How long items stay on the ground

An item you drop shows to other players after one minute and is gone after three minutes, 300 game ticks in all. A monster's drop is yours alone for one minute, then anyone can take it until it goes at two minutes. Untradeable items never show to anyone else: one you drop lasts three minutes, its timer stops while you are logged out, and it follows you if you hop worlds. A tradeable item keeps counting down while you are logged out and stays on the world where it fell. Every figure on this page comes from these rules and the exceptions in the tables below.

Every despawn timer

These are the timers for every kind of item on the ground, 81 cases in all. "Others see it" is when a player other than you can see and take the item; "Never" means only you ever see it.

Dropped items

11 cases

Dropped items: when others can see each item and when it goes
Case	Others see it	Gone after	Ticks	Notes
Tradeable item	1 min	3 min	300	Keeps running while you are logged out; stays on its world
Untradeable item	Never	3 min	300	Stops while you are logged out; follows you between worlds
Anything, on an account under 20 hours played	Never	3 min	300	Treated as untradeable
Clue scroll, challenge scroll or Mimic casket	Never	1 h 1 min	6,100	Stops while you are logged out; follows you between worlds
Tradeable item in the Wilderness	At once	3 min	300	Shows the moment it lands
Unnoted cooked food or potion in the Wilderness	Never	15 s	25	Never shows to anyone else
Raw food in the Wilderness	Never	3 min	300	Never shows to anyone else
Tradeable item on a PvP world or the Deadman world	~At once	~3 min	300	Food and potions as in the Wilderness
Anything in the Blast Furnace area	Never	3 min	300	Follows you between worlds
Anything on Tutorial Island	Never	30 s	50	Every item, tradeable or not
Tradeable item in Scurrius's public room	1 min	3 min	300

Items on a table

2 cases

Items on a table: when others can see each item and when it goes
Case	Others see it	Gone after	Ticks	Notes
Tradeable item on a table	1 min	10 min	1,000	Only tradeable items go on a table
Item on a Blast Furnace table	Never	10 min	1,000	Follows you between worlds

Monster drops

5 cases

Monster drops: when others can see each item and when it goes
Case	Others see it	Gone after	Ticks	Notes
Tradeable drop	1 min	2 min	200	Only the player it dropped for sees it first
Untradeable drop	Never	3 min	300	Never shows to anyone else
Clue scroll a monster drops	Never	3 min	300	1 h 1 min once you drop it yourself
Drop in Scurrius's public room	1 min	3 min	300
Big bones and rat meat in a private Scurrius room	Never	2 min	200	Other loot there stays far longer

Deaths

9 cases

Deaths: when others can see each item and when it goes
Case	Others see it	Gone after	Ticks	Notes
Grave, after a death to a monster	Never	15 min	1,500	Counts only while logged in and active; then Death's Office
Supply pile (food and potions, setting on)	Never	1 h	6,000	Stops while logged out; not in the Wilderness, PvP worlds or instances
Supplies from a grave, on a second death	Never	1 h	6,000	Drop beneath the grave
Ultimate Ironman deathpile	Never	1 h	6,000	Stops while logged out; follows you between worlds
Loot from a player kill	1 min	1 h	6,000	The killer alone for the first minute
Loot key, killer's inventory full	Never	2 min	200	Only the killer can pick it up
Death in the Revenant Caves	At once	1 h	6,000	Counts as a player kill
Deadman world, death to a monster	1 min	~1 h	6,000	Untradeables go to the grave
Hardcore World	Never	Deleted	—	Anything bound for the grave is deleted

Rewards and other timers

16 cases

Rewards and other timers: when others can see each item and when it goes
Case	Others see it	Gone after	Ticks	Notes
Random event reward, full inventory	Never	3 h	18,000
Araxxor loot that did not fit	Never	3 h	18,000
Maggot King loot that did not fit	Never	3 h	18,000
Strange plant fruit, full inventory	Never	3 h	18,000	Only the picker sees it
Pharaoh's sceptre, full inventory	Never	~3 min	300
Bird nest from a tree	1 min	2 min	200
Mark of grace	Never	10 min	1,000	A new mark on the stack starts it over
Shade key or coins	Never	5 min	500
Werewolf Agility Course stick	Never	~1 min 30 s	150
Dwarf multicannon, unrepaired	Never	35 min	3,500	Breaks at 25 min
Chompy bird corpse	Never	2 min	200
Ent trunk	Never	1 min 0.6 s	101	Only the killer can chop it
Sea monster corpse	Never	2 min	200
Gout tuber	Never	10 min	1,000	Yours alone while you stay logged in
Al the Camel's dung	Never	15 s	25
Party balloon	Never	2 min	200

Boss instances

38 instances

Each boss instance: how long its loot and your dropped items stay, and where your items go when you die
Instance	Loot	Your drops	On death
Alchemical Hydra	3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Araxxor	3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Brutus	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Bryophyta	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Chambers of Xeric (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Safe
Commander Zilyana	3 h	3 h	Grave outside
Corporeal Beast (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Doom of Mokhaiotl	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Fortis Colosseum	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
The Fractured Archive (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
The Gauntlet	~3 h	~3 h	No items go in
General Graardor	3 h	3 h	Grave outside
Giant Mole	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Grotesque Guardians	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Hespori	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
The Hueycoatl (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Inferno	30 min	30 min	Safe
K'ril Tsutsaroth	3 h	3 h	Grave outside
King Black Dragon	30 min	3 min	Grave outside
Kraken	3 h	3 h	Grave outside
Kree'arra	3 h	3 h	Grave outside
Mad Angel	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Maggot King	3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
The Mimic	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Nex (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
The Nightmare (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Obor	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Phosani's Nightmare	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Royal Titans (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Sarachnis	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Scurrius	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Skotizo	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Theatre of Blood (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Tombs of Amascut (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
TzHaar Fight Cave	~3 h	~3 h	Safe
Vorkath	3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service
Yama (team)	~3 h	~3 h	Grave outside
Zulrah	~3 h	~3 h	Item Retrieval Service

Who can see an item on the ground

For the first minute a tradeable item is private: one you drop shows only to you, and a monster's drop only to the player it dropped for. After that minute it shows to everyone on the world. In a team instance the same minute applies before your team can see it. Untradeable items, clue scrolls you drop, marks of grace, shade keys and an Ultimate Ironman's deathpile never show to anyone else. Ironmen cannot pick up drops from another player's kill or the loot of a player kill, apart from the bones; a Group Ironman's loot goes to the group member who dealt the most damage.

The Wilderness and PvP worlds

In the Wilderness a tradeable item you drop shows to everyone at once, so dropping your gear before a fight hands it out. Cooked food and potions never show to anyone else and go after just 15 seconds, and raw food never shows either. A player kill drops your loot for the killer alone for one minute and then for everyone until one hour after the kill. With loot keys on, the loot goes into a key in the killer's inventory instead; if their inventory is full the key drops for two minutes and only they can pick it up. Food, potions and phoenix necklaces you lose in the Wilderness or on a PvP world are deleted rather than dropped.

Graves, supply piles and deathpiles

When a monster kills you, your lost items wait in a grave for 15 minutes. That time counts only while you are logged in, not idle for more than 10 seconds and with the grave window closed, so you can log out without losing it. After that Death's Office keeps your items for a higher fee. With the supply pile setting on, your food and potions drop where you died instead and stay one hour. An Ultimate Ironman has no grave: everything drops in a pile that only they can see, which lasts one hour of logged-in time and follows them to any world. In most boss instances your items go to the boss's Item Retrieval Service instead, and on a Hardcore World anything bound for the grave is deleted.

Clue scrolls and juggling

A clue scroll, challenge scroll or Mimic casket you drop stays 61 minutes, 6,100 ticks, and never shows to anyone else. The timer stops while you are logged out and the clue follows you between worlds, so you can keep a spare clue on the floor while you solve another. Pick it up and drop it again before the time runs out to start it over. A clue a monster drops goes after three minutes until you have picked it up once. The scroll box calculator works out how many clues you can stack in your bank as well.

The limit on items in one place

Each 8 by 8 tile area holds at most 129 tradeable items or stacks on the ground. Drop more there and the newest replace the oldest, whatever their timers say.

OSRS Item Despawn Timer

What happens to it

Your timers