Venenatis rework concept art.jpg|Concept art of Venenatis' graphical rework, by [[Mod Jerv]].
Silk Chasm concept art.jpg|Concept art of Venenatis' [[Silk Chasm]], by [[Mod Jerv]].
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==Changes==
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{{Subject changes
|date = 7 February 2024
|update = Poll 80 Wilderness Changes & More
|poll =
|change =
* The minimum percentage of regular loot given to the top 10 players in a fight against Venenatis has been increased from 15% to 25%.
* The drop rate for a [[Venenatis spiderling]] has been increased from 1/2,000 to 1/1,500.
* Venenatis can now drop [[wilderness crab teleport]]s, [[dragon dagger]]s, [[battlestaves]], [[rune plateleg]]s, [[rune sq shield]]s, and [[Mystic air staff|mystic air staves]].
* The weighting on certain drops as been adjusted, slightly decreasing the chance to get [[coin]]s and [[rune pickaxe]]s in favour of more valuable drops.
* The number of [[rune pickaxe]]s dropped has been increased from 3 to 5.
* The number of [[blighted anglerfish]] dropped has been increased from 45 to 100.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 30 August 2023
|update = Poll 80 ToA Changes & DMM Tweaks
|poll = Awakened DT2 Bosses & Poll 80
|change = [[Random events]] have been disabled in the [[Wilderness boss]] lairs.
}}
{{Subject changes
|date = 14 June 2023
|update = Ruinous Powers Beta v2
|change = Venenatis now drops [[strange fruit]]s at a rate of 1 in 5.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 15 March 2023
|update = The Last of Poll 78
|poll= New Skill: Community Consultation and Poll 78
|change =
* To prevent players from attacking those attempting to enter the boss chamber safely (as the entrance was multi-combat, whereas the area to the east was single-combat) the following changes were implemented:
** The cave entrance now faces west instead of south.
** Trees have been added to the area behind the cave.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 22 February 2023
|update = 10th Birthday Event
|change = [[Ring of wealth]] now works correctly for Venenatis.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 8 February 2023
|update = Poll 78 Updates & More
|change = Fixed an issue where Venenatis' hitpoints bar was moving during attack animations.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 2 February 2023
|update = Wilderness Boss Rework Tweaks & More
|change =
*Increased the minimum loot reward from 0% to 15%.
*Reduced maximum number of players able to receive loot from 15 to 10.
*Increased quantity of base rewards.
*Venenatis is now immune to [[Ring of recoil]] and similar effects.
*Rearranged Venenatis’ damage through Prayer from being rolled then capped at 30 to being capped at 30 and then rolled.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 25 January 2023
|update = Wilderness Boss Rework
|change =
* Venenatis is now located in a cave, and her combat behaviour has been adjusted.
* Venenatis has been graphically updated.
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{{Subject changes
|date =
|update =
|change = The tree stump found south-east of the trees in 24 Wilderness has been moved a square south to discourage safespotting.
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{{Subject changes
|date = 30 July 2015
|update = Custom F-Keys & Music Cape
|change = A game engine bug affecting the retaliation of ranging/maging NPCs has been fixed. In particular, this affects Venenatis and their behaviour when they have moved far from their spawn points, so it will make certain safespots considerably less effective, and will have similar effects on other NPCs with long-range attacks.
}}
{{Subject changes
|date = 19 March 2015
|update = Boss Pets, Sets, Chat & More
|poll = Old School Content Poll 30: Near Miss Poll
|change = Scorpia, Venenatis, Vet'ion and Callisto now have a very slim chance of dropping a pet version of themselves when killed.
}}
{{Subject changes
|date = 26 June 2014
|update = Midsummer Event
|poll = Old School feature poll - Rewarding Rewards
|change = [[Treasonous ring]] added and other drop table improvements.
}}
{{Subject changes
|date = 20 March 2014
|update = Fresh 'Old' Fashion
|change = The drop tables for [[Callisto]], [[Vet'ion]], Venenatis and the [[Lava dragons]] have been buffed.
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===Gallery (historical)===
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|[[File:Venenatis v1.png|center|300x150px]]
|[[File:Venenatis.png|300x150px]]
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|13 March 2014–<br/>25 January 2023
|25 January 2023 –<br/>present
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==Trivia==
* Venenatis' 2014 model was a recoloured version of [[Kalrag]].
* She was a player-suggested [[boss]], which was adopted into the game after a substantial amount of positive forum feedback.
* The term Venenatis comes from the Latin "[[wiktionary:venenatis|venēnātīs]]", which means "venomous" or "poisoned".
* Despite her name's origin and Phabelle Bile mentioning Venenatis does indeed produce venom, she and her spiderlings are not [[venom|venomous]] or [[poisonous]] to players. This is leftover from before the Wilderness boss rework, when her attacks inflicted poison.
Venenatis spawns
Venenatis attacks with melee towards any player that's adjacent to her, and either magic or ranged for any player out of her melee range. Protection prayers will fully block the attacks, however, they will have their effectiveness reduced for every spiderling alive in the chamber.
Every four attacks, Venenatis will shuffle to another position in her lair. Every two movements will cause her to alternate between ranged and magic attacks.
When a kill starts, Venenatis begins by summoning two spiderlings, who also increase her max hit along with reducing prayer effectiveness. The spiderlings will drain prayer by 1 for every hit made regardless if it damages or not, however they only have 5 health and players will deal their max hit on them regardless of gear. Venenatis can also launch a sticky web that if stood on, damages and drains prayer by 3 and run energy by 10 every few ticks. Venenatis will always alternate between the spiderlings and the sticky web after moving around twice.
If 5 or more players are in Venenatis' lair, she will move more often and perform a special attack every time she moves, as opposed to every other time.
From her release to 25 January2023, Venenatis could be found roaming just north of the green dragons on the eastern shore of the Wilderness and was the only one of the bosses she was released with to be below level 30 Wilderness. She only attacked with melee and magic and had two mechanics; a prayer drain on her target and could also launch sticky webs at them that could deal up to 60 damage and briefly stun them. Venenatis also had a unique damage reduction mechanic in part that she would only take 1-6 damage from any hit if she was in a single-way area, as the area was partially multi and single combat zones.