Steel Dragons are a type of metal Dragon, easily identified by their silver colour and high defence. They are relatively stronger and have a combat level of 246 or 274, depending on their location. Players tend to skip Steel Dragon slayer tasks as they are usually long, offer poor slayer XP, and are not profitable enough.

With the completion of the elite Karamja diary, Steel dragons and other metal dragons will drop their respective bars in noted form if toggled on through Pirate Jackie the Fruit.

Location of Steel Dragons

Steel Dragons can only be found in 2 locations:

Brimhaven Dungeon

There are 13 Steel Dragons spawns in total in the Brimhaven Dungeon. 4 in the regular Dungeon, while 9 (level 246) in the task-only area. You would run into several monsters when going to the Steel Dragons so ensure to use protect from melee to prevent damage from their attacks. The fastest methods to this location are:

• Through teleport to House if the POH is in Brimhaven.
• Tai Bwo Wannai teleport scroll.
• Spirit tree.
• Amulet of glory to Karamja
• fairy code CKR
• Teleport to Ardougne and take a boat to Brimhaven for 30 GP.

Catacombs of Kourend

2 Steel Dragon spawns are in this location. The fastest methods to this location are:

• Through the portal in the portal chamber or nexus in a POH attuned to Kourend castle
• Hosidius page in Kharedst’s memoirs
• Skills necklace to woodcutting guild then run north
• Take the boat with Veos to Port Piscarilius then run west

Recommended stats for Steel Dragons

• 70+ attack
• 70+ strength
• 70+ defence
• 70+ ranged
• 75+ magic
• 70+ hitpoint
• 44+ prayer for Eagle Eye

Melee Gear Setup example for Steel Dragons

Head slot: Slayer helm (i)

Neck slot: Amulet of Fury

Cape slot: Fire cape

Body slot: Fighter torso

Leg slot: Bandos tassets

Weapon slot: Dragon Hunter Lance

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Shield slot:  Dragonfire shield

Glove slot: Barrows gloves

Boot slot: Dragon boot

Ring slot: Berserker ring (i)

Inventory setup for melee

• 4 Extended super antifire
• 2 super divine combat potion
• Divine super combat potion
• Axe and coins: if using the Brimhaven location
• Teleport methods to and back from the Steel Dragons’ location
• Food

Ranged Gear Setup example for Steel Dragons

Head slot: Slayer helm (i)

Neck slot: Necklace of anguish

Cape slot: Ava’s accumulator

Body slot: Karil’s leathertop

Leg slot: Karil’s leatherskirt

Weapon slot: Dragon crossbow

Ammo slot: Diamond Dragon bolts (e)

Shield slot:  Dragonfire shield (charged)

Glove slot: Barrows gloves

Boot slot: Saradomin d’hide boot

Ring slot: Archers ring(i)

Inventory setup for ranged

• 6 Extended antifire potions
• 12 prayer potions
• 2 Divine ranging potion
• Teleport methods to and back from the Steel Dragons
• Axe and coins if using Brimhaven Dungeon
• 2 divine ranging potions
• Food is not necessary

Magic gear setup

Head slot: Slayer helm (i)

Neck slot: Occult necklace

Cape slot: Imbued god cape

Body slot: Ahrim’s robetop

Leg slot: Ahrim’s robeskirt

Weapon slot: Trident of the swamp

Ammo slot: Rada’s blessing 4

Shield slot:  Dragonfire shield

Glove slot: Barrows gloves

Boot slot: Eternal boots

Ring slot: Seers ring (i)

Inventory setup for magic

• 6 Extended antifire
• 12 prayer potion
• Teleport methods to and back from the Steel Dragons
• Coins and axe: if using Brimhaven
• Imbued heart

Steel Dragon attacks

Steel Dragons attack with melee and Dragonfire

• Melee attack: Steel Dragons will use a slash melee attack against players in their melee range. This attack has a max hit of 22 and can be fully protected from by using Protect from Melee.
• Dragonfire attack: Steel Dragons use this attack consistently when their opponent is not in melee range and occasionally when the player is in melee range. It has a max hit of 50 and can be fully protected against by using a Dragonfire shield and antifire potion.  Note that Protect from Magic does not protect players against the Dragonfire from the Iron Dragon and other metallic dragons.

Strategy for Steel Dragons 

Steel Dragons are weak to mage and stab, so we advise you to use any of those attack styles. Before starting the fight, drink combat boosting and anti-fire potions. Using magic or ranged is a common method for killing Steel Dragons because they will not attempt to close the distance and use their melee attack, allowing the player to take zero damage as long they are protecting from the Dragonfire attacks.

If using melee, the player needs to use protect from melee and antifire potion not to take any damage from the Steel Dragons. Players can also kill them without antifire potion. However, they will take damage from the dragonfire attacks, but it will be a lot less since the Dragons will mostly use melee when the player is standing in melee range.

Drops from Steel Dragon

The average Steel Dragon kill is worth 10K or 12K GP when on a Konar task

100% DropsDragon bones 1 (Always), Steel bar 5 (Always).

Pre-rollDragon plateskirt 1 (1/512), Dragon platelegs 1 (1/512).

Weapons and ArmourRune dart(p) 12 (1/18.29), Rune mace 1 (1/32), Rune knife 1 (1/42.67), Adamant kiteshield 1 (1/64), Rune axe 1 (1/128), Rune full helm 1 (1/128).

Runes and AmmunitionRune javelin 7 (1/64), Blood rune 20 (1/73.77), Runite bolts 2–12 (1/128), Soul rune 5 (1/256).

CoinsCoins 470 (1/7.52), Coins 650 (1/25.6).

OtherSuper attack(3) 1 (1/96), Runite limbs 1 (1/42.67), Dragon javelin heads 1 (1/42.67), Rune bar 1 (1/42.67), Super defence(2) 1 (1/128), Curry 1 (1/128).

Rare and Gem drop table

Nothing (1/47.02; Never), Uncut sapphire (1/176), Loop half of key (1/193.54), Tooth half of key (1/193.54), Coins (3,000) (1/195), Uncut emerald (1/221.4), Uncut ruby (1/248.8), Uncut diamond (1/284.8), Nature talisman (1/319.4), Rune 2h sword (1/319.4), Rune battleaxe (1/319.4), Death rune (45) (1/360), Steel arrow (150) (1/360), Rune arrow (42) (1/360), Adamant javelin (10) (1/360), Rune sq shield (1/360), Dragonstone (1/360), Silver ore (100, noted) (1/360), Rune javelin (10) (1/542.7), Rune spear (1/4,046.2), Rune kiteshield (1/4,045), Dragon med helm (1/1,028.1), Shield left half (1/8,131.4), Dragon spear (1/10,817).

Tertiary DropsClue scroll (hard) (1/64), Brimstone key (1/75), Clue scroll (elite) (1/500), Draconic visage (1/10,000).

Catacombs Tertiary DropsDark totem shard (1/166), Dark totem base (1/250), Dark totem middle (1/250), Dark totem top (1/250).