Ancient Wyvern

Ancient Wyvern
Released	7 September 2017 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	210
Size	5x5
Examine	Looks old enough to be fossilised.
Combat info
Attribute	Draconic
XP bonus	+5%
Max hit	10 (Ranged); 16 (Melee); 44 (Icy breath)
Aggressive	Yes
Poisonous	No
Attack style	Slash, Typeless Ranged, Icy breath
Attack speed	5 ticks (3.0 seconds)
Respawn time	15 ticks (9 seconds)
Slayer info
Slayer level	82
Slayer XP	315 xp
Category	Fossil Island Wyverns
Assigned by	File:Konar chathead.png
Combat stats
Aggressive stats
Melee defence
Magic defence
+170	No elemental weakness
Ranged defence
Immunities
Poison	Not immune
Venom	Not immune
Cannons	Not immune
Thralls	Not immune
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Advanced data
Monster ID	7795

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Ancient Wyverns are Slayer monsters that require a Slayer level of 82 in order to be harmed. They reside in the Wyvern Cave on Fossil Island and are the strongest species of Wyvern in Old School RuneScape. Like with other Wyverns, an elemental shield, mind shield, dragonfire shield, dragonfire ward or ancient wyvern shield provides significant protection against their icy breath. These monsters require completion of the Bone Voyage quest to be assigned as a Slayer task.

In addition to being harder to fight, Ancient Wyverns share the ability with Taloned Wyverns to use an unblockable Ranged attack that resembles a lighter coloured Water Blast. This attack ignores Protection prayers and hits around 10, though it can also miss. They also appear to use all Melee attack types. When fighting them, the highest defensive armour the player can access is best suited to use against them. Should one choose to use ranged to fight them, it is recommended to fight in melee range and use Protect from Melee after de-aggroing the Wyverns.

Aggression can be removed by setting up a Tolerance zone and staying within it.

Locations

Location

Levels

Members

Spawns

Map

League region

Wyvern Cave (Slayer task only)

210

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The task-only cave entrance is a trapdoor in the Mushroom Forest and the regular cave entrance is south of the Museum Camp. When a player attempts to attack wyverns in the Slayer task area without a Fossil Island wyvern Slayer task, Weve (Steve's son) will stop them from doing so.

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 623,117 samples from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	3,259	96

Weapons and armour

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Air battlestaff	2	4/132	17,938	18,600
Mystic air staff	1	3/132	25,227	25,500
Rune pickaxe	1	3/132	18,661	19,200
Rune battleaxe	1	2/132	24,300	24,960
Rune kiteshield	1	2/132	32,131	32,640
Rune full helm	1	2/132	20,533	21,120
Battlestaff	6 (noted)	4/132	49,854	25,200
Granite longsword	1	1/600^[1]	19,942	19,200
Granite boots	1	1/600^[1]	284,962	7,500

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Adamant arrow.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Adamant arrow with rarity 3/132 in quantity 50-76	Adamant arrow	50–76	3/132	600–912	2,400–3,648
	Nature rune	37–43	4/132	3,959–4,601	3,996–4,644
	Death rune	47–53	4/132	7,520–8,480	5,076–5,724
	Blood rune	27–33	4/132	5,778–7,062	6,480–7,920
Rune arrow.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Rune arrow with rarity 3/132 in quantity 25-50	Rune arrow	25–50	3/132	1,400–2,800	6,000–12,000
Runite bolts.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Runite bolts with rarity 1/132 in quantity 30-60	Runite bolts	30–60	1/132	1,260–2,520	5,400–10,800

Herbs

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Grimy kwuarm	3 (noted)	5/264	10,722	36
Grimy cadantine	3 (noted)	2/132	8,961	39
Grimy lantadyme	3 (noted)	3/264	5,583	39
Grimy dwarf weed	3 (noted)	2/132	6,108	42
Grimy torstol	1	4/132	2,792	15
Grimy ranarr weed	2–4	4/132	13,418–26,836	36–72

Seeds

There is a 2/132 chance of rolling the tree-herb seed drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Seaweed spore.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Seaweed spore with rarity 2/132 in quantity 16-24	Seaweed spore	16–24	2/132	2,448–3,672	192–288
Ranarr seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Ranarr seed with rarity 1/132 in quantity 2-3	Ranarr seed	2–3	1/132	54,596–81,894	60–90
Magic seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Magic seed with rarity 1/198 in quantity 1	Magic seed	1	1/198	97,288	253
Yew seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Yew seed with rarity 3/198 in quantity 1	Yew seed	1	3/198	26,449	85
Mahogany seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Mahogany seed with rarity 1/99 in quantity 1	Mahogany seed	1	1/99	1,074	28
Ranarr seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Ranarr seed with rarity 1/550 in quantity 1	Ranarr seed	1	1/550	27,298	30
Snapdragon seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Snapdragon seed with rarity 1/589.3 in quantity 1	Snapdragon seed	1	1/589.3	41,659	36
Torstol seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Torstol seed with rarity 1/750 in quantity 1	Torstol seed	1	1/750	6,381	42
Watermelon seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Watermelon seed with rarity 1/785.7 in quantity 15	Watermelon seed	15	1/785.7	510	495
Willow seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Willow seed with rarity 1/825 in quantity 1	Willow seed	1	1/825	60	9
Mahogany seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Mahogany seed with rarity 1/916.7 in quantity 1	Mahogany seed	1	1/916.7	1,074	28
Maple seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Maple seed with rarity 1/916.7 in quantity 1	Maple seed	1	1/916.7	4,765	28
Teak seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Teak seed with rarity 1/916.7 in quantity 1	Teak seed	1	1/916.7	49	28
Yew seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Yew seed with rarity 1/916.7 in quantity 1	Yew seed	1	1/916.7	26,449	85
Papaya tree seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Papaya tree seed with rarity 1/1,178.6 in quantity 1	Papaya tree seed	1	1/1,178.6	942	69
Magic seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Magic seed with rarity 1/1,500 in quantity 1	Magic seed	1	1/1,500	97,288	253
Palm tree seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Palm tree seed with rarity 1/1,650 in quantity 1	Palm tree seed	1	1/1,650	36,353	152
Spirit seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Spirit seed with rarity 1/2,062.5 in quantity 1	Spirit seed	1	1/2,062.5	Not sold	0
Dragonfruit tree seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Dragonfruit tree seed with rarity 1/2,750 in quantity 1	Dragonfruit tree seed	1	1/2,750	175,577	258
Celastrus seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Celastrus seed with rarity 1/4,125 in quantity 1	Celastrus seed	1	1/4,125	69,321	324
Redwood tree seed.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Redwood tree seed with rarity 1/4,125 in quantity 1	Redwood tree seed	1	1/4,125	20,284	390

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Adamantite bar	3 (noted)	6/132	5,763	1,152
	Adamantite ore	20 (noted)	5/132	21,380	4,800
	Runite ore	2–3 (noted)	3/132	22,050–33,075	3,840–5,760
	Diamond	3–5 (noted)	3/132	5,289–8,815	3,600–6,000
Onyx bolt tips.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Onyx bolt tips with rarity 4/132 in quantity 10-15	Onyx bolt tips	10–15	4/132	87,270–130,905	6,000–9,000
	Volcanic ash	80–120	6/132	5,040–7,560	9,600–14,400
	Mahogany logs	25–30 (noted)	5/132	13,175–15,810	750–900

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Shark	5	8/132	4,375	510
	Super combat potion(2)	1	5/132	7,716	54
Super restore(4).png: Ancient Wyvern drops Super restore(4) with rarity 8/132 in quantity 2	Super restore(4)	2	8/132	22,262	360
	Coins	2,000–6,000	7/132	2,000–6,000	2,000–6,000
	Runite crossbow (u)	1	3/132	9,552	9,700
	Supercompost	7–10 (noted)	3/132	406–580	357–510

Rare drop table

There is a 2/132 chance of rolling the rare drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	1/363.76; Never^{[d 1]}	N/A	N/A
	Coins	3,000	1/402.29	3,000	3,000
	Loop half of key	1	1/419.13; 1/416^{[d 2]}	11,919	60
	Tooth half of key	1	1/419.13; 1/416^{[d 2]}	11,925	60
	Uncut sapphire	1	1/1,689.6; 1/858^{[d 2]}	238	15
	Runite bar	1	1/1,689.6	12,467	3,000
	Nature rune	67	1/2,816	7,169	7,236
	Rune 2h sword	1	1/2,816	37,885	38,400
	Rune battleaxe	1	1/2,816	24,300	24,960
	Uncut emerald	1	1/3,379.2; 1/1,716^{[d 2]}	463	30
	Law rune	45	1/4,224	5,715	6,480
	Death rune	45	1/4,224	7,200	4,860
Steel arrow.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Steel arrow with rarity 1/4,224 in quantity 150	Steel arrow	150	1/4,224	2,700	1,050
Rune arrow.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Rune arrow with rarity 1/4,224 in quantity 42	Rune arrow	42	1/4,224	2,352	10,080
	Adamant javelin	20	1/4,224	1,140	1,920
	Rune sq shield	1	1/4,224	22,551	23,040
	Dragonstone	1	1/4,224	11,580	6,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	1/4,224	6,500	4,500
	Uncut ruby	1	1/6,758.4; 1/3,432^{[d 2]}	988	60
	Rune kiteshield	1	1/8,448	32,131	32,640
	Dragon med helm	1	1/8,448	59,006	60,000
	Rune spear	1	1/8,918.3; 1/1,034.77^{[d 2]}	11,871	12,480
	Shield left half	1	1/17,836.6; 1/2,069.55^{[d 2]}	65,394	66,000
	Chaos talisman	1	1/18,022.4; 1/9,152^{[d 2]}	309	2
	Dragon spear	1	1/23,782.14; 1/2,759.4^{[d 2]}	38,854	37,440
	Uncut diamond	1	1/27,033.6; 1/13,728^{[d 2]}	2,142	120
	Rune javelin	5	1/54,067.2; 1/27,456^{[d 2]}	950	1,200

^ The "nothing" drop is removed while wearing a ring of wealth.
^ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 The drop rate is increased while wearing a ring of wealth due to the "nothing" drop being removed.

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Brimstone key.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Brimstone key with rarity 1/62 in quantity 1	Brimstone key	1	1/62^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/350^{[d 2]}	Not sold	12
	Wyvern visage	1	1/10,000^[2]	23,838,438	450,000

^ Brimstone keys are only dropped if killed on a Slayer task given by Konar quo Maten.
^ The elite clue scroll drop rate increases to 1/332 after unlocking the elite Combat Achievements rewards tier.

Fossils

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Numulite.png: Ancient Wyvern drops Numulite with rarity 108/175 in quantity 5-24	Numulite	5–24	108/175	200–960	150–720
	Unidentified small fossil	1	12/350	Not sold	60
	Unidentified medium fossil	1	12/700	Not sold	120
	Unidentified large fossil	1	12/875	Not sold	180
	Unidentified rare fossil	1	12/3,500	Not sold	750

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:25 September 2024\| \|0}} {{#explode:25 September 2024\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:25 September 2024\| \|2}}]] (update)	Reduced aggression radius.
[[{{#explode:12 July 2018\| \|0}} {{#explode:12 July 2018\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:12 July 2018\| \|2}}]] (update \| poll)	Ancient Wyverns now drop a maximum of 24 seaweed spores instead of 12.
[[{{#explode:18 January 2018\| \|0}} {{#explode:18 January 2018\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:18 January 2018\| \|2}}]] (update)	The Ancient Wyvern's Defence level has been reduced from 220 to 150, changing its combat level from 227 to 210.
[[{{#explode:8 September 2017\| \|0}} {{#explode:8 September 2017\| \|1}}]] [[{{#explode:8 September 2017\| \|2}}]] (update)	The Ancient Wyvern's drop table has been improved.

Trivia

They appear to use all attack styles when using melee, depending on the animation they use: slashing when they use their talons, stabbing when they jab with their tail and crushing when they bite the target.
Ancient wyverns had a festive override wearing a yellow partyhat during the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Christmas events.

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 Jagex. Mod Maz's Twitter account. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Mod Maz: "Fossil Island info! Granite LS/boots drop rates. From ancient: 1/600 each From normal: LS 1/512 Boots 1/2560"
^ Jagex. Mod Maz's Twitter account. 9 October 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Mod Maz: "Wyvern Visage is 1/12k for normals and 1/10k for ancients."

[2] The "nothing" drop is removed while wearing a ring of wealth.

[row-3] 2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 The drop rate is increased while wearing a ring of wealth due to the "nothing" drop being removed.

[4] Brimstone keys are only dropped if killed on a Slayer task given by Konar quo Maten.

[5] The elite clue scroll drop rate increases to 1/332 after unlocking the elite Combat Achievements rewards tier.

[wyvern_uniques2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Jagex. Mod Maz's Twitter account. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Mod Maz: "Fossil Island info! Granite LS/boots drop rates. From ancient: 1/600 each From normal: LS 1/512 Boots 1/2560"

[6] Jagex. Mod Maz's Twitter account. 9 October 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Mod Maz: "Wyvern Visage is 1/12k for normals and 1/10k for ancients."

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Ancient Wyvern

Contents

Locations

Drops