Runite ore



Runite ore can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape by mining a Runite rock. It can be smelted with 8 heaps of coal through the Smithing skill to form a runite bar, which can then be smithed into various weapons and armour. Mining runite can be very profitable, as each ore is worth more than a whole inventory of yew logs, and takes less space and time as well. However, the areas in which this ore spawns can be dangerous. Runite ore can be mined with a Mining level of 85 or higher, granting 125 Mining experience. After being mined, runite ore takes between 12.5 and 25 minutes to respawn depending on the current population of the given world. Due to this length of time, nearly all players who mine runite prefer to switch worlds rather than wait for it to respawn.

Runite ore can be used to make the strongest type of non-degradable armour in free-to-play. It is the rarest of all standard ores, as only 12 rocks can be found on members' servers and 5 on free-to-play servers, and is the most valuable ore in RuneScape.

For non-members runite ore can be incredibly dangerous to mine (without 45 Dungeoneering). Two rocks can be found at the Lava Maze runite mining site. While mining in this location, a player is vulnerable to attacks by nearby monsters, including high-level Revenants and a number of red spiders. Players are recommended to bring some form of melee and magic protection for the various monsters around the rune rocks and it should be also noted that one can't teleport until level 20 wilderness so one would have to would be able to run through 20 levels of wilderness, or across the wilderness volcano in free to play worlds. In other way, the runite ore are very easy to mine inside the Mining guild resource dungeon, but it is much more popular and it is nearly impossible to find a free rock.

The runite ore has recently deflated seriously since free players can now access safe runite mining spot, inducing a large number of mined ores into the market.

For members, several other less dangerous options exist to mine runite such as in the Heroes' Guild or in Keldagrim where there is essentially no danger while mining, although these sites can become very competitive.

Runite is also considered a delicacy to dragons, as discovered in the Varrock Museum.

It is possible to mine multiple rune ores for a maximum of 15 minutes through the reward of the Shooting Star Distraction and Diversion.

Using the Superior locator, a reward from Mobilising Armies, you can teleport to the runite rocks. Beware you can be teleported to the wilderness runite rocks, and possibly die or be injured due to red spiders and revenants.



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 world. If the world is empty, the ore respawns in 25 minutes; if it is full (with 2000 players), it respawns in 12.5 minutes. Thus the respawn rate of runite ore is $$25-\frac{x}{160}$$ minutes, where x is the number of players in the world.

A table of respawn rates is given below.