Topic: Rune Crafting
This skill requires that you have done the Rune Mysteries Quest. It?s a fairly easy quest, and you'll most likely be able to complete it in a max of 30 mins.
To do rune crafting you wont need much tools, just a pickaxe (any kind will do), and the talisman of the rune you want to craft. I'll give the locations of the talismans/alters later on.
To start with you'll have to mine some rune essences. You can only do this in the special rune crafting mining fields. To get to one of these you'll have to get teleported by one of the following people:
Head Wizard in Wizard tower
Aurbury in Rune Shop
Wizard Comperty, East Ardougne
Wizard Distentor in the Magic guild
Brimstail Gnome in the Gnome tree village, underground cave
Once you get teleported you'll be in a cave like thing, there are a couple of rooms with some giant rocks in the middle. Mine the big rocks and you'll get your essences. Bank them, and go back for more, or go straight to the alter.
Talsamans and Altars?
You don?t find the talismans just lying around here and there; you'll have to kill monsters to get them. Some talismans are easy to get, while others are extremely hard to get. Here's a table of what monsters you'll have to kill to get the different talismans.
Picture Name Monsters that drop
Air Goblins
Mind Imps, Wizards and Dark Wizards
Water Wizards and Dark Wizards
Earth Men, Women, Wizards, Dark Wizards, Al Kharid Warriors and Rogues
Fire Wizards, Skeletons and Dark Wizards
Body Guards, Wizards, Dark Wizards and Giants
Cosmic Mysterious Men and Lesser Demons
Chaos Skeletons, Shadow Warriors, Lesser Demons and Fire giants
Nature Hobgolins, Jogers and Moss Giants
Air Altar: Little north-east of Crafting guild, south of Falador.
Mind Altar: Between Goblin Village and Dwarven Mountain.
Water Altar: Lumbridge Swamps.
Earth Altar: North-east from Varrock, near the Jolly Boar Inn.
Fire Altar: Al Kharid desert, south of the mining field.
Body Altar: South of the Monastry, between Barbarian Village and Dwarven Mountain.
Cosmic Altar: Southern part of Lost City.
Chaos Altar: Wilderness level 9, south of the Dark Warriors Castle.
Narure Altar: Southern part of the Karamja Jungle.
Multiple Runes Per Essence
When your rune crafting level gets higher, you'll be able to get more then 1 rune per essence. Here's a table to show you at what level you'll get more runes :) However remember that you'll still only get exp per essence, not per rune... This means if you get to lvl 33 and get 4 air runes for 1 essence, you'll still only get 5 exp.
Tips Tricks and Notes
You can get a talisman, even if you aren?t able to make the rune it refers to yet. Same goes for finding the altars.
First of all, mine your essences at Aubury (Varrock Rune Shop) if you are f2p. He is closer to bank and that saves time. If you are p2p then use the Magic Guild, its very fast. When you are mining take only pickaxe with you.
To make the trips faster, don?t carry anything else other than your pickaxe.