by Berry O'Neill

Created on: July 23, 2009

Runecrafting is an easy and essential skill in Runescape. It is useful for the magic skill to make runes from scratch, as buying a large number of runes is very expensive. Runecrafting is also an easy way to earn a lot of money very quickly. There are a wide variety of runes that can be crafted, including air, water, fire, earth, mind, body, cosmic, chaos, nature, law, death, and blood runes. With such a wide variety of runes to choose from, building up runecrafting experience can be very useful. Making runes is a simple process that everyone can and should learn.

In order to make runes, players first need to complete the Rune Mysteries quest, which is fairly easy. Once finished, many different characters in Runescape offer transportation to the rune essence. The most convenient of these characters is Aubury, who works in the Varrock Magic Shop, because the east Varrock bank is very close by.

Once at the rune essence, players can mine essence from any rune essence rock. There are two kinds of essence: regular and pure. All non-members and members with a mining level lower than 30 will mine regular essence; members with a mining level 30 or higher will mine pure essence. Regular essence can be used to make air, water, earth, fire, body, and mind runes. Pure essence can be used to make all runes, and is the only kind that can be used to make cosmic, chaos, astral, nature, law, death, and blood runes. Pure essence is more expensive than regular essence because it can be used for a greater variety of runes. It is more efficient to put a large stock of essence in the bank and then start crafting runes.

In order to craft a certain type of rune, players must first find its altar. They can be found with a talisman by using the locate option, which gives the direction the altar is relative to a player's current location. However, this is not necessary, as the locations of the altars are finite and well-known. The air altar is south of Falador. The mind altar is north of Falador and east of the Goblin Village. The water altar is in the Lumbridge Swamp. The earth altar is northeast of Varrock. The fire altar is northeast of Al Kharid. The body altar is southwest of Edgeville. These altars can be accessed by all players.

However, the cosmic, chaos, astral, nature, law, death, and blood altars can only be used by members. The cosmic altar is in the Lost City of Zanaris. The chaos altar is northwest of Edgeville, in the Wilderness. The astral altar is

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