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Start: Speak to the Duke of Lumbridge, upstairs in Lumbridge Castle.
Skills: None!
Quests: None!
What You Need: Nothing!
Recommended Items: Varrock teleport Runes (3 Air Runes, 1 Fire Rune, 1 Law Rune), Energy Potions (if you’re a member)
Recommended Skills: 25 Magic

Scroll down to the end of the guide to find a ‘Fast Quest Walkthrough’.

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Map of The Main Quest Area

Getting Started

First off, head to Lumbridge Castle. A quick way to get to Lumbridge is by using the Lumbridge Home Teleport spell. Inside, there should be staircases at the back. Climb up one of them and you should arrive on another floor. One of the rooms should contain Duke Horacio. Talk to him and ask him if he has any quests for you. He will tell you about a strange talisman he found and ask you to deliver it to Sedridor, the Head Wizard at the Wizards’ Tower. Accept his request and he will give you an Air Talisman.

Sedridor

Head to the Wizards’ Tower, just southwest of Lumbridge and directly south of Draynor Village. When you arrive there, enter the western room with ladders in it. Climb the ladder leading downstairs. You should spot Sedridor nearby. Speak to him and tell him that you’re looking for the Head Wizard. He’ll say that he is and ask you to give the Air Talisman to him. Hand it over to him and he will be stunned. He’ll give you a Research Package and tell you to give it to Aubury, located in the Rune shop in Varrock, to the northeast.

Note: If you happen to lose the Research Package, just ask Sedridor for another.

Aubury

Head off to the Varrock Rune shop. Once you arrive there, speak to Aubury. Tell him you’ve been sent to deliver something to him and he’ll ask you to let him study the Research Package. Speak to him again and he will give you some Research Notes.

Note: If you happen to lose the Research Notes, just ask Aubury for another.

Head back to the Wizards’ Tower and speak to Sedridor again. Give him the research notes and he will start talking about a new skill you can use, Runecrafting.

Quest complete!

Rewards

Ability to mine Rune Essence
You get to keep the Air Talisman
Ability to use the Runecrafting skill
1 Quest Point

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Fast Quest Walkthrough

[^] Speak to the Duke of Lumbridge (Lumbridge Castle) and ask for a quest.
[^] Speak to Sedridor (Wizard Tower) and give him the Air Talisman.
[^] Speak to Aubury (Varrock Rune Shop) and give him the Research Package.
[^] Speak to Aubury again.
[^] Speak to Sedridor and give him the Research Notes.
[^] Quest Complete!

Runecrafting is an interesting and fun skill to practice in RuneScape, as there are many different kinds of Runes to make, and several parts to making them using this skill. Often times, you will not be standing in the same spot for a long time, so the skill moves along quickly and you can get a great deal of Runes crafted in a short time.

Before you can start crafting your own Runes, you need to mine some Rune Essence from the Essence Mine. Of course, not just anyone can find this mine, and only several characters in RuneScape can teleport you to it:

Aubury - Located in the Varrock Magic Shop.
Wizard Sedridor - Located in the Basement of the Wizard Tower.
Wizard Distentor - Found in the Yanille Magic Guild.
Wizard Cromperty - Located just northeast of the Ardougne Market.
Brimstail Gnome - Found in a cave in the southwest corner of the Tree Gnome Stronghold.
Once you’re in the mine, just mine some Essence from any Rune Essence rock. You will either get Pure Essence or Normal Essence. These different Essence will be explained later on. After using the nearby portal you will be teleported to the character you spoke before.

You will also need a Talisman, depending on the type of Rune you wish to make. You need to use the correct Talisman with the ruins around RuneScape to be teleported to an Altar to craft your Runes. Check the Talisman and Altar Charts below for more info.

Runecrafting Pouches

After completing the Zamorak Mage’s Runecrafting task, Members will have the ability to obtain Pouches for carrying Rune Essence. There are 4 different sized pouches, each able to hold a certain amount of Rune Essence, but you can only carry 1 of each pouch at a time. The different sized pouches are sometimes found from the loot of the Abyssal Creatures in the Abyss, including Abyssal Leeches (L 41), Guardians (L 59)and Walkers (L 81).

Pouches
Picture Pouch Runecrafting Level # of Holdable Essence
Small 1 3
Medium 25 6
Large 50 9
Giant 75 12

Kinds of Rune Essence

As said before, there are two types of Rune Essence in RuneScape: Regular Essence, and Pure Essence.

Regular Rune Essence can be used to Runecraft all of the FreePlay Runes, including Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Mind and Body. Member Runes such as Nature or Law Runes can’t be crafted using this kind of essence.

You will always mine Regular Essence if you are a FreePlayer, or if you’re a member with less than level 30 Mining.

Pure Rune Essence is used to craft all types of Runes, and can only be mined by Members who have level 30 Mining or better.

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Talismans

Once you have some Rune Essence, you’re going to need a Talisman so that you can enter the Altar of the Rune you wish to make. Many of them are dropped by enemies around RuneScape, and after you have the one you need, bring it to the ruins of that specific Rune (If you have an Air Talisman, bring it to the ruins of the Air Altar) and use it with the “Mysterious Ruins” to be teleported to the actual Altar.

Talisman Chart
Picture Talisman Where to Obtain
Air Reward from Rune Mysteries Quest; Goblins
Mind Imps & Wizards
Water Wizards & Dark Wizards
Earth Men, Farmers,Al Kharid Warriors
Fire Dark Wizards, Skeletons (lvl. 18), Guards
Body Guards & Giants
Cosmic Ice Giants, Lesser Demons, Otherworldly Beings, Mysterious Old Man
Chaos Giants, Chaos Dwarves, Ice Warriors, Lesser Demons
Nature Moss Giants, Lesser Demons, Paladins, Green & Red Dragons, Kalphite Workers, Cyclopes
Law Reward from Troll Stronghold Quest
Death Reward from Mourning’s End Part 2 Quest
Elemental Abyssal Leeches, Guardians and Walkers from the Abyss.

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Tiaras

A Runecrafting Tiara is mostly the same as a Talisman, except for the fact that you can wear it on your head rather than carry it in your backpack. This way, you can save 1 extra space per trip for Rune Essence, which is very helpful for high level Runes. Check out the Crafting guide for info about making Tiaras.

Once you’ve crafted a regular Tiara, it’s time to enchant it. Bring the Tiara to the Runecrafting Altar of your choice, along with the same kind of Talisman. Use the Tiara on the Altar to bind the Talisman and Tiara together to make an enchanted Tiara. This will cause you to lose your Talisman, but it’s very useful in making higher level Runes since you don’t need to use it with the altar to access it (thus saving a space in your inventory).

Tiaras
Picture Tiara Enchanting Experience
Air 25
Mind 27.5
Water 30
Earth 32.5
Fire 35
Body 37.5
Cosmic 40
Chaos 42.5
Nature 45
Law 47.5
Death 50

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Runecrafting Altars

Now that you have both your Rune Essence and a Talisman for the kind of Rune you want to make, you need to find the Altar to which the Talisman belongs to. You can choose the “Locate Altar” option for the Talisman itself and be pointed in the correct direction, or follow the directions and look at the maps in the below chart.

Anyhow, just use your Talisman with the “Mysterious Ruins” to be brought to the Altar. To make the Runes, just select the “Rune-Craft Altar” option from the Altar itself to craft all of the Essence in your backpack into Runes.

Tip: You can mouse-over any of the “mini-maps” below to see an enlarged picture of the altar’s location!

Runecrafting Altars
Altar Location Mini-Map
Air South of Falador.
Closest Bank: Falador East
Mind North of Falador, and east of the Goblin Village. It’s right on the boarder of the Wilderness!
Closest Bank: Edgeville (through the Wilderness)
Water Located in Lumbridge Swamp, and southeast of Draynor Village. The shack to Zanaris is to the east as well.
Closest Bank: Draynor Market or Zanaris (Dramen staff needed)
Earth Northeast of Varrock, and just south of the Lumberyard.
Closest Bank: Varrock East
Fire Just north of the entrance to the Duel Arena, and northeast of Al Kharid.
Closest Bank: Al Kharid
Body Southwest of Edgeville, and west of Barbarian Village.
Closest Bank: Edgeville
Cosmic Located in the Lost City of Zanaris. Follow the twisty path to the south of the wheat field.
Closest Bank: Zanaris
Requirements: Must have completed the Lost City Quest.
Chaos Northwest of Edgeville, and in level 9 Wilderness. Once inside, you’ll need to complete a 4-level maze (mouse over the map to see).
Closest Bank: Edgeville
Astral Found on Moonclan Island, and south of Lunar Isle city.
Closest Bank: Lunar Isle
Requirements: Must have completed Lunar Diplomacy. No talisman or tiara needed.
Nature North of Shilo Village (right near the wall) on Karamja Island.
Closest Bank: Shilo Village (must have completed the Shilo Village Quest)
Law In the northwest corner of Entrana Island.
Closest Bank: Draynor Village
For Help: Fast Free Laws service.
Death Inside of the Temple of Light.
Closest Bank: East Ardougne North
Requirements: Must have completed Mourning’s End Part 2.

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Crafting Runes

When you first start Runecrafting, you will only be able to make 1 of each rune per Essence. Upon reaching a certain Runecrafting level, you’ll have the ability to make multiple Runes from a single Essence, since you’ll have more control and skill over crafting them. You will always receive the same amount of experience from crafting each kind of Rune, regardless of the number you make.

Runecrafting Requirements
Rune Runecraft Level Runecraft Experience 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x 9x 10x
Air 1 5 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99
Mind 2 5.5 14 28 42 56 70 84 98 - -
Water 5 6 19 38 57 76 95 - - - -
Earth 9 6.5 26 52 78 - - - - - -
Fire 14 7 35 70 - - - - - - -
Body 20 7.5 46 92 - - - - - - -
Cosmic 27 8 59 - - - - - - - -
Chaos 35 8.5 74 - - - - - - - -
Astral 40 8.7 82 - - - - - - - -
Nature 44 9 91 - - - - - - - -
Law 54 9.5 - - - - - - - - -
Death 65 10 - - - - - - - - -

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Combination Runes

Combination Runes are a newer addition to Runecrafting for Members, and they are very useful to Wilderness Player-Killing. The basic idea is that you can combine 2 Elemental Runes together to make a single Rune. This newly-formed Rune counts as 2 different elements, such as both Water and Air. Only Elemental Runes such as Air, Water, Earth and Fire can be combined. You can create the following Runes:

Mist - Air & Water
Dust - Air & Earth
Mud - Water & Earth
Smoke - Air & Fire
Steam - Water & Fire
Lava - Earth & Fire
Combining Runes

In order to combine Runes, you’ll need a few things including 1 of each Talisman, 1 type of Rune, and Rune Essence. So, if you wanted to make Mist Runes, bring an Air and a Water Talisman, either Air or Water Runes (whichever you wish to use), and Rune Essence. Depending on which Runes you choose to bring along, go to the other Temple (if you’re making Mist Runes and bringing Air Runes, go to the Water Temple).

Enter the temple using the correct Talisman as usual, and then use the other Talisman on the Altar to combine the Runes.

Warning: The Talisman that is the same as the Runes you carry will be used up when combining them! Plan on losing 1 Talisman each time you combine Runes, so it would be wise to bring Runes who’s Talismans you have more of.

Necklace of Binding

The Necklace of Binding will give you a 100% success rate while combining Runes while worn. It can be obtained by enchanting an Emerald Necklace using the Enchant Level 2 Jewelry spell.

Combination Runes
Picture Rune Runecrafting Level Runecrafting Experience
Mist 6 7.5
Dust 10 8
Mud 13 8.5
Smoke 15 9
Steam 19 9.5
Lava 23 10

Starting location: Duke Huracio, second floor in the Lumbridge Castle.
Quest difficulty level: Easy.
Reward: Ability to use the skill runecrafting.
Quest points gained: 1.
RUNE MYSTERIES QUEST WALKTHROUGH
After getting an air talisman from the duke in Lumbridge, go to the wizard located in the basement of the Wizards Tower south of Draynor Village. After you’ve talked with him you’ll get a package to give to Aubury in the Rune Shop, located in the south-east of Varrock. Talk with him twice and you’ll get some notes you have to return to the wizard. Go back and talk with him, and the quest is complete.

Starting location: Arianwyn in Lleyta.
Quest difficulty level: Hard.
Reward: 20k Agility XP, Access to Death Altar.
Quest points gained: 2.
Required Skills: High Agility (around 70 should do).
Required Quests: Mournings Ends - Part 1.
Required Items: Rope, Chisel, Mourners Outfit, Death Talisman or items listed in final stage of guide.
NPC: Arianwyn, Head Mourner, Eluned, Thorgel.

MOURNING’S ENDS PART 2 QUEST WALKTHROUGH
First of all, Arianwyn tells you to investigate the excavation. Put on your mourners outfit and head to Mourners Headquarters in West Ardougne. You will find the HQ in the most Northeastern building. If you do not have your mourners outfit from Mournings Ends Part 1, get another by killing a level 11 mourner on the way to West Ardougne. When you get to Mourners HQ, speak with the Head Mourner in the basement and you will receive a new key. Use your new key to enter the tunnels beyond the locked door. Here you need to head directly west, then take the southern path. After a cut-scene search a nearby guard to get his journal and a colour wheel. The colour wheel can be useful later on. Now head back to Arianwyn. Speak with Arianwyn then go back to the temple. You need to go inside the front door now. Be careful of the shadow creatures. Climb the stairs directly in front of the door. Once up the stairs move to the east of them to find the collection point. Pull the lever and collect everything. Go back to the stairs. From here you need to head south one pillar, then west followed by south to find some stairs within the wall. Climb up the stairs. Once up them you should see some stairs to the north on your minimap. Head to these and go down.
This is a good place for taking a break when doing the puzzle as it is safe, but now you head up the north stairs. From here go as far to the east as you can and you should find the black crystal just to your south. Use your chisel on it to take a sample. Head back to Arianwyn again. Arianwyn should get Eluned to make a new crystal for you and tell you what to do with it. Bank it for now and get out the mirrors and yellow crystal from the temple. Now is when the puzzle begins. You need to head back to the temple and up the first stairs. To the east of these by the collector is a light pillar with a beam of light in it. Insert a mirror and rotate to send the beam north. Move north to the pillar and using a mirror to send the beam to the west. Here direct the beam south. Follow the beam south placing your yellow crystal and then a mirror to send your yellow beam east. You will now be able to climb across the handholds (failing sends you to the first floor and deals 5 damage) to reach a newly opened blue door. Search the chest within for more mirrors and a cyan crystal. Work your way back to where you turned the beam south. Collect your pieces as you go. At the pillar where the beam turns south, put in the cyan crystal. Follow the beam west, turn it north with a mirror, before continuing to turn it back east. Follow the beam along towards the door and you will come across a pillar. Put your yellow crystal in here. This opens the pink door, where you once again open the chest for more mirrors. This is a good time to restock your food and stuff. Collect a rope as you will need it for the next part. Using the collector get all your mirrors and crystals back. Then you need to setup the following pattern, always following the beam: North, West, Cyan Crystal, North, East. The next pillar along this corridor also needs a mirror, but it must point the light upwards. To achieve this the mirror needs to have its base where the light enters and top on the opposite side. In this case west and east. Light travelling up can be noted by a beam above the pillar. Using the ladder beside this pillar, head up one floor. Use a mirror on the pillar to send the beam west. The beam will pass through a pillar you cannot reach, this pillar has the useful effect of turning cyan to blue and yellow to red, which you will be using later. Head back down the ladder and head south to reach the other stairs to the top floor. Once here cross to the north side using the double stairs, then head directly east through a narrow grey passage. Once through head north to find your now blue light beam. From here we want to send our light down. to do this arrange the mirror so its top is by the east and base is by the west markers. Go all the way down to the first floor and make your way to the north west corner again. Your beam should have opened a yellow door for you. Go through and rotate the fixed mirror to hit the other door. Raid the chest in here, then rotating the mirror again, escape. Leaving everything the same as the set up for the third door, head back to your cyan crystal on the second floor and replace it with the yellow crystal. Go back to the north west corner of the upper floor. This time reflect your now red light to head south. Follow it all the way to the south west corner and direct it downwards by aligning the mirror top to north and bottom to south. Once you have done this, head down one floor using the stairs. Directly west of the stairs you should find a low wall. Climb over it. In this room you use your rope on the rocks by the hole in the floor so that you can climb down. Go through the now open cyan door to raid the chest. You should now have 10 mirrors, a fractured crystal, and cyan, yellow and blue crystals. Now is a good time to restock food. This is where it gets a bit more complicated, so make sure you know how to arrange mirrors to send light up and down: Firstly set up your crystals to once more open the first blue door, this time place the blue crystal inside this room. Don’t pull the lever after doing this step. Head back to the pillar north and west from the lever. Collect all your mirrors and your yellow crystal along the way. Direct your beam upwards. Move up via the stairs to reach your beam and send it south. This beam will travel a long distance to a pillar on the other side of the double steps. Here you place your fractured crystal. Note that the smooth side faces north, this is vital later on. Now you should have multiple light beams. Firstly head south and reflect the light east to the corner, then send it down. Go back to your light split. This time follow it west and once again send the beam down. Move down two floors and find this second beam, which, die to a special pillar should be green. Using your mirrors reflect this south then east to open the door. Inside this room you should have your blue beam. rotate the fixed mirror so it hits the yellow door and collect your last mirrors and second fractured crystal from the chest. Now the final pillar. This pillar requires beams of certain colours to hit it from certain sides and will put to use all you have learnt. For it to open you need a blue beam from the north, a red beam from the west and a green beam from the south. Start back at the collector after using it to get all your crystals and send the beam north as normal. Send the beam down. Find the beam downstairs and send it west, this is where it gets tricky. Place your newest fractured crystal in the pillar, the smooth side should face east. If you do not get four beams, it is the wrong one so switch it. Once you have this you need to move around the inaccessible room to reach your north beam and reflect it up. On the second floor you need to place the yellow crystal into this beam, then using the ladder head to the third floor. Here send the beam west through the colour changing pillar, to make our red beam. Now, you need to reach the northwest corner again, using the same route as before, to find your red beam. From the corner you have to send it south, then halfway along send it east using the pillar there. A fixed mirror to the east reflects it down for you. That is your first beam completed. Head back to where you split the light and follow the south beam. At the four-way pillar place your other fractured crystal. To both the east and west of here you need to reflect your light upwards. This should give you a plain and a green beam, thanks to the second floor pillar, on the third floor. Head up to the third floor again, find the most western of your two beams, which should be green. This beam will not appear from the top of its pillar as it cannot go further up, but is the pillar west of the double stairs. Reflect this beam west. Fixed mirrors again send this to the final pillar for you, so two beams down, one to go. Go east to find your other beam, which should be to the far east of the same row. Send the beam west, then north and cross over using the double steps. On this side, use your last mirror to reflect it west again, but follow the beam to find a pillar that it passes through to the west and place the blue crystal in it. Once again fixed mirrors do the rest. Move to the space between the double stairs and take the steps down to the west. The cyan door here is now open, thanks to your red beam, step through and rotate the mirror in the pillar nearby to send the beam west. This completes the final pillar, opening the door to the altar. Follow the beam west and step through the triple door to view a short cut-scene with Thorgel the dwarf. He will give you a list of 50 items to acquire in exchange for a death talisman, should you not already have one. Once here you also receive a shortcut, a tunnel behind the altar slab leads to the dwarf within the underground pass which can be used as a shortcut to the Lleyta bank.

THE LIST
The list contains the following items.
Rope: Buy from Ned in Draynor.
Spade: Spawns in Falador or can be bought from farming stores.
Iron Pickaxe: The pickaxe store in the dwarf mines sells these.
Iron Axe: The axe store in Lumbridge sells this.
Knife: Sold in most general stores.
Plank: Spawns north of the barbarian outpost.
Pie dish: Spawns in the cooking guild and near dwarf mines pick shop.
Potatoes(10): Collect from any potato field and put into a sack, sacks are available at all farming stores.
Pot of flour: Grind grain in a windmill.
Bucket of milk: Milk a dairy cow, all cow locations have a dairy cow.
Ball of wool: Shear a sheep and spin the wool or buy from adventurers store in Ardougne.
Oak logs: Cut down an oak tree.
Chisel: Sold at most general stores.
Shears: Sold at most general stores.
Needle: Al-Kharid crafting store sells.
Thread: Al-Kharid crafting store sells.
Cooked Meat: Cook raw beef or similar.
Iron Nail (1 is enough): Make from an iron bar.
Unicorn Horn dust: Grind a unicorns horn.
Bronze Bar: Make or buy from Shanty in Al-Kharid.
White Berries: Spawns in Isafdar and Red Dragon Isle.
Hammer: Sold at most general stores.
Potato Cactus: Spawns in the Kalphite dungeon.
Skull: Spawns in level 1 wilderness north of the mind altar.
Babydragon Bones: Kill a baby blue or red dragon.
Facemask: Sold by slayer masters.
Rune Essence (1 is enough): Mine at the essence mine.
Lobster Pot: Sold by all fishing stores and spawns in fishing guild.
Fishing rod: Sold by most fishing stores.
Tinderbox: Sold at most general stores.
Lockpick: Pickpocket rogues or buy in rogues den.
Bronze Med Helm: Smith from a bronze bar.
White Apron: Sold by Varrock clothes store.
Jug of wine: Make yourself or buy from western bar in Keldagrim.
Kebab: Sold by Al-Kharid kebab seller.
Leather Boots: Spawn in Lumbridge castle basement.
Swamp Paste: Sold in Port Khazard or made from swamp tar and flour.
Redberries: Spawn below Varrock.
Cheese: Spawns in Draynor.
Vial of water: Buy at a herblore store or make yourself.
Flax: Pick from a flax field such as Seers Village or Lleyta.
Gold Ring: Craft from a gold bar.
Egg: Spawns at chicken farm east of Lumbridge.
Leather Gloves: Sold at Varrock clothes store.
Cake tin: Spawn in cooking guild sold at cooking store in Yanille and general store in Cathurby and Lumbridge.
Necklace mould: Sold at Al-Kharid crafting store.
Rotten Tomato: Sold at Duel Arena bank.

THE THREE ITEMS
As well the stuff in the list above, there are three items at the top of the list that vary from person to person, so you must check.

ITEM ONE: A TICKET
Archery Ticket: Earn tens points at the ranging mini-game at the rangers guild.
Agilty Arena Ticket: Tag two pillars in a row at the Brimhaven agilty arena.
Castle Wars Ticket: Received for being on the winning team in castle wars or for a draw.

ITEM TWO: A BOOK
Crumbling Tome: Spawns at the barrows.
Priffindas A History: Found on bookcases in Lleyta.
Battered book: Bookshelf in house southwest of Seers bank.

ITEM THREE: A KEY
Jail key: Dropped by Jailer in Taverly dungeon.
Dusty key: Given by prisoner in Taverly dungeon or at its spawn in Taverly dungeon.
Door key: Under the plant pot beside the front doorof the witches house near Taverly.

Once you have a talisman enter the death altar. When inside use the new crystal that Arianwyn made for you on the altar to charge it. Finally take it back to the black crystal on the third floor. Don’t forget you need to rotate your red beam to get back to the stairs. After you have done all of this return to Arianwyn to receive a crystal trinket that allows you access to the temple via the front door. This completes the quest.

Runecrafting is a long, involved skill, which is fairly hard to master. It is very useful after the 60’s and 70’s. This wiki should be able to help you level it up a lot. This is for free players also, I got 54 Runecrafting as a Free Player anyway.

1. So….How do you even runecraft? Well runecrafting is one of the most complicated skills, yet the most rewarding almost. It is basically making the runes that mages and others use in runescape everyday. But, the more expensive the runes, the higher the level you need to make them. This is how to achieve a good runecrafting level in runescape.
2. Also, by doing that, you can become VERY rich.
3. First off, you need to do a quest. It is very simple and straightforward and it’s called Rune Mysteries - if you need help please go to Runehq.com, which helps for quests.
4. Once that quest is done, mine some rune essence. You will know how by the end of the rune mysteries quest how to teleport to mine rune essence (Also, rune essence is great for selling in bulk for runecrafters).
5. You should have an air talisman from rune mysteries. Click locate on the talisman and it should tell you a direction to go to. You will end up just south of Falador’s eastern bank (by the mining guild) and just North of Port Sarim.
6. You will find yourself in front of some rocks, that will be called ancient ruins, or something like that.
7. Use the air talisman with the big altar thing, and you will see the text in your chat box “You feel a great power grip you.” And you will be teleported to a giant hill with hundreds of trees around you. In the center of the hill you will see a giant stone slab that has the air rune symbol etched into it. This is where you craft runes. Now, you should mine some rune essences. 422 of them to be exact, which will be relatively quick. You can also buy them but mining will be much smarter since you will make no profit by buying them.
8. Now, once you have you 422 rune essences, buy a tiara. All you have to do to make it go by a bit faster is go to the air altar, use your tiara with the big stone slab in the center (make sure you have the air talisman), and it will turn into an air tiara (your talisman will disappear). Now, all you have to do is wear it and click on the ruins instead of using the talisman with the ruins. Also, it will give you an extra space.
9. Now, craft all of this essence, and you will level up very quickly in the beginning. You will level up about each load until maybe level 5. Once you reach level 11 you will notice you make double the amount of air runes to the amount of essence you are carrying.
10. After you are done you will have 572 air runes. You can sell these at about 11 a piece. That means that you have just made 6.2k in just a little bit. This is a great idea for low levels trying to get money. Now, you can make fire runes.
11. You are 14 runecrafting! Nice! And so the leveling system begins…
12. Levels 14-27
13. And so…you have progressed unto the stage of free players and members versions of runecrafting. After this part, there will be two ways to get runecrafting up. The member’s way, and the free player’s way.
14. Now, you are 14 runescrafting. You are going to get 27 runecrafting, you will need 7623 xp. This means about 1089 rune essence. PLEASE! Be patient enough to mine this! It will only take about 1-2 hours, since rune essence mining is very quick.
15. Now, you need to go to Al Kharid. You will need a fire talisman also, and if you press locate you will eventually end up just north of the dueling arena entrance. Fire runes are 7 xp each, so you will be getting 196 xp per load. (Remember to make a fire tiara, same thing as air tiara.)
16. Ok. These are the member and free player options now!
17. Now this is the free player option. You will need all of your essence noted in your inventory. Bring with you about 5k, or all the money you made from your air runes. Now, all you have to do is sell 26 rune essences to the general store which is just south of the fire altar. Buy these rune essences back very quickly. (Note: Your money will go down, but you will not lose too much. You can sell the fire runes back for more than double the cash you used)
18. Repeat this until all of your rune essence is gone. You are now 27 runecrafting, Gratz.
19. Members option!
20. This is a good option if you do not want to use money, but the above option is faster. The duel arena bank is very close so that would be a good bank to use to store your runes and get you essence. Keep doing this until your done, and Gratz. 27 runecraft.
21. Now, please, sell these runes. You will easily make about 14k off of them. Your Welcome.
22. Now, I think I should start with the free players first. Yeah, you can’t make cosmic runes. Sorry, but its okay, I have some ideas.
23. Well, to be honest, the best xp you can get is body runes. But, body runes are useless. So, they sell for little money. But, my friend, this is where the rubber hits the road until you bet some REAL money.
24. So, please, start off mining your essence. This is the last time you will mine essence, so be happy. Mine 1136 rune essence. Keep your clicking finger ready, and when your done, walk to edgeville. (You will need a body talisman, which are VERY easy to find. People will give you one if you ask. Trust me.) Now, make a tiara like you did your fires and airs.
25. The altar you want is just to the west of the barbarian village in the middle of the woods. You will see it, and then go inside. (It is one of the most interesting altars to me.)
26. Craft ALL of those runes and then you will be 33 runecrafting. Congratulations, say goodbye to mining rune essence.
27. Member’s way.
28. First..you will need to do the quest Lost City, which is relatively short and gives rights to wielding dragon longswords and daggers, and access to the Cosmic altar! You may want 46 or 66 agility to make it faster, but is not required. Okay, you will need to get 44 runecrafting. You DO NOT WANT TO CRAFT CHAOS RUNES!!! It is long and tiring, since the altar is a maze (Literally, not joke. It’s a freaking maze.) It takes about 10 minutes for one load…
29. Now, the altar is very quick to find, and you may want to buy your rune essence. But, rune essence has now turned into PURE rune essence. You have to buy it for more each, at around 80 each. It’s going to be kind of expensive, but you can easily mine it but you have to have 30 mining. Anyway, you will somehow have to get 5740 PURE rune essences.
30. Get your cosmic talisman, which is more expensive then your basic rune talismans that you were getting. Make a tiara, and begin the long journey. This is, as was the member version, where the rubber hits the road. Its goign to be a while til’ you get lots of money. As the saying goes, No pain, No gain.
31. Now that you’ve crafted them all, you’re 44 runecrafting. Nice.
32. Free players!
33. If you are going to be a free player forever, then runecrafting isn’t too important, but it is a huge money maker even still. Now that you’re 33 runecraft, you can quadruple the amount of airs you make out of essence.
34. So, somehow you had to sell your body runes (the Grand Exchange works best) Nice job my man, the rune essence mining spot is now a thing of the past to you. (Unless you like it…THAT much.)
35. Well, I am not sure of the price of rune essence, but buy as much as you can on the Grand exchange, and make air runes. Make all of the airs into air runes, and sell for the basic price. You pretty much quadruple the price you bought your runes for. You will make about 100 air runes at a time, and you can sell them for loads of money. Since there is no FAST way to get it up in the free worlds, this is the FAST way to make money in free worlds instead. Every 11 levels that you go up means you added to the amount that you multiply your essence by to get you air runes. So, at 44 runecrafting, you quintruple you amount, at 55 you sextuple, and 66….on and on and on…. You’ll be rich. Keep doing this and you can very easily become a millionaire.
36. Members version.
37. Ahh…Nature runes…These babies require no quest at all. The talisman is a bit expensive but you can handle it. Now you need to do the same thing you did for the Al Kharid fire runes here. There is a shop just north of a little tribe. Carry your essences with you (plus about 50k), sell to the shop, then buy back very quickly. Your goal is now 54 runecrafting though, and this is going to be the hardest time of all of the runecrafting stages.
38. They are not known for this, but I call these next 10 levels, the terrible ten. You are going to get BORED!!!! You will be very bored. Now here are the numbers, Good LUCK!
39. You will be making nature runes. If you buy all the rune essence you need, you will get about 840k to buy all the essence. That means you need 10581 rune essence! THAT’S A LOT! (Please join the clan chat Entrana99 for entertainment during the training.)
40. DO NOT try to get that much if you do not have that much. If you do have that much, buy that essence. Otherwise, get enough to buy about 1k rune essence. Once you make 1k nature runes, you profit skyrockets! You now have 260k after selling these nature runes. Buy all the essence you can afford and sell those after you make nature runes out of them. Keep doing this until you have 54 runecrafting. Now comes the CHA CHING! Gratz :)
41. Okay, if you made all that essence into nature runes when you had the money to get all the essence at one time, you have over 2.7 mil. Nice. If you didn’t buy all them at one time, you still have a lot of money. Now go spend it. You don’t need it, unless you really want to make nature runes for more money. But, laws are not fast to make, and they only give good cash but not good numbers in short time. But, they give AMAZING xp. That is why I suggest that you join the Teal Clan of world 99. They are a clan that people give their essences to for law runes. You don’t even need to give them rune essences back. You level up very quickly. Do this until maybe 59 runecrafting and then its back to money.
42. You have 59 runecraft, eh? NICE!!
43. You can double comic runes now. They go for 150 ea, which is even more than nature runes. A good idea to start off with is to get about 2k pure essence, then craft it all. (46 agility suggested, it goes much faster, trust me.) You have…Four…THOUSAND cosmic runes. That is pretty much the same thing as…Six…HUNDRED-THOUSAND!!! Dollars. My suggestion? Buy 6k Pure ess. That means that you have about 120k extra for maybe that new berserker helm…granite shield…AND Dragon dagger (p++). Nice, huh?
44. Now…craft them all again. You will have 12,000 cosmic runes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
45. AMAZING!!!!! NOW SELL THEM! Or! try the mage training arena just north of the duel arena. It gives good xp…but I think I’ll take the money :)
46. So now you have 1.8 MILLION gp. What to do? It would be smart to continue doing this. You get level ups, and very fast cash. Eventually though, maybe if you hit 70 after doing this, you will be looking for more….Well…keep reading…..
47. Remember the teal clan? You are still in the clan…train your runecrafting like crazy there! Keep going! Yes! Until you are 91 runecrafting.
48. You will need to make 543706 law runes (its hard to keep track when people are running for you) You will not make any money. (Sorry)
49. This will be the hardest and longest part if you do this. But, once you hit 91 runecrafting, 520k per hour ain’t shabby?
50. You will have millions in no time. You will have noobs begging all over for you! You will have whips…dragon armour…so many dragon weapons you’ll be giving them away! And it’s all because of runecrafting.
51. HAPPY RUNECRAFTING!

• This is a boring skill at times. Don’t give up too quickly, because you WILL get money later.
• When you get Level 25 Runecrafting and are a member, do the Abyss mini-quest and get the pouch. It helps runecrafting go a little faster.