Chaos rune

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"Chaos" redirects here. For the title, see cHaOs. For other uses, see Chaos (disambiguation).

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

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Chaos rune
Release																				24 May 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A medium level catalytic rune.
Values
Value																				140 coins
High alch																				28 coins
Low alch																				18 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 115 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				115 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
Volume																				7,712,764
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Advanced data
Item ID																				562
Links																				MRID • recipe

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The chaos rune is a rune used for some Curse spells and requires pure essence to be crafted. Respawning chaos runes can be found in the north-western ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] room of the Dark Warriors' Fortress in the Wilderness, or near the moss giants in the level 40 Wilderness.

Chaos runes can also be made by members through the Runecrafting skill (at least 35 Runecrafting needed) at the Chaos altar at level 9 Wilderness. A chaos talisman, chaos tiara or chaos talisman staff is required to enter. Alternatively, an omni-talisman, omni-tiara, omni-talisman staff or wicked hood may be used. Upon entering, players will find themselves in a complicated maze in which they will have to find their way through in order to craft their runes. Another way of entering is through the statue of Saradomin north-east of Varrock and through the Tunnel of Chaos to the portal, which requires the talisman or tiara. This is only accessible during or after completing the What Lies Below quest. A player receives 8.5 experience points per chaos rune crafted. A common way to craft chaos runes via the Abyss is to go through the rift in the Abyss, walk or run back to Edgeville (due to the close proximity), then start again.

In Dungeoneering, chaos runes can be crafted, although they can only be used in the dungeon and give 0.17 experience per essence. Free players can also craft chaos runes while in Daemonheim.

Creation

Requirements
Members			Yes
Ticks			1 (0.6s)
Facility			Chaos altar
Skill			Level	XP
Runecrafting			35 ?	8.5
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Pure essence		1	244
Total cost				244
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Chaos rune		1	115
Profit				−129

Crafting multiple chaos runes

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

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	35	115
2x	74	230

Spells

Free spells

All players can cast these spells.

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Curse	19	1	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Teleport Block	85	111	Normal	Combat

Member spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Crystallise	88	6666	Ancient	Skilling
	Smoke Cloud	74	10555	Ancient	Combat
	Vulnerability	66	11	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat

Removed spells

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Bounty Teleport	32	111	Normal, Lunar, Ancient	Teleport
	Crumble Undead	39	221	Normal	Combat
	Miasmic Burst	73	242	Ancient	Combat
	Miasmic Rush	61	121	Ancient	Combat

Products

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

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials	GE price
	Infused wand		35	0	1 × Wand (What Lies Below) 15 × Chaos rune	N/A
	Rune case 2		41 44	212 25	2 × Teak plank 2 × Molten glass 1 × Body rune 1 × Chaos rune 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Nature rune	N/A
	Vulnerability bomb		103	1100	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 5 × Soul rune 5 × Chaos rune 2 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	24,970
	Vulnerability bomb (Improved +1 recipe)		105	1100	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 5 × Soul rune 5 × Chaos rune 2 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	24,970
	Vulnerability bomb (Improved +2 recipe)		107	1100	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 3 × Soul rune 3 × Chaos rune 1 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	24,970

Drop sources

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

Showing 100 out of 155 sources.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Afflicted	60; 61; 63; 64	2	Rare
Air elemental	44	2	Uncommon
Al Kharid warrior	18	2	Rare
Ancient mage	103	30	Uncommon
Ancient ranger	103	1	Common
Anja	4	2	Rare
Armoured zombie	21–91	12	1/128
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	3; 16	3/128
Bandit (Pollnivneach)	53	2	Common
Bandit (Wilderness)	18	6	Rare
Bandit Brawler Melee	112	6	Uncommon
Bandit looter	42	8–10	Common
Banshee	37	3; 7; 10	9/128
Barbarian Regular	28; 30	2	Uncommon
Barbarian Longhouse	28; 30	3	Uncommon
Black Guard Level 42	42	2	Common
Black Heather	138	3	Rare
Black Knight Titan	28	2	Uncommon
Black Knight	30	4; 6	4/128
Blood reaver	108; 124	15	Rare
Bronze key black	N/A	Unknown	Rare
Bronze key brown	N/A	Unknown	Rare
Bronze key crimson	N/A	Unknown	Rare
Bronze key purple	N/A	Unknown	Rare
Bronze key red	N/A	16–28	Rare
Brutish jadinko	91	3	Uncommon
Catablepon	53	7	1/128
Chaos Elemental P2P	305	100–500	Uncommon
Chaos Elemental F2P	305	175; 250; 375; 500	Common
Chaos Giant	126	31–50	1/25
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	10; 20	Common
Chaos dwarf	28–108	10; 37	1/128
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	20	Common
Chest (Oldak)	52	5–10	~62/1400
Cockroach worker	30	1–18	13/128
Colonel Radick	23	3	Rare
Columbarium	N/A	7–19	Common
Crystal chest Taverley	N/A	50	Common
Cuffs	12	2	Rare
Cyclops Ardougne Zoo	63	2	Rare
Dagon'hai Monk	77	4	Uncommon
Dark wizard High level	30; 35; 37	4	Common
Dark wizard Low level	22; 30; 33	5	Common
Donny the Lad	138	3	Rare
Drunken man	5	2	Rare
Dwarf	9; 14; 39; 44	2	4/128
Earth elemental	44	2	Uncommon
Earth warrior (elite)	88	3	Uncommon
Earth warrior	78	3	7/128
Elite Black Knight	100	1–3	Uncommon
Elite Dark Mage	98	25	Uncommon
Essence impling jar		4	1/10
Essence impling	42	4	1/10
Exiled kalphite paragon	84	10–12	Uncommon
Exiled kalphite soldier	84	5–13	Uncommon
Experiment No.2	64	1–11	Uncommon
Farmer P2P	7	2	Rare
Farmer F2P		2	Rare
Feral vampyre	61	3	8/128
Fire elemental	44	2	Common
Fire spirit (item) Normal	N/A	4–20	Common
Fungal rodent	26	2–3	Uncommon
Ghostly warrior	61	10–20	Common
Giant skeleton (Shadow Dungeon)	84	8	Uncommon
Giant wasp	70; 84	1–2; 8–10	Uncommon
Gnoeals	70	7–11	Common
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	15–27	Common
Goblin (Goblin Village)	5	1	2/128
Goblin (God Wars Dungeon)	84	1	1/128
Goblin Raider	56	1	Common
Greater reborn mage	82	15	Uncommon
Grifolapine	103	50–80; 100	Uncommon
Grifolaroo	107	5–60	Uncommon
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
Haakon the Champion	32	3	Uncommon
Harpie Bug Swarm (elite)	72	15–30	Common
Hengel	4	2	Rare
Hill Giant	33	2	Rare
Hobgoblin (elite)	41	3	Uncommon
Hobgoblin Armed	32; 35; 91	3	2/128
Hobgoblin Unarmed	28; 30	3	2/128
Hollowtoof	77	1	Common
Infested axe	105	6–15	Common
Jeff	12	2	Rare
Kalphite Guardian	72	10	Uncommon
Kalphite Soldier	65	12	Uncommon
Lesser demon (Demon Flash Mobs)	109	6–24	Uncommon
Lesser reborn mage	68	15; 40	Common
Man	2; 4	2	Rare
Moss giant	24; 47	7	Uncommon
Narf	12	2	Rare
Nechryael (elite)	106	3; 37; 50; 100; 150	Uncommon
Nechryael	96	3; 37	3/128
Necromancer (monster)	39	4	Common
New Varrock guard captain	104	1–11	Uncommon
Otherworldly being	63	4	Common

Locations

Store locations

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	140	Coins	300
Aubury's Rune Shop (New Varrock)	New Varrock	140	Zemomark	30
Aubury's Rune Shop	Varrock	140	Coins	30
Baba Yaga's Magic Shop	Lunar Isle	140	Coins	300
Battle Runes	Wilderness	140	Coins	300
Betty's Magic Emporium	Port Sarim	140	Coins	30
Carwen Essencebinder Magical Runes Shop	Burthorpe	140	Coins	30
Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop	Mage arena bank	140	Coins	300
Magic Guild Store - Runes and Staves	Wizards' Guild	140	Coins	300
Rune Shop (Anachronia)	Anachronia	140	Coins	30
TzHaar-Mej-Roh's Rune Store	TzHaar City	210	Tokkul	300
Void Knight Magic Store	Void Knights' Outpost	140	Coins	300

Item spawns

• On the slopes of Trollweiss mountain (three spawns)
• In Dark Warrior Fortress
• Near the Wilderness herb patch (six spawns)

Disassembly

Chaos rune
Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	1.0
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  61.5% 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 61.5% 1 34 60.9 2 49 59.7 3 64 58.5 4 69 57.2 5 78 56.0 6 83 54.2 7 91 52.9 8 95 51.1 9 105 49.2
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!

• update 24 May 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Chaos runes are likely associated with Zamorak, as he is the god of chaos.
• Prior to 26 December 2009, chaos runes cost as much as 190 coins, but fell in price after TzHaar shops stopped buying items.
• Before the Evolution of Combat update, chaos runes were used in bolt spells and various Ancient Magicks spells. After this update, their usage is very limited.