by OZinOH

Life points represent the amount of damage a player or monster can withstand until it dies. Death occurs when a player’s or monster’s life points reach zero. The maximum number of life points a player may have without boosting is 10 times his or her Constitution level.

Players begin with 100 life points and a Constitution level of 10, with 1,154 experience, and at level 99 Constitution, players will have 990 life points. The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at rank 2,000,000) on the hiscores for Constitution is level 65. As of 09 January 2011, there are 114,855 players that have achieved level 99 in Constitution.

The number of life points a monster has varies between 1 and 30,000. Nex, the highest level monster in RuneScape, tops this list, followed by Corporeal Beast, Nomad, Turkey (2009 Thanksgiving event), Decaying avatar, Pest Queen, Living rock patriarch, Skeletal horror, Tormented demon, Ice strykewyrm, Living rock striker, Kree’arra, Commander Zilyana, General Graardor, K’ril Tsutsaroth, and the Kalphite Queen (the Kalphite Queen has two forms, each of which has 2,550 life points, effectively giving her 5,100 total life points). The title of monster with the lowest amount of life points are the Evil creatures from the quests The Eyes of Glouphrie and The Path of Glouphrie with only 1 Lifepoint. However, Xenia from The Blood Pact appears to have only 4 life points but is never fought, only attacked in a cut scene. Later, she reveals that she was pretending to be hurt worse than she actually was, so she may therefore have more than 4 life points. In the Temple of Ikov quest, Lucien only has 1 life point, but you can only fight him once.