Nature rune

"Nature" redirects here. For other uses, see Nature (disambiguation).

This article is about the rune. For other uses, see Nature rune (disambiguation).

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Nature rune
Detailed
Release	24 May 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	74 coins
High Alchemy	74 coins
Low Alchemy	49 coins
Low Alchemy	49 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	405 coins (info)
Buy limit	25,000
Weight	0 kg
Examine	Used for alchemy spells.
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Nature runes are runes that are used for transmutation and binding spells. Members with a Runecrafting skill of 44 or greater can craft nature runes from Pure Essence at the Nature altar. Members with 91 or greater Runecrafting will always craft two nature runes per essence; those with between 44 and 90 Runecrafting have a chance at crafting either one or two nature runes per pure essence, with the probability of two increasing with each Runecrafting level. Crafting nature runes yields 9 Runecrafting experience per essence (or 18 experience at the Ourania rune altar).

Nature runes are one of the seven most traded items in the Grand Exchange because of the frequency of High Level Alchemy and Superheat spells.

Price / Experience comparison
Grand Exchange price		GP / Exp (per essence)
Nature rune	405	45
Law rune	570	60
Death rune	232	23.2
Blood rune	678	64.6

Spells

Along with fire runes (or a staff of fire), nature runes may be used to cast Low Alchemy or High Alchemy spells to convert items to set amounts of coins, and to cast Superheat Item spell to smelt ores into bars without a furnace which gives magic and smithing experience. High Alchemy is the most common use of nature runes as it grants high experience for training without danger of death and damage.

Along with earth runes and water runes (or a mud staff, or an earth- or water- rune supplying staff plus the other rune), nature runes may be used to cast bones to bananas and bones to peaches spells, which convert all carried Bones up to Big bones into Bananas or Peaches, respectively. The latter is members-only. Also natures may be used to immobilize a target using the bind, snare or entangle spells, the last two of which are members only.

Nature runes are also used in the Plank make spell in the Lunar spellbook.

In an update on 3 October 2011, the high level alchemy value was changed from 223 coins to 74; and the low level alchemy value was changed from 148 coins to 49. This was due to many players using the High Alchemy spell to convert the nature runes into coins as it yielded a very slight profit, granting easy magic experience for very little cost.

Free Spells

All players can cast these spells.

• Bind
• Bones to Bananas
• Low Level Alchemy
• High Level Alchemy
• Superheat Item

Member Spells

Only members can cast these spells:

• Snare
• Entangle
• Bones to Peaches
• Remote Farm
• Enchant Crossbow Bolt
• Fertile Soil
• Plank Make

Acquiring

Runecrafting

Crafting Nature runes is Members only. The teleport to the Graahk hunter area on Karamja offers a very fast way to make Nature runes. This can be accessed by left-clicking 'interact' on the Spirit Graahk, then clicking "Teleport". After teleporting, it takes about 30 seconds to reach the Nature altar, which is a lot faster than the average time it takes to reach the nature altar using the Abyss. With four Runecrafting pouches, complete trips to the Nature altar can be done in under 60 seconds, allowing over 3000 pure essence to be crafted into nature runes per hour. Each Spirit Graahk lasts 49.5 minutes before a new pouch is needed. An alternate method is to use the Fairy ring network (code C-K-R for Karamja near the altar).

Spawns

There is a lava-surrounded island in high level Wilderness, south east of the demonic ruins, where 2 nature runes may be telegrabbed from a spawn. Each telegrab yields 1 nature rune.

Furthermore, there are also some located on an island near the Rock crabs by Relleka that can be telegrabbed.

Shops

Members may purchase nature runes in the Mage Arena, Mage Training Arena, the Magic Guild in Yanille, or at Baba Yaga's Magic Shop on Lunar Isle.

Change in alchemy value

• In an update on 3 October 2011, the high level alchemy value was changed from 223 coins to 74; and the low level alchemy value was changed from 148 coins to 49. This was done because the Grand Exchange price of nature runes dropped under 111GP. From below this price, Nature runes could be alched for a small profit. Example: 2 x 111 = 222 GP = 1GP profit.
• On 4 October 2011, Mod Mat K explained the change:

“	Yesterday we made a small but necessary update to the high alchemy value of nature runes. The price of the nature runes was at a level where it was possible to buy them and alch them for a profit. This obviously had an impact on other items you would commonly alch for a profit and meant that as soon as you reached level 55 in Magic you could buy a few nature runes, alch them and then use the profits to buy more. Effectively this meant that you could level all the way up to 200 million XP in magic for no cost (in fact for a profit) which is not how the skill is intended to work. To maintain the value of having level 99 magic and the value of commonly alched items (such as Yew longbows or Mithril platebodies) we felt this quick solution was necessary.	”
	— Mod Mat K

This effectively removed the floor on the price of nature runes (or reduced it to 37 coins).

Dropping monsters

Levels 1 to 24

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Levels 25 to 49

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Wizard	9	2	Rare
Dwarf	7-11; 20	2	Rare
Zombie	13-25	5	Rare
Guard	19-22	1	Rare
Goblin	1-25	1	Very rare

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Levels 50 to 74

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Pirate	46	2	Common
Cockatrice	37	2; 4; 6	Common
Moss Giant	42; 48	6	Common
Skeleton	21-45	1–3	Uncommon
Dark Wizard	32; 33; 44	4	Uncommon
Hill giant	28	6	Uncommon
Kalphite worker	28	4	Uncommon
Hobgoblin	23-47	4	Uncommon
Tribesman	32	3	Uncommon
White Knight	36; 38; 39; 42	4–7	Uncommon
Flesh Crawler	28; 35; 41	5–10	Rare

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Levels 75 to 99

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Jogre	53; 58	2; 5; 10	Common
Mountain troll	69; 71	7	Common
Cockroach worker	56	1–20	Common
Dark Wizard	50; 54	4	Uncommon
Killerwatt	55	4; 8; 16; 37	Uncommon
Ice giant	53	6	Uncommon
Ice warrior	57	4	Uncommon
Basilisk	61	15; 30; 37	Uncommon
Aviansie	69; 71; 73	9	Uncommon
Ork statue	63	67	Rare

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Levels 100 to 199

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Giant frog	99	1; 3; 9	Common
Jungle Horror	70	2–6	Common
Green dragon	90	15; 30; 75	Common
Aviansie	79-97	9	Uncommon
Skeleton mage	83	1–3	Uncommon
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island)	88; 90	6	Uncommon
Turoth	83-89	15; 30; 45	Uncommon
Kalphite soldier	85	1	Rare
Fire Giant	86	15; 67; 78; 79	Rare
Cockroach soldier	83	1–20	Rare
Ogre statue	75	67	Very rare

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Levels 200 and over

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Jungle strykewyrm	110	15	Common
Chaos Dwogre	117	18	Common
Blue dragon	111	15	Uncommon
Aquanite	114	4	Uncommon
Aviansie	131-148	9	Uncommon
Kurask	106	5–30	Uncommon
TokHaar-Mej	170	20	Uncommon
Waterfiend	115; 134	45–100	Very rare

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Trivia

• In RuneScape Classic, the icon of a nature rune resembles a tree much more, with the top part being more ridged.

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Kalphite queen	333	67; 75	Common
Ourg statue	200	67	Rare
Mithril dragon	304	67	Rare