Uncut onyx



An uncut onyx is a rare volcanic gem with a shiny black lustre that is used in the Crafting skill to make jewellery. It is available only by buying from TzHaar-Hur-Lek's Ore & gem shop in TzHaar City, or by trading. As there are only a limited number of ways to obtain an onyx gem, it is by far the rarest gem in RuneScape.

An uncut onyx requires a Crafting level of 67 to cut, granting 167.5 crafting experience. Players may also use Fletching skill to cut an onyx into onyx bolt tips by using a chisel on a 'cut' onyx at level 73 Fletching. Cutting an onyx into bolt tips grants the player 9 experience in the Fletching skill and gives the player 24 onyx bolt tips, although this practice is NOT recommended due to the value of the gem and the fact that TzHaar-Ket and TzHaar-Xil both drop onyx bolt tips rather commonly.

The Personalised shops update on 2 September 2009 raised the price of an Onyx in the TzHaar shops ninefold, from 300,000 to 2,700,000 Tokkul. In addition to this, an update on 15 December 2009 made it impossible to obtain Tokkul by trading runes and other obsidian items to TzHaar shops. This significantly increased the rarity of Tokkul, causing the gem to greatly increase in price.

Trivia

 * When the TzHaar area was first released, the store price for an uncut onyx was 300,000 Tokkul.
 * Onyx jewellery looks significantly different from jewellery made from other gems.
 * Up until early 2009, a glitch sometimes occurred when a player tried to cut an uncut Onyx. Instead of receiving a cut Onyx, the player received either two, three, or four cut Onyx's. This glitch was later patched, and now a player only receives one cut Onyx for every uncut Onyx they cut.
 * You would have to kill about 3,541 TzHaar-Ket to get enough TokKul to buy an Uncut Onyx, however, this is just an estimate.
 * Although the exchange price of an onyx is 15.5m, it is highly unadvised for players to sell it on the G.E. as it can be sold at a street price of around 60m.