Lobster

This article is about the cooked version. For the raw version, see Raw lobster.

For other uses, see Lobster (disambiguation).

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Lobster
Release																				11 June 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Edible																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				This looks tricky to eat.
Options
Backpack																				Eat
Values
Value																				268 coins
High alch																				160 coins
Low alch																				107 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 132 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.35 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				132 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
Volume																				27,966
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Advanced data
Item ID																				379
Links																				MRID • recipe

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A lobster is a type of shellfish that players can eat, healing a maximum of 1200 life points. Raw lobsters can be caught with a Fishing level of 40 or higher, granting 90 Fishing experience. They can be caught at any cage/harpoon fishing spot with a lobster pot.

Raw lobsters can be cooked with a Cooking level of 40 or higher, granting 120 experience on a range and 132 on a bonfire. Players may accidentally burn lobsters while cooking until they reach a Cooking level of 74 (or 64 if wearing cooking gauntlets). At around the minimum level, players would burn lobsters about 50% of the time on a fire.

The minimum Constitution level to receive the full amount of healing from this food is 48.

Calculator

Enter your Constitution level	name=skillstat_Constitution_level|type=int|value=1|range=9,99|size=4|sublist=calchealing
name=healing|type=output

variables=skillstat_Constitution_level

calchealing|

let(minLevel, 48)
let(healAmount, 0)
let(healAmountOutOfCombat, 0)
let(healOverTimeAmount, 0)
let(healOverTimeDuration, 0)
let(constitutionLevel, skillstat_Constitution_level)
let(itemName, "This")
let(portions, 1)

let(pointsPerLevel, 25 / portions)
if(healAmount){
  let(pointsPerLevel, healAmount / minLevel)
}

if(constitutionLevel < minLevel){
  let(heal, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevel)
}{
  let(heal, minLevel * pointsPerLevel)
}

let(perPortion, "")
if(portions > 1){
  let(perPortion, " per portion")
}

let(heal, floor(heal + 0.000001))
let(healing, itemName + " will heal " + heal + " life points" + perPortion + " at level " + constitutionLevel + " while in combat.")

if(healOverTimeAmount){
  let(healing, healing + " It will heal an additional " + healOverTimeAmount + " life points over " + healOverTimeDuration + " seconds.")
}

if(healAmountOutOfCombat){
  let(pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat, healAmountOutOfCombat / minLevel)
  if (constitutionLevel < minLevel){
    let(healOutOfCombat, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
  }{
    let(healOutOfCombat, minLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
  }
  let(healOutOfCombat, floor(healOutOfCombat + 0.000001))
  let(healing, healing + " It will heal " + healOutOfCombat + " life points while out of combat.")
}

Noted lobsters can sometimes be found inside barrels in the Viyeldi caves.

Creation

Requirements
Members			No
Ticks			4 (2.4s)
Facility			Range, Fire
Skill			Level	XP
Cooking			40 (b?)	120
Level to stop burning			74	N/A
Cook-o-matic			73	N/A
Level to stop burning with cooking gauntlets			64	N/A
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Raw lobster		1	242
Total cost				242
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Lobster		1	132
Profit				−110

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Attuned portent of restoration V		47 40	9.7 0	35 × Sparkling energy 1 × Lobster	N/A
	1 × Portent of restoration V		45	9.4	35 × Sparkling energy 1 × Lobster	10,444

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Ancient warrior	103	1	1/128
Baby impling jar	N/A	1	1/100
Baby impling	17	1	1/100
Barrel (Viyeldi caves)	N/A	1–3 (noted)	Rare
Blood reaver	108	1	1/128
Elite Black Knight	100	1–3	7/128
Fire giant	85	1	5/128
General malpractitioner	84	1	12/128
Gourmet impling jar	N/A	4 (noted)	1/100
Gourmet impling	28	4 (noted)	1/100
Greater reborn mage	82	1	Uncommon
Greater reborn ranger	82	1	Common
Greater reborn warrior	82	1	Common
Hamper	N/A	0–9	Common
Ice troll	84	6 (noted)	3/128
Jungle strykewyrm	93	1	81/512
Kalphite Guardian	72	1	10/128
Kalphite Soldier	65	1	Uncommon
Lesser demon (Demon Flash Mobs)	109	1	10/128
Lesser demon (Wizards' Tower)	70	1	10/128
Lesser demon	70	1	10/128
Lesser reborn mage	68	1	Common
Lesser reborn ranger	68	1	21/128
Lesser reborn warrior	68	1	Common
Locust rider	75	1	2/128
Monkey knife fighter	70	1	Uncommon
'Rum'-pumped crab	84	1	15/128
Scarab mage	75	1	2/128
Skeletal Wyvern	109	3	2/128
TzHaar-Xil	86	1	6/128
Undead troll	77; 81; 86; 95	1	Uncommon
Zamorak warrior	61; 65	3	2/50

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members
Fishing Guild Shop	Fishing Guild	0	268	80
Keepa Kettilon's Store	Jatizso	0	268	80
Lletya Food Store	Lletya	10	268	80
The Shrimp and Parrot	Brimhaven	10	268	80

In-game usage

Free-to-play popularity

They are the most popular food for free-to-play, due to their low price and the fact that they can easily be collected in bulk.

When the Grand Exchange was set up in Varrock and the 10 December 2007 updates took effect (which put up the 5,000 coin trade limit, removed player killing in the Wilderness), prices of cooked lobsters dropped from 250 to 200 coins to as low as 150 to 200 (due to the ease of trading cooked lobsters), but prices of raw lobsters sky-rocketed from as low as 100 coins each to as high as 339 each. The increase in the prices of raw lobsters was due to the fact that loss of macroers, which provided most of the supply of lobsters in the economy, were also lost.

However, when player-killing worlds were put up, which also increase the demand for food, prices of cooked and raw lobsters rebounded to beyond 300 coins where it stood for a few weeks before slowly declining to around 250 coins. With Stiles added to the game, players were able to procure much greater number of lobsters in Karamja, causing oversupply of lobsters and consequently cause the price of cooked lobsters to dip to its present value.

Pay-to-play popularity

While lobsters are sometimes used for training by low-level members, desert sole heals as much or more, and is cheaper.

An alternative for members with low level Fishing is to use the Thieving skill to steal them in Rellekka or Miscellania at level 42 Thieving, though in Rellekka there is no bank nearby to store them—unless the player is wearing Fremennik sea boots 1, 2, 3, or 4 (obtained by completing the Fremennik Province Tasks) in which case you can talk to Peer the Seer to access a bank deposit box. If you wish to cook the lobsters before banking them, Yrsa has an everlasting fire in her hut, quite close to the marketplace.

Disassembly

Lobster
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	1.4
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  47.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 47.2% 1 34 46.8 2 49 45.8 3 64 44.9 4 69 43.9 5 78 43.0 6 83 41.6 7 91 40.6 8 95 39.2 9 105 37.8
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Achievements

• Fishy Dishes ( 30) – Sample all of the listed fish dishes.

Graphical updates

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 19 July 2010 (Update):
  • Fixed a problem when fishing for lobsters while wearing a slave shirt.

• patch 12 April 2010 (Update):
  • Reduced the price/shop stock restrictions on the following items: bananas, apple pies, redberries, cooked and raw karambwan, lobsters and oranges.

• update 11 June 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Back in RuneScape Classic, the colour of the lobster was actually the other way around. Raw lobsters were a bright red colour when caught, and turned a deep brown when cooked. It was not until the implementation of RuneScape 2 that it was changed to the way it is now, which more closely resembles real-life lobster colouration when raw or cooked.