Gilded altar

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Required materials:

Marble block Bolt of cloth Gold leaf - - - - - - - - - - Production JSON:

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Altar
Build name	Gilded altar
Release	31 May 2006 (Update)
Members	Yes
Icon
Level	75
Experience	2230
Room	Chapel
Hotspot	Altar space
Materials	2 × Marble block 2 × Bolt of cloth 4 × Gold leaf
Actions	• Pray • Offer • Remove • Examine
Flatpackable	No
Examine	A Gilded marble altar with a symbol of Saradomin/Zamorak/Guthix.
Advanced data
Object ID	13197, 13198, 13199
Item ID	8068
Links	MROD MRID8068
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The gilded altar is the best altar which can be built in the chapel of a player-owned house. It requires level 75 Construction to build and uses 2 marble blocks, 2 bolts of cloth and 4 gold leaves to build. The total cost to buy all the materials for the altar is 1,210,812 coins, or 1,171,300 coins if purchased from the stonemason and the Construction supplies shop.

Prayer cape can substitute for the first age cape if owned, while also providing both gilded altar burners being always lit.

It is possible to boost to build a gilded altar from as low as level 65 Construction by using a crystal saw (+3 boost to level), a sculpting chisel (+1), and orange spicy stew with three doses of Orange spice (+6). However this is difficult to achieve due to the random (-6/+6) boost that the orange spicy stew provides. At level 68 Construction, the altar can be built by using the boosts from the crystal saw, the sculpting chisel and a player-owned house cup of tea, obtained from teak shelves 2 (+3), granting an overall +7 level boost.

Benefits

The altar provides 150% extra Prayer experience when remains are offered. Each incense burner lit with a clean marrentill provides an additional 50% extra experience for a total of 250% extra experience per offering. Incense remain lit for approximately 2 minutes and 20 seconds before depleting. These bonuses make gilded altars a popular choice for Prayer training.

Once the altar has been created, anybody who visits the house, whether they be the home owner or a guest, has access to the altar and the bonus experience. Players open up their houses to those wishing to train their Prayer efficiently, situating the chapel to be next to the exit portal with a Quest Hall containing a mounted amulet of glory nearby so players can teleport to Al Kharid for quick banking. Ironmen cannot interact with another player's altar though.

Players advertise their open altars on the official RuneScape forums. World 31 is the official world for open gilded altars. Open gilded altars are most commonly found at Taverley due to the close proximity of the lodestone to the house portal and lack of quest requirements.

During Double XP Weekends, altars only give their usual experiences, and do not benefit from additional experience boosting sources such as bonus experience or experience-boosting sets. It is generally considered a waste of time to use altars during this period due to worse than usual experience rates and the boosted experience rates in other skills.

Players who have their premier artefact 10% XP boost activated while offering bones on their gilded altar, might encounter a situation when they do not benefit from any other boost type (like using up existing bonus XP or enjoying the boost from a pulse core). This might be a bug and can be overcome by deactivating the premier artefact XP boost.

A player using a gilded altar

Experience rates

Bones/Ashes	GE price	XP	Cost per XP	1-99		99-120
				# needed	Cost	# needed	Cost
Accursed ashes	2,894	43.75	66.15	297,929.85	862,208,990.03	2,085,456.82	6,035,312,045.35
Airut bones	6,208	463.75	13.39	28,106.59	174,485,709.21	196,741.21	1,221,369,429.84
Baby dragon bones	1,517	105	14.45	124,137.44	188,316,493.59	868,940.34	1,318,182,500.11
Bat bones	1,258	18.55	67.82	702,664.74	883,952,247.87	4,918,530.24	6,187,511,045.18
Bearded gorilla bones	N/A	70	N/A	186,206.16	N/A	1,303,410.51	N/A
Big bones	248	52.5	4.72	248,274.88	61,572,169.3	1,737,880.69	430,994,410.06
Bones	292	15.75	18.54	827,582.92	241,654,212.83	5,792,935.62	1,691,537,200.76
Burnt bones	954	15.75	60.57	827,582.92	789,514,106.29	5,792,935.62	5,526,460,580.57
Curved bone	N/A	52.5	N/A	248,274.88	N/A	1,737,880.69	N/A
Dagannoth bones	5,435	437.5	12.42	29,792.99	161,924,874.25	208,545.68	1,133,445,783.22
Dinosaur bones	9,092	595	15.28	21,906.61	199,174,868.32	153,342.41	1,394,189,223.05
Dragon bones	1,796	252	7.13	51,723.93	92,896,182.84	362,058.48	650,257,023.24
Fayrg bones	5,558	294	18.9	44,334.8	246,412,814.62	310,335.84	1,724,846,580.57
Frost dragon bones	13,590	630	21.57	20,689.57	281,171,297.29	144,823.39	1,968,149,876.57
Hardened dragon bones	8,206	504	16.28	25,861.97	212,223,295.21	181,029.24	1,485,525,927.81
Impious ashes	4,146	14	296.14	931,030.79	3,860,053,637.57	6,517,052.57	27,019,699,961.14
Infernal ashes	1,297	218.75	5.93	59,585.97	77,283,003.46	417,091.36	540,967,499.85
Jogre bones	1,279	52.5	24.36	248,274.88	317,543,566.65	1,737,880.69	2,222,749,397.03
Gorilla bones	N/A	63	N/A	206,895.73	N/A	1,448,233.9	N/A
Large zombie monkey bones	N/A	17.5	N/A	744,824.63	N/A	5,213,642.06	N/A
Long bone	N/A	52.5	N/A	248,274.88	N/A	1,737,880.69	N/A
Medium ninja monkey bones	N/A	63	N/A	206,895.73	N/A	1,448,233.9	N/A
Monkey bones	129	17.5	7.37	744,824.63	96,082,377.09	5,213,642.06	672,559,825.37
Ourg bones	15,730	490	32.1	26,600.88	418,431,835.98	186,201.5	2,928,949,627.1
Ourg bones (General Graardor)	6,772	490	13.82	26,600.88	180,141,156.6	186,201.5	1,260,956,571.82
Raurg bones	21,849	336	65.03	38,792.95	847,587,151.54	271,543.86	5,932,961,734.71
Reinforced dragon bones	17,345	665	26.08	19,600.65	339,973,241.65	137,201.11	2,379,753,196.87
Searing ashes	91,726	700	131.04	18,620.62	1,707,994,597.01	130,341.05	11,955,663,283.34
Shaikahan bones	32,790	87.5	374.74	148,964.93	4,884,559,914.17	1,042,728.41	34,191,064,610.74
Skeletal monkey bones	N/A	10.5	N/A	1,241,374.38	N/A	8,689,403.43	N/A
Small ninja monkey bones	N/A	56	N/A	232,757.7	N/A	1,629,263.14	N/A
Small zombie monkey bones	N/A	17.5	N/A	744,824.63	N/A	5,213,642.06	N/A
Tortured ashes	3,942	315	12.51	41,379.15	163,116,593.66	289,646.78	1,141,787,610.51
Wolf bones	4,517	15.75	286.79	827,582.92	3,738,192,052.51	5,792,935.62	26,166,690,191.24
Wyvern bones	13,351	175	76.29	74,482.46	994,415,361.61	521,364.21	6,960,733,510.49
Zogre bones	1,580	78.75	20.06	165,516.58	261,516,202.92	1,158,587.12	1,830,567,655.62

Notes

• It is assumed that two oak, mahogany or marble incense burnerss are lit while using the gilded altar (or that a Prayer cape is used).
• The costs only include the cost of bones. The cost of clean marrentills used with the burners is not calculated.

Update history

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• ninja 21 January 2014 (Update):
  • Players can now right-click 'Offer' their bones at a player-owned altar.

• patch 21 January 2014 (Update):
  • Bonus XP from costumes now stacks with other bonus XP when training prayer on a player-owned house altar.

• patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
  • Gilded altar burners no longer remain lit on leaving your house if no-one else is inside.

• update 31 May 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.