Water Altar

The Water Altar is a Runecrafting altar where players can craft water runes. The altar is located in the Lumbridge Swamp, and the nearest bank is in Lumbridge or Draynor, alternatively you can bank at Daemonheim and take the ship back.

Like all Runecrafting altars, the outside appears as a ruin with stones spread around a stone circle. As with most other runecrafting altars, it can be accessed via the Abyss. Players could also enter its ruins by using a water talisman, an Elemental talisman or an Omni-talisman on it, or simply clicking the ruins while wearing a water tiara, Omni-tiara, a wicked hood imbued with any of the above, an Omni-talisman staff or a water talisman staff.

Currently, the fastest way to get there is to use the wicked hood's teleport, which could only be used twice a day and only after feeding it with any of the items above except the talisman staves, and breaking a water altar teleport tablet, both to appear just outside the altar. You could obtain a wicked hood by talking to Tam McGrubor, and water altar teleport tablets by playing Great Orb Project. They cost 32 Runecrafting guild tokens each.

The inside of the altar is very nature-related. The altar is on an island with daisies. Smaller islands surround the altar with waterlilies around them. The Zealot music track is unlocked when a player goes here. When looking eastwards, the island appears to look like a head. Also, when you walk onto the piece of land extending into the water, you can see a shark swimming in the distance.

Uses
Players can craft water runes at the Water altar by clicking on the altar with rune essence or pure essence in the player's inventory. Crafting a water rune is one of the easy tasks in the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks.

The water altar can also be used to craft a water tiara by using a water talisman on the altar with a normal tiara in the player's inventory.

It is possible to make mist runes, mud runes and steam runes while at this altar. Like all combination runes, these runes have a 50% success rate. Equipping a binding necklace increases the success rate when binding combination runes to 100%. It has a total of 15 uses before it breaks. A charge is used each time a rune is created, not each time the altar is entered.

'''Note: Each combination rune crafted uses up a talisman and you will NOT get it back. For example, crafting mist runes would consume 1 air talisman PER craft.'''

In order to make mist runes at this altar, a player needs a water talisman, an air talisman, a stack of water runes and some pure essence.

In order to make mud runes at this altar, a player needs a water talisman, an earth talisman, a stack of earth runes and some pure essence.

In order to make steam runes at this altar, a player needs a water talisman, a fire talisman, a stack of fire runes and some pure essence.

Transportation
The closest bank to the Water altar is the Al Kharid bank. This is because of the Dungeoneering update making a bridge across the river that separates Lumbridge from the desert.

The shortest walking time to the altar is using the Explorer's ring 3 and teleporting to the cabbage field then banking in Draynor.

Members may also use an amulet of glory to teleport close to the Draynor bank and then walk to the altar.

The use of the Draynor Village banking method provides the additional benefit of a Musician east of the Draynor Village bank.

Players may also choose to bring their dramen staff and go to Zanaris, although this is the slowest route.

Due to the hidden update making the Home Teleport for Lumbridge available to use all the time, Water runecrafting is faster.

Also, some players mine rune essence and directly make water runes out of them. For this method, it is recommended to teleport to the mining site via Sedridor in the beasement of the Wizards' Tower, south of Draynor Village, then walk across the bridge then along the sea towards the altar's ruins. If desired, the player might, after crafting his water runes, bank their runes as already explained. Banking trips might be avoided by sacrificing a single inventory slot that will hold the stacking water runes, whereas the rest of the inventory will be occupied by the rune essence. Therefore, the player will travel between the mining site and the altar without having to go to the bank everytime.

Trivia

 * Trollweiss flowers can be found here but can not be picked. When players attempt to pick them, "Nothing interesting happens."

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