Runecrafting enables you to craft your own runes - it's pretty straightforward, but there are many different training methods or routes which people prefer.

The first things you will need to begin RuneCrafting is rune essence. You can buy this or mine it. Some monsters may also drop essence. To mine ANY essence you will need to have completed the Rune Mysteries quest.

There are two types of essence - Rune Essence and Pure Essence.

If you are on a members world with level 30 or above mining level, then you will mine Pure Essence. If you do not then you will mine Rune Essence.

Rune Essence
You can only craft the basic/free runes with this. (Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Mind & Body runes.) You will mine this if you have under level 30 mining or on a free world.

Pure Essence
With this you can create any runes with this essence, including combination runes.
Any time Rune Essence is asked for, Pure Essence will also be suitable.
You will mine this if you have level 30 mining or above.
After completing the Rune Mysteries quest you will be allowed to access the rune mines. All you will need is a pickaxe to mine them.

To get here, you must speak to any of the following NPC's:

Click on the minimap to view a bigger map.

	NPC Name	Location	Members?
	Aubury	South East of Varrock (south from the East Bank)	No
	Wizard Sedridor	Wizards' Tower (located south of Draynor Village)	No
	Wizard Cromperty	North east of East Ardougne.	Yes
	Wizard Distentor	Magic Guild (located east side of Yanille)	Yes
	Brimstail (gnome)	West inside Tree Gnome Stronghold. Enter the cave that's east of the bridge located on the west side.	Yes

There are 4 pouches you can use to hold extra essence which enables you to runecraft more runes per inventory.

You get these from the Abyss, view the Abyss Guide for more information on obtaining these.

Pouch Name	Small Pouch	Medium Pouch	Large Pouch	Giant Pouch
Essence Held	3	6	9	12
Level Required	1	25	50	75

To gain entry to Runecrafting Altars you will need a talisman. For example, if you wanted to enter the Fire Altar you would need a Fire Talisman.

To enter, just use the talisman on the altar.

	Talisman	How to obtain/info
	Air Talisman	You get given one upon completion of the Rune Mysteries quest. Dropped by goblins & wizards.
	Mind Talisman	Dropped by imps, wizards, dark wizards & yanille guards.
	Water Talisman	Dropped by wizards, dark wizards & giant frogs.
	Earth Talisman	Dropped by men, women, wizards, dark wizards, al kharid warriors, rogues, vampires, lesser demons & greater demons.
	Fire Talisman	Dropped by wizards, dark wizards, some skeletons & guards.
	Body Talisman	Dropped by guards, wizards, dark wizards & giants.
	Cosmic Talisman	You get a lot of these as rewards from random events. Some higher level monsters may also drop.
	Chaos Talisman	Dropped by hobgoblins, skeletons, ice and shadow warriors, lesser demons & hill and fire giants.
	Nature Talisman	Dropped by hobgoblins, jogres, moss giants, green dragons, zombies & some trolls.
	Law Talisman	Dropped by tortoises, terrorbirds, ghouls, paladins & guards.
	Death Talisman	You get given one upon completion of the Mourning's End Part 2 quest. Dropped by the dark beast.
	Blood Talisman	You get given one during the Legacy of Seergaze quest.
	Elemental Talisman	Only dropped by monsters in the abyss.

Alternatively, all of these talismans can be bought from the Grand Exchange and are tradeable.

They are all dropped by Abyss monsters apart from Death & Blood Talismans.

Tiaras

An easier way to access altars is to use a Tiara. Just a 'Tiara' will not work though - you will have to give it the special powers of the Talisman. They are easier because you wear them on your head, saving an extra space in your inventory where the talisman would be.

To do this, get a normal tiara (just called 'Tiara'). It's made using the crafting skill out of Silver.

How to enchant a tiara:

1. Get the talisman you want to enchant it with.
2. Take a Tiara and the talisman to the altar of the talisman you have.
3. Use the tiara on the altar and the talisman in your inventory will disappear - your Tiara should now be charged.
4. The talisman should have disappeared from your inventory.

Air Tiara	Mind Tiara	Water Tiara	Earth Tiara	Fire Tiara	Body Tiara
Cosmic Tiara	Chaos Tiara	Nature Tiara	Law Tiara	Death Tiara	Blood Tiara

See the Runecrafting Altar Locations guide.
Crafting the runes is easy, all you need is to be at the altar of the rune you are creating and have some blank essences on you.

Then all you need to do is click on the altar and you will create them, simples.

Below are the required levels for each type of rune and how much exp you will earn.

Remember that you can only create basic/free runes with normal Rune Essence, and higher/member runes will need Pure Essence.

Level		Name	XP per Rune	Members/requires pure essence
1		Air Rune	5.0	No
2		Mind Rune	5.5	No
5		Water Rune	6.0	No
9		Earth Rune	6.5	No
14		Fire Rune	7.0	No
20		Body Rune	7.5	No
27		Cosmic Rune	8.0	Yes
35		Chaos Rune	8.5	Yes
40		Astral Rune	8.7	Yes
44		Nature Rune	9.0	Yes
54		Law Rune	9.5	Yes
65		Death Rune	10.0	Yes
77		Blood Rune	10.5	Yes
-		Soul Rune	11.0	Yes

Soul runes cannot diretly be made at the moment but are craftable via the Ourania (ZMI) Altar.
When you get to higher levels you will be able to create multiple runes per essence.

The table below lists what levels you have to be for each rune in order to create more than one of them per essence.

You DO NOT get extra experience for the extra runes. Even if you create 10 air runes from 1 essence, you will still only get the experience of 1 air rune. (5xp.)

	Rune	2 per Ess	3 per Ess	4 per Ess	5 per Ess	6 per Ess	7 per Ess	8 per Ess	9 per Ess	10 per Ess
	Air Rune	11	22	33	44	55	66	77	88	99
	Mind Rune	14	28	42	56	70	84	98	-	-
	Water Rune	19	38	57	76	95	-	-	-	-
	Earth Rune	26	52	78	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Fire Rune	35	70	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Body Rune	46	92	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Cosmic Rune	59	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Chaos Rune	74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Astral Rune	82	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Nature Rune	91	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Combination runes allow you to craft one rune that acts as two, which saves inventory space. These are members only.

Making combination runes requires Pure Essence.

To make a combination rune, you need one of the runes/elements you are combining along with it's talisman. Then you must go to the altar of the other rune that you are combining it with. (Remember to take a talisman or tiara for this altar too, so you can enter it.)


Make your way to the altar and use the talisman on the altar to combine the runes.

You will only need one talisman for one load.

Bring as much pure essence as possible as there is a 50% success rate on combining, unless you are wearing a Binding Necklace, which increases the success rate to 100%. This will work for 15 combinations.

See the table below for combination runes and required levels.

Level		Name	Element 1	Element 2	Experience
6		Mist Rune	Air	Water	8.0 or 8.5
10		Dust Rune	Air	Earth	8.3 or 9.0
13		Mud Rune	Water	Earth	9.3 or 9.5
15		Smoke Rune	Air	Fire	8.5 or 9.5
19		Steam Rune	Water	Fire	9.5 or 10.0
23		Lava Rune	Earth	Fire	10.0 or 10.5

You will get the higher amount of XP by visiting the altar of the higher level element. (goes by runecrafting levels required.) So to get 10.5xp from each Lava Rune you would have to use the Fire Altar.
Runecrafting gloves will give double experience on runes you create which are the same element of the gloves you wear. You can make 1,000 runes for each set of gloves.

Level		Name
10		Air Runecrafting Gloves
20		Water Runecrafting Gloves
30		Earth Runecrafting Gloves

The abyss provides a faster but increased danger route to the runecrafting altars.


See the Runecrafting Abyss guide.
Using the summoning familiar "Spirit Graahk" can act as a fast route to the Nature Altar.


See the Graahk Runecrafting guide.