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UnpoisonedPoisonPoison+Poison++
Keris



Released							10 January 2007 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							Contact!

Properties

Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Wield, Destroy
Destroy							Before Beneath Cursed Sands: You can obtain another from Osman in Al Kharid. After Beneath Cursed Sands: You can obtain another from Selim in Al Kharid.
Examine							A mystical-feeling dagger.

Values

Value							10,000 coins
High alch							6,000 coins
Low alch							4,000 coins
Weight							0.453 kg

Advanced data

Item ID							10581
Link							MOID

The keris is a one-handed stab sword and dagger dropped by the Giant Scarab toward the end of the Contact! quest, and is the precursor to the keris partisan. It deals 33% bonus damage against all kalphites and scabarites, and has a 1/51 chance of puncturing a hole in their exoskeleton, dealing triple damage. When the special effect occurs, the chatbox will display the game message: You slip your dagger through a gap in the creature's chitin, landing a vicious blow. This message is not displayed if the effect deals less than 10 damage, which can cause the activation frequency to appear lower than it is in reality.^[1]

The keris requires 50 Attack to wield. Like most daggers, it can be poisoned. It has offensive melee stats similar to the dragon dagger albeit slightly weaker. Its +2 prayer bonus makes it one of the three daggers to provide one, the others being Wolfbane with +5 and the white dagger with +1. It is needed to kill a locust rider for a Hard Desert Diary task.

It is lost on death if it is not protected, and can be retrieved from Osman, (or Selim, after Beneath Cursed Sands), for a fee of 20,000. Alternatively, it can be reclaimed from Perdu for a fee of 25,000.

Combat stats

UnpoisonedPoisonPoison+Poison++

Attack bonuses

+40	+20	-10	+2	+0

Defence bonuses


+0	+0	+0	+2	+0

Other bonuses				Slot


+30	+0	+0%	+2	List

	Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Level boost
Stab	Stab	Accurate	4 ticks (2.4s)	1 tile	+3 Attack
Lunge	Stab	Aggressive			+3 Strength
Slash	Slash	Aggressive			+3 Strength
Block	Stab	Defensive			+3 Defence

Creation

Requirements
Members		Ticks	0 (0s)

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Keris	1	N/A
	Weapon poison	1	232
Total cost			232
	Keris(p)	1	N/A

Requirements
Members		Ticks	0 (0s)

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Keris	1	N/A
	Weapon poison(+)	1	861
Total cost			861
	Keris(p+)	1	N/A

Requirements
Members		Ticks	0 (0s)

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Keris	1	N/A
	Weapon poison(++)	1	2,279
Total cost			2,279
	Keris(p++)	1	N/A

Item sources

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	League region
Giant Scarab	191	1	Always

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	Change Per	League region
Osman	Al Kharid	∞	N/A	20,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (1)	Lumbridge	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (2)	Catherby	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (3)	Edgeville	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (4)	Falador	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (5)	Ferox Enclave	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (6)	Emir's Arena	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%
Lost Property shop (7)	Daimon's Crater	∞	N/A	25,000	N/A	0.0%	N/A
Selim	Al Kharid	∞	N/A	20,000	N/A	0.0%

Changes

Date	Changes
21 September 2022 (Update)	The word "chink" has been swapped with "gap" when players deal a critical hit to kalphites and scabarites with the keris. ("You slip your weapon through a chink in the creature's chitin, landing a vicious blow.")
7 July 2021 (Update)	The position of the weapon and its variants on female players has been adjusted so that they appear to be equipped properly.

Trivia

Originally, Osman claimed that it was created by followers of Elidinis specifically to smite the followers of Scabaras.^[2] After the dialogue updates with Beneath Cursed Sands however, this dialogue was removed, and he now simply says that "the enchantments upon them make them very useful against both scarabs and kalphites".
Keris is one of five daggers with its blade pointing down; the other four are the dragon dagger, abyssal dagger, killer's knife, and hunting knife.
The keris is based on a real-world weapon, the kris (sometimes kêrìs), originating from the Javanese culture in Indonesia.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 March 2023. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Mod Ash: "The keris one works by multiplying the rolled damage by 3. Though it only tells you this has happened if the result is >10; if the keris triggers but the resulting damage is still low, you just don't get told about it."
^ Osman. Old School RuneScape. "We discovered a stash of them in some of our investigations. As far as we have been able to determine, it was created by worshippers of Elidinis in order to smite the followers of Scabaras. They are specially enchanted against both scarab creatures and kalphites...which is odd, since we thought the two races to be entirely different."

Stab weapons

Daggers

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon ^(cr)
	Abyssal ^(bh) Bone Dark Glowing Keris Wolfbane

Swords

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black White Mithril Adamant Rune Dragon ^(cr)
	Training Wooden Rapier Leaf-bladed Toktz-xil-ak Belle's folly Ghrazi rapier ^(holy) Osmumten's fang ^(or)

Spears

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Black Mithril Adamant Rune ^(gilded) Dragon ^(cr)
	Bone Guthan's Leaf-bladed Sunspear Vesta's Zamorakian

Hastae

Standard	Bronze Iron Steel Mithril Adamant Rune ^(gilded) Dragon
	Zamorakian Dragon hunter lance

Kitchen weaponry

Other

Cattleprod
Dual sai
Earthbound tecpatl
Keris partisan ^{(Amascut) (breaching) (corruption) (sun)}
Swift blade

Attribute affinities

Demonbane

Weapons	Silverlight Darklight Arclight Emberlight Burning claws Scorching bow Purging staff Holy water
Spells	Inferior Demonbane Superior Demonbane Dark Demonbane

Dragonbane

Ratbane

Golembane

Vampyre (silver equipment)

Weapons	Wolfbane Silverlight Darklight Arclight Emberlight Rod of ivandis Ivandis flail Blisterwood flail Hallowed flail Sunspear Blisterwood stake
Other	Blessed axe Efaritay's aid Silver bolts Silver sickle Emerald sickle (b) ^(e) Ruby sickle (b) ^(e) Diamond sickle (b) ^(e) Blisterwood sickle ^(e)

Other

NPCs

	High Priest Coenus Menaphite Guard Jex Maisa Osman The man who is not Osman Kaleef
Enemies	Scarab Mage Scarab Swarm Giant Scarab Locust rider

Items

Music

Source site	Old School RuneScape Wiki
Canonical source	Keris
Content license	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
License status	declared
Picture	Keris · file details