Zalcano

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Zalcano
Released										25 July 2019 (Update)
Members										Yes
Combat level										336
Size										5x5
Examine										A former demon of Zamorak that has been turned to stone.
Combat info
Max hit										53
Aggressive										Yes
Poison										No
Attack style										Various
Attack speed
Combat stats
1,000					1					1					1					1					1
Aggressive stats
+0					+0					+0					+0					+0					+0
Defensive stats
+0						+0						+0						+0						+0
Immunities
Immune to poison															Immune to venom
Advanced data
Monster ID												9049

Zalcano is a demon imprisoned beneath Prifddinas that is fought using skilling rather than conventional combat. Being immune to traditional combat damage, players must use their Mining, Smithing and Runecraft skills to create imbued tephra capable of destroying her stone armour. Once her armour has been destroyed, they must damage her by mining her with a pickaxe.

Zalcano's prison can be accessed from Prifddinas' Trahaearn district via a teleport platform just west of the south-eastern bank. As Prifddinas requires completion of Song of the Elves to access, Zalcano requires a minimum of 70 Mining and Smithing to be fought, though higher levels in Mining, Smithing and Runecraft will be advantageous, as well as higher Hitpoints to withstand her various attacks. All of Zalcano's attacks are typeless, meaning that protection prayers cannot be used to reduce their chance of taking damage or the damage itself.

History[edit | edit source]

Zalcano is a demon and Skotizo's sister, who both held the rank of general in Zamorak's armies. During the God Wars, when Zamorak personally sent Skotizo and his squad to recover an artefact in the Karamjan Temple, Skotizo eagerly took the mission only to betray his squad and took the artefact for himself, escaping to a certain continent far west. Zamorak held Zalcano personally responsible for her brother's treachery, and cursed her to slowly turn to stone, which would only be lifted if she brought her brother back to him.

Believing that Skotizo had fled to the elven lands of Tirannwn, Zalcano made her way there. The elves initially believed she was the first of many demons to attack their city, but to their surprise, she was the only one and roamed the forests as if she was looking for something. Amlodd mystics soon learned a curse was slowly turning her to stone, and this prompted the Trahaearn Clan to capture her for study. The Ithell and Trahaearn Clans worked together to create a prison in the volcanic caverns to keep her in the city, and successfully captured her, albeit with many casualties.

Zalcano, imprisoned beneath the crystal city.

Following her capture, the curse accelerated, with an elf believing it to be the result of Zamorak already knowing she had failed her mission. With the help of Amlodd magic and Meilyr potions, the elves learned why she came to Tirannwn.

Though she had appeared to have slowly descended into madness, the elves dared not to release her as they had lost many of their brethren luring her inside and did not want her power to grow unchecked. The aforementioned elf returned many years later to personally see the demon they were studying, and was surprised when she talked, simply muttering the name "Skotizo".

Today, she remains in Prifddinas, and the Trahaearn elves who study her often require aid in keeping her in check.

Attacks[edit | edit source]

While the player is inside the prison, Zalcano has six different attacks that the player must watch out for as they attempt to take on the stone demon. Each of the attacks are performed at random intervals throughout the fight.

• Zalcano will stomp on the ground, causing boulders to fall from the ceiling. These are easily avoided by stepping at least one tile away. Boulders can be easily spotted by watching out for the falling pebbles/dirt, which will be followed by the falling boulder. It is also easy to know which tile they are falling onto by the location of their shadow on the ground. Players who are hit by these can take 40+ damage.

Throwing imbued tephra while standing under a blue demonic symbol will increase the player's accuracy and damage.

A player mines Zalcano after breaking her stone armour.

• Zalcano will summon blue and orange demonic symbols. If a player is standing on a blue demonic symbol when attacking Zalcano with imbued tephra, it will increase the players accuracy and damage significantly. The orange demonic symbols, however, should be avoided, These will damage the player as well as reduce their run energy if they pass through it or stand in it. Damage is dealt constantly if a player stands within it and can result in a quick death if they are not paying attention.
• Zalcano will summon a golem in the southern part of the prison. If the golem reaches her, it will restore her armour's health based on the health of the Golem. If the Golem is at full health, it will restore 50 hitpoints towards her armour. It is possible for a player to hurt the golem with the imbued tephra. The golem will also drop 16-24 imbued tephra when killed.
• Zalcano will fire a red ball of energy at the current glowing red rock formation to deactivate it, changing its location. If a player is standing near the rock formation when this happens, they will take 24+ damage. These can be avoided by walking away from the rock.
• After Zalcano has fallen and players have caused her damage, she will rise again. If any players are standing next to her while this occurs, she will create a shockwave push them back, causing the player small amounts of damage. All tephra are destroyed as well.
• Zalcano will randomly hit all players within the prison with a barrage of small pebbles. These are not avoidable, but players will only take a few hitpoints worth of damage.

Players will also get damaged if they stand under Zalcano when she has fallen. Damage rate is much less than an orange symbol, dealing around 3-10 damage per tick, and the danger persists until Zalcano begins to rise again.

Max Hit Calculation[edit | edit source]

When attacking Zalcano with a pickaxe the max hit is calculated from the following table based on mining level plus ${\displaystyle max((P-40)/15,0)}$where ${\displaystyle P}$ is the level requirement for the pickaxe being used.^[1]

Location[edit | edit source]

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Beneath Prifddinas	336		1	Maplink

Drops[edit | edit source]

Players must do at least 30 damage to Zalcano's hitpoints and 30 damage to her shield to be eligible for drops, and 50 damage to be eligible for uniques/pet.^[2][3]

Drops from the main table and from the tertiary table scale with the player's points from the kill. The points are calculated as shown in fig.1, For the tertiary table, the damage to hitpoints and shield are capped to a max of 400 and 300 respectively, for a maximum of 1,000 points.^[4]

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}P_{M}&=H+2\times S&H\in [0,\infty )&\land S\in [0,\infty )&&(1)\\P_{T}&=H+2\times S&H\in [0,400]&\land S\in [0,300]&&(2)\end{aligned}}}$

Where P_M is points towards main table, P_T is points towards tertiary table, H is damage to hitpoints and S is damage to shield.

The MVP, the player who deals the most damage to Zalcano, will also receive an additional 10% (rounded up) of their non-unique loot.

Drop rates estimated based on 655,595 kills from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

100%[edit | edit source]

Ashes are only dropped for the MVP. Players eligible for a drop will receive one crystal shard, players eligible for unique drops or pet will receive two shards and the MVP will receive three shards.^[3]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Crystal shard	1–3	Always	Not sold	N/A
	Ashes	1	Always	Not sold	1

Runes[edit | edit source]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Blood rune	95–480	1/36	37,715–190,560	22,800–115,200
	Cosmic rune	295–926	1/36	42,480–133,344	8,850–27,780
	Death rune	201–830	1/36	40,803–168,490	21,708–89,640
	Law rune	166–770	1/36	22,742–105,490	23,904–110,880
	Soul rune	57–388	1/36	8,151–55,484	10,260–69,840
	Nature rune	1–842	1/36	185–155,770	108–90,936

Materials[edit | edit source]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Silver ore	102–800 (noted)	3/36	4,284–33,600	4,590–36,000
	Coal	169–926 (noted)	1/36	33,293–182,422	4,563–25,002
	Mithril ore	56–387 (noted)	2/36	5,544–38,313	5,432–37,539
	Adamantite ore	51–289 (noted)	2/36	50,184–284,376	12,240–69,360
	Runite ore	3–26 (noted)	2/36	33,786–292,812	5,760–49,920
	Gold ore	86–721 (noted)	3/36	11,696–98,056	7,740–64,890
	Steel bar	78–534 (noted)	3/36	26,988–184,764	4,680–32,040
	Mithril bar	56–459 (noted)	3/36	37,352–306,153	10,080–82,620
	Adamantite bar	15–107 (noted)	2/36	28,800–205,440	5,760–41,088
	Runite bar	3–27 (noted)	2/36	37,521–337,689	9,000–81,000
	Uncut diamond	2–20 (noted)	2/36	6,146–61,460	240–2,400
	Uncut dragonstone	1–11 (noted)	2/36	15,454–169,994	600–6,600
	Onyx bolt tips	4–41	2/36	34,048–348,992	2,400–24,600
	Pure essence	784–4,803 (noted)	1/36	1,568–9,606	1,568–9,606

Tertiary[edit | edit source]

Every Zalcano kill has a 1/200 chance of rolling the crystal tool seed table which includes a 1/40 chance for uncut onyx. Of the players participating in the kill, the players with more points have a higher chance of rolling this table. The Zalcano shard and Smolcano are rolled independently per player.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Crystal tool seed	1	1/200	2,807,899	300,000
	Zalcano shard	1	1/750–1/1,500[5]	15,731	960
	Smolcano	1	1/2,250	Not sold	N/A
	Uncut onyx	1	1/8,000	1,721,089	120,000

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