RuneScape runes

In RuneScape, runes are the magical stones used for spells. The different kinds are: elemental runes (air, water, earth, and fire), curse runes (body and soul), missile runes (mind, chaos, death, and blood), and finally, the miscellaneous runes law (teleportation), nature (alchemy), and cosmic (enchantment). The elemental runes combined with some other runes are in all spells.

Runes can either be bought from rune shops (in Varrock, Yanille, Port Sarim or Monkey Atoll), created from rune essences through runecrafting, gotten from drops by killing monsters or picked up from respawns where one can pick up free runes that appear on the ground. However, they are mostly guarded by various monsters, and the quantity and freqency of spawns are such that it becomes very time consuming and inefficient to obtain a large number of runes this way.

Levels to craft runes

To be able to craft certain runes, one needs the following runecrafting levels:

• 1 Air
• 2 Mind
• 5 Water
• 9 Earth
• 13 Fire
• 20 Body
• 27 Cosmic (Members Only)
• 35 Chaos (Members Only)
• 44 Nature (Members Only)
• 54 Law (Members Only)
• 65 Death (Not yet availible for Runecrafting, but will be members only)
• 77 Blood (Not yet availible for Runecrafting, but will be members only)
• 90 Soul (Not yet availible for Runecrafting, but will be members only)

Crafting multiple runes per essence

With higher runecrafting levels, you can make more than one rune out of one rune essence.

Two runes per essence

To make two runes with one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 11 – Air
• 14 – Mind
• 19 – Water
• 26 – Earth
• 35 – Fire
• 46 – Body
• 59 – Cosmic
• 74 – Chaos
• 91 – Nature

You cannot get multiple law, death, blood or soul runes per essence.

Three runes per essence

To make three runes with one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 22 – Air
• 28 – Mind
• 38 – Water
• 52 – Earth
• 70 – Fire
• 92 – Body

You cannot get three cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.

Four runes per essence

To get four runes from one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 33 – Air
• 42 – Mind
• 57 – Water
• 78 – Earth

You cannot get four fire, body, cosmic, chao, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.

Five runes per essence

To get five runes from one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 44 – Air
• 56 – Mind
• 76 – Water

You cannot get five earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.

Six runes per essence

To get six runes from one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 55 – Air
• 70 – Mind
• 95 – Water

You cannot get six earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.

Seven runes per essence

To get seven runes from one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 66 – Air
• 84 – Mind

You cannot get seven water, earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.

Eight runes per essence

To get eight runes from one rune essence, you need the follow runecrafting levels:

• 77 – Air
• 98 – Mind

You cannot get eight water, earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, blood or soul runes from one rune essence.