A note on what this page covers
This page is about the dragon fruit pie in Old School RuneScape, a video game — not about baking a pie with real dragon fruit. If you arrived looking for the fruit, our guides on how to eat dragon fruit and what it tastes like will be more useful.
What the dragon fruit pie is
The dragon fruit pie is a high-level Cooking item in Old School RuneScape, introduced alongside the Hosidius kitchen and the Great Kourend content. It is one of the more valuable pies in the game because of the skill boost it provides rather than because of its healing.
Like all pies in the game, it is eaten in two halves. Each half provides a portion of the healing and one application of the boost, so a single pie gives you two separate uses.
Requirements
- Cooking level: 99 to bake the dragon fruit pie. This is one of the highest-level cooking items in the game, which is much of its appeal as a status item.
- Farming level: 81 to grow dragon fruit, which are produced from dragon fruit trees grown in fruit tree patches.
- Sourcing: dragon fruit can be grown, bought from other players via the Grand Exchange, or obtained from certain reward sources.
How to make one
- Make pastry dough. Use a pot of flour on a bucket of water.
- Make a pie shell. Use the pastry dough on a pie dish.
- Fill it. Add dragon fruit to the pie shell to create an uncooked dragon fruit pie.
- Bake it. Cook it on a range. The Hosidius kitchen range is the usual choice because it reduces the chance of burning.
As with all cooking in the game, there is a chance of burning the pie and losing the ingredients. That chance decreases with Cooking level and with using a better range, and the Cooking cape or gauntlets where applicable.
What it does
The dragon fruit pie provides a temporary Woodcutting boost when eaten, along with a modest amount of healing. Each half of the pie applies the boost, so one pie covers two boost applications.
This makes it primarily a utility item rather than a food item. Players use it to temporarily reach a Woodcutting level they have not yet trained to — most commonly to access a higher-tier tree or to complete a requirement — rather than as combat healing, where cheaper and more efficient food is available.
Why players make them
- Boosting into content. Temporarily reaching a Woodcutting threshold for a specific tree, task, or requirement.
- Achievement diaries and quests. Some tasks specify a skill level that a boost can satisfy.
- Cooking experience. Baking them is reasonable experience at very high Cooking levels.
- Profit. Depending on the current Grand Exchange prices of dragon fruit versus the finished pie, baking them can be profitable, though margins fluctuate constantly with the player-driven economy.
Growing dragon fruit in-game
Dragon fruit trees are grown in fruit tree patches from dragon fruit tree seeds, planted in a plant pot and then in a sapling before going into the patch. They require Farming level 81. Like other fruit trees they take a substantial real-time period to grow and produce fruit that regrows over time, so a mature dragon fruit tree is a recurring source rather than a one-off harvest.
Paying a gardener to protect the growing tree is generally worthwhile given the value of the seed and the length of the growth cycle.
A caveat on game details
Old School RuneScape is updated regularly, and exact stats, requirements, boost values and item prices change with game updates and with the player-driven economy. The requirements above reflect the item as generally documented, but for current figures — particularly Grand Exchange prices and precise boost values — check the in-game Grand Exchange and the community wiki, which are updated continuously.
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