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Intro
Runecrafting is the skill you need to make runes. You have to do the Rune Mysteries quest before you can use this skill, but the quest is very easy, and everything you have to do, is to talk. To train this skill, you don't need much. You only need a pickaxe to get the Rune (or Pure) Essence and the talisman of the rune you want to craft.
NOTE: Everything written in italic in this guide is members only. Also, ONLY MEMBERS can craft Cosmic, Chaos, Nature, Law and Death Runes.
Mining Rune Essences and Pure Essences
To start, you have to mine the rune essence. To do this, you should only gather the pickaxe with you.
To enter the rune essence mining fields, you have to be teleported by one of these magicians:
• Aubury in the rune shop in Varrock
• Head Wizard in the basement of Wizard Tower
• Wizard Distentor in the Magic Guild
• Wizard Cromperty in East Ardougne
• Brimstail in the underground cave in Tree Gnome Village.
Once you get teleported, you'll be in a cave with four rooms with a giant rock in the middle of each room. Sometimes, you're coming to one of the rooms, sometimes in the middle of them. You have to mine the large rock in the middle of the rooms to get the rune essences.
To get out of the cave, go through the portal. Bank the essences and go back to mine more, and when you have many essences, craft them.
There are currently two types of essences:
Rune Essence
The Rune Essence can be used to make the 6 basic runes: Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Mind and Body runes, but cannot be used to make runes that can only be crafted on members servers, such as Chaos Runes or combination runes.
Pure Essence
The Pure Essence can be used to make any rune, including the high-level runes and combination runes. Monsters dropping essences will always drop the Pure essences. To mine the Pure Essence, you will have to be on a members-only world, and have higher than level 30 in mining.
For each essence you get, you will earn 5 mining XP.
Talismans and Altars
Talismans
To get talismans, you have to kill monsters, but there are some exceptions. In the table below, you can see how to get the different talismans.
Picture |
Name |
How to get it |
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Air |
Given by Sedridor in Rune Mysteries Quest, dropped by lvl2 goblins. |
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Mind |
Dropped by Imps, Wizards, Dark Wizards, Yanille Tower Guards, Colonel Radick |
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Water |
Dropped by Wizards and Dark Wizards |
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Earth |
Dropped by Men & women, Al Kharid Warriors, Farmers, Rogues |
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Fire |
Wizards, Dark Wizards, Guards, lvl18 skeletons, Phoenix Guardians |
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Body |
Wizards, Dark Wizards, Guards, Hill Giants |
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Cosmic |
Dropped by Lesser Demons, Ice Giants, Otherworldly Beings, given from Mysterious Old Man, found in Caskets (Big Net Fishing) |
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Chaos |
Dropped by Lesser Demons, Fire Giants, lvl 45 skeletons, Moss Giants, Chaos Dwarfs, Shadow Warriors, Otherworldly Beings, Hobgoblins, Mountain Dwarfs, Black Demons, Baby Blue Dragons, Ice Warriors, given by Mysterious Old Man |
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Nature |
Dropped by Barbarians, Hobgoblins, Jogres, Moss Giants, Red Dragons, Black Knights, White Knights, Paladins, Ice Warriors, Mountain trolls, Thiefs, Lesser Demons, Greater Demons |
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Law |
Drop from various monsters including Abyssal creatures, Guards, Terrorbirds, Tortoises, Ghouls, and Paladins. |
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Death |
Obtained during the Mourning's Ends Part II quest. |
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Blood |
Obtained at the end of the Legacy of Seergaze quest. |
Altar Locations
You can use your talisman to locate altars, just right click and select locate, as shown on the picture below. To enter the altar, use the talisman with the mysterious ruins. If you have a tiara, you cannot locate the altar, but you will be able to wear it (thus saving one inventory slot) and enter the altar by simply clicking on it.

Below, you can see information about each altars' locations.
Altar |
Location |
Map |
Air |
Soutwest of the southern gate in Falador, north east of the crafting guild. |
Location map |
Mind |
Between Goblin Village and Dwarven Mountain, just south of Wilderness. |
Location map |
Water |
South-east from the start location for the Lost City Quest, in Lumbridge Swamp |
Location map |
Earth |
North-east from Varrrock, not far from the Jolly Boar Inn |
Location map |
Fire |
Just north of the duelling arena in Al Kharid Desert, south from the mining field |
Location map |
Body |
South of the Monastery between Dwarven Mountain and Barbarian Village. |
Location map |
Cosmic |
In Lost City, south of the cow pen, in the end of a long tunnel. |
Location map |
Chaos |
Level 9 wilderness, north of Edgeville, south of the Dark Warriors Castle |
Location map |
Astral |
Lunar Isle |
Location map |
Nature |
Just north of Shilo Village, in the southern part of the Karamjan Jungle |
Location map |
Law |
Northern part of Entrana, just over the bridge leading to Firebird and the Unicorns |
Location map |
Death |
Light Temple (Mourning's Ends Part II) |
N/A |
Blood |
Meiyerditch laboratory |
N/A |
Tiaras
Instead of using a talisman when making runes, you can also use a Tiara, that you can wear. This way you will have one extra inventory space for an essence, and you can simply click on the altar to enter it. Each rune has its own Tiara.
Making Tiaras
Unpowered Tiaras can be made in the Crafting skill with silver. Read more about making tiaras here.
After you've made it, you will have to enchant it. Go to the altar of your choice, while having the talisman and an unpowered Tiara.
"Craft" at the altar, and the talisman will power the Tiara. Once you've done this, you will lose you talisman, but you will get the enchanted Tiara.
Tiaras can be made in every altar you can enter. Below is a table showing how much XP you get for empowering the different tiaras.
Picture |
Tiara |
Earned XP |
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Air |
25 |
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Mind |
27.5 |
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Water |
30 |
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Earth |
32.5 |
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Fire |
35 |
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Body |
37.5 |
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Cosmic |
40 |
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Chaos |
42.5 |
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Nature |
45 |
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Law |
47.5 |
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Death |
50 |
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Blood |
52.5 |
The Runes: XP, needed level and multiple runes
The higher runecrafting level you get, the better runes you can craft. In addition, you can make more than one rune per essence if you have higher level.
NOTE: Crafting cosmic, chaos, nature, law and death runes is only possible on member servers!
Needed levels and earned XP
Picture |
Name |
Needed level |
Earned XP |
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Air |
1 |
5 |
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Mind |
2 |
5.5 |
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Water |
5 |
6 |
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Earth |
9 |
6.5 |
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Fire |
14 |
7 |
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Body |
20 |
7.5 |
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Cosmic |
27 |
8 |
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Chaos |
35 |
8.5 |
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Astral |
40 |
8.7 |
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Nature |
44 |
9 |
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Law |
54 |
9.5 |
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Death |
65 |
10 |
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Blood |
77 |
10.5 |
Multiple runes per essences
Rune info |
Needed level to make multiple |
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Air |
11 |
22 |
33 |
44 |
55 |
66 |
77 |
88 |
99 |
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Mind |
14 |
28 |
42 |
56 |
70 |
84 |
98 |
- |
- |
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Water |
19 |
38 |
57 |
76 |
95 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Earth |
26 |
52 |
78 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Fire |
35 |
70 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Body |
46 |
92 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Cosmic |
59 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Chaos |
74 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Astral |
82 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Nature |
91 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Law |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Death |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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Blood |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Combination Runes
Combination runes can only be used on member servers, and can serve as two different runes at the same time.
To make a combination rune, you need to bring the talisman of one of the runes you want to combine, and go to the altar for the other rune you want to combine.
If you want to make the Mist Rune, which is a combination of Air and Water, you can do one of these:
• Go to the Air Altar, with a Water Talisman and Water Runes.
• Go to the Water Altar, with an Air Talisman and Air Runes.
Remember, you will also need essences.
Once you're in the altar, enter it and craft normally. This will use up the original runes, your essences AND YOUR TALISMAN. Also, combining Runes only have 50% chance of success. However, you can wear a Necklace of Binding to increase the chance rate to 100%. The Necklace will allow you to make 15 combination runes before running out.
Picture |
Rune |
Needed level |
Earned XP |
Made from |
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Mist |
6 |
8 |
Air & Water |
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Dust |
10 |
8.3 |
Air & Earth |
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Mud |
13 |
9.31 |
Water & Earth |
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Smoke |
15 |
9.48 |
Air & Fire |
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Steam |
19 |
10 |
Water & Fire |
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Lava |
23 |
10.48 |
Earth & Fire |
Explorer's Ring
The Explorer's Ring 2 from the Lumbridge and Draynor achievement diary has a 10% chance to craft an additional rune per essence you use. This only works with air, water, earth, and fire runes and the chance is for each essence. This means that you will get an average of about 3 extra essence per trip.
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