OSRS Green Dragon Money Making Guide: Locations & Safespots

Green dragons are the weakest of the chromatic dragons in OSRS. Like other Dragons, they breathe Dragon fire, which can hit up to 50 damage to players not wielding an anti-dragon or Dragon fire shield. They are commonly killed since they are profitable and provide the fastest means of getting Dragon bones for prayer training on an ironman. However, they are frequently targeted by player-killers, so players opting to kill them in the Wilderness should beware. 

Green Dragons can also be assigned as a slayer task by Krystillia. As a slayer task, killing Green Dragons is great as it gives good slayer experience rates and is also quite profitable.

Recommended skills for killing Green Dragons

• 70+ attack
• 70+ strength
• 70+ defence
• 70+ hitpoints
• 70+ ranged

Locations of Green Dragons

• East of Boneyard Hunter area: there are 11 spawns in this area. 
• West of the Dark Warriors’ Fortress: This area has 3 Green Dragon spawns
• North of the Graveyard of Shadows

• South of the Lava Maze

• Wilderness Slayer Cave

• Myths’ Guild: this area has 2 Green Dragon spawns and requires the completion of Dragon Slayer II to access.

Getting to the Green Dragons

The fastest ways to get to the Wilderness’ locations include:

• Games necklace: Players can use this to teleport to the Corporeal beast lair.
• Burning amulet: the burning amulet can teleport players to the Lava Maze. From here, they can go to any Green Dragons’ location.
• Obelisks: players can use the wilderness Obelisk to teleport close to the Green Dragons’ location.
• Canoe: players can use the canoe to get to the Lava maze. A safespot can also be accessed from this location. You will need runes to telegrab the drops from here.

Players who can’t use these options can simply run from Ferox Enclave after using the grouping teleport.

The fastest methods to the Green Dragons in the Myth’s Guild are: 

• Mythical cape teleport

• Spirit tree

• Charter ship to Corsair Cove, then run west.

Gear and Inventory Setup for Green Dragons

Most locations for killing Green Dragons are in the Wilderness so, it’s recommended that players do not take items they are willing to lose. You should take 3 expensive items so you can keep them if your character dies, or 4 if using protect item prayer. Also, ensure you have the player attack option turned off so you don’t get skull-tricked.

Melee gear setup

Head slot: Helm of Neitiznot

Neck slot: Amulet of torture

Cape slot: Ardougne cloak 4

Body slot: Black d’hide body

Leg slot: Black d’hide chaps

Weapon slot: Abyssal whip

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Shield slot:  Anti-dragon shield

Glove slot: Combat bracelet

Boot slot: Climbing boots

Ring slot: Ring of dueling

Inventory setup with melee

• Divine ranging potion
• Anitfire potion
• 3 prayer potion
• Burning amulet
• Looting bag
• Ring of dueling
• Food

Ranged gear setup

Head slot: Saradomin Coif

Neck slot: Necklace of Anguish

Cape slot: Ava’s accumulator

Body slot: Black d’hide body

Leg slot: Black d’hide chaps

Weapon slot: Dragon hunter crossbow

Ammo slot: Broad bolts

Shield slot:  Anti-dragon shield

Glove slot: Black d’hide vambraces

Boot slot: Climbing boot

Ring slot: Ring of dueling

Inventory setup with ranged

• Divine ranging potion
• Anitfire potion
• 3 prayer potion
• Burning amulet
• Looting bag
• Ring of dueling
• Food

Mage gear setup

Head slot: Ahrim’s hood

Neck slot: Amulet of glory

Cape slot: Ardougne cloak 4

Body slot: Bloodbark body

Leg slot: Bloodbark legs

Weapon slot: Trident of the swamp

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Shield slot:  Anti-dragonfire shield

Glove slot: Mystic gloves

Boot slot: Climbing boots

Ring slot: Ring of dueling

Inventory setup for magic

• Anitfire potion
• 3 prayer potion
• Burning amulet
• Looting bag
• Ring of dueling
• Food

Green Dragon’s attacks

Green Dragons attack with melee and Dragon fire.

• Melee attack: Green Dragons use a slash melee attack against players who are standing in melee range. This attack has a max hit of 8 and using protect from melee will completely nullify the damage.
• Dragon fire attack: Green Dragon’s Dragonfire attack has a max hit of 50. Using an Anti-dragon shield or Dragon fire shiels will partially block damage from this attack and using one of these shields with an antifire potion will block the fire completely.

Strategy for killing Green Dragons

Green Dragons are weak to Stab and Ranged, so it’s recommended to use any of these styles when killing them. First, ensure you wield a dragonfire shield and drink an antifire potion before attacking them. High level players can tank their hits and don’t need protection prayers. However, low level players might need to use protection prayers to reduce damage from the Dragon’s attacks. The strategy is the same for players who want to use ranged or melee. However, there are safespots for players who use ranged which are quite useful, especially if they are low-level.

Safespots for Green Dragons

• The Lava Maze safespot

• North of the Graveyard of Shadows

• Wilderness Slayer safespot

GP per hour from Green Dragons

Players with 80+ attack, strength, and defence or 60 ranged can kill 170 green dragons per hour. This results in a profit of 728K GP after the cost of extended antifire, burning amulet and Broad bolts have been deducted. The profit will likely be lower due to PKer activity if killing them in the Wilderness. The profit goes up to 824K for players who kill them in Myth’s guild.

Drops from Green Dragons

100% Drops
Dragon bones 1 (Always), Green dragonhide 1 (Always).

Weapons and Armour
Steel platelegs 1 (1/32), Steel battleaxe 1 (1/42.67), Mithril axe 1 (1/42.67), Mithril spear 1 (1/64), Mithril kiteshield 1 (1/128), Adamant full helm 1 (1/128), Rune dagger 1 (1/128).

Runes
Water rune 75 (1/16), Nature rune 15 (1/25.6), Law rune 3 (1/42.67), Fire rune 37 (1/128).

Herbs
Grimy guam leaf 1 (1/34.1), Grimy marrentill 1 (1/45.5), Grimy tarromin 1 (1/60.7), Grimy harralander 1 (1/78), Grimy ranarr weed 1 (1/99.3), Grimy irit leaf 1 (1/136.5), Grimy avantoe 1 (1/182), Grimy kwuarm 1 (1/218.5), Grimy cadantine 1 (1/273.1), Grimy lantadyme 1 (1/364.1), Grimy dwarf weed 1 (1/364.1).

Coins
Coins 44 (1/4.414), Coins 132 (1/5.12), Coins 200 (1/12.8), Coins 110 (1/256), Coins 440 (1/128).

Other
Bass 1 (1/42.67), Adamantite ore 1 (1/42.67).

Gem Drops
Nothing (1/51.29; Never), Uncut sapphire 1 (1/204.4; 1/652), Uncut emerald 1 (1/204.4; 1/208), Uncut ruby 1 (1/409.6; 1/922), Uncut diamond 1 (1/1,638; 1/1,832), Nature talisman 1 (1/1092; 1/652), Loop half of key 1 (1/3,277; 1/664), Tooth half of key 1 (1/3,277; 1/664), Rune javelin 1 (1/3,277; 1/664), Rune spear 1 (1/52,429; 1/13,245), Shield left half 1 (1/104,858; 1/36,672), Dragon spear 1 (1/139,810; 1/8,920).

Tertiary Drops
Key (elite) 1 (Always), Clue scroll (elite) 1 (Always), Reward casket (elite) 1 (Always), Looting bag 1 (1/3), Ensouled dragon head 1 (1/35), Clue scroll (hard) 1 (1/128; 1/64 with ring of wealth).

Wilderness Slayer Tertiary
Larran’s key 1 (1/100), Slayer’s enchantment 1 (1/260).