Nature rune

Disassembly XP	1.3
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Possible materials
Often
Magic parts	85%
Sometimes
Crafted parts	13%
Rarely
Powerful components	2%

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Nature rune

Detailed

Typical

Release

24 May 2001 (Update)

Reclaim

Sacrifice

Reclaimable

55

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Nature runes, also known as nats, are runes that are used for transmutation and binding spells. Members with a Runecrafting skill of 44 or greater can craft nature runes from pure essence at the Nature Altar. Members with 91 or greater Runecrafting will always craft two nature runes per essence; those with between 44 and 90 Runecrafting have a chance at crafting either one or two nature runes per pure essence, with the probability of two increasing with each Runecrafting level. Crafting nature runes yields 9 Runecrafting experience per essence (or 18 experience at the Ourania Runecrafting Altar, 22.5 through the Abyss, 31.5 through the Abyss with a demonic skull).

Nature runes are one of the most traded items in the Grand Exchange because of the frequency of High Level Alchemy and Superheat spells.

Price / Experience comparison
Grand Exchange price		GP / Exp
Nature rune	405	45
Law rune	570	60
Death rune	232	23.2
Blood rune	678	64.6

Crafting multiple nature runes[]

For more information about Runecrafting multiples, see crafting multiple runes.

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	44	405
2x	91	810

Spells[]

Along with fire runes (or a staff of fire), nature runes may be used to cast Low Level Alchemy or High Level Alchemy spells to convert items to set amounts of coins, and to cast Superheat Item spell to smelt ores into bars without a furnace which gives magic and smithing experience. High Alchemy is the most common use of nature runes as it grants high experience for training without danger of death and damage.

Along with earth runes and water runes (or a mud staff, or an earth- or water- rune supplying staff plus the other rune), nature runes may be used to cast bones to bananas and bones to peaches spells, which convert all carried bones up to big bones into bananas or peaches, respectively. The latter is members-only. Also natures may be used to immobilise a target using the bind, snare or entangle spells, the last two of which are members only.

Nature runes are also used in the Plank Make spell in the Lunar spellbook.

Spells that require a small amount of elemental runes, or no elemental, can use a nature staff instead to save nature runes 10% of the time. Remote Farm can greatly benefit from this as opposed to using an elemental staff.

In an update on 3 October 2011, the High Level Alchemy value was changed from 223 coins to 74; and the Low Level Alchemy value was changed from 148 coins to 49. This was due to many players using the High Alchemy spell to convert the nature runes into coins as it yielded a very slight profit, granting easy magic experience for very little cost.

Free spells[]

All players can cast the following spells:

Member spells[]

Members can also cast following spells:

Acquiring[]

Runecrafting[]

Crafting Nature runes is Members only. The teleport to the Graahk hunter area on Karamja offers a very fast way to make Nature runes. This can be accessed by left-clicking 'interact' on the Spirit Graahk, then clicking "Teleport". After teleporting, it takes about 30 seconds to reach the Nature altar, which is a lot faster than the average time it takes to reach the nature altar using the Abyss. With four Runecrafting pouches, complete trips to the Nature altar can be done in under 60 seconds, allowing over 3000 pure essence to be crafted into nature runes per hour. With Massive pouches, you can expect to use around 4260 pure essence per hour. Each Spirit Graahk lasts 49.5 minutes before a new pouch is needed. An alternate method is to use the Fairy ring network (code CKR for Karamja near the altar).

Another fast way is to use the wicked hood teleport if the player has an abundance of wicked hood teleport tokens with a full inventory, although this is impractical if the player does not. This allows the player to instantly teleport to the nature altar, craft the runes, then teleport to any bank and repeat.

The fastest method for crafting Nature runes is doing runs through the abyss using an Abyssal titan familiar. At an average speed one can do about 70 trips to the abyss per hour. This allows you to be able to use the Abyssal titan familiar to hold an extra 20 pure essence every trip. By using 4 pouches, an Abyssal titan and the infinity ethereal outfit you can hold 86 pure essence at once. Crafting nature runes this way let's you use up 6000 pure essence per hour.

Spawns[]

There is a lava-surrounded island in high level Wilderness, south east of the demonic ruins, where 2 nature runes may be telegrabbed from a spawn. Each telegrab yields 1 nature rune.

Furthermore, there are also some located on an island near the rock crabs by Rellekka that can be telegrabbed.

Store locations[]

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?

Change in alchemy value[]

In an update on 3 October 2011, the high level alchemy value was changed from 223 coins to 74; and the low level alchemy value was changed from 148 coins to 49. This was done because the Grand Exchange price of nature runes dropped under 111 GP. From below this price, Nature runes could be alched for a small profit. Example: 2 x 111 = 222 GP = 1 GP profit.

On 4 October 2011, Mod Mat K explained the change:

“

Yesterday we made a small but necessary update to the high alchemy value of nature runes. The price of the nature runes was at a level where it was possible to buy them and alch them for a profit. This obviously had an impact on other items you would commonly alch for a profit and meant that as soon as you reached level 55 in Magic you could buy a few nature runes, alch them and then use the profits to buy more.

Effectively this meant that you could level all the way up to 200 million XP in magic for no cost (in fact for a profit) which is not how the skill is intended to work.

To maintain the value of having level 99 magic and the value of commonly alched items (such as Yew longbows or Mithril platebodies) we felt this quick solution was necessary.

”

— Mod Mat K

This effectively removed the floor on the price of nature runes, reducing it to 37 coins.

Drop sources[]

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Air elemental	44	2	Common
Bulbous crawler	140	8–16	Common
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	75	Common
Cave crawler	53; 74; 78	3	Common
Cave horror (elite)	86	3–6	Common
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	18	Common
Cockatrice	44	2–6	Common
Columbarium	N/A	8–15	Common
Crystal chest	N/A	50	Common
Dagon'hai Monk	77	4	Common
Desert Lizard	35; 49; 63	5	Common
Earth elemental	44	2	Common
Earth warrior	78	3–6	Common
Earth warrior (elite)	88	3–6	Common
Elf	N/A	3	Common
Giant ant soldier	70	2–14	Common
Giant ant worker	49	1–15	Common
Giant frog	44	1–9	Common
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	9–15	Common
Green dragon	63	15–75	Common
Jogre	57; 86	2–10	Common
Moss giant	28; 51; 61	6	Common
Necromancer (monster)	39	5	Common
Pirate	26; 29; 32	2	Common
Security casket (CS Week)	N/A	30–75	Common
Spellwisp	18	2	Common
Thug	11; 19	2–4	Common
Tortoise	50	1–3	Common
Troll general	91	16	Common
Troll spectator	65	7	Common
Vyre corpse	N/A	8–15	Common
Water elemental	44	2	Common
Young grotworm	28	1	Common
Black Heather	138	3	Rare
Black Knight	30; 33	6	Rare
Blood reaver	108; 124	15	Rare
Cyclops	57; 63; 68; 91	2–3	Rare
Dark warrior	16	3	Rare
Donny the Lad	138	4	Rare
Dwarf	9; 14; 39; 44	2	Rare
Elite Dark Mage	98	1–6	Rare
Essence impling	N/A	13	Rare
Former vampyre	N/A	10	Rare
Gnoeals	70	1–3	Rare
Goblin	1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 11; 84	1	Rare
Guard	18; 25; 35	1	Rare
Kalphite Soldier	65	1–6	Rare
Living rock striker	92	3–10	Rare
Lizard	77	5	Rare
Molanisk	53	1–5	Rare
Mystery box	N/A	20	Rare
Ork statue	71	67	Rare
Ourg statue	79	67	Rare
Shade Catacombs/Rewards	N/A	unknown	Rare
Skeleton Mage	19; 49	1–3	Rare
Small Lizard	21	5	Rare
Steel key black	N/A	unknown	Rare
Steel key brown	N/A	unknown	Rare
Steel key crimson	N/A	unknown	Rare
Steel key purple	N/A	unknown	Rare
Steel key red	N/A	unknown	Rare
Vampyre Juvinate	58; 61; 63; 84	10	Rare
Wizard	18	2	Rare
Ancient ranger	103	1–2	Uncommon
Ancient warrior	103	unknown	Uncommon
Armoured zombie	42; 46; 84; 86; 91	3	Uncommon
Arrg	77	1–7	Uncommon
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	9	Uncommon
Bandit (Kharid Bandit Camp)	54	2	Uncommon
Bandit (Pollnivneach)	53	2	Uncommon