Blood Altar (Kourend)

Blood Altar
Released								7 January 2016 (Update)
Also called								Fake/False Blood Altar
Members								Yes
Quest								No
Location								South of the Dark Altar
League region								Kourend✓
Options								Bind
Examine								It draws unto itself the blood of countless slain warriors from ancient battles.
Map
Advanced data
Object ID								27978
Link								MOID

Kourend's Blood Altar is a runic altar found south of the Dark Altar. It is used to craft blood runes from dark essence fragments, which requires level 77 Runecraft. Crafting blood runes at this altar provides 23.8 Runecraft experience per dark essence fragment imbued; blood essence can be used to increase the number of blood runes they receive by approximately 50% without gaining additional experience.

The Blood Altar in Great Kourend is not the true Blood Altar. Rather, it, alongside the Soul Altar, were created by the power from the Dark Altar nearby, where it drew energy from the plane where the true Blood Altar is located.^[1][2] By visiting it in person, this connection can be seen in the form of a giant blood crystal, where it discharges energy upwards. Kourend's Blood Altar is known as the fake or false Blood Altar for this reason.

Unlike most altars, Kourend's Blood Altar does not need to be entered. As such, neither a blood talisman nor tiara is needed.

In order to access the altar via the Abyss, the player must use a dark essence block or dark essence fragments on the blood rift after having crafted some blood runes at Kourend's Blood Altar. This does not consume the dark essence block, and only has to be done once. When players have done so, the chatbox will state: The power of the Dark Altar redirects the rift to the place in Arceuus where the energy of the true Blood Altar is focused.

The following official world is assigned to Zeah Runecrafting:

World	Location	Members	Activity
513	United Kingdom	1	Zeah Runecrafting

Without an activated blood essence, the maximum number of blood runes that may be crafted in one visit is 212. This would be achieved by mining 27 dense essence blocks and then turned into dark essence blocks and crushed with a chisel into dark essence fragments. Then, another inventory of 26 dense essence blocks are mined and turned into dark essence fragments before going to the Blood Altar.

With an activated blood essence this number increases to around ~300.

This limit can be increased to 232 with the completion of the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary, which awards an extra 10% of blood runes per bind. However, no additional experience is gained.

Note that you can only have a maximum of 108 dark essence fragments and must use them before crushing the remaining dark essence blocks. One dark essence block is broken into 4 dark essence fragments.

The maximum possible experience is 5,045.6 obtained while doing the above, but each subsequent inventory will be 4,855.2 experience due to the blood runes taking up an additional inventory space.

The following money making guides are available for Blood Altar (Kourend):

Method	Hourly profit	Skills
Crafting blood runes at Arceuus (minimal requirements)	726,014	77 38 (to mine dense essence blocks) 38 (to chip dark essence blocks) 73+ (highly recommended)
Crafting blood runes at Arceuus (no diary)	1,040,006	77 38 (to mine dense essence blocks) 38 (to chip dark essence blocks) 73+ (highly recommended)
Crafting blood runes at Arceuus (max)	1,092,338	77 38 (to mine dense essence blocks) 38 (to chip dark essence blocks) 73+ (highly recommended)

Product		Members	Facility	Skills	XP	Materials
	1 × Blood rune		Blood Altar (Kourend)	77	23.8	1 × Dark essence fragments
	61 × Blood rune		Blood Altar (Kourend)	77	23.8	1 × Dark essence fragments 1 × Scarred extract
	1 × Bloodbark body		Blood Altar Blood Altar (Kourend)	81	25	1 × Splitbark body 500 × Blood rune
	1 × Bloodbark boots		Blood Altar Blood Altar (Kourend)	77	5	1 × Splitbark boots 100 × Blood rune
	1 × Bloodbark gauntlets		Blood Altar Blood Altar (Kourend)	77	5	1 × Splitbark gauntlets 100 × Blood rune
	1 × Bloodbark helm		Blood Altar Blood Altar (Kourend)	79	12.5	1 × Splitbark helm 250 × Blood rune
	1 × Bloodbark legs		Blood Altar Blood Altar (Kourend)	81	25	1 × Splitbark legs 500 × Blood rune

• The Blood Altar in Great Kourend.
• The giant blood crystal within the true Blood Altar from which the Dark Altar draws the energy to create Kourend's Blood Altar.