Runite rocks

Runite rocks
Level required	85
Mining XP	125 xp
Required tool	Pickaxe
Respawn time	12 minutes; 6 minutes in Mining Guild

Variant 1Variant 2Prifddinas
Runite rocks
Released	13 August 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest	No
Location	Varies
Options	Mine
Examine	A rocky outcrop.
Advanced data
Object ID	11377

Runite rocks are the second-highest level rock in Old School RuneScape, bested by amethyst crystals, requiring 85 Mining to mine. When successfully mined, the player receives a runite ore and 125 Mining experience. After being mined, runite rocks take 12 minutes to respawn. They are highly popular and often are depleted of their resources, which prompts players to switch worlds to find rocks that haven't been mined. It is recommended not to hop to busy servers as busy worlds are more likely to have their ores already depleted.

Mining runite ore is not recommended for players who are solely interested in leveling their mining skill due to how slowly the rocks are successfully mined. For example, to level from 98 to level 99, most players will need to spend at least 139814 mining attempts to gather enough to runite. This amounts to roughly 3 days of continuous mining.

When mining runite, players may find it useful to keep track of the time that they mined the ore as well as the world number. If done accurately, players can hop to other worlds (keeping more such notes along the way) to mine runite while keeping an eye on the time, and then hop back to worlds where they previously mined runite when it is about time for the ore to respawn. This method of collecting runite ore does not need to be used when mining outside of popular member areas, such as the Fossil Island mine requiring Bone voyage to access said mine, or at secluded areas like the Central Fremennik Isles mine, which requires starting The Fremennik Isles. Moreover, starting Mourning's End Part II and wearing Mourner gear opens up the Mourner Tunnels mine, which is another remote mine for members.

Lava Maze Rune Mine is currently the only place for free-to-play rune miners.

Runite rocks in places like the Central Fremennik Isles mine are commonly targeted by players, and as such, there is more need to worry about the ore being contested, whereas the popular Lava Maze runite mine among free players is almost always taken. Member worlds are more empty. However, such places in the Wilderness are usually dangerous due to high-level monsters and, more importantly, player killers. The amount of players and especially bots change every few hours and some mines are better at certain hours.

Wearing either superior mining gloves or expert mining gloves while mining a runite rock grants a 12.5% chance for the rock to not deplete upon mining a runite ore, allowing you to mine an additional ore before depleting.

Locations[edit | edit source]

Location	Spawns	Map
Central Fremennik Isles mine	1	Maplink
Fossil Island mine	2	Maplink
Frozen Waste Plateau mine	3	Maplink
Heroes' Guild mine	2	Maplink
Isafdar mine	2	Maplink
Isle of Souls Dungeon	1	Maplink
Lava Maze Dungeon	1	Maplink
Lava Maze runite mine	2	Maplink
Mining Guild	2	Maplink
Mourner Tunnels	1	Maplink
Myths' Guild mine	2	Maplink
South Mor Ul Rek mine	3	Maplink
Trahaearn mine	4	Maplink

Mining Info[edit | edit source]

Pre roll drops[edit | edit source]

A gem table rolls before the main drop table.^[1] There's a chance to receive nothing here so that players can receive no items from a runite rock even if they are guaranteed to receive a runite ore in the main drop table.^[2] The table gets more likely to be rolled if the player has a glory amulet equipped: the probability grows from 1/256 to 1/86.^[3]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Nothing	N/A	70/32,768; 70/11,008^{[d 1]}	N/A	N/A
Uncut sapphire	1	32/32,768; 32/11,008^{[d 1]}	272	15
Uncut emerald	1	16/32,768; 16/11,008^{[d 1]}	477	30
Uncut ruby	1	8/32,768; 8/11,008^{[d 1]}	1,022	60
Uncut diamond	1	2/32,768; 2/11,008^{[d 1]}	2,463	120

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The drop rate is increased while wearing an amulet of glory

Main drops[edit | edit source]

The probability for a player to receive a runite ore drop depends on the player's mining level. The rock will deplete after receiving the Runite ore, unless affected by the effect of superior or expert mining gloves.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Runite ore	1	Always	11,199	1,920

The chance of successfully mining a runite rock varies from 11/256 at level 1 (if such a thing were possible), up to 19/256 at level 99.^[4]

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Conditional drops[edit | edit source]

The following table shows items that can be received in addition to the main resource.

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Clue geode (beginner)	1	Rare	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (easy)	1	Rare	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (medium)	1	Rare	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (hard)	1	Rare	Not sold	N/A
Clue geode (elite)	1	Rare	Not sold	N/A
Crystal shard	1	1/127^[5]^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Unidentified minerals	1	1/20^[6]^{[d 2]}	Not sold	30
Rock golem	1	Very rare	Not sold	N/A

^ Only dropped by Prifddinas version.
^ Unidentified minerals can only be obtained while in the Mining Guild.

Tools & equipment[edit | edit source]

There's a 10% chance of mining 2 runite ores at once by wearing Varrock armour 4.
There's a 1/8 chance of making a runite rock instantly respawn when mined by wearing superior mining gloves or expert mining gloves.
It is recommended to use a dragon pickaxe to speed up the mining process.
Prospector kit can be worn in-order to boost mining XP by 2.5%.

Changes[edit | edit source]

Date	Changes
15 March 2023 (update \| poll)	The object has been renamed from "Rocks" to "Runite rocks". The "Prospect" option was removed.

References[edit | edit source]

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "It adds a gem roll before each ore roll, and if you receive a gem you don't get the ore roll."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "Yes, [the mining gem table has] got [...] chance of giving no gem."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 7 February 2017. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Mod Ash: "[the actual increase when wearing the Amulet of Glory while mining is] 1/86 rather than 1/256 for a gem."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 12 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Mod Ash: "7.1% per roll at 99, 3.9% per roll at level 1 (assuming you were even allowed to try)."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 14 April 2020. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Mod Ash: "I believe that's 1/127 from any type of ore. And it looks like the Varrock bonus would give you a second shard roll if you got a second ore."
^ Mod Ed. "Mining Guild Expansion." 22 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Old School Announcements Forums.

[row-4] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The drop rate is increased while wearing an amulet of glory

[autod-Prinas-7] Only dropped by Prifddinas version.

[9] Unidentified minerals can only be obtained while in the Mining Guild.

[1] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "It adds a gem roll before each ore roll, and if you receive a gem you don't get the ore roll."

[2] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 6 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Mod Ash: "Yes, [the mining gem table has] got [...] chance of giving no gem."

[3] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 7 February 2017. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Mod Ash: "[the actual increase when wearing the Amulet of Glory while mining is] 1/86 rather than 1/256 for a gem."

[5] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 12 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Mod Ash: "7.1% per roll at 99, 3.9% per roll at level 1 (assuming you were even allowed to try)."

[Crystal_shard_tweet_about_mining-6] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 14 April 2020. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Mod Ash: "I believe that's 1/127 from any type of ore. And it looks like the Varrock bonus would give you a second shard roll if you got a second ore."

[8] Mod Ed. "Mining Guild Expansion." 22 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Old School Announcements Forums.

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