RuneScape: Dragonwilds Mounts

Mounts were not teased ahead of time. The official 0.10 notes for Fellhollow open the section with "Added Mounts to the game" and follow it with "Surprise! We’ve been keeping this a secret." The same notes state the intent plainly: "Players will be able to summon and ride a mount, in this case a Terrorbird, around the overworld to expedite travel."

The wiki’s Mount article reduces the mechanic to one sentence: "When on a mount, players can travel through terrain, and their stamina lasts longer as well." Two base versions exist — the terrorbird and the magic carpet — and every colour variant is one of those two things.

Base mounts

Terrorbird and magic carpet

Added

15 December 2025, with update 0.10 (Fellhollow)

Summoned by

Holding the summon input; the cast takes 0.25 seconds

Disappears when

Attacked, dealt damage, or building up Wither

Carry weight

+200 on a terrorbird; nothing on a carpet

Entries listed on the wiki

16 terrorbirds, 5 magic carpets

Terrorbirds are unlocked on completing The Wild Hunt, one of the quests the wiki lists for Fellhollow. The reward is carrying capacity rather than speed: the article credits terrorbirds with +200 carry weight, "making them good for travelling when gathering supplies". If your trips are resource trips, this is the bird to summon — the materials guide and farming guide cover what is worth hauling home.

Unlock

The Wild Hunt, complete

Carry weight

+200

Best for

Gathering and supply runs

Default colour

Unlocked automatically with the quest

Further variants

15 more, earned separately

The plain bird is listed simply as Terrorbird, and the article describes it as the automatic reward: "This variant is automatically unlocked when completing The Wild Hunt." The other fifteen are separate unlocks, and they are the subject of the variants table further down.

The carpet unlocks on completing the first section of Icthlarin’s Little Helper — a partial completion, not the whole quest. What you give up is the weight bonus; what you get back is desert mobility. The wiki lists three differences between the two mounts: carpets "do not give bonus weight, but do make traversing through Umbral Sands easier, and are much faster in the desert" than other mounts, and a carpet "is lighter, taking less fall damage and higher jumps".

Like the bird, the plain carpet is an automatic reward: "This Variant is automatically unlocked when completing a section of Icthlarin’s Little Helper." Its four colour variants are covered with the terrorbirds below, since they follow the same set of unlock patterns across the later regions. If you are still deciding which parts of the map are worth the trip, the map guide covers the regions and the walkthrough page puts them in order.

The Mount article splits its tables into 16 terrorbird entries and 5 magic carpet entries. Each row carries an unlock requirement and, for most, a source line naming either a merchant and a price or a creature and a region. Almost every entry begins from the same two quest gates, and the differences are what you pay or what you kill.

Two patterns are worth drawing out. The first is that the gates spread across the later regions — partial completion of Icthlarin’s Little Helper, Black Knight’s Fortress and Withering Heights all appear — while the drop sources are concentrated in Dowdun Reach and the Umbral Sands. Collecting every colour is therefore a late-game project tied to quest progress rather than to one currency grind. The second is that the three prices are paid in materials that have other uses.

The wiki credits a quest completion for the base terrorbird. A walkthrough published on 16 December 2025, the day after Fellhollow went live, films that unlock from the inside: three spirit terrorbirds standing in the region’s Willow Groves, one heart from each, then back to the quest giver. Treat the route below as one player’s recorded run of the same unlock rather than as an official step list.

1. Reach Bleakfields Valley in Fellhollow

   You arrive in a valley with three paths leading off in different directions, which is where the region’s main objective also begins. This route starts from the upper-left corner of that junction. Access to the region at all is covered on the Fellhollow page.

2. Find the NPC in the small building

   Between the north path and the west path there is a small building, and the NPC inside hands over the hunt. The walkthrough flags the standing stones as the landmark people associate with the region’s quest pick-up, which makes the actual door easy to walk past.

3. Learn to read a willow grove on the map

   One willow is not a grove. Look for more than one willow tree standing together. The video’s identifying tip is that willow canopies droop compared with the region’s other trees, which makes them readable on the map once the fog of war has been cleared around them.

4. First heart: the north grove, guarded

   The northern grove is the contested one — a skeletal enemy holds it, and the walkthrough records dying to it more than once. The ruins in the same grove are worth climbing, because a golden chest sits on top of them.

5. Second and third hearts: west, then the far north-west

   There are no groves to the east of the junction. Following the path away from the NPC brings you into the Witchwillow Range, where the second bird is found by heading south, and the last one lies well away to the north-west near pools of water with more than one willow around them, up a slight path to a glade.

6. Expect the green dragon on the way

   The final stretch runs past the Emberwood and the green dragon encounter, uphill. The walkthrough notes a golden chest outside one of the large pillars just before the dragon, the option of slipping around it rather than fighting, and a puzzle involving three ghosts on the same path that its author had not solved at the time of filming.

7. The spirits fight back only if you start it

   Spirit terrorbirds are not aggressive. They give a warning sound and keep their distance unless you attack first — but they inflict bleeding when they do fight, so the video’s advice is to carry food and something that counters bleeding, naming roast dinner specifically.

8. Return the three hearts

   Handing in the hearts completes the unlock, after which the game points out that further mounts for friends can be obtained by finding more hearts. The walkthrough reads that as the spirits respawning; nothing collected here confirms it, and it is listed as an open question below.

The detour has a second payoff. The same footage points out the density of coal nodes, berries, granite and willow in these groves, and adds that the willow gathered here feeds the steel axe, which it describes as the only tool that clears certain roots and dead trees elsewhere in the hollow. If that is the reason you are going, the materials guide has the rest of the chain and the skills and spells guide covers the tool unlocks.

Summoning a mount is not a combat ability, and the wiki’s condition on it is blunt: if you are attacked, dealt damage, or are building up Wither, the mount will vanish. Because Wither builds from withered enemies and hazards, the same region that hands you the first terrorbird is the one most likely to knock you off it.

The walkthrough supplies the honest version of how that plays. The mount "literally will stop moving or being used once it takes one hit"; its speed is "a little bit fast" rather than fast, with a request for a bigger boost; and the glide is "slight" with limited use. Its author’s conclusion was that rushing the mount underlevelled is "probably not worth it", and that the feature "needs a lot more added to it". That is one player’s read of the December 2025 build, and the changelog below shows how much of it has moved since.

Ends the ride

Being attacked, taking damage, or building up Wither

Does not do

Fight, absorb hits, or protect you

Speed

Faster than on foot; the carpet is the faster of the two in the desert

Glide

Slight, and described as limited in use

Best habit

Summon it after a fight, not during one

The short answer is no, and the reason it is worth stating plainly is that the game’s name invites the question. Every source used for this page points the same way. The wiki’s Mount article documents two base mounts — a terrorbird and a magic carpet — and names no dragon among them or among the 21 colour variants. The official 0.10 notes describe the feature as "in this case a Terrorbird". The walkthrough filmed around the same unlock opens by admitting its author was not sure whether other mounts existed at all.

Dragons in this game are encounters, and they are also the drop source for several mount colours. The Dowdun Reach variants come from blue dragons, lesser demons and elite Black Knights; the Umbral Sands variants come from the red dragon, KotHaar-Kal and kalphite guardians; and the green dragon stands on the Emberwood route to the third spirit terrorbird. Put another way, the closest this game currently comes to a dragon mount is a terrorbird whose colour is a dragon drop.

The Mount article carries a changelog rather than a development story, and it is the cleanest record of how the system has moved since release. It is also the answer to most complaints written about mounts during 2025: several of them are now a patch behind.

Read in order, the list explains why mount advice written in late 2025 reads the way it does. The 0.11 buff answers "why carry a bird at all"; the 0.12.0 fix removes the random dismounts that would have made the walkthrough’s "stop moving once it takes a hit" complaint worse than intended; and the 0.12.1.3 fix closes out the fall damage problem. What has not changed is the core rule that damage ends the ride, which is why the mount is best treated as the last thing you summon after clearing an area rather than the first thing you summon on entering one.