Runite ore



Runite ore can be obtained through the Mining skill in various places throughout RuneScape by mining a Runite rock. Runite ore can be mined with a Mining level of 85 or higher, granting 125 Mining experience. It can be smelted with 8 heaps of coal through the Smithing skill to form a Rune bar, which can then be smithed into various weapons and armour. Mining runite can be very profitable, as each ore is comparable in value to a whole inventory of yew logs, but takes less space and time to obtain; the areas, however, in which this ore spawns can be dangerous or difficult to reach. 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.

Since February 1st 2011, the rune rocks located inside the Wilderness have had their respawn time cut by 1/3. They now take between 8.5 to 17 minutes.

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 without 45 Dungeoneering, runite ore can be incredibly dangerous to mine. Two rocks can be found at the Lava Maze runite mining site (Wilderness level 46). While mining in this location, a player is vulnerable to attacks by player killers, and a number of red spiders. Players are recommended to bring some form of melee and magic protection from the various monsters around the rune rocks. It should be also noted that players can't teleport past level 20 wilderness (the Lava Maze site is in very deep wilderness).

An alternative to wilderness runite mining is the Mining guild resource dungeon. This mine is more popular because it is safer, and as such it can be very hard to find a rock that hasn't already been mined. The release of this mining site in the Resource Dungeons Update more than doubled the number of non-member runite rocks; the following oversupply of ores significantly deflated the price of Runite ore.

For members, several other less dangerous options exist to mine runite, including The Heroes' Guild, Keldagrim mines, and Neitiznot runite vein. These areas are often mined and as a result are usually empty.

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 linearly dependent on 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.

To find out respawn time for runite ore you could also use the function $$t = \frac{-12.5p}{2000} + 25$$ (where t=time for respawn, in minutes, and p=players in the world)