Nature rune

The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:Nature runeThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:Nature-Rune

"Nature" redirects here. For other uses, see Nature (disambiguation).

This article is about the rune. For other uses, see Nature rune (disambiguation).

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

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Nature rune
Release																				24 May 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				372 coins Cash out: 10 coins
High alch																				74 coins
Low alch																				49 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 706 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0 kg
Examine
Used for alchemy spells.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				706 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				561
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Nature runes are runes that are used for transmutation and binding spells. Members with level 44 Runecrafting, and a Nature talisman can craft nature runes from pure essence at the Nature Altar. Members with 91 Runecrafting will always craft two nature runes per essence; those with between 44 and 90 Runecrafting have a chance at crafting either one or two nature runes per pure essence, with the probability of two increasing with each Runecrafting level. Crafting nature runes yields 9 Runecrafting experience per essence (or 18 experience at the Ourania Runecrafting Altar, 22.5 through the Abyss, 31.5 through the Abyss with a demonic skull).

Giant Ent summoning familiars can convert pure essence into Nature runes without the use of a runecrafting altar, although some of the essence will end up as Earth Runes.

Nature runes are one of the most traded items on the Grand Exchange because of the frequency of High Level Alchemy and Superheat spells.

Price / Experience comparison
Grand Exchange price		GP / Exp
Nature rune	706	78.4
Law rune	263	27.7
Death rune	340	34
Blood rune	1,259	119.9

Crafting nature runes

Crafting Nature runes is Members only. The teleport to the Graahk hunter area on Karamja offers a very fast way to make Nature runes. This can be accessed by left-clicking 'interact' on the Spirit Graahk, then clicking "Teleport". After teleporting, it takes about 30 seconds to reach the Nature altar, which is a lot faster than the average time it takes to reach the nature altar using the Abyss. With four Runecrafting pouches, complete trips to the Nature altar can be done in under 60 seconds, allowing over 3000 pure essence to be crafted into nature runes per hour. With Massive pouches, you can expect to use around 4260 pure essence per hour. Each Spirit Graahk lasts 49.5 minutes before a new pouch is needed. An alternate method is to use the Fairy ring network (code CKR for Karamja near the altar), use the Cape of legends to quickly access a fairy ring.

Another fast way is to use the wicked hood teleport if the player has an abundance of wicked hood teleport tokens with a full inventory, although this is impractical if the player does not. This allows the player to instantly teleport to the nature altar, craft the runes, then teleport to any bank and repeat.

The fastest method for crafting Nature runes is doing runs through the abyss using an Abyssal titan familiar. At an average speed one can do about 70 trips to the abyss per hour. This allows you to be able to use the Abyssal titan familiar to hold an extra 20 pure essence every trip. By using 4 pouches, an Abyssal titan and the infinity ethereal outfit you can hold 86 pure essence at once. Crafting nature runes this way lets you use up 6000 pure essence per hour.

Crafting multiple nature runes

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

Multiplier		GE Price
1x	44	706
2x	91	1,412

Spells

Along with fire runes (or a staff of fire), nature runes may be used to cast Low Level Alchemy or High Level Alchemy spells to convert items to set amounts of coins, and to cast Superheat Item spell to heat a smithing item without stopping the process, and thus achieving higher experience per hour rates. High Alchemy is the most common use of nature runes as it grants high experience for training without danger of death and damage.

Along with earth runes and water runes (or a mud staff, or an earth- or water- rune supplying staff plus the other rune), nature runes may be used to cast bones to bananas and bones to peaches spells, which convert all carried bones up to big bones into bananas or peaches, respectively. The latter is members-only. Also natures may be used to immobilise a target using the bind, snare or entangle spells, the last two of which are members only.

Nature runes are also used in the Plank Make spell in the Lunar spellbook.

Spells that require a small amount of elemental runes, or no elemental, can use a nature staff instead to save nature runes 10% of the time. Remote Farm can greatly benefit from this as opposed to using an elemental staff.

Free spells

All players can cast these spells.

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Bind	20	1	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Bones to Bananas	15	122	Normal, Daemonheim	Skilling
	High Level Alchemy	55	15	Normal, Daemonheim	Skilling
	Low Level Alchemy	21	13	Normal, Daemonheim	Skilling
	Superheat Item	43	14	Normal	Skilling

Member spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Anachronia Teleport	72	131	Normal	Teleport
	Bones to Peaches	60	244	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Emerald)	93	1113	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Emerald)	27	113	Normal	Skilling
	Entangle	79	3	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Fertile Soil	83	2315	Lunar	Skilling
	Plank Make	86	1215	Lunar	Skilling
	Prism of Dowsing	86	3333	Ancient	Skilling
	Rapid Growth	88	3333	Ancient	Skilling
	Remote Farm	78	322	Lunar	Skilling
	Snare	50	2	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Spin Flax	81	215	Lunar	Skilling

Removed spells

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Energy Transfer	91	213	Lunar	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	372	Coins	300
Aubury's Rune Shop (New Varrock)	New Varrock	372	Zemomark	10
Baba Yaga's Magic Shop	Lunar Isle	372	Coins	300
Lundail's Arena-side Rune Shop	Mage arena bank	372	Coins	300
Magic Guild Store - Runes and Staves	Wizards' Guild	372	Coins	300

Item spawns

• On the small islands north of Rellekka (two spawns) (requires Telekinetic Grab to reach)
• On the small lava surrounded island southeast of the Demonic Ruins in the Wilderness (two spawns) (requires Telekinetic Grab to reach)

Change in alchemy value

In an update on 3 October 2011, the high level alchemy value was changed from 223 coins to 74; and the low level alchemy value was changed from 148 coins to 49. This was done because the Grand Exchange price of nature runes dropped under 111 GP. From below this price, Nature runes could be alched for a small profit. Example: 2 x 111 = 222 GP = 1 GP profit.

On 4 October 2011, Mod Mat K explained the change:

“	Yesterday we made a small but necessary update to the high alchemy value of nature runes. The price of the nature runes was at a level where it was possible to buy them and alch them for a profit. This obviously had an impact on other items you would commonly alch for a profit and meant that as soon as you reached level 55 in Magic you could buy a few nature runes, alch them and then use the profits to buy more. Effectively this meant that you could level all the way up to 200 million XP in magic for no cost (in fact for a profit) which is not how the skill is intended to work. To maintain the value of having level 99 magic and the value of commonly alched items (such as Yew longbows or Mithril platebodies) we felt this quick solution was necessary.	”
— Mod Mat K

This effectively removed the floor on the price of nature runes. However, their price has since rebounded and stayed over 300 coins since 2016.

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
Bones to bananas (item)	15	1 × Soft clay 2 × Water rune 2 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune	659
Bones to peaches (item)	60	1 × Soft clay 4 × Water rune 4 × Earth rune 2 × Nature rune	186
Bowstring × 5	81	5 × Flax 5 × Air rune 1 × Astral rune 2 × Nature rune	2,005
Bronze bar (Superheat Item)	1  43	1 × Copper ore 1 × Tin ore 1 × Nature rune 4 × Fire rune	1,144
Cracked farming urn (r)	5	1 × Cracked farming urn (nr) 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Decorated farming urn (r)	84	1 × Decorated farming urn (nr) 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Emerald bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	93	10 × Emerald bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Nature rune 3 × Air rune	21,560
Emerald bolts (e) × 10	27	10 × Emerald bolts 3 × Air rune 1 × Nature rune 1 × Cosmic rune	1,680
Fragile farming urn (r)	18	1 × Fragile farming urn (nr) 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Gold bar (Superheat Item)	40  43	1 × Gold ore 1 × Nature rune 4 × Fire rune	2,188
Mahogany plank (casting Plank Make)	86	1 × Mahogany logs 15 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 1,050 × Coins	1,912
Oak plank (casting Plank Make)	86	1 × Oak logs 15 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 175 × Coins	1,982
Plain farming urn (r)	40	1 × Plain farming urn (nr) 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Plank (casting Plank Make)	86	1 × Logs 15 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 70 × Coins	487
Protean plank (casting Plank Make)	86	1 × Protean logs 15 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 5 × Coins	N/A
Remote farm device	1	50 × Living components 3,000 × Nature rune 2,000 × Astral rune 2,000 × Earth rune	N/A
Rune case 2	41	2 × Teak plank 2 × Molten glass 1 × Body rune 1 × Chaos rune 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Strong farming urn (r)	58	1 × Strong farming urn (nr) 1 × Nature rune	N/A
Teak plank (casting Plank Make)	86	1 × Teak logs 15 × Earth rune 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 350 × Coins	746

Drop sources

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

Showing 100 out of 171 sources.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Air elemental	44	2	Uncommon
Ancient ranger	103	1; 2	Uncommon
Ancient warrior	103	1	Uncommon
Armoured zombie	21; 42; 46; 84; 86; 91	3	2/128
Arrg	77	1–7	Uncommon
Aviansie	89; 92; 95	9	4/128
Bandit (Kharidian Desert Bandit Camp)	54	2	Uncommon
Bandit (Pollnivneach)	53	2	Uncommon
Bandit (Wilderness)	18	2	Uncommon
Bandit Brawler Melee	112	2	Rare
Bandit looter	42	1–5	Uncommon
Big frog	36	4	Uncommon
Black Guard Level 42	42	2	Common
Black Heather	138	3	Rare
Black key black	N/A	Unknown	Uncommon
Black key brown	N/A	Unknown	Uncommon
Black key crimson	N/A	Unknown	Uncommon
Black key purple	N/A	27	Uncommon
Black key red	N/A	Unknown	Uncommon
Blood reaver	108; 124	15	Rare
Bulbous crawler	140	8–16	Common
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	20	Uncommon
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	30	Common
Casket (CS Week)	N/A	75	Common
Cave bug Level 8		1; 2	2/128
Cave crawler Low level	53; 74	3	6/128
Cave crawler High level	78	3	6/128
Chaos druid warrior	65	3	Uncommon
Chaos druid	32	3	Uncommon
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	9	3/132
Chaos dwarf	28; 45; 47; 84; 101; 108	9; 18	1/64
Chaos dwogre	92; 98	18	Common
Chest (Oldak)		2–4	67/1400
Chest (Rogues' Castle, Ground floor)	N/A	2–3	4/128
Cockatrice	44	2; 4; 6	10/128
Cockroach worker	30	1–2	12/128
Colonel Radick	23	2	Rare
Columbarium	N/A	8–15	Common
Crystal chest Taverley	N/A	50	Common
Cyclops Ardougne Zoo	63	6	Uncommon
Dagon'hai Monk	77	4	Common
Dark warrior	16	3	1/128
Dark wizard Low level	22; 30; 33	4	Common
Dark wizard High level	30; 35; 37	4	Common
Desert Lizard	35; 49; 63	5	Common
Donny the Lad	138	4	Rare
Dwarf	9; 14; 39; 44	2	4/128
Earth elemental	44	2	Common
Earth warrior (elite)	88	3; 6	Common
Earth warrior	78	3; 6	6/128
Elder Trove (Bik, T1)	N/A	75	14/194
Elder Trove (Ful, T1)	N/A	75	8/94
Elder Trove (Jas, T1)	N/A	75	1/88
Elder Trove (Wen, T1)	N/A	75	15/251
Elf warrior	84; 89	12	Uncommon
Elf	85	3	Common
Elite Dark Mage	98	1–6	Rare
Essence impling jar		13	1/100
Essence impling	42	13	1/100
Experiment No.2	64	2–5	Uncommon
Ferocious jadinko	112	3	Uncommon
Fire elemental	44	2	Uncommon
Former vampyre	N/A	15	Rare
Giant Oyster	N/A	20	Common
Giant Oyster	N/A	30	Common
Giant Oyster	N/A	75	Common
Giant ant soldier	70	2; 9; 14	Common
Giant ant worker	49	1–15	Common
Giant frog	44	1; 3; 9	Common
Giant mole Normal	230	40–60	Uncommon
Gnoeals	70	1–3	Rare
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	9–15	Common
Goblin Raider	56	1	Uncommon
Goblin God Wars Dungeon	84	1	1/128
Goblin Goblin Village	5	1	1/128
Grotworm	63	5; 10	3/130
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	28; 30	Uncommon
Hill giant	44	6	Uncommon
Hobgoblin (elite)	41	4	Uncommon
Hobgoblin Armed	32; 35; 91	4	2/128
Hobgoblin Unarmed	28; 30	4	2/128
Hollowtoof	77	1	Uncommon
Ice giant	51	6	Uncommon
Ice troll female	68	7	Common
Ice troll grunt	68	4–8	Uncommon
Ice troll male	68	7	Common
Ice troll runt	53	1–8	Uncommon
Jogre	57; 86	2; 5; 10	Common
Kalphite Soldier	65	1–6	Rare
Knight of Ardougne Mourner HQ	53	12	Uncommon
Kraka	84	16	Uncommon
Living rock protector	92	4–10	Uncommon
Living rock striker	92	3–10	Rare
Lizard	77	5	Rare
Locust ranger	77	30	Uncommon

Disassembly

Nature rune
Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	1.3
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  51.6% 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 51.6% 1 34 51.1 2 49 50.1 3 64 49.1 4 69 48.0 5 78 47.0 6 83 45.5 7 91 44.4 8 95 42.9 9 105 41.3
Common materials
Magic parts	85/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	13/100
Rare materials
Powerful components	2/100

Achievements

• At One Plus Fifty-Five With Nature ( 25) – Craft 56 nature runes simultaneously, without using pouches or familiars.

Graphical updates

Inventory

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  Nature rune after 29 March 2004 (update)

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  Nature rune after 1 June 2005

• 

  Nature rune after 13 June 2005 (update)

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  Nature rune after Unknown date (edit)

Detailed

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  Nature rune after 29 March 2004 (update)

• 

  Nature rune after 13 June 2005 (update)

• 

  Nature rune after Unknown date (edit)

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

• In RuneScape Classic, the icon of a nature rune resembles a tree much more, with the top part being more ridged.