Air Altar



The Air altar may be found west of Varrock, east of the River Lum, and close to the bridge near Gunnarsgrunn. It is used to craft Air runes from rune or Pure essence, providing 5 Runecrafting experience per essence used. As with most other runecrafting altars, it can be accessed via the Abyss. Players could also enter its ruins by using a air talisman, an Elemental talisman or an Omni-talisman on it, or simply clicking the ruins while wearing a Air tiara, Omni-tiara, a wicked hood imbued with any of the above, an Omni-talisman staff or a air talisman staff.

Currently, the fastest way to get there is to use the Wicked hood's teleport, which could only be used twice a day and only after feeding it with any of the items above except the talisman staves, and breaking an air altar teleport tablet, both to appear just outside the altar. You could obtain a wicked hood by talking to Tam McGrubor, and air altar teleport tablets by playing Great Orb Project. They cost 30 Runecrafting guild tokens each.

The maximum likely limit for crafting air runes in one air altar visit is 1736. This would be achieved by having 99 Runecrafting (giving a 10x bonus) and carrying 161 runes to craft (24 in the normal inventory. 30 in the 4 sizes of Runecrafting pouch, 100 claimed from the Wicked hood and 7 with any abyssal summoning creature) whilst wearing an explorer's ring (Which generally has a 1 in 10 chance of creating an extra rune per essence - of course as 1 in 10 chances can happen more than 1 in 10 times in a row the theoretical maximum limit is 1793 but this is highly unlikely). The maximum possible experience per visit would be 1630 achievable by wearing Air runecrafting gloves whilst carrying all pouches and with an abyssal familiar.

It is possible to make Mist runes, Dust runes and Smoke runes while at this altar, but at a lower success rate, so some runes may be lost. To make these requires one set of elemental runes, a stack of Pure essence and 2 talismans. Performing this action uses up a talisman.

If you equip a Binding necklace your success rate when binding runes like these will increase to 100%, giving you the ability to make as many bound runes as you have Rune essence and whatever elemental runes you have with you. It has a total of 15 uses before it is broken. You use a charge for each time you use the craft option, not per entrance to a Runecrafting temple. So if you use 20 essence to make steam runes, and then empty your rune pouch to make another group, you will use 2 charges of your necklace.

You may also use the air altar to create a air tiara, simply have an air talisman and a normal tiara in your inventory, and then use it on the altar.

The "Temple of Air" (the name given to the actual Runecrafting area) is situated on top of a high mountain. There are several Rabbits near the base of the mountain. To leave, simply walk through the portal back to Varrock.

The song "Serene" is unlocked here.

Trivia

 * Using the Orb of Oculus, it is possible to see the Mind altar to the west, an infinate grass plane to the southwest (similar to the grass in the POH), and the Rune Essence mine to the east. However, it is not possible to see the Air altar from the rune essence mine.
 * In the past, if you tried to use a Sextant at the air altar, a message would appear saying: You are in level 56 wilderness. This suggests that the location of the Air altar on the map is adjacent to the wilderness, in the same way that the Air and Mind altars are near each other.
 * The Air Altar was formerly located where the Clan Camp is now.
 * Before 17 September 2009, the Air altar was situated south and a little west of the southern gate of Falador.
 * If you wear a Lumbridge Explorer's Ring (2-4) while crafting, you have chances to craft extra air runes.
 * Another rabbit has been added at the Air Altar, it is located North in the trees. It is Level 2 and there is no current way to attack it.
 * On 17 August 2011, the Air altar received a graphical update, along with the trees outside the altar, which added a beam of light that hit the altar. However, this update was disliked by many players, particularly those who frequently played the Great Orb Project due to the lighting making it difficult to see.
 * On 23 August 2011, Jagex reworked the lighting in the Air altar and released the graphical update along with the new rewards for minigames update.
 * It is possible to hear the sound of waves from the air altar, despite the fact there is no water immediately visible.