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Creatures of the Lost Grove

Introduction

For a creatures of the lost grove task you can choose between three different monsters: Moss Golems, Vinecrawlers and Bulbous crawlers. Moss Golems are the fastest, best xp/hr and best gp/hr, therefore the other ones are only worth doing if you are looking to get a soul.

Desirable Drops

⬥ Cinderbane Gloves Cinderbanes - Drop Rate of 1/1500 on task and 1/5000 off task

⬥ Ancient Elven Ritual Shard ancientshard - Drop Rate of 1/1500 on task and 1/5000 off task

⬥ Torn Grimoire Pages grimpage - Drop Rate of 1/512 on task and 1/1536 off task.

Location and How to Get There

Creatures of the Lost Grove can be accessed through the monolith west of the incandescent wisp colony, west of Yanille.

⬥ The easiest way to get there would be through the fairy ring (code B J S) after repairing it with 5 Bittercap mushrooms.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• An alternative method is to run west from the Incandescent wisp colony, accessible via the portal in the Max guild garden, the elder divination outfit, or via the fairy ring south of Castle Wars (code B K P).

⬥ Alternatively, players can also utilise the Solak solak boss portal through Max Guild, War's Retreat or the teleport through the grouping system. The exact location for each monster can be found on the map in game.

⚠️ Disclaimer

These methods may be difficult to survive after the Aura changes made on 13/4/2026

Know of a newer method/rotation? Got a video? Share it in #suggestions!

Moss Golems

Moss Golems have hard hitting melee auto-attacks, and can hit from halberd range. When they lose HP, their heads pop off and spawn a Mossy Rock that also deals damage. To prevent taking too much damage, the Enhanced Devoted enhdev4 or cryptbloom cryptbloomhelm are extremely important for survivability, as you will be praying DeflectMelee regardless of which method you are using.

Stats

slayer XP per kill : 2408.8

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: 1570 melee, 965 necromancy, 990 magic,

⬥ Optimal slayer XP per hour : 3.78m melee, 2.32m necromancy, 2.38m magic

Positioning

⬥Melee/Necro melee / necromancy (Red square)

⬥Magic magic (Purple square)

⬥Dwarven Siege Engine cannon (Yellow square)

Method - AFK Melee melee

⬥ Pray DeflectMelee and turmoil / malevolence

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Sustain prayer with powderofpenance

⬥ Upkeep vampyrismaspect, elderovl, aggressionpotion, superprayerrenewal, weppoison, vampscrim, and kwuarmsticks at all times.

⬥ Use Totem of Vitality vitalitytotem, Ogre flask (thermal) thermalflask, and Boon of Het HP boosts.

enhdev4 and dev4 required.

⬥ Tier 2 Corbicula Rex Perk corbicula

⬥ Use cannon to help aggro the Moss Golems.

Preset Suggestions

Moss Golems - AFK Melee melee

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High Level - tumekenslight / noxscythe (Nox Scythe requires Superior vampscrim + malevolence)

Low Level - noxscythe / dragonriderlance / lanispear

Example Kills

High Level AFK Melee

Low Level AFK Melee

Method - AFK Necro necromancy

⬥ Pray DeflectMelee and fortitude

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Sustain prayer with powderofpenance

⬥ Upkeep vampyrismaspect, elderovl, aggressionpotion, superprayerrenewal, weppoison, scriptureofamascut, kwuarmsticks at all times.

⬥ Use Totem of Vitality vitalitytotem, Ogre flask (thermal) thermalflask, and Boon of Het HP boosts.

enhdev4 and dev4 required.

⬥ T100 omniguard soulboundlantern required off-task.

⬥ Use cannon to help aggro the Moss Golems.

Preset Suggestions

Moss Golems - AFK Necro necromancy

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Example Kills

AFK Necro

Method - AFK Magic magic

⚠️ Disclaimer

This method may not work after the combat changes made in Q1 of 2026

Know of a newer method/rotation? Got a video? Share it in #suggestions!

⬥ Pray DeflectMelee and torment / affliction

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Sustain prayer with powderofpenance and ancientshard when needed.

⬥ Upkeep animatedead, elderovl, aggressionpotion, superprayerrenewal, weppoison, and scriptureofwen at all times.

⬥ Autocast exsanguinate

⬥ Use cannon to help aggro the Moss Golems.

Preset Suggestions

AFK Magic magic

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Example Kills

AFK Magic

Vinecrawlers

These monsters are generally not killed for any purpose other than their soul ushabti

⚠️ Disclaimer

This method may not work after the combat changes made in Q1 of 2026

Know of a newer method/rotation? Got a video? Share it in #suggestions!

Stats

slayer XP per kill : 2086

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: ~230 AFK

⬥ Optimal slayer XP per hour : ~480K AFK

Useful Items

Items
Scrimshaw of aggression aggressionscrim     • Allows you to AFK the task ⬥ Blood reaver scrolls reaverscroll     • Helps sustain damage taken if in lower tiered gear ⬥ Powder of penance     • Increases task afk-ness

Method

⬥ Use a tier 85+ weapon (or hexhunter bow hexhunterbow) along with Cryptbloom helm cryptbloomhelm, and boots cryptbloomboots, and Animate Dead animatedead.

⬥ You need Enhanced devoted 4 enhdev4 on your armour and pray Deflect magic DeflectMage

⬥ It doesn't matter where you stand, just activate your Scrimshaw of aggression aggressionscrim and sip a Super restore restore if your prayer runs low.

Preset Suggestions

AFK Ranged

graspingpouchblack - bloodrune astralrune bodyrune soulrune

graspingpouchpink - deathrune earthrune lawrune cosmicrune

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Video Guide

AFK Ranged

Bulbous crawlers

These monsters are generally not killed for any purpose other than their soul ushabti

Stats

slayer XP per kill : 2360

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: 300 AFK

⬥ Optimal slayer XP per hour : ~700K AFK

Useful Items

Items
Blood reaver scrolls reaverscroll     • Helps sustain damage taken if in lower tiered gear ⬥ Powder of penance     • Increases task afk-ness

Method - AFK Melee

⚠️ Disclaimer

This method may not work after the combat changes made in Q1 of 2026

Know of a newer method/rotation? Got a video? Share it in #suggestions!

⬥ Put your cannon on this location

⬥ You need Enhanced devoted 4 enhdev4 on your armour and pray Deflect missiles DeflectRange

⬥ It doesn't matter where you stand.

Preset Suggestions

Bulbous Crawlers - AFK Melee

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Example Kills

AFK Melee

Method - AFK Necro

Before loading your oldakcoil and starting the session, check the following:

⬥ Pray deflectrange and sorrow / ruination

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Use Enhanced Devoted 4 enhdev4 on your armour.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Sustain prayer with powderofpenance

⬥ Upkeep darkness

⬥ Ensure elderovlsalve and weppoison are active at all times.

⬥ Ensure that scriptureofwen is active.

Stats with this strategy

slayer XP per kill : 2360

⬥ Optimal kills per hour: ~375

⬥ Optimal slayer XP per hour : ~885K

Preset Suggestions

Bulbous Crawlers - AFK Necromancy

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Example Kills

AFK Necromancy