Venenatis

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Venenatis
Released										13 March 2014 (Update)
Members										Yes
Combat level										464
Size										4x4
Examine										That'll get your arachnophobia going...
Combat info
XP bonus										+52.5%
Max hit										50
Aggressive										Yes
Poison										Yes (8)
Attack style										Magic, Stab
Attack speed
Slayer info
Slayer level										None
Slayer XP										388.8 xp
Category										Spiders, Bosses
Assigned by
Combat stats
255					470					490					490					150					1
Aggressive stats
+0					+0					+0					+0					+0					+0
Defensive stats
+260						+260						+260						+850						+100
Immunities
Immune to poison															Immune to venom
Advanced data
Monster ID												6504,6610

Venenatis is a large poison spider that resides east of the Bone Yard, and is the only monster to drop the treasonous ring. She uses multi-target Magic and long-ranged melee attacks. She is able to drain Prayer as well as perform a lethal stun attack that can hit up to 50 damage, and may combine it with another attack if the player does not have Protect from Magic active, which is capable of instantly killing the player. Unlike the other Wilderness bosses, Venenatis' lethal attack has a chance of failing.

Venenatis is not immune to Magic damage.

According to Phabelle Bile, Venenatis is the last of her kind, who were hunted to extinction by dwarves. It is also revealed that she has a lair of her own, but she only goes there to recover from her wounds. It is not seen anywhere near her roaming area either.

Strategy

Main article: Venenatis/Strategies

Location

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
East of the Bone Yard	464		1	Maplink

Drops

The following drop rates are provided by Jagex, unless otherwise specified.

The average Venenatis kill is worth 82,850.27.

The average Venenatis kill while on a Konar task is worth 84,655.69.

Pre-roll

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Treasonous ring	1	1/512	265,324	30,000

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Rune pickaxe	1	12/128	18,585	19,200
	Rune knife	60	5/128	13,020	6,000
	Rune 2h sword	1	3/128	37,773	38,400
	Dragon pickaxe	1	0.75/128	2,817,007	58,770
	Dragon 2h sword	1	0.5/128	131,933	132,000

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Chaos rune	400	7/128	18,400	21,600
	Death rune	300	7/128	54,600	32,400
	Blood rune	200	7/128	84,600	48,000
	Diamond bolts (e)	100	5/128	31,500	12,600
	Cannonball	250	4/128	44,000	750

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Uncut ruby	20 (noted)	7/128	23,200	1,200
	Uncut diamond	10 (noted)	7/128	26,440	1,200
	Gold ore	300 (noted)	6/128	43,200	27,000
	Onyx bolt tips	60	5/128	502,500	36,000
	Magic logs	100 (noted)	5/128	91,700	19,200
	Limpwurt root	25 (noted)	5/128	18,750	100
	Red spiders' eggs	500 (noted)	3/128	209,000	2,000
	Unicorn horn	100 (noted)	2/128	16,800	1,200
	Uncut dragonstone	1	2/128	13,861	600
	Grimy snapdragon	100 (noted)	1/128	881,700	1,200

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	15,000–19,999	19/128	15,000–19,999	15,000–19,999
	Dark crab	8	10/128	12,592	1,536
	Super restore(4)	3	10/128	34,173	540
	Supercompost	100 (noted)	4.75/128	44,600	5,100
	Antidote++(4)	10 (noted)	3/128	15,070	2,160
	Dark fishing bait	375	1/128	1,875	375
	Yew seed	1	1/128	45,837	85
	Magic seed	1	1/128	132,211	253
	Palm tree seed	1	1/128	28,965	152

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Looting bag	1	1/3	Not sold	N/A
	Brimstone key	1	1/50	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/100; 1/50	Not sold	12
	Long bone	1	1/400	Not sold	3
	Venenatis spiderling	1	1/2,000	Not sold	N/A
	Curved bone	1	1/5,012.5	Not sold	4

Wilderness Slayer tertiary

The following drops are only accessible while on a Slayer task given by Krystilia.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Larran's key	1	1/50	Not sold	54
	Slayer's enchantment	1	1/30	3,269	720

Deadman mode

The following drops and rarities only apply to Deadman Mode.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Saradomin brew(4)	1	1/3	3,712	120
	Saradomin brew(1)	1	1/3	896	75

Combat Achievements

The following Combat Achievement tasks involve Venenatis.

Name	Description	Difficulty	Category
Venenatis Adept	Kill Venenatis 50 times.	Hard	Kill count
Venenatis Veteran	Kill Venenatis 100 times.	Elite	Kill count

Changes

Date	Changes
30 July 2015 (update)	A game engine bug affecting the retaliation of ranging/maging NPCs has been fixed. In particular, this affects Venenatis and their behaviour when they have moved far from their spawn points, so it will make certain safespots considerably less effective, and will have similar effects on other NPCs with long-range attacks.
19 March 2015 (update | poll)	Scorpia, Venenatis, Vet'ion and Callisto now have a very slim chance of dropping a pet version of themselves when killed.
26 June 2014 (update | poll)	Treasonous ring added and other drop table improvements.
20 March 2014 (update)	The drop tables for Callisto, Vet'ion, Venenatis and the Lava dragons have been buffed.

Trivia

• She was a player-suggested boss, which was adopted into the game after a substantial amount of positive forum feedback.
• The term Venenatis comes from the Latin "Venēnātis", which means "Venomous" or "Poisoned".
• If Venenatis is attacked while she is in a single-way area, she will only take 1-8 damage from the player's attacks regardless of their weapon. This is because her habitat is surrounded by a single-way area, and all of the Wilderness bosses (excluding demi-bosses) reside in multi-way areas. Players can still deal full damage to her while standing in the single-way area if she remains in a multi-way area.
• On release, the tree stump found south-east of the trees in 24 Wilderness was one square south than what it is now. This was changed in an update in order to prevent players safespotting Venenatis behind the trees. However, it can still be done, albeit with a lot more effort.
• If Venenatis is lured south near single-way combat and attacks a player with her multi-target Magic attack, any nearby players in the single-way combat zone already in combat with another entity will also be hit. This may be an oversight by Jagex.
• Venenatis' model is a recoloured version of Kalrag.