Runite ore rocks



Runite rocks are a type of rock that can be mined through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape. Runite rocks can be mined with a Mining level of 85 or higher, granting 125 Mining experience upon receiving runite ore. After being mined, runite rocks take an average of 20 minutes to respawn. Due to this length of time, nearly all players who mine runite prefer to switch worlds rather than wait for it to respawn. It is recommended not to hop to busy servers, as busy worlds are more likely to have their ores exhausted already.

When mining runite, players may find it useful to keep track of the time that they mined the ore, as well as the world number and population. If done accurately, players can hop to other worlds (keeping more notes along the way) to mine runite while keeping an eye on the time, and then hop back to worlds where they previously mined runite when it is about time for the ore to respawn. This method of collecting runite ore only applies when mining in popular areas like the Keldagrim north mine. Runite rocks in places like the Lava Maze Dungeon mine are rarely targeted by players, and as such there is little need to worry about the ore being gone. However, such places are usually dangerous.

Free play

 * In free worlds there are only 2 runite rocks, both located above the Lava Maze in the Lava Maze runite mining site. This makes it very dangerous to mine runite ore in free worlds as there is a high chance of being attacked by revenants in regular worlds or other players in PvP or Bounty worlds. It is highly recommended to use a low levelled player (combat level at 30 below) to lower the chance of encountering revenants, although the threats are the spiders or the goblins, which may wander at Lava maze.

Members

 * Two located in the Heroes' Guild mine by the Fountain of Heroes.
 * Two more are accessible in the North Keldagrim mining area accessible after the completion of the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest.
 * One in the Lava Maze Dungeon mine, which is guarded by level 64 poison spiders and 2 black dragons.
 * One is surrounded by several dangerous Dark beasts in the Mourner Tunnels mine located in the Temple of Light.
 * One in the centre of the Central Fremennik Isles mining site (reward for The Fremennik Isles quest).

Respawn rate
Runite ore, like all other mined rocks, respawns at a rate directly proportional to the number of people in the rock's RuneScape server. If the server is completely empty, the ore respawns in 25 minutes; if it is completely full (with 2,000 players), it respawns in 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Thus the respawn rate of runite ore is
 * $$25-\frac{x}{160}$$ minutes, or $$1500-\frac{3x}{8}$$ seconds,

where x is the number of players in the server.

A table of respawn rates is given below.