Blood rune

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For other uses, see Blood rune (disambiguation).

The official world for RC Running & ZMI Altar is world 36 (P2P).

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Blood rune
Release																				18 March 2002 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				550 coins Cash out: 10 coins
High alch																				110 coins
Low alch																				73 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1,288 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0 kg
Examine
A high level catalytic rune.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,288 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				565
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Blood runes are a members-only rune used in the Magic skill to cast Ancient Magicks and Lunar spells, and enchant Ruby bolts (e). Blood runes can be crafted at the Blood altar using pure essence, requiring level 77 Runecrafting and completion of Legacy of Seergaze. They give 10.5 Runecrafting experience each. If the Morytania legs 2 or better are worn or owned while wearing any of the ethereal outfit legs, players have a 10% chance of receiving an additional blood rune per essence.

Blood runes are dropped by a large range of monsters, such as fire giants, Aviansies, and shadow warriors. They may be stolen from the chest in the Chaos Druid Tower, purchased from magic store owners, such as the Mage of Zamorak, or received as a fairly common loot from the Barrows chest. There is also a respawn point near the Demonic Ruins in the Wilderness.

Blood runes are used to recharge the blood amulet of fury, brawler's blood necklace, farsight blood necklace, and arcane blood necklace.

Crafting multiple blood runes

For more information about Runecrafting multiples, see crafting multiple runes.

Multiplier		GE price
1x	77	1,288

Spells

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Animate Dead	84	6151530	Ancient	Combat
	Annakarl Teleport	90	22	Ancient	Teleport
	Blood Barrage	92	25	Ancient	Combat
	Blood Blitz	80	15	Ancient	Combat
	Disruption Shield	90	3310	Lunar	Combat
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Diamond)	96	12110	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Dragonstone)	97	11115	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Emerald)	93	1113	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Hydrix)	99	11120	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Jade)	91	112	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Onyx)	98	11120	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Opal)	89	112	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Pearl)	92	112	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Red topaz)	94	112	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Ruby)	95	215	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Sapphire)	90	1111	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Ruby)	49	115	Normal	Skilling
	Exsanguinate	96	12	Ancient	Combat
	Heal Group	95	234	Lunar	Combat
	Heal Other	92	133	Lunar	Combat
	Ice Barrage	94	25	Ancient	Combat
	Ice Blitz	82	15	Ancient	Combat
	Incite Fear	98	1210	Ancient	Combat
	Kharyrll Teleport	66	12	Ancient	Teleport
	Prism of Loyalty	82	626	Ancient	Combat
	Prism of Restoration	76	626	Ancient	Combat
	Prism of Salvation	80	626	Ancient	Combat
	Shadow Barrage	88	25	Ancient	Combat
	Shadow Blitz	76	15	Ancient	Combat
	Smoke Barrage	86	25	Ancient	Combat
	Smoke Blitz	74	15	Ancient	Combat
	Smoke Cloud	74	55510	Ancient	Combat

Removed spells

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Charge (spell)	80	333	Normal	Combat
	Claws of Guthix	60	214	Normal	Combat
	Flames of Zamorak	60	241	Normal	Combat
	Miasmic Barrage (historical)	97	444	Ancient	Combat
	Miasmic Blitz	85	323	Ancient	Combat
	Saradomin Strike	60	224	Normal	Combat

Locations

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	550	Coins	100
Aubury's Rune Shop (New Varrock)	New Varrock	550	Zemomark	10
Baba Yaga's Magic Shop	Lunar Isle	550	Coins	100
Battle Runes	Wilderness	550	Coins	100
Magic Guild Store - Runes and Staves	Wizards' Guild	550	Coins	100

Price to XP comparison

Grand Exchange price		GP/XP (per essence)
Nature rune	763	84.8
Law rune	229	24.1
Death rune	321	32.1
Blood rune	1,288	122.7
Soul rune	1,790	35.9

Item spawns

• On the ground at the Demonic Ruins in level 46 Wilderness.

Products

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
Annakarl teleport (item)	90	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 2 × Blood rune	8,331
Diamond bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	96	10 × Diamond bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Law rune 10 × Earth rune	18,520
Dragonstone bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	97	10 × Dragonstone bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Soul rune 15 × Earth rune	16,920
Emerald bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	93	10 × Emerald bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Nature rune 3 × Air rune	20,770
Hydrix bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	99	10 × Hydrix bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Death rune 20 × Fire rune	82,050
Jade bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	91	10 × Jade bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Earth rune	14,570
Kharyrll teleport (item)	66	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 1 × Blood rune	7,145
Onyx bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	98	10 × Onyx bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Death rune 20 × Fire rune	66,730
Opal bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	89	10 × Opal bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Air rune	22,800
Pearl bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	92	10 × Pearl bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Water rune	10,510
Powerburst of sorcery (4)	109	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 1 × Super runecrafting (4) 5 × Blood rune 2 × Beak snot	111,653
Powerburst of sorcery (4) (Improved +1 recipe)	111	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 1 × Super runecrafting (4) 5 × Blood rune 2 × Beak snot	111,653
Powerburst of sorcery (4) (Improved +2 recipe)	113	1 × Powerburst vial 1 × Primal extract 1 × Super runecrafting (3) 3 × Blood rune 1 × Beak snot	111,653
Red topaz bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	94	10 × Red topaz bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 2 × Fire rune	14,460
Ruby bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	95	10 × Ruby bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 2 × Blood rune 5 × Fire rune	18,010
Ruby bolts (e) × 10	49	10 × Ruby bolts 5 × Fire rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Cosmic rune	1,300
Sapphire bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	90	10 × Sapphire bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Mind rune 1 × Water rune	19,890

Drop sources

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

Showing 100 out of 198 sources.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Air elemental	44	1	Rare
Ancient mage	103	25	Uncommon
Angry barbarian spirit	106	3	3/128
Armoured zombie	21; 42; 46; 84; 86; 91	3	4/128
Augmented Sunspear (magic)	N/A	10	Common
Augmented Sunspear (melee)	N/A	10	Common
Augmented Sunspear (ranged)	N/A	10	Common
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	11	2/128
Balfrug Kreeyath	102	5–10	Uncommon
Bandit (Wilderness)	18	2	Rare
Bandit Brawler Melee	112	2	Rare
Berserk barbarian spirit	106	3; 5; 10	Uncommon
Black demon (Demon Flash Mobs)	116	10	Uncommon
Black demon	98; 112	10	Uncommon
Black dragon	100	5; 8; 9; 15	1/128
Bladed muspah	150	20	Common
Blood nihil	160	30	Common
Blood reaver	108; 124	15	Rare
Brine rat	49	4	Uncommon
Cadarn magus	122	15	1/17
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	75	Common
Chaos Elemental P2P	305	100–300	Uncommon
Chaos witch apprentice	121	1–100	Unknown
Chaos witch channeler	143; 147	1–100	Unknown
Chaos witch mender	109	1–100	Unknown
Chaos witch	141	1–100	Unknown
Chest (Chaos Druid Tower)		2	Always
Chest (Rogues' Castle)	65	2–5	~Uncommon
Chest (Rogues' Castle, Ground floor)	N/A	2–3	3/128
Chewed bones	N/A	4–7	Common
Chimp ice	N/A	30–50	Common
Colonel Radick	23	2	Rare
Columbarium key	N/A	20	Common
Columbarium	N/A	7–20	Common
Cyclossus	89	15–23	Uncommon
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island)	78; 79	1–10	2/128
Dagon'hai Monk	77	2	Uncommon
Dark wizard (The Zamorakian Undercity)	114	1–100	Unknown
Dark wizard Low level	22; 30; 33	2	Uncommon
Dark wizard High level	30; 35; 37	2	Uncommon
Earth elemental	44	1	Very rare
Earth warrior (elite)	88	2	Rare
Earth warrior	78	2	1/128
Elder Trove (Bik, T1)	N/A	75	~6/197
Elder Trove (Bik, T2)	N/A	75	~26/548
Elder Trove (Ful, T1)	N/A	75	~3/94
Elder Trove (Ful, T2)	N/A	75	~1/29
Elder Trove (Jas, T1)	N/A	75	~3/89
Elder Trove (Jas, T2)	N/A	75	~15/317
Elder Trove (Wen, T1)	N/A	75	~96/3696
Elder Trove (Wen, T2)	N/A	75	~9/273
Elite Black Knight	100	1–4	Rare
Elite Dark Mage	98	1–2	Rare
Elite Khazard guard	77; 84	1	Rare
Enraged barbarian spirit	106	3; 5; 10	Uncommon
Essence impling jar		7	1/100
Essence impling	42	7	1/100
Exiled Kalphite Queen	356	160–200	Uncommon
Feral vampyre	61	1–2	5/128
Fire elemental	44	1	Rare
Fire giant	85	5; 10	2/128
Force muspah	150	20	Uncommon
Frost dragon	112	10	Uncommon
Ganodermic beast	112	8–12	14/256
Ganodermic runt	112	3–5	Uncommon
Giant Oyster	N/A	75	Common
Giant ant soldier	70	2	Rare
Giant ant worker	49	1–4	Rare
Giant frog	44	1	Uncommon
Giant mole Normal	230	60	Uncommon
Giant mole Hard Mode	230	90	Uncommon
Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair)	84	3	Uncommon
Gnoeals	70	4	Uncommon
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	6–10	Uncommon
Gold key	N/A	19–55	Common
Greater demon ash lord Wilderness		40–60	Common
Greater demon berserker Wilderness		43–59	19/450
Guard (Ardougne)	18	1	Rare
Guard (Edgeville)	35	1	Rare
Guard (Falador)	16; 18	1	Rare
Guard (Varrock)	25	1	Rare
Guard Normal		1	Rare
Guthix wizard	105; 119	8	Uncommon
Harold	98	12–16	Uncommon
Hero		1	Uncommon
Ice giant	51	2	Rare
Ice strykewyrm	106	15	Common
Ice troll	84; 89	2; 5	Common
Igneous TzekHaar-Hur	140	181–220	Common
Igneous TzekHaar-Mej	480	181–220	Common
Igneous TzekHaar-Xil	420	181–220	Common
Infernal Mage (elite)	82	4; 7	Uncommon
Infernal Mage	72	4	1/128
Kal'gerion demon	126	60; 75	3/64
Kalphite Guardian	72	7; 12; 13; 19	Uncommon
Kalphite Queen	333	50–150	Common
King Black Dragon	276	30–50	Common
Living rock patriarch	95	50	Always
Locust lancer	77	1–7	Common
Locust ranger	77	1–7	Uncommon

Disassembly

Blood rune
Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	2.3
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  3.4% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 3.4% 1 34 3.4 2 49 3.3 3 64 3.3 4 69 3.2 5 78 3.1 6 83 3.0 7 91 3.0 8 95 2.9 9 105 2.8
Common materials
Magic parts	85/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	13/100
Rare materials
Powerful components	2/100

Update history

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!

• patch 4 March 2013 (Update):
  • Ice spells now consume blood runes when cast on Chimp ices.

• update 18 March 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.
    • New high level magic attacks are now available, using the new blood rune.

Trivia

• Before the release of Legacy of Seergaze on 22 April 2008, it was not possible to craft blood runes by any means other than the Ourania Runecrafting Altar.
• Prior to the Evolution of Combat update, blood runes were used in high-level combat spells in the standard spellbook. The removal of their usage in these spells caused a fall in their price but it has since more than recovered.