Runecrafting

Runecrafting UI

This page is about the skill. For the enchantment, see Runecrafting (Enchantment).

Runecrafting allows players to create runes from rune slates (acquired through mining) and essences. These runes are required for enchanting.

Levels

Every 20 effective levels will allow you to craft an additional rune at no cost, which also adds 25 experience gained per craft. These extra runes will also give additional experience and additional cosmic essence.

Intuition and Scholar (after level 99) can reduce the actions needed to reach the next breakpoint.

Effective Level	Runes per Slate	Base Experience	To next Breakpoint
			Base Actions	Essence	RC 8	Time	Haste 5
1 - 19	1	25	179	71,600	42,960	15 mins	12 mins
20 - 39	2	50	655	262,000	157,200	55 mins	44 mins
40 - 59	3	75	3,154	1,261,600	756,950	4.4 hours	3.5 hours
60 - 79	4	100	17,123	6,8 M	4,1 M	24 hours	19 hours
80 - 99	5	125	99,241	39.7 M	22.8 M	5.7 days	4.6 days
100 - 119	6	150	599,213	240 M	144 M	35 days	28 days
120 - 139	7	175	3,721,502	1,489 M	893 M	7.2 months	5.7 months
140 - 159	8	200	23,594,545	9.4 B	5.7 B	3.8 years	3.0 years
160 - 179	9	225	151,965,402	60.8 B	36.5 B	24 years	19 years
180 - 199	10	250	990,998,334	396 B	238 B	157 years	125 years
...	...	...

Runes/Essence

To start runecrafting, players must first gather essence by doing various activities. A single Rune Slate and 400 essence is used for each runecrafting action. Used Essence can be reduced with the runecrafting enchantment but a minimum of 400 is required to start crafting.

Crafting runes always provides 25 runecrafting experience for each rune crafted.

Element	Rune	Essence	How to Obtain
Air			Air essence is gathered automatically. Essence gain is doubled when idling.
Earth			Earth essence is gathered while mining.
Fire			Fire essence is gathered while smithing or cooking.
Water			Water essence is gathered while fishing.
Blood			Blood essence is gathered by dealing damage to enemies during combat.
Death			Death essence is gathered by killing monsters in combat.
Chaos			Chaos essence is gathered by attempting to hit monsters during combat (on every swing of a weapon).
Nature			Nature essence is gathered while foraging or farming.
Mind			Mind essence is gathered while enchanting or augmenting.
Cosmic			Cosmic essences is gathered while enchanting or runecrafting.

Talisman

Once a talisman is consumed, an additional four essence will be gathered for that specific type. Each talisman of the same type consumed after the first will grant a random, large amount of essence of that type.

Talismans are uncommon items obtained when opening chests, geodes, bird's nests, sunken treasures, and satchels.

All giants from Corrupted Lands, Valley of Giants and Chaos Wastes has a chance to drop Talismans.

Ice Giant will drop a water talisman.

Fire Giant will drop a fire talisman.

Moss Giant will drop a nature talisman.

Bone Giant will drop a blood talisman.

Chaos Giants will drop a chaos talisman.

Enchantments

List of useful Enchantments.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Runecrafting	Gloves, Boots	43	500	50	Nature, Mind, Cosmic	Reduces essences used in runecrafting by 5%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60	Nature, Mind	Gain 10% more buff stacks from consumables.
Scroll of Enlightenment	Gloves, Boots	73	900	70	Air, Water, Chaos, Mind	Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired.

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