Banite ore

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: 445 Sacrifice: 1,780
Exchange	2,968 coins (info)
Buy limit	25,000
Weight	2.267 kg
Examine
This mystical ore could do with some magical input.
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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. 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.

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		88	-
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%	83	-

Mine locations[edit | edit source]

Mine	Members	Amount	Requirements
Arctic (azure) habitat mine	Yes	7	None
Glacor cavern mine	Yes	3	Completion of Ritual of the Mahjarrat
Jatizso dungeon elite mine	Yes	4	Elite Fremennik achievements
Tarshak's sanctum (Abomination mine)	Yes	13	Hero's Welcome
Wilderness (Level 54) Pirates' Hideout mine	No	6	None

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]

Disassembly[edit | edit source]

Disassembly category

Ores

Disassembly XP

1.2

Item quantity required

1

Material count

1

Base junk chance

56.0%

Possible materials

Often

Simple parts

1/1

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Update history[edit | edit source]

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

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

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Upon initial release, bane ore's weight was listed as 0 kg. This was changed on 18 September 2011 to 2.2 kg.
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 1 vial.
In the miniquest Koschei's Troubles, Kharshai reveals that Balmung was actually made from bane 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 bane 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.

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. Bane 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."

[1] Dathana's message, written by Dathana, RuneScape. "We have one final hope - a weapon crafted from a material from the outer planes. Bane 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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[3]

Reduction		Junk chance
None	1	56.0%
1	34	55.4
2	49	54.3
3	64	53.2
4	69	52.1
5	78	51.0
6	83	49.3
7	91	48.2
8	95	46.5
9	105	44.8

Banite ore

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