Cannon ball (Between a Rock...)

Cannon ball
Released	21 March 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	Between a Rock...
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Noteable	No
Options	Drop
Examine	A heavy gold metal sphere.
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	0 coins
Low alch	0 coins
Weight	20 kg
Advanced data
Item ID	4579

The Cannon ball is an item created and used for Dondakan's multicannon in Between a Rock.... Players make it by using a gold bar on a furnace, with an ammo mould or double ammo mould in their inventory, granting 37.5 Smithing experience. This makes only one large cannon ball, instead of the four cannonballs that are usually made from a steel bar.

The cannonball does not require 50 smithing to create despite needing 50 smithing to create the gold helmet later in the quest. After the quest, golden cannonballs can no longer be made.

The golden cannon ball has a weight of 20 kg, compared with 0 kg (like all stackable items) of steel cannonballs. Strangely, the bar it is made from only weighs 2 kg.

This item is used to shoot through the rock; every other item bashes against the rock, but this one goes right through it as if it were not there. That is why players need to make the gold helmet later to shoot themselves into the rock to find the golden cannon ball. The first thing they will see is gold rocks, a lot for later mining.

Note that the players do not actually find the cannon ball; it will become lost within the rocks.