Rune essence

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Rune essence



Released							29 March 2004 (Update)
Members							No
Quest item							No

Properties

Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Drop
Examine							An unimbued rune.

Values

Value							4 coins
High alch							2 coins
Low alch							1 coin
Weight							0.002 kg

Grand Exchange

Exchange							11 coins (info)
Buy limit							20,000
Daily volume							843,106

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Advanced data

Item ID							1436
Link							MOID

Rune essence is a raw material used in the Runecraft skill that can be crafted into low-level runes, namely air, mind, water, earth, fire, and body runes. Unlike runes, rune essence does not stack. Players need pure essence to craft any other type of rune, which can only be mined in members worlds.

There are a few ways of obtaining rune essence, other than by trading with other players.

Free players may mine rune essence in the rune essence mine, unlocked after completing the Rune Mysteries quest. To reach these mines, players need to be teleported by one of several NPCs. In members worlds, players will also mine Rune essence until reaching level 30 Mining when they will automatically mine pure essence. Mining from one of the rocks that have an unlimited supply of essence gives 5 Mining experience per essence. A pickaxe is needed, just like any other mining activity.

Mining info

Rune essence (rock)

Level required					1
Mining XP					5 xp
Rock					Rune Essence (rock)
Required tool					Pickaxe
Respawn time					N/A

Uses

Quests

Priest in Peril: 50 × rune essence (alternatively pure essence)

Products

	Skills	XP	Materials
Air rune	1	5	1 × Rune essence
Blank air rune	30	2	1 × Rune essence
Blank earth rune	30	2	1 × Rune essence
Blank fire rune	30	2	1 × Rune essence
Blank mind rune	30	2	1 × Rune essence
Blank water rune	30	2	1 × Rune essence
Body rune	20	7.5	1 × Rune essence
Earth rune	9	6.5	1 × Rune essence
Fire rune	14	7	1 × Rune essence
Mind rune	2	5.5	1 × Rune essence
Rune shards	None	None	1 × Rune essence
Water rune	5	6	1 × Rune essence

Item sources

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Catablepon _(f)	49; 64; 68	15 (noted)	5/101
Minotaur _(f)	12; 19; 27	5 (noted)	5/101
Ankou Free-to-play	75; 82; 86	15 (noted)	5/100
Rune Essence (rock)	1	1	Always
Body Golem	50	4–6 (noted)	6/52
Body Golem	50	1 (noted)	1/52
Chaos Golem	70	4–6 (noted)	6/52
Flawed Golem	13	1–3 (noted)	12/52
Flawed Golem	13	2–4 (noted)	9/52
Mind Golem	30	3–5 (noted)	6/52
Mind Golem	30	1 (noted)	1/52

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	Change Per	Members	League region
Dom Onion's Reward Shop	Yanille	∞	N/A	60	N/A	0.0%		N/A

Changes

Date	Changes
23 March 2022 (Update)	The item's examine text was changed; previously, it was "An uncharged Rune Stone."
20 April 2006 (Update)	The item's inventory sprite was changed with the release of pure essence.
29 March 2004 (Update)	The item became permanently available with the launch of RuneScape 2.
1 December 2003 (Update)	The item was added to the RuneScape 2 Beta.

Gallery (historical)



29 March 2004 ⁠– 20 April 2006	20 April 2006 ⁠– present

Trivia

Stars float around the rune essence rocks when looking from a bird's-eye view.
Rune essence is known to the Zamorakian Magical Institute as Sample XJ13.
Despite being less useful than pure essence, rune essence is more expensive. As such, non-ironmen may wish to sell their rune essence and buy pure essence with the profits.

Mining

Mining rocks and sources

Ore rocks	Copper ^(vein) Tin ^(vein) Blurite Iron ^(vein) Daeyalt Elemental Silver Lead Coal ^(vein) Gold ^(vein) Mithril ^(vein) Lunar Lovakite Adamantite ^(vein) Nickel Runite
Other	Rune Essence Clay ^(vein) Rock Limestone Barronite Magical Ash Ore vein Dense runestone Sandstone Gem Granite Daeyalt Essence Soft clay Ancient essence Amethyst Crashed Star Basalt rock Efh salt rocks Te salt rocks Urt salt rocks Salax salt deposit Amalgamation Rubium rocks^(deposit) Sunstone rocks^(monolith)

Ores

Fragments

Salts

Gems

Other mineables

Pickaxes

Mining enhancers

	Celestial ring Celestial signet Mining cape
Mining gloves	Standard Superior Expert
Varrock armour	1 2 3 4

Historical

Runecraft

Runic altars

Elemental	Air Water Earth Fire
Catalytic	Mind Body Cosmic Chaos Astral Nature Law Death Blood ^(Kourend) Soul Wrath Ourania

Talismans

Elemental	Air Water Earth Fire Elemental
Catalytic	Mind Body Cosmic Chaos Nature Law Death Blood Wrath Catalytic Soul ^{(unobtainable)}

Tiaras

Elemental	Air Water Earth Fire Elemental
Catalytic	Mind Body Cosmic Chaos Nature Law Death Blood Wrath Catalytic Astral ^{(unobtainable)} Soul ^{(unobtainable)}

Pouches

Essence

Extracts

Abyss rifts

Quests

Raiments of the Eye

Hat ^{(red)(blue)(green)}
Top ^{(red)(blue)(green)}
Robe ^{(red)(blue)(green)}
Boots

Other

Nightmare Zone

Bosses

Rumble mode power-ups

Rewards

Resources

	Flax Bucket of sand Seaweed Compost potion Herb box Vial of water Scroll of redirection
Runes	Air Water Earth Fire Essence Pure essence

Upgrades

Benefits

Provided items

Source

Content from the Old School RuneScape Wiki (operated by Weird Gloop), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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