Yak/Strategies

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The following lists strategies for killing yaks and managing their drops. For the monster, see Yak.

Yaks are very weak monsters with high hitpoints, making them the ideal monster for low to medium levelled players to train ranged and melee on. Magic can be trained on other monsters with better drops, as each cast is expensive. Their combat stats are similar to those of rock crabs, however they always drop hair and yak-hide, which are used in crafting.

To access the yak pen players must have completed The Fremennik Trials and started The Fremennik Isles. It is located extremely close to a bank.

Contents 1 Melee Training 1.1 Requirements 1.2 Equipment 2 Ranged Training 2.1 Requirements 2.2 Equipment 3 Managing Drops 3.1 Crafting and Magic 3.1.1 Most Experience 3.1.2 Partial Experience 3.2 Money 3.2.1 Most Money 3.2.2 Less Money, More Training 3.3 Combat 3.4 Prayer 3.5 Cooking

[edit] Melee Training

It is easy to kill yaks with melee since they have almost no defence and accuracy.

[edit] Requirements

• 40+ melee-based combat level is recommended, however 30 can work.

[edit] Equipment

• Best non-degradable melee armour you can afford; yaks have very low accuracy and a max hit of 3 so it is almost impossible to die. So using Pvp armours or barrows while training on them would be wasting your money.
• Any team cape or better
• Any Metal boots
• Any Recipe for Disaster gloves or a combat bracelet
• Amulet of Glory or better
• Best weapon to train desired skill. If you have 70 attack and wish to train strength, don't use a whip because it cannot directly train strength. Instead, use or borrow a Saradomin sword or use a dragon scimitar. If you want to you can use a Sacred Clay Scimitar, which gives double experience, but bring a minimum 2, because the Scimitar degrades at a fairly fast rate.
• Rune defender or TokTz-Ket-Xil

Using special attacks are recommended when training as it can boost your rate of kill and gives faster experience. If your primary weapon happens to have an unfavourable special attack, don't hesitate to bring a secondary weapon such as a Dragon dagger or a Dragon battleaxe. The dragon dagger may kill your target quickly and the dragon battleaxe will boost your strength allowing you to hit higher.

[edit] Ranged Training

Yaks are sometimes known for their godly ranged experience. Most of the time, there are so many people and yaks there that a ranger can rely on them to make a temporary safe spot.

[edit] Requirements

• 30+ ranged recommended
• a little defence

[edit] Equipment

• Best ranged armour for your level: Studded leather armour at 20, Snakeskin armour at 30, dragonhide armour at 40-70, and if possible full range void armour.
• Ava's accumulator or attractor
• Snakeskin boots or better
• Best vambraces for your level
• Amulet of Glory or better
• throwing knives or darts: get a few hundred of the kind best suited for you. For training use stronger ones, however bronze knives are the cheapest. Steel darts are recommended. A knife is the same as the dart of the higher metal, i.e. iron knives are the same as steel darts, but steel darts are cheaper.
• Anti-dragon shield or a god book.

[edit] Managing Drops

Yaks drop hair, yak-hide, raw yak meat, and bones 100% of the time, and will NEVER drop anything else. Therefore, a ring of wealth is useless here.

There are many things you can do with the drops, depending on your needs for experience or money.

[edit] Crafting and Magic

[edit] Most Experience

Inventory should include coins, needle, and lots of thread. Pick up all yak hides and hair, and do the following: cure yak hides with Thakkrad Sigmundson, use needle on cured hides to make Yak-hide armour (legs), and spin hair into rope. Bank the resulting items, and continue fighting yaks.

Later, cast high alchemy on all of the yak hide legs and sell the ropes.

This gives lots of crafting experience and less combat and magic experience.

[edit] Partial Experience

Inventory should include coins, needle, and lots of thread. Pick up all yak hides only, cure them, and make them into leg armour. Bank them and high alch them later.

This gives some crafting experience and a little more combat and magic experience.

[edit] Money

[edit] Most Money

Inventory should include coins. Pick up all hair, yak hide, and bones, and cure the yak hides. Bank everything and sell them at the Grand Exchange later.

Note that hair and cured yak hide may not sell very quickly, so this method is risky.

This gives some combat experience and money.

[edit] Less Money, More Training

Pick up bones and bank them. Sell them in the grand exchange later.

This gives a little money and more combat experience.

[edit] Combat

Just kill yaks and pick up nothing. You'll never have to bank and can spend all of your time training combat.

This gives the most combat experience and nothing else.

[edit] Prayer

In addition to everything you can do listed before, you can train prayer by picking up and burying bones. This slows down combat training, however.

This gives a little prayer experience and less combat experience.

[edit] Cooking

Inventory should include a tinderbox and any kind of logs. Pick up raw yak meat, light a fire when you have a full inventory of meat, and cook all the raw yak meat. Eat it, drop it, or bank it.

This gives some cooking and combat experience.