Rune hatchet



A Rune hatchet is a hatchet that is stronger than the adamant hatchet. It requires 40 attack to wield. It is suspected to be about 25-35% faster than an adamant hatchet. It is mostly used for woodcutting, but it can be used in combat. It is the strongest hatchet available to free players. Players can make a rune hatchet with the smithing skill at level 86 using 1 rune bar, giving the player 75 smithing experience. Before the Random Event update if it was broken by an Ent, it could be fixed at Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge for 427 coins.

Players must have an attack level of 40 to wield a rune hatchet as a weapon and a woodcutting level of 41 to use a rune axe to chop down trees. There used to be no level requirement to use it to chop down trees, but Jagex fixed this to prevent autoers from using them from the beginning.Players can buy this item from the Grand Exchange in [Varrock]]

Price history
Before the Grand Exchange update, rune hatchets were worth between 9,000-15,000 in the streets, however, shortly after the release of the Grand Exchange, the price of the rune hatchet crashed down to 1,000 coins. Now it has rebounded back, up to about 8,500 coins, still significantly cheaper than it used to be before the introduction of the Grand Exchange.

Trivia

 * On 1 April 2009, Jagex officially changed the names of all woodcutting "axes" to "hatchets".