Runecrafting

Table of contents

I. General information
II. How to start?
III. Where to get the essence?
IV. Prismatic altars
V. Abyss
VI. Pouches & Talismans
VII. Special runes
VIII. Tips
IX. Different methods


I. General information

With Runecrafting you can create different runes. All runes are made out of rune essence, these can be mined from the runes essence mine.
Another ways to obtain rune essence is buying them from other people or getting them as a drop from certain monsters.
Rune essence can be crafted into runes in the Abyss, or inside a prismatic altar.


II. How to start?

You can start Runecrafting from the moment you got rune essence.
When you get your hands on the essence there are two ways to turn it into runes:

1. Walk to the Dark mage in the wilderness north east of Edgeville level 7 wilderness. also you can use the teleport Abyss which requires 90 magic and Ancient spellbook, after reaching the abyss you'll need to enter the inner circle where you can make the runes you want.

2. Have a talisman of the runes you want to craft  in your inventory and enter the prismatic altar near barbarian village which will lead you to the altar of the rune you need.
an air talisman and a mind talisman spawns near the prismatic altar so you can start with these.


III. Where to get the essence?

There are three ways to get rune essence:

1. The essence mine:Fastest way to get essence from scratch, you'll just need a pickaxe (any will do), you can get to the mine by entering from the entrance south of barbarian village or by talking to Aubury, the portal in the mine will lead you to the Aubury that is located in Varrock.
Aubury can be found at the harbor of Port Sarim, Varrock and Ardougne.
In the pictures below I show you where to locate Aubury.
      

2. Other players:Rune essence is a trade-able item and can be exchanged among players and thus can be bought if you are willing to invest your money in this skill.

3. killing monsters: The slowest way, I don't recommend killing these monster for the rune essence, but if you kill them regularly the essence well eventually accumulate.
For a table of monster that drop rune essence, click here.


IV. Prismatic altars

Prismatic altars are one of two main ways to make runes, they are scattered all across emps-world the most notable of them are the two near barbarian village.
The way they work is simple, you take rune essence and a talisman of the rune you wish to craft, you simply click on the prismatic altar, that will teleport you to the temple of the rune you wish to craft and in the center of that temple waits the altar of the rune you wish to craft, clicking that altar will turn your essence into the runes you wanted granting you Runecrafting experience.
Here is a map that will lead you to the altars near barbarian village:



V. Abyss

The Abyss is one of two main ways to make runes, it consists of two circles, an outer circle which is a multi combat zone filled with aggressive monsters that have combat levels of 41-81, and an inner circle which is the place filled with rifts for each rune (other than special runes) and clicking one of those rifts will teleport you into the chosen rune's temple at the middle of which stands an altar, that clicking on will turn the essence in your inventory into the respective rune granting you Runecrafting experience.

The Abyss can be reached by either using the level 90 magic spell Abyss teleport with the Ancient spellbook or by talking to the mage of Zamorak at level 7 wilderness north of Edgeville, both these ways will lead you to the outer circle.
Here is a picture that shows the location of the mage of zamorak:

Getting to the inner circle requires the player to pass one of the following obstacles:
A gap that requires 50 Agility.
Eyes that requires 50 Agility.
A boil that requires 50 Firemaking.
A rock that requires 50 Minning.
Tendrils that require 50 Woodcutting.
A passage that has no requirements.

These obstacles are located on the wall that separates the circles, they will rotate and will not remain in the same place.

VI. Pouches & Talismans

Pouches are used for storing essence, allowing you to craft more than 28 essence per run, there are currently 4 different pouches:

Small pouch (3000 charges, can hold up 3 rune essence).
Medium pouch (5000 charges, can hold up to 5 rune  essence).
Large pouch (7000 charges, can hold up to 7 rune  essence).
Giant pouch (10000 charges, can hold up to 10 rune essence).

Every time you store a rune essence or take out a rune essence you lose 1 charge, when the pouch gets to 0 charges it disappears from your inventory.
Different sized pouches can be used simultaneously, but two pouches of the same size can't be used at the same time.

Talismans are used to reach rune temples from prismatic altars.Here is a picture of the talismans:

You can get talismans and pouches by killing the monsters in the outer circle of the Abyss.
There are three different monsters to be killed abyssal leech, abyssal guardian and abyssal walker(click on the names to see the drop table).

VII. Special runes

There are 7 special runes in Emps-world that cannot be crafted by the same ways as normal runes, these runes are the 6 combination runes and the astral runes.

How to make Astral runes?
To make this one you need 60 Runecrafting and 60 smithing.
Astral runes can only be crafted by donator members by smelting 4 Rune essence in a furnance while wearing an Astral tiara.
You can also use the spell superheat.
Astral tiaras can be bought from Aubury.
You'll receive 10 Astral runes for 4 rune essence.

Combination runes:There are 6 different combination runes in Emps-world, these runes are a combination of 2 elemental runes and count as two runes when casting a spell, one for each element they are made of, here are the different runes:
  Mud rune (water and earth).
   Steam rune (fire and water).
 lava runes (earth and fire).
smoke rune (air and fire). 
mist rune (air and water). 
dust rune (air and earth). 

Let's say that we want to craft smoke runes, we need both air and fire talismans, some air runes or fire runes and some essence, use the fire talisman or the air talisman on the prismatic altar which will get you to the fire temple or the air temple, there clicking on the altar in the middle will combine the essence and the  runes from your inventory into smoke runes.
This method is used for all 6 combination runes.


VIII. Tips

1. Chaos gauntlets can be bought for 158 coins from Hickton who is located in Rimmington.
Chaos gauntlets will increase your xp gained by 5%.

2. When using pouches place them at the bottom row in your inventory, that way right-click on the pouches will leave your mouse hovering over the empty option.
   

3. Crafting certain runes at certain levels will give you a multiplication on the amount of runes you get, know that this will not grant you any extra experience.
Click here for the tables of multiplication and experience rates.

4. Runecrafting pouches are not tradeable and thus if you wish to use them you'll need to get them yourself, I recommend using multi target weapon/spell (red chinchompas, barrages...) to kill the monster in the outer circle of the abyss, since it's a multi zone and they are gathered easily.

5. I recommend getting the rune pouches before even starting, it will be helpful in both mining the essence and in making the runes.

IX. Different methods

Mining the essence at barbarian village and crafting it at the same trip without banking between trips will result in approximately 40 trips per hour of 47 essence each(25 from pouches + 22 from inventory since it contains 4 pouches, a talisman and the runes).
overall 1,880 essence per hour.
With this method you should use the altar east of barbarian village.

If you already have the essence you should both bank at Barbarian village and use the prismatic altar that is near it.
This method will get you approximately 65 trips per hour of 48 essence each for an overall of 3,120 essence per hour.
With this method you should use the altar west of barbarian village.

I recommend using the abyss only if you can't get your hands on the talisman you need, since even with teleport available and meeting the requirements to pass all obstacles there, it will result in slightly fewer trips per hour (55) and you'll be crafting 1 fewer essence per trip(2 inventory spots needed for the teleport runes compared to one slot for the talisman), not to mention taking damage constantly from the monster in the outer circle.
overall 2,585 essence per hour(with the essence being in your bank).

For maximum experience you should always craft the rune you unlocked most recently(other than astrals).
To calculate your xp/hr choose the method you wish to use, then use this:
essence you'll get per hour * experience rate for the rune your crafting * 1.05(from chaos gauntlets) * 1.10(if you are a member) * 2 (if double xp is on)

For money runecrafting triple deaths(level 97) and triple bloods (level 99) is the most reliable way, multi nats and soul runes can be an option depending on demand.
another solid moneymaking method through Runecrafting is astrals, click here to see charr's guide on that.



Huge thanks to Hugo Terwiss!
this guide is an updated virsion of his old Runecrafting guide.