Lunar spells

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A player casting the Lunar spell Humidify

The Lunar spells are a set of spells contained in the Lunar spellbook, unlocked upon completion of the quest Lunar Diplomacy. Additionally, players unlock eight more spells with the completion of Dream Mentor, and eleven more spells by playing Livid Farm. While the other unlockable spellbook, Ancient Magicks, focuses primarily on combat spells, and the Standard spells contains a mixture of all types of spells, the Lunar spellbook is almost entirely composed of noncombat spells. The Lunar spellbook includes teleportation spells, skill-related spells, spells that allow players to aid others in various ways, and miscellaneous spells with unique effects.

All Lunar spells make use of astral runes, with the exception of Home Teleport, which is free to cast, and Polypore Strike, which uses charges from the Polypore staff rather than runes. Lunar spells in general cost the most per cast out of any spellbook, overtaking even Ancient Magicks.

In total, the spellbook contains fifty-two spells.

Overview

The Lunar spellbook

The Lunar spellbook contains no direct combat spells that are cast on targets to deal damage, lower stats, or otherwise give negative effects (aside from Polypore Strike, which is included in all three spellbooks and requires the Polypore staff). Instead, most Lunar spells are strictly noncombat spells which offer benefits to various skills such as Crafting and Farming. Furthermore, some Lunar spells allow players to aid others in various ways, such as curing poison, offering teleportation, and restoring life points. The Lunar spellbook is extremely popular as a support system in large group battles against monsters because of its ability to heal allies and then swiftly heal the caster of the spells. The spells become especially useful if users have completed Dream Mentor and can use Ancient Magicks, as the Spellbook Swap spell allows them to use the healing abilities of the Lunar spellbook and aggressive Ancient Magicks spells such as Ice Barrage.

A few Lunar spells can be used to indirectly influence combat. Vengeance and Vengeance Other are two highly sought-after spells which will reflect damage back to attacking monsters or players. Boost Potion Share and Stat Restore Pot Share are used to distribute stat-boosting and stat-restoring potions, respectively, to other players.

Some spells have individual effects that do not fit into any particular category. Monster Examine and Stat Spy allow the caster to view information about monsters and players, respectively. Dream significantly increases the rate at which life points regenerate. NPC Contact allows the caster to speak to several important NPCs from a distance. Spellbook Swap, the spell with the second highest Magic requirement in the Lunar spellbook after Borrowed Power, enables the caster to use a spell from a different spellbook.

Requirements

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Total level: 594
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1	60	4
40	31	1
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1	61	49
70	25	55
14	1	60
50	1	1
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In order to use the spellbook, the quest Lunar Diplomacy must be completed. This requires that players also complete The Fremennik Trials, Lost City, Rune Mysteries, and Shilo Village. To unlock more spells, the quest Dream Mentor must be completed, which further requires the player to have completed Eadgar's Ruse. The last set of spells can be unlocked by completing the Livid Farm. The skills required to unlock all the spells in the Lunar spell book can be seen in the table to the right.

Switching spellbooks

Once the Lunar spellbook is unlocked, players can activate and deactivate it by praying at the astral altar on the southeastern peninsula of Lunar Isle. Unlike the altar in Jaldraocht Pyramid where players switch to and from Ancient Magicks, the astral altar will not drain Prayer points.

To reach the altar, players can use any of the following methods:

• Cast Home Teleport and select the Lunar Isle icon from the Lodestone Network interface.
• Break an astral altar teleport tablet, obtained from The Great Orb Project, or use the wicked hood teleport to teleport to the astral altar.
• Players already using Lunar spells can cast Moonclan Teleport or Tele-group Moonclan to teleport to the entrance to the town, and then run south past the suqahs to the altar.
• If a player still has the Seal of passage (obtained from Brundt the Chieftain), it can be used once per day to teleport to the entrance of the city on Lunar Isle.

Additionally, if you can access Prifddinas (requires Plague's End) and have completed the Hard Fremennik Province Tasks, you can switch between Lunar and normal spellbooks using the Elven grimoire in the same building as Haf's Battlestaves in the Cadarn Clan area.

If you have 99 magic cape, you can switch the spellbook to lunar spells, normal spellbook and ancient spellbook, just left clicking the cape and selecting the spellbook you want to switch to. (You can only do this at a bank).

Spell summary

All spells that affect players within a 3x3 area around the caster will also affect players standing in the caster's square.

Spell	Image	Type	Magic Level	Runes Required	Experience	Description
War's Retreat Teleport		Teleport	0	None	0	Teleport to War's Retreat.
Max guild Teleport		Teleport	0	None	0	Teleport to the Max guild.
Home Teleport		Teleport	0	None	0	Teleport to the city hub of your choice.
Kandarin monastery Teleport		Teleport	1	None	0	Teleport to the Kandarin monastery.
Skeletal horror Teleport		Teleport	1	None	0	Teleport to the Skeletal horror.
Manor farm Teleport		Teleport	51	None	0	Teleport to the Manor farm.
Bake Pie		Skilling	65	154	60	Bakes all uncooked pies in your backpack.
Cure Plant		Skilling	66	18	60	Cure the targeted farming patch of disease.
NPC Contact		Skilling	67	112	63	Telepathically speak with a selection of useful NPCs.
Cure Other		Combat	68	110	65	Cure the targeted player of poison.
Moonclan Teleport		Teleport	69	122	66	Teleport yourself to Lunar Isle.
Tele-group Moonclan		Teleport	70	124	67	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to Lunar Isle.
Cure Me		Combat	71	22	69	Cure yourself of poison.
Ourania Teleport		Teleport	71	126	69	Teleport yourself to the Ourania Cave (ZMI Altar).
Waterbirth Teleport		Teleport	72	121	71	Teleport yourself to Waterbirth Island.
South Falador Teleport		Teleport	72	122	70	Teleport yourself to the farming patch south of Falador.
Tele-group Waterbirth		Teleport	73	125	72	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to Waterbirth Island.
Cure Group		Combat	74	22	74	Cure yourself and all nearby players of poison.
Barbarian Teleport		Teleport	75	223	76	Teleport yourself to the Barbarian Outpost.
Repair Rune Pouch		Skilling	75	111	75	Repairs and strengthens the targeted Rune Pouch.
Tele-group Barbarian		Teleport	76	226	77	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to the Barbarian Outpost.
North Ardougne Teleport		Teleport	76	125	76	Teleport yourself to the farming patch on Manor Farm.
Khazard Teleport		Teleport	78	224	80	Teleport yourself to Port Khazard.
Remote Farm		Skilling	78	322	79	View the status of any farming patch. Also allows any farming patch to be cured of disease. Fertile Soil can be cast on any appropriate patch using this spell.
Tele-group Khazard		Teleport	79	228	81	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to Port Khazard.
Spiritual Healing		Combat	80	325	81	Heal your familiar, boost its combat stats and extends its lifetime by 20% of its starting value. Can only be used once per familiar, and once every two minutes.
String Jewellery		Skilling	80	2105	83	Magically string all unstrung amulets in your backpack.
Polypore Strike		Combat	80	51	N/A	A very powerful air spell.
Potion Share		Combat	81	21010	84	Shares the targeted, tradeable, standard potion between you and all players adjacent to you. Uses one dose per player, excluding you. Will not work on potions with a negative effect.
Fire Urn		Skilling	82	11055	86 , Varies	Fires decorated and infernal urns.
Magic Imbue		Skilling	82	277	86	Allow the creation of combination runes without the need for an opposing talisman.
Make Leather		Skilling	83	222	87	Magically tans all hides of a targeted type in your backpack.
Fertile Soil		Skilling	83	2315	87 , 18	Magically treat the targeted farming patch with supercompost.
Fishing Guild Teleport		Teleport	85	338	89	Teleport yourself to the Fishing Guild.
Telekinetic Grind		Skilling	85	12	89	Grinds down up to 60 of targeted item in your backpack that can be ground by a pestle and mortar. Divides items by teleporting their constituent parts a tiny distance away from each other.
Tele-group Fishing Guild		Teleport	86	3310	90	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to the Fishing Guild.
Tune Banite Ore		Skilling	87	241	90	Tunes banite ore against the targeted creature. Can be cast on banite rocks to temporarily tune the ore mined from them.
Catherby Teleport		Teleport	87	3310	92	Teleport yourself to the allotment patches at Catherby.
Tele-group Catherby		Teleport	88	3315	93	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to Catherby.
Ice Plateau Teleport		Teleport	89	338	96	Teleport yourself to Ice Plateau.
Tele-group Ice Plateau		Teleport	90	3316	99	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to Ice Plateau.
Disruption Shield		Combat	90	3310	97	The next hit you receive from another player or NPC is negated.
Sift Soil		Skilling	91	1510	93 , 1–20	Magically sifts the targeted soil from your backpack and soil box.
Tele-group Trollheim Farm		Teleport	92	3320	102	Teleport yourself and all nearby players to the Trollheim farming patch.
Heal Other		Combat	92	133	101	Consume 75% of your current life points to heal the targeted player.
Trollheim Farm Teleport		Teleport	92	3310	101	Teleport yourself to the Trollheim farming patch.
Vengeance Other		Combat	93	3310	108	The next time the targeted player receives damage, 75% of the damage received is instead dealt to the attacker.
Vengeance		Combat	94	2410	112	The next time you receive damage, 75% of the damage received is instead dealt to the attacker.
Heal Group		Combat	95	234	124	Consume 75% of your current life points to heal all nearby players.
Vengeance Group		Combat	95	3411	120	The next time any nearby player receives damage, 75% of the damage received is instead dealt to the attacker
Trap Telekinesis		Skilling	97	125	132	Collects trapped animals and resets traps. Works on box, electrified, tortle and marasamaw traps.
Borrowed Power		Skilling	99	3	Same as spell used	After setting Borrowed Power to a spell, allows you to cast that spell up to 1,000 times.

Dream Mentor

Spell	Image	Type	Magic Level	Runes Required	Experience	Description
Monster Examine		Combat	66	111	61	See details about the targeted creature, such as its maximum hit.
Humidify		Skilling	68	113	65	Fills all containers in your backpack with water.
Hunter Kit (spell)		Skilling	71	22	70	Conjure a selection of useful Hunter equipment.
Stat Spy		Combat	75	225	76	See details about the targeted player, such as their skill levels.
Superglass Make		Skilling	77	2610	78 , 10-140	Create molten glass, robust glass and crystal glass from the resources in your backpack without the use of a furnace or robust glass machine. Creating molten glass has the chance to create an additional piece.
Dream		Combat	79	125	82	Enter a dream-like state, causing your life points to regenerate at ten times their normal rate.
Spin Flax		Skilling	81	215	83 , 75	Magically spin 5 pieces of flax in your backpack.
Plank Make		Skilling	86	1215	90	Convert the targeted log into a plank.
Spellbook Swap		Skilling	96	123	130	Allows you to cast a single spell from the Standard or Ancient spellbooks.
Spellbook Swap		Skilling	96	123	130	Allows you to cast a single spell from the Standard spellbook.
Spellbook Swap		Skilling	96	123	130	Allows you to cast a single spell from the Ancient spellbook.

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 12 October 2020 (Update):
  • The volume of various Lunar Spell sound effects has been reduced.

• ninja 21 September 2020 (Update):
  • The Following new spells have been added to the Lunar Spellbook:
    • Sift Soil: Screens all of the targeted type of archaeological soil from the backpack and Soil Box (no Screening Station required).
    • Fire Urns: Fire urns without a pottery oven. Can be cast on Decorated or Infernal urns to turn them to a 'no rune' state.
    • Trap Telekinesis: Collects from and re-lays a specific triggered box trap, electrified trap, tortle trap, or marasamaw trap.
    • Telekinetic Grind: Grinds up to 60 of a targeted item that could normally be ground by a pestle and mortar.
  • The description of various spells have been adjusted to reflect today's changes.
  • Players can now create teleport tablets for the Lunar Teleport spells.
    • The tablets are tradeable but can only be made and used after meeting the requirements to cast the original spells.
  • Lunar spells that have yet to be unlocked will now appear un-highlighted and let the player know how to unlock them.
  • Replaced various instances of the word 'Inventory' with 'backpack' in Lunar Spell descriptions and info/error messages.

• hidden 6 July 2020 (Update):
  • Monster Examine spell icon has been updated.

• patch 18 March 2019 (Update):
  • Added new spells to both Lunar and Ancient spellbooks to allow direct casting to a spellbook, e.g. 'Spellbook Swap (Standard)'. The existing Spellbook Swap spell has not been removed.
  • Spellbook Swap can now be used off GCD from the action bar.

• ninja 3 April 2018 (Update):
  • Added the Spin Flax spell.

• ninja 23 October 2017 (Update):
  • The arcane capacitor necklace is no longer a requirement for the Borrowed Power spell in the Lunar Spellbook, instead now only requiring 3 astral runes. The spell can be unset and subsequently reset within bank areas.

• ninja 22 June 2015 (Update):
  • Squeezing past the ice block by the Frozen Waste Plateau and using Group Teleport spells to the Wilderness will now produce a warning interface, regardless of player's settings.

• patch 22 July 2014 (Update):
  • Lunar teleport spells no longer have random black marks around them.

• patch 22 July 2013 (Update):
  • Players can no longer begin the Troll Warzone tutorial whilst using the Ancient or Lunar spellbooks.

• update 20 November 2012 (Update):
  • The Energy Transfer spell is removed from the Lunar spellbook with the release of the Evolution of Combat. It previously drained an opponent's special attack energy and run energy; as special attack bars were removed with the update, this spell was rendered useless.

• update 13 March 2012 (Update):
  • Lodestone network added to game. Consequently, Lunar Home Teleport was replaced with Home Teleport, which provides access to the various lodestones destinations.

• update 14 September 2011 (Update):
  • Added the Tune bane ore spell alongside Ritual of the Mahjarrat.

• patch 31 August 2011 (Update):
  • The new lunar spells from Lunar Farm now use the correct filters on the magic interface.

• update 23 August 2011 (Update):
  • Added three new lunar spells, including Borrowed Power.

• patch 26 July 2011 (Update):
  • Group Vengeance does not give XP in activities where free runes are provided.

• patch 5 July 2011 (Update):
  • Lunar spells no longer give experience during minigames which offer free runes.

• patch 16 May 2011 (Update):
  • The lunar teleport spells have been darkened when inactive to better display the difference between them and the Catherby Teleport.

• update 4 April 2011 (Update):
  • Added eight new lunar spells alongside the Livid Farm.

• patch 15 February 2011 (Update):
  • The Heal Other and Heal Group spell icons have been updated from using a red cross to a purple cross.

• update 28 July 2009 (Update):
  • Graphically updated the lunar spell book.

• patch 16 June 2009 (Update):
  • Sharing restore potions via Lunar Magic now matches the recent run energy increases you’ll have seen from drinking the potions normally.

• update 2 October 2007 (Update):
  • Added the spell Ourania Teleport alongside the Ourania Runecrafting Altar.

• update 18 September 2007 (Update):
  • A bug was fixed that allowed players to cast lunar spells on friends in non-multiway-combat areas on the Wilderness.

• update 15 May 2007 (Update):
  • Added new spells that could be used after completing the Dream Mentor quest. The 7 spells are Monster Examine, Humidify, Hunter Kit, Stat Spy, Dream, Plank Make, and Spellbook Swap.

• update 4 January 2007 (Update):
  • Changed effects of the Lunar Home Teleport spell so that, if cast on a Non-members world, it would teleport the player to Lumbridge.

• update 27 September 2006 (Update):
  • Added the spell Lunar Home Teleport.

• update 24 July 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game with the Lunar Diplomacy quest.

Trivia

• The Lunar spellbook started with 30 spells when it was added to the game.
• No Lunar spells use soul runes or chaos runes.
• Of the various combination runes, only steam, smoke and mud runes can be useful for Lunar spells, as no Lunar spells use combinations of air and earth runes, fire and earth runes or water and air runes.
• Currently, Polypore Strike is the only spell in this book that can be autocasted due to the fact that there are no other combat spells.
• When the rest feature was added, the life point restore rate for the Dream spell was changed from three times faster to five times faster, then changed again in July 2016 to ten times faster in order to reflect changes made due to the EoC update.
• The Moonclan state that Lunar magic comes from the power of Gielinor's moon, which has since been revealed to be Zanaris. This may explain why the Lunar staff is a modified Dramen staff, the item used to reach Zanaris.