Runespan

Runespan is a new Runecrafting training method for all players, announced in the April 2012 Behind the Scenes. A developer blog, which gives information about the activity, was released on the 27th of April 2012 on the Rs homepage.

The Runespan is another dimension, discovered by Wizard Finix, where runes can be pulled from elemental nodes or from the wildlife. Players can explore the floating islands that make up the Runespan, to gather runes and rescue trapped and lost wizards.

There will be three areas, each catered to different Runecrafting levels, but free-to-play will only have access to the first area. Runes gathered will be taken by the Runecrafting Guild, but members will be able to claim points towards wicked robes, new magical staves and a new pouch which will hold 18 essence, and all players will be rewarded with Runecrafting experience.

Runespan will be playable at any Runecrafting level. At Runefest 2011, Jagex stated that it would be a minigame, however it was later changed to be a training method. The experience granted will surpass the ZMI altar at 70+ Runecrafting.

At 8:00 PM UTC, 28 April 2012, rifts to the Runespan opened in the Grand Exchange west side, at the Catherby fruit tree patch, and in the central market of Ardougne. The rifts were linked to a thread in the Future Updates section of the RuneScape Forums called "See the Future..." and as such, the rifts resembled the Future Updates community's logo.

Approximately 10 minutes after the rift spawned a runesphere appeared. It also disapeared after a few minutes.