Main page/Guides/Ironman & Hardcore/Skilling Guides/ Runecrafting

This is the Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman Runecrafting Guide, the guide for regular players is found Here.

Runecrafting is a skill that allows players to craft their own runes for Magic spells. The experience earned from making runes is small, making Runecrafting a very slow skill to train. It is a very click intensive skill to train.

• To train Runecrafting even faster, hold down CTRL and click on the Essence in your bank to withdraw a full inventory with one click.

Getting the Supplies

In order to craft Runes, you require Rune Essence, the only ways of obtaining this is by buying it from the Runecrafting Store or by getting it as a drop from NPC's. (Fire giants can drop 100 noted Rune Essence at a time.) To get to the Runecrafting Store, First you will need to teleport to South Neitznot

Once there, head into the building to the north of the bank, and trade Cassie. You want to buy either Rune Essence or Pure Essence, at the moment they do exactly the same thing so rune essence is better off as it is slightly cheaper.

While buying essence, buy yourself a talisman of the rune you will be making. You should also make yourself a tiara. When you are at the Runecrafting altar use the tiara on it and it will be enchanted.
While wearing an enchanted tiara you will gain 10% more runecrafting xp for the corresponding rune.

Training Runecrafting

After you have bought an adequate amount of essence. Its time to start Runecrafting. Teleport to South Neitiznot using your Neitiznot teleports.

The next step is to talk to the Mage of Zamorak who is close to where you teleport in. Once you have found the Mage of Zamorak, you will have the option to teleport to different Runecrafting altars to turn essence into runes. If you're just going for level 99 in the skill- crafting Air runes gives the most experience at all levels.

Tip: holding down CTRL and click on the Essence in your bank will withdraw a full inventory with one click.

Experience Tables

Ironman XP

Level	Ironman XP	With Air Tiara
1	16xp	18XP
11	33XP	36XP
22	50XP	55XP
33	66XP	73XP
44	83XP	91XP
55	100XP	110XP
66	116xp	128XP
77	133xp	147XP
88	150XP	165XP
99	166xp	183XP

Hardcore Ironman Xp

Level	Hardcore Ironman XP	With Air Tiara
1	7xp	7XP
11	14XP	15XP
22	21XP	23XP
33	28XP	31XP
44	35XP	39XP
55	42XP	47XP
66	50xp	55XP
77	57xp	62XP
88	64XP	70XP
99	71xp	78XP

Multiple Runes

Below is a table which shows which level you need to make multiple runes per rune essence for every rune type.

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

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Totem	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem(Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in everyday grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
	Enchanted Tiaras	Grants a 10% boost to Runerafting experience if the enchantment is the same as the rune you are making	Use a normal tiara on a Runecrafting altar of your choice, while you have the talisman that goes with that altar.

Notes

Runecrafting is very expensive for hardcore ironmen, so it is a good idea to use this with bonus XP.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Runecrafting, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Runecrafting cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m experience in the Runecrafting skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Runecrafting Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This cape costs 2.5m Gp.