Banite ore

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Banite ore

Release																				14 September 2011 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				1,067 coins
High alch																				640 coins
Low alch																				426 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Reclaim: 100
Weight																				2.267 kg
Examine
This mystical ore could do with some magical input.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				3,440 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				21778
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

Banite ore is an ore that can be obtained through mining banite rocks, requiring level 80 Mining, in various places around RuneScape.

Banite is required to craft bane bars. These bars can be tuned to inflict greater damage against certain varieties of monsters using ranged attacks. This modification is done by using the Tune Banite Ore spell along with a piece of the monster that the player wishes to kill, such as dragon bones, or an abyssal demon head.

As players increase their Mining level and use higher tier pickaxes, they are able to mine banite at quicker rates.

Banite, like other mining resources, can be stored in an ore box. 100 banite can be stored in a bane ore box or higher. This capacity is increased by 20 at level 85 Mining and a further 20 with the completion of the Everything Is Oresome achievement.

History[edit | edit source]

The Kethsians were the first to discover banite ore on the Outer Planes and learned to magically 'tune' the ore against certain creatures, such as dragons. The Kethsians were able to forge banite ore into both bolts and arrows for use in combat. ^[1]

The Fremennik discovered banite ore on the island of Jatizso during the Fifth Age. While the Fremennik were able to smelt the ore, they were unable to make use of it until the warrior Koschei forged a great axe named Balmung out of the ore, in the process 'tuning' it against dagannoths.^[2]

In the Sixth Age, Koschei trained a handful of Fremennik smiths to make melee weapons and armour out of the metal which could be 'tuned' against specific races of creature. ^[3]

Mining[edit | edit source]

Banite ore
Mining level	80	Critical hit chance
Source	Banite rock	10%	15%
Core		81	-
Stone spirit	Banite	Rockertunity multiplier
Geode	Igneous	x5	x6
Rock stats		89	-
Durability	1700	Double ore chance
Hardness	185	5%	10%
Multiplier	0.82	82	86
Base ore	1	Geode chance
Varrock armour double chance		10%	15%
	1%	81	-

Mine locations[edit | edit source]

Mine	Amount	Requirements
Arctic (azure) habitat mine	7	N/A
Glacor cavern mine	3	Ritual of the Mahjarrat
Jatizso dungeon elite mine	4	Elite Fremennik achievements
Tarshak's sanctum (Abomination mine)	13	Hero's Welcome
Wilderness (level 54) Pirates' Hideout mine	6	N/A

Transmutation[edit | edit source]

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Necrite orePhasmatite

Banite ore
*(transmutation)*
	-
30.4 XP	-	4 (2.4s) / 0 (0s) ^{[r 1]}		3,440
Requirements
Divination level				86
Members only
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Radiant energy	4	321	1,284
	Necrite ore	2	3,840	7,680
Total price				8,964
Profit				−5,524

^ When creating a single item

Banite ore
*(transmutation)*
	-
30.4 XP	-	4 (2.4s) / 0 (0s) ^{[r 1]}		3,440
Requirements
Divination level				86
Members only
Materials
Item		Quantity	Price	Total
	Radiant energy	4	321	1,284
	Phasmatite	2	3,245	6,490
Total price				7,774
Profit				−4,334

^ When creating a single item

Products[edit | edit source]

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Abyssalbanite ore	87	2 × Astral rune 4 × Earth rune 1 × Banite ore	N/A
Bane bar	80	2 × Banite ore	7,358
Basiliskbanite ore	87	2 × Astral rune 4 × Earth rune 1 × Banite ore	N/A
Dark animica (transmutation)	95	5 × Incandescent energy 2 × Banite ore	4,711
Divine banite rock	80	160 × Brilliant energy 25 × Banite ore	N/A
Dragonbanite ore	87	2 × Astral rune 4 × Earth rune 1 × Banite ore	N/A
Light animica (transmutation)	97	5 × Incandescent energy 2 × Banite ore	4,740
Wallasalkibanite ore	87	2 × Astral rune 4 × Earth rune 1 × Banite ore	N/A

Drop sources[edit | edit source]

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Disassembly[edit | edit source]

Banite ore

Disassembly category

Ores

Disassembly XP

1.2

Item quantity required

1

Material count

1

Base junk chance

56.0%

Common materials

Simple parts

1/1

Update history[edit | edit source]

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

update 4 May 2021 (Update):
- New transmutations added to game with Divination skill updates.
  - Banite ore can now be transmuted from radiant energy and necrite ore or phasmatite.
  - Banite ore can also be transmuted into light animica or dark animica, using incandescent energy.

patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
- Added new tiers of ore to mine. At 60, orichalcite and drakolith. At 70, necrite and phasmatite. At 80, banite ore (existing banite ore counts). At 90, light animica and dark animica.

patch 21 August 2012 (Update):
- Anagogic orts and strange rocks are now given more reliably when mining banite ore and red sandstone.

patch 4 October 2011 (Update):
- Smelting banite ore now fills smelting urns.

patch 21 September 2011 (Update):
- Banite ore now works with urns.

update 14 September 2011 (Update):
- Added to game.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

82 Smithing is required to smith the bolts on an anvil, despite the skill guide showing 80, with 82 Fletching being needed to add feathers to unfinished bolts. This process can be assisted.
Prior to the Evolution of Combat, it was possible to apply weapon poisons to bane bolts and arrows, but only 5 arrows/bolts would be coated from one vial.
In the miniquest Koschei's Troubles, Kharshai reveals that Balmung was actually made from banite ore and then tuned to Dagannoth. However, players cannot currently tune bane ore to Dagannoth.
Prior to the release of Hero's Welcome, the only source of this ore was the Glacor cave.
When speaking to Kharshai after Hero's Welcome, Kharshai reveals that banite ore possesses some sentience and is capable of "hating" creatures it is attuned to, with a side effect being boosted damage.
Banite ore was originally called bane ore and untradeable before the Mining and Smithing Rework.
The name is perhaps a reference to the real-world microstructure, bainite. It also puns on the word bane, "a person or thing that ruins or spoils".

References[edit | edit source]

^ Dathana's message, written by Dathana, RuneScape. "We have one final hope - a weapon crafted from a material from the outer planes. Banite ore can be used to smith a unique metal, which can be magically 'tuned' to especially harmful to certain creatures. We then use a tempered anvil located here on the Isle of Sann to turn it into bolts and arrows. We turned these arrows against the dragonkin, and, for the first time managed to kill some, but the ore is rare and our supplies run low."
^ Design - Both - Metals, written by Mod Jack, RuneScape. "The scholars of the Moon Clan believed Jormungor to be merely a myth, a tale told by the superstitious Fremennik. They believed this up until the fifth age, when the Fremennik discovered a strange new ore on the island of Jatizso. This dark purple rock seemed to almost seethe with menace, and the Fremennik could not make use of it. They could smelt it, but no warrior wished to wield a weapon that filled their heart with dread, and they believed the metal cursed. They named it the Flesh of Jormungor and left it well alone."
^ Design - Both - Metals, written by Mod Jack, RuneScape. "Decades later, a powerful warrior named Koschei, who knew neither fear nor death due to the enchanment laid upon him, made a weapon from the Flesh of Jormungor, a great axe named Balmung for the slaying of Dagganoths^[sic] and other threats. Koschei, who was wise in the way of magic due to a heritage he had forgotten, worked magic into the weapon as he wrought it, and the enchantment was completed later by an adventurer who slew many Dagganoths^[sic] with the weapon. Once correctly 'tuned' against the Dagganoths^[sic], the weapon's aura of dread disappeared, and it became extremely effective at slaying its chosen foe."

[4] When creating a single item

[5] When creating a single item

[1] Dathana's message, written by Dathana, RuneScape. "We have one final hope - a weapon crafted from a material from the outer planes. Banite ore can be used to smith a unique metal, which can be magically 'tuned' to especially harmful to certain creatures. We then use a tempered anvil located here on the Isle of Sann to turn it into bolts and arrows. We turned these arrows against the dragonkin, and, for the first time managed to kill some, but the ore is rare and our supplies run low."

[2] Design - Both - Metals, written by Mod Jack, RuneScape. "The scholars of the Moon Clan believed Jormungor to be merely a myth, a tale told by the superstitious Fremennik. They believed this up until the fifth age, when the Fremennik discovered a strange new ore on the island of Jatizso. This dark purple rock seemed to almost seethe with menace, and the Fremennik could not make use of it. They could smelt it, but no warrior wished to wield a weapon that filled their heart with dread, and they believed the metal cursed. They named it the Flesh of Jormungor and left it well alone."

[3] Design - Both - Metals, written by Mod Jack, RuneScape. "Decades later, a powerful warrior named Koschei, who knew neither fear nor death due to the enchanment laid upon him, made a weapon from the Flesh of Jormungor, a great axe named Balmung for the slaying of Dagganoths^[sic] and other threats. Koschei, who was wise in the way of magic due to a heritage he had forgotten, worked magic into the weapon as he wrought it, and the enchantment was completed later by an adventurer who slew many Dagganoths^[sic] with the weapon. Once correctly 'tuned' against the Dagganoths^[sic], the weapon's aura of dread disappeared, and it became extremely effective at slaying its chosen foe."

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