We wanted to start 2015 off with a bang, and what better way than to introduce 26 mini pet versions of RuneScape's bosses?

You can obtain each pet as a rare drop from their boss counterpart, and the more kills you rack up the more likely it is that you’ll bag a pet. As you reach a certain kill-count threshold, you will get an increased chance of the boss dropping a pet.

Note that these kill counts are retroactive - we've been tracking them since July. Find out your current total in the Beasts interface.

Do you have what it takes to defeat a boss for the ultimate rare drop companion? If you’ve got the guts, test your skills against the following bosses in game for the chance to pick up a Boss Pet:

Araxxor/Araxxi

Kree’arra

Commander Zilyana

General Graardor

K’ril Tsutsaroth

Nex

Kalphite Queen

Kalphite King

Corporeal Beast

Giant Mole

Har-aken

King Black Dragon

Legio Primus

Legio Secundus

Legio Tertius

Legio Quartus

Legio Quintus

Legio Sextus

Chaos Elemental

Dagannoth Prime

Dagannoth Rex

Dagannoth Supreme

Queen Black Dragon

Most of the pets we’ve added have no requirements other than killing their boss counterpart. The exceptions are:

The King and Queen Black Dragonling pets, which both also require 99 Summoning.

Araxxor and Araxxi’s pets - affectionately dubbed Barry and Mallory - which both require you to have unlocked all the previous spider pets from Araxxi.

Plus, we’ve added a Mega Duckling pet into the game - but it’s up to you to find out how to unlock it!

Happy Slaying!

The Ninja Team

In Other News

The Festive Cheer Christmas events have now ended:

All snowboards are now available from Diango/Ianto, but can no longer be equipped.



The Christmas Cracker emote is now unlocked for everyone who donated at least one piece of cracker paper.



Left over snowballs, Christmas food, cracker jokes, paper and presents have been removed.

Read the patch notes for other updates released today.