Pure Essence is used to craft runes of greater power. Silver is used to craft items, such as tiaras.Ĭoal can be smelted with iron ores, mithril ores, adamant ores, and runite ores to make steel, mithril, adamant, and rune bars. Players can smelt an iron ore to make an iron bar. Limestone is needed in the members quest Shades of Mort'ton.īlurite is needed in the quest The Knight's Sword. Players can smelt a copper ore with a tin ore to make a bronze bar. Rune essence does not have a respawn time, players only need to click once on the rock and they will mine until their inventory is full.Ĭlay is used in crafting to make small items such as pots. To learn more about rune essence, see the runecrafting skill guide. To mine these rocks, players will need to complete the Rune Mysteries Quest. The respawn time is increased slightly on world servers with more players on them. Ore respawn times differ with the difficulty of the rock, runite respawns the slowest and clay the fastest. Players can only mine a rock when ore is available. Eventually another ore will respawn and the rock will regain its color. Players receive experience when they get ore from rocks.Īfter the ore has been mined, the rock will turn gray for a while. The higher level rocks, such as mithril and adamant, take longer for players to mine an ore out of them, so patience is needed when mining these rocks. When players click on a rock, they will hit it with their pickaxe and try to get the ore out. The color of a rock and it's name correspond to the ore found in it, so mining a copper rock will yield a copper ore, while mining a coal rock will yield a coal ore. On the mini-map, mines are labelled as a gray pickaxe. Ores are obtained from the different types of rocks. Prices may differ slightly with other amounts of stock. This table lists the prices for the pickaxes when only one pickaxe is in the store. It is important to note that there is no 'black pickaxe' or 'dragon pickaxe'. For example, a rune pick will mine rocks faster than an adamanite pick. The higher a level needed to use a pickaxe, the better it is than the ones below it. Nurmof's shop is labelled on the mini-map as a gold pickaxe.īelow is a table with information about pickaxes. Pickaxes can either be bought from Nurmof in the Dwarven Mines or from other players. They can be equipped as a weapon, giving players some more space in their inventory. Pickaxes, or 'picks', are needed to mine rocks. There is no way to increase the chances of mining a rock in one hit. Another player may mine the same rock and get an ore in just one hit. Luck affects mining like this: the player will mine the rock, but when they hit the rock, it might take eight to twenty hits to get an ore. Also, mining is a skill largely based on a player's luck, which is totally random in RuneScape. Unfortunately, mining can be very boring, as it is very repetitive, though selling the ores obtained from the rocks can give players a good profit. When these two tasks are complete, the player can then find a rock in the mine and click on it, making their character mine the rocks. Next, the player has to find a mining area. These are sold by Nurmof in the dwarven mines, but every new player has one. To mine, a player will first need a pickaxe. Selling the ores can give players a great profit, which is one of the reasons why mining is one of the most popular skills in the game. Mining is a skill that allows players to obtain ores from rocks and then smith the ores into bars or sell the ores.

Runescape mining store