashes	1	1 Always	349

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Nature rune	2	3 Uncommon	222
	Law rune	10–50	3 Uncommon	1,790–8,950
	Earth rune	15	3 Uncommon	135

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Strawberry seed	1–6	2 Common	359–2,154
	Barley seed	1	3 Uncommon	1
	Asgarnian seed	3	3 Uncommon	6
	Potato seed	4	3 Uncommon	8
	Wildblood seed	1	3 Uncommon	36
	Bittercap mushroom spore	1	3 Uncommon	10
	Limpwurt seed	1	3 Uncommon	971
	Whiteberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Jangerberry seed	1	3 Uncommon	3
	Poison ivy seed	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Toadflax seed	1	3 Uncommon	702
	Kwuarm seed	1	3 Uncommon	363
	Hammerstone seed	3	3 Uncommon	3
	Morchella mushroom spore	1–3	3 Uncommon	294–882
	Onion seed	4	3 Uncommon	8
	Spirit weed seed	1	4 Rare	359
	Yanillian seed	1	4 Rare	35
	Jute seed	1	4 Rare	3
	Ranarr seed	1	4 Rare	1,019
	Watermelon seed	1–3	4 Rare	2,010–6,030
	Marigold seed	1	8	15
	Woad seed	1	8	3
	Tomato seed	3	8	3
	Nasturtium seed	1	8	1

HerbsEdit

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

Weapons and armourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Steel hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	35
	Steel 2h sword	1	3 Uncommon	392
	Mithril full helm	1	4 Rare	644
	Rune full helm	1	4 Rare	20,681

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Fungicide	1	2 Common	Not sold
	Anagogic ort	20	2 Common [1]	Not sold
	Coins	44, 64, 102, 220, 302, 343, 400	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Supercompost	1–3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	404–1,212
	Mort myre fungus	1–3	3 Uncommon	634–1,902
	Clay	1	3 Uncommon	189
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold

1. ^ Only with RDT drops.

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

TriviaEdit

• The name Zygomite is probably based on the class of fungus Zygomycota, though these fungi do not produce mushrooms.
• If players try and attack something else while you are still in combat, instead of the usual "I'm already under attack" message, the message box will display "There's a rather large mushroom monster trying to attack you at the moment. Maybe you should deal with it first."
• If a frog or other Zanaris event happens during battle, the Zygomite will keep attacking you with a "thump" sound (melee attack) without any hitsplats, but will still be doing damage while you can't attack it until the event leaves. This may be a glitch.
• Once a Zygomite's life points reach zero (before fungicide is used to kill it), its ranged attack will continue to inflict damage, but its melee attack will no longer inflict damage. This may be a glitch.
• With the release of Fairy Tale III - Battle at Orks Rift a glitch occurred where the health bar and hit splats for a Zygomite appeared much higher in the air than they should, and a player couldn't see how much damage they dealt or how much health a Zygomite had left unless they changed to a high view. This glitch has been fixed.
• If another player picks one of the fungi and runs away and another player is still there, the Zygomite will eventually turn around and start attacking the other player, shouting "I'm coming for you!"
• Zygomites were originally called Mutated Zygomites before the Zanaris update. This was changed back on 21 February 2011.
• If you're fighting a Zygomite and you run away while there are no other players around it, it will return to its original fungus form but will still move around so it looks like a little moving mushroom. This is a glitch, and has not been fixed yet.

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