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Rune Altar

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Rune Altar

The rune altar is a crafting table used to craft runes, which are required to cast spells. To make runes, players need rune essence, which comes from essence geysers around the world, as well as from goblin packs, garou packs, and vault guardians. It does not have any special conditions to function.

Runes can be auto-crafted quickly or attuned by playing a simple minigame for more experience.[explain]

Recipe

Requirements
FacilityBuild Menu
SkillExperience
Construction20
MaterialQuantity
Stone12
Rune Essence4
OutputQuantity
Rune Altar1

Recipe tree

Products

10 × Air RuneRune Altar5
10 × Astral RuneRune Altar8
10 × Earth RuneRune Altar13
10 × Fire RuneRune Altar18
10 × Law RuneRune Altar50
10 × Nature RuneRune Altar25
10 × Water RuneRune Altar10

Update history

This information is based on the changelogs of the game.

update19 May 2026 (0.11.2):
  • The maximum Rune conversion ratio while attuning was lowered from 1:20 to 1:10, but the XP per Rune was increased, resulting in three times as much XP as before in some cases.
  • Anima Vents also provide less XP but require less Rune Essence and award up to 1:30 ratios.
  • Auto-crafting will provide 1:10 ratios, but will only be worth 25% the experience compared to manually converting. Teleport costs were lowered, and Attunement and Infusion were made easier.
update31 March 2026 (0.11.0):
  • Rune altar now has an auto craft and attune function to produce runes. All rune stack sizes are now 9999 per slot. The XP values for producing runes have also been reduced, and Mining rune essence no longer provides additional Runecrafting XP.
update15 December 2025 (0.10):
  • The Rune Altar's collection was changed from "Crafting" to "Tools, Weapons & Armour".
update11 September 2025 (0.9):
  • Players can now make Water Runes at the Rune Altar.

Trivia

  • Before version 0.11, the rune altar used to allow players to make wardstones. Creation of wardstones was moved to the crafting table. As of 0.12.0, wardstones have been removed from the game entirely.