OSRS Spindel Guide: Strategy, Gear, Location & Drop Rates

Overview: Spindel at a Glance

Spindel is the singles-plus version of Venenatis, a level 302 spider with 515 hitpoints that lives in the Web Chasm at level 29 Wilderness. To get in you need the hard Wilderness diary or a Venenatis boss Slayer task, plus a 50,000 coin lair fee. The fight is a fixed loop of 8 ranged attacks then 8 magic attacks, so you swap Protect from Missiles and Protect from Magic on the cycle, kill each spiderling the moment it appears, and step out of the web she throws on her third magic attack.

Her max hits are modest, 31 at most. The bigger risk is other players. The chasm is singles-plus, so one PKer can attack you while you are mid-kill, and a death to another player there costs you most of what you brought.

She is weakest to crush (+10 crush defence against +70 stab and slash) and takes 25% extra damage from fire spells. In our boss index she is a 3 out of 5, a solo fight.

Access Requirements

Two things open the Web Chasm: a completed hard Wilderness diary, or an active Venenatis boss Slayer task. A normal spider task does not count. The hard diary has been the gate since January 2026; before that the medium diary was enough, so older guides that say medium are out of date.

Entry also costs 50,000 coins, taken from your bank if you are not carrying it. The fee is shared with the other Wilderness boss lairs, drops by 10,000 for each kill where you deal the most damage, and you only pay it again if another player kills you before you leave the Wilderness. The boss requirements checklist lists every Wilderness boss gate in one place.

Spindel Location and How to Get There

The Web Chasm entrance sits in the eastern ruins north of the Graveyard of Shadows, at level 29 Wilderness. When you climb in you appear at the north end of the arena. Once you have 20 kills registered you can peek into the chasm before entering, which tells you if someone is already inside.

Because you are above level 20, carry a teleport that works up to level 30. A royal seed pod does it in one click. Singles-plus means only one player can attack you at a time, but a PKer's attack takes priority over the boss, so being in combat with Spindel does not protect you.

Recommended Combat Stats and Gear

The wiki suggests 70+ Attack, Strength, Defence and Hitpoints, and 75+ Ranged if you range her. Crush melee and ranged are the two standard setups.

• Crush melee: Ursine chainmace is the strongest option, then Viggora's chainmace or the Inquisitor's mace.
• Ranged: Webweaver bow or Craw's bow first, then the bow of Faerdhinen, or a zaryte crossbow with diamond dragon bolts (e).
• Skip the twisted bow. The wiki advises against it because of smites from PKers and the webs.
• Slayer helmet (i) only on a Venenatis or spider task; otherwise a Helm of Neitiznot for melee.
• A fighter torso or infernal cape is lost for good on a PvP death above level 20 unless locked with a trouver parchment. An Avernic defender can't be locked; it breaks instead (600,000 coin repair).

Inventory and Supplies

• Something that kills a 5 HP spiderling in one hit: grey chinchompas are fastest, then blisterwood stakes, darts or throwing knives, or blighted ancient ice sacks.
• Divine or regular super combat potion (ranging potion for ranged) and a stamina potion.
• Blighted super restores. Spiderlings drain prayer on every hit, even through protection prayers.
• Blighted manta rays or anglerfish (anglerfish at 93+ Hitpoints) plus several blighted karambwan.
• Anti-venom or a sanfew serum in case a PKer venoms you.
• Looting bag and a royal seed pod or other teleport that works at level 30.

Spindel has a 5/9 chance to drop a bundle of supplies on top of her normal loot, including un-noted blighted anglerfish, blighted karambwan and blighted super restores, so trips often refill themselves.

Mechanics: Attack Styles, Max Hits and Immunities

• Ranged attack: green spit. Magic attack: webs launched at you.
• Spiderlings: 5 hitpoints each, capped at 10 alive. While alive they raise her damage, let her hit through prayer and lower your damage and your thrall's.
• Sticky web: lands on your tile and spreads into a 7x5 area. Standing in it means repeated 3 damage hits that also drain 3 prayer and 10 run energy. Aranea boots only cancel the first tick.
• She moves position every 4 attacks.

Where Spindel Sits in Progression

Most players come here after Chaos Fanatic, which has no entry requirement. Once the 8 ranged / 8 magic cycle is automatic, the next step is Venenatis, the same fight in multi-combat.

Spindel vs Venenatis

Venenatis is the multi-combat version in the Silk Chasm at level 35. She has 850 hitpoints, hits harder (35 ranged max) and drops uniques far more often: the voidwaker gem is 1/360 there against 1/912 at Spindel, and the pet is 1/1,500 against 1/2,800.

Spindel's trade is safety. Only one player can attack you, the lair is six levels shallower, and the mechanics are the same, so it is the easier place to learn the spiderling and web pattern. Both share collection log slots.

Spindel Strategy Step by Step

1. 1

   Turn on PK skull prevention and check Items Kept on Death before you enter.

2. 2

   You arrive at the north end.

   Ranged setups can fight from near the exit, which keeps your escape short.

3. 3

   She opens with 8 ranged attacks: pray Protect from Missiles.

   Spiderlings spawn on the first ranged attack, so kill them straight away. One grey chinchompa throw can hit several spiderlings and her south-west tile at once.

4. 4

   Next come 8 magic attacks: swap to Protect from Magic.

   On the third one she throws the sticky web, so stand on the outskirts of the arena to stay clear of the 7x5 area.

5. 5

   If you melee, follow her when she moves every 4 attacks.

   In melee range she only uses melee (14 max), so Protect from Melee covers you.

6. 6

   The cycle repeats until she dies.

   Bank before your restores run out, since spiderling hits keep draining prayer.

Spindel Drop Table: Uniques and Rates

The unique table is rolled about once every 103 kills. Fangs of Venenatis combine with a Craw's bow to make the Webweaver bow, and the voidwaker gem is one of three voidwaker pieces: the blade comes from Vet'ion and Calvar'ion, the hilt from Callisto and Artio.

Task-only extras: a Brimstone key at 1/60 on Konar tasks, and a Larran's key at 1/58 plus a Slayer's enchantment at 1/30 on Krystilia tasks. Current GP per kill: OSRS Wiki.

Combat Achievements

Spindel has no Combat Achievement tasks of her own. Her kills count toward Venenatis Adept (10 kills, Hard) and Venenatis Veteran (20 kills), so you can finish both without setting foot in the multi-combat Silk Chasm.

Our Combat Achievements guide covers the rest of the Wilderness tasks.

Slayer and Ironman Notes

Spindel is in the Spiders and Bosses Slayer categories. The wiki lists Turael, Spria, Krystilia, Konar, Nieve, Duradel and Kuradal as masters whose tasks include her. Each kill is 541 Slayer XP.

For an ironman, the supply drops matter as much as the uniques: un-noted blighted restores, karambwans and anglerfish keep a trip going. Venenatis has better unique rates, but you take on multi-combat PK risk to get them.

Common Mistakes and Death Causes

• Leaving spiderlings alive. They boost her damage, let her hit through prayer and drain prayer on every hit.
• Standing in the 7x5 web after her third magic attack.
• Bringing a twisted bow or other gear you cannot afford to lose to a PK smite.
• Forgetting a trouver parchment on untradeables.
• Walking in with no teleport that works at level 30.
• Finishing a kill after a PKer has already entered the chasm.

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