Necromancy

The Necromancy skill page — every level, every item and the xp, in tables.

A support skill. Wake the souls of monsters as companions that heal you or boost you, bury bones for XP, and travel by soul portals. Its page is Necromancy.

On this page: How it works · Burying · The souls · Companions · Soul portals

How it works

1. Get a soul jar. Monsters drop one 0.04% of the time (bosses 1%, from Necromancy 60).
2. Put it on a Soul Shelf in the Graveyard. The shelf holds 4 jars at level 1, plus one every 20 levels.
3. Give it what it wants (see "The souls" below). One click takes it from your bag or bank. You get XP for each hand-in.
4. It wakes up as your companion, and you get the rest of the XP.

You also get Necromancy XP from burying things, making gear at the Ossuary, and using soul portals.

Burying

• Where: the Graveyard, through its gate in the Gloam (by the old graves).
• How: have something buryable in your bag and click a grave. You bury one every 1.8 seconds, best first. Walk away to stop.
• Deeper graves need a higher level but give more XP (see the table).
• Bonus finds: a soul jar 0.05% of the time, bone dust or a grave flower 3%.
• By the gate: the Soul Shelves, the Ossuary, and a soul portal (Necromancy 35).

Bury	At	xp (shallow)
Feather	Shallow graves and deeper	3
Hornworm husk	Shallow graves and deeper	8
Raw chicken	Shallow graves and deeper	9
Raw beef	Shallow graves and deeper	11
Cowhide	Shallow graves and deeper	11
Raw boar	Shallow graves and deeper	12
Bones	Shallow graves and deeper	14
Boar tusk	Shallow graves and deeper	18
Ectoplasm	Old barrow and deeper	5
Raw ram chop	Old barrow and deeper	15
Enormous cobweb	Old barrow and deeper	15
Gold shark tooth	Old barrow and deeper	17
Bonegourd	Old barrow and deeper	20
Raw goose breast	Crypt yard and deeper	23
Static pelt	Crypt yard and deeper	23
Cobra fang	Crypt yard and deeper	25
Scarab shell	Crypt yard and deeper	28
Marrow	Crypt yard and deeper	30
Grimcore	Crypt yard and deeper	45
Raw possum	Hallowed ground and deeper	33
Raw gator tail	Hallowed ground and deeper	35
Raw mammoth steak	Hallowed ground and deeper	40
Fossil	Hallowed ground and deeper	45
Sabretooth fang	Hallowed ground and deeper	100
Yeti pelt	Hallowed ground and deeper	110
Mammoth ivory	Hallowed ground and deeper	120
Rex tooth	Hallowed ground and deeper	250
Wyrm scale	Hallowed ground and deeper	300

The souls

Wakes at	Soul	Wakes as	It wants	xp
1	Angry Olive's soul	Buffer: skilling speed	80 olives, 40 cooked sardine, 80 logs	212
8	Bone Idle's soul	Buffer: defence	120 bones, 50 cooked trout, 80 gloomwillow logs	425
12	Bog Gnasher's soul	Healer	100 emerald ore, 120 bones, 50 cooked catfish	630
20	Tax Wraith's soul	Buffer: accuracy	160 tax receipt, 80 cooked gloomfin, 120 emerald ore	1,388
25	Sorry Ghoul's soul	Healer	160 diamond ore, 240 bones, 100 cooked bonefish	2,272
28	Chandelier Spider's soul	Buffer: skilling speed	160 enormous cobweb, 100 cooked ghost carp, 160 deadwood logs	3,055
36	Bandaged Debtor's soul	Healer	600 dragonstone ore, 400 cooked oasis perch, 600 palm logs	6,732
38	Sulking Revenant's soul	Buffer: defence	600 dragonstone ore, 1,000 bones, 400 cooked cloud ray	8,204
48	Thunderwolf's soul	Buffer: accuracy	600 static pelt, 400 cooked storm marlin, 600 onyx ore	22,054
55	Grim Lich's soul	Buffer: accuracy	600 grimstone ore, 400 marrow, 600 gallows logs	44,087
58	Deckhand's soul	Buffer: skilling speed	600 raw bluefin, 400 cooked mackerel, 600 driftwood logs	59,329
60	The Strongman's soul	Buffer: defence	600 starfall ore, 300 catalytic converter, 400 goldfish on a stick	72,317
64	Vault Warden's soul	Buffer: skilling speed	800 starfall ore, 400 koi on a tray, 400 eclipse ore	107,449
66	Abyss Wisp's soul	Healer	600 abyss crystal, 400 cooked bluefin, 600 eclipse ore	133,733
70	Rabid Possum's soul	Buffer: skilling speed	600 raw possum, 400 possum on a stick, 600 bogwood logs	248,855
80	Raptor's soul	Buffer: accuracy	400 fossil, 300 mammoth steak, 600 cycad logs	1,047,621
85	Frost Wraith's soul	Healer	200 frost shard, 400 cooked icefin, 600 frostpine logs	1,718,754
60	Kevin's soul	Buffer: first hit halved	200 bones, 500 cooked catfish, 1,000 emerald ore	97,317
60	Grandma's soul	Healer	200 feather, 500 cooked bonefish, 1,000 dragonstone ore	97,317
60	The Goose's soul	Buffer: extra items	200 feather, 500 cooked storm marlin, 1,000 onyx ore	97,317

Companions

• They follow you and never fight.
• Healer: heals 1% of your health every 6 seconds in a fight (at most 10% a minute).
• Buffer: gives you and your party within 6 tiles a 4% bonus.
• They level up by doing their job, plus 12% of your Necromancy XP. They can't pass your Necromancy level.
• Stars: waking the same soul again adds a star (up to 5).
• How many: one at a time. Two from Necromancy 80 (costs 50,000 tickets and needs Breeding 70 and Hitpoints 80).
• If you die it goes down too. It's back after 20 minutes, or pay 5,000 tickets at the shelf.
• They can wear Necromancy gear. They never go into the Yard.

Soul portals

• An arch of bones on every map.
• Step into it to travel to any portal your level has opened (table below).
• 30 seconds between trips.

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