Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is the first hour of Ensouled Bloodveld heads that I've done.

Firstly, I noticed about 45 minutes through that the dragon battleaxe was draining my magic level more than I thought it would, so if I did more than an hour, eventually I wouldn't have the magic level to reanimate the heads. This can easily be solved by turning on the Rapid Restore prayer, and this easily restores your magic level before the trip is done.

I think the spot that I was standing is pretty good (I haven't looked much into other spots) and allows you to do minimal moving while not interfering with the xp/h. The idea is like lighting fires, you reanimate two heads, each moving you west 1 square, and when you reanimate the third head, you are forced to walk east 1 square since there is an object blocking you from moving west. This means that you don't have to move for 2/3 heads, and on the 3rd head you click to move east 1 square to give the bloodveld room to spawn (this is not needed if the monster you are reanimating is only a 1x1 square). This obviously wouldn't work for dragons and larger than 2x2 monsters, though.

I wasn't using mousekeys or ahk because with the amount of trips you can do per hour and with such little time banking, you really would only give yourself maybe 5 more heads by using them. Plus, I'm just lazy.

You can cast the reanimate spell as soon as you see the prayer xp pop up from the previous reanimated monster. There is a catch, though, in that if you 1-hit the monster, you cannot immediately cast the reanimate spell when you see the prayer xp drop. You have to wait for the model to disappear for some strange reason that I'm unaware of. So, not 1-hitting the monsters allows you to cast the spell right when you see the prayer xp drop.

Also I'm not maxed melee so that is probably a major factor in how many monsters you can kill per hour. I'd estimate you might get another entire inventory in at the least with maxed melee.

In 1 hour I managed to get:

11,273 Attack xp
11,273 Strength xp
11,273 Defence xp
251,680 Prayer xp
31,850 Magic xp

Without a cannon it looks as if you can do ~11 trips per hour, and with the setup I used that's 242 heads used per hour. For the heads that I think are actually viable to use, this would come out to:

Ensouled Dragon heads: 377,520 xp/h
Ensouled Abyssal heads: 314,600 xp/h
Ensouled Demon heads: 283,140 xp/h
Ensouled Bloodveld heads: 251,680 xp/h

Cost per head:
- 7,000gp for the head
- 620gp for 2 nature runes
- 350gp for 2 soul runes
- 265gp for 1 blood rune

= 8,235 gp / 1040 xp per head = 7.91 gp/xp at the time of this video.

Dragon bones on an altar are 13.34 gp/xp at the time of this video.

(There is also the cost of the Salve graveyard teleport for the fairy ring but this cost is minimal and only once per trip so I left it out)

Using a cannon I could see you being able to do 13-14 trips per hour, equating to 286-308 heads per hour. This gives a range of 297,440-320,320 xp per hour, which is significantly better, and is faster than afking dragon bones at a guilded altar.

Overall I think methods of doing ensouled heads are going to become extremely popular very soon seeing as major video makers are catching on and making videos about them. They were almost a hidden update but once people realize that it truly combats dragon bones in terms of xp/h but is only a fraction of the gp cost, I think they will become more widely used.

I still have 8500 heads left and so I'm going to be testing them again with a cannon, with bandos over proselyte, with super combats over dragon battleaxe, etc, to find the best xp/h possible.

Song is Third Party - Release (Original Mix)

That's all for now :)