Adamantite ore is an item used for Smithing and can be obtained by mining adamantite rocks at 70 Mining. It grants 95 Mining experience when mined. It is rarely used for training Mining, as the long respawn time of 4 minutes leads to only around 1,425 experience an hour if only mining one rock. It is mined most efficiently along with mithril in the Jatizso mine; however, it is not recommended as the mine is inhabited by aggressive level 128 Ice trolls. It is easy to obtain in both the Al Kharid and West Lumbridge Swamp mine, but the Al Kharid Mine has level 14 scorpions, which are aggressive to those under 29 combat.
Players with 70 Smithing can use one adamant ore and 6 coal in a furnace to create an adamantite bar, granting 37.5 Smithing experience.
Locations[]
Adamantite ore can be found in different mining sites around RuneScape such as:
- Jatizso Mine - 11 rocks
- Mining Guild - 10 rocks (2 in the free-to-play area)
- Bandit Camp Mine - 8 rocks
- Dwarven Mine - 3 rocks
- South Crandor Mine - 3 rocks
- Al-Kharid Mine - 2 rocks
- Edgeville Dungeon Mine - 2 rocks
- Lumbridge Swamp Southwest Mine - 2 rocks
- Grand Tree Mine - 3 rocks
- Heroes' Guild Mine - 2 rocks
- TzHaar City Mine - 2 rocks
- Elven Mine - 4 rocks
- Abandoned Mine - 13 rocks
- Karamja Jungle Mine - 2 rocks
- Wilderness Resource Area - 6 rocks
- North of Museum Camp - 5 rocks
Other places:
Respawn rate[]
As of 17 July 2014 and according to the Boss Pets and Spawn Rates update:
| “ | Spawn rates of pretty much everything in Old School will now be consistent throughout all worlds...[and] resources and monsters now spawn at a standardised rate throughout all worlds regardless of how many people are currently online. | ” |
— Mods Alfred, Ash, John C, Mat K, Reach, Ronan & Weath
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That means adamant ore spawns at a standardised spawn rate, which is 4 minutes after it was last mined, no matter how many players are on a world. Whether it's zero or 2000 players in a single server, all ore across the game will respawn at the same rate.
Dropping monsters[]
Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity Skotizo 321 75 (noted) Common Corporeal Beast 785 125 (noted) Common General Graardor 624 15–20 (noted) Common Terror dog 100; 110 1 Common Elf warrior 90; 108 1 Uncommon Green dragon 79 1 Uncommon Basilisk 61 1 Uncommon Deviant spectre 169 1 Uncommon Blue dragon 111 1 Rare Eclectic impling N/A 10 (noted) Rare
Adamantite ore can also be dropped by monsters that access the Rare Drop Table.
Trivia[]
- Although adamant is synonymous with hard, immovable, or stubborn, adamant and similar words like adamantite, adamantine (e.g. Virgil on the gate of Tartarus), and adamantium (e.g. Marvel Comics's Wolverine's skeleton) are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word ἀδάμας (adamās), meaning "untameable".
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