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2007 rune
Classic Runestone
Runite ore
Runite ore
Release date 13 August 2001 (Update)
Members? No
Quest item? No
Tradeable? Yes
Equipable? No
Stackable? No
High Alch 1,920 coins
Low Alch 1,280 coins
Destroy Drop
Store price Not sold
Exchange price 10,419 coins (info)
Buy limit 25,000
Examine This needs refining.
Weight 2.267 kg
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Runite ore detail

Runite ore can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape by mining a Runite rock. The ore can be mined with a Mining level of 85 or higher, and doing so grants 125 Mining experience. The ore can be smelted with 8 heaps of coal through the Smithing skill to form a Rune bar, which can then be smithed into various rune weapons and armour. Mining runite can be very profitable, as 2 ores is comparable in value to nearly 2 inventories of yew logs, but takes less space and time to obtain. Some areas where the ore spawns, however, can be dangerous. After being mined, runite ore takes between 12.5 and 25 minutes to respawn, depending on the population of the Runescape world. The more people in that world will make the respawn times shorter. As a result of this length of time, miners tend to switch worlds rather than wait for the respawn on a single world.

As of 1 February 2011, the rune rocks located inside the Wilderness have had their respawn time cut by 1/3. They now take between 8.3 to 16.7 minutes.

Runite ore can be used to make the strongest type of non-degradable armour in free-to-play. It is the rarest of all standard ores, as only 12 rocks can be found on members' servers and 5 on free-to-play servers, and is the most valuable ore in RuneScape.

For non-members without 45 Dungeoneering, runite ore can be dangerous to mine. Two rocks can be found at the Lava Maze runite mining site (Wilderness level 61). While mining in this location, a player is vulnerable to attacks by player killers, and a number of red spiders. By standing by both rocks it is possible to not be attacked by the red spiders. Some form of melee and magic protection from the various monsters around the rune rocks is helpful. It should be also noted that while players can't teleport past level 20 wilderness (the Lava Maze site is in very deep wilderness) with most teleport methods, some jewellery like the Amulet of Glory will teleport you up to level 30. It is also worth noting that the King Black Dragon's lair is not considered Wilderness, so Members may choose to bring a Dragonfire shield and use the lair to escape. You may, however, die in the Lair as the Dragon has been noted for one-hitting players. This method, however is much more safer after the King Black Dragon's update which allows a safer shortcut to get back in.

An alternative to wilderness runite mining is the Mining guild resource dungeon. This mine is more popular because it is safer, and as such it can be very hard to find a rock that hasn't already been mined. The release of this mining site in the Resource Dungeons Update more than doubled the number of non-member runite rocks; the following oversupply of ores significantly deflated the price of Runite ore.

For members, several other less dangerous options exist to mine runite, including the Heroes' Guild, Keldagrim north mine, and Neitiznot runite vein. These ores are often mined and as a result are usually depleted.

Runite is also considered a delicacy to dragons, as discovered in the Varrock Museum.

It is possible to mine multiple rune ores for a maximum of 15 minutes through the reward of the Shooting Star Distraction and Diversion.

Using the Superior locator, a reward from Mobilising Armies, you can teleport to the runite rocks. Beware you can be teleported to the wilderness runite rocks, and possibly die or be injured due to red spiders and Player killers.

Rune ore RSC
Runite ore in RSC

Contents

Dropping monsters Edit

Monster Combat level Quantity Rarity
Living rock patriarch 136 3 (noted) 1Always
Grotworm 80 1 2Common
Mature grotworm 120 1 2Common
Corporeal Beast 210 20 (noted) 2Common
Nex 220 80 (noted) 2Common
Cyclossus 128 1 4Rare
Queen Black Dragon 220 30 2Common

Location tableEdit

Location Requirement Members Only? Rocks Threat? Notes
Wilderness Level 47 None No 2 PKers and deadly red spiders North of lava maze
Mining Guild resource dungeon 45 Dungeoneering required No 3 None Also contains mithril and adamantite rocks.
Heroes' Guild Heroes' Quest Yes 2 None By some crates. Low levels should be wary of Giant bats.
Neitiznot Isle Fremennik Isles Yes 1 Trolls 7 Coal rocks. Bring armour to protect against troll attacks. You need to cross a bridge to get to the rocks though.
Keldagrim Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf Yes 2 None
  • Close to a bank
  • 10 Adamantite rocks are in the same area.
Mourner Tunnels mine Mourning's Ends Part II Yes 1 Dark beasts Mourner Equipment, unless Within the Light has been completed.
Wilderness 44, Lava Maze Cave None Yes 1 PKers, Poison spiders, and

Black dragons

Past a maze

Respawn rateEdit

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The runite rocks in the wilderness

The respawn rate of all ores, depends on the number of people in the RuneScape world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 25 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 12.5 minutes. Thus the respawn rate of runite ore is 25-\frac{x}{160} minutes, where x is the number of players in the world.

At the reinstatement of Free Trade in February 2011 runite ore respawn times in the Wilderness were reduced to 2/3rds of their normal value, resulting in a faster respawn rate. The respawn rate in the Wilderness is thus \left(25-\frac{x}{160}\right)*\frac{2}{3} minutes, where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.

Players 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
Respawn time 25:00 23:45 22:30 21:15 20:00 18:45 17:30 16:15 15:00 13:45 12:30
Wilderness respawn time 16:40 15:50 15:00 14:10 13:20 12:30 11:40 10:50 10:00 9:10 8:20

TriviaEdit

  • Runite Ore used to be called Rune Ore.


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Mining
Standard Metals and Ores

Copper oreCopper(Rock) • Tin oreTin(Rock) • Iron oreIron(Rock) • Silver oreSilver(Rock) • CoalCoal(Rock)(Concentrated) • Gold oreGold(Rock)(Concentrated) • Mithril oreMithril(Rock) • Adamantite oreAdamantite(Rock) • Runite oreRunite(Rock)

Quest items

Blurite OreBlurite(Rock) • Daeyalt oreDaeyalt(Vein) • Elemental oreElemental(Rock) • RubiumRubium(Vein) • Lunar oreLunar(Rock) • Sandstone (10kg)Sandstone(Rock) • Bane oreBane ore (Rock)

Dungeoneering

Novite oreNovite(Rock) • Bathus oreBathus(Rock) • Marmaros oreMarmaros(Rock) • Kratonium oreKratonium(Rock) • Fractite oreFractite(Rock) • Zephyrium oreZephyrium(Rock) • Argonite oreArgonite(Rock) • Katagon oreKatagon(Rock) • Gorgonite oreGorgonite(Rock) • Promethium orePromethium(Rock)

Other

ClayClay(Rock) • Uncut jadeGems(Rock) • Granite (5kg)Granite(Rock) • LimestoneLimestone(Rock) • Living mineralsLiving minerals(Remains) • Rune essenceRune essence(Mine) • Pure essencePure essence(Mine) • Liquid Gold Nymph chatheadCrust (Mine) • Red sandstoneRed sandstone (Mine) • Starlight oreStarlight ore (Source)

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Rune equipment
Melee Weapons

Rune daggerDagger • Rune hatchetHatchet • Rune maceMace • Rune clawClaw(m) • Duradel's Rune swordSword • Rune longswordLongsword • Rune scimitarScimitar • Rune spearSpear(m) • Rune warhammerWarhammer • Rune battleaxeBattleaxe • Rune 2h swordTwo-hander • Rune halberdHalberd(m) • Rune hastaHasta(m) • Rune pickaxePickaxe

Ranged weapons/ammo

Rune crossbowCrossbow(m) • Rune 2h crossbow2h crossbow(m) • Runite bolts 5Bolts(m) • Rune arrow 5Arrows • Rune brutal 5Brutal arrows(m) • Rune dartDarts(m) • Rune javelinJavelins • Rune throwing axeThrowing axe(m) • Rune knifeThrowing knife(m)

Off-hand weapons

Off-hand rune battleaxeBattleaxe • Off-hand rune clawClaw • Off-hand rune crossbowCrossbow • Off-hand rune daggerDagger • Off-hand rune dartDart • Off-hand rune knifeKnife • Off-hand rune longswordLongsword • Off-hand rune maceMace • Off-hand rune scimitarScimitar • Off-hand rune swordSword • Off-hand rune throwing axeThrowing axe • Off-hand rune warhammerWarhammer

Armour

Rune helmHelm • Rune full helmFull helmet (t) (g) • Rune sq shieldSquare shield • Rune kiteshieldKiteshield (t) (g) • Rune chainbodyChainbody • Rune platebodyPlatebody (t) (g) • Rune plateskirtPlateskirt (t) (g) • Rune platelegsPlatelegs (t) (g) • Rune bootsBoots(m) • Culinaromancer's gloves 8Gloves(m) • Rune GauntletsGauntlets • Rune defenderDefender(m) • Rune spikeshield 100Spikeshield • Rune berserker shield 100Berserker shield

Gilded armour

Gilded full helmFull helm(m) • Gilded kiteshieldKiteshield(m) • Gilded platebodyPlatebody(m) • Gilded plateskirtPlateskirt(m) • Gilded platelegsPlatelegs(m)

Rune god armour
Guthix

Guthix full helmGuthix full helm • Guthix kiteshieldGuthix kiteshield • Guthix platebodyGuthix platebody • Guthix plateskirtGuthix plateskirt • Guthix platelegsGuthix platelegs

Saradomin

Saradomin full helmSaradomin full helm • Saradomin kiteshieldSaradomin kiteshield • Saradomin platebodySaradomin platebody • Saradomin plateskirtSaradomin plateskirt • Saradomin platelegsSaradomin platelegs

Zamorak

Zamorak full helmZamorak full helm • Zamorak kiteshieldZamorak kiteshield • Zamorak platebodyZamorak platebody • Zamorak plateskirtZamorak plateskirt • Zamorak platelegsZamorak platelegs

Ancient (Zaros)

Ancient full helmAncient full helm(m) • Ancient kiteshieldAncient kiteshield(m) • Ancient platebodyAncient platebody(m) • Ancient plateskirtAncient plateskirt(m) • Ancient platelegsAncient platelegs(m)

Bandos

Bandos full helmBandos full helm(m) • Bandos kiteshieldBandos kiteshield(m) • Bandos platebodyBandos platebody(m) • Bandos plateskirtBandos plateskirt(m) • Bandos platelegsBandos platelegs(m)

Armadyl

Armadyl full helmArmadyl full helm(m) • Armadyl kiteshieldArmadyl kiteshield(m) • Armadyl platebodyArmadyl platebody(m) • Armadyl plateskirtArmadyl plateskirt(m) • Armadyl platelegsArmadyl platelegs(m)

Heraldic armour
Type 1

Rune helm (h1)Rune helm (h1) • Rune shield (h1)Rune shield (h1) • Rune platebody (h1)Rune platebody (h1) • Rune plateskirt (h1)Rune plateskirt (h1) • Rune platelegs (h1)Rune platelegs (h1)

Type 2

Rune helm (h2)Rune helm (h2) • Rune shield (h2)Rune shield (h2) • Rune platebody (h2)Rune platebody (h2) • Rune plateskirt (h2)Rune plateskirt (h2) • Rune platelegs (h2)Rune platelegs (h2)

Type 3

Rune helm (h3)Rune helm (h3) • Rune shield (h3)Rune shield (h3) • Rune platebody (h3)Rune platebody (h3) • Rune plateskirt (h3)Rune plateskirt (h3) • Rune platelegs (h3)Rune platelegs (h3)

Type 4

Rune helm (h4)Rune helm (h4) • Rune shield (h4)Rune shield (h4) • Rune platebody (h4)Rune platebody (h4) • Rune plateskirt (h4)Rune plateskirt (h4) • Rune platelegs (h4)Rune platelegs (h4)

Type 5

Rune helm (h5)Rune helm (h5) • Rune shield (h5)Rune shield (h5) • Rune platebody (h5)Rune platebody (h5) • Rune plateskirt (h5)Rune plateskirt (h5) • Rune platelegs (h5)Rune platelegs (h5)

Others

Rune arrowheads 5Arrowtips(m) • Runite oreOre • Rune barBar • Rune nailsNails (m)

(m) stands for members only.

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