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Crashed Star



Released								17 March 2021 (Update)
Members								No
Quest								No
Location								Varies
League region								N/A
Options								Mine, Prospect
Examine								This big rock has fallen from the sky.

Advanced data

Object ID								41229
Link								MOID

Crashed stars are rocks that play a central role in the Shooting Stars Distraction and Diversion. They can be mined to obtain stardust, which members can trade for rewards at Dusuri's Star Shop. The stars can also be mined on free-to-play (F2P) worlds, but only grant half the experience given on members' worlds and the stardust collected has no use for F2P players.

The size of a crashed star decreases by 1 every 7 minutes. The crashed star disappears completely when either a size-1 star has been mined for 7 minutes, when another star crashes on the same world, or when a system update occurs. The skilling success rate and experience gained for successfully mining stardust is the same across all sizes.

The first player to interact with a crashed star will be listed on the notice board in the Observatory on that world. The first player will also receive a star discovery bonus that gives 300 extra stardust as the star is mined. The player does not get any XP for this extra 300 stardust. This mechanism also applies on free-to-play worlds where it serves no useful purpose unless the player intends to purchase a membership at a later date. Discovering another star will result in the bonus stardust count resetting back to 300, even if some bonus stardust from a previous star is left. Players can also see the number of stars they were the first to discover on the notice board.

The effects of mining enhancers like the Varrock armour or Celestial signet do not work on crashed stars to get double the stardust.

	Star of Your Own
The jingle that plays upon discovering a crashed star.

Landing sites

Shooting stars can land in a wide variety of locations across Gielinor's surface. The size of a star when it lands is random, between 6 and 9. The level requirement to mine a star depends on its size.

Size	Level	Crash chance
9	90	20%
8	80	25%
7	70	30%
6	60	25%
5	50	N/A
4	40	N/A
3	30	N/A
2	20	N/A
1	10	N/A

Mining info

MembersFree-to-play
Crashed star

Level required					Varies
Mining XP					32 xp
Required tool					Pickaxe
Time to degrade					7 minutes

A crashed star produces one stardust on every successful mining attempt. A player with an active discovery bonus also receives an extra stardust, until they have received 300 extra.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Stardust	1; 2	Always	Not sold	N/A

The probability to succeed on a given mining attempt scales with Mining level according to the figure below. The chance is the same regardless of star size.

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Pre-roll

The mining gem drop table has a 1/256 chance to roll on every mining attempt;^[1] if the player is wearing a charged amulet of glory, amulet of glory (t), or amulet of eternal glory, the probability increases to 1/64.2.^[2]^[3] If the table successfully rolls, the player may receive an uncut gem or nothing, and in either case can not receive an ore.^[4] This neither depletes the rock nor grants Mining experience. The rates shown are for every mining attempt.

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Nothing	N/A	70/32,768; 70/8,216^{[d 1]}	N/A	N/A
Uncut sapphire	1	32/32,768; 32/8,216^{[d 1]}	228	15
Uncut emerald	1	16/32,768; 16/8,216^{[d 1]}	473	30
Uncut ruby	1	8/32,768; 8/8,216^{[d 1]}	1,087	60
Uncut diamond	1	2/32,768; 2/8,216^{[d 1]}	2,439	120

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The drop rate is increased while wearing any charged variant of an amulet of glory.

Tertiary

The following items can drop together with the main resource. The rates shown are for a successful mining attempt.

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Clue geode (beginner)	1	1/663–1/366^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Loop half of key (moon key)	1	1/3,477^{[d 2]}	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (easy)	1	1/5,642–1/2,962^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (medium)	1	1/6,637–1/3,485^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (hard)	1	1/10,952–1/5,751^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (elite)	1	1/33,189–1/17,428^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Rock golem	1	1/521,300–1/519,075^{[d 3]}	Not sold	N/A

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The drop rate increases with Mining level; see Clue geode § Rates for more details.
^ Key halves are only dropped in Varlamore.
^ The drop rate increases with Mining level; see the pet calculator for more details.

Equipment

Celestial rings and signets provide an invisible +4 boost to Mining level, regardless of charges.
Prospector kit boosts Mining experience by 2.5%.
Amulet of glory increases the chance of obtaining gems when charged.
Mining gloves, Mining capes, Varrock armour, and charged celestial rings do not provide any chance to receive extra resources.

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Changes

Date	Changes
2 July 2025 (Update \| poll)	Scroll boxes are now obtainable in place of Clue geodes after completion of X Marks the Spot.
25 October 2023 (Update)	Crashed stars will now only spawn sizes 6 to 9, with updated chances of spawning for each. Crashed stars now consistently deplete at a rate of 7 minutes for each layer it has. Mining experience gained when acquiring stardust has been changed to be 32 for all star sizes. The skilling success rate whilst mining crashed stars is now identical for all star sizes. Clue geodes are once again obtainable from crashed stars. Crystal shards are no longer obtainable from crashed stars that land in Prifddinas.
2 October 2023	Hotfix Receiving clue geodes from crashed stars has been disabled in an effort to help server performance.^[5]
20 September 2023 (Update)	Crashed stars no longer deplete faster when more people are mining them. Player characters will no longer occasionally render behind the crashed star they are mining.
10 November 2021 (Update)	Shooting Stars now have a chance to land in Darkmeyer, as previously intended.
30 June 2021 (Update \| poll)	Experience from mining crashed stars have been increased per stardust mined.
24 March 2021 (Update)	Shooting Stars should now deplete more slowly when large groups are mining them. Cannons can once again be placed where a Shooting Star would land. However, if a Star lands on it, it will be destroyed and will need to be reclaimed from Nulodion. There is now a chance players might receive additional stardust when mining Shooting Stars.

Gallery

A shooting star crashing, becoming a size-5 crashed star. This was possible prior to the 25 October 2023 changes.

Trivia

If a crashed star lands where a player is currently standing (or upon switching worlds onto a star), the player will be pushed safely out of the way. This does not apply to pets, however, which may stand in the middle of the star after logging in next to one.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "It adds a gem roll before each ore roll, and if you receive a gem you don't get the ore roll."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 22 May 2019. Archived from the original on 1 August 2022. Mod Ash: "All charged amulets of glory, including the eternal one, have the same benefit for getting gems."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 7 February 2017. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Mod Ash: "[the actual increase when wearing the Amulet of Glory while mining is] 1/86 rather than 1/256 for a gem."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "Yes, [the mining gem table has] got [...] chance of giving no gem."
^ Jagex. Old School RuneScape's Twitter account. 2 October 2023. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Old School RuneScape: "As an initial measure to help server performance, we've disabled the ability for players to receive Clue Geodes from mining Shooting Stars."

Shooting Stars

NPCs

Dusuri's Star Shop

Currency	Stardust
Golden prospector kit	Helmet Jacket Legs Boots
Other items	Celestial ring ^(signet) Star fragment Bag full of gems Soft clay pack Essence pack ^{(unobtainable)}

Objects

Mining

Mining rocks and sources

Ore rocks	Copper ^(vein) Tin ^(vein) Blurite Iron ^(vein) Daeyalt Elemental Silver Lead Coal ^(vein) Gold ^(vein) Mithril ^(vein) Lunar Lovakite Adamantite ^(vein) Nickel Runite
Other	Rune Essence Clay ^(vein) Rock Limestone Barronite Magical Ash Ore vein Dense runestone Sandstone Gem Granite Daeyalt Essence Soft clay Ancient essence Amethyst Crashed Star Basalt rock Efh salt rocks Te salt rocks Urt salt rocks Salax salt deposit Amalgamation Rubium rocks^(deposit) Sunstone rocks^(monolith)

Ores

Fragments

Salts

Gems

Other mineables

Pickaxes

Mining enhancers

	Celestial ring Celestial signet Mining cape
Mining gloves	Standard Superior Expert
Varrock armour	1 2 3 4

Historical

Source site	Old School RuneScape Wiki
Canonical source	Crashed Star
Content license	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
License status	declared
Picture	Crashed Star (size 1) · file details